A/N: Hey guys! Sorry I've been MIA...if you read any of my other stories then you would already know that I've just started College in a different country so it has taken me a while to settle down but I'm back and slowly updating all of my stories :D So here is the next chapter...which I really like...it really starts to link in with the actual plot of HP+CS but in a different way :D So please let me know what you think. Sorry if there is any spelling mistakes or whatnot I am very sorry...I don't have a beta and I uploaded this as soon as I finished! I just wanted to get it out there! So enjoy!
Disclaimer: JKR own the characters and plotlines...I bascially own Bellatrix (jr) lol...she came from my head :P
Chapter 6
"I can't believe that you got expelled Isabella! A Malfoy has never disgraced us so much."
Uncle Lucius had been MIA for most of the summer holiday; of course I was grounded on the stop via a howler but now that he was back, he decided to shout at me all over again in person.
"Well you forget Uncle Lucius, I am NOT a Malfoy, and I'm a Lestrange."
Lucius stopped from where he was stomping around his study and shot me a look. But there was nothing he could actually say to contradict me. I was right and he knew it.
"When you are living under my house, you will abide by my rules! How could you be so careless Isabella?" He scolded, slamming his hands down on his desk to emphasis his frustration.
"Why should I be careful? I never wanted to go to that poxy school; I know more about magic than those taking their NEWTS!" I stressed.
I knew I could out-magic anyone at school and Lucius was at fault for that. He was the one who had been training me ever since I could hold a wand; I was a natural witch he told me. He only has himself to blame.
"We have a plan to follow Isabella! I cannot stress to you how important it was for you to attend this year!"
"Why what was supposed to happen this year? You didn't warn me of a new plan."
Lucius sighed and sat down in his chair.
"The Lord had a plan to enter the school once again this year; through you."
"How?" I asked completely entranced with the idea.
"Through Tom Riddles diary and you would…"
"I would open the Chamber of Secrets."
Lucius nodded, slightly amused by the awe in my voice.
Damn, I regretted getting myself expelled for the year now.
"And now you're in big trouble." Lucius said sending me, the look.
"We can find someone else to do the job."
"Like who Isabella? Who could be trusted with something this big?" Lucius said, his voice beginning to rise again.
"I didn't say they had to be aware of what they were doing. Isn't the success that much sweeter when it's carried out by the enemy?"
Lucius lent forward, fingers crossed, a look of deep wonder on his face.
"What did you have in mind?"
*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*
Three hours later we had a plan sorted and I was back in Lucius' good books.
Stepping out of his office, I almost tripped over the Malfoy's personal house elf.
"Dobby, what are you doing here? We're you eavesdropping?" I questioned while threatening him with my wand.
"No Mistress! Dobby lives to serve the Malfoys. Dobby was only concerned that Master Malfoy and Mistress Lestrange missed dinner."
I stared down at him for a few moments before walking past, knocking the house elf to the floor. Walking into my room, I slammed the door calling for Trinky.
"Yes Mistress?"
"Can you fetch me something to eat."
"Yes Mistress."
Trinky was back with a pop, setting down a tray for me to eat.
"It's that everything Mistress?"
"Yes, you may retire for the evening."
"Goodnight Mistress." With a pop, she was gone.
It wasn't long afterwards that I retired to bed myself. Dressing in my summer sleeping robes, I laid on top of the bed, waving my wand to open the windows, allowing the cool summer night breeze to cool me.
After a few minutes, I finally succumbed to sleep.
The snake slithered towards me through the tall grass.
"Isabella." It called out to me through a hiss.
"Yes master."
"Fix this mess you have made!"
It lunged and bit me on the ankle.
I shot up in bed, reaching out for my ankle which now had two small bite marks.
"Shit!"
"Isabella?"
My head shot up, spotting the dark silhouette in the far corner. My hand went to my wand, pointing it to the intruder.
"Who are you?" I snarled, rising from my bed."
"It's just me."
Montague stepped out of the darkness and into the light streaming through the window from the moon. I immediately lowered my wand.
"What are you doing here?" I asked crossing the room, standing right in front of him, looking up.
"I wanted to see you; before I had to go back to school." He said, tucking some hair behind my ear.
