Chapter Twelve: Death Dance Part II

"Merry Christmas dear Cousin!" A female voice screeched in a small dark bedroom before she threw a pail of water onto her cousin's sleeping form. Which woke him up instantly, as he sputtered and looked around for the cause, Bella started to laugh hysterically rolling on the floor as she did.

Sirius growled at the sound of Bellatrix laughing "Yeah Yeah, laugh it up." He grumbled, grabbing his wand and drying himself off.

Bella poked her head up from the head of the bed "Come on Siri, it's been a long time since anyone got the drop on you. Or it has been since I have." She said with a bright smile.

Sirius grumbled a moment more, stretching out and standing slowly "Whatever, you and your excuses." He said rubbing his left eye "Did we get any presents?"

Bella nodded quickly "Yeah actually."

The pair walked down the stairs onto the first floor, finding Andie making eggs and bacon in the kitchen "Thank you for waking up the Dog." She said to her sister.

Bella winked "You're most welcome, I can do it again if you want." She said looking around for a bucket.

Andie chuckled "No, you two go open what small gifts you got." She said like a doting mother.

Sirius walked over to the fireplace, he saw a few gifts there waiting for them. He reached down and this one had Harry's script but it was to a 'Gama.' He walked over to where Bellatrix was sitting in the kitchen, she hadn't expected any presents. "Here".

Bella looked at him in surprise "I got something?" She asked softly, taking the large gift from his hands and opening it quickly, it was a goodie basket full of sweets; chocolates, sugar quills and even a few blood pops.

"Who sent this?" She asked looking up at Sirius.

"The Pup." He commented heading back for his presents.

"What? But I didn't send him anything….." Bella said in a depressed voice.

Sirius turned to her "I sent him a pair of throwing blades, with your name on it." He said sitting down in a chair.

"Oh…Thank you." She said softly "Wait…if you were in Azkaban who raised him? Andie?" She asked looking at her sister.

"No." Andie commented "He was raised by his Aunt."

Sirius cringed, he was trying to avoid telling Bella about that part.

"Wait, James didn't have a sister." Bella said slowly, thinking hard for a moment "He was raised by Muggles!?" She screeched.

Sirius sighed, placing down the book Remus sent "Yes, they are….terrible people."

"They live in London?"

"Little Whinging." He commented without much thought "Why?"

"No reason." Bellatrix said off handedly with an evil grin, no one noticed the smile.

"Now come to the table both of you, Sirius you still need to extra weight and Bella you're in no shape to skip meals….ugh, I feel like Molly." Andie said with a growl "Screw it, eat your food if you want it. I'm going home."

Sirius watched his cousin leave with a small wave, then looked over to Bella who was staring off into space; or at least that's what he thought. The woman was actually staring at the knife block.

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Warmth, that was what he felt flowing through him; it was almost like he had been cold for his whole life and now he had found what fire was. Fleur's lips were soft, gentle and sweet tasting, the kiss wasn't rough or forced, it was simple and soft.

Fleur was in her own little world through the kiss, his lips seemed to fit with her own gently; not like they were forged just for each other but like they were similar in their match.

As quickly as they came together, they came apart. Harry took a step back and bowed slowly, his face to the floor, an arm tucked under his waist. Fleur returned his bow with a deep curtsy, then they both returned to a stand.

Those around them froze as if expecting more for the couple, who both turned on their heels arms together and headed for the long table for dinner. A few people started to clap, which then turned into many; follow the leader.

"Looks like they weren't expecting that." Fleur whispered softly, a light smile playing her lips.

Harry was grinning like a loon "Neither was I." He whispered back.

They both sat down on one of the ends of the table, Harry pulled the chair out for Fleur and then made sure she was comfortable before sitting himself. Hermione chose to sit next to him but her focus was Viktor, it sounded like she was trying to teach him her name.

"What should we order?" Harry asked looking down at the menu.

"Order whatever you want Arry." She said lightly without looking up from her menu, she was running her finger down the words slowly.

Harry grumbled for a moment before looking down at his own menu, he glanced around for a moment after he'd chosen the Pan seared Salmon with asparagus. He looked over at Dumbledore who seemed to be twiddling his thumbs, a blue eye looked over at Harry and then he looked down at his plate "Pork Chops." Could be heard clearly.

Then like magic, pun intended; the food appeared on the golden plate.

Harry raised a brow, he almost wanted to say seriously but he thought better than making the old dog sneeze or get a bigger head. He glanced at his plate "Pan seared salmon." He whispered to it, then his own food appeared within an instant.

Fleur glanced over at him, quietly whispering "Ow did you do that?" She asked softly.

"Just ask what you want." He said back with a small smile "Try it."

