Yay, fifty chapters! Thank you to all who have stuck with this the whole time; you've been my inspiration and the thing that drives me to write! Let's hope to hit one hundred! :) LOL, if this goes the way I plan, there will be many chapters to come after this one…

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I circled the Dark Lord, craving his approval. I hungered for it, at all times. Everything I did was for the Dark Lord.

He sighed and I knew he was troubled. I went to put my hands on his shoulders and he threw them off. It did not deter me. I went to kneel in front of him.

"My Lord," I whispered. "Anything that you require, I shall do it for you. Anything to… relieve the stress."

I smiled in the most seductive way, hoping to gain his attention. He was not looking at me though, but seeing something in the distance. Anger bubbled up in me but I kept it down. The Dark Lord didn't call for me as much anymore and it disheartened me. As much as I hated almost anyone who wasn't me, I think I may have felt something akin to love for him. I never did for Rudolphus, even though he had proved to be a good provider and a strong follower of the Dark Lord's. But this was different. The Dark Lord was more powerful than Rudolphus could have ever dreamed of being. So I "loved" him.

"Would it be too forward to ask what you are thinking about My Lord?" I questioned quietly.

He got up from the chair, forcing me to stand up so he could stride over to the windows. He put his hands behind his back and said thoughtfully, "I am thinking of Belinda."

So he was thinking of that harlot. The woman that he had left me for years ago for a short time. I hated her. And she had given the Dark Lord something that I could not. I fumed silently thinking about it and resolved to make myself worthy of the Dark Lord, to do something that would take his mind from her once and for all.

I had to kill Harry Potter. And I would do it when we confronted him at the Ministry.

Author's Note: Oooh, who do we think Belinda is? Hint: She's central to the plot, even though she might not make an "appearance". :) Bellatrix's POV for a change. :) As always, review your comments and what you want to see. Until next chapter! :)