New chapter! (A scream is heard in the distance and everybody runs for their lives) Okay, I know no one missed me but anyway I'll just write…
Btw, I am learning how to role-play! It's SO cool! I love it! I even tried RPing with a friend of mine through our cell phones… I decided that I prefer instant messengers.
My beta-reader, Sadistra, pointed out that I write about only 4 of the total 10 Death Eaters that escaped from Azkaban and I guess all of you devoted Harry Potter fans have noticed it. Well, I knew it from the beginning but it is my first fanfic! What the hell! I can't handle 10 characters!
Disclaimer: Believe me, if I owned Harry Potter Sirius wouldn't have died and Grawp would have eaten Cho, but there isn't something like this in the books so…
Chapter 6
Death Monkeys!
Fours hours. Four hours of walking in the streets of London hiding from Muggles and Rookwood wouldn't give up no matter what…
"Are we there yet?" the Death Eater in question asked Bellatrix for the zillionth time.
"No," Bellatrix snapped not even bothering to stop walking.
"Are we there now?" Rookwood asked again.
"No."
"Now?"
"No."
"Now?"
"Rookwood, what could have possibly changed after a second?" she yelled at him in frustration.
"Well, we passed that shop which was selling horse food…" he said hesitantly.
Bellatrix just shook her head, exasperated. This had been going on since they began walking to Grimmauld Place.
"Muggles!" Rodolphus raised the alarm.
Everyone ran to find a place to hide. Dolohov and Rookwood hid behind a couple of rubbish bins while Bellatrix and Rodolphus went behind a blue car. Then the Enemy came from a bakery…
Two eight-year-old girls who were giggling like maniacs. They passed the rubbish bins and then the blue car, but one of them noticed a man and a woman hiding behind it.
"Let me kill them!" hissed Bellatrix going for her wand.
"Are you mad?" said Rodolphus disbelievingly. "They are only some idiotic kids! Hello girls!" he said kindly as the two girls approached apprehensively. Bellatrix and Rodolphus stood up as if their shabby cloaks and robes were nothing weird.
"Good morning, sir," replied the black-haired girl on the left.
"Why were you hiding behind the car?" asked the other girl quite rudely.
"To find my wand and curse you to death little Muggle," Bellatrix whispered but Rodolphus stepped deliberately on her foot so she said louder to the confused girl, "To find my wedding ring which has been lost and is very important to me."
Bellatrix used her mock sweet tone, which made the two girls look each other as if saying, "Aww, that's so romantic!" Rodolphus was shaking with silent laughter but helped Bellatrix.
"Yes, my dear wife is too concerned about her wedding ring but I have told her we can make another one," he said in sweet tone too while putting a hand around Bellatrix's shoulders.
Bellatrix wanted to punch him in the face but smiled at the girls praying they would leave.
"Do you want us to help you?" asked the previously rude girl, obviously moved by the 'romantic' scene.
"Oh, no dear it's okay. We will buy another one. Thank you very much. Now, go and play," answered Rodolphus.
"But we want to find the ring if it's SO important for your wife…" the black haired girl started saying.
"NO! It freaking isn't THAT important! Go and torture someone else! NOW!" Bellatrix screamed.
The two girls stared at her in sheer horror, as if they couldn't believe how such a kind person managed to become the devil herself. Rodolphus shot her a warning look and Bellatrix regained control of herself.
"Excuse me girls. Want a candy?" she asked in her sweet tone, which now had been ruined by her temper tantrum and approached them kindly.
The girls screamed bloody murder and ran like hell. Bellatrix looked taken aback from this and Rodolphus commented:
"I knew that you wouldn't make a good mum, Bellatrix…"
"You could just have let me killed them. I don't think their parents would have missed them," she said, ignoring his comment.
Then Dolohov and Rookwood appeared from behind the bins. "Gee, Bellatrix you scared the shit out of them!" said Dolohov, quite amused and Rookwood shook his head in agreement, smiling.
"Can we just continue our way?" she asked annoyed, "or we are planning to reach Grimmauld Place next year?"
She didn't wait for them to answer and started walking ahead.
"Can't we just Apparate?" Rookwood complained.
"It would be too risky. What if a Muggle saw four people appearing from thin air?" explained Rodolphus and he added, "Don't speak to much, also. Bellatrix is in a pretty bad mood which means she can be very, very…."
"Dangerous," finished Dolohov.
Bellatrix turned and finally she saw the two houses of Grimmauld Place, 11 and 13. It was nearly midnight by now and all of them were exhausted.
"You can't say it wasn't a good physical exercise!" commented Dolohov. Bellatrix and Rodolphus who were both tired to death looked at him as if he was mental. Rookwood was too focused on trying to find Number 12 Grimmauld Place.
"Where is number 12?" he asked.
The others turned to look at him in disbelief.
"How thick can someone get?" asked Bellatrix, raising her eyes to the starry sky as if expecting to find an answer there.
"Just forget it," said Rodolphus sympathetically. "So, how do we get inside?" he asked.
Bellatrix turned her gaze from the sky and sighed. "Well, that's something I was planning to tell you but I forgot…I don't know how we can get inside. "
"You don't know?" Now it was time for Rodolphus' temper tantrum. "Haven't you ever visited your uncle and aunt? Where's the freaking door?"
"Well, it was between number 11 and 13. I don't know what happened to it!" responded an equally angry Bellatrix.