Fleur looked down at her own plate "Magret de Canard." She said very carefully and clearly. Then suddenly a small dish of what looked like seared meat with a few clove potatoes. "Would you like a bite? It's duck." She asked sticking her golden fork into the meat and popping it into her mouth.

"Only if you have some of my salmon." He said with a small smile.

Fleur nodded "Oui, of course." She said spearing another piece of meat and holding it out for him "Ere."

Harry did the same with his own fish and they traded bites, both savoring the tastes "I know what I'm ordering next time." He said softly as she leaned on his shoulder, giggling lightly.

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A dark haired figure stepped outside the house "I'm going herb hunting." Bella called inside, hearing Sirius grunt in return, closing the door she walked over to a small shed. She carefully used a small splint of wood and a rock to pry the lock off, then grabbed the single beat up broom.

Bella jumped onto the broom, kicking off hard and then flying high into the clouds. It took her a while of flying high, she was cold and flew through a small cloud of rain by accident; thus making her wet. She was fairly sure that she was close to her location, carefully she landed on the roof of an abandoned building.

Bella took the belt off her waist, her trousers were tight enough to stay on without them. She used the leather strap to tie the broom to her back and she climbed down the fire escape; once on the ground floor she pulled her hood up.

Though she was uncomfortable and stiff from the long flight she didn't dare attack any of the Muggles that looked at her. Which was very few, it was Christmas and Dinner was around this time.

Quickly she walked over to a payphone, she was looking for a phonebook. Something she'd only heard about in passing, she knew the last name and when she was sure she found the location she started to walk that way.

It was around another hour or so of walking, the snow had started to fall at this point but she was getting close to her prize. She walked past the oddly similar houses muttering about how dull Muggles were, while they were like little sheep going day to day, no life what so ever….no Spark.

She walked over to the small house with a single automobile in the driveway, the number along the house told her she was correct. Knocking carefully on the door, her free hand drifted to her back; where a knife had been secured.

She waited for a few moments before the door opened, reveling a horse faced blond haired woman. "Hello?"

"Hello." Bella chirped brightly "You're Petunia right?"

The woman slowly nodded her head "Do I know you?"

"No, you know my new nephew though." She said with a wild grin, a feral look in her eyes.

Petunia rose a brow "One of Dudley's friends?" She asked leaning a little on the door.

"No, I'm Harry's new Aunt." Bella said leaning in a little.

Petunia went pale "I don't know any Harry, you must have me confused." She said quickly, trying to close the door.

Even with Bella in a still sickly state she put her free arm on the door, making it hard to close. While Bella knew better than use external magic for now, as she didn't even have a replacement wand; that didn't mean she couldn't use internal magic.

"Yes you do. You're Lily's dearest sister." She said slowly, showing her teeth like an animal would to prey "Tell me, how did you raise my dearest little nephew."

"Excuse me?"

"Did he sleep in the basement with no blanket? Forced to do all the housework I assume?" She said pushing Petunia into the house and slamming the door behind her "Well? Answer me!"

Petunia looked wide eyed at the woman and quickly turned to the kitchen "Vernon! Call the Police!" She screamed.

Bella walked forward, kicking the small of her back making her fall to the ground; thinking quickly she grabbed the coat rack and hit her in the forehead with the wooden item.

"The ruddy hell you screaming about woman!" Vernon shouted, the sound of him getting up from his chair in the kitchen could be heard.

Bella thinking quickly opened the small coat closet and tucked herself into it carefully. Leaving it open just a little, she lowered herself onto the ground; pulling the broom off her back and setting it down, drawing the blade.

Vernon walked past looking around for whatever caused his wife to be on the floor unconscious. Bella jumped from the cupboard using the blunt end of her knife to hit the whale of a man several times. The giant man hadn't expected the quick assault and went crashing to the floor in pain, she quickly started to kick him in the face.

That was when a small boulder showed up from the kitchen "Mum, Dad?" He asked with crumbs on his large face. Bella turned to the boy with a grin, the long blade in her hands.

"How about you take a seat in the den? Aunty Bella will be with you in a second." She said in a sweet voice, running her tongue across her lips.

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They took a minute to sit down from dancing, Fleur took a long sip of her punch and Harry undid the first button to get some air. "Excuse me, would you mind if we dance?" A small voice asked next to Harry.

Harry glanced up and saw it was Ginny, he knew she was attending with Neville who was dancing with Susan Bones at the moment. "Sure Gin." He said glancing at Fleur who gave a smile.

Harry stood up taking Ginny's hand leading her to the dance floor area, though he might not be in good balance with Ron; he didn't mind the rest of the Weasley family….okay he didn't much care for Percy but what can you do?

Harry and Ginny must have danced for about a minute or two, then he heard a loud scream.

