[A/N] Written for the Title Challenge II - Behind the Mask, and of course, the Guilty Pleasures Challenge.

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Bellatrix had always kept it a secret. She hid whenever she did it or Obliviated a person when someone caught a tiny peek. Nobody should know! How would the Death Eaters think of her, obsessing over the Malfoys' cookie jar behind her mask of supremacy? She would surely lose authority over them. They would think that she was a weakling of a woman! It wasn't her fault that her sister, Narcissa could bake delectable cookies. Before meetings in the Malfoy Manor, she would always sneak down to their kitchen to check up on the Malfoys' cookie jar that was perched on top of the mahogany table. It was always filled with a variety of cookies, from normal chocolate chip ones to raisin-filled chewy biscuits. Bella would take a huge whiff from the jar, the sweet aroma making her mouth water with want. She dipped a hand in and savored the feeling of the lovely crackers beneath her fingertips. Yes, cookies.

Time always seemed to stop whenever Bella picks a perfect-looking chocolate chip cookie. She admired the perfectly placed chocolate chips on the side and the small crumbs that clung to her fingers. She sunk her teeth down the sumptuous pastry and let out a deep groan as the cookie grazed her tongue. The chocolate chips melted with the heated wetness that was her saliva, tingling her taste buds. Bella could almost always finish a jarful if she hadn't been called upon by her Dark Lord. She bade the nearly empty cookie jar goodbye and sighed. She would have more tomorrow, anyway.

Bellatrix found it amusing to hear Narcissa scold the Malfoy Manor's house elves for the disappearing cookies. Her poor sister thought that the lowly house elves caused the great lacking of her just-baked cookies! Her little Draco didn't have even one teensy little bite...

Bellatrix grinned manically as she slipped a hand in her robes pocket, clutching a piece of Narcissa's cookies in her palm. Just one more...