"Oh how romantic." I said sarcastically, before grabbing hold of his robe and pulling him down to me. Our lips met in a frenzy, soft but passionate.
With me being grounded from the moment I arrived home from Hogwarts, we were unable to see each other. This was defiantly a nice surprise.
Wrapping his arms around me, he walked us backward towards the bed before lowering us so he was hovering on top of me.
"I don't know how I'm going to last the whole year without you." He whispered against my lips.
"I'm sure you'll manage." I smirked, capturing his lips once more, nibbling on his bottom lip.
We kissed for a few more minutes before I pushed him away.
"You should go now."
Montague looked down at me with a strange look on his face before nodding and rising from the bed. I sat up, watching him as he picked up his outer robe.
"I'll write." He said simply, kissing me one last time and climbed through the open window. I don't know how he got here or how he is getting back and I'm not going to ask.
Looking at the clock, I realised that it was early enough to stay away.
It's not as if I could get back to sleep anyway, I thought spitefully, looking down at the bite marks on my ankle as I headed towards the washroom.
After washing and dressing for the day in a black dress robe with dark green lacing, I headed downstairs to Lucius's potions room. It was at the far back of the mansion, just above the dungeons. Lucius hated for anyone to be in there without his permission but I was pissed off at him and my damn ankle was hurting. Selves upon selves of bottled potions adorned the all the walls of the room, similar to Snape's in Hogwarts. Climbing up the ladder, I reached for a blue vile label snake bites; lethal. Who knows where the Dark Lord's mouth had been these days.
I situated myself on one of the chairs in the corner of the room, by a collection of potion books and began to apply the potion to my wound with a soft sponge. I had just begun to apply the mixture when Lucius came storming into the room.
"What do you think you are doing in here Bellatrix?"
I flipped my hair over my shoulder as I turned to look at him; an icy glare on my face causing him to falter slightly.
"Why do you think dear Uncle? Did you really expect the Dark Lord would leave me unharmed once you informed him of my expulsion from Hogwarts, therefor e ruining his plans for this year?"
Lucius actually had the decency to look slightly remorseful.
"Well what did you expect? You acted like a foolish child. Someone who has a much responsibility as you do should act more maturely."
"Don't you dare insinuate that I am a mere child. Forgive me if I have my mother's temperament; that cannot be helped. I also think that coming up with the solution that I did is one of someone beyond my years Uncle Lucius. Oh and thank you of informing the Dark Lord of our new arrangement."
"It must have slipped my mind."
I scoffed at him and returned my focus to my ankle. I felt Lucius approach me and sit on the arm of the chair.
"So what did he do?" He asked gently.
"Blood bit me on the ankle, didn't he."
"That must hurt."
I looked up at hi darkly, not amused by his dry humour or the smile tugging at his permanent scowl. I continued to tend to my wound with Lucius constantly looking over my shoulder. To say that he was beginning to annoy me was an understatement. Once I was finished, I put the empty vile to the side and picked up my wand to wrap my ankle.
"Here, let me do it for you." Lucius said, picking up my ankle and placing it in his lap.
Oh now he feels remorseful.
He pulled out his wand and gently wrapped my ankle in a support charm.
"That should support it until it is healed. I would suggest you to rest it today but we are taking Draco to Diagon Ally to pick up his school supplies for the New Year." He said giving me a dark look.
Oh yeah, I was totally still being punished.
"Yes dear Uncle." I said too sweetly, batting my eyelashes at him. "And I'm sure Aunt Cissy won't mind helping me find a new dress robe of the 'End of Summer' ball. After all, being a part of a pure-blood family in high society, I am expected to attend." I said, walking away from my Uncle, smiling at the look of annoyance on his face.
As I entered the breakfast room, I came face to face with dear old Aunt Cissy.
"Oh Bella, I've been looking everywhere for you. We must eat quickly as we have to make a long trip to Diagon Ally. Draco needs to collect his things for school and we must find you a new dress robe for the Parkinson's end of summer ball."
"Of course Aunt Cissy" I said sickly sweet. Glancing over my shoulder, I notice Lucius has joined us. I gave him a wide grin knowing that everything was going my way even though he was still trying to punish me.
