Author: The Angelic Vampire (vampiricmcd)

Title: Always pure but never worthy

Rating: PG

Word count: 250

Summary: She knows that she is not worthy

She knows that she is not worthy. She will never be worthy of him. But that doesn't stop her from conquering every last scrap of attention she can wrangle from him. It is the nature of the beast after all. Pain, violence, love and blood. She upholds her family's credo of "Toujours pur" to such extremes that she is willing to squander away years of her life in filth and hardship at Azkaban prison.

But Bellatrix knows, yes she knows, that it will never ever be enough. He will come for her, for them, only because he will have need of them and not want. But it will have to do. Even if she has never settled in her entire life, she settles for this. Her laugh echoes through the stone cold halls and emptiness that surround her above and beyond the leeching Dementors closing in on her. She will remember her goals. And insane she may become, may already be, but she will remember her Lord until she is free. She will survive and hold on, because she is not worthy and will never be. And the memory of that is neither happy nor filled with hope, save for the knowledge that it will help her through her imprisonment – until she can try to be worthy of him once again and ultimately fail.

There has always been a hint of Seer blood in the Black lineage. She knows that in the end he will come. She will be waiting.