Everybody Deserves a Second Chance

Summery: Bellatrix steals Harry after he repels the curse and kills Voldemort. They then have to seek Asylum in the last place anyone would expect...Hogwarts.

A.N.: Obviously AU. NO SLASH what so ever. I know this type of story has been done about a million times, but hey theres a reason for that. This is meant to be a fun story about a little boy and his mother, and finding the light within- even when it's covered in darkness. Not Sure of what eventual pairing will be, maybe Hermione/Harry, Luna/Harry, Tonks/Harry. NO Ginny/Harry pairings I personally hate them as a Couple! Always comment I love constructive criticism, because it only makes my writing better. I love both Bellatrix and Harry, and have always wondered if it really came down to it we could ever see a more maternal side to Bellatrix.

WARNING: rated T for potential language, and may change as story goes on.

*All rights and characters go to the Genius known as J.K. Rowling for she and she alone created the wonderful world of Harry Potter*

Prologue:

Death Eater Meeting Room-Riddle Manor

"Bellatrix come forward!" The Dark Lord commanded at the bushy black-haired witch that was sitting in front of him. She immediately rose and started to make her way towards the man who had spoken to her. She was some one able to carry her self with such poise and power, yet always have that submissive manner about herself. As she walked her boots clicked on the black tiles, her thick black Victorian styled robes embedded with tiny black crystals sparkled in the moonlight. Her extremely curly hair pulled back in a french braided bun that was tied with a ribbon. As she kneeled down in front of the dark lord she bent down and kissed his robes.

"Ahhh Bellatrix, my most loyal servant." he hissed tangling his hand in her hair so he could gently tip her head so she would be looking at him, "Tonight you, and you alone will accompany me to the Potter household to finally rid the world of the one boy who will supposedly destroy me!" He ended his statement with his sickening laugh.

" Oh my lord I... I have never been so honored!, I am truly thankful I am the one you trust above all others!" Bellatrix exclaimed with a menacing glee entering her eyes. She was so over joyed that she would be the one accompanying the dark lord to rid the world of the last hope for the light side. She would enjoy potentially torturing the Potters and then watching her lord murder their infant son. After her little boy Leo had died a little over a month ago she had been seeing the world with a new layer of hate and despair sending curses at anyone who even looked at her the wrong way. When her little boy was born she had felt something she had never felt before. It felt like a little bitty sun in her chest, and fresh gingerbread on her tongue. She had stared into those little sea-foam eyes and told herself that if she was ever ordered to take this little boys life, she wouldn't do it. She wouldn't let anyone else hurt him either, she would die for this little bundle of joy in her arms now.

She hadn't been able to protect him though. If she had worked harder or been more careful to keep him safe, maybe her little Leo wouldn't have left. He had though, he died right in her arms, her little Leo's light in his eyes had gone out right in front of her. She had cried, screamed, broke things, killed 4 house elves, and for the first time in her life she felt what all those mother's felt as she had tortured or killed their babies. Why they rolled around on the floor crying, why they grabbed their husbands with death grips, why it was the one thing that always managed to break them. Because she, Bellatrix Black Lestrange had just taken their little bundles of joy.

She didn't care about that now though, she had become an expert now at burying her pain and emotion down inside her and throwing away the key. All Bellatrix cared about was the anger boiling inside her, and the pride that the Dark Lord had picked her, not Lucius, not Rodolphus, her and her alone.

12:00 am Godric's Hollow-

Bellatrix's feet hit the ground with a thud. She breathed in the cold night air that filled her lungs with the excitement. She heard a scream from inside the house and realized the dark lord must already be inside. She ran forward pushing open the door. Seeing the downstairs was in a total fray, she assumed there must have been a struggle and Bellatrix feared the worst; but relieved when she saw a struggling James Potter on the floor in a body bind. She jerked from her pondering's when she heard yelling on the second floor.

She carefully and quietly crept up the stairs trying not make a sound, when she reached the upstairs hallway she saw Voldemort with his wand knocked out of his hand and Lily Potter with her back turned to Bellatrix trying to bargain for her son's life. Bellatrix slowly reached for her wand and trained it on Lily Potter's back, Bella noticed a look of relief enter her lords eyes as the shouted the charm,

"PETRIFICUS TOTALES!."

Lily's arms and legs shot together before she fell back to the ground. The dark lord quickly picked up his wand from the floor and almost jogged into what Bellatrix assumed was the nursery. As she was stepping over a now immobile Lily Potter, Bellatrix gave her a rough kick to the side. As she approached the doorway there was a giant flash of green light that illuminated the dark house, and then all was silent.

