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Notes: A drabble series for the LJ community romancingwizard. Thank you, seaislewitch, for helping me out with this one. For those unfamiliar with the Blacks, looking at the Black family tree might be helpful.

Summary: Andromeda Black has left her family, but what do they think about that?

(Rare) Pairing: Orion Black/Walburga Black

A Family Scandal

i. Prophetic

"Your bloody daughter--" CRASH! "--will find herself--" SMASH! "--stonewalled--" BANG-BANG-HISSSS! "--at every turn!" BOOOOM! "Mudblood-loving traitor! OUT, you damned failures! GET OUT!!"

A final crash, a sob from Druella, and two pops of Disapparation.

Slowly, Orion set down his brandy and turned around.

His wife was pacing before the tapestry. "Feeble, blighted," she muttered feverishly. "Weak blood. We fall into the darkness, forgotten. Toujours..."

She whirled, a tremble in her spindly limbs, before collapsing into a heap of dark silk. As he knelt beside her, her eyes flew open, wide and raging and unseeing.

Notes: The people who Disapparated are Andromeda's parents, Cygnus and Druella. Orion and Walburga are Sirius' parents.