He turned to look at the source, Malfoy was running for the punch bowl with his shirt on fire. He looked around and saw Fleur standing with her hands on her hips, a light smoke coming from her left fingers and a smirk on her face.

Harry started to laugh, it was just the look on Fleur's face at what she'd done made it even better. McGonagall did come around at some point to give the young woman a lecture, though the elder Witch was lightly digging into her.

"You like her don't you?" Ginny asked as they danced.

Harry nodded "I do…It's just…there is something about her…" He said to her in a calm voice "Not her Veela just…something."

Ginny smiled "Good, I'm glad you found someone Harry." She said gently.

"Thanks Gin…." He trailed off, now that he thought about it; he never did as if she was okay, Tom might have done some serious damage to her. "Are you okay?"

"About what?" She asked as they stepped.

"The Chamber?" He whispered softly, he could feel her stiffen a little.

It was a long moment or two before she breathed out "No."

"Is there anything I can do?" He asked softly, he didn't like to see his younger sister figure in pain.

Ginny nodded, taking a deep breath "I need to go down there." She breathed out, looking up at him with firm eyes "I need to know it's dead, I need to see it again."

Harry grinned a little, though he didn't much care for the thought "Sure, sometime soon okay?" He whispered as they parted, the dance over.

"I'll hold you to that Potter." Ginny said with a smirk.

"I know you will."

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With the Muggles tied together in the Den, Bella started to explore the House. First she investigated the Cupboard, having seen something in there.

As she glanced inside, she spotted a small cot with a ratty little baby blanket. "They made him sleep in here?" She whispered to herself.

She grabbed one of the luggage bags from the cupboard, taking some of the things from the cupboard; the blanket, a few of the figures and some of the other baubles. The she headed up the steps, looking in each of the rooms.

The main room was very plain, and dull; lacking in anything that would make it stand out. The second room was anything but, the walls were covered in band posters and half naked women; she looked around carefully in the room. She found some sort of cigarette in an ash tray nearby, it had been a while since she had a fag and thought now might be a good time to start.

She lit the fag with a nearby lighter, only to find it wasn't a fag at all. This was something different and she didn't much care for it. She coughed out the smoke, and put it out; that was when she started to feel relaxed.

Slowly she left the room and headed for the last room, this one had locks along the door with a cat flap. Merlin she hated cats. This room was nothing but junk and some crap, after finding some owl feathers and a broken quill; she came to the conclusion that this was where Harry had been sleeping.

With a sigh she left the room, heading down the stairs into the kitchen where she grabbed a brownie and took a bite, she was hungry all of a sudden too. Damn funny Fag.

When her brownie was finished, she entered the Den. "So…Muggles..mind answering a few of my questions?" She asked sitting onto the couch, after ripping off the silver-like-tape from their mouths.

"What do you want from us!" Petunia screamed.

"I just want to know how you treated my nephew." She commented dully.

"That freak doesn't have any other family!"

"He does now, Whale you shut up and Blubber Jr. you too." She hissed clearly annoyed already "Horse speak."

Petunia guessed that she was Horse "I treated my nephew with love and care." She said with her nose up.

"Right so that was why I found a room with nothing but broken toys, a lumpy bed and a broken desk with owl feathers and a blanket in the broom cupboard." Bella said stretching a little, removing her cloak; it seemed to little fat boy was watching her carefully "Blubber, I'm much too old for you so keep your tongue in your mouth."

That made the boy look down at the ground with a glare, his face a bright red.

Petunia frowned "Alright, we made the boy sleep in the cupboard so Dudley could have a play room." She said firmly still with her nose up.

Bella sighed running a hand through her hair "So was that it?"

Dudley spoke up here "What else is there? Harry's nothing but a freak."

"Noted blubber." Bella said dully, she stood up slowly "Alright so this is what's going to happen, because I didn't give Harry a Christmas present." At this her smile turned into a wide cruel grin "I'm going to give him the best present ever."

Dudley looked confused "What present would that be?"

Bella took this chance to pull out her knife again "Now be very still and it won't hurt too much, this is the first time I've killed someone before….we'll the body has but…."

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Harry ended up dancing with Hermione, Daphne and Susan before he was able to dance with Fleur and that was only for a moment before they were interrupted.

"For the last time Ron, I'm not your wing man!" Harry growled out, Fleur standing right behind him with a clearly annoyed glare.

"But Harry mate, how could you go with her!" He said pointing his finger at her "You're fraternizing with the enemy!"

"So?" Harry said with a confused look "Fleur's been helping me this past year than you have. I seem to remember it was you that fought me after Malfoy jinxed Hermione."

"Because you were being a Git!" Ron said crossing his arms.

"Look you think I'm a cheater so let's just wait until this whole thing blows over." Harry said trying to defuse the situation.

