Soooo turns out I'm an idiot and when I originally posted the first chapter of this story I didn't fill out the characters bit. Oops? Ah well. Thanks to everyone who's reviewed, followed and favourited so far.
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Bella
The dungeon was quiet, the Malfoys asleep in their own corner of room (they had surely become more used to sleeping in the dank cellar), though Andromeda, Remus and Nymphadora were all wide awake. Nymphadora was nestled against her husband's chest, her eyes forced shut as Remus gently stroked her hair whilst keeping a watchful eye on their sleeping son. There was no way to tell how long they had been down there, the room was silent to the outside world and devoid of any form of natural light merely the eerie glow of a few scattered lit sconces nearer the entrance of the room. Though as the door to the dungeon opened with a crash each witch and wizard somehow knew it was far too early for any other resident of the manor to be awake. Rodolphus Lestrange soon appeared at the bottom of the steps, his wand held out in front of him as it emitted a small amount of light on the area. Remus held his wife tightly to himself, knowing what was about to happen yet not at all willing to let the young witch go. After the man had looked around the room, satisfied with whatever it was he was looking for he pulled a small bottle out of his robes and threw it over to the parents of the now stirring child.
"Come on, Nymphie." Rodolphus grunted, clearly just as displeased to be awake at this time as the rest of them.
Dora rested her hand on Remus's chest, reassuring him as much as she could with a gentle touch before she disentangled herself from his comforting grasp. She took one last look at her son, the boy looking up at her with his curious bright blue eyes and hair to match.
"I said come on, Nymphie." He spoke more firmly this time, pointing his wand directly at the witch as she glared at him defiantly though walked towards him all the same. A hiss of discomfort left her lips as he grabbed her arm firmly, taking one last look at the room before he dragged her up the stairs. The girl winced as the suddenly bright lights hit her outside of the dank dungeon, squinting to readjust though she was soon thrown against the wall and away from the man's grasp. A clink of the doors locking came from behind her as Dora tried to make herself stand up right "Why couldn't you go down there, hmm? It's seven in the morning, Bellatrix."
"I'm not going down there." Bellatrix hissed "Leave Narcissa to her foolishness, merlin knows I do not want to see her right now."
"Then why wouldn't you simply let the woman die?" Rodolphus snapped back at her, his eyes flicking between the young metamorphmagus righting herself and the narrowed eyes of his wife "Next time you want to her out at seven in the bloody morning you can go down there yourself."
"But Roddy," Bella pouted "I couldn't sleep." She giggled "I'll make it up to you later."
"You better." Rodolphus mumbled before he stormed away, leaving his wife to her newest play thing.
"Oh dear," Bella sighed teasingly as she looked to her niece "do you think I've upset him?" Bellatrix Lestrange tilted her head as she considered the young woman glaring at her for a few moments before she shook her head with a smirk "You reek of defiance, Nymphadora. Not to worry, Auntie Bella can fix that." Dora hissed as Bellatrix reached out and grabbed her arm, leading her away from the dungeons with a sickeningly happy skip in her step. "I have a special room, Nymphie—Just for you and me!" she pronounced in her demented sing song tone "We're going to have lots of fun, if you behave—or if you don't behave. Either way I'm having fun today. You? Not so much. How does that sound? Hmm? Answer me Nymphie." Bellatrix laughed as she turned another corner, purposely letting Nymphadora collide with a wall on the way.
"It sounds like you're a deranged bitch." Dora hissed, unable to help herself as she seethed.
"Ha!" Bellatrix barked, walking to the end of the corridor before she finally stopped, suddenly turning to face the girl. She pouted as she reached out and deceivingly gently brushed a stray strand of hair from the girls face "I like you, Nymphie. You are going to be such a fun little play toy." Bellatrix raised a finger as Nymphadora went to speak again "Just bare in mind every last thing you say can affect how I treat you . . ." Bella considered herself for a moment before she shrugged, opening the door "Maybe."
With a quick kick to her back Nymphadora fell into the room with an "Oomph!". Before she could even look up Dora heard the door lock behind her as the sharp click of Bellatrix's heels walking behind her. "Scared I'm gonna run out the door?" Dora groaned as she tried to sit up only to have the heel of her deranged Aunt pressed into the centre of her back as her face hit the floor yet again.
"You could try." Bella mused "We could play a game of chase!" her deranged laugh rang throughout the room, Dora was sure she'd get sick of that sound sooner or later "Though I'm not in the mood for running around after scum this morning, maybe another day. I'm planning on having lots of fun with my ickle niece today."
