Chapter 7: Seed of Darkness
(BIG A/N: THIS CHAPTER IS RATED M FOR GROTESQUE IMAGES)
"Bella… oh Bella… I'm coming back… there's nothing you can do to stop me! Your treachery will be punished!"
Bellatrix shot up in a cold sweat.
Was it a dream? Bellatrix looked around the room, trying to calm herself.
The voice had been clear as day.
She swung her legs over the side of the bed.
She was staying in the Potter's house until she could find somewhere to stay.
She got up from the bed and walked over to the window.
The night was pitch black.
No moon and no stars.
She shivered; it was a night just like this when he had brought her back to life.
She had spent the day at St. Mungo's and made a miraculous recovery.
She could eat, and drink now.
She also felt free and good somehow.
The only problem was the baby she was carrying.
Bellatrix had decided to keep the child, she had always wanted a child.
But his child?
What would it be like, trying to raise the child of the most evil man to ever live?
And what about her dream? Was the baby really a baby? Or a re-incarnation of Voldemort himself?
"BELLATRIX LESTRANGE YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!" a loud demonic voice in her head sounded, and her Dark Mark began to burn, burn as it had never burned before.
She felt like she was going to be sick, she opened her mouth to try to scream for help.
But her voice wouldn't work, and then she really felt sick.
She opened her mouth and vomited blood all over the white silk sheets of the bed.
Suddenly the room started spinning, and then it started fading out.
She was convulsing now, blood spurting out of her nose and mouth every few seconds.
The room finally blackened, and she fell, she fainted into a pool of her own blood.
Harry heard a retching sound, and then a loud thump coming from the guest bedroom upstairs.
"Hermione, I'm gonna go check on Bellatrix, I heard something" Harry said, and she said something in a sleepy whisper that Harry couldn't understand, he was pretty sure it was in German.
Harry got out of bed and put on his robe.
He padded up the stairs and knocked on Bellatrix's door.
No answer.
He touched the knob, something flashed and threw him back, and he fell backwards over a chair in the hallway and fell down the stairs.
Harry swore loudly and rushed back up the stairs, wand in hand.
"Alohamora" he muttered, nothing happened.
"Hermione forgive me" Harry whispered, he raised his foot and slammed it into the door.
It crashed in and Harry walked into the room.
He lifted his wand, "Lumos" he whispered.
Bellatrix was laying on the floor in a growing pool of blood, and there was blood on the walls and sheets too.
"HERMIONE GET UP HERE!" Harry yelled at the top of his lungs.
Harry picked Bellatrix up and carried her down the stairs, he met Hermione half way down.
"What happened to her?" Hermione asked, feeling her wrist for a pulse.
"She's alive" Hermione said, even though Bellatrix wasn't breathing.
"Get the fireplace ready!" Harry grunted.
Hermione rushed over, "Incendio" she muttered.
Harry walked into the fireplace and Hermione threw a bunch of floo powder in.
"Saint Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries!" he yelled.
After being engulfed by the green flames and taking the familiar ride through the millions of fireplaces, he finally stopped at the hospital.
He levitated Bellatrix over to the main desk and told the nurse what was going on.
The nurse took Bellatrix up to a room, and told Harry he could come back during visiting hours.
Harry nodded his thanks and then apparated back to his house.
Immediatley, Hermione bombarded him with questions.
"I don't know how she is 'Mione, they wouldn't let me come up" Harry said.
Hermione went back to bed after a minute, but Harry couldn't.
He had to be at work in two hours, it was already four in the morning.
Harry watched TV for an hour, before going up to shower.
At 6:00 Harry apparated to the ministry building.
To his surprise, it was flooded with reporters.
"Harry, is it true about Bellatrix Lestrange?"
"Mr. Potter, what happened to Mrs. Lestrange?"
Harry waved all the reporters off and went to a fireplace.
"Auror HQ" He shouted, and soon he was locked soundly in his office, beyond the reach of reporters.
He worked for a few hours, before he heard a fight going on outside.
