Chapter 6
Symptom One: Sweet Dreams My Fair Lady
"Very good job Severus indeed. I wonder how you managed to put that curse on them!" Mr. Weasley said delighted.
Most of the members had gathered in the kitchen of Grimmauld Place hanging from Severus' every word about how he administered the potion to the Death Eaters. Dumbledore seemed to be quite satisfied too as he smiled at him and entwined his long fingers.
"So Severus to whom did you put the curse?" Dumbledore questioned.
The Potions Master shifted nervously in his seat. They were expecting to hear some great Death Eater like Malfoy or even Voldemort himself. However he had managed to give it to someone who would be better off going back to a kindergarten.
"I was planning….er…well actually….Bellatrix Lestrange," he replied quickly stumbling on his own words. He kept looking away from the Headmaster who was determined to meet his eyes.
The others however received this statement with a gasp of awe. Even Fred and George were gaping with their jaws hanging open and he smirked at them smugly. Yes, a lie was worth seeing those two juvenile delinquents surprised. Just when he had started liking all the attention his own eternal curse stormed in the kitchen looking devastated.
"I can't find Sirius! He must have escaped!" he said tears welling up in his eyes.
Dumbledore turned to him with a warm smile. "I'm sure you will find him Harry. Now please let us…." The Headmaster made to say but was cut off.
"No, you don't understand! You must summon a search team to look for him!" the Boy Who Had Lost His Mind insisted.
Dumbledore sighed and replied with an almost imperceptible tone of irritation in his voice: "When we adjourn the meeting I will see to that. Trust me Harry," he said slowly praying for patience. Before Harry could protest he glanced quickly at Lupin who took his message.
Standing up the werewolf took Harry by the arm as if escorting a madman outside. "Come Harry Dumbledore will find Sirius. For the moment let's go to Ron and Hermione, shall we?"
Once Harry had left Dumbledore sighed really worried about Harry's mental health. Molly Weasley seemed really moved about the sixteen year old's situation as her eyes were shining with tears. "What can we do about him Albus?" she asked.
Snape answered instead with a snort of amusement. "Lock him in the psychiatric department of St. Mungo's." Everyone glared daggers at him and Fred said viciously to him leaning forward. "So Voldie Oldie can finish what he started?" The twins obviously still didn't believe he was working for the Order now.
Severus raised a brow sarcastically. "How did you know?" he asked.
Everybody else seemed to sense the sarcasm apart from the two boys. Fred and George looked at each other victoriously but their enthusiasm was interrupted by Dumbledore.
"Please Fred and George I will have to take you out," he pleaded not being in the mood of dealing with anymore children.
"Fine professor…" they both mumbled gloomily and sat silent for the rest of the meeting on their seats.
"Anyway how will we know the curse worked on Lestrange?" Tonks now with pink hair and purple streaks asked from the other side of the table. Of course she always wore that Weird Sisters T-shirt.
Dumbledore grinned and the familiar childish sparkle shined in his eyes. "Oh yes, how could I forget that? When a person gets the curse of the fluffy bunnies he has certain symptoms which start like this…. "
((((Voldemort's Castle))))
A chilling scream shuttered the deathly silence of Voldemort's castle. The empty corridors echoed the scream making sure it was heard in every nook and cranny of the estate. It surely wasn't a person being tortured because everyone except those who were doing their shifts was sound asleep.
But not any more. Rodolphus bolted out of his chambers swearing at the same time and so did Malfoy.
"I swear if it's Bellatrix again I'ma kill her! Last time she had screamed because some rats where in her room! Or perhaps it was Wormtail…." Rodolphus said thoughtfully to Lucius who nodded frustrated.
Just then from the corner of the corridor came the Dark Lord looking really angry his red eyes flashing. He was followed by Dolohov, Macnair and some other Death Eaters as well. "Who screamed?" he demanded looking at all of them.
"It must have been Bellatrix because her chambers are on the east wing and the scream was heard from quite far," Rodolphus replied hoping silently that the Dark Lord would kill her on the spot
The Dark Lord nodded and strode towards her room. No sooner had Bellatrix put on her nightgown when they stormed in. "HAVEN'T YOU BEEN TAUGHT TO KNOCK THE DOOR FIRST PERVERTS!" she asked wondering if it was one of them who had screamed.
"HAVEN'T YOU BEEN TAUGHT NOT TO SCREAM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT BELLATRIX!" Rodolphus shouted back feeling like having a fight for petty reasons. He wasn't in his best when he had just woken up.
