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WARNING - This chapter contains violence and aggressive smut
Chapter 11
Hermione was pacing her room, deep in thought whilst Alex sat watching her waiting for the girl to compose herself. After years of living together she had learned it was best to wait when she's like this or risk ones head being bitten off. Alex was in turmoil, they'd grown very close over the years which may have spilled over into lovers occasionally, but the bond between them was mostly a deep level of friendship. Recalling how she had just lost control nearly allowing her elements to consume her, it was a hard thing to watch, yes this was the break through she had been waiting for but it didn't make it any less painful to watch.
She had been training Hermione hard hoping it would give her some inner strength to deal with the intensity of her gifts. Hermione had showed her abilities early on being able to control them all but never as powerful. She could be reckless if she allowed her emotions to take over her. She had never told Hermione how unique she was, she thought the girl held too much on her shoulders already so chose to train her and tell her when the time was right. She pushed her to understand her elements separately, taught her martial arts and meditation to fight and control her emotions. Surprisingly the girl had progressed easily, her capacity to take in information was extraordinary.
Hermione came to a halt and her brown eyes met Alexs'. "What else have you been hiding from me Alex?!" She said in a relatively calm voice.
"Hiding? I knew about your abilities at the same time as you, I just figured you had enough going on in your head and that you didn't need 'destined for greatness' floating about as well." Alex said strongly. Hermione walked over to Alex and straddled her lap, so their faces were close to touching. "I know it's been awhile princess but I don't think this is the time." Alex smirked leaning in closer. Their lips barely touching before Hermione pulled back leaving Alex groaning in frustration.
"I can't, I'm sorry." Hermione rolled off Alex and sat next to her with her head in her hands. They had always used sex as an outlet for her pent up emotions but now something stopped her, she felt like she would be betraying Bellatrix.
"Why do I feel this way, it's not like we're together, all we do is piss each off... Oh Merlin she going to go mental when she finds out Alex is here after everything that was said!" Groaning loudly Hermione gets up to start pacing again, but was quickly dragged back into the sofa.
"Oh no you don't, no more pacing, you'll wear a hole in your floor if you carry on!" Sitting back she got comfortable facing the aggravated young woman. "Spill it kid, I haven't seen you this exasperated since you spent 3 days explaining to a young nymph why you wouldn't let him show you a good time!" Alex laughed at the memory whilst Hermione swatted her.
"Yes, well I think he got the message in the end."
"You mean how you flirted your way into that beautiful nymphs' pants and made a point of making her scream till the wee hours of the night?!" Alex said with a cheeky grin. "Good job imps are sexual breed, they were quite impressed actually. I think if we had stayed longer you would have had the whole tribe wanting a go!" Alex proceeded to laugh even harder at Hermiones' reddening cheeks. That was of course until she found herself hanging upside down by an invisible force holding her by the feet. She may have stopped laughing but she was still smiling wildly at Hermione. Crossing her arms she said, "If I wished to be a bat, I'd have stayed in the forest with the very sexual nymphs thanks!" With a wave of her wand Hermione let the spell go and smiled as Alex crashed to the floor where she was now sprawled across. "I'll let you have that one, now come on tell me, what's up?"
Hermione sighed and decided to get it over with as she knew Alex wouldn't relent till she got what she wanted. She then spent the next hour explaining to Alex all her that was getting to her.
"So first you hate her, then you befriend her, then you kiss her and now you're arguing with her about your past sex life?" Alex said puzzled by the whole affair.
"Pretty much sums it up. Then take on board Min, the animagus training, not to mention Rons' anger towards me at the moment. Even though it went better than I expected and the rest of the family were so supportive." Hermione felt better from getting it all off her chest. "I just feel abit out of it at the minute, I knew coming back here would be difficult. I've changed and they know nothing about me, I just feel lost. Even with most of their forgiveness, I still see the way they look at me, they miss their friend and I am not that person anymore." Hermione sighed in defeat looking down at her hands.
"Well why not tell them?"
