Mended

"Lucius, leave Draco alone on this. She's a half-blood, that's better than mudblood, right?" Narcissa Malfoy was pleading with her husband to stop guilting their son for bringing home a half-blood girlfriend.
"No, Narcissa, it's not. It's the same. She's not a pure-blood, therefor, I don't condone this engagement." Lucius stood firm on his beliefs.
"When did you become so thick? A half-blood saved you from Azkaban after the battle at Hogwarts!"
"But the same half-blood put me in Azkaban the first time around!" Lucius's posture became more rigid as he grew angrier, "But that has nothing to do with this."
"When did you become so hard and unyielding?" Narcissa hated playing these cards, but she also didn't want to lose this particular argument.
"When did you start losing sight of your values?"
Now Narcissa was angry, too, "I haven't lost sight of my values, I just care about our son's happiness. Unlike you." Next thing Narcissa knew, Lucius's hand came down hard on her face. She staggered backward; clutching her stinging cheek.
Lucius immediatly snapped out of his angry mood and into a shocked and appologetic one, "Narcissa, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to, I-"
"No," She cut him off, stepping away from his aproaching arms, "Don't touch me. I will not be treated this way. We're done." SHe paused before the door to the kitchen, "And I'll see you in court." She left the room swiftly and ran into Draco, who was standing outside the door.
"Mom?" Draco said slowly, reaching up to examine the red mark on his mother's face. He lowered his eyes, "I'm sorry I caused this."
"Of course you didn't, sweetheart," Narcissa said as she pulled her son into her arms, "This isn't your problem, dear. It's your father and I's."
"Where will you go?"
"I don't know. My sister's house, probably."
"Aunt Andromeda? But I thought-"
"Everything's different now, Draco." She kissed him lightly on the forehead and went upstairs to pack.
As soon as she was gone, Draco knew he couldn't msrry Carla. The relationship had torn his parents apart, so he couldn't live with that over his head. He spun on his heels and went off to find Carla; the relationship had to end. Now.
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Thirty minutes after her fight with Lucius, Narcissa Black was standing on the front stoop of her older sister, Andromeda Tonks's house; bags in hand. She tentativly knocked on the door, hoping that it'd be Dromeda that opened the door, and not her grandson, Teddy.
Sure enough, the door opened and a tall woman with long, brown hair and doe eyes peeked out. Before Narcissa could explain herself, Andromeda wrapped her arms around her sister and the two women cried together. Narcissa was so glad to hug Andromeda again; she'd missed her so much. Maybe sometimes it takes one broken relationship to mend another.