I sat down and began eating my pancakes covered in black syrup. As Lucius walked by I could hear him muttering under his breath.
"Oh Lucius" I called out to him. He stopped with his back to me, obviously having lost a little of his pride having fallen to the hands of a 13 year old. "I would suggest you bring the diary."
Lucius looked over his shoulder at me with a questioning glance.
"I just have a feeling." I whispered, feeling my whole body twitch at the through of conducting our…well my plan.
Lucius nodded and fled to his study to retrieve said diary.
30 minutes later, Draco, Cissy, Lucius and I were all ready to depart for Diagon Ally. All joining hands, we apparated from the manor, appearing in the centre of the Ally, frightening what looked like a first year and muggle parents. I scoffed and rolled my eyes at them while brushing the non-existent dust from my robes.
"Well why don't we get all of Draco's necessitates then we can do a little pleasure shopping for the ball."
"Of course my dear." Lucius said, offering his arm out to his wife before they headed into the stationary shop. We wandered around the shop, collecting items to be sent to the mansion. Seeing as I was to be home for the year, I picked up a rather large diary of sorts. Its blank pages would be perfect for writing down spells and such. Just because I was going to be away a year, doesn't me I am not going to advance in my study.
You never know; Uncle Lucius might let me try some deeper dark magic.
I picked up a new and rather expensive quill also which earned me a glare from Lucius. I brushed him off and placed it in the pile of every growing stationary.
Next we wondered into Quality Quidditch Supplies. Draco was trying out for the team this year; Marcus's said he wouldn't have to worry about getting on the team but Lucius brought enough of the latest Nimbus brooks for the whole team.
Bribery Lucius? Do you not trust your son enough to make the team?
Finally, the last school related store we needed to go into was Flourish & Blotts. Gilderoy Lockhart was supposedly the new DADA professor and students needed all of his books of the class.
Can't say I am disappointed about missing out on that.
We picked up all the books, forgoing to get them signed 'by the author himself'. That guy really needed to get his own head out his ass. It's an insult to some witches and wizards for him to even be considered famous.
I wandered around the store a little long; preferably looking at the more complex spell books and hinting to Lucius about the dark arts books. Draco was stood by the stairs looking aimlessly board while Cissy browsed among the books about the history of pure-blood society.
After a few minutes, I looked over to see Draco has descended the stairs and was now stood there talking to Potter and the Weasly family. I walked closer to the balcony to hear what was being said.
"Bet you loved that didn't you Potter? Famous Harry Potter. Can't even go into a book shop without making the front page." Draco spat out.
"Leave him along." The little Weasel girl gritted out as she stepped a little closer to Draco.
By this time Lucius too had noticed and began to make his way over to the cluster of children. I followed, giddy knowing that my plan was about to be put into motion.
"Oh look Potter. You've got yourself a girlfriend."
Lucius tapped Draco on the back with his cane.
"Now, now Draco. Play Nicely."
I walked over, standing slightly next to Draco but close enough to really get a look at the Weasel girl. She glanced over at me, eyes widening in horror before returning them to look at Lucius.
"Ah…Mr Potter, I don't believe we've had the pleasure."
Lucius reached out to shake Potter's hand, pulling him in at the last minute and brushing his hair away from his scar with his cane. All the death eaters were dying to get a closer look at the scar; the scar that single-handedly destroyed our Dark Lord.
"Your scar is legendary. As, of course, is the wizard who gave it to you."
Potter pulled away, a fire burning in his eyes.
"Voldemort killed my parents."
"You're very brave to dare speak his name. Or foolish."
Then the mud blood just had to step forward and blab her mouth.
"Fear of the name only increases fear of the thing itself." Granger said staring at Lucius defiantly.
"You must be Miss Granger. Draco's told me all about you and your parents. Muggle's aren't they?" Lucius sneered at the end.
"Come on kids, let's get outside." A large red headed man said while hurrying over to where we were all standing.
"Well, well, well Arthur Weasley." Lucius greeted the man.
"Lucius."
"Busy time at the ministry. All those raids. I hope they're paying you over time."
Lucius reached into the Weasel girl's cauldron and pulled out a battered old book.
