Cygnus had managed to talk Rodolphus into coming to take Bellatrix back home. Thankfully for Narcissa, Bellatrix wouldn't be attending the banquet at Malfoy Manor, though Narcissa wasn't too thrilled about attending the banquet either.

However, to show that there wasn't any bad blood between her and Lucius, she agreed to attend the banquet. Narcissa even went as far as asking Theodore Burke to take her to the banquet, knowing that Lucius had never liked him.

Theodore didn't mind not attending a ball without Helene for a change, he was only interested in the free drinks and dancing. Narcissa wore a champagne pink gown, which suited her perfectly, Narcissa hoped to receive a reaction from Lucius, as the dress was very similar to the dance she wore at the first ball they attended together.

Once they arrived, Theodore quickly took it upon himself to escort Narcissa to the dance floor, twirling her around. Druella wasn't happy with Narcissa decision to attend the banquet with Theodore Burke. The Burke family had been known to be unclear about the views on purity.

While the head of the family Mrs Burke, stood proud of her purity. Her sons had publicly expressed their opinions of Muggle rights and Muggle-borns place in wizarding society. However, Theodore and Jacob Burke were good friends with Narcissa and Helene.

"It's rather rude to not dance with the host," Theodore told Narcissa, she glanced over at Lucius dancing with Helene.

"Is this your way of saying distract Lucius, so you can get some alone time with Helene,"

"Me? Why I'd never do that," he smirked, twirling her around the dance floor.

"Yes, of course, you wouldn't," Narcissa said, rolling her eyes at him.

Theodore danced with Narcissa a little quicker than she had anticipated, Theodore spun her into someone. She looked up into Lucius' eyes, she braced her hands against him, but Lucius had hold of her wrist, he spun her around, Narcissa back pressed against his body.

"Don't cause a scene, just dance," he whispered in her ear,

Narcissa turned around, smiling at him, she nodded he guided Narcissa in a waltz. Onlookers watched as the pair dance gracefully around the room, moving in sync with each other as though they were fated to dance together. Forever.

Lucius couldn't take his eyes off Narcissa, beautiful was the only word he could use to describe her. Narcissa had to admit herself he was dashing, then again he was the host, he would look the best dressed. Narcissa pulled away from him, exiting the ballroom Narcissa was followed by Helene.

Narcissa crouched down on the floor, he knees tuck against her chest, she tried to calm her breathing, Helene hurried to her side. She wrapped an arm around her, helping her up, Helene helped Narcissa up the stairs to a private room.

"Cissa are you okay?" Helene asked, cupping Narcissa's face so she could look at her.

"I can't breathe," Narcissa tried to say,

"Shh, it's alright, what happened?"

"I don't know, one minute I'm dancing with Lucius then next it's like my chest tightened, I had to leave,"

"Shh," Helene, held Narcissa's head against her chest, stroking her head, to trying and calm her. "Alright, I'm taking you home,"

"No, I don't want my mother to see me like this," Narcissa sniffed up,

"Fine, then you're coming back to my house," Helene helped Narcissa up, walking her back downstairs "wait here, I'm just going to let Teddy know that I've gone home,"

Helene walked through the ballroom, looking for Theodore who had come with Narcissa. However, that proved to be more difficult with the crowd of wizards that danced. Lucius spotted Helene, in the middle of the dance floor, he hadn't seen Narcissa in a while.

"Hey, where's Cissa?"

"Oh, I'm going to take her home, she has a terrible headache, the music and spinning around probably doesn't help," Lucius nodded

"Tell her, I hope she feels better soon," Helene smiled at him.

"Will do,"

***

Once Narcissa was out of her ball gown and into some of Helene's pyjamas, a comfortable pair of shorts and an oversized t-shirt, though it wasn't what Narcissa wore for bed. Narcissa wrapped her hair in a messy bun, Helene brought her a tub of ice cream for her, as well as one for herself.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Helene asked, Narcissa shook her head, taking a spoonful of ice cream.

"Cissy, be real with me, how do you feel about Lucius, because you almost had a panic attack after dancing with him,"

"I don't know anymore, I use to think that we'd end up together maybe had a family one day, but he's involved with things-

"So does that really matter?" Helene questioned, "if you love him it doesn't matter what he's involved in. Love is the strongest form of power, when you have it you don't let it go-

"Why do you love Teddy I heard you call him that,"

"No I don't, we have an agreement, now stop avoiding the topic, do you love Lucius?"

Narcissa didn't answer straight away which gave Helene her answer. Narcissa loved Lucius more than anyone else, the time they had spent together in the last few weeks reminded her just how much fun they used to have. She attended these balls in order to find her perfect match.

Her perfect match was already beside her.

Did Narcissa love Lucius?

More than anything.