The Dark Mark

"Papa I got prefect." Bellatrix announced to Cygnus who looked up and smiled at her as she put some books she had borrowed from him on horcruxes.

"That's my Bella." He said happily. "Bella who of these would you want to marry?" He asked showing her a list with names of various single Death Eaters on it.

Bellatrix scanned the list. She knew six of the twelve or so names.

"Not Avery, Crabbe or Goyle. I will not marry idiots, especially not unimportant ones. Lestrange I like and he is very attractive, Malfoy I like and could live with although I believe he is holding out for Cissy and Nott is the most handsome of the all although we have rarely spoken." Bellatrix answered after a moment.

"You are not angry about me thinking of marrying you?" He asked worriedly.

"It is the way of purebloods. Make him handsome, not too idiotic and of course connected but overall make him faithful to the Dark Lord. Then I shall have no complaint." Bellatrix said with a shrug looking for a few books she wished to take with her to school.

"The Dark Lord wishes me to hold out on engaging you until you are eighteen, I have agreed to do as he asked but I suspect it will be one of the men on this list."

"As you wish Papa." Bellatrix said with a smile, which he returned.

"Ah that's my Bella. Prefect indeed, no surprise at all I would say."

Bellatrix hugged her father tightly; he was her only weakness in the world. Her Lord told her that to love was weak but she was not as strong as him, she loved her father and even Cissy.

Still she was not the weakest Bellatrix thought as she left the library with the books to pack in her trunk, tomorrow she returned to Hogwarts and she wanted to perfect some new hexes she wanted to use on her favourite mudbloods Patricia Kelly, Lily Evans and Sarah Connelly.

( BellatrixisFred )

Her father lay dead and Bellatrix stared at his pale face impassively. It saddened her to see him gone but she did not cry like Cissy did and Cissy had not nearly the same relationship with their father. But Cissy was weak and Bellatrix was strong.

"Bella."

She turned to see him behind her looking graver than she had ever seen him. It had been six years since she had last seen him and Bellatrix was surprised by the feelings his appearance aroused in her. He was gorgeous. But that was only a minor feeling compared to the excitement and passion throbbing through her, because she knew. She knew why he was here. He was here for her. Finally he was here for her.

"Come." Was all he said and Bellatrix moved forward to him instantly curtsying as she always had.

"You have grown and you're prepared. The wait is over."

"I am your most faithful and devoted servant." Bellatrix said kneeling at his feet.

"I know."

"My Lord, what do I do with my sister now?" Bellatrix asked, unable to block out Cissy's sobs.

"Lucius wishes to marry her, he would care for her."

"It will be as you say My Lord." Bellatrix agreed.

"Come Bella, we have much work to do."

( BellatrixisFred )

Her final Hogwarts letter came to her as she knelt at her Lord's feet speaking to him about her last mission. Ever since her father's death Bellatrix had been with him, fighting, following his orders or simply waiting for his return. She had only seen Cissy once in that time but it was clear her sister was happy; Bellatrix spared her no other thought after that.

"What is it Bella?" He asked as she opened the letter.

"It is my Hogwarts letter my Lord, shall I attend?" Bellatrix asked handing over the letter without even reading it.

"I think that is perhaps the best course for now. You were recruiting my forces last year were you not?"

"I was my Lord." She replied fingering the Dark Mark, which now covered her left arm, marking her as his, marking her as one of his most faithful, most devoted.

"Continue to do that, I shall bring you when I have need of your service and there is often need for a faithful servant like you." He decided and Bellatrix nodded.

"As you wish my Lord."

He threw her letter onto the table and looked into the distance for a while.

"Bella, would you say I am attractive?" He asked unexpectedly.

"The most attractive man I have yet met." Bellatrix said honestly.

"Well be contented Bella that you are the most attractive woman I have ever met, however your sister is undoubtedly the most beautiful." He said absently tapping his wand against the table.

"My Lord!" There was a crash at the front of the house and Bellatrix leapt to her feet chest heaving as she stared at the doorway.

It was Nott bringing in a struggling man.

"I found him my Lord." Nott said throwing the bound and gagged man to the floor with a loud thud.

"Excellent Nott, you may go."

Nott nodded and retreated. He was one of the many of the Dark Lord's followers who didn't understand his passion for torture. Many of them didn't understand the subtle balance of pain and pleasure that the cruciatus curse could bring. Pain or pleasure the receiver but only pleasure could it bring the caster.

"No they do not understand as you do my dear." He said to her with a smile. Bellatrix smiled at the gleam in his eyes as he approached the immobilised man.

"Crucio!" He yelled and the man screamed in pain.

"Bella, the knives Bella." He urged her and Bellatrix hurried to gather the assortment of knives He used to create pain in his victims.

Four months of living constantly with her Lord had taught Bellatrix what to expect from her Lord's torture sessions. He needed to feel their pain through his wand, through their blood and afterward he needed a readily available female.

Bellatrix knew there was no one else nearby for the first time but she didn't bother to try and arrange a slave. She was too wrapped up in the deliciousness of the moment and the man's screams.

His eyes were filled with a mad gleam and intense excitement as he pierced another knife into the man's flesh eliciting fresh screams. It went on and on, curse after curse, knife after knife until finally the man collapsed, unconscious, He drew himself up that familiar glint of determination in his eyes.

"Avada Kedavra!" The man went limp and her Lord spin around face flushed with desire. Spying no other woman brought in to be a vessel of his pleasure he turned to Bellatrix.

"Come Bella."

Bellatrix came forward almost eagerly to be crushed to her Lord's body his lips pressing hard against hers. He was rough but in a way that was better. It hurt yes but it was in a good way, the kind of pain that held intense pleasure. Bellatrix found herself screaming as he made her hurt and groan in pleasure all at once until she fell to the floor. He was satisfied.

Bellatrix sat up looking at her Lord her devotion no less strong.

"Perhaps I shall need you more often than first foreseen." He said thoughtfully, wand still in hand.

"Wait here Bella." He told her getting up.

"Yes my Lord." She replied. "I will always be waiting."

"I feel a meeting is in order. Be prepared." He said without turning around and then he left.

Bellatrix knew any other girl her age and many much older would be traumatised and broken by her experience. But she felt impassioned and full of fire, for she the weak female could give her Lord more than any of the males could. And still she was the most faithful, the most devoted.

( BellatrixisFred )

"Your Aunt Walburga has spoken to me and she wants you to marry Rodolphus. I have spoken to Lestrange and he feels the match is suitable, he finds your devotion, bloodlust and body attractive; I feel it is a good match as well. I know you have become friends of a sort and Rodolphus is not foolish enough to believe that you would be his alone." He said to her one day.

Bellatrix considered the match for a moment before nodding.

"Rodolphus would be a good husband." She agreed. "We would suit each other quite well."

"Could you learn to love him?" He asked sardonically.

"It is likely my Lord but it should not change my devotion to you." Bellatrix admitted knowing full well that so much time with Rodolphus would cause her to love him, at least as her closest friend if not a lover.

"I know Bella. You are my most faithful."

Bellatrix looked up at her Lord as he once again grew lost in thought and wondered how it would be married to Rodolphus. The prospect was a good one and it was a match that her father had already approved of. It was settled.

( BellatrixisFred )