A small girl walked through a cold and drafty cave.  She cried to herself, uncertain of where she was going.  She continued on, tripping on rocks she could not see, walking through openings of which she had no choice in.  She continued on determined to find her exit.  She walked for what seemed like hours before she suddenly took a step off a cliff that she could not see.  She grabbed onto the side of the cliff desperately trying not to fall into the nothingness.  She struggled to pull her self back onto the ledge.  She swung one leg up onto the ledge and pulled herself up.  Just as she backed herself up, a huge beast came flying up out of the darkness.  A ball of fire followed the beast out of the dark, lighting up several torches that appeared out of no where. 

            The small girl got up and ran for her life down the first cave opening she saw.  She ran, with the beast following close behind.  The beast let loose another ball of fire after the girl.  She screamed as she saw the inferno quickly coming up behind her.  The cave branched out revealing two different paths the child could take.  She didn't have time to decide, and quickly chose the path to the right.

            This, however, did not prove to be the best decision for the girl, for no sooner did she enter the cave did she fall off another cliff.  This time the girl didn't have the choice to try and grab onto the ledge, for she had fallen so far from the ledge she couldn't reach it.

Bellanne bolted up in her bed.  She looked out the window to see snow falling outside.  She smiled knowing that winter was soon approaching.  She got up and approached the window to see the snow falling to the ground leaving a light coating behind.  She turned back to the bed to see her husband still asleep.  She smiled, for once in her life things were going her way.  She and her sister were in good graces, Remus had taken permanent residence with her, and her daughter seemed to be having a wonderful time in school.  She smiled as she laid down next to Remus and laid her head on his chest.  She laid awake listening to him breathe.  He moved an arm up around her shoulder, holding her protectively.  They may have had their differences in the past month, but Bellanne was too happy to finally have her husband sleeping beside her again. 

            Cordelia walked into the Great Hall and sat down next to Pansy Parkinson and the rest of her house.  She had, like Pansy told her in the beginning of the year, become better friends with members of her own house and with her cousin, Draco Malfoy.  Even with the differences between Draco and Harry, Cordelia remained friends with them both.  Harry, Ron and Hermione were not happy that Cordelia had made friends with the people in Slytherin house.  But, they kept their opinions to themselves.

"Cordelia," Draco said to her, "Have you gotten to werewolves yet in your Defense of the Dark Arts class?" He hissed out those last words.

"Not yet, but we have in Care of Magical Creatures." Cordelia said, "Why do you people care so much about it?"

"We've had a few different Defense teachers and I just wondered how different their teachings were." Pansy cut in.

"Professor Grumby-Plank didn't discuss Werewolves too much, but enough to inform me how vile they are."

"Well at least you know." Draco said, "We had to find out from Professor Snape just how horrid they are."

"I'm not concerned about knowing what animals are dangerous or not," Cordelia said, "Potions is where I'm having a load of trouble."

"Cordelia, the head of our house is the potions master," Pansy smiled, "just ask him for help."

"You know, Cordelia," Goyle spoke up, "I'm good with potions, I can help you if you'd like." He offered with a smile.

"Please, Goyle," Draco interjected, "You couldn't boil a confusing potion to save your life."  Goyle looked down, accepting the insult from Draco.

"Hey!"  Cordelia snapped at him, "I've seen his papers, he's exceptionally bright despite what you think."  Goyle, who was still looking down, released a small smile.

"Anyway, Cordelia," Draco seethed changing the subject, "My family always has a big party for the holidays."

"And?"

"You should ask your mother," Draco hissed, "If you can come attend the festivities."

"I doubt she'd let me."

"You've never met anyone in our family, Cordelia."

"I don't quite like your mother, and I sure as hell have no desire to meet Bellatrix." Cordelia spat out venomously.

"According to my mother, Bellatrix is no where to be found." Draco said, "You don't have to get upset at me, I was just inviting you to Christmas dinner."

"Whatever." Cordelia said as she got up and left the table. 

            Cordelia was on her way to Astronomy when she saw Hermione walking to her Transfiguration class.  Cordelia started off on a light run to catch up to her.

"Hermione!" Cordelia smiled as she caught up to her, "Hermione!" Hermione turned to see Cordelia.

"Hey Cordelia, on you're way to Astronomy?"

"Yea." Cordelia replied, "It's tough, I can barely keep up."

"How's potions coming along?"

"I think I'm failing." Cordelia whispered, "How am I going to explain that to my mother?"

"I'm more than willing to help you, Cordelia." Hermione said, "We can get together a couple nights a week at the Library and work on it."

"Goyle offered to help me too." Cordelia said.

"Goyle?" Hermione questioned, "I didn't even know he could read?"

"Hey," She said, "he's not as dumb as everyone thinks.  He does quite well in his classes."

"Well, with us both helping, you should pass potion with no trouble." Hermione smiled.

"That would be great, because I don't want to ask Snape." Cordelia said, "I don't think he likes me."

