Rosalie's POV
I felt sick as we emerged from the basin, images of Bella at different ages getting beaten were permanently etched into my brain. It made me sick, Frying pans, belts Golf clubs, hot oil and more, all used in the name of punishing Bella and her brother. I would have vomited if I could, one look at the rest of my family told me they felt the same.
Edward looked like he was in pain and Esme still had her arms wrapped around Carlisle. then we froze as someone cleared their throat. I turned wide eye'd to stare at Bella who was leaning against the door frame, an unreadable look on her face as she avoided looking any of us directly in the eye.
silence reined for a moment before she spoke. " I suppose I shouldn't have chosen such sn obvious password." She said in a low voice. "Bella..." Alice
"Don't... just don't, I've had enough pity to last me a lifetime... I just wish you'd never seen me like that." Bella said in a small voice, she still refused to meet anyone's eyes."like what Bella?" Jasper asked.
"Weak." She said spitting the word as if it were a foul curse, she then bit her lip and shut her eyes as she visibly swallowed. her voice shook as she spoke again. "Those Memories were a last resort for me and Harry, we're trying to break Dumbledore's credibility by releasing a few of his closeted Skeletons. I told you that only Dumbledore knew what was going on in that house.
what I didn't say was that he wanted it to happen. he paid them to do it." She whispered brokenly. Edward rushed to her side and wrapped her in his arms as she buried her face in his chest.
Esme looked torn between sorrow and anger. "why?" she asked. It was Jasper who answered. "to break them, to make it easy for him to manipulate them, if he saved them from their personal hell then he would be their hero. they would do anything for him, it's one of the most deplorable war tactics. he wanted them for something, he didn't just want followers, he wanted weapons." Jasper snarled.
Bella nodded and looked up. Alice looked ready to cry. "but it didn't work, right? Bella's here, she's well adjusted and she's fine..." She said, mostly to convince herself, I was sure. she didn't want to believe that there was something wrong with her best friend and she hadn't noticed.
Bella sighed and pulled Edward over to the couch. once there she sat down and Drew her knees up to her chin before wrapping her arms around her legs. the gesture somehow seemed wrong for her and I realized why, she looked vulnerable, something that I had never seen.
no matter what Bella had always been strong. and this frail, and unsure version of herself seemed wrong.
Edward sat down as well and pulled Bella into his lap. once she was settled against his chest she began to speak again. "Yes and No. in essence I am a weapon, and so is my brother. We are more magically powerful than any five witches and or Wizards put together, when we choose to be. I could kill a person and feel no remorse, if that person had threatened in some way shape or form, someone I hold dear, I don't believe my life is worth as much as others, it's ingrained into me. Harry is the same.
I will protect those I care about. and nothing will stop me, even if I had to do unspeakable things to protect them. but I don't trust easily, Neither of us do. for the longest time we only trusted each other, and anyone else could fuck off..." It was a testament to how absorbed in her words everyone was that Esme didn't correct her language.
" we never planned to make friends at Hogwarts, in fact we only planned to learn enough to kill the Dursleys then drop off the face of the Earth, we didn't care about being the Saviors because we had seen the cruelty of the world, we were their saviours, but nobody bothered to save us. that changed when we met Ron on the train, he noticed our clothes and the fact that we were small for our age.
we didn't tell him but he figured it out. for everything that he is, Ron Weasley is not an idiot. no matter how thick he is, He was furious. he couldn't believe someone would just leave us to hell and not even care to check up on us. and we were shocked someone cared so much. that's when we first got suspicious of Dumbledore. Ron told us the headmaster had asked him to keep an eye out for them and try to strike up a friendship. his excuse was Harry and I would be new to the Wizarding world and would need People to 'guide' us
The Weasley family had always followed Dumbledore without question, the rest just snowballed from there until we discovered everything. do you know the Bastard Killed his own sister, because he thought she was a Liability?" Bella said furiously
I blinking as Bella seemed to go off on a tangent, losing her train of thought for a moment before she sighed.
" anyway, Just by making friends with Ron, and then later Hermione and the others, our plans changed. first year we thought ourselves so Clever, hiding in passageways that we discovered, keeping up our 'Saviour' masks. we uncovered a bit of what the Headmaster had planned. and we were Naive enough to think we had discovered his master plan, but no. it was only the tip of the iceberg, He planned on feeding me and my brother love potions to get me to marry Ron and Harry to Marry Ron's sister, Ginny
that would leave the Weasley family with access to the Potter wealth. Hermione went postal... figuring that out destroyed her blind Faith in athority. but then at the end of the year we had to save the philosophers stone, and yes it does exist.
between figuring out the stone and Dumbledore's Manipulations I'm surprised we managed to pass our classes... anyway, that's a story for another time. all you have to know right now is that Me and my brother killed a professor that was being possessed by the dark lord, who , at the time, was still insane and trying to kill us. I don't regret it. and neither does Harry. it was kill or be killed." She said shrugging
"I'm broken, and that's ok because so is Harry. we get through it together, just like it's always been." she finished.
Edward was running his fingers through her hair. "My sweet Bella, your Relatives can't get away with what they've done to you and your brother." Edward hedged.
Bella smiled. "You can help if you want but there is a list of people who are just itching for the chance to torture them, and no matter what... I will kill Vernon. he's mine." She said this with such Malice Something in my brain clicked and I found myself hoping... wishing that I was wrong.
"Bella, you said you were sent away because things escalated..." I trailed off. Bella stiffed in Edwards arms. "Yes... the situation. was similar to what happened to me in Port Angeles... only Harry was almost two seconds to late." She said in a small voice. everyone stiffened. the boys looked murderous, actually... so did Esme and Alice. and I'm sure my expression was not dissimilar to theirs, no matter how much we wished to protect human life those animals would die. and all of us wanted a hand in their deaths.
That's all for now, I know some of you thought Bella would be mad at them but I couldn't see her being mad that they watched her private memories because they didn't know how private they were.
she also knows that the password was in the memory she chose and that was just carelessness on her part. this was just a chapter getting the Cullen's onside, after all Tom is still a Dark Lord and he's not gone Soft by any means he is still Dark. so yes he will still torture and kill people,
and as the first kills that the Cullen's witness will be the Dursleys I thought a bit of build up was in order. Next chapter they're off to England,
though I don't know who thought it was a good idea to send the twins to fetch them. oh well, maybe they'll behave for once in their existence, or maybe they'll set a crate full of flea's loose on the rest, who knows. Blessed be!
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