#drabstuff

Ron: Just checking, Hermione. But are you aware that Bellatrix Black is currently sleeping in your living room?

Harry:

Ginny:

Hermione:

Hermione: *sips tea* Yes, and she wouldn’t stop eating my takeout Chinese food.

Ginny: Oh my god.

borrowed clothes, borrowed couch, borrowed cat?

cissamione fic recs ❤| requested! :)

(listen to cornelia street|slow dancing|don’t blame me|dress|call it what you want)

Love in the Eye of a Stormbyrattlesoft

(A perfect read during a stormy night. Incredibly immersive. Also, bit of a spoiler: the image of Hermione soaked through the bone by rainfall is *chef’s kiss*. I absolutely adore the ‘I-ran-into-the-storm-so-I-could-reach-you’ trope. That is just so meaningful to me.)

Summary: After the war, Narcissa Malfoy spends all of her time holed up in Malfoy Manor. Growing more and more dissatisfied, she takes a holiday to a mysterious island that promises no contact with the outside world. There, she encounters someone else in similar circumstances and a threat straight from her nightmares.

She’s Just a BoybyLooktotheedges

(THIS. This is a brilliant read. The dialogue, the banter, the humor, everything. Just read it. Trust me.)

Summary: Draco has been given a task by the Dark Lord. A task he can’t refuse. Either kill Dumbledore…or he and his family will be killed. Well. Narcissa Malfoy shan’t let her son become a killer. Not for her, not for anything. She’ll do anything for her son. Give her life for her son. Become a killer for her son. Take his place at Hogwarts…and do the deed herself. Although she had not anticipated being a teenage boy being quite so difficult.

From Heads Unworthybyintheinkpot

(THIS. I will never ever get over From Heads Unworthy. The plot is fantastic. I adore slow burn fics like this, where you’re genuinely unsure when or if the two characters you’re rooting for are going to end up together. And it’s all about that tension that’s somehow always present when they’re in each other’s company. It’s about that journey, and From Heads Unworthy has that plot in spades. I really can’t get over how good this one is. I honestly couldn’t put it down the moment I picked it up.)

Summary: Unable to destroy Nagini, Harry dies at the Battle of Hogwarts. Hermione saves Narcissa from Voldemort’s wrath, and now it’s up to them to figure out how to destroy the snake and bring Voldemort down. Told as a series of drabbles and one shots.

50 First DatesbyYanana

(One of the first cissamione fics I’ve ever read! Fun, light-hearted, heart warming, pure fluff. I had a blast reading 50 First Dates. Grinning all the way through. Yanana has a lot of awesome cissamione stories, check out her AO3! I recommend giving them all a read!)

Summary: Hermione had faced every fancy party, every snarky interview and every suspicious gaze when her relationship with Narcissa became public. When Hermione asks her wife, years later, to get to know the muggle world she was raised in, Narcissa agrees. They go on a muggle date, once a month.

Heaven When We’re Homebyinkheart9459

(Also a part of the first cissamione fics I’ve read. I can never resist a soulmate AU. I rarely see soulmate AUs for cissamione, which is a shame because there’s SO MUCH angst material there. Reading Heaven When We’re Home feels like comfort. It’s Hermione and Narcissa gravitating towards each other slowly, playfully, inevitably. You know how there’s always that one person you can’t stop thinking about, and each time they’re in the same room or street as you, you can’t help but go there and just be near them? And you can easily tell that they’re feeling the same way, but neither of you say anything until it just keeps happening? This is that. I love that.)

Summary:5 Times Hermione and Narcissa aren’t ready to admit they’re soulmates + the 1 time they are.

IcebyHabren

(Hermione Granger, the brightest witch of her age is an idiot, pass it on. This is undoubtedly my favorite trope. But Narcissa being an idiot just as much as Hermione is? EVEN BETTER. Also Narcissa being furious, and Andromeda just being done with everything! Habren, you’re my hero. Go check out all of Habren’s cissamione stories on AO3!)

Summary: Nothing is as it seems. Hermione doesn’t understand what’s happening, and neither does Narcissa. Andromeda is in a corner rolling her eyes.

Blood MagicbyCumbersome

(I told myself I’d only be putting Hermione/Narcissa fics on this list, Blood Magic does have bellamione but it’s cissamione endgame. And I couldn’t not put Blood Magic here because of it’s great plot and terrific characterization. Blood Magic does a fantastic job of showing just how magnetic the Black sisters are, and just how different they are from one another other, but also how incredibly alike they are.)

Summary:An A/U set in 1970s. Hermione is born in an earlier timeline. Firmly on the Light side, she works as an Auror to stop Voldemort and his followers. But it soon becomes apparent that both the Light and Dark are capable of evil. As she struggles with her identity and her place, she finds herself drawn to the Black family and the old traditions.

peppermint kisses & things in threesbyevawrites

(I read this during the holidays. For those who love fluff and feel good stories! Who doesn’t? The title alone is just so heart warming ❤)

Summary: Everyone is laughing, and it rings in Narcissa’s ears akin to a Christmas carol on a late December morning, but there is one laughter that stands out in particular. Hermione is laughing, and her hand is out of nowhere on Narcissa’s thigh, just a light touch, but enough to make Narcissa’s skin burn even through all the layers of clothing. Narcissa doesn’t know why, but she doesn’t question it; just thinks that she could get used to something like this.

