The next few days passed slowly, too slowly. She still spent her mornings training Draco, trying to get in as much as she could before he left for school on the first. Time had never moved so quickly yet so slowly at the same time. It was hard to believe it was already the end of August, where had the last two months gone? It was a sunny afternoon when Bellatrix finished Draco's training for the day, this was the last time they would train before Draco left for school tomorrow.
She smiled as nicely as she could, "You are going to do fine," she said to him, trying to be supportive. She knew that he was nervous and she knew no matter what her sister said to him that he was still going to be just as nervous.
He flashed a weak smile, "Thanks, Bella."
He was an okay kid, her sister did a good job with him. She gave him a quick hug, "Now I'm sure your mum is going to want to spend the rest of the day with you. You best get going."
He smiled and walked out of the room, leaving Bella alone in the library. She pursed her lips and sighed, she was getting sick of waiting for Rodolphus and Rabastan. She was going to complete her task tonight and she could not help but be nervous. She had expected them back last night and did not like having to plan so last minute. It was different if she did not have to keep a low profile, but with her wanted poster plastered all over the wizarding world she knew she needed to keep her head down. This was her first real assignment since being freed, and she was itching to complete it. It had been so long since she had been given the chance to kill someone if anything she was a little too excited. Though, perhaps, she was more excited to please the Dark Lord. All she wanted was for this to go as smoothly as possible. She would just have to try and stay occupied until those useless boys got back with her information. She supposed if she wanted it done promptly she would have had to have done it herself. It just was simply not an option while she was training Draco. That and she might have killed her too early, Bellatrix was not one to dilly dally. She had to wait until Yaxley had placed Pius under the imperius curse, which thankfully was complete.
Bellatrix paced through the manor anxiously waiting. She could not even manage to eat lunch she was so anxious. She eventually found herself in the garden, sitting on the soft earth between rows of tall flowers. Her wand in hand she cursed the first creature that crossed her path. The large beetle danced around the garden, her wand following it around. Then she looked on unimpressed as it writhed in pain on the ground in front of her. After a while, she finally put the creature out of its misery before flinging its corpse into the nearest flower bed. She was just getting ready to start lighting various plants on fire when she heard footsteps coming along the path. She kept low, her wand out and ready, you could never be too careful. She finally laid her eyes upon the two brothers who were doing a poor job of searching for her.
She stood up quickly, wand still out, "Where have you two idiots been?!" She shouted stomping over to the pair of them. "You are lucky I am in a hurry or the pair of you would be in quite a mess."
The two brothers looked slightly terrified and it took a moment before either one managed to speak. "Bella we were just being thorough, I would have hated to have delivered incorrect information. It is also slightly harder to snoop then it was before, not that it is any excuse." Rodolphus sure knew how to cover his ass.
She sighed, placing her wand back inside her robes, "Very well, what have you learned."
Rodolphus took a deep breath before beginning, "Well she is really rather boring to be honest. She lives alone and really only leaves the house to go to work. She does have family, but her demanding work schedule keeps them away. Her niece is leaving for Hogwarts tomorrow so we had to stick around to make sure that they were not going to drop in."
Bellatrix nodded, this seemed like it might be a little too easy. Not that this Bones lady was not going to be a challenge, the head of the department of magical law enforcement had to be a skilled witch.
She nodded, "Very good, anything else?"
The two men shook their heads, "Not really. She keeps a regular ministry schedule. Same thing every day," Rodolphus added making sure he had told his wife everything she would need to know before beginning her task.
"Very well," she began shortly, "As usual the two of you will accompany me in case anything should go wrong. We will meet outside her house at precisely two o'clock in the morning."
Without another word she turned and left the two of them in the garden and headed upstairs. She was extremely confident now in her plans for this evening which meant it was now time for a snack and a nap. She needed to be well fed and well rested before setting off tonight.
Her first stop was to the kitchens where she had the house elves whip up a nice size dinner for her which she took to the dining room to eat quickly. It was nice to eat alone for once, not having to worry about what was being said around you. After finishing she apperated up to her room where she shut the curtains and blew out the candles before slipping into her pajamas and curling up in bed. It took her awhile but she eventually drifted off to sleep and slept soundly until sometime around one in the morning. She sat up with a wicked smile, waving her wand to lighting the candles. She took her time getting up and getting dressed, she wanted to make sure she looked her finest for her date with Madame Bones.
At two am exactly she apparated out to the street in front of Madame Bones's house. She was wearing her usual black robes with the hood pulled up over her head, hiding her face in shadows. She was only there a moment before Rodolphus and Rabastan appeared next to her, one on either side. She first placed a spell over the house so sweet Amelia Bones could not disapparate before she had time to kill her. Without a word, she flew forward smashing through the front door and through the house. She liked to destroy as much as she could before killing her victim, she also wanted her to have a chance to wake up. She liked seeing the fear in their eyes before she cursed them.
It was only moments before the three of them smashed through the bedroom door where a half asleep woman was sitting upright in her bed, her covers pulled up around her, wand in hand. Bellatrix smiled sickly her wand pointed directly at the woman's chest. Amelia managed to fire off a spell which Bellatrix easily deflected sending it smashing into the bedroom window. She laughed madly as red light shot out of her wand hitting the woman square in the chest. Amelia screamed as she writhed in pain on the bed. The more the woman screamed the more Bellatrix laughed. This was the most fun she had had since she tortured the Longbottoms. She sent curse after curse at the woman until her screams began to die down.
When she finally grew bored of torturing her she shouted "AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Green light rushed from her wand and the woman fell limp on the bed. She laughed wickedly as she held her wand up, pointing it out the broken window. Without a word emerald, green light shot from her wand casting the dark mark into the air. The three of them flew out of the bedroom window landing in the street below, from there Bellatrix then sat the house on fire before apparating back to the manor. She had not had this much fun since she could not remember when. Her master was surely going to be pleased with her work tonight.