Title: Heart's Desire

Rating: PG-13

Author: Jmaria

Disclaimer: JK owns them, I'm just their puppet master for the day!

Spoilers: Um, Book 4/some for 5

Setting: Back when their parents were in school

Summary: Bellatrix accepts

A/N: 20 minutes with Bellatrix. And AHA! My first HP fanfic. Up until now, it's been all crossies. So if I screw up on the ages, many apologies.

Heart's Desire

Bellatrix Black was one of the most feared prefects to ever roam the halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She was one of the most beautiful girls in school, one of the cleverest, and one of the all-together meanest bitches to have made it through seven years of schooling.

And she took great pride in that fact.

She may not have Narcissa's cool beauty, nor Andromeda's likable personality. She wasn't an ugly girl, Merlin no! She was more like her father, with her dark hair, and her mother's eyes. Narcissa had the very opposite traits. Mother's hair and father's eyes.

Bellatrix was tall and slender. She used her height to get what she wanted. Which was why she had succeeded in luring Rodulphus into enjoying their arranged marriage. She was very happy that she could please her parents this way.

Bellatrix kept her head high as she made her way down the hall, looking for her younger sister. She and Lucius had been spotted talking together. Bellatrix could not let her younger sister be fooled by such silly notions. Everyone knew that Andromeda and he were arranged to wed. It was something both he and she were quite upset with. But Narcissa was to be a prize for the Dark Lord, who was already mustering forces to be rid of all these damn mud bloods and muggles.

She was making her way down to the dungeons later that evening when she received an urgent owl. She tore it open. Her eyes widened in shock before she closed her emotions like the parchment she was now neatly closing. She turned to her sister, who'd been racing after her.

"Bella?"

"You've gotten your wish, Cissa. Andi has gotten herself indisposed with a mud blood. To fix this situation, father has promised you to Lucius in her stead. Congratulations." With that, she turned on her heel and walked out of the corridor.

"Bella, where are you going?" Narcissa called after her.

"I've been given orders. Now go to the common room, and tell Lucius that you accept his proposal."

It figured that her princess of a sister would get her wish. Narcissa was never disappointed. Andi had gotten her wish as well, and now she would not take the mark. Bellatrix would have killed to gotten her wish. But she couldn't have it, because he would never fight on her side, and she could not bear to fight on his. Instead, she would worm her way into one of his best friend's mind, and control him. She leaned forward, her arms resting over the stone wall.

Lily Evans was holding his hand, her head resting on his shoulder. His arm was wrapped around her little mud blood waist. Bellatrix thought she was going to be ill. She looked down, and smiled. Someone else was watching, and she wrapped her fingers in his short hair.

"Peter . . .oh, Peter."