Denial
Bellatrix was woken by her mother at around eight am.
"Bella, honey do you want to come with me to Kings Cross to get Andromeda and Narcissa." her mother cooed. Bellatrix moaned and rolled over. The last thing she wanted to do was get up to go see her sisters come back to annoy her. "I'll take that as I no then; oh and there's a letter here for you." Druella placed the letter on Bellatrix's nightstand, and walked out the door. Bellatrix didn't think twice about the letter, and fell back asleep.
Bellatrix woke with a start and looked at the clock on the wall. It was already eleven o'clock why weren't her parents and sisters back. She turned to her dresser, and grabbed the letter that her mother had placed there. She had to admit she was curious. After all who would send her a letter? Bellatrix sat up in bed and torn open the envelope, not even looking at the front. She unfolded the letter, and scanned the page. The letter read
Dear Bellatrix,
Right now mum and dad are probably at Kings Cross picking Cissy and I up, or at least that is what they think they are doing. Bella I won't be coming home today. I've found someone. His name is Ted, and he loves me a lot Bella. He's a muggle-born though, so I have decided to run away with him. We are going to buy a house in the countryside, and we're going to get married later this summer. I want you to be there Bella, I want you to look past the prejudice of mum and dad, and try to accept this new way of life. Please Bella I haven't asked you much over the years we've been sisters, but I'm asking you now to stay with me on this one.
Your dearest sister,
Andromeda Black
Bellatrix shook her head. This couldn't be happening. Andromeda was always so good she was the golden child of the Black family. Mum and dad had always looked at Andromeda with the most prospects. After all Bellatrix had been a disappointment from day one. She was meant to be a boy not a girl. I have to go stop her. Bellatrix thought to herself. She jumped out of her bed, and grabbed her black robe that was hanging on her bed post. She threw the cloak over her head, and grabbed her wand. She closed her eyes thought about Kings Cross station and platform 9 3/4, and then she apparated. Bellatrix opened her eyes to see the station around her. Only to her surprise the train was gone and all the students were already with their families. She scanned the crowd hoping to find Andy, but didn't see her sisters long auburn hair anywhere.
"Excuse me" Bellatrix shouted to a young Slytherin "have you seen Andromeda Black." The boy shook his end, and stared at Bellatrix. He wondered why such a strange woman would come up and ask him about another student. He hurried off in the other direction, and Bellatrix continued her search. She got some ugly stares as she continued around the station. After all she was only in her nightgown and a robe thrown underneath. Suddenly, Bellatrix saw Andromeda. She was holding a boys hand.
"Andy!" she shouted across the room, but it was too late, they had already apparated away. Bellatrix let a tear fall from her cheek. This couldn't be happening; Andy had always been such a good pure blood girl why had she run off with a filthy mudblood. Some people began to stare as Bellatrix began to sob. She buried her face in her hands trying to hide herself from the world. She never cried, but Andy was her sister and she couldn't bear to lose her. This can't be happening. She thought to herself.
"Bellatrix" a voice said from behind her. She turned to see her father and mother behind her with Narcissa. "Honey when did you get here, and have you seen Andromeda she hasn't gotten off the train yet, and Narcissa won't say a word." Bellatrix turned to her other sister whose eyes where also filled with tears. She already knew what was going on. Bellatrix loved how her parents could be so naive about things.
"Mum" Bellatrix began, but was cut off by her aunt running over to them.
"Guess what Sirius just told me!" Walburga Black shouted attracting the attention of others around her. Druella and Cygnus stared at her wondering why she was making such a spectacle. Orion, Sirius, and young Regulus all ran behind her trying to catch up.
"What is it Walburga?" Cygnus asked in an annoyed tone. His sister sometimes had a way of over exaggerating things.
"Your filthy daughter has run off!" she shouted a vein growing in her neck "with a mudblood." Cygnus' face turned a couple shades of red until it was purple. Druella let out somewhat of a cry before tears started flowing down her face. By now many people were staring, and Orion was about the only sense of reason in the family.
"Let's finish this discussion at home." he suggested grabbing Regulus' arm. The easiest way to get to 12 Grimmauld Place was by apparating, so Narcissa grabbed Bellatrix's arm to afraid to apparate with her father or mother. They would both be mad at her for not telling them earlier that Andromeda had run off. At that they all apparated to 12 Grimmauld Place. Immediately as they reached the ancient house Walburga ran up the stairs toward the old family tapestry wand in hand.
"Walburga!" Cygnus shouted with so much anger in his voice Bellatrix nearly took a step back.
"What?" she spat back at her brother.
"Let me do it I have the right." he replied drawing his wand. Suddenly, Narcissa let out a cry that was so high pitched someone with bad hearing would not have been able to hear it. Cygnus shot his youngest daughter a sharp look. Walburga continued up the stairs, and suddenly Bellatrix shot a curse at her aunt. Luckily Walburga ducked and the curse hit the wall nearly causing an old house elves head to burst into flames.
"Bellatrix Black!" Cygnus shouted and turned to his eldest daughter. "Stay out of this!"
"No!" she shouted back. "Andromeda wouldn't do this. She knows better." Cygnus' face turned back to the shade it had been at the train station, but something made Bellatrix stand her ground. She firmly believed that her sister would never run off especially with someone with such bad blood. Andromeda didn't have such bad tastes. Bellatrix nearly forgot about her aunt who remained on the stairs stunned that her niece had just shot a curse at her.
"Young lady! Your former sister is filth!" Walburga retaliated.
"Don't say that about her!" Bellatrix shouted and shot another curse at her aunt. This time Walburga wasn't quick enough and collapsed to the ground in pain. Bellatrix had used the cruciatus curse, and it wasn't very good (after all it was fairly new to her), but it was enough to overpower her aunt. Suddenly Bellatrix lost her wand as her own mother disarmed her.
"Don't, Andy wouldn't do that!" Bellatrix screamed as her father picked her up and began to carry her out of the room. The last thing Bellatrix saw as she was trying to overcome her fathers strong hold was her aunt walking to the room with the tapestry in it. Bellatrix let out a scream as she smelt the burning fabric of the tapestry. Her father threw her onto the couch of the sitting room, but all Bellatrix could thing about was one thing.
She didn't do it.
