June 30th: Midnight:

Life is beautiful… Wonderfully beautifully wonderful..

I woke up this morning wondering why I felt so scared. Then I rolled over, and remembered WHY. We're going to Azkaban. I saw Voldemort sitting with his back to me, staring out of the window in his chair he has there. I quietly wrapped the sheet around my chest, and walked so I stood next to him. It was really sunny outside, just like that day when I walked with him in the garden. I gently walked around and sat myself in front of him, on the floor, resting my head on his knees.

"Morning," he said, slipping his hands into my hair. He has a thing about my hair, for some reason.

"Hey," I replied turning my head slightly to look at him. "Is it really today already?"

"Yes," he said smiling at me, his hands absently running down my face. "You can do it Bella," he said firmly. "You want this promotion, do you not?"

I nodded at him, closing my eyes a little at his touch. "Yes, you know I do.." I replied quietly. "I just want to be with you most though."

"I know," he said comfortingly in my ear. "I know that you want me the most Bellatrix."

I smiled at him, then stood up. He gently, while looking at me, kissed where my stomach would have been if she could see it, right on the sheet.

"Don't go turning me on now.." I muttered to him, turning and sitting on his lap with a sly smile in his direction. He smiled back to me, and kissed me passionately on the lips.

"Now why would I ever wish to do that, Mrs Lestrange?" he asked me sarcastically.

"Call me that again and you die." I brandished my wand in his direction, and it flew out of my hand into his. I sighed. "Wandless and silent."

He held my wand up slightly. "Your wand is really big, Bella…" he murmured, giving it back to me.

"So is yours," I replied, then laughed. "I…" He gently prodded me in the side with his finger as I spoke. "…didn't mean that…"

He smiled at me, then gasped slightly. "You didn't?"

"Maybe… I'm still really tired," I said laying my head on his chest.

"We've got about an hour before we have to get up, Bella," he said, rubbing the back of my head very softly and gently. I sighed into his chest.

"Okay, wake me up then.."

And god, his lap was comfortable.

I woke up with him over me, gently kissing my face and neck to wake me up. When he saw my eyes open, he kissed me on the lips quite hard.

"You've got to get up now," he whispered to me. I nodded at him, and sat up, yawning and rubbing my eyes. I looked at him, and kissed him once more. And oh my god, he smelt nice..

So I did everything to do with getting ready, while he was checking everything was ready. He came back and put his arms around me when I'd returned from having my breakfast.

"Promise me you will not worry, Bella," he said, his hands caressing the small of my back. I smiled at him.

"If my Lord commands…" I put my own arms around his waist and hugged him tight. "I'll think of you naked…"

He laughed at that. "I guess I had better do the same thing then." He bent down slightly, and lifted me effortlessly into his arms, and kissed me on the lips. "You're beautiful, Bellatrix."

"You're gorgeous too.." I said and smiled at him. He gently put me back onto the ground, and kissed me once more.

"You go on down to the Entrance Hall, Bella, I have one more thing to do." I gave him one last kiss, and then went down the main stairs to where everyone was assembled. I quickly went over everything for them all, most of them glancing at each other nervously, since I was in charge until Voldemort arrived. I jumped as I saw him, his face was reptilian yet cat like and ugly once more. He completely ignored me until he sent everyone down past the apparition wards, where he turned back to me.

"Not so gorgeous now," he murmured, taking my elbow and leading me forwards slightly. I nodded to him.

"You're still the man I love," I replied quietly, glancing around checking that no one was watching us, and then stretched up to kiss him on the lips.

"I love you too," he whispered. "Don't kiss me in public again!" he said after a pause. I poked my tongue out at him which he subsequently ignored. "Hurry up and walk Trixy," he murmured, his hand somewhere… naughty… Behind, mind you, so it could have been naughtier…

"You never called me Trixy before, my Lord," I said in a quiet voice to him as he removed him hand and moved away from me a little.

"It suits you." He looked at me, his eyes glowing slightly, like candles… Pretty… As we reached the wards, I stopped walking for one moment. He stopped and looked at me. "What are you doing?"

