Filthy Muggles
Part II
"My Lord..." Bellatrix said as she kneeled at Voldemort's feet and presented him with the Horcrux.
He turned to her and raised an eyebrow before nodding and taking the necklace looking at it carefully. "You have pleased me, Bella." The Dark Lord said in his cold, clear voice.
"Thank you... My Lord..." Bella replied gratefully, standing to face him properly.
He waved her words away dismissively, focused solely on the necklace. "You may go."
Obeying her master, Bellatrix turned to leave him in peace, grinning madly when an idea struck her mind.
Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pie Emporium was empty that evening all except for Mrs. Lovett herself until Bellatrix appeared into the room, smiling deviously when she saw her passed out at one of the booths.
Going over to her, she pulled the bottle of gin from her hand, muttering 'stupid muggle' as she lifted her up and out of the booth and held her securely around the waist before apparating into Sweeney Todd's tonsorial parlor.
Bella laughed quietly to herself, for he, too, was sound asleep (the freezing spell had worn off just minutes before). Sighing when she realized that it would be difficult to grab him along with the other muggle, Bellatix used her free hand to fetch her wand, quickly whispering two spells which made Mr. Todd appear in her other arm, followed by ropes tying the muggle's hands behind their backs.
The three of them then disappeared out of the barber shop.
Mrs. Lovett mumbled Sweeney's name, shifting a bit uncomfortably as her hands were tied behind her back. limiting her amount of movement greatly. She groaned twisting a bit uncomfortably as they apparated.
They appeared in a dungeon at Malfoy Manner, Bellatrix quickly dropped the pair on the ground, before exiting the dungeon and locking them in there securely - Excited for their wake.
Mrs. Lovett groaned softly as she fell to the floor with a thud, curling up and shivering a bit in the cold.
It was about another hour before she started waking up and moving around frowning as she found she couldn't move her arms. "Wha' the hell?" She mumbled sleepily, blinking her eyes open.
She frowned more trying to sit up. She rolled over onto her stomach and squinted in the dark. "Mista T?" Upon receiving no response, she wiggled over, kicking at him. "Mr. Todd!"
"Hmmm?" Sweeney grumbled, opening his eyes and sitting up with a start, cursing to himself when he found his hands tied together.
She rolled her eyes turning her back to him and gripping his shirt, pulling herself up into a sitting position. "Wha' the hell happened?"
"Where are we?" Mr. Todd asked, even though he knew that she probably was just as oblivious to where they were as he was.
She sighed shaking her head, "I don' know! tha's why I was askin' ya! Looks like some sor'a dungeon or somethin'."
"Do you-" He hesitated, "Do you think that we've been caught?"
"We can' have been. Surely we'd have known... I mean, I'm pretty certain they woulda tried t'ge' a' us before they could take us away-"
Mrs. Lovett's voice trailed off after hearing Mr. Todd struggle for something on the ground, "What- What are ya doin?"
He grunted, "We're getting out of here. Now come and help me get my razor..."
She grunted, scooting over and sitting on his lap. She then reached down, leaning back and feeling her way to his razor. She finally managed to get it out. "Wha' now?" She asked, still in his lap, now holding the razor.
Mr. Todd almost let out a yell when she plopped herself onto his lap, yelling angrily. "Well you can't be sitting on my bloody lap if you're going to untie me!"
"Oh hush up! Ya can get yerself free fer all I care." Mrs. Lovett mumbled, flicking the razor open and carefully beginning to free herself. Her head throbbing terribly from his yelling.
Mr. Todd scowled as she continued to sit on him, what made him even angrier was the fact that he couldn't push her off of him.
"Almost there…" Mrs. Lovett whispered as she continued to cut herself free.
Sweeney tried to ignore the sensations he received as she moved on his lap. Sensations in which he hadn't felt in a long time...
She hissed as the razor slipped and cut into her wrist before she could finish with the ties. She then stood up somehow and kept her back to him, "Can ya bi'e the res'? I go' it fairly off."
"What?!" He suddenly snapped, "Just get back down here and finishing untying yourself!"
"My wrist hur's now. Can' ya jus' do it?" She asked stepping closer to him carefully.
"Oh for the love of-" Sweeney said impatiently, "Fine."
"Thank ya love." Mrs. Lovett said, leaning nearer to him.
"Whatever, you insufferable woman." He mumbled, rolling his eyes as he gnawed through the rest of her ropes.
She sighed, rubbing her wrists once he'd freed her, wincing at the bleeding cut. She bent down and ripped a strip from the bottom of her dress before tying her wrist up.
"Are you going to untie me now?" He asked irritably, anxious to get out of here.
She rolled her eyes and bent over, picking up the razor and kneeling behind him to cut through the ropes, purposefully cutting him a bit.
