Bellatrix´ Crush

Remus was watching Severus making wolf´s bane. This time it was only for a scientific discourse. He couldn't believe that it had only been a week since he had arrived at Hogwarts. His whole life had changed. He smiled gently at Severus. He had never really believed in the old tales about werewolves, but it seemed as if he had indeed found his mate.

"You seem to have taken a liking to the dungeons suddenly," Severus remarked.

"Yes, I like to stay near you."

"Me too, " Severus drew him into a kiss. Remus was responding passionately when the door suddenly opened.

"Hello, lovebirds."'

"Hello Lucius," Severus turned around without letting Remus go. " What's happened?"

"This time, we've had some luck. We have gathered information about the next attack. Enough to prevent it, maybe. Come up to Albus' study."

Both nodded while groaning inwardly. Not that they were against stopping an attack, but they both had better ideas for what they could do with their time other than another meeting. Sirius, James and Dumbledore were already waiting for them.

"So what plans does the dark lord have for an attack now?" Severus asked idly, while stroking Remus' back.

"It seems he's after the philosopher's stone, " Dumbledore sighed. "Endless life is what he obviously wants."

"And what we must prevent, "Lucius added. "It's bad enough that he still lives, we really don't need that for eternity."

Severus nodded. "We can't protect the stone forever. What shall we do?"

"The best thing would be to destroy the stone," James said. "Famel should never have made it in the first place."

"I know. I'll talk to him, " Albus stood up.

"Will he listen to you?"

"Oh yes. He will," the headmaster answered grimly, "but until then the stone must be protected."

"How long do you think it will be?"

"Not more than two days."

"Why don't we bring the stone to Hogwarts?" asked Remus.

"That's impossible. The destruction of the stone would destroy our wards," Albus sighed.

"Only a few places in the world can endure such power. The nearest is the Isenlake in Ireland. It's easy enough to reach. I beg you all to come along to protect the stone and prepare everything for it's destruction while I talk to Flamel."

"Of course," James agreed while the others nodded. "Off we go. You two can hold hands if you wish."

"Do you think anything will happen today?" Sirius groaned. "My, is this boring."

"Griffindors," Narcissa snorted, "enough to drink and a little fight and all is alright with the world, hm? Instead of being grateful that we haven't had any trouble …"

"I know, cousin dearest, but you must admit that hardly anything has happened for six days. Just one day and they will have destroyed the stone. I just thought …" An explosion interrupted him. "It came from over there," Sirius ran in the direction of the sound and

Narcissa followed him, sighing "You just had to call it, didn't you?"

They reached Andromeda and Moody, who had also been alarmed, and soon they were all caught up in duels with dark robed figures.

Sirius stunned a death eater and turned around to fight McNair, who had thrown a curse at him. Sirius shielded himself and cast off four curses himself. One hit McNair right in the chest. Sirius rolled to side, came to his feets again and came face to face with two wands. Damn. If he tried to take care of one, the other would kill him, but he had to act. In desperation, he cursed the death eater before him. He fell, but Sirius was hit by a stunning spell as well. Helpless, he looked up to the other death eater and waited for the next hex. It never came. Instead, the death eater turned on his heel. He saw a flash of black hair and a well-known face. Bellatrix?

When he was freed by Remus, the battle was more or less won. The death eaters were flying and the aurors secured the line.

"I really would like to know why she didn't kill me," Sirius exclaimed after telling the others the story.

"And you have no idea?" Narcissa grinned at him.

"No!"

"Men," Andromeda exchanged a bemused glare with her sister.

"What's the matter?" Sirius glared at his grinning cousins. "Narcissa! Andromeda!"

The women smiled knowingly.

"She has a crush on you," Narcissa told him.

"Since she was thirteen," Andromeda added. "She even wrote poems about you."

"Is that true?"

"Yes, my dear."

"But why ..?"

"Why did she never tell you? She was shy. And our parents didn't want her to speak to you anyway."

After this conversation Sirius was very thoughtful. He had never seen Bellatrix as a woman, for him she had always been his little cousin. But now she had grown to become a very attractive woman. And she had saved his life. True, she was married to Rudolfus Lestrange, but in this matter she hadn't had any choice. Her family had arranged that bond when she had been eleven, and unlike her sisters she'd had no one to save her from it. If he had known earlier, they might have had a chance - but now ….

"So thoughtful," Remus sat down beside him. "Everything alright?"

"More or less," Sirius leaned against him. "It's just… You have Severus, James has Lily and I guess I'm feeling a bit lonely."

"Oh, come here, Paddy," Remus wrapped his arms around him. "We haven't had much time for you, have we?"

"It's okay. I was just thinking about what could have been." He told him about Bellatrix.

"Hey, maybe it's not too late. I mean, I'm with Severus despite everything that's happened between us in Hogwarts. Don't let your hopes go down."

"Thank you, Remus."

In the next day they got everything done and all that was left was to give the powerless remains of the stone to the sea. But that could only be done at dawn.

"Which is the best moment for an attack," Moody warned – for the seventh time. "Constant vigilance."

Sirius and Severus had the first watch. It stayed quiet for a while and both were fighting not to fall asleep, when suddenly something nearby exploded.

"Oh hell, looks as if they don't care about Moody's timetable," Sirius cursed. "I'll stay here and you wake the others."

Not long after Severus had gone, he saw two attackers coming from the right. As they approached, Sirius threw himself into the fight. He ducked, threw curses and shielded himself from other curses. He only could hear where the others fought and hadn't even looked up before he was cornerd by three death eaters. That wasn't too good, Sirius reflected. Which one he should attack? Which one was the most dangerous?

Before he could decide, one raised his wand. "Avada …." Sirius quickly changed into Padfoot and sprang, knocking the attacker down, still waiting to be cursed from the other two. But when he looked, the two deatheater seemed to be struggling with each other. Without waiting for an explanation he quickly focused on his immediate opponent, who's head had collided with a stone. Out cold. Good. He turned around just in time to see Rudolphus Lestrange strangling his wife. Sirius reacted without thinking, hitting Lestrange with a full body-bind.

He fell down and Sirius helped Bellatrix to her feet.

"Are you alright?"

"Yes, thank you."

"No, thank you for saving my life- twice."

"It's okay," Bella smiled shyly. "I never wanted you to be hurt."

"I never wanted you to be hurt as well," he smiled back and she blushed.

"You two alright?" they looked to Remus, who had spoken and saw that everyone was watching them and the fight was over.

"Oh, fuck the audience," Sirius murmured as he bent forward to kiss his cousin.