"You are no Aunt of mine; I have no Aunts!" Dora yelled as the heel of Bellatrix's boot stuck further into her back.
"Aww," Bella pouted "and here I was thinking you were making friends in the dungeons."
"You're fucking sick." Dora growled, taking a deep breath as she thought back to her Auror training with Mad-Eye. Without a moments notice she bent her legs beneath her and pushed herself off the floor with her hands, managing to her onto her back as she shuffled away from the witch. She looked around the room, the entire large room completely empty with no windows. Dora looked back to the witch now stood a few feet in front of her, tapping her wand on her leg as she looked to the younger witch with amusement.
"Tut tut, Nymphie." Bella sighed "Already misbehaving so much? You do realise that you're in a locked room with no wand, hmm?" the witch shook her head, pulling Nymphadora's wand out from her pocket as a shit eating grin split across her face "I've got it. I thought we could have a little duel to start off, though we can begin differently." Bellatrix yawned as she pointed her wand at the girl "Crucio."
Nymphadora Lupin immediately tensed, gritting her teeth and clenching her fists as tightly as she could, determined not to show Bellatrix Lestrange any satisfaction. Within seconds the pain increased with a twist of Bella's wand, each of her bones feeling as if they were on fire. Her resolve to hold her breath faltered as she let in a shallow gasp only for a gut wrenching scream to come out of her mouth, writhing as she clawed at her chest barely feeling her skin tear open. Suddenly it was gone, she slumped forward panting for air as the maniacal laughter of Bellatrix echoed off the walls. Dora cried out in pain as soon a fistful of her hair was grabbed and her head was wrenched back sickeningly quickly.
"Oh Nymphie," Bella pouted, speaking in her child like voice "do you hurt?" Bellatrix smirked, throwing the girl forward "Good."
Nymphadora bit her lip as she tried to control her breathing, holding herself up from the floor as she watched her Aunt walk around to the front of her dropping her wand on the floor the sound of wood clattering on stone echoing around the room. Dora looked up from the floor for a moment, satisfied her breathing had returned to near enough normal as Bellatrix smirked down at her with her own wand pointed at her.
"Pick it up." Bella chimed.
"Not worried I'll break the ward on the door and run?" Dora hissed, snatching the wand up anyway.
"Darling, you wouldn't even if you could." She laughed "If by some miracle you managed to break both mine and The Dark Lord's wards on that door that lets only a few select people pass through them and if you left the manor—well you'd soon be orphaned, widowed and childless." She giggled as Nymphadora pulled herself to her feet, pointing her wand at her "You see your predicament?"
"Go to hell." Dora hissed, flinging a spell at the witch that was quickly deflected and matched with another causing Dora to quickly side step out of the way.
"Oooh," Bella cooed "starting without warning, tut tut!"
Dora growled as she deflected another spell "Like you would give me a warning!"
"Ha!" Bella flung another curse at the witch, grinning as she cut the girls left shoulder open "You do have a little Black blood—sullied as it is."
Dora, gritted her teeth, her hair turning bright red as she furiously duelled the woman, the pair sending spells back and forth. The younger witch couldn't help but laugh as she got a spell in, cutting the Death Eaters cheek. Though suddenly Bellatrix increased her onslaught, Dora slowly backing away as she deflected curses until she was backed into the wall. It was with another shriek of pain that Dora hit the floor, her right leg bent at an unnatural angle. She turned onto her side, going to curse her Aunt again when her wand went flying out of her hand. Without warning another dark curse hit her, her body convulsing uncontrollably as she hit her hand out at the wall for some form of relief so hard that the break of her wrist was audible.
"Ha!" Bellatrix cackled madly as she lifted the curse "You did that; you broke your own wrist." Bellatrix put her hand to her mouth as she tried to control her laughter "You're not the first—but merlin that never stops being funny."
"Fuck. You." Dora breathed.
"Ergh." Bellatrix wrinkled her nose "Who would want to do that with you? I mean come on Nymphie, you procreate with werewolves?" she sighed dramatically, skipping over to the girl on the floor and sitting beside her, stroking her nail down her pale worn cheek as she smirked at her shivering away from her touch "Morph."
"No." Dora breathed, gasping as Bellatrix sent a hex through her body.
"Morph." Bella repeated "Or I can go test the ability of a baby morphing."
