Fight

Dad's never hit me before, he's never laid a hand on me, but that changed today. I came home from a party at Rodolphus' house drunk out of my mind. I climbed up the lattice work on the side of the house and stumbled into my room only to see my father sitting on my bed.

"Where have you been?" he stood asked quite worried. I was actually surprised by how concerned he was.

"No where dad I was just out." My words slurred together and his eyebrows rose. It took him a minute to comprehend where I was coming from and what I was doing, but in the end his face started to turn red.

"Are you drunk Bellatrix?" I gulped what was I supposed to do tell him flat out I was drunk, so instead I told a little white lie nothing really.

"No dad I'm not", but it was too obvious and I felt a hot slap across my face. I back up a little and felt my mouth where some blood started to slowly trickle.

"Don't lie to me girl were you with a boy?" I wiped the blood from my face still keeping my composure.

"No daddy it was just a party and I only had a few drinks." His face was nearing purple now and I knew this wasn't good; the last time daddy got this mad was when Aunt Walburga had Sirius. I think he was just mad because she had a boy and he didn't.

"Bellatrix I swear if you go parading the family name through the muck I will kill you myself." I nodded slowly. "And" he said nearly yelling "if I ever catch you in bed with a boy I swear you'll both be dead. I don't need any grandchildren yet Bellatrix and I swear if you ever get pregnant." He couldn't even finish is sentence, but for some reason I started to cry.

"Daddy how could you think I would ever sleep with someone?"

"Because I already have seen you with someone" he said quickly and left the room. That's when I stopped and froze; daddy had seen me with Rodolphus? I couldn't believe it we were so careful and when only had sex when my parents weren't home just to be safe. Then I remembered my birthday in January. It was a nice day and to surprise me Rodolphus blind folded me and took me out of the castle. He then told me we were going to apparate to my house to have a little fun. We apparated to my room and I made sure I locked the door, but I heard people downstairs; we shouldn't have done what we did. Dad must have seen me then and now I don't know what I can do with myself. Its one thing to break the rules and get away with it, but it's another to actually get caught in the act. I still can't believe this all happened last night, but I have to do something about it. I can't just wallow here in misery and expect something to happen. I stand up and walk down the elaborate marble staircase to dad's study. I stand outside the elaborate wood doors and look at the family crest carved into the wood. How could I have let this happen, how can I even look dad in the face now? I take a deep breath and push open the door. Dad's sitting at his desk, I see a bottle of vodka sitting nearby and I gulp. He only drinks that stuff when he's really upset.

"What is it Bellatrix?" he asks in not an annoyed tone, but more depressed almost a tone of disappointment.

"I wanted to say I'm sorry I never meant to bring Rodolphus here." He nods and takes a long sip from his glass.

"When you were born I said I would never hit you, ever. Last night I broke that promise and I'm sorry." I nearly take a step back, dad, the Cygnus Black is apologizing to me.

"But" he says and I internally groan this is going to be bad, "Bellatrix you make it hard sometimes. I know you love your family and all and I know you love that boy, but I don't want to see you lose yourself because of us." I nod and look down.

"I won't dad I promise." He stands and walks over to me and hugs me. We part and I swear I see tears in his eyes.

"Now go and help your mother with something." I could tell he was upset so I let him be. We both still needed to recover from our fight and I am definitely his daughter in the sense that I don't want my loved ones to see my wounds.

Ok I really loved writing this drabble, it was just so much fun for some reason. I really want reviews on this fic because I love writing it, but I need suggestions. Is Bella in character, or do I need to try to capture her better. Any feedback is welcome and I even take flames although I don't really appreciate them as much as a critique or piece of constructive criticism. Anyways please review and I hope you enjoyed this drabble.