A drabble for the Suspicion challenge on xoxLewrahxox's forum.

Inspired by the conversation about Andromeda's survival in the second war.

Suspicion

Write a 100 or 500 word drabble to do with the theme suspicion. Now, this could be anything from: Something really serious, or something not so serious such as: Which DA member stole the last chocolate frog.

He likes tormenting her.

"You haven't had news of your niece recently, have you?" asks the Dark Lord casually to his servant. "Still on the run?"

"Yes, my Lord," she replies, "but I asked someone from the research patrols to let me know if she is located."

"And her mother?"

She hesitates.

"Her husband is dead, my Lord," she declares, a bit too loudly, "By my hand."

"It didn't clear her name," he says.

Bella flinches.

"She will die, my Lord," she whispers, a bit of uncertainty in her voice.

Do you want it? he thinks.

He lets it go.