Hermiones' head shot up and looked at Alex, thinking she must have hit her head a bit too hard on the floor. "No, don't give me the 'you're crazy look' you found out from your parents death that you were adopted, and your true parents were the King and Queen of Lucian. A secret hidden kingdom home of the Elementals where you are the true heir. Where there also happens to resides 4 deranged twats, the very same that killed your family, and they now reign over the kingdom and all its people... There will come a time when you'll have to step up and be the woman you were born to be, and you'll need your friends by your side."
"IT IS NOT THEIR FIGHT!" Hermione raged at at her blonde friend.
Striding straight up to her Alex grabbed Hermiones' waist turning her to face her. "They're your family, what better reason is there to fight?!"
"It is true." Iris stated clearly showing no emotion through her voice at the answer that she knew would cause chaos round the table.
"HOW THE FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN?!" Dante blasted across the room, the others remained quiet, ever since the traitor had revealed the hidden princess his anger was quicker than usual. He demanded answers and the others worked tirelessly to find the answers to stop the mans rampage.
"It doesn't matter how it happened, we need to discuss what happens next. I believe it would be best to send me out and I'll track her down." Zane said. She was getting agitated with the lot of them. So blind they missed the fact that it's just a girl, a girl that most likely knows nothing of her heritage.
Dante sat back allowing his anger to dissipate, he needed to get himself under control but his veins were burning with anger. He didn't like looking stupid and this situation made him feel a fool. "Yes I agree that would be best, you'll leave at once and Zane..." he stared deeply into her light silver eyes. "Don't come back until you have information we can use!" With that Zane up and left the table. "Now we need to make an example of this, I want the fear and despair brought back into the hearts of our people! I will not have a rebellion! I want their hopes crushed and them left trembling before my feet!" He demanded, as he got up and left the table not even giving the others a chance to voice their opinions. He was frustrated with the weeks events, cursing under his breath as he made his was towards his chambers.
He wandered through his large front room towards his bedroom where he now saw the gorgeous naked woman he left a few hours before sprawled over his bed. Her pale skin contrasted delightfully against his black silk sheets, he felt his cock harden at the sight. Without a thought he strode towards the end of his bed grabbed her by the ankles and dragged her down towards him where he had released his engorged member from its confinement and roughly penetrated the young womans' pussy. It stirred him greatly to hear her scream in shock at the invasion, his powerful thrusts left the woman panting in pain and pleasure. Grabbing her hair he forced her head back viciously and he worked himself faster towards completion, not caring if the woman got off she was only here to service his needs. "And service my needs you shall" he thought with an evil smirk, pulling out he immediately lined up to her forbidden hole and rammed home. Her screams calmed his soul and the fire in his veins was soothing. The women beneath him was attempting to crawl away from him, her screams had become tears and he loved it, loved the pain he was inflicting, one harsh thrust later and he spilled his seed deep into her ass. Pulling out and quickly making himself presentable he turned and left the room and his chambers.
Once outside he summoned the nearest guard. "Go into my room and get rid of her and make sure I have some fresh meat tonight, hmmmm, make it male. I'm in need of something less emotional and these women you keep bringing me can't keep up the pace! Do better or I may just use you the way I use them" he spat through gritted teeth.
In a different part of the castle Connor was raging, "Fucking Zane, why is it always Zane?! I need to show him he can rely on me! Just because I'm the youngest does not mean I am weak!" His fist shot out punching the old stone wall in front of him, seeing his blood seep from the grazes he had caused brought him slight relief to the emotions whirling round him, he needed to get a grip. Taking a deep breath to calm himself he resolved to ensure Dante would notice him, smirking at the ideas flying round his mind he strode away to start taking action.
Later that same night Zane was wandering the town in search of something to help her on her way. She needed to leave this realm soon but she couldn't go until she found a guide, and rumour had it that there was a young guy in his late 20's who has been sneaking out to the Terra realm for years and she knew just where to find him.
Gliding through the people's tavern, she found the guy sat quietly writing in a corner nursing his drink. He was a lanky sort of fellow, quite tall with shoulder length brown hair that he had tied back and an unkept scruff of a beard that was a couple weeks old. The guy looked liked he'd seen better days being honest. She made her way over knowing people couldn't see her, she whispered in his ear "I have heard you live back and forth between the realms?"