I looked back at him and shuddered. "I can't do it," I hissed at him. He looked a bit annoyed, but walked through the wards and directed everyone to go, and then beckoned me to him.

"What are you afraid of?" he asked me when I was there in his arms.

"Nothing…" I muttered into his chest.

His grip around me tightened. "You're coming whether you like it or not," Voldemort said after a moment.

"But…" I looked at him, and then nodded. "Will you look after me?"

He sighed at me, and pulled away. "Stop asking stupid questions Trixy." Then he rudely vanished. With a little pop.. He must have known that I was going to follow him, because he wouldn't have gone otherwise.

So, I landed perfectly, in the perfect spot we'd been directed to land, and then I quickly walked to the front of the group so I was just behind Voldemort. Azkaban is a weird place, but no one really knows where it is save for a few people we haven't found to interrogate yet. It's not easy to get in there, but we have a few lesser people inside who know how to change the wards- or just disable them whilst we all get there. Once we're in, we can stay there and leave again.

But anyways, back to the point (Somehow I always get side tracked, damn paper…). It's always dark there. Seriously, I don't think that it's ever light in that place, which is stupid really, surely it would be better for it always to be light to make breakouts a bit harder to work, because it would be easier to be spotted.. Still, we're not complaining.

Voldemort beckoned me forwards to him, and I sped up and walked with him.

"There's no one around I can see," he muttered to me. Silence was the issue at that moment, we needed to be quiet.

"Are you going to make a distraction so we can sneak around the back?"

He looked at me sideways for a moment. "I'm taking you mean to rescue the Death Eaters?"

I laughed quietly. "What is with your mind?"

"Shh," he said smiling at me. "No, I only want to do that unless we really have too… I've already told you this.. Time?"

I checked my watch and looked at him. "Five minutes."

"Alright, get everyone ready." I nodded to him, and turned back, beckoning to them to move to the positions we'd directed them to before. Quietly they all walked around in their groups, with their individual leaders in charge of each group. They were mostly stationed at doorways, invisible in some places. I walked back to Voldemort.

"We have two minutes, my Lord," I whispered.

He smiled at me and gently took my hand in his. "Good luck, Bellatrix," he said softly to me, his eyes moving from the door we were about to go through to me for just one second. He dropped my hand, and looked back to his group, which was the biggest one in case of an attack on us all. There were just three in mine.. Then he raised his wand, and put an invisibility bubble spell around us, so we couldn't have been seen. I shuddered slightly, for some reason it always makes me feel cold having one of those things on.

Perfectly timed though, we'd have been in trouble if it had been any other way, the door in front of us opened and the guard walked out of it.

"Lunch break.." I muttered. We'd been told that the door is unguarded for twenty minutes while they are short staffed. I beckoned my group forwards, and we all sneaked through the door, still invisible. We then had twenty minutes to find them, release them, make them invisible, get them out of Azkaban. It was totally impossible anyway, I don't know why he thought that we were going to get them all out without getting caught at it.. Still, men will be men and they always expect the impossible. Well, it seemed like it at the time.

I feel confused..

We found them easily enough. If you follow the signs, it's easy in that place. We just looked for 'High security' and there they were. High security was a joke, there were just more gates for us to open. Anyway, we found them right away, all in individual cells which was a bugger, but the four of us went around unlocking the cells as quickly and as quietly as we could, managed to get everyone out (I somehow had to be the one that got left with Lucius to get out…) quietly, and made them invisible. Quietly.

We all got out alright. Much to Lucius's dissatisfaction. We even managed to get their wands, since Azkaban aren't allowed to destroy them, someone got into the 'wand room' and got them. So I even got my old wand back which we couldn't before.

I quickly ran to Voldemort, who was not invisible at that moment, and hugged him while I could, then stepped back and made myself visible. He smiled at me, and then summoned the rest back, and then we all escaped in record time.

When we got back, on the way back up the hill, Rodolphus gave me the most lovely kiss on the lips. I could almost smell Voldemort's eyes burning holes in my back… I smiled at Rodolphus, and hugged him. "I missed you Dolphy," I said quietly to him as everyone else walked up.