"Will you let me in?" someone asked.
"No! Mr. Potter asked me not to let anyone in" his guard said.
"He'll see me!" the person shouted, Harry could tell it was a woman.
"No one is allowed in!" his guard shouted back.
"I'M HIS WIFE FOR HEAVENS SAKE!" Hermione yelled.
Harry laughed and opened his door, "Dawlish, let her in" he said, still chuckling.
Hermione huffed indignantly and followed Harry back into his office.
He conjured her a chair and then sat behind his desk.
"Yes?" he asked.
"I wanted to tell you that Bellatrix is ok, as is the baby" she said, "and I also wanted to know if you wanted to eat lunch together"
Harry nodded, "That's good to hear, and sure I'll eat lunch but first I have to finish this paper, you're welcome to wait it shouldn't take long" he said, looking back to his work.
"What is it?" she asked.
Without looking up Harry replied, "An APB on Ron"
"Oh" Hermione said, and she was oddly quiet after that.
When Harry finished the paper, he gathered his things, and escorted Hermione out of the office.
He dropped the papers off with one of his men and they apparated out, into London.
"Where do you want to eat?" Harry asked.
Hermione looked like she was deep in thought for a minute.
"Oh I don't know somewhere quick and simple" she said.
"Pizza?" Harry asked.
She shook her head, "No Italian" she said.
"Subway?" He asked.
"Ok, sure" she said.
They apparated to the mall and went in at the entrance to Subway.
Vanessa Carlton's "White Houses" was playing and Harry laughed.
"Looks like she's getting very popular doesn't it?" he asked.
"Well she's brilliant!" Hermione replied.
Harry found them a booth, and Hermione went and got the food.
She brought back two sandwiches, two bags of chips, one large coke, and two chocolate chip cookies.
"Hon, I think you forgot my drink" Harry said.
Hermione shook her head, No I didn't we can share" she said.
Harry nodded and unwrapped his sandwich.
After they finished the main course and chips, they ate their cookies.
After that they made their way back out of the restaurant, when something caught Harry's eye.
Hermione had a little blob of chocolate on the corner of her mouth.
He was going to tell her, but thought to try something else.
He reached over and kissed Hermione licking away the chocolate.
He then pulled back and looked a her.
"You had some chocolate on you." He said innocently and Hermione couldn't help but laugh.
Then they kissed and went their separate ways, Harry had to get back to work and Hermione was going to go see Bellatrix.
Harry apparated back to work, and went back to the paperwork.
Harry had to file for extra security, because the elections for the new Minister of Magic were coming up, and Harry knew Ron would try something.
When work was finished, Harry decided to join Hermione at St. Mungo's.
He took the elevator up to Bellatrix's room, and saw Hermione sitting outside.
"What's going on?" Harry asked.
Hermione looked up from her newspaper.
"Bellatrix went into another spasm of convulsions and they think if it keeps up she's going to lose the baby" she said.
"Why?" Harry asked.
"Well… It's sort of gross, she puked up her small intestine this time" Hermione said, Harry winced.
"That's sick" Harry said, "What are they going to do?"
Hermione didn't answer for a minute, then finally she did.
"They're going in to get the baby now, they can't wait till it's fully developed, she's going to lose it if they don't do something, and they can't cure her, so they have to get the baby" Hermione said.
Harry chuckled, "Bet they wouldn't be trying so hard, if they knew who the father was" Harry said.
Hermione gave him a scolding look for laughing at a time like this.
"Sorry" Harry said.
They were quiet for the rest of the time.
After a bit, a little plump witch bustled out holding a baby wrapped in a blanket.
They could hear Bellatrix screaming incomprehensible words from inside her room.
After a while a witch came out,
"Mrs. Potter… Oh Mr. Potter I see you've joined you're wife, you two can come in now" she said.
They walked in, and the witch left them alone, closing the door behind her.
Bellatrix was anything but doing better.
She was thrashing around on the bed, screaming.
