He summoned me a few weeks later in the middle of the night. I was curled up with Emma at my side, the Daily Prophet heralding Emma's triumph from the day before with the Vance and Bones murders. True I had been there but in the end it was Emma who had delivered the death blows. I let her have them; I laid Amelia out on the floor before her, bound her body with fire and told Emma to strike. It was a thing of beauty to behold, Emma with her wand held out, the green jet of light, the rushing sound of death speeding through the room as it ripped through Amelia's body. I could still shiver with the memory of it, the smile of satisfaction on Emma's face when the lights left Amelia Bones' eyes.
I stood before my lord, in the dungeons of the house; I suppressed a smile to my lips as the memory of Emma's laughter, when she was torturing the Vance woman before she killed her, played through my mind.
"You have pleased me Bella; your abilities far outweigh your failures. I have an assignment for you and your charge. It requires your delicate touch I should say." My lord smiled at me. "You have taught her well Bellatrix; she honors me with her loyalty."
"She is a most loyal servant my lord." I said as I bowed. "She will delight in whatever assignment you have for us."
"You wish to ask me why I do not mark her." My lord leaned forward as I stammered.
"I do not question your decisions Master, though she was disappointed at the time. I have since talked with her and she is most accommodating to whatever your will is for her future."
"But still, you wish to ask me." He pressed again; I knew he could see it in my mind; though I was secure in my knowledge that my thoughts did not show disloyalty through opposition.
"If only to know if it is a shortcoming in me that you have seen fit to punish her by."
"There is no shortcoming through you Bellatrix, you have created her into a witch who has a thirst for death and destruction that matches my own. I am grateful for that."
I looked up at him as he said this, he should be telling Emma all this.
"I have no doubt you will relay all that I have said when you take her into your bed tonight."
I swallowed, "I will reveal only what you require of me Master and no more." I did not deny taking Emma into my bed, he knew she was there. He knew she was in my bed at this very moment; that she had been in my bed every night since the failure at the Ministry.
I could tell this pleased my Master, he smiled at me. I averted my eyes so that the images in my head would remain private.
"Come and I will tell you what I need for you to do." My Master stood and held his hand out to me, he never informed us of our assignments inside the house. He always took us away, sometimes to a cave in the rocks by the sea; another time he had taken me to a ruin of a shack that was so overgrown with nettles you could not see the sky. Tonight we went to another ruin, I knew this place; I had watched it years before. Godric's Hollow.