Written for Stratego - Table Two [Alys vs. Haley]
It was always Bellatrix. She was always in the spotlight, always the one everyone paid attention too. That was how it worked at Hogwarts, and that was how it worked afterwards. She got all the grades, all the praise, all the beauty, and all the boys. When they were younger, Alecto would always stay close to her, praying that some of it would rub off on her and make her suddenly better than what she was before.
It never did, and Alecto always knew it never would. She still went along with it, because she knew she had no other option. She knew that Bellatrix was her best hope, and so she always went along with her. With the pranks, with the joking, and with the Dark Mark.
She would have done that all by her own though. For he would have still been there if she had never known Bellatrix. Her lord, her master, her very reason for living. The Dark Lord was great and wonderful and everything to her. She would do anything for him, be anything for him.
His wife, if needed. His wife, if wanted.
She needed him. She wanted him.
He didn't though. He had Bellatrix.
Who would want Alecto when they had her?