Dolohov and Rookwood who were ignoring the couple's fight had approached houses number 11 and 13.
"Guys…I think you should see this…" said Dolohov reluctantly.
"What now?" asked Rodolphus exasperated.
Bellatrix and Rodolphus came closer and all of a sudden the two houses appeared to be separating and another new house popped up between them. Bellatrix gave Rodolphus a smile of victory.
"Just like magic!" exclaimed Rookwood cheerfully clapping his hands.
The others gave him an odd look.
"Sometimes I wonder how the Dark Lord made him a Death Eater…" whispered Rodolphus to Bellatrix.
"I'm not surprised… I mean, he made you one!" she responded.
Rodolphus gave her a dirty look, and he asked, "So, are we just going to knock the door?"
"Yes, that would be a good idea…Kreacher would probably be inside," she said and headed towards the door being followed by the others.
They gathered at the doorstep and as Bellatrix couldn't see any doorknob or bell she raised her hand ready to knock…
"What if it's somebody else's house? Are we going to kill them too?" asked Rookwood who had been really close to the old lady Bellatrix killed.
Bellatrix's hand stopped in mid-air. She turned to look Rodolphus as if asking what they should do next.
"I think it would be better if we checked that no one is inside the house," said Rodolphus thoughtfully.
He left the doorstep with the look of a detective investigating a crime. The other Death Eaters followed him curiously. Rodolphus walked around the house until they reached its right side.
"Oh! Very good, very good…" he muttered, ignoring the others.
"Can you tell us ordinary mortals what is very good?" asked Bellatrix, annoyed. She wasn't much in favour of being ignored.
"Can't you see Bellatrix?" said Rodolphus gesturing at a tall tree next to the house's walls.
"I don't think he has recovered completely," she said to Dolohov and then louder, "I see that tree Rodolphus, how could it prove to be useful?" she inquired.
He sighed, exasperated, "Bellatrix, look to where it's tallest branches reach."
Bellatrix raised her eyes to see some branches reaching close to a window of the house. She wished he wasn't thinking what she thought he did. "Yes, I see them."
"We can climb up there and then get through the window. Then, we'll quietly check if anybody is in there," he explained.
Rookwood seemed excited by this prospect and Dolohov thought of his rheumatism and groaned silently.
"No way! I'm not climbing up there!" Bellatrix protested.
Rodolphus had seen this coming. "Why? Are you afraid of bugs?" he asked.
"No." she answered briskly.
"Do you fear of tearing your royal robe?" he asked ironically.
"No," Bellatrix said, glaring daggers.
"Do you have anything better to suggest?" he inquired.
"No, but I don't think this is the best solution."
"Well, I have to admit that it isn't but as there is no alternative plan…."
"Fine." Bellatrix gave up.
"So, who will be the first to climb up there?" Rodolphus asked not expecting anybody to offer, but to his surprise Rookwood raised his hand and waved it madly to the air.
"Oh, Rookwood you want to try? Very well. Give it a try," he urged him like a teacher would to a shy student.
He knew that neither Bellatrix nor Dolohov were pleased with his plan. Rookwood started clambering up the tree, surprisingly skilfully. Bellatrix would be the last to climb so she sat on the grass expecting Rookwood to fall and crash to the ground like a watermelon. After some minutes of careful climbing and a horrible singing of "I'm a Death Monkey, I'm a Death Monkey!" Rookwood made it to the tallest branch and turned to the others. "What am I supposed to do now?" he asked stupidly.
"Open the window," ordered Rodolphus
"It's locked," Rookwood said hopelessly.
"Unlock it," responded Rodolphus from the ground.
"I don't have the key!" he replied, frowning.
"ARE YOU A FREAKIN' WIZARD OR NOT?" screamed Bellatrix whose temper had been rising from the stupid conversation and she stood up, glaring up at him.
"Oh, yes! Thank you Bella!" Rookwood said cheerfully and looked in his robes for his wand. "Wait, where is my wand? Oh, it's down there! I left it! What a pity!"
Rodolphus shook his head, sighing while Bellatrix was kicking the house's walls and swearing like someone in a Muggle rated R movie.
"I can come down and get it!" suggested Rookwood, but everyone yelled "NO!"
"Dolohov can come up there with your wand," Rodolphus decided ignoring Dolohov's murderous look.
Bellatrix's temper tantrum had passed and she looked up as Dolohov reached Rookwood and they got in after having unlocked the window.
"Now, who will go up first?" asked Rodolphus turning to Bellatrix.
"You of course," she said as if it didn't need asking.
She watched Rodolphus climbing the tree and before he got inside he asked her, "Are you coming in here or not?"
She sighed and got a strong hold of the lowest branch of the tree. After five minutes of climbing she got through the window and saw everyone stuck on the wall next to the window looking scared to death and watching something behind her.
"Rodolphus? What in Merlin's beard are you…" she started saying but Rodolphus interrupted her:
"Bellatrix turn slowly behind you and DON'T PANIC!" he said cautiously.
Bellatrix turned around to face the last person she'd expect to be at 12 Grimmauld Place…
[End of chapter 6! Hehe…who's behind Bellatrix? Perhaps you don't give a damn but anyway. Some of you may have noticed that Grimmauld Place appeared slightly different to Harry but I had to change it…. Any of you who don't understand go to the 5th book, end of chapter three and beginning of chapter four, and see how Harry goes to Grimmauld Place and you'll understand why I didn't do it that way…]
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