A/N: Okay so today is the potions evaluation! Now, some of the potions weren't mentioned in the books but are apart of the Harry Potter Trading Card Game or the video games. Also, for Hermione's potion I am adding an ingredient to make it a little more interesting. Enjoy ~

Chapter 7

Potions

On the second day of evaluations it was clear that three of the Slytherins were tired from studying the night before. Hermione however was well rested, even after going to bed at a late hour.

This day, the sun could only be seen in streaks emerging from the clouds. The clouds were stubborn about not wanting the sun's rays to touch the earth. There were no birds, and the air was quiet.

Today was the potions test. The Slytherins were to concoct a potion from memory. All the ingredients were provided for them and each Slytherin had a specific potion to brew.

Crabbe, Goyle, Draco, and Hermione all emerged from the manor looking serious, but only one had an air of confidence to them. They made their way to where Voldemort, Lucius, Narcissa, and Bellatrix all stood. There was a huge cabinet that was filled with all kinds of ingredients, and there was four stations. Each with a cauldron and the proper tools.

"Welcome. Gather round and I will explain what you will be doing," Voldemort stated while the four students situated themselves with the others. "As you know, you will be brewing potions from memory. Each of you will have a different potion to brew and there are a multitude of ingredients for you all to choose from when concocting your potions. You all have an hour to complete your potions and hand them in. Then, we have some muggles to test the potions out afterward. Now, questions?" he said, looking at them all. When no one spoke he sent them to their proper stations and said begin.

Crabbe was to make a baneberry potion, while Goyle made an exploding potion that was often used by Snatchers. Draco had a slightly more difficult potion to do and that was a strength potion.

As soon as Hermione saw the potion she was to make she scowled. It was the potion that Harry Potter had done better at than she. Draught of the living dead. It wasn't that she did not know how to brew it, on the contrary. After that class when Harry Potter had beat her she practiced that potion until she knew that she could brew it better than anyone, especially the Boy Who Lived.

Quickly gathering her thoughts, she went to the cabinet to get the ingredients that she would need. With her wand she levitated a jar of water, root of asphode, infusion of wormwood, valerian root, and a sophophorous bean over to her station. She searched for knotgrass but was surprised to find none. As she only needed it at the end of the potion she decided to leave it and search again once the potion was basically complete.

Behind her, Bellatrix watched Hermione with fascination at how swiftly she moved. How her curly brown mane bounced with each step she took. The Death Eater carefully watched Hermione create her potion, fully aware that the young witch knew she was being watched.

The hour was almost up with only five minutes left. So far Draco seemed to be finished, while Crabbe and Goyle struggled to finish their potions. Hermione was back at the cabinet, looking for the one ingredient she needed, but it was not there. She was getting frustrated. She needed that knotgrass. Suddenly Hermione remembered something. Last night while she was by the lake with Bellatrix there were flowers, herbs, and knotgrass! A bright smile appeared on her face as she said accio knotgrass and knotgrass flew into her hand. She placed the few pieces of knotgrass into her brew and blew on it twice. She was done.

"Time!" Lucius yelled. Hermione looked at her potion with a satisfied smile. She knew that her potion was done perfectly. The brunette glanced around at her housemates. Draco seemed pleased with his potion, while the other two were skeptical about that they had just made.

Everyone put some of their brew into a vial and laid them down on a table that had just appeared.

"Bellatrix," Voldemort started. "Bring out the muggles."

The black haired witch smiled and disapparated quickly, but reappeared just as quickly with the three muggles. They looked awful. Clothes torn, dirty, hair all in disarray, hands were tied, and you could see the marks of abuse that they all held.

"Baneberry potion," Voldemort said and Lucius was quick to grab Crabbe's potion. The male Death Eater forced the red liquid down a male muggles' throat and stepped back to see what would happen. Instead of it working as a poison like it was supposed to, boils appeared all over the man's body. Within moments, the man exploded into dust, leaving almost everyone looking surprised. "Impressive, but it was not what was asked of you," Voldemort said coldly. "Strength potion."

Draco's potion was grabbed by Narcissa this time and placed it gently into the female muggles' throat. She whispered a soft sorry and the woman beneath her almost gave her a grateful glance. Narcissa backed away and soon the muggle broke free of her restraints. Her eyes had a maddening tinge to them and she ran through the wizards and witches towards the cabinet full of ingredients. The woman grabbed the cabinet and threw it towards her tormentors. Bellatrix flicked her wand and the cabinet vanished. The woman now ran towards them at full speed. Voldemort grabbed Goyle's potion and threw it at the woman. The potion was successful and it exploded, causing the muggle to scream in agony until she died, which did not take long.