"I missed you Bella, my friend." He gently put his arm around me, and led me up.

"I have something to tell you. I'm really worried that you'll hate me, but I have to tell you now Dolphus." He looked down at me with half a frown.

"What have you done Bellatrix?" he asked in a totally different voice.

"I just… I have a lover…" I said quietly dreading what he was going to say.

"Who?" he said right away. I looked ahead of me and saw Voldemort, his hood up walking slowly talking with someone, possible Lucius.

"Don't be mad, it all happened really quickly," I said softly.

"Just tell me who Bella." He was actually frightening me a bit, he'd moved his arm and stopped me from walking.

"I…" I shut my eyes and then looked back to Rodolphus. "The Dark Lord." Silence. He put his arm back around me and continued walking. "Say something."

"I really don't know what to say."

"Are you mad?"

"No." His grip on me tightened. "I know how you feel about him, and I'm not exactly the perfect husband for you."

"I love you as well though. You know that, but I get lonely sometimes because you have your… You know.." I stopped walking and kissed him once more. "If you don't want me to continue it…"

"Don't make me seem like the bitch here Bella.." he said gently slapping my arm. "Have some fun with him, love him and be with him. I promise I shall always be there for you and… I love you too."

"Thank you." I sighed. "We were best friends at School, and it was a shock to both of us when they made us get married. Neither of us really wanted it.. Did we?"

Rodolphus didn't reply for a moment, he looked up at the clear blue sky then back in front of him. "I wanted to be happy with what I had, but I never looked at you in the romantic 'in' love way, neither did you to me, yet you stayed loyal to me all the time."

I shrugged. "No one touches a married woman, a woman married to a Death Eater like you unless they want to be killed."

"Except for the Dark Lord."

"And you.." I said teasingly with a grin.

"Oi!" he said, shoving me over a bit. We both laughed, and he hugged me again. "You know, I've always felt a bit mean leaving you… but the sex was too good to miss out on.."

I laughed again. "You're such a charmer. But who cares, we're both happy now.."

"Yes. We are. And we have each other, always."

"Just one thing we need to be clear on, Dolphy."

He looked at me. "Yeah?"

"If you ever turn gay, the Dark Lord is out of bounds."

He laughed again. "I'll remember that, gorgeous." He quietened slightly as we got inside, everyone was walking into the Ball Room where the main, and important meetings are held. We followed in, and moved to our places next to each other in the circle. I couldn't help noticing that every time it grows bigger with new people.

Voldemort was standing in the centre, his face completely normal, yet emotionless.

"Welcome back, my friends," he said in a low voice. It hit me, standing there, how completely different he acts when it is just me and him there. "There is still much for us to discuss, but for those of you who have returned to me today from Azkaban have failed me."

I was thinking at that moment how it was going to go really badly for me at that moment. Luckily, it didn't.

"You will remember, my friends," Voldemort said, his voice still low, "that I do not forget, and I do not forgive." (He so does sometimes…) "Each of you will pay me back, at some point in your sad and pathetic lives, if not with your life it will be in some other form. For now, I have something different to think about. I have been deliberating for almost a year now, since my return, and since the… misfortune of Crouch, who was my most faithful servant, on whom I think would be fitting to help me in the second war."

It was funny hearing everyone think about what it could be..

"I am, of course, talking of a second to me, as one or two of you might already know. I have made my choice, some of you will not like it, but I trust you will keep that to yourself and not say it aloud, unless you wish to suffer my displeasure." He smiled slightly, as though hoping someone would say it aloud just so they could suffer his displeasure. Oh, and the look on Malfoy's face.. He thought it was going to be him… God, what if it had was? I'd have died… Anyway.. He went on…

"I am appointing Bellatrix Lestrange to be my second, if she will be as good as to accept it." He looked expectantly at me, for the first time since he burnt the holes in my back. I slowly walked forwards and knelt at his feet.

"I accept, my Lord," I whispered hardly believing it.

I'd just kicked Lucius Malfoy's ass…