A/N : SORRRRRY! FOR THE LATE UPDATE!
Petunia and Emmeline ran to Ted. "Ted! Ted! It wasn't Andi, it was Andi's sister!" Petunia exclaimed frantically and Emmeline nodded vigourously.
"What wasn't Andi?" Ted asked with a defeated look in his eyes.
"The girl who you spoke to now!"
"She wasn't Bellatrix, I know Bellatrix. She was Andromeda only. I know they look similar, but I know the difference." he stated monotonously.
"No! You don't understand! Andi's sister changed her form from Andi's to her own!" Emmeline exclaimed.
Ted's face furrowed. "What? Are you sure?"
"Absolutely! We both saw it!" Petunia said, relief coursing through her.
"Must have been Polyjuice... Or even a few glamour charms could have done it... But..." Ted began to mumble.
"We don't understand, but you must meet Andi now!" Petunia said.
"I.. I am not sure."
"We are! Go, now!"
"I.. I don't know where she is.."
"We will search. You go to your common room. We will ask Andi to meet you." Emmeline said, feeling sorry for him.
Ted didn't say anything, and just walked on after nodding. He was too tired.
But when he turned a corner, a blue jet of light hit him immediately after he heard the word "Obliviate!"
His mind went a little blank. And then he remembered. Andromeda left him. She called him a mudblood, proving she wasn't any different from her family as she claimed. Tears streamed down his cheeks as he ran to his common room. Suddenly all he wanted was his bed and pillow to cry into.
A little away, inside a broom closet, stood a beautiful blonde girl and a tall and haughty black haired girl.
"Well, that was unexpected." the tall girl said arrogantly.
"Yes, good that I thought of sticking back. You need to be thorough, Bella. Come on, now, lets find the mudblood and her cronie."
Bellatrix's eye glinted as she thought about it.
"On second thoughts, Narcissa... You go and be with Andi. Keep her away, confront her, cry, do everything you can. I will handle the mudblood and her sidekick." she said in a voice laced with bloodlust.
Narcissa grinned.
"Okay, okay, so again I get to be the crybaby. But, hey, if you kill them, hide it well, okay?" she said.
Bellatrix only gave a feral smile in response.
"No! We need your help now!" Petunia begged Fabian.
"And why so, Miss. Evans?" he grinned.
"Well... Emmeline and I need to get into the Slytherin Common room!"
"What?" Fabian and Gideon asked sharply.
"You heard her! And we need to get there now!" Emmeline said.
Gideon narrowed his eyes.
"We already swore to Professor McGonagall. Why is she doing all this with you both acting and all?"
"What?" Petunia asked, confused.
"Oh, haha. Now they pretend to not know." Fabian laughed.
"We really don't know what you are talking about!" Emmeline said.
"Sure you don't." Gideon snickered.
Petunia threw her arms up in despair. "Fine! We can manage ourselves just fine!"
"Yes!" said Emmeline, as she followed Petunia out of the potrait hole.
After a few minutes, Fabian and Gideon looked at each other uneasily.
"I guess McGonagall didn't send them..."
"So probably they really needed our help..."
"And they don't know the secret passages..."
"Or how to escape from trouble..."
"Its post bed hour..."
"And if they are caught..."
"We should go now."
"Yes, I reckon we should."
"Did you kill them? Everyone is searching for them."
"Ah. Im afraid not. I shouldn't be hasty now, should I? But don't worry, they have no recollections of the incident."
"Where did you hide them?"
"Safest place ever."
"You are brilliant. I guess that's why the Dark-"
"Hush, Narcissa!"
"Oops. I mean, that's why he likes you."
Bellatrix blushed lightly.
"Oh, I don't think he likes me..."
"Come on, Bella, you know he does. He hides it well though. By the way, seems Rod is going to propose to you."
"Really?" Bellatrix asked, bored as she trailed holographic skulls in the air.
"Yes. And stop that, please, it is disturbing. So, are you going to accept?"
"Should I?"
"Mother and Father-"
"would be happier if I married the Da- I mean, him."
"You know, he isn't really-"
"I know, Narcissa."
"So... About Rod.."
"Ill think about it. Now lets go the great hall, eh? Old Dumbledore will want to assign duties to the head girl."
"..Very grave situation. Two of our students are missing. If anyone knows where they are, any information, kindly contact the head of your house."
The Prewett twins had already informed Professor McGonagall about the last meeting with the girls. Andromeda looked like she was about to cry. Ted wasn't talking to her, Bellatrix and Narcissa were bursting with happiness and Petunia and her friend were missing.
What had happened?
"I want the prefects and heads to meet me with your head of houses in fifteen minutes after ensuring the rest of the students are safely back in their dormitories."
There was a hustle as everyone tried to get back to the dormitories at the same time.
"In a line!" Bellatrix snarled, waving her wand high. "Go, Avery, in a line! Do you want a hex? Do you want a hex? Then, GOOOOOO Avery! In a line!"
