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Summary: Bellatrix had a child that no one besides Rabastan and Rodolphus knew about, but because of some desperate move to get away from aurors they had to leave their child in the care of muggles. Now eleven years later we follow the life of Lacerta Black and her journey at discovering friends, enemies and most of all the love of her parents.

Sorry it has been so long since I last updated. I have been extremely busy with school work. I will be updating every so often as my exams are coming up and I won't have a lot of free time, so with that, I present the next chapter.

Chapter 7 – Bubble Bubble Draco's in Trouble

Octavia, I told you that the necklaces were very dangerous and quite dark. What happened was the gems found their homes inside your skin and when you removed them they rooted themselves deep into your face down to the orbital bone, the mark of the dark magic was the bleeding eye effect, you have had this problem solved with the help of a medi-witch so it is fine now.

However… This is the only warning, I will give you. If you delve into the Dark Arts, you're eye will become that of the jewel that appeared on your right eye. Heed my warning and stay clear of the Lightest and purest form of 'Light Magic' this will cause you great harm. You may of course use this magic, but you can not purify yourself for it will kill you slowly.

Hector.

Octavia had just finished reading the letter from Hector, a man she had bought three precious yet dangerous jewels. It was June 28th meaning that they had two days before the end of year and she was sitting at the Slytherin table eating her breakfast. Lucy had decided to skip her breakfast so that she could sleep in a bit more because they had a free period this morning, Lacerta was sitting further down the table talking quietly with Lycoris. Dorea was just walking through the door of the Hall and she spotted Octavia, she made her way over to her cousin.

"Morning dear, you sleep well?" Dorea asked Octavia after sitting down.

"Yes, I did, but I'm not sure how much longer I can put this off for." She said glaring at Draco who had also just walked into the Hall. He stiffened and decided to leave again for going his breakfast.

"Mmm, I must agree with you. I had a chat with Lacerta last night when I walked back with her after Madam Pomfrey let her out, she agrees we must do something about this." Octavia glanced over to the Gryffindor table and spotted two girls with their heads together, they were conversing quietly.

Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil were speaking with each other and they would occasionally glance over to where Octavia and Dorea were sitting, then they'd glance over to where Lacerta sat and finally over to where Daphne was sitting speaking with her sister Astoria and Pansy Parkinson.

Octavia had, had enough and had gotten up from her seat before stalking out of the Hall, Lacerta glanced down to Dorea and looked questioningly to where Octavia had gone. Dorea shrugged and followed her friend out of the Hall.

"Lyc, I'll see you later okay." Lacerta kissed Lycoris on the cheek and rushed out of the Hall in search of her two friends. Lucy was walking briskly down the staircase and she saw all three of her friends.

"What's happening?" she questioned. Octavia stopped and looked to where Lucy was standing and she told her of the events that had happened a few days prior. Lucy's face contorted into a mask of fury and she swiftly followed the others to the Slytherin Common room. They searched every single available space in the Slytherin Common room for Draco but found he was no where to be seen.

Draco was running along the shoreline of the Black Lake in search of a place to hide. His four family members were sure to have planned a bit of revenge for him. If he was completely honest with himself he was absolutely terrified of what awaited him when Lacerta and Octavia got a hold on him, one the daughter of a madwoman and the other having the scariest and most secret personality. Octavia could possibly kill him with out breaking a sweat and she'd do it with one spell to boot. He finally found what he thought would be the perfect hiding place.

Lacerta was getting angrier and angrier the longer it took for her and Octavia to find Draco, she was starting to look identical to her deranged and insane mother as every hour passed.

"What shall I do to him?" Lacerta asked Octavia.

"I don't know, how about we humiliate him in front of everyone?" Lacerta got a maniacal gleam in her eyes and she grinned evilly. Octavia looked slightly startled at her friend's reaction and decided to take her leave.

"I'll see you later Lacerta." She nodded and watched as her friend left her on the moving staircase.

It was late that very night when Draco got back from hiding. He had been out of the castle most of the day and had decided to return for supper as he hadn't eaten anything since breakfast.

He walked into the Great Hall and made a bee-line for his seat when he was suddenly launched into the air by his ankles. He gave a slight scream when he found himself hovering over all the house tables, every student and professor had their eyes on him, some of the students, namely Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, were laughing at him.

"Now we'll see what makes you such a big tough man, cousin." He heard her voice before he saw her. She was glaring at him and had a look of absolute glee in her eyes.

"Let me down, Lacerta." He said as firmly as possible in his current situation.

"No, I don't think I will." He watched as she flicked her wand in his direction. He had no idea what the spell would be, but he had a horrible feeling in the pit of his stomach that it wasn't a very lightcurse.

He saw a flash of blinding red light before he felt an excruciating pain. He felt as though thousands upon thousands of burning hot knifes were slashing at his person, he screamed and screamed but it was no use, the knifes were agonisingly slow and extremely painful and he felt as though his entire body was been set alight with flames. He screamed himself hoarse and he could taste blood on his tongue, eventually the pain stopped and he felt air rushing past his face. Draco Malfoy had been the first person to feel the most powerful cruciatus curse, which would later make Lacerta Cassiopeia Elladora Black Lestrange that which her mother was most famed for; she would be the second most feared and most dangerous witch in history.

Lucy stood in a state of shock, her cousin had just performed an unforgivable on her brother. She watched in horror as Draco screamed and pleaded for her to stop. Eventually Dumbledore stepped in and fired a stunner at Lacerta. Draco started to fall but she saw their head of house, Severus Snape, cast a quick Wingardium Leviosa.