Bellatrix paused at his indignant exclamation and gave them an odd look. "I wasn't the one who screamed…" she said slowly with a frown.
Voldemort answered this with a sigh. "Oh this is surely going to take a while…is everyone here?" he asked talking to the Death Eaters behind him.
In an instant, whispers and a lot of fidgeting was heard among the dark wizards but even if they put all of their heads together they would never find who was the one missing and probably the person who screamed. Voldemort was eyeing them patiently stomping his foot on the ground.
Bellatrix was smiling amused though something which irritated Rodolphus greatly. "What do you find so amusing? The fact that perhaps someone was intruded the castle and killed one of us?"
That made Bellatrix's smile even wider. "Actually I don't give a damn whether any of you dies but that's not the point. I know who screamed," she said casually. Bellatrix loved those moments when she knew something all along when these idiotic people were at a loss.
As soon as she spoke those words everyone stopped and turned to look at her. The Dark Lord raised his eyebrows crossing his arms in front of his chest. He was being remarkably patient with everyone, as he had to admit.
"Would you mind sharing your thoughts with us, Bellatrix?" he demanded an irritated tone ringing in his voice.
She flashed a kind smile and replied: "It's actually Rookwood. As you may have noticed he's the only one absent." At times like this she wondered the intelligence quotient of her fellow Death Eaters even of the Dark Lord. She had just finished her sentence when another shriek of panic reached their ears this time a lot closer. No one needed any order to rush for Rookwood's room. But as always two people would cause a problem.
"Rodolphus! Where are your manners?" Bellatrix groaned as she got stuck with Rodolphus at the entrance while everyone else had left.
"I don't have, dear. But if you were at least a bit clever you would stop pushing so that I pass through the door!" he exclaimed equally annoyed elbowing her in the ribs.
"Ladies first!" she said triumphantly kicking him right below the knee.
Inevitably, Rodolphus folded in two from the pain and Bellatrix got to the chance to bolt out of the door running down the corridor. Seeing she would reach before him Rodolphus forgot all pain and run after her. He could see the hem of Bellatrix's nightgown as she turned quickly the corner to the next corridor. The cold marble was quite slippery so he almost broke his neck trying to catch up with her.
"Got first! Hahaha!" Bellatrix teased Rodolphus as if she were five years old. She extended her hand to open the door through which everyone else had gone.
"You wish bitch!" he hissed wrapping his arms around her waist pulling her back away from the door.
"Get off me!" she exclaimed fighting to free herself from Rodolphus' grip.
Just then Voldemort got out throwing an inquiring look at the two. He frowned slightly giving Bellatrix a disappointed look.
"To be honest, I didn't know you two had such urges…." He remarked.
"What urges my Lord?" Bellatrix asked before snapping at Rodolphus. She elbowed him harshly on the ribs. "Let go of me."
"I wouldn't keep you more even if you paid me," he answered shoving her.
They both coughed and brushed their clothes as the Dark Lord watched them praying for patience. He thought that would be a nice and quiet night that just involved sitting on the couch playing Cluedo or making extremely evil-and-able-to-destroy-the-universe plans. Okay perhaps he didn't want to do the first thing; he was a Dark Lord! But Bellatrix's voice made him snap out of his thoughts.
"So what happened with Rookwood? Did he have his throat slit?" she asked all excited her eyes glowing maliciously.
Rodolphus snorted scornfully. What chance was there that psycho had broken into Voldemort's castle, climbing up the hundred meters tall wall, getting into Rookwood's room and slitting his throat with a chainsaw? About 75 percentactually. These criminals….they would go to any lengths to do anything.
"No, he just had a nightmare," He Who Under No Circumstances Must Be Called Tommy replied a tone of annoyance in his voice.
"A NIGHTMARE?" the Lestrange couple shouted in unison and right after glared at each other bloody murder. This timing they had was a bad habit.
The Dark Lord nodded a smirk curling on his lips. "Exactly. Something about pink fluffy bunnies which were possessed and attacking him with blueberry muffins," he said with a sigh. "I think he ate too much at dinner," he added thinking to himself 'and now I have to put on that night cream for face lifting again!'
Bellatrix blinked. What in seven hells? Fluffy bunnies and blueberry muffins? She turned to Rodolphus sneering. "He was probably dreaming of you….fluffy bunny!" Saying that she collapsed to a mad laughter.