"Your potions worked," Voldemort acknowledged. He wasn't surprised at Draco's success but was surprised at Goyle's. Goyle seemed to be just as surprised as his mouth was hanging open.

Next was Hermione's potion. Draught of the living dead. It was to go to the last muggle whom looked very frightened. Bellatrix gladly took Hermione's vial and shoved the liquid into the man's mouth. He swallowed and collapsed immediately. Usually it would take a few moments for the draught to work but Hermione seemed to have perfected it.

"Well done," Voldemort praised. Lucius had a look of anger written clearly across his face as he looked at Hermione and Hermione could not help but wonder why, until it hit her. He had purposely taken away the knotgrass from the cabinet so that her potion would fail. She glared at the platinum headed man and returned his heated gaze. Then Hermione smirked, because she knew that she had won, while he had lost. This made Lucius grow even angrier and had to make sure he did not move for he did not trust himself not to hex the little witch.

After Voldemort had watched the exchange between Lucius and Hermione, he then gestured to Bellatrix, signaling that she may finish off the muggle. A wide smirk appeared on Bellatrix's face as she approached the muggle. She had a wild look in her eyes that made her look positively insane, a look that made Hermione go weak in the knees. Hermione's breath hitched as the woman she had kissed the night before cast the killing curse on the muggle before her.

Narcissa could not help but watch Hermione's reaction to her older sister. She was amazed that Hermione was not terrified of her sister, who had terrified herself on occasion. Nevertheless, she was worried for her son who had so obviously fallen for the brunette. She sighed, walked over to her husband and linked her arm through his. She then looked at Voldemort as he began to speak.

"Tomorrow's test will be the most difficult. It will test how each of you do under an immense amount of pressure. That is all that I will disclose to you, however I do suggest practicing some spells," Voldemort offered. He then moved his attention to Narcissa. "Bring the boys back to the manor, while I have a chat with Bellatrix, Hermione, and your husband," Voldemort stated. Narcissa nodded in response and shooed the Slytherin boys up towards the manor.

As soon as Voldemort knew that Narcissa and the boys were in the manor he cast crucio on Lucius. He screamed in pain while Hermione gasped and jumped backwards into Bellatrix. She had not been expecting that. It wasn't that the unforgivable curse frightened her, it was just the suddenness of it.

Bellatrix was a little surprised when Hermione had jumped back into her but she quickly wrapped her arms around the young witch. Bellatrix breathed in her scent and traced soothing circles on Hermione's stomach. She hadn't been surprised at the curse being sent. When you were a Death Eater it was something that you got used to.

"That will never happen again Lucius," Voldemort said harshly as he removed the curse. "You will apologize to Hermione. Now," Voldemort demanded. Lucius slowly got up and looked at Hermione. If looks could kill, Hermione knew that she would be dead.

"I deeply apologize Miss Granger," Lucius hissed out. Hermione knew that he wasn't sorry, but Voldemort seemed content with it.

Bellatrix glanced at everyone with a confused look on her face. Obviously she had missed something.

"What did he do?" Bellatrix whispered into Hermione's ear. Hermione whispered back what he had done and Bellatrix grew very angry. She let go of Hermione and made her way to Lucius. Just as she was about to hex him, Voldemort yelled enough and all movement stopped.

"This business is done. I will see you all tomorrow," and with that, Voldemort disapparated.

Lucius quickly made his way back to the manor, wanting to be away from Bellatrix and what he considered a wench. Bellatrix however, had plans that did not involve heading back to the manor. She grabbed Hermione's arm and pulled her close.

"Were you actually planning on studying? Because if not I can think of a better way to spend the time," Bellatrix whispered into the brunette's ear.

Hermione smirked and leaned into Bellatrix.

"Like what?" she asked, acting coy which made Bellatrix purr in response.

"You'll see," the dark haired witch promised and then led Hermione towards the forest.

The forest was east to the lake and looked dark and menacing even during the day. It was obvious that it was huge and Hermione wondered if it was anything like the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts. As if reading her mind Bellatrix said, "Yes, and remember that there are some monsters that can not be controlled," she whispered and paused to bite Hermione's earlobe, showing that by monsters she had meant herself not being able to be controlled.

Hermione gasped and felt her whole body tingle. She knew that she wanted Bellatrix, that much was obvious, but she was still cautious. As she should be.

Bellatrix smirked at the reaction the brunette had and could she her internally going over so many different scenarios of what could happen. Good and bad. She decided to stay silent and kept leading Hermione into the dark forest.

Howls could be heard and Hermione could swear that she heard someone behind them. She stayed as calm as possible and kept following Bellatrix. Hermione raised her head to look at the sky, only to find it completely obstructed by the branches of the enormous trees. While doing this, she wasn't paying attention to where she was stepping and she tripped on a tree root.

