Severus, Lucius and Wormtail apparated in the grounds of Riddle Manor. Even from their distance of 200 yards, and many thick, ancient walls, they could hear screeching, breaking china and a repetitive dull thud. The three men looked at each other. Snape, more than any of the others felt a flutter of anxiety in his stomach. If this was how Voldemort reacted to Bellatrix telling him that Severus was a traitor, how would he react when he came face to face with said person?

The Death Eaters took a collective step backwards, as a fork of red lightening chattered a window, and shot into the sky. Yup, clearly someone was throwing a wobbler.

The walk to the entrance of the Manor was spent trying to decipher the shrill screams from within.

The door was opened, and out slithered Nagini, hissing insanely and for once ignoring Wormtail, preferring to escape the battle scene unharmed, rather than have fun and remain tailess for life.

Severus entered first, Lucius behind him, taking the chance to grip the pale mans arm, whilst Wormtail followed lastly.

'Hello?' called Snape in a loud, baritone voice. Lucius giggled, fluffy's emerald eyes glinting at his side - The Potions master was greeted with another ear-wrenching scream - HELP MEEE! – before he threw himself up the stairs, ripping Lucius off his arm and throwing him into Wormtail, who in turn, was thrown off the bottom stair and onto the cold, wooden floor.

'I'm coming, I'll help you Bellatrix! Just hang –' Severus faltered in his bold statement, and stared with a mixture of surprise and amusement, at the scene which lay infront of him. Voldemort, Self Proclaimed 'King of every evil thought ever thinkable' was curled up on the floor, a fly-swatter in one pale hand, his wand in the other. Broken ornaments littered the ground around him, whilst just a little distance from the evil wizard, lay a Spider. It could hardly be classed as 'small', but it was no where near the size an Acromantula could reach.

'Help me you fool!' he hissed.

Smirking, Severus pulled out his wand, but was saved from having to do any spellwork, when Alecto bustled up the stairs, shoving Malfoy and Peter out of the way, before boldly striding forward and squashing the evil spider under her foot.

'Hurry up Master, you must tidy your room before you kill anymore muggles…' she ordered, her frumpy figure and squinting eyes reminding Severus of a slightly disapproving Molly Weasley.

'Yes, Yes, I know. I'll do it in a minute, for now though, I must deal with Bellatrix! BELLATRIX!'

Severus waited, silently splitting his sides with silent laughter. The dark Lord was afraid of spiders!

Voldemort stood and turned to face Severus. 'I'm sorry Snape, but Bellatrix has been spreading some nasty rumors around about you. If you'd have come to me sooner, we could have sorted this little spat out earlier, before it escalated. I can't believe that she apparated away from the job. I hope the muggle wasn't too upset.'

'Oh no…the muggle was fine.' Muttered Severus, as Voldemort glided over to a door and began pounding at it.

'You come out right now, and apologize to Severus.'

'NO!' came the stiff reply.

Voldemorts red eyes widened, and Severus took this moment of brief surprise to ask him, 'What type of rumors has she been spreading?'

'Oh, mainly that you're a muggle-loving fool, who's been secretly working for Dumbledore for 17 years, and saving lives. That you're really a Half-blood and love furry white kittens…'

Severus glared at the door as if his eyes produced lasers. So intent was he in evil glare level 5, that he nearly fell over in surprise when fluffy's head came crashing down onto the door, creating a large dint in the wood next to his left temple.

'HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT ABOUT SEVERUS? HE'S PERFECT!' Yelled Malfoy, before swinging Fluffy behind him, and descending the silver cane into the door one more time.

'COME OUT AND FACE ME!' He growled.

Silence swam through the corridor, as the 4 wizards and witch waited.

Silence…

More Silence…

And just for fun, more silence…

Silence remained until the author got bored and decided to carry on with the story, Bellatrix wretched the door open, and glared at Malfoy.

'Are you defending him?' She spat, disbelieving.

Malfoy smirked. 'Of course I am…'

Baring her teeth, Bellatrix snarled, 'You're just as pitiful as him then,' before launching herself at the angelic wizard.

Severus and Voldemort steppe back as the raven haired witch flew past them. Alecto shook her head, and began to straighten a picture on the wall, as if she'd seen all this before, and Wormtail turned himself into a rat and crawled to the nearest corner.

The witch and wizard spatted, their hands flying up and down and hardly coming into contact, which seemed pointless to Severus, but seemed to make sense to Voldemort, as he squealed, 'OO! Look Severus! She's got him!'

Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Severus settled for raising an eyebrow as Bella kicked Lucius in his right shin. The tall wizard fell to the ground, as Fluffy was thrown into the air, and caught by Bella.

'Look who I've got Lucius!' She taunted before running down the stairs, and into the Kitchen, slamming the door behind her.

Lucius, gave a small squeal before following her, blowing up the door once he was on the ground floor.

'Kids eh?' Muttered Alecto, winking at Voldemort, who winked back and smirked.

'Wormtail, come here please.' He ordered, 'I have something for you.'

The small, watery-eyed man appeared, and scurried forwards, to receive a small machine.

'It' a camera. I want you to go downstairs and photograph those two, I need something to put on show in the living room…it needs a lived-in family feel…'

Pettigrew took the camera and ran downstairs to join his two companions.

'And now for you Severus…I wish for you to go back into Hogwarts and find out one of Dumbledore's weaknesses, do you understand?'

Severus nodded, desperate to escape from this madhouse. Please…anything! Just let me go!

'Yes my Lord.' Was the Last thing he said, before apparating out of the Manor and back to Hogwarts.

AN: Next is Eckostalker's B-day story! Hope people liked this chapter. In case you didn't get it, Voldemort was the one screaming. Please R&R!