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"Why would you do this to yourself, Bella?" Narcissa Malfoy asked her eldest sister as she crouched on the bed. "This isn't wha tyou wanted, is it?"
Bellatrix Lestrange shook her head solemnly, her big black eyes huge and confused. "I don't know what I wanted, Cissy," Bellatrix answered, confusion slightly evident in her voice. "I was confused back then. You know that."
"All too well, Bella. All too well," Narcissa said weakly, her beautiful features weighed down by worry for her sister. "But why would you do this to yourself? It makes no sense!"
"It does if you're from my world, Narcissa," Bellatrix said darkly, her mouth turned down at the edges. Narcissa scoffed and scuffled about the room, making herself busy so that she didn't have to look at her sister's pathetic face. "It does, Cissy! You have to believe me!"
"The only way I can believe you, Bella, is if you explain it to me. And I mean fully explain." Narcissa;s pale face was livid and her blue eyes were cold with fury. "Not this half crap that you've been feeding everyone else!"
Bellatrix bobbed her head up and down furiously, complying to her sisters wishes.
"I guess it started when Mum told us all what we were supposed to do with out lives," Bellatrix began, her eyes taking on the glazed look of someone who was years away. "She said that we were going to have to marry a rich pure blood and have sons and that was all. Nothing more, nothing less. Of course you complied. You always wanted to please Mother and show her you were the perfect daughter."
Narcissa half-smiled, her anger obviously gone. Bellatrix crossed her legs in front of her, clasped her sisters hands and took on the air of a story-teller.
"But Andy and I. Well, we never really wanted to just give into the rules. I wasn't exactly sure how I was going to go against the grain, but Andy did. I was so livid when I realized what she was going to do that I had no choice but to tell Mother. And that was when I knew what I wanted to do.
"But you only joined the Dark Lord when you were twenty-five. Eight years after you kicked Andy out. What did you wait so long?" Narcissa asked, interrupting Bellatrix.
"Shh Cissy," Bellatrix hissed, her features darkening and turning scary. Narcissa nodded slowly and allowed her sisters voice to drift over her. "I wanted to show my power. I wanted to take everything I had learned and change it to the Dark Lord's will. It took about eight years." Narcissa nodded, finally understanding.
"I never wanted it to be like this. All I was concerned about was showing Mother that I was destined for greatness. It took a while for me to realize that I actually loved him." Narcissa inhaled sharply at his, a pale hand flying to her mouth.
"But you can't possibly!" Narcissa hissed in a shocked tone. "He can't love you back!"
"It doesn't matter," Bellatrix said simply. "I joined because I wanted to show her that I could actually do something with my life. But what I got out of it was greater and scarier than I could have imagined."
Narcissa scoffed and rolled her eyes. "You are officially the most insane person I have ever met!" she said, getting off of Bellatrix's bed and walking away. "But I am glad you're home, Bella."
"Me too, Cissy. Me too." And without another word, Bellatrix wrapped herself in the blankets and fell asleep. No doubt dreaming about her Death Eater experience.
