Deathly Hallows spoilers ensue. This story is being written as a response to JKR's comment in an interview where she said if Snape could choose to live his life over, he would choose Lily over the Death Eaters. AU Sequel posted: The Moment It Ended.

Lord Voldemort successfully destroys Harry Potter in 1981 after a thirty-year-old Bellatrix warns him about a bad feeling she's got. To show his gratitude, he kisses his most cloying, devoted slave, not realising just how attracted he's become over the years to Rodolphus Lestrange's wife and his most able servant in the raging war.

November 1971. Bellatrix Lestrange has some unconventional tastes. Rodolphus Lestrange is as vanilla as it comes. Luckily, Lord Voldemort is more than happy to intervene and give Bellatrix exactly what he wants - and what she needs.

Part II of the Storm Series (Sequel to And Promise You Calm Seas). Vows are made and Ministries are falling. As Voldemort and Bellatrix build their marriage anew, they create a stronger monster than ever within their personal relationship. But will the beast they foster grow too big to control? And will Voldemort be able to manage the political tempest he's conjured?

Christmas 1968. Bellatrix desperately wants Voldemort's attention, and she'll do anything to earn it. But what she doesn't realise is that he's not interested in her flesh - yet. What he does want is the Darkness within her, and he's willing to teach her to bad in all the right ways, to make trouble while staying out of trouble, so that she can serve him.

1968. Three years after her father inked a deal arranging her marriage to the aspirational Tom Riddle, the aristocratic Bellatrix Black is ready to marry the ascending Lord Voldemort. With her personality and his ambition, their marriage may turn out to be something far more auspicious for them both. Complete. Part I of The Storm Series.

Desperate to escape life with the alcoholic Cygnus Black, Bellatrix seeks help from the shadowy Lord Voldemort - an old school friend of her father's. Voldemort offers to control Cygnus' behavior and delay Bellatrix's betrothal to Rodolphus Lestrange in exchange for a favor - Bellatrix must be his date to an upcoming Pureblood wedding. What could possibly go wrong? Complete!

After bickering with a Muggle-born, Bellatrix loses her temper and instinctively uses the Cruciatus Curse at Hogwarts. Expelled, facing permanent seizure of her wand, Bellatrix is saved by a bargain manipulated by Voldemort, who wants to forge this cruel child into a soldier. As his ward, under house arrest at Malfoy Manor, Bellatrix becomes more than she could have ever imagined.

January 1996. Bellatrix Lestrange is among those broken out of Azkaban. But the Bellatrix who emerges from prison is a sprightly nineteen-year-old who fell asleep in 1970 and woke up in a cell ten days before the breakout. How will the resurrected Voldemort handle the presence of this ghost, this witch who has not yet lived all the things that mattered? COMPLETE!

Takes place during Deathly Hallows. The beginnings of Voldemort's and Bellatrix's child, told from the perspective of Bellatrix's sister Narcissa. Possible trigger for domestic/sexual abuse.

Sequel to Robbers' Retreat - read that first! Having gotten rid of Rodolphus, married Bellatrix, and helped her through the excruciating process of creating a Horcrux, Lord Voldemort finds there's more to being a family man/aspiring dictator than he'd ever anticipated. Jealousy, possessiveness, greed, lust, and a thirst for power combine to snarl his climb. Complete.

This is the story of the life of Bellatrix Black; a life ruled by power, wealth and social status. Split into two parts, the story loosely follows that of the Harry Potter books along with some added twists for drama. Voldemort/Bellatrix