Mother had gotten crabby a lot and I found out a spell that can hide her baby bump. So far, father hasn't found out yet. She is seven months pregnant and I'm getting very worried. The baby is a girl and she hasn't started on anything. Not even names. We have completely taken over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. I am working at Hogwarts as their head of punishment. Those who are out after curfew are tortured. Those who disobey the professors are not fed for a week. The mudbloods stay locked up in the dungeons and are tortured. Their screams are music to my ears. I had to leave Hogwarts temporarily because I had to "take care of Death Eater business" but I had to take care of my mother.
(~)
I went into the manor and was greeted by my mother who was in a crabby mood.
"Took you long enough." she sneered.
I ignored her and went to get her some soup.
"How is she?" I asked.
"She's annoying. I can't get a good night's sleep. Ugh. I wish she would just come out already!" Bellatrix complained.
"You've handled fifteen years in Azkaban. Surely you can handle nine months of no sleep." I scolded.
"Ugh. After her I'm never having kids again."
The next day I decided to put up a crib inside my mother's room.
"So, how do you like it?" I asked her.
"It looks fine." she responded.
"Have you picked any names yet?" I asked.
"No." she answered.
"Why don't you?"
"Because. I don't want to." she replied grumpily.
"Well, you should. I've always wanted to have a younger sister." I said.
"Then you pick it." she gave.
"Really? I can?" I asked starting to get excited.
"Yes. But she has to be named after a star, or constellation, or moon." she ordered.
"Okay!" I answered giddily. "Hmmm. How about Alpha Delphini. A star in the constellation of Delphinus. Her full name will be Alpha Delphini Bellatrix Lestrange but we'll call her Delphini." I suggested.
"Sounds fine to me." she answered not caring.
"Yay!" I exclaimed.
"Be quiet! You're a Death Eater, not a muggle excited about her younger sister!" she scolded.
"Right, sorry mother." I apologized.
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The next two months passed by in a flash. I was reading in my room about to go asleep when I heard my mother scream my name.
"CRESSIDA!" she screamed.
I put down my book and walked to her room. "Yes mother?"
"She's coming." she said with a panicked look on her face. I could tell. My spell had worn off and you could see a big pregnancy bump.
"Okay. Ummm I have a few St. Mungo's hospital workers I can find." I suggested.
"I don't care just get them!" she yelled as she started screaming in pain.
I apparated to the hospital and found four healers. "It's Bellatrix!" I said. They all apparated with me and then, they helped deliver my sister.
"Congratulations Madam Lestrange. You have a beautiful baby daughter." the healer congratulated. I obliviated them since they couldn't know about my sister.
"Well, how was it?" I asked.
"Painful. But it gave me her so I guess it wasn't that bad." she answered.
"Now, I'm gonna go and torture some people." she said as she got up.
"Mum, you just gave birth. You need to rest. I'll torture some muggles and maybe it'll soothe you and Delphini to sleep." I suggested.
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The next few weeks were tiring. Mother had some Death Eater things to attend to while I had to go back to Hogwarts. Rodolphus found out about Delphini along with the Carrows but they made the unbreakable vow to never tell anyone about her and that they will protect her. Mother was never there for Delphini so I had to take care of her with the help of Alecto who turned to be a pretty good nanny. Harry Potter had come to the Malfoy Manor and freed the prisoners from the dungeons. I was upset I wasn't there. I could've killed them! He had broken into my mother's bank vault at Gringotts. He took one of my father's horcruxes. He's coming to Hogwarts to retrieve the diadem. He's going to destroy it. He's going to defeat my father. I won't let that happen.
(~)
I was back at Hogwarts and giving out detentions left and right. One day I was walking in the hallway when I saw Pansy Parkinson. Curfew was at 9:00, it was 9:01.
"Parkinson!" I yelled. She froze in her tracks. She turned around with a smirk on her face.
"Yes Ms. Lestrange?" she asked.
