If you are just coming across this now, i suggest that you read Secrets & Lies 1,2 and 3 first

A/N: I don't know why, but I like to start the prologues out with Bella, so here we are,

Enjoy ;-)

Secrets & Lies Four

Prologue

Bella sat at a table, looking around at people that she hadn't seen for years, but it was all so familiar. There were new faces, of course, but almost all the old ones where there too. The other Death Eaters would not have forgiven Bella so easily, but since her display at the Ministry, the only person at the table who was not terrified of her was Lord Voldemort himself.

During her time back, she had gotten more confident that her master wouldn't want to dispose of her, consequently, she relished in watching her masters frustration. She would never call him her lord anymore, she didn't belong to anyone, she loved to watch as he stopped himself from telling her to, as that would have been a childish thing to do.

'I need Sturgis Podmore in Azkaban, he knows too much,' The Dark Lord said to his Death Eaters,

'I can do it,' Bella said, the words 'My Lord' lingered on her lips, and he could tell.

She smirked, as he clenched his teeth and replied, 'Thank you, Bella, see to it that he is in Azkaban.'

'Of course,' she said.

The Death Eaters stared at her incredulously, none of them would have dared, but she hadn't once called him her lord since she had returned. They stared at her every single time the words failed to escape her lips.

She got up from the table, and walked towards the door.

'May I ask where you are going, Bella?' The Dark Lord asked, turning to look at her,

'I'm going to get Podmore thrown in Azkaban, just like you asked me too.' She replied.

'I didn't mean now, Bella,' he sighed

'Of course you didn't, I was merely using my initiative and doing it now, as the sooner, the better.' She sat back down at the table.

'Now, as I was saying before, we need to think of a new way to get Potter.'

Bella bit her lip, she had grown to care slightly for Harry over the past few years, and now they were plotting to kill him.

'I don't care who we have to kill to make him weak, family, friends, as long as we get him.'

'Yes, my Lord,' rang throughout the table, with a simple 'yes,' from Bella, that then made her think of Larissa and Sirius, they were Harry's legal family,

'Bella are you alright? You've gone rather pale,' The Dark Lord said with a mild curiosity,

'I'm not feeling too well,' she replied,

'Go and lie down upstairs, I'm sure Narcissa will attend to you.'

Bella nodded, and got up from the table, and walked out of the room, soon followed by her sister. They went up to one of the guest bedrooms in Malfoy manor, and Bella sat down on the bed.

'You alright Bella?' Narcissa asked, feeling her sisters forehead,

'What have I done?' she asked quietly,

'What do you mean?' Narcissa frowned,

'What have I done?' she repeated, 'he's going to kill them.'

'I'm sure he wouldn't...' Narcissa trailed off

'Have you met him? Of course he would, he'd kill the entire human race in a heart beat if it meant that he could live forever.'

Narcissa opened her mouth, and promptly closed it again.

'Why is your life so easy?'

'Oh, my life's not that easy,'

'I seem to recall saying those words to you fourteen years ago sis, and look where we are now.'

'Yeah, well, I'm sure everything will be fine Bella, they're heavily protected, not only by the Order, but by all the enchantments that Aunt Walburga and Uncle Orion put on the house all those years ago, and there are new one's too from Dumbledore and everything, they'll be fine Bella.' Narcissa assured her sister, she then laid Bella down on the bed, and cast a cooling charm over Bella's forehead.

A/N: So maybe Bella's seen the error of her ways?

But don't think she's just going to go crawling back to them - have you met her?

...She's a fictional character, you couldn't have...

Let me rephrase that

Have you read about her? Do you know her personality?

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-Livvy xxx