"I don't think he likes his own shadow." Hermione said.  The two girls giggled as they reached the Transfiguration door.

"Hey, I've been meaning to ask you.  What are you doing for the holidays?" Cordelia asked.

"I'm not sure.  I think my parents want to go to France again, but I'm always so bored there."

"Well Draco Malfoy invited me to his family's home for Christmas dinner…" Cordelia started to say.

"You're not going, are you?" Hermione asked in shock.

"Probably not," Cordelia answered, "Even if I wanted to go, I don't think my mom would let me.  But I was thinking, you and Harry can come stay with me at my house."

"That would be a wonderful time." Hermione smiled, "I'll talk to Harry about it."

            It was a typical Sunday in November, light snow falling but it was not cold enough to stick to the ground.  Bellanne walked with her sister to the front gates of Azkaban Prison with their brooms in hand.  Narcissa had received word that there had been a disturbance and was going to check on her husband.  Bellanne wasn't too particular on going, but she knew her sister needed her.  Bellanne dropped the hood on her blue cloak, as Narcissa dropped her own purple hood.  The gates opened as they reached the gates.  Bellanne hesitated on going in for a moment, but did not falter in her steps. They walked as fast as they could to the prison door, which also opened in their path.  As they walked in, there were two wizards sitting at the front.

"Welcome to Azkaban." One wizard said.

"Whom are you here for?" the other added.

"Lucius Malfoy." Narcissa said.  One wizard cocked an eyebrow.

"Lucius Malfoy is no longer with us." One said.

"What do you mean?" Bellanne stepped in.  She watched as her sister looked in horror at the two men.

"Our prison walls were damaged when a dragon charged into the walls." One said.

"We lost about 20 criminals that day, one of them being Lucius Malfoy."

"My husband is…" Narcissa trembled on her words as Bellanne took her hand.

"free." The wizard finished her sentence, "He escaped on the back of the dragon."

"Was a spectacular site, it was." The other said, "It was a huge beast and how it just calmed at the site of him and let him on was amazing."

"He escaped." Bellanne said in shock.  The two wizards nodded in unison.

"How long ago was this?" Narcissa said almost as though life had been restored in her.

"It has been about 2 weeks now."

"TWO WEEKS!" Narcissa screamed as she almost throttled the two men.

"Narcissa!" Bellanne said as she held back her sister, "Come on, let's go."

"Two weeks, two weeks he's been out and he couldn't even come to see me." Narcissa said as they left the prison.

"Narcissa, you can't get mixed up with him." Bellanne said, "I know you love him, but I don't want you to end up here."

"But you think he'd come tell me where he's going?"

"You mean you don't know?" Bellanne asked her sister, "He's probably with You-Know-Who."

"Why hadn't I read anything about it in the Daily Prophet?" Narcissa said as they walked out the gates. 

"They want to keep this as low profile as possible."  Bellanne said, "To avoid starting the scare they did when Sirius escaped."

"A dragon hit the prison walls." Narcissa smiled.

"Are you smiling?" Bellanne smirked at her sister, "Don't smile, this is a very bad situation."

"Lucius is free, that's all that matters."

            Harry and Ron were sitting in the library studying for Herbology, when Harry caught the sound of Draco Malfoy's sleazy voice beyond a wall of books.  Harry slowly got up and crept over to the book shelf to get a better listen.  Ron looked at Harry inquisitively.  Harry signaled to Ron to come to the wall and listen for himself.

"Pansy, you can't back out of this now.  You're too far into this." Draco said, "I'm surprised at you."

"Draco you know that I didn't like Professor Lupin, but I do like Cordelia.  I don't want to stab her in the back." Pansy said, "If there was something else we could do instead."

"He's a major reason that my father is in prison." Draco seethed out, "I'm not going to let any of them get away with doing that to my mother and me."

"In case you haven't noticed, Draco," Pansy started, "Cordelia isn't like us, but she isn't like those stupid Gryffindor's either."

"She was sorted into our house for a reason."

"Because she's cunning." Pansy said, "Did you know she told both her parents that she's in Gryffindor house?"

"She what?"  Draco said with spite, "So she's ashamed of us."

"Not now," Pansy started, "But she's a good at deceiving people to get what she needs.  That's why she's a Slytherin.  But she's also very loyal and brave when it comes down to it."

"Besides, I've come into possession of something very useful, and I can't wait to use it." Draco said.

"What do you have?"  Pansy asked.

"I can't tell you here, I'll show you." Draco said.

"Draco I'm asking you to think of a different way."

"No, I'm doing this before holiday break." Draco smirked out, "It's going as planned."  Harry and Ron looked at each other in shock as they walked back to their own table.

"We have to do something." Ron whispered, "We can't let that git do that to Cordelia and Lupin."

"What can we do?" Harry whispered frantically, "We don't even know what he has?

"Maybe we should tell Cordelia before Malfoy gets the chance." Ron said.

