Chapter five:

Severus Snape was something different. He had such talent for potions that it even amazed himself. He had managed to come up with an antidote for Creptius in not even two weeks. Usually an antidote, or a potion, took months and months of preparing and boiling, but he, Severus Snape, had done it in no more than one week and 4 days. He couldn't deny he was proud.

" Congratulations.. traitor." Bellatrix said from a corner behind of him.

" Well thank you, Bella.. how are you doing today?" Snape asked sarcastically as he kept an eye on his antidote potion.

" So, you're saving Nymphadora then.." Bellatrix Lestrange summed up. Deep inside of her, she was expecting him to trick Lupin and keep the watch and the antidote to himself.

" Apparently.." Snape said as if it didn't matter.

" How did you do it?" Bellatrix asked. Snape was perplexed, he wasn't sure what she was talking about.

" Well, I mixed a couple of herbs I knew had medical effects, then, I added some dust from the grave of.." But Snape was quickly cut off.

" Not the potion you idiot! How did you manage to look as if you had killed Dumbledore!" Bellatrix asked in desperation. She had no patience for speaking tricks.

" Well dear Bella, that's because I did kill him." Snape said emphasising the word " did".

" No you didn't.. how many times I've got to tell you? I'm further than you.. you can't trick me.." Bellatrix said in a dangerous tone that made Snape consider the situation. He left the cauldron and began walking towards the woman.

" Fine. I guess I can't hide it from your inner eye, Bella." Snape said sarcastically as he remembered his former coleague, Sybil Trelawney.

" Good. Speak up." Bellatrix said as she locked her eyes on his.

" I never left Dumbledore's side. When I told the Dark Lord about the prophecy, yes, I was eager to serve him, but when he appeared to be dead and I found a place at Howgarts, let's just say that my eagerness to serve the fainted Dark Lord had evaporated. I found a better, solid job at the school, I found interesting new magic things to try on, and of course the guarantee that nothing could ever happen to me. Then Voldemort resurrected out of nothing and Dumbledore and I had a chat.. He said I should pretend to work on his side as a spy at Howgarts, when I was really, working as a spy of the Dark Lord under Dumbledore's commands. With plenty of hard work of occlumency, I was able to shut my thoughts and keep myself safe playing side by side with god and the devil. When Draco had to finish Dumbledore, and your sister Narcissa came requesting my help, I seized the moment to prove myself to the Dark Lord, because, wether I'd told you or not, he was indeed pressing me to prove my loyalty. So, I told Dumbledore about Draco's plan and we arranged everything. He clonned himself perfectly, made an endurable, trustworthy copy. He was supposed to be back from who knows where with Potter, who was under his invisible cloak so we had no trouble at that, Dumbledore dissapparated and brought his perfect copy, who by the way, fooled more than a couple of death eaters with his elocuency, and I killed it. After that, everybody thought he had died and buried him. Now, he's hidden somewhere, planning how to find the remaning horcruxes, which I figure you know nothing about, and when he does our dark lord will be dead and gone forever. The end."

Said Snape trying to catch any rests of saliva in his mouth. Bellatrx Lestrange was simply shocked. She couldn't believe what she had listened. Snape had actually betrayed Voldemort, and not just that, he had actually confessed it to her. Was he believing she wouldn't talk? Or was he sure the Dark Lord would not believe her?

" I'm sure you're wondering by now, if wether I trust you not to talk, or I trust Voldemort's judgement wether to believe you or not.." Said Snape letting her know she was thinking so loud that it need the easiest work of legimency to know what she was thinking.

" You betrayed him.. I knew it. You're not trustworthy Severus.. I knew you couldn't kill your precious Dumbledore.. you owed him too much.." Bellatrix spoke slowly, showing hurt in her words.

" Oh come on, don't tell me you're actually hurt? Like you didn't see it coming.. besides, we never really liked each other very much, now you can trust I'll be killed.. Isn't that what you wanted, dear Bella?" Snape said as he went back to his cauldron and began passing the contents of it in small bottles.

" No.. It's not." She murmured, hoping he wouldn't pick up what she had just said.

" Really? Who's the one doing tricks now.." Snape said as he finished the bottles and stored them in one cupboard he had. That mausoleum had become his home, so he had everything he needed.

" Go away Severus.. Finish your things and take off.. Find Dumbledore.. Harry Potter.. Join Lupin but go away.." Bellatrix said very clear and loud this time. Snape was confused.

" What? Oh.. this is a trap so you can track me and whoever I go with and hunt us down or something? Want to prove to Voldemort just how useful you are? Don't worry, I think that with the information I just gave you, you'll do it.." Snape said as he turned around and began writing the ingredients he had used in his potions book.

" I won't talk." Bellatrix said determined only to cause Snape a sudden laugh.

" Come on Bella, you don't fool anybody with that sudden desire of playing good angel.. I know you'll talk and don't worry, I'm not afraid of dying.." Snape said once again concentrated in his work.

" I WON'T TALK I SAID! I DON'T WANT YOU DEAD!" Bellatrix snapped and without realizing, her powers had been so unleashed that they stroke Snape against the wall and had him paralyzed there.

" And why is that?" Snape asked casually, without losing his temper or changing his voice's tone.

" Because I.. I don't want you dead and that's it! You need no reasons.. After you finish your business, follow my advice and join your people.." Bellatrix said desperately.

" My people? Bella I don't have people on my side right now.. they all think I've murdered Dumbledore, and I can't tell them what I've just told you." Snape said sincerely as he seized the moment Bellatrix had calmed down to release himself from the paralyzing spell.

" Then.. then why did you tell me? I don't know.. what you expect me to do?" Bellatrix asked confused.

" Tell Voldemort.. Be his pet.. his favourite.. that's what you want.. well I got it for you dear.." Snape said in such a way that it seemed sarcasm, but Bellatrix knew he was being very direct.

" I don't want that.. anymore." Bellatrix added the last part because, it was obvious that at a point in her life she had indeed wanted that more than anything.

" How come?" Snaped asked curiously.

" I just don't okay!" Bellatrix snapped. She seemed in no wish of giving any explanations.

" You've always been so.. elocuent.." Snape said smirking.

" And you've always been such a cold, unreadable, without feelings, stone!" Bellatrix responded bluntly.

" Can't correct you in that one.. I am cold.. unreadable.." Snape began saying as they both were getting closer to one another.

" Take care of yourself.. please." Bellatrix said so seriously, that Snape had no doubts about it.

" I will.. You take care of this for me.." Snape said as he handed her his golden watch his his initials on it.

" How did you get it? I thought Lupin had it.." Bellatrix asked as she took the watch in her hands.

" Let's just say he's never been quite skillful when it comes to-" Snape was interrupted.

" Stealing?" Bellatrix asked with a smile.

" Well.. I prefer taking back what belongs to yourself.." Snape said as he took the bottles of antidote, his book, and a couple of things he valued.

" He'll find out.. you have to find Dumbledore." Bellatrix said worried.

" He'll find me.. at the right timing of course.. take care.." Snape said calmly.

" You more than anybody." Bellatrix said to him as she leaned and softly kissed his lips.

" I'll be back for it you know.. so don't sell it." Snape teased as he dissapparated out of the mausoleum.

" That'll be the last thing I'd do.. Severus." Bellatrix said as she kept the watch close to her, thinking that maybe it could close her up with somebody she loved.

A/N:

Pure Snape and Bella here.. This fic has given me an extraordinary idea for a sequel.. so wait, there's still much more of me.. lol

Paris BYK