Don't worry, guys. I really am glad you all want me to continue the story. I seem to be on a roll now since I've switched to 2,000 words a chapter.
It was 4 P.M. and Bellatrix was still sleeping. Although not surprised, Hermione went into the bedroom to wake her up. She was, however, surprised to see that she actually was already awake, just staring at the ceiling when she walked in. She turned her head towards Hermione closing the door.
"How are you," Hermione asked sitting on the side of the bed.
"Worried," Bellatrix sighed.
"Why worried?"
"Because my sister explained to me why I suddenly have fallen in love with you so quickly. And I do love you, Hermione, I really do! But…"
"Go on."
"You have no reason to love me."
"Why? Because most of your life has been centered on the negative things you have done? I told you, I don't care about your past. Well, I do, but it has nothing to do with how I feel about you now."
"But I'm still bad!"
"Not all the time. Bella, no one is perfect. You don't have to be perfect. You just need to learn to control your emotions better, that's all. I know there must be reasons you are the way you are. But I can't help you until you feel ready to tell me."
"You mean trust you? Does that mean you won't tell anyone what I tell you, and you won't judge me or look at me differently?"
"Well, I might look at you differently a little bit, but it won't change my feelings for you, and if it does, it will only increase my love. Stop being so worried."
Hermione smiled and climbed on top of her making Bellatrix smirk a little, "I don't scare you do I?"
Bellatrix quickly flipped them around so she was on top, "No little girls scare me."
Hermione smiled and pulled her towards her to kiss her cheek, "I'm going to text Draco soon. I invited Ginny and Luna to come over, but that's it, because I don't want Draco to feel ambushed. Really, now that I think about it, Luna will be the one left out: two Gryffindors, two Slytherins, and one Ravenclaw."
"Good, no stupid Hufflepuffs."
"Hufflepuffs are not stupid! I'm tired of people bashing them. They're very loyal people."
"Well, maybe you should be a Hufflepuff then."
"No, I'm a brave Gryffindor; brave enough to put up with you."
"Which begins the cycle again as to why you even put up with me in the first place. Such a mystery."
"Oh, give it up already!" Hermione pushed Bellatrix off of her, "I'm texting Draco."
"And I forgot to tell you that my sister is coming to visit you, me, and Draco tomorrow around noon."
Hermione had her phone, but quickly turned around to look at Bellatrix again, "What? So soon?"
"Is that a problem?"
"No, it's just.."
"What?"
"Nothing. I'm sure it'll be fine."
"You're worried she still might reject you."
"Well, it's just…it will be weird having all three of you around for the first time since…since what happened at Malfoy Manor."
Bellatrix got up off the bed and walked over to Hermione and grabbed her in a hug, "I could apologize infinity times for what I did… but it wouldn't matter."
"I'm not blaming you," Hermione hugged her back, "I'm just saying."
Bellatrix pulled back and gently kissed Hermione's forehead, "I don't ever want to hurt you again, ever."
Hermione stared at her for a few seconds before they both heard a pounding on the door. Bellatrix kissed her cheek twice before going over to the couch to turn on the T.V. while Hermione opened the door.
"Hi!" said an excited Ginny. Behind her were Luna and Draco. "I thought I'd grab Draco, here, for you."
"Oh, well, thanks, I was just about to text you, Draco."
They walked in and Hermione shut the door.
"Hey there new best friend," Ginny said plopping down next to Bellatrix, "What are we watching?"
"Don't know yet," Bellatrix replied still flipping channels.
Luna sat cross-legged in one of the arm chairs while Draco confidently sat on Bellatrix's other side. He had a bag where he pulled out a large bottle and set it on the coffee table. Bellatrix glanced at it.
"Hope you don't mind, Draco brought refreshments," Ginny told Hermione as she sat down in the other arm chair across from Luna.
"What's that," Hermione asked sitting back.
"Fire Whiskey, want some," Draco gave Hermione a smirk she immediately recognized also belonged to Bellatrix. "I'll share with you all."
"Draco has been in an oddly good mood around us while we walked him here," Luna said.
"Yeah, what's the catch," Hermione eyed him, "There must be poison or something in it."
