Disclaimer: Same as always. I'm not JK Rowling, nor do I claim to be, nor would I ever take claim for what she's created. Simply put, the only thing here mine is some of the ideas and all of the wording.

"It's just too bad you surfaced when the dark Lord was destroyed by that Half Blood brat."

Sirius regarded Bellatrix for a second before he answered, "His name is Harry, if you mean James and Lily's song."

"That's the one. When the time comes, though, I'll kill him for taking out master away from us. Potter will not be permitted to live for what he did."

Sirius, who, although he knew that Bellatrix and himself were completely different, thought that it would at least be nice to have someone from his past to maybe help explain things. He wasn't sure how much Bellatrix knew of his betrayal, but he sincerely hoped that the blood the shared would be enough to allow both of them to get along. In regards to Harry though, he couldn't think of anything decent to say.

"He's my God-son, you know."

"Really? Why, that's even more devious, dear cousin! I suppose you made an Unbreakable Vow to project him by all means… Well… I'll just have to wait until you can't protect him…" She finally trailed off, realizing that she'd been talking mostly to herself.

Finally, Sirius found something better to say, "Where's Regulus? Did the Ministry catch him as well?"

Bellatrix looked at him suddenly, "You don't know?"

"Well, I might, but…"

"I didn't think Dumbledore was serious when he warned me to tell you nothing because you'd forgotten everything."

"It's not that hard of a thing to believe, you know!" Sirius roared.

"Well, of course it's not, but to think that you… Never mind."

There was an awkward silence between the two Blacks, marred only by the inaudible din made from the hundreds of other inmates of Azkaban.

Finally, Sirius broke the silence, "What about Regulus?" He asked, hopefully thinking that his younger brother would have turned his back on the Dark Side, and joined with the Order, what that was.

Bellatrix lowered her head, speaking to the floor, "He's dead, Sirius."

Sirius, who had begun to pace his new cell, stopped dead in his tracks, and with the sudden halt tripped and went sprawling face first into his cell door. "What?" He asked, sounding as equally sad as he did shocked, his face stuck between to bars.

"Dead. He's dead." She looked up woefully, an apologetic gleam in her eyes.

"How'd it happen?" Was all Sirius could manage to say.

"Well, he… You were right, you know. That day you found out we'd both become Death Eaters, joined with Voldemort. You probably don't remember, but you were right, he did." She was silent a while longer, before continuing. "He got in over his head, something about making your parents proud. Anyway," she shook her head, "he just couldn't handle it. I knew no good could come from his leaving, but he was so scared that he wasn't thinking rationally… That was the last time I ever saw him. Several days later, his body was found…" She finished her tail with a sniffle.

"Who killed him? It wasn't some from the Order, was it?"

Bellatrix looked at Sirius in shock, "You remember the Order? I thought you-"

Sirius curtly cut her off, "Forgot everything? I did. Some of it's come back to me. All I know is that I was in the Order and I, or I thought I did, opposed the Dark Side."

Bellatrix surveyed him, as though trying to detect a lie on his face, but evidentially couldn't, as she began to explain. "You did, you were always against the Dark Lord, and even before that you never wanted anything to do with our family. You were a Blood Traitor, and you were proud of that. Or, so we all thought. I, along with the rest of the world, was shocked to learn what you'd done.

"It was brilliant of you, though, of course. Pretending for your whole life to be a Blood Traitor, and none of us even suspected your true colors… You truly must have been in Lord Voldemort's highest favor, because none of us Death Eaters even knew that you were acting with him, and I am held quite high in his honor, Sirius. I had though that there were none higher, more privileged, than myself, Rodolphus, Severus and Lucius. Needless to say, it's a great honor to be in your presence."

Sirius hadn't heard the compliment though; he had instantly been transformed into a man filled with rage at the mention of the name Severus. "Severus? Severus Snape?" He spat, "That bastard's here?"

Bellatrix looked thoroughly taken back, "Sirius! You shouldn't talk of your fellow Death Eaters like that! They – that is to say, we – are like family. There are none in the world who's love you now, the companionship of us Death Eaters is all that you have left. Do not talk like that towards the people who fight with you."

Sirius narrowed his eyes. "From what I remember, Snape and I hated each other at school, and it wasn't the sort of loath that could go away just because we've been united under the same leader and are branded by the same tattoo!"

Although it sounded like it might have become a rather heated discussion, neither of the cousins said anything more on the subject, and the silence between them grew until Sirius thought it could have been sliced by a knife.

Bellatrix seemed to like the silence the least, and spoke out, "He wasn't killed by members of the Order, it was Death Eaters… Rudolph's , actually… I'll never forgive him that, even though I know he was only acting on our Lord's orders…"

Sirius, who suspected that her never forgiving Rodolphus was a bigger issue than she was letting on, raised his eyebrows in a quizzical manner, still to rallied up about Snape to talk.

"Well, yes, I suppose, you've forgotten then… Or, maybe you never knew, we haven't talked since you found out that Regulus and I had joined with Lord Voldemort. You mentioned Rodolphus that day, you know?" She stopped, giving Sirius and almost apologetic look, as if it was her fault he forget everything.

"I remember that conversation, Bellatrix."

The looked on her face was swiftly replaced by one of shock. "Oh… Well… Anyway… Rodolphus and I got married shortly after that. I went back to the house and told your mother, but you were gone by then, of course.

"I think she – your mother – was very bitter about you, and how you turned out, you know, so I didn't ask her to tell you, in case it upset her that you'd left… But if she could see you now, oh, Sirius!"

Sirius, who probably would have found her relentless babble annoying had he remembered any of this, sat back and let her ramble on.

"But you wouldn't remember her, would you? Never mind that right now. It's just good to see you. I've missed you so much, you know? But I mean, we went our separate ways, as you well know from that conversation you said you remember.

"You know, I was surprised that day. You came 'round the house, just to talk to me, convince me to go into hiding with you. How you knew I was visiting is beyond me, but all the same, there you were, standing at the front door stoop when your mum opened it. She almost died of shock, you know. I suspect it was the first time you'd been to the house since you moved out years before when you were, what was that, fifteen?

Anyway, you chased me down, and we talked. But you remember that, don't you? What shocked me though, was that you told me to leave your house… It wasn't your house and it hadn't been for years. I figured in your anger you just said it, a slip of the tongue. But, I always just found that weird, you know…

But all the same, you went off with the Order, and with the Dark Lord. Of course, you won't remember the Order. We'll, I'll not be much help to you there, you know. All I know about it is that was a group who fought against Lord Voldemort… Dumbledore led it, I think… But, that didn't matter, you know. We – the Death Eaters – always had the members out numbered. It's a wonder that any of them survived, actually…"

Sirius studied her silently as she plowed on about the members and the Death Eaters, thinking of the moment that, with her help, would come when he would remember everything.

He smiled, thinking that everything might be all right eventually.

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