Bellatrix looked down at her with an amused look on her face that made Hermione scowl. Before Bellatrix could give her a sarcastic comment, Hermione muttered a spell that caused Bellatrix to fall down as well.

This caused an amused look to come across Hermione and she had to stop herself from laughing. She bit her lip in an attempt to stop herself and it seemed to work. Hermione gave Bellatrix a playful look that made the Death Eater crave her even more.

"Is that how we're going to play it?" Bellatrix growled softly to Hermione.

Hermione leaned closer to Bellatrix as if she was going to kiss her but instead whispered expelliarmus. Bellatrix had been completely unprepared and her wand flew somewhere behind them. A shocked look crossed Bellatrix's face while Hermione was smirking like crazy. Hermione took this opportunity and ran from Bellatrix.

It took Bellatrix a moment to gather her thoughts but then quickly realized that this was a simple game. Hunter and prey. She smiled at this thought and found her wand before chasing after Hermione.

Hermione jumped over the giant tree roots and would periodically glance behind her. For a couple of moments she wondered if Bellatrix was going to come after her but she soon received her answer as she heard a spell being shot from behind her. Hermione ducked and quickly sent a spell back before changing directions.

Bellatrix easily deflected Hermione's spell and kept after her. For a moment Bellatrix stopped because she had lost sight of Hermione. She listened for any noise that would give the younger witch away and she wasn't disappointed. Bellatrix ran towards the direction Hermione was in. Once Bellatrix saw Hermione she transformed into her Death Eater cloud of black smoke and chased after Hermione that way.

When Hermione glanced behind her she couldn't see Bellatrix but the cloud of smoke. 'Not playing fair,' Hermione thought to herself. Soon Bellatrix had caught up to her and the black smoke clung onto Hermione. Losing concentration, Hermione tripped over a tree root and fell forward. With Bellatrix holding onto her, she had managed to make it so that Hermione landed on her back instead of her front.

A soft laugh could be heard from the smoke as it turned back into Bellatrix. Bellatrix was currently straddling the younger witch with her hands on the ground beside Hermione's head. Both were breathing hard after their run but it just seemed to make it more erotic.

"You've been caught," Bellatrix said seductively. She knew exactly what she wanted to do to the girl, but where to start was the question.

"It seems I have," Hermione stated back. The brunette slowly inched her lips closer to Bellatrix's and whispered, "The hunter has caught her prey."

Bellatrix's eyes filled with glee. Beneath her was a beautiful witch who was willingly giving herself to the dark, twisted, sadistic Death Eater. Bellatrix could not have been happier.

"Hm, it seems I have. Now the question is what to do with my prey..." Bellatrix's voiced trailed off as she stared deeply into Hermione's big brown orbs. Being that close, Bellatrix could hear Hermione's heart beating erratically inside her chest.

Bellatrix slowly leaned down as if to kiss Hermione but at the last second she used her nose to move Hermione's head to the side. This exposed Hermione's neck and Bellatrix bit down hard on it. Hermione moaned loudly as Bellatrix's teeth kept working their way on Hermione's neck. Bellatrix was a little surprised at this. She had expected a scream at first, not a moan. But that only excited Bellatrix more.

Bellatrix let her body flush with Hermione's, eliciting a moan from the both of them. The dark haired witch moved her right hand from where it was and placed it on Hermione's hip. Still biting Hermione's neck, she slowly moved her mouth toward the young witch's ear.

"Did someone like being bit? Hm?" Bellatrix toyed, and used her teeth to play with Hermione's earlobe. Hermione moaned in response which made Bellatrix give a slight laugh. "And how would someone like this?" she asked as she sunk her nails deep into Hermione's hip. The brunette gasped at the unexpectedness of the act but soon moaned again. This made Bellatrix smile as she knew that she and Hermione would have loads of fun together.

"Tsk tsk Granger," Bellatrix whispered into her ear. "What a naughty witch you are. Who would've guessed that the brightest witch of her age was a masochist, hm?" Bellatrix taunted.

Hermione turned her head which made Bellatrix move hers. Hermione stared at her in a confused manner. She had never thought herself a masochist and had thought that only the crazy enjoyed pain.

"What do you mean?" Hermione asked softly.

"Well you see my pet, you like pain," Bellatrix stated bluntly. "You like it when I do this," she bit down hard on the untouched side of Hermione's neck. "And this," she said and quickly bit her lip hard until it bled, making sure to soothe it and suck on it afterward. Bellatrix heard Hermione's moans throughout this and they made Bellatrix grind herself into Hermione. "Oh yes my pet, we are going to have lots of fun," she said seductively and with that, their lips finally connected.

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A/N: Sorry to leave it at that but this is as far as these two go for today. I'll try to get the next chapter up soon. Thanks for reading ~