FIC: Dreams Crashing on a Spotless Kitchen Floor (Petunia, Figg)

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Title: Dreams Crashing on a Spotless Kitchen Floor
Author: minerva_fan
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Angst
SPOILERS: HBP, massively
Prompt: 4. There are people who pt their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.--Erma Bombeck
Word Count: 1749 words
Beta: elemental_fey
Summary: She wakes in the middle of night, screaming. With a single spell, Petunia Dursley's life is changed, and the dream-turned-nightmare she put out with his help seventeen years earlier returns with a vengeance.

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FIC: "A First-Class Follower" (Narcissa, Bellatrix; PG-13)

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Title: A First-Class Follower
Author: pen_and_umbra
Characters: Narcissa, Bellatrix
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: 17. This will show your Lordship what a woman can do. -- Artemisia Gentileschi, on sending a painting of hers to one of her patrons.
Disclaimer: Not mine, JKR's. Don't sue.
Summary: Narcissa didn't worry about her sister because she knew her so very well; Bellatrix would come after her, as she always did.

Notes: HBP spoilers abound. My many thanks to my invaluable, irreplaceable beta readers, furiosity and imadra_blue. 1,981 words.

( Oh, will you snap out of it! )