Well, here is the last chapter!!! At least for this story...
When you read this I'll probably have started writing the sequel and I'm leaning on Sadistra to send this chap as I will be deprived from Internet for some weeks.
Disclaimer: I don't believe you still think I own those cool characters... I wish I did but... (sighs)
Chapter 10
Bringing Down The Manor
"Hey, Narcissa! Don't you remember your younger sis? It's me! Bellatrix! Aren't you happy to see me ?" Bellatrix asked cheerfully.
"She probably isn't," commented Rodolphus.
"What do you want here?" asked Narcissa from inside.
"Please Narcissa, I can't scream at a closed door. Open up and I'll tell you what we want," her sister pleaded, exasperated.
"Okay." Narcissa gave up and opened the door slowly.
Bellatrix immediately put her foot to stop the door from closing and pushed the door open.
"Thank you, Narcissa. Very kind of you," she said sweetly and motioned for the others to come.
The entered the house ignoring Narcissa's disturbed look. The Death Eaters took off their dirty cloaks and threw them on the floor.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing Bellatrix? Get your hands off my Chinese vase! It's an antique!" Narcissa screamed in sheer panic to her younger sister.
"Relax! It's okay! I'm not breaking your precious vase!" Bellatrix said, putting the vase back.
She looked around. This place was exactly as she remembered it from her last visit years ago. Disturbingly clean. It could be used as a Muggle scientific laboratory.
"Now, will you be kind enough to tell me why have you come here?" Narcissa asked, waiting for someone to answer.
"Is your husband here?" asked Rodolphus in turn.
Narcissa turned his direction, surprised. She had expected Bellatrix to answer, and not for him to speak.
"And why do you want him?" she asked. Bellatrix's husband was just as annoying as she were.
"Oh, well we thought it would be nice to have a cup of tea with him and catch up on old times," Bellatrix answered sarcastically. "We want to talk to him about Master!" she yelled, exasperated.
"He is not here at the moment." Narcissa replied, pouting. ''Don't touch that!'' she shrieked and ran to protect her collection of porcelain dolls. "Bellatrix, tell this monster to let go of Lucy!"
Bellatrix sighed at her sister's stupidity. "Rookwood, let go of Lucy!" she mimicked in a silly voice.
"I swear she looked at me Bellatrix! This place is haunted! I want to leave!" he whined.
"We are not going anywhere! We'll wait here for Lucius to come," said Rodolphus.
"No way! You can leave and come back later! Last time you stayed here for only two hours you nearly destroyed the house!" she screamed at Rodolphus and Bellatrix.
Bellatrix smiled at the memory. Yes, they a had hell of a time then when they had come for the Malfoys' wedding anniversary. They blew up their bedroom accidentally, they had set fire on the living room and killed their dogs because they had eaten one of Rodolphus' biscuits.
"Oh, that reminds me, Narcissa. You have three dead dogs on your front lawn," she said as if that was something usual.
It took Narcissa some moments to realize what her sister had said. Then she put her hands to her mouth.
"I don't believe you did it!"
She ran outside leaving the Death Eaters alone.
"I guess we can make ourselves comfortable," Bellatrix said going to the lounge.
The others followed her and sat on the couch. Rookwood on the other hand started looking for any sweets.
"We said no sugar!" said Dolohov strictly and pulled him down on the couch.
"Fine." Rookwood gave up.
Bellatrix leaned back on the couch and put her legs comfortably on the table.
Several minutes passed before Narcissa storming into the room looking frustrated.
"Do you have anything against our dogs Bellatrix? And get your legs off the table." she asked angrily.
"As long as they have something against us, yes I do," she said seriously, ignoring Narcissa's command.
"That's it. Follow me. Now," she said strictly and left the room.
"Has Lucius returned?" asked Rodolphus, standing up.
"No, but I have found the right place for you to stay until he comes home," Narcissa answered.
The others stood up and followed her. They started climbing endless stairs. Bellatrix kept muttering, "I hate stairs, I hate stairs, I hate stairs."
"Come on Bellatrix, you need some exercise. What will Voldemort think if he sees you like that?" said Rodolphus with a smirk on his face.