"Obviously not. What's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?"
"We have a very different idea about what disgraces the name of wizard, Lucius."
"Clearly. The company you keep, Weasley." Lucius said. "And I thought you could skin no lower."
Lucius gave them all one last glare before throwing the book back into Weasel's cauldron. He turned to me slightly, giving me a small wink.
You know, sometimes. I wonder why my Uncle acts so stupid. He clearly has the brains to come up with this stuff by himself.
Noticing that Cissy had joined us at the bottom of the stairs, Lucius went to join her.
"See you at school." Draco said as he passed giving them a dangerous look.
Bless his little heart.
I couldn't help but laugh as I glanced over at Weasel girl. She had no idea. None of them did. I could practically see the difference in the two books from where I was standing.
"Have fun this year little piggy's." I said while laughing.
"She's just as crazy as her mother." The youngest Weasley boy said to Potter in a whisper. I still heard him.
Whipping my wand from my robes, I thrusted the point underneath his chin.
"What did you say about my mother?" I asked.
The boy just stood there, stuttering.
"What. Did. You…."
"Bellatrix! Get here now." Lucius called, giving me a stern look.
In a huff I put my wand away and straighten up, staring down at the group huddled before me.
"You're lucky Weasley." I said pointing to the red headed boy.
I practically stomped my way out of the shop, followed by Cissy, Lucius and Draco.
"Do you have to be such a hot-head all the time Bellatrix?" Cissy asked in a disapproving tone.
I ignored them all and walked over to Madam Malkin's. Storming into the shop, I was greeted by Madam Malkin's rather large figure.
"Oh Bellatrix! It is so good to see you again." She said hurrying forward to kiss both my cheeks. She was only polite because Cissy was her best customer. Most people cringe away from me. I like it.
"What can I help you with today?" Madam Malkin asked as Cissy joined me in the shop. No doubt Lucius and Draco were getting fitted for their dress robes down the alley.
"Well, the Parkinson's end of Summer Ball is approaching and Bellatrix needs new dress robes." Cissy answered for me.
"Perfect! I already know Bellatrix's measurements so we can just discuss what kind of dress you would like."
"Black, long sleeved floor length with a V neck." I answered flatly, sitting down on the couch, crossing my arms.
"Oh come on Bellatrix. Get something different for a change." Cissy scolded me. " How about something green?"
"Fine."
"And mid sleeved?"
"Okay."
"We can keep the floor length and V neck."
"Thank you."
"And can we make it layered? With a lacy over-lay?"
"I know just what you mean Narcissa and I have the most perfect image in my mind. Once it is ready I wall have it delivered to you manor."
"Thank you so much Madam Malkin."
Once we had an outline of the dress drawn up and said our goodbyes, we met up with Lucius and Draco outside the shop. When we had all decided that we had had enough of shopping for one day, we all joined hands and apparated back to the manor.
"Bellatrix, can I have a word with you in my study please." Lucius practically demanded.
Following him to his study and closing the door behind me, I took a seat in front of the desk while Lucius sat behind.
"The plan is currently underway."
"I noticed Uncle. I have to say that was a very cleaver move on your half."
"Thank you, now the next problem is how do we monitor the plan when you are stuck here for the year?"
After pondering this for a moment, I came to a conclusion.
"Moon."
"I'm sorry?"
"My friend Moon from Hogwarts; she's the person I trust the most and I have been looking for an excuse to introduce her to you and our ways of thinking."
"Slytherin?"
"Of course."
"What about her family?"
"No family to speak of. Not entirely sure where she goes during the holidays. But she has a dark mind."
"Very well. Get a message to her that I we would like to talk to her about keeping an eye on things this year and reporting back to us."
"I will."
Once I had retired to my room, I quickly wrote out a message to Moon and sent an owl off. It would most likely take a few days to get there as the owl wasn't completely sure where it was going. I spent the rest of the day unpacking my packages which had been placed on my bed and feeling incredibly excited about the dark arts book that Lucius had gotten for me.
I was thrilled to learn of curses such as the Entrail-Expelling Curse; causing the victims insides to pour out of their body; The Finger-removing Jinx which is self-explanatory and retain more information about the Unforgivable curses. One of the books came with some Poisonous Candles which I was rather exhilarated about.