"Draco! Draco, please oh Merlin, please be alright." Lucy said running to his body. He was shivering from the after effects but he smiled slightly at her to let her know he would be okay.

Octavia watched as her best friend was taken away from the Great Hall and she couldn't help but wonder what would happen to her. She glanced over at Dorea and noticed that her friend seemed to be in absolute awe. She strode over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. She leaned down to her ear and whispered.

"Dorea, please come with me, I wish to speak with you." Dorea nodded and they began a short walk over to the one side of the Hall. Once there they began to whisper to each other.

"Dorea, how much do you know of the Unforgivables?" Dorea hesitated.

"I know some stuff, I read some of the books that Lacerta bought a while back." Octavia looked at Dorea with a puzzled expression.

"What books?" Dorea looked paler than usual at having slipped up.

"Lacerta bought some books when she and Lucy went shopping a while back, I asked her if I could read them after her and she happily agreed."

"What type of books are they?" Octavia had a feeling that they were Dark Arts books, but waited to hear what Dorea would say.

"They were books on all sorts of Dark Arts, I've only just finished reading about the Cruciatus Curse, I know that is what Lacerta used and I only wish she had at least taught it to me before she ended up in Azkaban." Octavia drew in a sharp intake of breath.

"She's used it before?" Octavia whispered yelled.

"How should I know? I've wanted to try it for ages now; I might have had a good shot at Draco as well for some little revenge for what he did to us." Dorea never saw it coming until her head snap to the side and she felt wetness trailing down her cheek. Octavia had slapped her so hard, the ring that she wore had cut her cheek and was freely bleeding.

"How Dare You!" Octavia shouted so loudly she had drawn the attention of everyone still left in the Hall.

"How Dare I what?" Dorea shouted back.

"She just tortured your Cousin and you feel nothing about it! You're sick!" Dorea by then had started to become angry at Octavia's accusations that she swung her hand toward her friends face and with an audible smack; she slapped Octavia with just as much force as she had.

"How dare you accuse me of such a thing, I along with you have wanted to get Draco back for his little act abandonment a few weeks ago! If he hadn't of left us to the Dementors and bloody Gryffindors we wouldn't be in this situation. We endured whippings from the two most stupid Gryffindors, we even went through some weird thing with those damned Dementors and there you stand accusing me of not feeling anything towards my family, my blood! I hope you're bloody happy at Durmstrang!" With that Dorea turned around and stalked out of the Great Hall.

Albus Dumbledore was sitting in his office with Lacerta bound to a chair in his office. There were two Aurors standing before her questioning her under the Truth Serum.

"Have you ever performed the Cruciatus Curse before tonight?" Auror Shacklebolt asked.

"Yes." Was her reply.

"Which unforgivable did you use and who was your victim?" Dumbledore sighed.

"I only used the Imperious Curse before and it was on a rat I found in the dungeons on the way back to the Slytherin common room." The Auror nodded. They administered the antidote and watched as Lacerta came back to her normal self again.

"Let me out of here." She spat.

"As this is your first act on using an unforgivable you will be pardoned, if you are caught using another unforgivable again you will be brought in front of the Ministry where your wand will be snapped and you will be placed into Azkaban Prison. Do you understand?" She growled a yes in response.

"Kingsley, will Miss Lestrange…"

"It's Miss Black." Lacerta spat cutting Albus off.

"Ah, yes Miss Black, will she be required to have trace placed upon her person or is she free to move around outside of school without one?" Kingsley Shacklebolt stood for a moment before shaking his head.

"No, she is free to go." Lacerta smirked and looked at Albus expectantly. Kingsley released her and she strode out of the office and down the moving staircase. She reached the entrance to the common room and growled out the password. Once she was inside, she received many curious looks and a few of the other Slytherins glared at her.

"What?" She shouted. They quickly looked away from her and continued on with what they had been doing before she had entered. She walked down the staircase until she came to the fourth year girl's dorm rooms; she shoved the door open and found one of her four friends inside sitting on her bed.

"Hello Lacerta." The voice came. Lacerta looked at her cousin and gave a small smile.

"Hello Lucy." Lucy leaped up from her bed and flung Lacerta's body into the stone wall behind them.

"Are you absolutely out of your blinking mind? Using an unforgivable in public, have you learned nothing?" Lacerta simply smirked at Lucy, not paying mind to the hand that was wrapped around her throat.

"Why? Why should I feel ashamed for what I did? I have giving Draco my worst and in doing so, I have proved to him that should he leave us to our enemies again I won't hesitate in my revenge." Lucy nodded and released Lacerta.

"Father won't be happy about you doing that to Draco, neither will mother for that matter. Draco said he did kind of deserve it so he isn't bothered, though he won't admit it again." Here Lucy smiled. Lacerta beckoned Lucy over to her bed and motioned for her to sit.

"I bought these a while back when we went shopping, the only other person besides myself to read these was Dorea. I want you to read them next seen as though we both have a love of the darker spells." Lucy was getting excited as Lacerta pulled out three books from her trunk.

"Here you go; I want them back when you're done with them please." Lucy took them and read the covers, Beginner's Guide to the Dark Arts; Dark Arts and Their Power and finally The Darkest of Dark Arts.

Lucy gave a low whistle before a huge grin was etched onto her perfect face.

"Thank you so much. I'll read them all and then we can practice together, what do you say?" Lacerta gave her a nod.

Lucy started to read the first book Beginner's Guide to the Dark Arts, out the corner of her eye she saw Lacerta disappear from the dormitory.