Forget This Tapestry

FORGET THIS TAPESTRY

Summary:

“It’s really very strange being back here, after all this time,” Andromeda says. She’s peering closely, quite clinically, at the spot on the tapestry where her own name was blasted off nearly a quarter of a century ago.

(Part 4 of La Ronde Noire.)

Characters: Sirius, Andromeda

Warnings: None

Words: ~1,300

Notes:

This is part 4 of La Ronde Noire, a series that follows characters and themes from the Black family, with each story following one character from the previous scene into the next scene, until it eventually comes around full circle. So far:

Part 1: "The Landlord's Other Daughter" (Narcissa and Andromeda)
Part 2: "Tea, No Sympathy" (Narcissa and Regulus)
Part 3: "Two Brothers Down a Dark Alley Sometime in 1979" (Regulus and Sirius)

The final part is:

Part 5: "Two Sisters Take Tea" (Andromeda and Narcissa)

Thanks to

stereolightning for helpful feedback once again!

 

Story:

 

( Forget this Tapestry )

 

La Ronde Noire series master post

La Ronde Noire:

What began as simply a remix of stereolightning's Andromeda-and-Narcissa story "The Chimes at Midnight" showing the other perspective from the same scene (Narcissa-and-Andromeda in "The Landlord's Other Daughter") quickly spilled over into some related thoughts about Narcissa-and-Regulus ("Tea, No Sympathy").

Another inspired suggestion from stereolightning got me wondering whether it would be possible to write a La Ronde (a format in which each subsequent story follows one character from the previous scene into a new scene with another character, until it eventually circles around to the first pair of characters again). By then I was already thinking that an Andromeda-and-Narcissa story I'd already written ("Two Sisters Take Tea," formerly titled "A Visit") could actually bookend such a set of stories quite well. The rest – Regulus-and-Sirius ("Two Brothers Down a Dark Alley Sometime in 1979"), then Sirius-and-Andromeda ("Forget This Tapestry") – fell into place from there!

Here's the whole set:

1. The Landlord's Other Daughter (remix of The Chimes at Midnight by stereolightning) – Narcissa and Andromeda, circa 1971

2. Tea, No Sympathy – Narcissa and Regulus, circa 1976

3. Two Brothers Down a Dark Alley Sometime in 1979 – Regulus and Sirius, 1979

4. Forget This Tapestry – Sirius and Andromeda, 1995

5. Two Sisters Take Tea – Andromeda and Narcissa, 1998