We Come From the Same Blood
By Friend of the Seals
Note: This was originally published under my alternate account, Midnight Musings and Queries, which is still up. I had email trouble earlier this week and thus I transferred some of my work to this. Both accounts are now working so feel free to check them out. Or don't. You have free will, I assume.
Author's Note: This is a free verse (my favorite style) poem about Bellatrix and Tonks during the final battle.
It wasn't as if killing your niece had the same societal status as killing your child, or your sibling
They didn't share enough to bring the rare fleeting moments of emotion to Bella
The girl's hair was red with anger, her skin flushed
Bella's hair was dark, her skin pale
There was no resemblance; none at all
Except their wands were drawn, sparks of energy shot between them
It was a potential energy
It was clear from the beginning that only one would walk away
The girl had been waiting her whole life for this confrontation
She had dreaded it, desired it, feared it but she knew that it would happen
Their fate was as settled as that of the Dark Lord and the Potter Boy
Neither could live while the other survived
It wasn't that the universe would implode or the fabric of reality would crumble
Nothing so grand as that
Only that this girl was the last bit of virtue in the dark stained tree of Bella's blood
Now that her cousin had fallen and Andromeda had withered away to an old memory
It was only her niece who would not let her be pure
Who stood in the way of Bella's destiny as the risen peak of their family's legacy
The girl had to die; she had to be destroyed
The conflicting energy of the two would not last long in the bitter air of a detached battle scene
The girl seemed hesitant to kill
After all this time, Bella mused, she still thinks this would end well
No one has to be hurt
Bella became angry
She enjoyed her prey to be provoked, to be shouting and kicking
And this girl remained calm
Scared but resigned
You know I'm going to kill you
I will prune this tree forever
The first bit of green light escaped Bella's wand missing the girl by a few inches
She seemed to know this
How close death was
The girl looked up to the sky for a moment
There's no one there
Who do you think is there
How do you contemplate your death or did you know for as long as you could remember
Bella wondered if she should feel sad at all
Even though she hated this girl more then most of the world family was important
Blood was important
Not for long
The second curse sent the girl into the wall behind her
A look of almost bemusement on her face
Bella wasn't free
God damn it, she still wasn't pure
A few flakes of the mud she felt forever clinging to her essence might have fallen
But she didn't feel the chill of the water washing her whole being over
Looking once more at the girl's face, Bella ran off to find more souls to eliminate
Running to find more and more scum to wipe off the earth
Running to meet the glare of the cruel sun in the windows she wanted so desperately to set forever