Hermione's hand flew to her mouth, "Oh my goodness" she said.
Harry pulled out his wand, "Harry! You can't!" Hermione said.
They watched, waiting for Bellatrix to stop.
She was hooked to an IV running a calming potion into her, but it didn't seem to be doing any good.
After a while, another healer came in, "Oh my, she still hasn't stopped?" he asked himself, not really noticing Harry or his wife.
He took out his wand, "yes tranquilizer spell should do" he said.
He raised his wand and made a few complicated waves, "Desconis" he muttered.
Bellatrix immediately collapsed on the bed, motionless, and quiet.
The healer bustled out, still paying no notice to the Potters.
"That's what I was going to do" Harry said.
"We should leave, there's nothing to see" Hermione said.
And holding hands, together, they apparated home.
The children were still at school, so they had the house to themselves.
"They start Hogwarts tomorrow don't they?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, and Anna starts private school, she stays all year round, except for holidays of course" Harry added the last bit at seeing the look on Hermione's face.
Harry and Hermione watched a few movies and then when the kid's got home, Hermione insisted on grading their homework.
All four of them went to bed early that night, they had already been shopping at Diagon Alley, and they had already packed their things.
Ron had taught Mark how to play Quidditch and Harry had given Mark his Firebolt.
"Take care of her" Harry had said, gingerly handing over the broomstick.
The next morning Harry and Hermione loaded the children's things into the car.
"Crookshanks comes back!" Lily yelled, chasing the old cat around the yard.
Lily had gotten her mother's cat only because she wanted it.
Harry had offered her a new one, but she wanted Crookshanks.
Mark had got a screech owl named Ares, after the Greek god of war.
Harry chased Crookshanks all the way around the yard before he finally stunned the cat and got it into the car.
"Ok everyone ready?" Harry asked.
Everyone said yes, so they set off.
When they reached King's Cross, they all got onto Platform 9 ¾ to see the scarlet steam engine.
Mark and Lily said their goodbyes and set off.
"BE CAREFUL AT HOGWARTS!" Harry yelled after them.
"DON'T FORGET TO WRITE!" Hermione yelled.
"AND GET ME A SOUVENIR!" Anna yelled
The twins waved out the window as the train set off.
"Our babies are gone, by themselves for a year" Hermione said, "Just when I get them back they leave"
Harry wrapped a comforting arm around Hermione and led her back off the platform.
Then they went to Platform 12 and got Anna situated on the train to her school.
Then, they apparated home.
"House seems big and lonely without the kid's doesn't it?" Harry asked.
Hermione nodded.
"Now I know how Mrs. Weasley felt when she let Ron go" Hermione said.
Harry stiffened at the sound of Ron's name.
"Sorry Harry, it's going to be hard getting used to this" Hermione said.
Then she buried her head in his chest and he wrapped his arms around her back.
"I can't believe him, are you sure he's not under the imperius curse?" she asked.
Harry nodded,
"The imperius curse isn't strong enough to make Ron act like he did" he said.
Hermione stared to cry, and Harry stroked her hair soothingly, all the while saying the only words that would come to mind.
"It's all right, it's ok baby, it'll be fine"
After a while she extracted herself from Harry's arms and wiped her tears away,
"I'm acting like a baby" she muttered.
"No you're not, you're just devastated" Harry said.
He led Hermione up the stairs to their bedroom so she could rest, she looked oh so tired.
He pushed the blankets up to her chin, gave her a quick peck on the lips and went back downstairs.
He plopped down on the couch and flipped on the TV.
A special news bulletin was playing.
"And the main story this morning" the reporter was saying,
"Downtown London is in flames this morning, an explosion rocked most of the southern parts of the city, and firemen can't put the fire out, although by far the most mysterious thing is the symbol floating above the wreckage,
it looks like a skull with a snake through the mouth; it looks like it's made out of green sparkling smoke.
There is no apparent cause for the explosion, no bomb shells, no gas readings or anything."
