Within Temptation
Harry Potter fan-fictions of different genres and pairings surrounding the music of Within Temptation—tribute to the books and the band
Caged
Bellatrix Black/Lord Voldemort, Romance/Horror (T-M)
I wanted a love like Andromeda's.
He told me to wait for him in London. I went there and waited and waited.
But he never came for me.
At first, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I guessed he was held up or something.
By midnight, I knew I had been abandoned. I had been tossed aside like an old doll.
I should have apparated home to my family, take their disdainful comforts, and get over him. But I decided I needed to walk it off first.
I gave him everything I was able to give. He told me he loved me. I was a fool to believe him.
"Hey, sweetheart!"
I turn around. Three men surrounded me, smirking. I reach for my wand, but a fourth I did not notice seized my wrists.
They charged.
I screamed for help, trying to push them off. If I could just get to my wand.
Flashes of green light blinded me and one by one my assailants fall to the ground.
Shakily, I escape the dead rapists and look at my rescuer. My eyes widen. He's dressed in a black suit and his skin is paler than a normal human's. His nose is flattened. He resembles a serpent.
I know him from times he's come to my family's villa. I've always been afraid of him.
"Aren't you the Black girl? Or one of them?"
I nod.
"Which one?"
"Bellatrix," I say. "The middle sister."
"Why are you so far from home?"
I avert my gaze, tears escaping my closed lashes.
He helped me back onto my shaking legs and embraced me. I've always feared him, so I shied away from him whenever he came by our home.
I did not expect such warmth and tenderness from the hands that killed hundreds of people.
I did not expect him to tolerate my girlish antics—things a man such as him would find disgusting, like crying as I am right now.
"I do not know what happened, but I can teach you to defend yourself better and much more." He tilted my chin up. "You're a very beautiful girl, Bella."