Ron rolled his eyes "Whatever, just stay away from my sister and mind your date." He said coldly "Before she burns something again."

Fleur was seething, she was actually holding onto fire again.

Harry looked over at her, lightly placing his hands onto her own "Relax." He whispered to her gently "Let's get some air."

Harry led Fleur outside, they both headed over to a fountain the warming charms were working as there wasn't snow anywhere around and it was reasonably comfortable. Harry reached into his back pocket pulling out a small box, then handing it out to Fleur.

He spotted a rather large ugly beetle getting close to them, using his Snitch catching skills he quickly flicked the ugly little thing across the water like it was a penny.

Fleur looked into the small box, finding a silver chain with an ivory lily flower setting. "Arry….It's beautiful…" She whispered.

"Let me put it on." He said taking the chain from her as she turned, gathering her hair. Harry lightly placed the chain around her neck and closed the clasp sealing it in place.

Fleur leaned in "Merci." She whispered before catching his lips in a soft kiss once more that night.

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Detective Jenkins had been part of the force for a number of years, he'd seen it all or so he though before he came to Number Four. This place was a mess, blood and flesh everywhere.

Based on what they could tell, it was a home of for four; the fourth member of the family went to a Boarding school in Ireland from what the neighbor Miss. Figg said.

Petunia Dursely and her husband Vernon were murdered first, the wife was skinned alive from what the coroner had said and then she was put out of her pain with a single knife thrust to the temple. Then the husband was stabbed several times along his stomach lining before he was left to bleed out.

The child though or teen in this case was saved for last…they found him in the kitchen. His head in a boiling pot of water, and his rather large body secured to the wall in the kitchen knives and forks….it was messy.

Needless to say it made most of the newer crowd lose their lunch or simply faint. The worst part? Along the all in the main room was in blood written 'I didn't kill them for fun, I killed them because these people were the true monsters."

Which after looking around the house seemed to be true, he asked the neighbors some questions and even went to the local public school. It turned out their 'Nephew' Harry James Potter had been abused by these people, forced to do most of the hard labor and then cramped into the small broom cupboard. His teachers claimed that he would create stories about how didn't get much to eat the night before or how he was sore for painting the garage.

So far…he seemed to like this killer more and more, whoever this person was she had defiantly done this kid a favor. That didn't mean he wasn't going to catch this person and convict them to the fullest extent of the law.

The main problem was that he couldn't for the life of him find Mr. Potters birth certificate, or even the certificate of his 'Father' James Potter. He did find something about a Lily Evans though she went missing after she turned Seventeen and she hadn't been seen again since then. So he could throw kidnapping onto the charges too, that all matter when he talked to Mr. Potter.

Though he had never even heard of Hogwarts School for the Gifted.

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"Sirius! I'm home!" She said with a bright voice.

Said Black heir ran into the walkway room and stopped dead in his tracks.

There was Bella covered from head to toe in blood, he could smell it from here and she had an insane smile along her lips. She was dripping in it, her hair was caked and he wouldn't be able to track her from the stench.

"Bell-Bella?" He asked softly.

"What?" She looked down at herself "Oh right, got some of it on me." She said nodding her head softly "I got some on my back too, don't ask me how it just happened."

"Who did you murder!?"

"No one special." She said looking down at her nails, biting them a little "Can I go bath now? Muggle blood is revolting."

"BELLATRIX"

"Fine, I solved your problem." She said with a proud smile "Or rather I solved Harry's problem, Merry Christmas!"

"What-What?"

"I killed his relatives, you know that made him live in a cupboard?" She said offhandedly like talking about the weather.

"B-Bella…." He said pinching the bridge of his nose. "Go…Go wash up."

"Okay." She said brightly walking past him.

"Knife." He said holding his hand out for it as she passed him.

"Aw, you're no fun."

"Bellatrix."

"Fine." She said with a pout as she gave him her now duller knife.

As she bounded up the steps he was very grateful that she didn't have a wand, he would have to keep his ears open for news in the Number Four area. He just hoped Dumbledore would assume this as an act of random Muggle X Muggle violence.

Now his biggest worry was if he should leave Harry alone with Bella….then again she did just murder three people because they made his life hell….scratch that, he was now wondering what would happen if Harry was left with Bella…more so what she would teach him.

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Hello Hello, I must say, I must say! I enjoyed writing this chapter, it was dark, morbid and I loved it so so much. Am I the only who likes Bellatrix? I think she's brilliant! I know this is to a Fleur and Harry story but I just have to make Bella, Sirius and Andie into larger characters, I mean they are so brilliant of characters. Okay I'm ranting at this point, I love all my fans and my enemies, keep them close right? See you guys soon! Sign with regards and morbid love~ Demon.