Avery trembled at the sight of the mad head girl and immediately got behind Bullstrode.
Bellatrix shrieked with laughter at the sight of the first years trembling at her voice. She realised fifteen minutes were up when nobody was in the hall any longer and Arthur Weasley was giving her a weird look as she laughed.
"What?" she barked. "Get to the Headmaster's room now!"
The Gryffindor prefect flinched and hurried away. She followed regally.
She opened the door with a flourish and entered, trying to contain her happiness. She could almost hear her master's voice : You are the youngest in my service, Bella. I have chosen you, out of so many others. Do not fail me.
She wouldn't fail him. She knew Occlumency. She was going to apply that.
"Miss Black, You are late."
Bellatrix looked distastefully at Professor McGonagall.
"I had to shoo Arthur Weasley from the great hall. He was still standing there."
Arthur Weasley furiously got up to refute this, but Dumbledore raised his hand. "No matter. Miss Black is here, that is what is most important. Have a seat, Bellatrix."
The meeting progressed, Bellatrix grew more and more bored, but had arranged her face into an expression of concentration and concern. She looked back innocently at Dumbledore when he tried to read her, closing her mind from him. She could sense him prodding her defenses, looking even for a slight crack, waiting to slither into her mind and see her secrets.
Andromeda's voice startled her, but only for a millisecond.
"I assume they were looking for me." she said miserably.
"And why is that, Miss Black?"
"I.. Am like a sister to Petunia."
Everyone gasped and looked at Bellatrix, like they were waiting for her to burst from her chair and cast the killing curse.
Bellatrix maintained her perfect pokerface, but her pulse quickened.
"In my opinion," stated Ted Tonks in an offhand tone, "They weren't looking for you, who recently proved you weren't any better than the rest of your family."
That struck Bellatrix. She got up, wand drawn, "Cruc-" spilling from her mouth-
Andromeda's hand clamped tightly around her mouth. A burst of pure magic from Bellatrix threw back Andromeda, How dare she save the boy who insulted the noble and most ancient house of Black? How dare she not consider this an insult to the pure bloodline that she was blessed with? How dare she not spring to her feet and cruciate Ted Tonks, standing beside her? How dare she love such a filthy, tramp-
"MISS BLACK!"
"HE INSULTS MY FAMILY!" Bellatrix screamed at Dumbledore in rage.
"Enough!" McGonagall stepped forward, "Enough"
Silence fell over the room, as nobody dared to speak. All other prefects were shaking. The head boy, Alastor Moody, was trying to revive Ted Tonks who had fainted.
Bellatrix tried to calm herself. She took deep breaths, glaring at everyone, at Andromeda for a minute longer.
Andromeda's expression almost melted her. Her eyes were wide, face flushed, and her mouth was hanging open in shock as her shoulder slightly trembled.
Bellatrix forced herself to look away.
"Miss Black, I don't wish to do this, but you have left me with no choice. I must remove you from your position of Head Girl. If you could please hand over your badg-"
Bellatrix's anger grew more and more with every word Dumbledore. She ripped off the badge, tearing her robe in the process and exposing her bodice, but she didn't seem to care.
"This?" Bellatrix laughed, waving the badge in front of Dumbledore. "Take it! I do not care! My family-" she paused to look down disdainfully at Andromeda, who was sitting in her chair, staring up at her. "is noble and is much much important than a position." she laughed, throwing down the badge and stomping on it for good measure.
She turned on her heel when she heard her master's voice in her head- and this time, she wasn't imagining it.
Enough of this Bella. Leave. Return to me, for full time service. After you have proved you aren't above brutality.
Bellatrix threw back her head and laughed, and then turned to her audience.
"I was going to say 'Good Luck with finding your precious Gryffindors without me', but now, I say, 'Good luck trying to find their dead bodies." Bellatrix laughed, spun on her heel and wildy ran out of the room, her mind set on killing the mudblood and her cronie.
She laughed madly as she ran, eager to prove her worth. She was vaguely aware of the rest chasing her, but she was much much happy to bother. The small earring that her master had given her shook as she ran. The earring served as a link between her master and herself.
Bella. You need to get away from there.
Bellatrix stopped suddenly, and everyone else crashed into her.
"Fools!" she yelled, as she pulled herself from underneath the pile of people above her.
She continued to run, and only Alastor Moody and Dumbledore followed her this time. She ducked Alastor's stunning spell, cackled when Dumbledore said, "That is against the rules, Mr Moody!" and leapt outside the appartition boundary-
A phoenix swooped down from nowhere, and carried her away, and her echoing scream could be heard even in the Astronomy tower.
A/N: Sorry for not updating for so long! I am so so so sorry! I had some.. Er... Real life stuff. Haha. Anyway, I hope this chapter makes up and updates shall be more frequent from now on!
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