As an answer she turned and pushed him with force making him fall down the stairs.
"Are you planning to kill me?" he asked, disturbed, as he made it back up there, limping.
"Let's say you're on my list of people I want to kill," Bellatrix replied and kept following her sister who led the way.
"Are we going to the swimming pool?" Rookwood asked Narcissa.
'What swimming pool?" Narcissa asked, confused.
"The swimming pool in your backyard," explained Rookwood.
"We didn't have any swimming pool last time I checked. Who told you we had?"
"Bellatrix," said Rookwood a look of disappointment on his face.
Said person started staying behind. She had no intention of hearing Rookwood's whining.
"No swimming pool?" asked Rookwood, not believing it.
"No, just get over it," Dolohov said, sighing in exasperation.
"Are we planning to go to China or what?" inquired Rodolphus, tired of all the steps.
"No, in fact we have just arrived," Narcissa said, taking an unusual big key out of her pocket and unlocked the door.
The room was quite spacious. It had a fireplace burning and several armchairs spread around it. Above the fireplace a portrait of the Malfoy family was hanging. There was also a large window and when Bellatrix looked through it she felt quite dizzy and only then she realized how high this room was. They had probably climbed up to some kind of a tower.
"Now, stay here until I come when Lucius is back," said Narcissa and hurried to get out of the room. She closed the door with force and to the Death Eaters' panic they heard the key on the lock.
"She locked us in! Stupid bitch!" screamed Rodolphus, kicking the door with force.
"Language, Rodolphus!" yelled Dolohov, outraged.
"Hey! You're talking about my sister!" said Bellatrix angrily.
"I thought you hated her," Rodolphus replied, baffled.
"Of course I do. But I want to be the only one that has the right to swear her!"
"Selfish woman," he muttered. "Anyway, are we going to get out now or not?" he asked and headed to the door, taking out his wand.
"Alohomora!" he said, pointing at the door but nothing happened.
"Rodolphus I suggest you go back to Hogwarts as you are not capable of performing a first year spell," Bellatrix said sarcastically with a smirk on her face.
She went towards the door and cast the same spell. The door however remained locked.
"Oh, what happened, know-it-all Bellatrix? We are not capable of performing a first year spell? Perhaps you'll join me at Hogwarts," Rodolphus said sarcastically with satisfaction.
"What the hell is wrong with this door?" Bellatrix asked, annoyed.
"It's haunted!" screamed Rookwood in terror.
"Oh, yes of course. When the perfect Bellatrix can't open a door, something must be wrong with it!"
"It's haunted I tell you!" said Rookwood once more but his shrieks fell on deaf ears.
"Are you going to help me or do you prefer watching?" she said annoyed to the others.
"Okay, look, this is what are we going to do. We'll take force, run towards the door and try to break it!" suggested Dolohov on a whim.
"This is the worst idea I've ever heard of," said Bellatrix.
"Do you have any other idea Bellatrix? Because you always seem to underestimate our ideas that get us out of trouble. We are going to try your idea, Dolohov," said Rodolphus. "And you will help Bellatrix! Or do you like staying in this damned place?"
Bellatrix sighed tiredly and backed away from the door.
"Okay," said Rodolphus, "once I count down to one we'll run to the door and bring it down."
"Five."
Bellatrix sighed and shook her head.
"Four."
They were out of their minds.
"Three."
They could break their necks there.
"Two."
An evil smile formed on her face.
"One!" Rodolphus screamed and ran to the door.
A loud bang was heard and they all crashed into the door which remained closed.
Bellatrix was heard laughing hysterically. Then Rodolphus realized she wasn't lying on the floor with them.
"I should have known you wouldn't try Bellatrix," he said miserably.
"Oh, yes. I wouldn't!" she admitted, still laughing.
Rodolphus tried to get up. "Rookwood, please take your leg from my neck. It's quite uncomfortable."
They stood up while Bellatrix was eyeing them, amused. "Give it another try!" she urged them.
"You wish. My rheumatism is killing me," replied Dolohov, getting up tiredly.
"I guess we'll have to wait here," Rodolphus surrendered.