Yes, I was defiantly going to have some fun this year.
.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.
Three days later, it was the day of the End of Summer Ball. Cissy woke me up a little before 9 to prepare for the day. After claiming I was now a young lady and I should present myself as one, Cissy ordered a team of 'so called experts' to come to the manor and 'beautify' me, as she claimed. However, even though I was a spiteful girl who hated to be dressed up like a doll, I respected the pure-blood high society culture and often got excited making my presents known to everyone as an individual.
Plus, not doubt Montague will be there tonight…and it would hurt to look nice.
After eating lunch with Draco, I was ordered to take a shower. Dressing in only my undergarments and my silk dressing-robe, I made my way to Cissy's parlour on the second floor where she was already getting her hair done.
I was pushed into a swivelling chair and a wizard names Sebastian got to work on my hair. He tamed my mass curls into sleeker, larger ones with his wand, pinning half my hair up and sealing it was a silver snake clasp.
I was then passed along to a young woman by the name of Merope who did my make-up. She curled my eye lashes and smothered them with black mascara, then framed my eyes with black and dark green eye shadow. She gave my lips a pale colour with a gloss. She also did my nails, painting them with an emerald green and creating a black swirling pattern on them.
Once Cissy and I were finished, she took my by the hand and led me to my room. My dress had been laid out on my bed and Cissy helped me into it.
It had turned out better than I had imagined. The top was, as promised, mid-sleeved with a low V-neck, falling into a tight corset and then the material flowing to the floor. The whole thing was an amazing shade of emerald and make of an under layer of silk with a lacy layer on top. Cissy handed me a pair of black heels and a matching clutch which I put my wand in.
"Here, these belong to your mother. I'm sure she won't mind you borrowing them." Cissy said, holding out two jewellery boxes; one smaller than the other.
I opened the smaller one first, finding a pair of black earrings in the shape of snakes, the tails dangling down from the ear. I put them in and opened the larger box. It contained a beautiful but simple black locket with the initials B.A.L; my initials. Opening it up there was a picture of my mother and father looking down at me in my father's arms on the day I was born. The second picture was of my parents wedding day.
"I'm sure your mother would want for you to have this." Cissy said as she took the necklace from the box and fastened it around my neck.
"Why are you giving this to me now?"
"Because seeing you like this reminds me so much of your mother when she was your age." She said while turning me toward the full length mirror on my wall. I gazed at the reflection, noticing how much we did look alike from pictures I had seen. The thought made me swell with pride. I would do my parents proud and uphold the Lestrange name until they could join me once more.
"Well, we had better be off, Malfoys are never late." I rolled my eyes as Lucius's need to ruin my moment.
"Of course Uncle." I said with a sickly sweet smile, walking past him as he held the door open for Cissy and me.
Holding my dress as I descended the stairs, I spotted Draco waiting patiently at the bottom of the staircase.
"You look beautiful Bella." He said while kissing my cheek.
"Thank you Draco, you look very handsome yourself." I said gesturing to his new black dress robes.
"Are we all ready to go?" Cissy asked coming up behind us.
"Of course my dear." Lucius said, taking his wife by the hand and leading her towards the front door.
Draco took my arm as we all walked outside into the crisp summer's night and into the carriage waiting to take us to the Parkinson's. It was a lovely evening, with the moon high in the sky and the stars bright. The air was warm with a gently breeze with little humidity. It was the perfect night; if only my parents were here to make it the perfect atmosphere.
"Bellatrix, we're here." Aunt Cissy said, pulling me from my thoughts.
Lucius helped Cissy out of the carriage and walked up to the house, waiting to be greeted by the Parkinson's. Draco took my hand and helped me down from the carriage before linking his arm through my own and together we walked up the path behind my aunt and uncle.
"Good evening Narcissa, Lucius. We are so glad you could join us tonight." Mrs Parkinson said in greeting. "Oh, Draco look how much you have grown!" She exclaimed, spotting us behind in the line. "Pansy will be thrilled to know that you are here. And Bellatrix, may I say how beautiful you look tonight. You remind me so much of your mother."
