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Written for OTP AU Competition.

Apocalypse AU!

Title: The Rubble of Dreams.

Summary: When Voldemort spoke of mankind being free she believed but when she is alone Bellatrix has her doubts about it.

She stands perfectly still and holds her breath if she doesn't move or breathe, then it should just pass by her. If Voldemort hadn't been sick, then she wouldn't have come to the forest, but it was the only place within walking distance that the plant that would save his life grew.

It also happened to be crawling with hunters sent out by their Masters to bring any remaining human to one of the camps to work.

The hunters luckily for her were rather stupid and unless you moved or breathed loudly they usually walked past any human in that were nearby. Neither the Masters or the hunters were human, they came from the stars that's what her father told her. It took them less than two days to bring all the Earth's joint military forces to nothingness.

Voldemort had told her that it was her and whatever free humans, there was left to fight back. When her lover talked about it, it seemed like they really could win against the Masters and the hunters, however when she alone with her thoughts it felt like it was impossible.

Bellatrix was born ten years after the Masters came to Earth she hasn't known any other world other than hunger, hiding and running. Sometimes, she tries to imagine what the rubble used to be before it was rubble and it is impossible to picture it as anything else.

Once Voldemort had shown her one of his many books she couldn't read the words, but it had pictures and one of them was a really big building. It was one of the most beautiful things that she had ever seen.

He rarely let anyone near his books because he said he didn't want them ruined because one day when mankind rose again there would still be those that could read and they would need the knowledge from the books.

He truly believed that one day that would happen and that's one reason she was in the forest because she wanted to keep that dream alive.

Even if the dream only lived in him it would still live.