Draco quickly plucked off the cap and took a swig before handing the bottle to Ginny to pass it to Hermione, "Here, pour everyone a glass."
"Well not everyone may want some," Hermione said looking at the others.
"I'll have some," Ginny said watching Bellatrix continue to flip channels.
Draco grabbed the remote from Bellatrix, "Here I'll find something so we don't get headaches from all the station changes."
"You don't grab anything from me, boy!" Bellatrix shouted grabbing it back and getting really close to Draco's face, "I can find it on my own.."
Draco gave her a nervous smile, "It? You mental case."
Bellatrix smacked him upside the head and elbowed him.
"Bella!" Hermione shouted.
"Kids," Ginny added.
"Luna would you like some?"
"No, thank you," Luna replied, "I like to be alert as I can possibly can; you never know what crazy creatures are flying around in front of you."
"Wrackspurts," Ginny laughed.
"Not at this time of the year, Ginny."
"Well Draco, I know you'll be having some. Bella, you're having some, right?"
Bella quickly shook her head 'no.' For some reason, Hermione found her answer quite odd. Not to say she thought Bellatrix was an alcoholic.
"You want to help me in the kitchen, then, Bella?"
"Here, can I take it now?" Draco said asking for the remote.
Bellatrix glared at him as she passed the remote to Ginny and followed Hermione into the kitchen.
"Why aren't you having any?" Hermione asked innocently when they were alone.
"I just don't want to drink alcohol," Bellatrix replied sitting down at the table.
"I think Draco is doing a good job trying to be civil. Maybe you should try a little bit harder to be nicer to him."
"Maybe you shouldn't forget he's a pathetic excuse for a Slytherin. I understand how you can be nice to him, because you're weird and apparently love everyone, but now you've brainwashed Ginny and Luna to like him."
"Hey! There are a lot of people saying the same thing about you! Don't be a hypocrite like Voldemort. You're a thousand times better than him."
"Only a thousand times?"
"I'm asking nicely," Hermione set the tray of drinks on the table and sat in Bellatrix's lap wrapping her arms around her neck, "Please, do it for me?"
Bellatrix looked up at Hermione as she held her.
"You look drunk already," Hermione said to her.
"The way you look at me sometimes makes me feel drunk."
"Is that…bad…or good?"
Bellatrix sighed burying her face in Hermione's neck, "It's definitely good. You smell so good. You taste so good."
Hermione smiled fervidly as she felt Bellatrix kissing and licking her neck, "We need to get back to them now."
"They have 500 channels to flip through," Bellatrix replied not stopping.
"I promise we can continue this when they leave," Hermione whispered into her ear.
Hermione hopped off Bellatrix and grabbed the tray.
"Here, I got it," Bellatrix said smiling and taking it from her.
Hermione followed Bellatrix to the living room.
"This is a sight to see," Draco smirked again, "The infamous Bellatrix Lestrange serving drinks to people!"
"BELLATRIX BLACK!" Bellatrix screamed slamming the tray onto the coffee table.
Draco covered his mouth and laughed at being able to get Bellatrix mad again.
"Draco, if you're going to constantly make remarks to get Bella mad, you might have to leave," Hermione told him.
"She's the one that's supposed to be learning to handle her crazy emotions! Come on, Granger, I heard you've tamed her a little bit."
"You piss me off," Bellatrix said sitting back down next to him, "Just like your damn father."
"Fuck my father," Draco said seriously.
"No longer a daddy's boy, eh, Draco?" Ginny asked.
Draco didn't answer her, just glared at the T.V. screen.
"Well at least that's one thing we can agree on, is your father is low-life scum," Bellatrix said to him.
"Yeah, well don't try to act all high and mighty; you're just like him."
Bellatrix turned her face towards Hermione.
"Draco, Bella has gotten better, and I think we need to just forget about the past and move on. You don't hear me bringing up all the things you did to me, do you?"
"Like the time you punched me and broke my nose in third year?"
Bellatrix's face immediately turned to excitement, "You broke his nose? Oh, do tell the story, I'd like to hear it!"