He breathed in annoyingly, "Watch what you're doing..."
"Jus' be happy I'm untyin' ya. An' would ya be a bi' qui'er? Go' a bloody headache." Mrs. Lovett scolded, freeing him and sitting back on her heels.
Suddenly, a door slammed and the clicking of heels echoed throughout the room.
Mrs. Lovett gripped the razor tighter, staring into the dark, waiting for whoever it was to reveal themselves.
A low chuckle was heard as Sweeney moved nearer to Mrs. Lovett, yanking his razor away from her as he did so, causing her to get up and move behind him.
A dark, shadowy figure appeared before them, grinning at them through the darkness.
She squinted through the darkness. "Wha' do ya wan'? We haven' done nuthin'." she said staying behind Sweeney.
The figure continued to chuckle darkly at the pair.
"Who are you?!" Sweeney exclaimed in a gruff voice.
"Lumos!" The person said, and suddenly, a bright beam ofwhite light emerged from what appeared to be a stick.
The two blinked as they stared at the woman before them.
Mrs. Lovett gasped shrinking back and shielding her eyes from the sudden light. "You!" she exclaimed scooting back. "Le' us go."
"Shu' up." Mrs. Lovett snapped, biting her lip and nervously flickering her eyes at Sweeney.
"Oh..." Bellatrix said, her voice dropping into a mocking tone, "I see you haven't told him..."
"Told me what?" Mr. Todd asked irritably.
"Nuthin'. Don' believe anythin' she says Mr.T. She's a filthy liar." she hissed glaring at her again.
"Tell me what?!" Mr. Todd suddenly barked, moving over to the bars of the cell lifting his razor up at the woman, "Who are you and why are we here?!"
Bellatrix merrily laughed and pushed Mr. Todd's hand away, "Quite the temper he has, hasn't he?"
"Keep yer nasty claws off him." she said walking over and stepping infront of him. "Le' us go."
"And why would I do that?" Bella questioned, "After all the trouble I went through just to you get here..."
She frowned tilting her head. "Wha' do ya wan' from us?"
"Why so tense?" Bellatrix said softly, moving her hand between the bars to turn Mrs. Lovett's chin to her.
She pulled her chin away glaring at her, "Ge' off o' me."
"Why should I? You didn't seem to mind it when you thought I was him..." The Death Eater replied, grinning.
"What is she talking about?" Sweeney whispered to Mrs. Lovett in alarm, not sure as to what the hell was going on.
"N-nuthin' love. She's jus' lyin' don' lis'en to a word she says." Mrs. Lovett said quickly, keeping her eyes locked on the other woman's violet ones.
"Lying?" The darker woman repeated, "Don't tell me that you've already forgotten..."
"Forgotten what?!"
"Nuthin'!" Mrs. Lovett hollered at Sweeney, "She's jus' a lyin', filthy witch!"
Sweeney narrowed his eyes at the mysterious woman that was holding them prisoner, "You..." He whispered.
"Last night... I saw you..." Mr. Todd continued to stare at her suspiciously, "Who are you?"
"Yes..." Bella nodded, ignoring his question.
"What do you want?!" He exclaimed, grabbing the woman and pressing his razor to her neck, surprised when all she did was let out a shrill of laughter.
"Silly muggle..." She said quietly, grabbing his razor out of his hands and pushing him back into the cell.
"Ya can' jus' come along an' take us, then start takin' things from us! Wha' righ' do ya have?" Mrs. Lovett exclaimed, moving forward again.
Sweeney grabbed Mrs. Lovett's arm, pulling her back behind him. "What do you want?" He growled in frustration. "And why were you attacking her last night?"
"Why don't you ask her...?" Bellatrix suggested, looking over at Mrs. Lovett mockingly, "She knows exactly why..."
"Bloody bitch." Mrs. Lovett cursed under her breath, "Jus' ignore her love." She said pulling him away.
"Why was she there?!" Sweeney yelled at Mrs. Lovett, pushing her against the cell wall.
She gasped leaning into the wall, "She took me necklace!"
Mr. Todd looked at her, obviously not remembering Mrs. Lovett even having a necklace, even though she showed him it the very day she bought it. "So?" Sweeney hissed at her.
"So," Bellatrix chimed in, enjoying the show she was receiving from this, "In order to get the necklace I had to come in disguise..."
"That's it. She jus' took the necklace an' left." Mrs. Lovett said frantically, focusing only on Sweeney with fear in her eyes.
"As I was saying," Bella continued, trailing her finger across the bars as she moved a few steps, "I had to come in disguise..."
"Disguise?" Sweeney repeated, keeping his grip on Mrs. Lovett.
Mrs. Lovett sighed, looking away from him and nodding. "Thought she was you."
