Here we go chapter. It had to include the line "My beautiful, beautiful Bella...you didn't think I had noticed?" and had to be all dialogue. That means no description or anything, including he/she said. While I did enjoy writing this and better developing how the characters speak (like Rodolphus often speaks short, sharp and well reasoned sentences until his emotions start to overpower him), I did struggle in some parts where I would normally have added some description.

Nevertheless, here we go. I'm still quite happy with the result.

One more chapter to go.

"...Rodolphus. You're awake."

"I am."

"I didn't notice. I just came home and I-"

"I know."

"Yes, well, I am going to have a shower. It has been a long night."

"Is that the correct description, Darling?"

"Yes...What? Don't look at me like that! It has been a long night. I was summoned by the Dark Lord, as you know. He summoned and I served him just like you would have done."

"I was unaware, that last time I responded to our Lord's summons, I came home littered with bite marks."

"Don't. Don't, Rodolphus. Do not even go there."

"Go where, my Dear? Go where the Dark Lord has no doubt spent his night."

"Fuck you, Rodolphus."

"Just like you let the Dark Lord."

"I'm having a shower."

"Fine."

"Showered already, Darling?"

"Yes..."

"I thought you would have been in there longer washing away the traces of your indiscretions."

"I have done nothing wrong."

"No... You never do, Bella... Even now you think it means nothing."

"It does not!"

"You are having an affair."

"With the Dark Lord! Our Lord! Our Master! I will never refuse or defy him. You will not either."

"Do you think I don't know that? It is forced into my face every moment of every day. Do you really think that I would have been silent if it would have been anyone else?"

"I didn't know you knew or noticed anything."

"Did you really believe that? My beautiful, beautiful Bella...you didn't think I had noticed?"

"...Yes."

"How can you even believe that? Do you think I'm a fool? Every day I'm subjected to the way you talk about Him, to the way you look at Him even to how you can't stop touching His mark."

"...Rodolphus."

"No! I have been silent too long! I have never said a word to anyone. Many have asked. Rabastan tried to tell me, but I refused to listen. I told him he was wrong- that you were faithful. I lied to my own brother to protect you...even if I knew what you were: A whore, His whore."

"I'm not a whore! I serve him faithful like anyone else! Everyone says they would do anything for him, but they lie! Only I have ever done anything for him!"

"If you really believe that is all this is, then you are the fool."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Do you know you sleep talk? Do you know that in the dead of night I hear you mutter in your sleep? Always it is the same 'Master' and 'My Lord' time and time again. The first time I heard you speak that way I thought it was the worst thing I could hear. I was wrong. One night when we made love, in this very bed in fact, you must have thought I was too far gone to hear or maybe you were too far gone to care, but I heard you words. Just as you came you screamed out, 'Master! Oh My Lord! Master'. I never said anything. What could I say?"

"You are lying."

"No, that statement is a lie. You know it is true, Bella. You know you said all those things, but that was not the worst of it. Another night I heard you. His name was on your lips again. You were trying to say something, but, even in your sleep you, could not say it."

"What are you talking about?"

"Just answer me this: Do you love him?"

"..."

"Do you?"

"Go to sleep Rodolphus."

"Can you not even answer me?"

"..."

"Fuck! Just say it! Everyone knows. Just say the words!"

"I can't! You don't understand!"

"...I don't understand. I understand more than anyone else. It is because he can't love isn't? You can't admit to loving someone when you know they will never love you back. Answer me. That is the reason isn't?"

"..."

"Fine. Don't say it. Just nod...Yes... like that."

"What do you want me to do? I don't love you and I never will."

"I know."

"So what is the point of this entire charade? I'm going to bed. Stop pestering me about it."

"I know... I know..."

"Then sleep."

"It is funny. In the end, we are more alike than anyone would ever understand."

"What do you mean?"

"We both love someone that will never love us back."