Draco scoffed as Hermione smiled and started, "Well, I won't tell all the details, you could honestly make them into a huge blockbuster film, but anyways, Harry, Ron, and I were going to see Hagrid and ran into Draco and his friends. Draco, of course, had a smart ass attitude and said some things which made me upset, so I threatened him with my wand at his throat. Ron said it wasn't worth it, so I turned around, but then turned around again punched him. It felt good."
"Whatever," Draco said with a slight smile on his face.
"I have another story that you might actually like, Draco," Hermione said. "It was during our second year. Harry and Ron were sure you were the heir of Slytherin, but we had to make sure. So we created Polyjuice Potion. Harry and Ron ended up as Crabbe and Goyle, and I was supposed to be Pansy Parkinson, but ended up accidentally using one of her cat's hairs, and well…."
Bellatrix smirked and nodded her head thinking about Hermione in cat-like positions again.
"Wait…," Draco laughed, "So you were a cat, but… Potter and Weasel were Crabbe and Goyle, and I didn't even know it?"
"Yeah, they said you found them with Percy Weasley, and then walked back to the Slytherin common room and asked you about being the heir of Slytherin."
"I think I remember a little," Draco said thinking. "But now you know, I wasn't the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets."
"I was," Ginny said calmly.
"What?" Bellatrix and Draco both said.
"Again, another long story that could be a movie," Hermione said, "Why don't we start drinking and maybe I'll tell you more later."
Ginny, Hermione, and Draco drank for three hours straight while Bellatrix and Luna sat back and just listened to them banter and laugh.
"The first time Draco ever called me a mudblood was in second year," Hermione was laughing hysterically along with Draco while the others smiled and listened. "Ron was super upset when he said it and tried to jinx Draco, but his wand was broken, and it back-fired on him!"
"It was funny and gross at the same time, but he started puking up slugs the next second," Draco remembered. "Hey why aren't Potter and Weasley here anyways?"
"I didn't want you to feel uncomfortable around so many Gryffindors," Hermione replied.
"I'd just threaten them with Bella if they got out of hand," Draco said putting his arm around her.
Three more hours passed and the drinking group was barely comprehensible. Luna decided it was time to take Ginny back to the Gryffindor Common room.
"Draco, I can walk you back to your common room if you'd like after dropping Ginny off," Luna offered.
"Sure," he said standing up, "Escort me, m'ladies."
Ginny and Hermione got up to see them out.
"Hey, auntie Bella!" Draco screamed before going out the door, "Twas nice to see you, but I miss you being crazy, you need to drink!"
"I'll see you tomorrow, Draco," Bellatrix said from the couch.
Hermione shut the door and turned around giggling. Bellatrix stood up and walked towards her.
"I think you should go to bed," Bellatrix said to her.
"Beeed?" Hermione whined, "I don't want to go to beeeed! I want to stay up with you, and only with you."
"It's better to sleep off the drunkenness as soon as you can, love."
"But don't y'want me t'keep my promise to you from earlier?"
Bellatrix laughed, "No, I think I'll manage."
Hermione put on a pouty face, "But don't you want to get to second base with me, Bella, m'dear?"
"Not when you're drunk."
"But I'm not that drunk," Hermione said taking her shirt off and revealing her bra. "I can see it in your eyes you waaannnt to!" Hermione grabbed Bellatrix's hand and placed it on her bare stomach slowly pushing it towards her breasts.
"No!" Bellatrix quickly pulled away, "I can't do this to you! You don't want this."
"What're you talking about, I do want it!"
"You might regret it when you wake up and are sober again."
"How d'you know what I might do?"
"Trust me, I know."
"You know? Has this happened to you before? Is that why you didn't want to drink? Did you think I would try and take advantage of Bellatrix….wait for it….Black?"
"Please don't mock me, just go to bed."
"No, no, baby, I'm not mocking you," Hermione put her hands on either side of Bellatrix's face. "I might be tipsy, but I'll remember this in the morning. I want you to talk to me about it, okay, lovey dovey?"
Bellatrix put Hermione to bed and was thankful she fell asleep as quickly as she pulled the covers over her. Bellatrix sat up thinking about the past. More things to confront now, but maybe it will be easier once she sees her sister tomorrow. For now, she waiting for the morning and sober Hermione to come back around so she could have someone sensible to lean on.