He threw himself into an oversized armchair as the others sat on the floor. Bellatrix was still shaking her head, laughing silently.
"We'll starve to death," complained Rookwood.
"It's more possible to die of boredom,"said Bellatrix.
"I think I've found a way to get revenge on your sister," said Rodolphus with a mischievous smile on his lips.
"What way?" asked Bellatrix.
Rodolphus merely glanced at the Malfoys' family portrait.
Bellatrix raised her eyebrow and smiled evilly as she got the same idea he had.
After three hours of keeping them inside that room, Narcissa went back to the tower to tell them that Lucius was back. In fact, she hoped they were dead but there was a very small possibility they really were.
She unlocked the door and opened it. However, nothing could prepare her for what she saw.
The room looked like it had been bombarded. The wall on the right had a large hole in it and the gardens could be seen through the hole. Her leather couches were all painted with different colours. And then she saw it.
"Bellatrix! You're unbelievable!" she screamed in terror.
"I know I am but there is no need to flatter me Narcissa," said Bellatrix sweetly.
"What have you done to our family portrait?"
"Me and the others thought it would be nice to express our creative nature and make your family portrait more cheerful," Bellatrix said as if she was a professional.
The family portrait had before held a smiling Lucius, Narcissa, and Draco. Now Draco had a pair of glasses and a long moustache. Bellatrix had thought it would make him look more nice if he had long eyelashes as well so she extended them a bit...much. Lucius wore a pink bow on his head and Rookwood put purple lipstick on him after trying to think of what could make him look more scary. Narcissa had a pierced nose and about five earrings in each ear. Rodolphus had also modified her hair so that it was now short and standing straight up.
Narcissa sighed in frustration, trying to calm herself, and then yelled in their faces, "So are you going to come with me? Lucius is here!"
"Oh, thanks for informing us Narcissa. How kind of you!" said Bellatrix cheerfully ignoring her sister's upcoming temper tantrum.
She and the other Death Eaters went around her and started climbing down the stairs.
Once they were down, they found Lucius waiting for them, looking a bit annoyed.
"Oh, nice to see you again! How was Azkaban?" he greeted them with a smirk.
"Very nice, Lucius, thank you for asking. You can make a visit there sometime. I'm sure you'll like it," answered Bellatrix sarcastically.
Lucius rolled his eyes. "Why was my wife screaming?" he asked inquisitively at them.
"Oh, you know. Rodolphus was raping her," Bellatrix said this was if it were nothing important.
"I did what?" Rodolphus asked, shocked.
"He did what?" Malfoy asked menacingly and brought out his wand.
"Hey! I was just kidding! Relax!' Bellatrix put her hand on Malfoy's wand and lowered it.
"Gross..." muttered Rodolphus, shuddering at the thought of raping Narcissa Malfoy.
Lucius seemed to calm down.
"So what do you want here?" he asked them.
"We want you to take us to Master. We got lost because of some stupid Dementor and couldn't find him."
"Oh, what makes you think I'm still on the Dark Lord's side?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
Rookwood and Dolohov stepped back uncertain of whether he was just teasing them or they had just gotten caught.
"Well, for one you called him the Dark Lord and I think you're a git so you're bound to be on his side."
Lucius narrowed his eyes at Bellatrix's insult but ignored her.
"Very well," he said. "Tonight we have a meeting and you can come with me." Before he turned to leave, he added, "And please we want our house so don't destroy it."
"Arrogant bastard," muttered Rodolphus.
Just then some house elves came towards them.
"Do the masters want us to show them their rooms?" one of them asked.
"Yeah. We do," said Bellatrix.
The house elves led Rookwood and Dolohov to their rooms and then Bellatrix and Rodolphus.
"Now, masters here is your room," said the house elf, showing them a bedroom.
"What? You mean we have to stay in the same room?" asked Bellatrix disbelievingly.
"That's what mistress told us," replied the house elf and left.
"That sucks," complained Rodolphus.
"Oh, don't be so dramatic, Rodolphus," said Bellatrix cheerfully. "You can stay outside here and
I'll have the bedroom. Everybody is happy!" she said and made to go in.
