BELLAMORT: POP: POWER OBSESSION AND PASSION.
Author Notes: I don't own the characters and names of the places, all that is property of JK Rowling and Warner Bros.
A/N: There are some modifications of the time line, because that was the idea in first place.
Chapter 14:A trick for a lifetime.
Lestrange wasn't expected that answer, like the rest of the students who were watching the scene that had assembled there. Even Bella seemed to pale at those words, Tom noticed that change in the look of her, and squeezed her hand harder than normal.
Rodolphus had also noticed the surprised face of Bellatrix, when he exclaimed:
"That's a big lie."
Bellatrix, feeling her hand a little sore, before the grip of Tom, said:
"It's not a lie... Tom... is my boyfriend."
Rodolphus laughed loudly:
"You don't even know how to lie Bella, please this mudblood will never be your boyfriend, I will not allow it."
Tom was about to jumping on Rodolphus, his hand was already on his wand, ready to throw a curse and he already knew many curses as to do great damage. But Bella frowned furious when Lestrange shouted "mudblood" among all those students, she would never allow others to discover the truth.
She went to Rodolphus, walking furiously and hit him in the face as she shouted:
"Never ever say that about Tom, you don't even know him well, he is not a mudblood. You think my family would allow me to be his girlfriend, if he were a mudblood? He's my boyfriend and you have no right to get into my life!"
Rodolphus couldn't respond because his nose had started bleeding, Bella laughed at him smiling with that gesture of disdain that only a Black could do. Tom felt that she was coming back to beat him, then he took her arm and pulled her out of the Slytherin common room running down the stairs.
Bella yelled, while running:
"What are you doing?"
Tom stopped abruptly and pushed her against the wall:
"Tell me the truth Bellatrix, are you crazy? With your performance just now everyone can suspect that Lestrange tells the truth. Don't try to defend me again."
Tom needed to see something broke, he needed to remove the hatred that he felt at that time against Rodolphus, he wanted to break something, so he pulled out his wand and pointed it at Bella almost unconsciously and spoke again:
"If you're going to pretend to be my girlfriend behave as the Miss Black that you are, and don't return to fight with someone like that, you're not a Muggle, next time use your wand."
Bella's eyes filled with tears, Tom had sounded like her father but it wasn't just for the reprimand which hurt her was the word "pretend" that he had mentioned.
She looked at him, trying not to look at the wand, which was aiming at that moment and asked, almost in a whisper:
"Pretend?"
Tom reacted at the moment, the anger at Rodolphus was decreasing slightly, but Bella didn't improve the sentiment:
"What do you mean? You know as well as I that we can't be together that way, Bella, even though you and me hate him, you're going to marry Lestrange, besides the obvious, you said it yourself, your parents never will accept me."
She wiped her eyes before answering, with the sleeve of her robe:
"They need not know anything about you, well I'm not going to marry him, until we finish school. And I'm not going to be his girlfriend in the meantime. I can be the girlfriend of the person I want."
Tom sighed in anger, he wasn't interested in having a girlfriend, he didn't like those things, but something crossed his head, something that made him answer:
"All right Bella, we will not have to pretend. But don't get too excited with this, I'll be your boyfriend and I will try to behave as such, but don't push me. Damn Bellatrix, you'll have to learn to respect my time."
Bella nodded, would smile, but she held that desire:
"Yes, don't worry, I will not bother you, I promise."
Tom nodded in response, still wanting to see something broken, because he couldn't go and curse Lestrange without being expelled from Hogwarts, and he knew that he didn't want to return to that orphanage anymore.
At that moment he realized that his wand was still pointing at Bella, then he took his wand, and said:
"We have to find all about the Gaunt, when you have time again?"
She thought of her schedules quickly, and she said:
"This Saturday."
Tom nodded:
"OK, now go back to the common room, I have something to do."
She asked curious:
"What will you do?"
He frowned:
"I'm going to the Forbidden Forest, but I don't want..."
He couldn't finish speaking when she asked:
"Can I go with you? I don't want to be in the common room."
He was about to refuse, but for some reason thought it was good she came, then nodded:
"Okay, but don't say a word of it."