Severus Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange walked the dark, highly graffitied streets of London. There wands drawn and Snape's lit they walked quickly , making shortcuts through narrow alleyways and maneuvering through obstacles like large tash cans containing garbage from Muggles and steel fencing that would was about the height of the Hogwarts gamekeeper, Rubeus Hagrid. On the top of the fencing was barbed wire, impossible to climb, so they blasted their way through with magic. Eventually they found themselves across a small boy huddled under the front porch of a abandoned house in the suburbs of London. He had blackish-brownish, curly hair that had clumps of dirt in it. He had green eyes and several cuts on his face, which also was covered with dirt His clothes were raggedy, and falling of him. He looked about the age of six year old. The small boy's eyes were squinted at the light of Snape's wand, as though he hadn't seen light in many days.

"What do we do, Severus?" questioned Bellatrix frantically. "We should take him with us, should we not?"

"The Dark Lord wouldn't be interested in a small Muggle boy," Snape said coldly, his black eyes staring into the boy's.

"We can't just leave him here!" Bellatrix protested.

"Do what you like, Bellatrix," Snape said. " But don't be surprsied when he becomes Nagini's next meal"

"How could you, Severus!" Bellatrix's voice grew loud. "Just leave him here alone. Probably nothing to eat but the dirt from his face!"

Snape rolled his eyes, clearly bored at Bellatrix's whining and complaining over the Muggle boy.

"The Dark Lord will be quiet suprised in you, Bellatrix," Snape boasted. "You would be the last person that he would expect to turn into a blood traitor"

"Well--"

"First your niece marrying a half-breed and now you wanting to care over a Muggle. What a dissapointment for the Black Family. Who knew--"

Snape was blasted off his feet by a Stunning Spell. He landed, spread-eagled, in the middle of the street. Lights from nearby houses came on in the early morning. Bellatrix picked up the small boy in her arms and tossed him gently back into his hiding place beneath the weathered porch. Then sprinted toward Snape. She pointed her wand at his chest and murmured "Renervate"

Snape started and looked at his surroundings. When he noticed Bellatrix in his presence he glared at her." I'm no longer wasting my time in this filthy neighborhood"

He picked himself and dusted of his robes, then walked away a few feet away from her before Apparating with a loud crack. Many windows of nearby houses opened to try to find out what the noises were coming from. Bellatrix ran back to the boys hideout and knelt down beside him. What was she doing? She had never raised a kid before! Why was she feeling sympathetic for this Muggle boy? She killed many Muggles before and felt no sorrow whatsoever. Now this boy comes into her head and was messing things up. She held out her hand, wanting the boy to take it. "What's your name?"

The small boy quivered,"Br-Brandon"

The small boy's squeak made Bellatrix smile. Why was she smiling? She quickly changed her expression to her normal one.

"What are you ding here, Brandon?" Bellatrix said, her breath turning to icy mist due to temperature dropping.

"I don't know," Brandon said, tears came out of his eyes. " I've been here for a long time now"

"How old are you?"

"Uh," Brandon put his hand to his chin. " Five" He held out his hand showing five fingers.

"Brandon, I'd like you to come with me and take into some warmth," Bellatrix said to him, not thinking at all. Just worrying about what would happen to little Brandon if she didn't take him in. "Would you like that?"

"Sure" he squeaked.

"Come on then" she said trying to sound merry. She wasn't liking it.

Brandon crawled out from underneath the porch his face now showing from the many lights that came from the open windows of the houses.

"How dare you come through here at this time of night and make all this noise!" said a loud voice from the window of the house to the right. It was a female and she gave Bellatrix a rude gesture. Her eyes turned red and her blood started boiling. She wasn't taking that from a Muggle.

"Avada Kedavra!"

There was a flash of green light and a scream that turned into several screams. simultaneously

"Andrea!" cried a male voice.

Andrea's dead body was falling out of the window as if she were a marionette whose strings were cut. She landed in, what looked like, a dead rhododendron bush below the window she fell screams filled the air as reality hit them that the girl was dead dut to a flash of light. Many people screamed and more light flicked into the atmosphere. There were flashes of red and blue and a siren. Where more wizards coming? She gasped when she saw a Muggle car accelerating down the run-down road of the neighborhood. The car stopped, nearly missing a lampost, and the car doors squng open simultaneously. Three men in uniforms came running towards her with a device that looked like what Muggle children used to squirt water at each other during the hot summer. Bellatrix could have easily killed them but hought it was best to just leav before there any headlines. She looked at Brandon, who was knelted on the ground with his arms covering his head. She placed a hand on his back and Apparated.

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SORRY IT WAS SO 'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I WROTE FANFICTION AND I HAVE TO GET BACK TO THE RHYTHM. I PROMISE THEY WILL BE LONGER. R&R