Harry flipped off the TV and scribbled a note to Hermione
Mione gotta go, explosion in downtown London
Dark Mark floating above the wreckage,
Muggles getting suspicious,
Gotta clear things up,
Love, Harry
He set the note on the island in the kitchen where she would be sure to find it, before apparating to his office.
"What the hell are you sitting around for!" he yelled at all the aurors that were at their desks.
"The Dark Mark is floating above explosion wreckage in Downtown London, we should have been there as soon as it happened, but I heard about it on the MUGGLE NEWS!" he yelled.
It took a few
minutes for his words to sink in, and then suddenly the office was in
a frenzy.
Everyone was yelling out orders, "Get an obliviator
squad!"
"Get a forensics squad over there!"
"Get the Dark Mark out of the sky!"
Then Harry interrupted, "Get investigators on the scene that's all we have to worry about, this is a job for the Department Of Magical Disasters And Catastrophes" he said.
Then he apparated to the crime scene.
It was horrible.
Cars were on their backsides, the street was split in two, buildings had been leveled, and sure enough, there was the Dark Mark.
The worst part was, Collin Creevy snapping pictures for the Daily Prophet.
Harry whipped out his wand, and aimed it at the Dark Mark.
"De-Morsmordre!" he yelled, a black wisp of smoke emitted from his wand and vanished the Dark Mark.
"HEY!" Collin yelled.
Harry grabbed him roughly by the collar of his shirt,
"You release even one of those pictures to the Prophet, and you'll find yourself snapping pictures of the inside of Azkaban, you hear me?" Harry said.
Collin nodded, fearfully.
"Good, because if I find any reports about this scene, your next article will be 'An insiders view on Azkaban'
so get out of here" Harry said.
Collin started to walk away.
"Collin, you're forgetting something" Harry said.
Collin spun around, "What?" he asked.
"Accio camera" Harry said.
"HEY!" Collin roared as Harry set it on fire with a wave of his wand.
"GO!" Harry yelled, and Collin apparated with a pop.
Suddenly Hermione appeared next to him.
"Harry! You have to see this quick! Come on! St. Mungo's! The baby!" she yelled breathlessly.
She grabbed his arm and apparated.
They rushed up to Bellatrix's room, she was holding the baby.
"It's evil" she croaked, "Evil… Evil… Evil" she kept repeating it over and over again in a dazed croak.
Harry walked over and took the baby from her; she made no attempt to hold on to it.
He turned it around; he didn't see anything wrong with it.
In fact, it looked just like Bellatrix; it didn't resemble Voldemort at all.
"What's wrong with it?" Harry asked.
"It's evil" Bellatrix was still croaking.
"Hermione, what's wrong with it?" Harry asked.
"It didn't move at all while it was inside Bellatrix, it didn't cry when it was born, and it was a painless labor." She said, "It hasn't made one sound since it's been born, or moved" she continued.
"IT'S EVIL!" Bellatrix screamed, and then collapsed on the bed.
Harry let the baby down near it's mother, and steered Hermione quietly out of the room.
He turned off the lights and shut the door.
What Harry didn't see or hear, was that the minute the lights went off the baby's eyes gleamed blood red, and it made a hissing sound, that sounded exactly like a snake.
Ok that's chapter 7, this story is almost as long as the first one already and I'm only on chapter 7.
This story is so far 27 pages, the first one was 32 pages when it was finished.
This was possibly one of the most important chapters, as you will see in the upcoming chapters.
The one thing I have found in this story, is that I never run out of Idea's
I've got the whole story and the next one planned out.
And no matter how many stories I write, this trilogy will always be my most treasured piece of work.
I'll be sad when it's finished, but I'll be proud of myself too.
Because even though I got a few flames, I got so many good reviews and I want to thank everyone that has given my three stories that are out, good reviews.
I'm gonna stop now because I'm getting all sentimental.
Hope you like the chapter, please review!
The next chapter is going to take a while to write so you'll have to wait a little.
It might only take 3 days, it might take a week, I don't know.
Ok… I'm rambling again.
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