Alright, I hope this chapter came out sooner than the previous one! Again I have to say to all of you lovely reviewers that you have our eternal gratitude! You give joy to our dull lives! Thanks toevery single one of you!

And one more thing.This chapter due to certain reasons (my computer likes to screw with me)won't open the file with the beta-ed edition of the chapter so there might be a couple of mistakes in there. Excuse us for this.....

Chapter 5

The Boy Who Almost Killed

Bellatrix shifted anxiously in her sleep and suddenly opened her eyes to see the dark shadows of the furniture being her mere company in the room. She was about to turn on her other side when she heard the door creaking open and someone entering. She sat up on her elbows. "Yes?" she asked not being able to see the figure clearly.

No one spoke. 'Just like those stupid, cheap, Muggle, horror movies' she thought and came to a sitting position on her bed. She could now hear his steps as he came all the more closer and she cursed under her breath. His shadow, formed by the small amount of moonlight that passed in her 'cell', was now on the wall, moving with him. "Remus?" she called beginning to feel frightened...

Bellatrix could expect anyone but Harry Potter standing in front of her with a smirk on his lips. "Potter? What do you want here?" she asked standing up. But the voice that answered was definitely not Potter's. It was a voice she knew very well.

"How did you manage to get yourself caught, Bella? That doesn't matter anymore. I'm sorry to have to waste one of my best Death Eaters, but what can I do? Now, I can't let you spill your guts to Dumbledore, can I?"

'I can't believe this is happening to me!' she thought and then she did the first thing that came into her mind; she screamed.

Potter or better say Voldemort in the body of Potter headed over to her as she backed away slowly. With an amused sigh he took out his wand and aimed at her.

Bellatrix screamed at the top of her lungs again as she avoided the first curse. She hoped no silencing charms were put on the room... Her shrieks were her only hope...

Riddle laughed coldly. "Really Bella where is your courage? Now I see you're not worth a Death Eater, you never were....AVADA KEDAVRA!" Bellatrix ducked the curse the last moment hitting the ground. She looked around the room to find something to protect herself nothing. Damn.

Bellatrix was not listening to his words. All she could think about was how to escape. She screamed again as she ducked one more curse and made to reach the door. 'Where is Remus when you need him' she thought as she pulled a stool in front of her as a shield for another curse. The Avada Kedavra hit it and broke it into a thousand pieces.

She sighed exasperated and made a last attempt standing up. She shouted from the top of her lungs. "FOR GOD'S SAKE THE DARK LORD IS HERE!" She hadn't even finished her sentence when Voldemort cast the Cruciatus. She collapsed to the ground feeling pain passing through her entire being.

She felt like she was on the point of going crazy when the door opened. She didn't notice though. She was able to understand nothing but the excruciating pain from the Cruciatus.

Suddenly as a miracle the pain subsided and she fell breathless to the floor. It felt so much better now. And she still couldn't believe she survived this. What about Voldemort? Was he still in Potter? Probably no as there weren't any curses cast anymore.

Her whole body had gone numb. She tried to stand up but she couldn't. She felt someone take her to her bed and she felt a lot better. In the back of her mind she heard voices but was too tired to comprehend. Soon she drifted into sleep...

The next evening she opened her eyes and closed them immediately as light from the open window blinded her. She opened them again slowly getting used to it. "What happened?" she asked aloud shaking her head but suddenly the memories of last night became clear.

She couldn't believe her good luck! No one had not escaped from the Dark Lord apart from Harry Potter. Perhaps she could now be called the-woman-who-lived. She looked around the room. There were pieces of wood all over the place and everything was a mess but she didn't care. All that mattered now was that she was alive.

She sighed and sat up to her elbows. However the thought that the Dark Lord sought to kill her wasn't comforting. She felt a bit insecure about this fact but she had already decided to be on her own from now on.

"Don't think about that now!" she said aloud to herself. Her mind though returned to the previous night. She laughed as she thought about Harry Potter being controlled by her Master. 'And those people have placed their last hope on that kid!' she thought.

Bellatrix shook her head a bit amused as she stood up. They were all helpless. She snorted scornfully and kicked the remainders of the broken chair to the side of the room.

There was a knock on the door and Bellatrix immediately knew who it would be. "Come in!" she said. The door opened and a worried Remus Lupin entered the room.

"Good evening Bellatrix," he said with a smile.

"Err....good evening. Want to sit?" she asked gesturing to the broken chair. "No forget it better," she answered that herself.

"Oh don't worry!" he said and made a chair with a flick of his wand. He sat down. "Are you feeling better?" he asked as she sat on the bed.

Bellatrix shrugged. "Well yeah I'm better today....although things are still a bit hazy from last night," she said.

"Why did You-Know-Who want to kill you, Bellatrix?" he asked confused. Why would he? She was one of his best servants... Maybe he was afraid that she would tell everything to Albus...

She raised her eyebrows. "Because I disobeyed his orders and failed him? I don't know anymore..." she murmured shaking her head.

Remus decided not to push her over this. He thought it was terrible for her. For God's sake, she even wasted the best years of her life in Azkaban for him!