The guy shat himself, his knees knocked the table sending his drink flying but he was to busy looking around for the source of the voice from him to care.
"I would say don't make a spectacle of yourself but I see you've done that already... Outside NOW!" Zane whispered harshly.
The scruffy guy shivered in fear but slowly made his way outside, glancing down the ways he saw no one but just has he was about to turn, he was roughly grabbed and lead down a secluded area. Where Zane appeared before his eyes, she watched in amusement as he tripped over his own feet making himself crash to floor.
"Y..Y..Y..You're one of the four." He quick got up and went about grovelling at her feet, she wasted no time in kicking him to the floor and gave him a boot in the gut just for good measure.
"I am not here for that, I'm in need of a guild and you're it!" Her eyes narrowed at him daring him to refuse.
"O..O..O..Of course, anything to help."
"Good! Now get up, we leave now!"
The sun was rising as Bella sat on the wall at the top of Astronomy tower her legs dangled over the edge, uncaring of the seven story drop below her. This was something she had done ever since her time at Hogwarts many years ago, it brought her a sense of calm with a exhilarating thrill which she loved.
Bella hadn't slept at all, she couldn't stop her mind from reliving the moments with Hermione and how she allowed her jealously to fuck up a perfectly nice evening. She'd love to blame it all on her wolf but she was growing very fond of her fiery mate, her intelligence was on par with her own and she never backed down from her like so many others did. She also had to admit the girl was gorgeous, so the thought of someone else touching what was hers made her blood boil!
As she watched the sun rising she pondered at how the weeks had passed quickly, it was nearly time for another full moon, another evening spent hiding from her mate. She was getting nowhere fast but she'd just have to apologise again. "Becoming a habit this, I wonder if the girl knows I have never apologised to anyone, ever, and yet I seem to be constantly saying it to her. Everything I was taught, everything I thought I understood has come crashing down around me because of her. I should be furious and yet I find myself intrigued to what else my future holds with this girl."
Pushing these thoughts from her mind Bella span and pushed herself from the wall and jumped safely to the floor, it was nearly time for breakfast in the great hall and she wanted to make sure she was there early so maybe she could get a chance to speak to Hermione before their day started.
Hermione walked into her living room and saw Alex half hanging off her sofa sleeping like the dead. She knew the women wouldn't be up for a few hours yet so made her leave, breakfast would be served soon and Albus liked all his Professors to show up and make a good example to the students.
As she walked though the many hallways to reach the great hall, she felt goosebumps shoot up her arm, she felt the presence of someone following her. She heard the soft clicking of heels and her magic started to hum, she felt a smile creeping upon her face, even with the argument last night she couldn't help how her body came alive when she was near the dark woman. But she wasn't going to let her get away with her overbearing stupidity, so she waited until she felt Bella reach out. Spinning quickly she grabbed the womans' arm, pulling her forward using her momentum against her and slammed her into the nearest wall. The moment wasn't lost on either of them, this felt very familiar… Their first encounter.
Bella groaned at feeling her mate press up against her. "I'm starting to think you have a thing about pressing me up against walls Professor Granger."
Hermione bit her bottom lip, something in the way she muttered those words made her body trembled with want, she could feel her breath quicken and her pupils dilate. This wasn't at all what she had planned when she grabbed the woman, she wanted to show the woman how strong and kick ass she was, but all she had done is put them in a relatively sexual position with the likeliness of getting caught by students. Yet she couldn't bring herself to pull away instead she found herself leaning forward, not being able to take her eyes from those gorgeous puffy red lips, the ones she tasted too long ago, mere millimeters separated their lips from embracing, so close but so far as they heard the rumbling of students getting close. Pushing back from Bella their eyes locked, she could see the desire swimming in her eyes, she wanted nothing more than to grab that dark haired beauty and make her scream her name. Taking a few more steps back to clear her head which turned out to be just in time as a few students turned down the hall making there way towards the great hall.
Noticing the Professors standing across from one another and apparantly glaring at each other, the students quickly ran off whispering amongst themselves. She faintly wondered what the rumour would arise about this encounter by the end of the day but quickly turned her attention back to the woman that played with her emotions so easily.