"What are you doing out of bed? It's past curfew." I questioned.
"Well, I was going to the library and looked at the time and it was so late! I had to get back and then, here you are." she explained but she said that last part with a distasteful look on her face.
"Haha. Pansy Parkinson knows how to read? She can barely recite her alphabet." I teased. She looked like she was going to say something but I said something else before her. "Oh, and by the way, the library's that way. I pointed in the opposite direction. "I guess I'll see you in my office at 22:00 for detention, Ms. Parkinson."
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At 22:00 she showed up.
"Hello Ms. Parkinson. Please, take a seat." I gestured towards the seat in front of my desk.
"Well, Ms. Lestrange, what happened? You're acting like McGonagall." she laughed with a smirk on her face. My smile turned into a snarl.
"Well, being a Death Eater makes you more responsible. Perhaps if you become one you'll stop acting like a slut." I fired back. She had a look on her face that looked like she wanted to attack me. I laughed.
"Tonight you will be cleaning, the dungeons. I want it spotless. The mudbloods and muggles will be there so have fun. And also, scrub the blood extra hard. It's been there for a while." I demanded.
"Are you serious? You can't punish a Slytherin like that!" Pansy complained.
"Don't think being a Slytherin will be a pass for punishment! I'll punish anyone I want." I corrected.
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The next day Draco came to me.
"Did you really make Pansy clean the dungeons? She didn't come back till 5:00!" Draco asked.
"Good. Serves that pug right. I hope she had fun." I laughed. Draco still had a stern look on his face.
"She'll fall asleep in her classes. She'll be behind in class. I don't think your father will like that." Draco said.
"Please, that pug was already behind her classes. My father won't really care since I hate her." I assured him.
"Please Cressida." Draco pleaded. "Don't punish her anymore. She won't do anything bad again I promise."
"If I didn't know any better Malfoy. I'd say you have feelings for her." I teased.
"What? No! I don't!" he said in a panicked voice.
"Ha! You do! Draco loves a pug! Hey! You there!" I shouted at a passing first year Ravenclaw who jumped when she heard me yell. "DRACO LOVES A PUG!"
"Shut up! What do you think you're doing?" Draco shushed.
"Draco you're hilarious." I said. He didn't laugh or respond. "Wait. You're serious? No way. You can't like that pug faced slut! She's had like two-hundred boyfriends during my five years at Hogwarts!"
"She's gotten better. She's no longer clingy like how she used to be."
"Ha she's still a Parkinson. Remember in third year when she had three boyfriends at once?" I asked.
"She said it was to make me jealous. She's always liked me." he explained. "And I've always liked her."
"No. No no no no No," I said. "You're supposed to hate her. Every time we'd run into her you'd tell me to hide you! I thought you liked Astoria?"
"It was a coverup story." Draco explained. This angered me since he lied to me and I've been telling Astoria that he's always liked her!
"Well, it's your life." I simply said and walked away.
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The next couple of hours were boring. Feed Delphi, put her to sleep, torture some mudbloods, kill something. I was in my room when Draco came in.
"I was thinking, maybe the Dark Lord's intentions are a little overboard." he said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked.
"It means that maybe he's going to far. I'm going to far into his world."
"No you're not. Don't be a Death Eater who deserts his cause. You'll die!"
"Not if I leave right now. Come with me. We'll run away. Go to America. We don't have to be under his rule anymore." Draco offered.
"Are you serious? Me, of all people? The daughter of the Dark Lord. The daughter of the two most evil people to ever live? You want to ask me to desert my father and live with muggles?" I asked.
"Umm yes." he answered. He wants to ask me to desert my father? He's really pushing my buttons.
"You leave now and never come back." I commanded.
"Cressida, stop, please!" Draco begged as tears were streaming down his face.
"Go, tell your fellow Slytherins that being pureblood does not mean you will get a pass for punishment. Only your faith in the Dark Lord can save you."