She sighed. "I just had to do it," she said suddenly.

"You had to do what?" he snapped back from his thoughts.

"Join the Death Eaters....then leave on my own....I don't know how I got this way...." she said again feeling horribly lost. She put her head in her hands.

He didn't know how to comfort her. He somehow knew however that he shouldn't-that he couldn't leave her desperate like that. "Don't think about this now... You are still breathing and that's what matters."

She looked up and smiled weakly. "Probably. But now....it's just.." She felt the need to tell them everything, all his plans just for Voldemort to get mad. However she wasn't sure about it.

Somehow Remus was sure that there was something that Bellatrix wanted to tell him... something crucial. He didn't know how to handle the matter. If he pushed her, she would probably think again about telling him. So he selected the way that he thought best: he sat there and waited for her to speak.

Bellatrix looked at him still ambivalent about what to do. How did she know that if she told them they wouldn't lock her up back in Azkaban? The Ministry would just love to do it. So would Potter. "Well....how's Potter?" she changed the subject.

"He's exhausted from last night. He is talking with Albus at the moment," Remus said shrugging. "I don't think you care about him, though."

Bellatrix couldn't fight a smile. "Not really...." Just trying to change subject, she thought. "I wouldn't care for someone who put the Crucio on me and tried to kill me," she said.

"He didn't do it on purpose, though!" Remus argued. "Your master took over him!" 'but he would have done it, if he could' he thought.

"I thought he was learning Occlumancy," Bellatrix pointed out. She just hated it when everyone supported the hero.

"Well, he was... but he couldn't work quite well with his trainer so he stopped. Wait! How do you know this?" 'She can't know...'

She smiled at his shocked expression. "Well the Dark Lord knows..." she said aware of the fact she already divulged one of his secrets.

"No kidding!" he said bored. Everyone in the Order knew that Voldemort knew about Harry learning Occlumancy!

"Then why did you ask how I knew it?!" she demanded frustrated.

"As far as I can remember, you are not You-Know-Who. I thought that he kept himself to himself."

She smiled sarcastically. "Not to his best Death Eaters," she pointed out.

"What else do you know about us?" he asked curious.

She raised an eyebrow. "You want to know?" she asked innocently.

"Of course" he said immediately.

Bellatrix smiled sweetly and leaned closer. "And why should I tell you?"

"Why shouldn't you?" he asked smiling sweetly as well.

She paused. Why shouldn't she? She didn't belong to the Death Eaters anymore. She blinked as she looked in his brown eyes. "Because.....you may use it against me."

He laughed at that. "For Merlin's sake! I even discussed letting you go around the house!"

"With me! Not with those people!" she said gesturing outside furiously.

"So you don't trust me, do you? It's sad cause I trust you!" Remus decided that he needed that information. He remembered why he was there in first place and decided to push her more.

"You trust me?" she questioned rather stupidly. It felt really weird that Remus Lupin trusted her when she had murdered his best friend.

'I wonder the same myself right now' "Of course I do! Why would I be with you now? And why would I save you from You-Know-Who?" he wasn't planning on telling her the last part but he needed that information. Dumbledore would be proud of him if he got it...

Bellatrix gaped at him blinking. ".....You wha...?" Oh bloody hell too much information to get in her mind and she had just woken up. He watched her blink in surprise. He felt regretful for using those facts in order to get the information he wanted but there is no way he was going to stop now.

Bellatrix made herself comfortable on her bed. "Well in fact he already knows that you hide in Grimmauld Place but he doesn't really give a damn about it. He wants to take over Hogwarts. The most well-secured place in England," she said.

"He knows? How the hell does he know?" Remus paced up and down the room now. 'Dumbledore will be thankful to know that he wants Hogwarts'

Bellatrix shrugged. "He just does. He's the Dark Lord," she replied watching him pace the room.

"Will you help us?" Remus asked suddenly.

Bellatrix looked at him utterly taken aback. "Excuse me?" she asked.

"Will you help us defeat You-Know-Who? Please Bellatrix! We need all the help we can get!" he asked pleadingly, having forgotten all about his revenge.

Bellatrix's jaw almost touched the floor. "What? Do you know what are you asking me?"

"I know it's hard for you, but, please, will you help us?" he asked hopefully one more time. He had stopped pacing around the room and was now looking at her expectantly.

"It's you asking for my help no one else did. Who would need after all my help? I'm a Death Eater!" she said.

"Then help me! You are a Death Eater and you are a good one too. You know how to fight them, you know where they are strong and where they are weak!"

Bellatrix stood up. "Then why should I help you? Has anyone ever helped me? Huh? Never! So I don't have any motive to do so," she said looking away from his eyes feeling that she had disappointed him.

"Fine" he said calmly, clearly disappointed. "Do you want me to leave? You must be tired after yesterday and I do believe you need to rest a bit more," he looked concerned now. Disappointed but concerned. 'I shouldn't have pushed her. She escaped from You-Know-Who a few hours ago' he thought, not realising that he was being too overprotective.