"What?" Sweeney whispered confusedly.
"I don't think he heard you..."
"Shut up!" She hollered at her again, glancing away from Sweeney. "She looked like you! She was you!"
Mr. Todd glanced over at the woman standing outside the bars and back at Mrs. Lovett, "Me? What's this have to with me? How could she have-"
"I don' know! Bu' she was you! Tha's it." Mrs. Lovett exclaimed stubbornly.
"How could you have thought-"
"I was you... Muggle. A disguise in which I found to be the easiest way to retrieve my Lord's necklace..." Bellatrix mentioned, watching as Mrs. Lovett looked at her nervously.
"Which she took from me an' lef' with. End o' story."
"That's not all that happened…" Bellatrix purred teasingly.
She glared at her looking away from Sweeney. "Why don' ya jus' keep yer mouth shu'."
Mr. Todd frowned before pushing Mrs. Lovett harder against the wall, "What happened?! Tell me!"
Mrs. Lovett shook her head, looking back at him fearfully. "Nuthin' love. She's crazy."
Glaring at her more he took both of her wrists and pinned them on either side of her, "Tell me!" He hissed into her ear.
"Go on..." Bellatrix said tauntingly pacing back and forth along the cell as she stared at her, "Tell him how I touched you... Tell him how I kissed you... Tell him every last little detail...."
"No." Mrs. Lovett said softly, shutting her eyes and pressing herself closer to the wall and turning her face from both of them.
"Mrs. Lovett I demand that you tell me what she's talking about!" He yelled, forcing her to look at him, fear in her eyes.
"She's not lyin'. It's all true." Mrs. Lovett admitted.
"What?" He whispered, clearly not understanding the meaning of her words.
Before Mrs. Lovett could answer, Bella's cackling voice spoke up again, "She said it's true..."
He let go of her, disgusted, horror showing every feature of his face.
"Mista T! Please, I- I didn't know! I thought it was you..." She pleaded, stepping nearer to him and nearly whispering the last part.
It was sickening. The thought of Mrs. Lovett and another woman was revolting, as was the thought of her and him...
"I swear I didn't know, love. I woulda never..." She promised, trailing off and clutching the front of his jacket.
Bellatrix merrily grinned at the scene before her, smiling even more broadly when Sweeney pushed Mrs. Lovett away and yelled at her once more, clearly forgetting about Bella's presence.
"Don't touch me, you disgusting woman." Sweeney spat, moving as far away from her as he possibly could, "Honestly, how low can you get? You bloody harlot."
"no." Mrs. Lovett said, shaking her head reaching for him again. "No, I didn't… I thought…" Her voice trailed off when thinking of saying the three words that she so longed for him to hear.
"Oh you should have heard her..." Bellatrix spoke calmly, looking down at the musty dungeon floor before looking back at Mr. Todd and Lovett, "I'm surprised you didn't by the way she was practically screaming your name."
Mrs. Lovett looked away from him, wincing slightly, anticipating his reaction.
Surprisingly, he remained silent, his face blank as he continued to stare at the woman behind the bars.
"The way she begged and moaned and cried…." Bella continued, moving to clutch one of the cell bars to press herself to it, flashing him a fake, innocent stare. "All because she thought I was you…"
Mrs. Lovett moved away from him, biting her lip as she sat down, leaning against the wall and looking down.
Sweeney gulped, looking away from her to glance at the floor, "Why did you bring us here?"
Once again, Bella grinned tauntingly, "You muggles are very entertaining, don't you know?"
With those words said, he growled, moving quickly back over to the witch and meeting her face-to-face with dark eyes. "Let us go, you rotten bitch."
"Why won' ya jus' le' us go? We didn' do anythin' to ya." She said fairly calmly, not even looking up, too ashamed to do so, really.
"If I were to let you go.... Where would the fun be in that?" Bellatrix asked, a hint of mockery in her voice.
She sighed and shook her head. "Jus' let us go."
Bella's eyes suddenly lit up, her face cunning and mischievous. The cell door opened magically and Bellatrix stepped in, grabbing Mrs. Lovett by the arm and saying, "Come with me, muggle."
"Wha' do ya think yer doin'? Ge' off." Mrs. Lovett exclaimed, struggling when Bellatrix seized her by the arm and out of the cell, "Mista T!"
Mr. Todd did nothing but sit there, secretly glad that the two women were leaving him in peace.
"Oh don't worry about her, muggle." He heard Bella say on their way out the door, "I won't hurt her as long as she behaves!"
Bellatix's cackle echoed through the dungeon as they left, making him curious to know what she had planned.
Hmm, I wonder what our dear Bellatrix has planned…?
You'll find out soon, I'm sure.
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