"Maybe we should give Malfoy a warning." Harry said with a vexed eye.  Just then Hermione and Cordelia walked up to the table that Ron and Harry were sitting at.  Ron and Harry instantly stopped their discussion.

"I can't believe you two are studying." Hermione laughed.

"What are you two doing here?" Harry stuttered out.

"I've been helping Cordelia with Potions." Hermione said.

"I might not fail after all." Cordelia laughed.

            Bellanne sat next to her cauldron on the countertop adding the last bits of ingredients to the potion she had been brewing for the last month.  She dropped in bits of what looked like nail clippings and Leech Juice.  She hadn't told anyone about Lucius Malfoy escaping from Azkaban and it has occupied her mind for days.  She looked at the cauldron's disgusting contents as it continued to brew.  She then looked out into the night sky, wondering what her husband was up to.

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            Bellanne sat on the bed of the hotel room they currently resided in muggle London.  The tears that slowly rolled down her cheeks where nothing to be happy about and the look on the face of her husband across the way from her did not make the scene any better.  The two had been staring at each other in silence for quite some time. 

"It's not like I want to do this." Remus quietly told her, "But I can't keep making you live this way."

"True, it's hard, but I love you too much to just call it quits."

"I don't want call it quits, I just need time to figure out how I can ensure your safety." Remus told her.

"How long?"

"I told you I don't know."

"You're all I have, Remus." Bellanne told him with more tears on her cheeks, "James and Lily are gone, Sirius is incarcerated; I have no one."

"I can't go on like this, knowing that it may happen again."

"So it only happened twice."

"Two times too many for my comfort," Remus told her, "I'd never be able to live with myself if I killed you, and if you don't remember, I would have had Professor Dumbledore not showed up."

"But I'm ok now." Bellanne said, "My wounds are healed."

"Bellanne," Remus said as he got on his knees in front of her, "Please understand that I love you more than anything in this world, so I need you to understand why I have to go."  The two were silent for a few minutes as they stared deeply into each others eyes.

"Where will you go?" Bellanne choked out as more tears streamed down her face.

"I don't know, but I have some money I was saving for emergency, and I want you to take it and find a place in Diagon Alley."  Bellanne nodded at him.

"When are you leaving?" Bellanne sobbed.

"In the morning." He told her quietly.

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            Bellanne sighed hard as she thought about that day, it still, to some degree, upset her.  But she had learned to move forward with or without him.  Just then, the door to the kitchen swung open revealing a rather agitated looking Severus Snape.  Bellanne hopped off the counter and grabbed the handle of her cauldron and placed it in the cupboard under the sink.

"Is there something I can help you with?" Bellanne asked him in a panic.

"Just wondering if there is something you'd like to tell me, a member of the Order?" Severus said.

"You heard about Lucius Malfoy then?"

"With his son as my prize student; how could I not?" Severus snapped.

"I guess so." Bellanne sighed.

"What displeases me more is to know that you've known for quite sometime."

"A week, Severus," Bellanne said, "and I'll have you know that I've been having a moral dilemma about it for a week, so I'll thank you not to guilt trip me.  Leave that to my daughter."

"This is not the time to have moral dilemmas, Bellanne," Severus spat, "We are in dark times and if we have any hope of bringing the Dark Lord to justice, we have to know everything and if one our own members is holding out on us…"

"I wasn't holding out on you!" Bellanne said stalking up to him now standing a good foot short of him, "Narcissa is my sister and I have her to think about too."

"As soon as Lucius goes for her, Narcissa will turn her back on you." Severus said, "She says she needs you now, but once her husband returns, she'll be the same girl whose nose you broke with your own fist during our school days."

"I'm not that same girl anymore and neither is she."

"Are you sure about that?" Severus asked her rhetorically as he turned to leave, "By the way," He said turning back to her, "Tell your daughter that she needs to work a bit harder in her potions class.  I expect better of my own house."

"Excuse me?" Bellanne said with an almost psychotic look in her eyes, "What do you mean your own house?  Cordelia is in Gryffindor."

"Is that what she told you?" Severus smirked, "Interesting."  With that Severus walked out of the kitchen door.  Bellanne ran into the living room following Severus to the door.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Bellanne yelled at him.

"I just thought the hat made an error, I guess I was wrong." Severus continued to smirk, knowing he was getting the best of Bellanne.

"Is Cordelia in your house?" she growled as she grabbed onto the collar of his robes.  Severus didn't reply as he grabbed her hands and removed them from his collar and pushed her to the floor.  He smirked again before leaving the house.

Thank you to my Reviewers.

Asuka-  Oh yea, If I were to be attacked by a werewolf would rather it be Lupin.

Bell- It really wasn't so much that they grew apart, it's just that Bellanne is pissed about certain things in their life and is not show to let it show.  Bellanne was planning something, but what you'll have to read..

Lucky Estrella-   Give Bellanne more credit than she shows.  She's not retarded.