"Good morning Professor Black." She said teasingly. The dark woman had composed herself rather quickly when she saw the students making their way down the hall, now looking over at her mate she could still feel her body throbbing with need for the girl.
"Let me take you out." She rushed the words without thought.
Hermiones' eyebrows shot up in shock. "As in a date?"
"Yes very much a date, if you haven't noticed the tension between us then I'd have to wonder if your intelligence was greatly over exaggerated." Bella smirked.
Rolling her eyes at Bella's comment she replied, "Well, when you put it like that how could I possibly refuse."
Bella grinned at her mates sarcasm. "Great we'll discuss the details later, as we should make an entrance into the great hall, or the students will start to come up with an even more of absurd story about us."
Several hours later, after a number of points deducted from different houses, it seemed the students imaginations had gone wild this morning. All coming up with unrealistic ideas as to why their DADA Professor was at a stand off with 'Mini McGonagall' which the older students had nicknamed Hermione. Bella found this nickname displeasing as she did not want Minerva coming to mind when she thought of her mate in the many unprofessional ways. Shaking off a shiver at the thought Bella entered the great hall only to come to a stop, looking at the professors table she watched a unknown woman sat next to her mate and they were awfully close to each other. The woman had her hand on her mates arm and was just leaning in to whisper something into Hermiones' ear. She didn't know what was said but the red blush that was now present on her face made Bellas' temper flare, her wolf was growling inside her. Charging forward not noticing the hall around her become deathly silent, it seemed the students knew something was going happen, they all knew first hand of Professor Blacks temper and none of them wanted to be the one she inflicted her rage upon. She came to a stop right in front of the pair she noticed her mate looking at her with a hint of guilt in her eyes, this did nothing to settle her mood.
"And who are you?!" Bellatrix stated her face was void of emotion unlike her inner battle, Alex looked up at the dark haired woman that had rendered her companion speechless, she was intrigued with how the girl next to her had tensed and she wasn't happy with it. After all their training, after witnessing her power why was she acting so strangely? Before Alex could answer the dark woman Hermione seemed to snap back to herself and answered for her.
"Bellatrix, this is Alex."
"Alex..? Alex… The woman she travelled with ... The woman she FUCKED!" Bellatrix's eyes flashed gold, a low growling rumbled in her chest, she wanted to tear this woman's arms off and beat her with them for ever touching her mate. She wanted to make this woman bleed and rejoice in her death by her very hands. Her instinct to claim her mate was so strong her wolf was raising to the surface, the moon was too close, she was losing the inner battle, her rational mind was screaming at her to hold it together, she couldn't kill this woman. Hermione would never forgive her but her wolf was strong and so very tired of being pushed back, but she never got to finish that inner battle as a spell was fired at her to which she now found herself in the headmasters office. She let go at this point and allowed her wolf to force itself through, breaking out, ripping muscles and tearing skin, making the ordeal as painful as possible. Bella was the now the one looking out from within, in her mind she was walking through a forest with the ability to look out through unseen eyes but she didn't care about that right now. She'd been here many times before when her wolf took over, but she always chose to look through the eyes and feel the ground beneath her feet but this time she walked the peaceful lands until she came across a shallow river, stopping abruptly she stared at her wolf on the other side, it was strange looking to her from this view rather than looking in a reflection. Both were staring at the other until a voice spoken aloud made Bella glance around in confusion, "I was unsure whether you'd ever make it here human."
Bella looked back at the wolf, as it started to slowly cross the river, "How is this possible? You're a wolf, you're me... How can you be speaking to me?" Bella spoke aloud in confusion.
"I am a part of you, we share a body and a soul but you keep us from becoming one, you keep us as two."
"Great just what I need ... A voice talking to me in my head! Just like Aunt Walburga always thought, hearing voices." Bella cackled at the thought of her Aunt being right, only wrong at the time, but Bella couldn't deny the wolfs' voice was calming, even though she stood in confusion. She'd never heard of this before, she knew she was different from other Were's but still this was very strange indeed."Right ... So why have you never said anything before? Or have you enjoyed watching me struggle!?"
"It does not work like that, I am only your guide through this. We are not weak, we don't rely on others, we are alpha."