"I am...no it's ok. You can stay," she said not wanting him to leave. "I am just confused..." she said looking away. Hell if she wasn't confused. Voldemort wanted to kill her, she revealed his secret plans and she was in l....NO! Admit it Bellatrix, said a second more sensible voice in her mind.

"If you really want me to," he said and sat back down. He looked her over for the hundredth time. She wasn't looking at him. She was looking at a spot of the wall absent-mindly. She really was confused and it was his fault. How did he have this ingenious idea of asking her to help them...

Bellatrix averted her gaze from the wall's tapestry and looked at him in the eyes. "Why did you save me last night?" she asked suddenly.

"I don't know. I heard you screaming and I came in here and saw Harry performing the Cruciatus on you and I just knew that I had to stop him. Everything happened very quickly," he said shrugging. 'Please, don't bring this up' he thought. He didn't want to talk about that.

Bellatrix nodded silently. It felt so awkward talking to him. She crossed her arms in front of her chest. "Well you could let him torture me. I bet you want to do that yourself," she said smiling somewhat bitterly.

"If I wanted to, I would have already done it." he said.

"You can't perform a Cruciatus. It's illegal," she pointed out.

"Have you ever thought that working for Dumbledore may have it's advantages?" he asked with a twinkle in his eyes.

Bellatrix raised an eyebrow inquiringly. "Like?" she asked.

"How so you think that Harry got away with performing magic during the summer break?"

She snorted. "Because he's your beloved poor hero! And I work only for myself. Now," she said.

Remus rolled his eyes. "And because Albus helped him in the trial. No Albus, no Hogwarts"

"What do I got to do with this?" she asked still not getting his point.

"I can torture you with the Cruciatus Curse like you did to the Longbottoms. However, I can get away with it" he pointed out.

Bellatrix laughed coldly. "Oh but it doesn't matter who you are from the moment you perform a Cruciatus. And you can't torture me like I did to the Longbottoms," she added.

"It does matter to who you perform the Crutacious. And why can't I torture you?" he asked glaring at her.

"You're not good enough to!" she said with a victorious smile. "But I would like to see you trying," she provoked him crossing her arms in front of her chest expectantly.

"I'm not going to waste my time on torturing you! Besides, I already told you that I am not going to" he said as if talking to a 4-year-old.

"Because you're a coward," she explained still challenging him.

"Because I don't wanna hurt you," he said his thoughts aloud.

Bellatrix could expect anything but this. Once she managed to recover from the surprise she asked a bit stupidly "Me?"

"Yes, you. I don't like to make people suffer," he said trying to cover his 'mistake'. He wasn't supposed to say this. He wasn't even supposed to think this. Hell, if only he weren't so damn confused!

She nodded. "Ah, okay..." What the hell had she been thinking? Had she really gone crazy after Azkaban?

Remus glanced at his watch. He had only two hours to sleep before it was his turn to patrol in the Ministry. "Well, I gotta go to sleep. I will see you tomorrow morning" he said standing up.

Bellatrix stood up as wellallof a suddenfeeling a bit uneasy. "Okay and...." she paused hesitantly.

"Good night!" he said and turned to leave.

Bellatrix took one step reluctantly. "Er...Remus?" she asked.

Remus turned and faced her. "Yes?" he asked.

She paused now more hesitant than ever but decided to take just one risk. "Good night," she said giving him a gentle kiss on the cheek.

Remus did a double-take. he smiled at her, not really knowing what else to do. He turned and left the room, wondering if he was living in a dream or not.

Rodolphus was pacing up and down his room. He was thinking the last details of his 'ingenious' plan. He would leave for the Ministry in a few seconds.

This was much better than Voldemort's first plan. He would get the chance to do the work by himself. If you want to do something well do it yourself they said.

It was time. Rodolphus left his room and apparated to the Ministry's Muggle entrance. He hid in the shadows of a nearby building and waited for an Order member to come out.

It seemed like hours after that Arthur Weasley got out of the phone booth. Rodolphus had almost fell asleep while waiting.

Carefully, Rodolphus followed Weasley in the dark roads of London. That man seemed to choose the most deserted streets. Finally they walked through a park and found themselves in a street named Grimmauld Place.

Rodolphus smirked and wearing the Invisibility Cloak Voldemort had given him followed Weasley swiftly.

Weasley stopped between numbers 11 and 13. he knocked and the door opened. The whole time, Rodolphus had the feeling that he had been there before. 'Of course' he thought. 'This is where Bellatrix's uncle and aunt lived. along with her idiot cousins' he remembered.

He shook his head. What fools were all of them....He watched Weasley getting inside and decided to hide to the park opposite the house.

However, when the house appeared, some minutes ago, he thought he saw light in one of the front rooms. The shadow of a woman kissing a man on the cheek could be seen. "Probably that Granger girl kissing her boyfriend Potter or Weasley" he mumbled.

With a snort he sat on the base of a tree still with the cloak pondering his next moves. He had two hours before the next person would come out of the house. He could take a nap until then, couldn't he? He made himself more comfortable and drifted into sleep.

And this was the fifth chap! We have no idea when the next is going to up but just for you to know we are not planning to abandon the story, right Demetra? Anyway, have a good day all of you!