"You wish!" he exclaimed and made to go in as well.
They got stuck there for several seconds, each one struggling to get in first.
"Ladies first, Rodolphus! Oh, but I forgot, that rule doesn't apply to you!" she mocked.
In return he kicked her and managed to get in.
Bellatrix sighed in frustration.
"Now if you excuse me. I have many things to do," Bellatrix said seriously.
"Such as getting ready to meet Master?" asked Rodolphus, emphasizing the last word in a silly girlish tone.
Bellatrix answered with a death glare.
A little before midnight, Malfoy called the four Death Eaters to meet him in the front hall.
"So, where are we going?" asked Rookwood, not aware of what the hell was happening.
"We are going to meet Master," Dolohov pointed out exasperated.
"Are we going to Apparate?" asked Rodolphus.
"No, as you don't know where this place is. We'll have to use a Portkey," said Lucius. He took a hand watch out of his pocket and showed it to the others.
They all touched it and they were transported to the front door of an old tower which seemed to be ruined.
"This place gives me the creeps," whispered Dolohov to Rodolphus who nodded.
"Come inside," urged Lucius and entered the building.
Bellatrix and Rodolphus followed him while Dolohov had to drag Rookwood, who was screaming something about haunted towers, inside.
They entered a well-preserved big hall which had a large staircase and four rooms around it.
Malfoy climbed up the stairs with the others following him closely.
At the first floor they met a Death Eater standing in front of a big door, probably guarding it.
"Oh, look who it is! Dolohov, Rookwood and the Lestranges! I thought you guys had gone off the rocker in Azkaban!" exclaimed the Death Eater.
"Why does everyone keep telling us this?" asked Bellatrix, annoyed.
"As you can clearly see we haven't, Macnair. Now let us in," ordered Rodolphus and made to go in, but Macnair blocked him.
"I'm sorry but I can't let you in. You have to wait for the meeting to finish and then get inside.
You should have come earlier," replied Macnair.
"What?" asked Bellatrix, not believing her own ears.
"New policy," he explained.
"Screw new policies! We can't wait!" yelled Rodolphus and the others agreed with him angrily.
"I'm afraid you'll have to wait. I mean, you have been waiting for over a decade! A few more minutes won't hurt you!" Macnair answered, amused.
Bellatrix was fuming with rage. She grabbed the neck of his robes, and screamed, "Wait? I will no bloody wait! Do you know what have we passed through? Fluffy bunnies!"
"Insomnia!" joined in Dolohov.
"Muggle police!" yelled Rodolphus.
"Hungry hippogriffs!" exclaimed Rookwood to everyone's surprise.
"Crazy Muggles!"
"Weird rappers!"
"Endless distances!"
"Dogs trained to murder!"
"My psycho sister! And you're telling me to wait?" Bellatrix asked incredulously.
The four of them pushed Macnair out of their way, knocking him down. They opened the heavy door with force not caring if they were disturbing anything.
Voldemort who had apparently been talking stopped, a bit taken aback from the interruption. He turned to see who dared to interrupt him when he was explaining his evil plans to take over the wizarding world to those jerks he had for Death Eaters.
All the Death Eaters in the circle turned to their direction. Silence filled the room.
Bellatrix shrugged and looked at Rodolphus waiting for him to speak as he waited for her to do so as well. Dolohov and Rookwood had already joined the other Death Eaters in the circle.
"Well, we are back," they said in a unison, surprising themselves.
Voldemort smiled evilly and motioned them to come to the centre of the circle. Once they were standing next to him wondering whether he would speak or kill them on the spot for breaking that bloody policy, he finally said:
"The best of my Death Eaters are back," he said looking at the other Death Eaters with distaste as he gestured to Bellatrix and Rodolphus. "My Sadistic Star and Fluffy Bunny."
THE END
[That's all folks! Or maybe not? Beware of the sequel! Oh....anyway! I would also like to thank Sadistra for beta-reading my chapters and enduring this torture!]
Sadistra: What torture? Come on readers, was this story torture? Personally, I think it was excellent but somebody (shoots a look at Jamie) won't believe me...
