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Dinner with Voldemort – Chapter 10

"Leave," commanded Voldemort. As Xander and Anya rose immediately he waved his hand and held it up in the universal stop signal. As least Xander hoped that's what it meant. "Not you. Them." He moved his hand to gesture his minions out. They left while exchanging odd looks to one another. Xander and Anya both sat back down watching as Voldemort took out his wand and waved it around. Xander could feel the magic around him. "I just locked the door and sealed the room so they can't hear us."

Xander and Anya exchanged looks before turning back to Voldemort, Xander muttering a short, "Ok…"

"What I tell you here does not go beyond us and this room, agreed?" Voldemort's voice had started out soft before ending with one very loud commanding word.

"Alright," Xander agreed immediately, he wasn't about to risk annoying his evil insane grandfather.

"I changed my name many years ago, I was born Tom Riddle."

Anya sat up straight, "Tom Marvolo Riddle?"

"Yes," Voldemort confirmed as he and Xander stared at Anya.

"You grew up in some orphanage in London?"

"How did you know that?" Voldemort rose to tower over Anya and stared down at her with red glowing eyes.

"Haley!"

"Haley?" asked Xander. "You mean he…?"

"What?" Voldemort said looking back and forth between the two.

"My best friend, Haley, she was supposed to grant you a wish when you were a child but you wouldn't say 'wish' no matter what she did. She eventually gave up, but I got to listen to her complain about it. I mean she tried off and on for years!"

"Oh," Xander had never though about what would happen to a vengeance demon that wasn't able to get their 'client' to make a wish. "That must have been very frustrating."

"It was! I think that's the only time one of us ever gave up, normally even if they didn't make a wish the only reason it wasn't granted was because the client died before they could say 'wish'."

"Wow."

Voldemort by this point was lost except realizing that Anya had known someone from his childhood. "No word of my old name to them," Voldemort reached out his wand and unlocked the door.

As the door opened the sound of screams echoed off the walls. Xander and Anya hurriedly stood up and the two of them raced out into the hallway followed more slowly by Voldemort. They soon reached the entryway where Bellatrix was using the Cruciatus curse on Neville Longbottom.

Snape's voice came out in an unrushed manner, "I doubt the Dark Lord would appreciate it if you damaged the boy before he gives permission."

"Shut up Severus. He screams just like his father… It sounds so lovely," Bellatrix said her voice going from fierce to soft while she swayed slowly back and forth to whatever melody she heard from the screams.

"That is so like you, so impulsive. That's why you make mistakes and get punished so easily."

Xander turned to stare at the speaker, this wasn't Snape or Voldemort speaking, this was Anya.

"Ahn, um," Xander's voice trailed off as everyone's attention turned to Anya. On the upside Neville stopped screaming, Bellatrix's curse having ended when her attention had moved.

The others on the wall had been struggling to escape, to do anything to stop Bellatrix from what she was doing, in silence though having been hit with silencing spells. Anya had effectively become the focus of both the good and bad guys.

Anya snorted, "You've always been impulsive, uncaring of your surroundings, it's no wonder that you got caught so easily. I mean your lord was gone, what, one day and you got arrested. I spent today in Diagon Alley, I looked through back issues of the Daily Prophet and even some books that mentioned you. You were so… pathetic, it's no wonder you couldn't escape prison on your own."

Bellatrix looked at Anya with her eyes narrowed and her hand clenched tightly around her wand. Just as she was ready to pull her wand Voldemort decided to speak out.

"Have you ever really… hurt someone Anya?" he asked softly.

"I used to be known for my cruelty, the way I could twist what someone wanted to make the worst of it," Anya giggled. "You haven't lived until you… Perhaps I shouldn't discuss this in detail for you. Bellatrix would merely try to imitate it and she would fail so utterly, she'll never be as good as me." Anya's face adopted a faint smirk at this as she saw Bellatrix try to hold back as she trembled in anger.

"Then would you like to take over?" Voldemort offered almost gently, he was very curious about what Anya was hinting to on her abilities.

Xander by this point was watching Anya confused. Since the third time she'd become human she'd shown no interest in being anything but a 'white hat' as Spike would have put it, on the path to redemption and all. Xander reached over and wrapped an arm around Anya's waist and pulled her close so that he could speak quietly into her ear, "Ahn, what are you doing?"

Anya looked up at him and kissed him passionately before whispering, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." She then looked at Voldemort, "I'm sorry I can't do that right now. The demon hunting organization that Xander and I work for has a treaty with the Wizarding World. We've been studying it for a week now and so far the only way we can interfere with wizards is in self-defense or if demons are involved. There aren't even any clauses about the employment of wizards. Though the fact that we're wizards is really the only reason we can be here as it is. We're trying to have it dissolved, but have been unable to meet with the ministry of magic to deal with that. They're apparently very busy trying to deal with you." Anya let out another soft snicker at that. "You have them running quite scared."

Voldemort smiled at this. Which was apparently quite a scary sight to some of the prisoners since many flinched. In the case of poor Neville Longbottom, passed out, though that might have been more because of Bellatrix than Voldemort. Harry, suspended up against the wall, watched confused, hadn't Xander said he was a good guy? Why wasn't he trying to help?

"Perhapsss," Voldemort hissed out, "you would like a demonstration of my abilities." He quickly moved his wand removing the silencing spell on his mortal enemy and his friends.

"You really are cruel aren't you?" asked Xander before he could stop himself.

"What?" Voldemort said emotionlessly as he turned to his grandson.

"Having fun when you know we can't participate," Anya said quickly.

Snape, seeing the window of opportunity, "Perhaps it is wrong to do this in front of them, maybe after they leave-" Before he could continue Snape fell to his knees and held back a scream after being hit with his Lord's crucio.

"I don't believe I asked for your opinion," Voldemort said his head tilted a bit to the side as he watched one of his favorites kneel before him in pain. He had always enjoyed putting Snape under the crucio, there was just something about the way he held back, refusing to scream, that made Voldemort want to see how long he would last. He would always give in, eventually.

Snape looked up a drop of blood dripping out his nose. He managed, barely, to whisper out, "Forgive me Master, I meant no disrespect."

"Yes. Please release him… Grandfather," Xander said hesitantly.

"Very well. For you… Grandson."

End Chapter 10

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Sorry for the wait on this update. I was doing so good originally too. There really is only 2 maybe 3 more chapters to go on this story and I'm going to try to finish it in the next couple of weeks. I'm motivated since I have another Buffy X Harry Potter story in my mind that I'm not going to start writing until I finish this one.

Somehow this chapter ended up being so dark… I loved working with Anya and Bellatrix in this chapter. I wasn't originally going to include Bellatrix because I didn't think I could write her well, I'm surprised how much better this is with her in the story. YAY! Thanks again to the reviewer, SerpentLady, who wanted to see her in this story!!!