Bellatrix didn't dare move for a reason she couldn't quiet explain, she seemed just frozen to the spot. There was peculiar sense that something big had just happened, something that was not part of the plan. Then there was a cloud of dark smoke the shot out of the room like it was trying to get away as quickly as possible from whatever was in there. It sped down the hallway barely an inch from her face and out a broken window.

Bellatrix tentatively creeped down the hallway and opened the door she did not see what she had expected at all. All that was left in the room was the now screaming Potter boy, and much to her horror her master's robes that were all crumbled in a ball on the floor, and his wand split into several pieces on the floor.

"My lord?"Bellatrix whispered half hoping he would just jump right out of the closet and scare her, but he didn't.

All that was left was herself, the Potters, and the boy who really did live. First the first time that night she really looked at little Harry crying in his crib. He had green eyes, not sea-foam like her Leo, but striking Avada Kedavera green. She didn't know why but she started stepping forward towards the crying boy. Bellatrix needed to think and that was not going to happen with this child screaming bloody murder. As she picked up the child in her arms, she almost dropped him in shock, for he felt exactly like her little leo. Same size, same weight, even nestled his head in the same spot in her neck as Leo had. She stared into this little boys eyes and she saw how naïve and innocent this baby was. He had stopped crying now and was even chuckling a bit. She hugged him tighter to her body, and as Bellatrix did this something changed. Bellatrix started seeing the world from the other side, the fear, the loss, the pure evil that was everything Voldemort and his followers represented.

She was at a loss for words as Harry nestled his head deeper into her neck almost getting lost in all of her hair. At that very moment Bellatrix decided something, she decided that she was going to protect this boy with her life, she had let something happen to her little Leo and she wasn't going to let that happen again. She looked into the starry night sky and swore that life had given her another chance, but this time it was going to be different. Bellatrix wasn't going to raise Harry with hate and superiority, but to be kind and except everyone no matter where they came from. Not to be a sheep but choose to follow a path not because someone else wanted you to, but because it was what you believed was right. Bellatrix stared into his radiant green eyes whispered so soft that she herself almost couldn't hear, "I'm your Mama now."

Bellatrix frantically looked around the room as she heard a rustling in the hall remembering that Lily Potter was not dead, but just petrified. Thinking the situation, and her choice through a little harder she realized that they probably wouldn't let Bellatrix Lestrange raise the only hope for the light side. So she came to the conclusion she had to make it look like Harry Potter was dead. Bellatrix configured a chair that had been hidden in the shadows to look like the boy. She was almost shocked when all of a sudden there was another baby identical to the one in her arms laughing on the floor. She took in a deep breath raising her wand "AVADA KEDAVERA!" The room once again filled with green light, and the laughing stopped, everything was absolutely still.

Lily craned her neck fighting with all her might to be able to move or at least see what was going on in her sons room. She was kicking herself for not hearing Lestrange coming up the stairs and when she felt the stunner hit her back she knew it was over. She remembered Voldemort walking in her sons room, she remembered seeing the flash of green light. The pain and tears that ripped through her body as she knew her little boy had just been murdered, but then she heard it slightly soft at first, but then growing, it was crying, her son crying! Her son was crying out for her, but how... She had seen the flash of green light, heard the words. Lily racked her brain for any bit of information that would explain how she was hearing her son's cries moments after the killing curse had just been sent at him by one of the most powerful wizards in History.

Then it hit her, the Prophecy! The reason Dumbledore had hidden them in Godric's Hallow in the first place. Could this Prophecy that her son was the chosen one mean that he couldn't die? Lily didn't want to think about that though all she cared about was getting to her baby boy and seeing if he was alright. Then she saw the flash of green light up the hallway before she heard that sickening voice shout the words she had thought her son was invincible to. All was dark and silent once more she knew there was no way her new-born son had just survived two killing curses in less than 5 minutes. She tried to scream and shout out to her son, but nothing would come out but heavy shocked sobs that racked her entire body. She thrashed on the floor smashing into things, breaking pictures on the wall. Lily had to get to him, she had to see if her baby was okay. She froze, as her back rolled over only to connect with a heeled leather boot. A new terror pervaded Lily's body as she slowly looked up to a face that was glowing with a joy that caused bile to rise in Lily's throat. This sick women had just killed a newborn baby and now she was smiling about it! The panic only increased when she saw Bellatrix Lestrange leaning down so close that Lily could smell her vile breath. A shiver shot through Lily's body at the chilling whispered words that came out of Bellatrix's mouth, " I finished the task my master was unable to complete. Harry Potter, the one chosen to defeat the dark lord, is now dead." Before Bellatrix was even done the tears were rolling down Lily's face. As the psychotic death eater began to rise to leave Lily noticed a bundle that the women was hugging unusually close to her body under her cloak. She was going to ask, but barely was given the chance as the death eater body shot upward in a cloud of black smoke as she apparated away.