Her husband narrowed his eyes dangerously hoping that psycho with the chainsaw had actually come in and killed her. He decided to ignore her and he entered Rookwood's room. There was a fireplace burning and Rookwood was sitting in an armchair sobbing uncontrollably. Around him stood several Death Eaters either discussing the situation or consoling him.
"Are you feeling okay, Augustus?" asked Rodolphus with a smile as he approached Rookwood.
Said Death Eater stopped crying and looked up at Rodolphus. "It was terrible. All the bunnies coming to get me…" he started saying but his eyes stopped cold on person behind Rodolphus' back.
"NO! GET AWAY FROM ME SATANIC BUNNY! YOU HAVE COME! YOU HAVE COME AGAIN TO GET ME!" he shouted from the top of his lungs pointing at Bellatrix who stared utterly confused by his sudden outburst.
All chattering stopped and everyone turned to look at Rookwood who backed away from Bellatrix as if she had cholera. The Dark Lord reached and pushed him down back to his armchair. "Relax, Rookwood. Panicking won't take you anywhere…Bellatrix and the rest of you; let's get out of here. We shall leave Rookwood alone to sleep."
Rookwood was still whimpering and Bellatrix decided to have some fun. "OH MY FREAKIN' GOD! IS THAT A FLUFFY BUNNY BEHIND YOU!" she shrieked as if filled with horror taking some steps backwards.
Rookwood jumped several feet in the air as though he had been told that the Trick-Or-Treat custom was to be banned. And that's says a lot.
"Bellatrix! OUT!" Riddle shouted hoping he would manage to get some sleep.
She pouted and trudged towards the exit but as she reached the threshold she turned to Rookwood. "Sweet dreams my fair lady…" she made to say however the Dark Lord needed urgently that night cream and wouldn't waste more time. "OUT!"
Despite Rookwood's vehement protests Voldemort led the others out of the room and he went out himself locking the door behind him. With a sigh he turned around to face his servants.
"I don't think it's anything to worry about. We can all go back to sleep," he said and as the others made to leave he added
"Ah, and one more thing. Next time we can just order pizza. We don't anyone's cooking abilities to kill us. Unless it's for killing Potter." He mused on that thought of murdering Potter with spaghetti parmezana but then shrugged feeling tired and remembering the face-lift night cream. "Goodnight to all of you."
After a while each one of the Death Eaters made their way to their room. To Bellatrix's bad luck she was left with Malfoy and Rodolphus to walk back to her room. With much kicking and elbowing as well.
"No wonder Augustus was afraid of you, Bellatrix," remarked Lucius with a smirk forming on his lips. "You look like a ghost. Especially when you have just woken up."
Rodolphus nodded his head with a smug smile. "True."
Bellatrix snorted extremely angry with those two. "Okay you two shut up! Rodolphus I will divulge to Malfoy your secret!" she threatened her husband her eyes glinting evilly. She knew she had just hit a sensitive spot there.
Rodolphus seemed a bit reluctant for a moment and then glared at Bellatrix. "Fine, bitch." Not even bothering to say goodnight to neither of them he stalked off to his room crashing down several armors on his wake.
Bellatrix snickered feeling satisfied that she had done her daily blackmail. But Malfoy wouldn't let her enjoy even that.
"What secret? You can tell me Bellatrix you know that I don't…" he said eager to learn more.
"Oh please Malfoy. Keep your nose out of our family business!" she said with a very slight and almost undetectable tone of sarcasm.
He snorted scornfully. "Your what? Since when you two make a family…" he started saying before howling with laughter.
Bellatrix shook her head too tired to confront him right now. "You can stay here laughing. I'm going to sleep."
Malfoy just ignored her and kept on laughing. Bellatrix sighed and then decided to cut his laughter before leaving.
"And one more thing, Lucy. I love your hairnet! So manly!" she chirped walking away.
So yeah finally the sixth chapter. I want to apologise to all of you. I'm extremely sorry for postponing the update.
BellatrixLestrange9: Do you think the mashed potatoes you ate had the same substance? BEWARE OF THE CURSE!
Grace: Yeah Voldemort as pictured in the books isn't a guy to take such things lightly but this my kinda ruined version of him as being blackmailed by Bellatrix.
Elladora Riddle: Thanks for being so kind!
Jaylynn Snape: Awww... thanks for your good words but for the moment I don't have a writer's block. But I would love to hear any of your ideas if I can actually fit them in the main plot.And that's for all of ya out there. Tell me any suggestions!
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Bella Riddle: Bella's punishment is to make Rodolphus make all the housework which is usually done by women...
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