Dora glared at Bellatrix, shutting her eyes as she morphed. She became slightly shorter, her breasts slightly larger, her jawline more defined and her hair a wild black. She looked back up at her through identical heavily lidded eyes. "Beautiful." Bellatrix rolled her eyes "Though perhaps try someone else, your mother perhaps?" Nymphadora glared up at her. "Oh come on, Nymphie. I'd say I would just Imperio you to do it but truth be told you Aurors are nearly impossible to control. Let's just both imagine me repeating each and every one of my previous threats, hmm?"
With a glare Dora reached her hand up to her lip, wiping away some of the blood before she complied. Soon she was looking back up at Bellatrix with the eyes of her mother, unable to read the expression on Bellatrix's face. She didn't see Bellatrix move until she felt her wand stuck straight in her gut, soon she was screaming again. She screamed so much her throat was raw as every manor of dark curse was used on her poor fragile body. Hours later Nymphadora opened her eyes again, barely conscious as a small weak groan of pain left her bloodied split lips. Though the witch had morphed back to her own appearance mere minutes after morphing to that of her mother's (Bellatrix soon becoming displeased when she realised the girl could not control her morph, or did not want to hold her morph, if submitted to intense pain). She went to lift her arm, soon hissing out in the pain of movement as she realised she was being carried towards the dungeon again.
"Really Nymphie." Rabastan sighed "If you weren't so defiant you might actually be able to move right now."
Dora went to tell the man to piss off, to say anything, though she found herself unable to speak, mere weak mumbles coming out. Rabastan shook his head, letting the girl down and holding her up against the wall as he unlocked the dungeon door with his spare hand. Dora wasn't sure how she got to the bottom of the steps, she had clearly blacked out again. All she knew was that someone had rushed over to her, more than one person falling beside her as a hand reached out for her arm. She yelled out in pain, causing Remus to jump back slightly.
"Andromeda, has her hair ever been three colours unintentionally?" Remus asked, his voice quiet as if scared of speaking of what he could see.
"At the moment red, white and black hair is the least of my concerns." Andromeda muttered.
"Leave her, Andromeda." Narcissa muttered from somewhere near Nymphadora's feet "They don't want her dead and Rabastan said they'd heal her a bit later. You could only make it worse and I'm sure she'll simply get it worse if they come back and she's okay. Save it for when it's needed."
"I am not leaving her like this, Narcissa!" Andromeda snapped.
"Wh—" Dora spluttered, wincing at the pain "Why is Teddy crying?"
"Don't worry about Teddy, Dora." Remus sighed, adjusting the boy in his arms.
"He's hungry." Muttered Draco from a far corner "They gave him one bottle and you've been gone more than three hours. Greedy kid."
"Babies need to eat every couple of hours when they're that young, Draco." Narcissa sighed, walking back over to her son.
"R—Remus—Remus give him to mum a second." Dora watched the corner of her eye before she gritted her teeth as she tried to sit up "R—Remus let me lean up against you."
"He can wait until you're healed, Dora." Andromeda looked to the girl with firm disapproval though she rocked and attempted to comfort her red haired grandson.
"No!" Dora cried "Remus."
Remus Lupin hesitated for a moment before he sighed "I don't have a choice, do I?" he looked to Andromeda helplessly before he sat behind Dora, pulling her back to rest on him as he tried to ignore her cries of pain through her gritted teeth. He wrapped her arms around her lightly, motioning for Andromeda to pass him the child "I'll hold him off of you best I can, okay?"
Dora whimpered slightly in ways of reply, tensing as the lightest pressure sent surges of pain through her body. Andromeda sat back and watched her family, trying with all of her might not to simply burst into tears at the appalling misery of their situation.
At least an hour had passed, Dora was breathing shallowly still laid against her husband as he didn't complain at the uncomfortable position he had been stuck in. The sound of the door opening yet again echoed throughout the dungeon and Andromeda soon stood, passing Teddy to Narcissa without another word.
"You are not taking her back to her, Rodolphus Lestrange." Andromeda hissed.
"No," Rodolphus rolled his eyes as Andromeda stood back at the sight of at least 5 other Death Eaters coming down the steps "well Bellatrix will be there. But I need to get her walking first, she's not going to be carried like some baby."
"I—Get off of me!" Andromeda hissed as Dolohov came over to her and grabbed her arm.
"No thank you." Dolohov smirked as the other Death Eaters each went and took a captive, Avery rolling his eyes as he noticed Narcissa cradling Teddy.