The Scientist (Remastered)byGreysfanhp

(I first came across The Scientist at ff.net, but it’s been posted by the author on AO3 very recently! This one is definitely in my to-read list. The premise is incredibly interesting, and again, I just adore how it’s about Narcissa and Hermione connecting with each other in the beginning for the sake of academic pursuits. That’s one of my favorite plots and needless to say, I’m so excited to read this one!)

Summary:Curiosity killed the cat, they say; but satisfaction brought it back. A few years after the war Hermione is a widely respected academic about to start her latest research project. To see its completion, however, she will have to ask help from the last person she ever imagined.

the rest of my sunsetsbyevawrites

(Poignant, sad, beautiful, wonderful read. Only the first chapter is up, and Hermione and Narcissa have barely exchanged a few words with each other and yet it feels like so much more has happened. evawrites does a magnificent job capturing just how broken and lost Hermione and Narcissa are after the war; the long pauses in their conversation, the tentative way they try to assess each other, the stilted manner of speaking, the massive uncertainty, the pondering, the asking, “where do we go from here?”, and the tentative vulnerability they share with each other in a moment’s notice, and the way they try to walk away from each other just as quickly. The way evawrites writes Narcissa, focusing on the quiet sadness this character carries all around her, and the way she actually deeply feels everything in a profound level is an absolute marvel to read. I’m a big fan.)

Summary: Narcissa never really believed in fate, but when she accidentally comes face-to-face with Hermione Granger all over Europe too many times, she thinks she might reconsider.

Killing me SoftlybyLooktotheedges

(Listen listen. The plot is brilliant. Narcissa is an incredible legilimens, a workaholic, a genius, and of course, a stubborn person. Hermione is all those things too except she is NOT a legilimens, but she is undoubtedly one of the LOUDEST thinkers in wizarding Britain. So. They'repracticallymadeforeachother. I LOVE IT.)

Summary:When Ginny gets hurt in a wronski feint gone wrong, Hermione is on hand to take her away from the swarming fans and straight to a quieter part of St Mungo’s. Where the only mediwitch around is Narcissa Black. Healer and master legilimens. And apparently Hermione’s thoughts are rather loud. Oops.

PerhapsbyNaralanis

(AMAZING. The slow burn is absolutely worth reading every word. This was a visceral experience of Narcissa’s childhood, with its fantastic writing and perfect pacing. I adore how patient Hermione is, and I adore how Perhaps perfectly captures Narcissa.)

Summary: Hermione Granger, Transfiguration Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, gets a new co-worker: Narcissa Black.

Extinctionbyrubikanon

(NEED I SAY MORE? Don’t speak to me. Don’t look at me. Don’t breathein my direction. This has SLAYED ME. I am never ever going to be the same again after Extinction. EVER AGAIN. GO. READ THIS NOW. This is my “so something has always been missing in my life and now I know what that is” moment. THE ANSWER IS NARCISSA IN HIKING CLOTHES, OBVIOUSLY. No but seriously, Extinction is an outstanding piece of work.)

Summary: Now complete with less vague summary! Post-war adventure across the British countryside, Hermione accidentally falls in love with Narcissa Malfoy, classified missions and intrigue and dementors oh my, Ron isn’t a jerk (what?! unheard of!), slow burn romance with a Serious Plot. “This is your last chance to turn back. I won’t be responsible for any nightmares it brings you.”

Fixed in TimebyTheWorldsaBeastofBurden

(THE BIG ONE. This is 600k words of amazing plot, fantastic dialogue, terrific character arcs, wonderful and diverse characters, brilliant Time Travel lore, and so much more. This is like Cissamione: The Series. Fixed in Time is like that series you binge watch until three in the morning, until it consumes your very existence. But if this was a series I could binge, it would be the only series I would ever binge ever again. EVER.)

Summary: “I did not want this for him, for my son. I did not want…any of this,” the words poured from her lips like bubbling potion boiling over, “I wish…I wish I never allowed him to set foot on this path. That I never stood by and let the Dark Lord brand his precious skin with his Mark…I wish for many things Miss Granger. If I could change the past, I would.” | A desperate plea leads to a desperate mission. In a split second when all seems lost, Hermione Granger, Gryffindor’s Golden Girl unlinks the golden chain around her neck and throws it around the shoulders of Narcissa Malfoy and turns back time to a week before Draco was set to take the Mark. Working together they’ll manipulate the events of the last few years to lead their past selves to victory against the Dark Lord. They have a year and a half to change the course of Draco’s life, destroy the Horcruxes, prepare all versions of themselves for the Final Battle and make certain their past selves still end up in Malfoy Manor so they can snap back into time without creating a major paradox. A lot can happen in a year and a half.

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