Bella pondered what she had just heard, she felt herself growing tired of it all, why couldn't things just be simple. "What do you want wolf?" Bella's said eyeing it warily.
"We want our mate."
"It's not like I haven't been trying! The girl can be extremely difficult." She sighed generally upset with her lack of progress with the girl.
"She is our other half, she was made for us, she is our one."
Bella looked curiously at the wolf. "You! This is your fault, you're always so close to the surface when I'm around her, if she says one thing you... we don't like you make it impossible to think rationally! To be honest I find that hard to do without our little …thing joining and rearing its ugly head!" Bella focused on the blades of grass between her fingers, she felt like a hormonal teenage having a strop because things weren't going to as easily as she'd believed they would.
"Stop fighting me, embrace me, we are stronger together."
As the dark woman looked up she realised the wolf was gone, nothing more needed to be said as the rest was in her hands.
Fairly quickly after the odd conversation she found herself waking up naked in Albus office surround by broken objects and torn pictures, she looked over at the Phineas' portrait seeing the claw marks that shredded it.
"Well at least I don't have to listen to his rambling for awhile." Bella smirked outwardly, but inside she was lost. Her mate was close to another female and not her, they had made no progress over the weeks, in actual fact she felt she was causing more set backs than anything. After a few more minutes looking around at the devastation that she'd caused, she decided it was best to go for a walk in the forbidden forest. Swiftly fixing her torn robes with her wand she dressed quickly and swept out of the office. Quickly navigating through the empty corridors and occasionally having to use a secret passageway as she was in no mood to be seen by anyone.
When she finally reached the edge of the forest Bellatrix took a deep calming breath taking in the damp smell of the earth and the scent of pine from the surrounding trees. She didn't feel much like shifting into her wolf after what had just happened, instead she strolled through the damp dark forest until she came across a stream that she'd been to before. Picking up a few stones from the bank she started one by one to skim them across the water, watching as they bounced across the surface creating ripples as they flew further across the river. Her mind was lost deep in thought, for years she had hated herself from a freak incident that changed her life forever.
Many years ago she was given an assignment to track a wolf that had been hunting muggles and wizards a-like. Being the strongest auror of her time she never questioned if she was up to the task, ultimately her headstrong stubbornness was her downfall, and she was so careless she never realised that this wasn't a standard magical werewolf until it was too late.
It was the dead of night on a full moon, she'd been tracking the creature for some time following its tracks and making sure to stay down wind so her scent wasn't caught by the creature. But this was no ordinary wolf, it wasn't limited by its instincts, no it was still in control of its full mind and therefore knew Bella was coming a mile off and where she thought she was hunting it, it really was hunting her.
It set a trap for her and waited for the dark woman to find it, by the time Bella realised it was too late it was upon her biting down on her shoulder causing her to scream in agony. The sheer weight of the creature crashing into her chest knocked the wind literally right out of her, she could feel her heart pounding in her ears. Just when she thought this was it this is how she would die the creature backed off and surprisingly turned back into a naked young woman.
"You were sent here to capture me, maybe kill me?" The woman questioned calmly.
Bella was at a loss for words, she could feel the blood leaving her body, draining her, the blood loss and shock preventing her from answering.
The young woman started to pace, circling Bella slowly, watching the blood started to pool around her. "So I've killed a few of your kind what does it matter? Life is such a fickle thing, I mean how would you truly know you're living with out a little death?" The Were said smirking down at her. "I'm going to give you a gift, one that you will not want but you'll end up needing. One you'll hate but will bring you love you so desire." Bella's eyes grew heavy "Remember now pup, fate can be a bastard." The naked woman cackled, her terrifying laugh echoing around them. Bella could no longer fight to keep her eyes open. "Sleep now youngling, for once you wake your life will never be the same."
The memory of that night will always be burned in Bellas' mind, she never crossed paths with that woman again but she always believed deep down that one day she would. That woman had been right in so many ways, yes she did not want it and she did hate this creature inside of her but over the years she had come to need it, to love it, it made her stronger, more powerful. It had also brought her Hermione, her mate, her home. How could she possibly not be thankful for the very thing that brought her the reason for breathing.