Rodolphus sighed as he bent down next to Nymphadora "You know, I see no reasoning as to why Bellatrix gets to have all of this fun and I'm left to do clear up. Maybe another day, hmm?" Dora screwed her eyes shut, yelling out again as Remus was pulled out from under her. No-one spoke nor moved for at least five minutes as Rodolphus fixed bones and removed some of the more debilitating curses. "You can move?" Rodolphus raised an eyebrow, rolling her eyes as she didn't speak and pulling her to her feet "Well, you look like shit but you're standing so there's that. Come on." Dora hissed as the man pulled her closer to himself "Give Nymphie the brat, Avery." He waited for Avery to comply, moving his grip to simply grasp onto her shoulder as Dora cradled the small child, wincing in slight pain though nowhere near as pained as before.
"Where are we going?" Remus asked as they were marched up the stairs, to no answer.
They were dragged up another set of stairs, Dora almost falling in her pain as Rodolphus had to stop the girl dropping her son "Be careful, nitwit."
"Yes, be careful Nymphie." Bellatrix purred from the top of the stairs, each person looked up at her, though they were not focusing on the witch and more on what she was holding "You fixed my toy." Bella sighed with a pout "Oh well, I'll just have to break her again."
Delphini Riddle giggled along with her mother, wrapping her arms around her mother's neck as Bella kissed her silver locks "Toy."
"Yes, Delphi." Bella grinned "Mummy's toy."
"I thought The Dark Lord told you to take her back after the meeting, Bella?" Rodolphus sighed.
"Yes well Delphi wanted to see the commotion, didn't you beautiful?" Bellatrix giggled, bouncing the girl on her hip as she grinned at her mother innocently. The woman smiled as Delphi played with her dark wild locks, possibly the most innocent and normal look that anyone but her sisters and perhaps her husband had ever seen, though the moment was short lived as Bellatrix turned her stare to her youngest sister with narrowed eyes "Come on, Narcissa. Avery, give her to Rab, you're mad if you think I'm letting you anywhere near my private quarters."
"Not as mad as you Bellatrix." Avery chuckled as he switched with Rabastan.
"What makes you think I want to go there?" Rabastan muttered.
"Now now boys, you heard our Lord." Bellatrix smirked "You need to listen to me." She turned, nodding for Rabastan to follow her, calling behind her "See you later Nymphie, bye bye!"
"Bye bye!" Delphi imitated, waving behind her as she turned a corner.
"Come on." Rodolphus grunted, clearly unamused by his wife's small appearance as he pulled Dora up the stairs.
"Is that . . ." Dora whispered, cradling Teddy closely.
"The Dark Lord and Bellatrix's child." Dolohov shuddered.
Avery laughed "Who can blame him, your wife is—"
"One more word and you'll lose the ability to conceive, Avery!" Rodolphus snapped, reaching the empty wing and pushing Nymphadora through the ward, each of the other Death Eaters doing the same with their captives.
"Names are on the doors, don't try getting out unless you don't value your lives." Rodolphus drawled "Besides, you're warded in."
Dora glared at the man, Remus coming up behind her and wrapping an arm around his wife's waist as he looked down at his son "We need food."
"Good for you." Avery smirked.
"You told us Teddy would be safe!" Andromeda suddenly snapped "How will Teddy be safe if Dora stops eating and becomes so malnourished she can't feed her own child let alone do what The Dark Lord wants of her, hmm?"
"Feisty Black." Dolohov smirked.
"Tonks." Andromeda growled through gritted teeth.
"I'll make sure something is sent up." Rodolphus rolled his eyes before turning around and leaving the captives to their new wing.
Avery grinned as he looked to the prisoners "As Delphini would say, Bye bye!" Avery waved immaturely before turning and leaving with a cruel laugh, the other Death Eaters soon following.
"I—" Dora winced as she heard a door slam behind her, turning to see the door marked 'Draco' slamming shut "Sh—Should we check on him?"
"Leave him be." Andromeda sighed.
"O—Okay." Dora sighed.
"Come on, Dora." Remus mumbled, turning his wife into himself "You need to sleep."
"I'll go try and do the same." Andromeda sighed, walking to her door "It will be okay, we will be okay." The woman shook her head as she went into her room.
Remus gently led the girl to their room, shutting the door behind them. They were both relieved to see a double bed, cot and a sparse amount of furniture in the room. With a little coaxing Remus took their child and put him in the cot before coming back to her as he lifted her into her arms and lay on the bed with her. The couple lay in silence, Remus stroking the girl's hair until she fell asleep. "Don't worry, Dora." Remus whispered with a sigh "I'm getting us out of here."
