Prompt #875: Husbandry
Rodolphus knew Bella didn't love him, probably never had loved him. He had loved her, a long while ago, when she was young and quite beautiful – although… was that real love or the crush of a teenager being wedded, more or less, against his will and arranging with the circumstances? No, he decided, it was love, love that grew and then slowly died like a living creature.
He had time to think about this because he had been hit by a spell in chase of the Potter boy. He didn't even expect Bella to show up at his sickbed. She was out there, ready and willing to do everything she could and several things she couldn't for the Dark Lord.
He didn't know she was insane, though, since he was insane in quite a similar way.