"Thank you very much Mrs Parkinson. You have a beautiful home, thank you for the invitation."
"Well your welcome dear." She said before she moved onto the next guess.
Our coats were handed to the house elves before we walked into the main hall. It was decorated to the nines, filled with bright summer colours. Tables bordered the dance floor and a band was placed on a stage at the far end of the hall. Towards the entrance there was a table filled with drinks and snacks.
As soon as we stepped in to the main hall, Draco spotted Pansy and the rest of his Slytherin friends, walking off leaving me to myself.
"May I have this dance?" A familiar voice asked from behind me.
"Certainly." I said turning around with a smile on my face.
Montague took my by the hand and led me out to the middle of the dance floor. We took the traditional stance, his arm around my waist, my hand on his shoulder and our hands intertwined. We danced slowly along with the melody that was playing.
"You look beautiful tonight."
"Thank you."
"I didn't think you would be here."
"Well, Aunt Cissy was practically demanding for me to attend so Lucius couldn't say no." I said with a smirk on my face.
"Or you pushed until you got your own way."
"Oh you know me so well." I laughed.
"You know Warrington wasn't happy to see that you were here."
"Why not? I thought we were the best of friends." I said innocently, looking over to where I could see Warrington over my shoulder and giving him a wink. Montague just laughed.
"You are so bad." He purred out, his eyes turning almost black.
"Yes I certainly am."
Montague lent down to press his lips to mine, allowing them to touch gently.
"Bellatrix."
With a heavy sigh, I turned around to look at Lucius.
"Yes Uncle Lucius."
"I don't believe I have met your friend."
"Lucius, this is Montague. He too is in Slytherin but he will be going into his third year."
Montague stepped around me and held his hand out to Lucius. It was funny as he was almost as tall as Lucius, seeing as he had grown so much over the summer.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet you sir."
"Likewise." Lucius replied shaking his hand.
Lucius gave me a small glance, questions shining in his grey eyes. He had so many questions to ask me, but the most prominent one; could he be trusted?
I gave him a short nod before turning to smile at Montague.
"Well Montague, any friend of Bellatrix is a friend of ours. Please feel free to visit anytime." Lucius said with as much warmth as he could; which was actually very little.
Lucius turned and retreated back to Cissy who had a small, knowing smile on her face. I rolled my eyes and indicated for Montague to join me outside.
"I am so sorry about my Uncle. He is very protective of me and likes to know all of my business. He's also been keeping a closer eye on me ever since I was expelled this year."
"Really? I couldn't tell." Now he was the sarcastic one.
Looking back through the window, I could see Lucius and Cissy talking to Warrington and his parents; no doubt apologising for my appalling behaviour.
"Well, I had better get back inside before my mother comes looking for me, and believe me, you are not ready to meet her." Montague said with a wink, he started to walk away. "Are you coming back in?"
"In a few minutes, I want to get some air."
Montague left to go inside, leaving me to my thoughts.
"Bella."
I jumped at the sound of my name, turning to my left to see Moon standing there in her own dress robe.
"Bloody hell Moon, do you always just pop up out of thin air."
"Um, yeah." She said looking anywhere but at me.
"You always know to appear when I need you too." I said grabbing her by the hand and pulling her into the main hall and over to where Lucius was now standing alone, observing the party.
"Uncle Lucius, I would finally like to introduce you to Moon." I said gesturing to my dear friend who was currently attached to my hand.
"Ah Moon. Yes I've heard all about you, from Bellatrix."
"It's an honour to meet you Mr Malfoy."
Wow, she really knew how to sweet talk people like my Uncle.
Lucius glanced over at me, clearly impressed by the way she addressed him. With a small indication, Lucius told us to follow him.
Leading us into a room away from the main hall, Lucius and I turned towards Moon. With one last glance at each other; him asking if I was sure; I nodded in confirmation.
"Moon, Bellatrix and I have a proposition for you."
A/N: Soooooooo...what did you think? I love hearing from you as there are little twilight/harry potter crossovers out there...even though this is more of a OC HP story haha...but still let me know what you think of everything :D Can you guess whats going to happen next? ;);)
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