Hey everyone. Here is another chapter of Little Moments. I wrote this chapter for Fortnightly Challenges Thread's Leaf Pile Challenge on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I used the prompt for Brown (actions) Cooking. I hope you all enjoy Sleepover Cookies.

Bellatrix is shocked when her friend Beatrice's mother calls them into the kitchen during one of the girls' sleepovers. Her mother was never found in the kitchen unless one of the house elves had done something wrong and had to be chided. Or worse. She threw a qeustioning look over at her friend.

"Girls," Beatrice's mother began smiling, "do you girls want to help me make cookies for desert?"

Beatrice looked as though this was treat. To be asked to cook like a house elf did. She felt a confused look cross her face as she looked between both Beatrice and her mother.

"What's wrong, Bella?" asked Beatrice. "Doesn't your mother let you help her make cookies?"

Bellatrix shook her head almost looking like a black whirlwind in the process. Mother always told her that the ability to cook was something she'd never have to worry about. She'd fine a nice pure-blood husband have tons of house elves to do her cooking and cleaning for her.

"No," Bellatrix told her. "Mother doesn't think anyone should cook if have house elves to do it for them."

Beatrice's mother stifled the comment she was about to make. It wasn't poor Bellatrix's fault her mother would rather have servants do for her family what she should be doing.

"You've never seen anyone cook before?" asked Beatrice in shocked interest.

Bellatrix shook her head.

"There's first time for everything," came Beatrice's mother. "You can help too. If you want. I think that when young folk help cook they feels a sense of accomplishment at being able to fend for themselves."

This kind of made sense to Bellatrix. She was a little wary but she'd try this cooking thing. What could it hurt? If she was really bad at it she wouldn't do it ever again.

"Ok, Bea," came the girl's mother's voice, "you mix up the dry ingredients. Bella you mix together the wet ingredients. While I go and put the oven on to preheat."

Bellatrix found this cooking thing very easy as she mixed the eggs, milk, and vanilla together until they were quite well mixed. She looked over to see that Beatrice had flour and other dry ingredients mix perfectly together.

"Alright," Beatrice's mother told them looking into each bowl. "Bella you're going to pour your ingredients into Bea's ingredients. Then I will mix it together."

Bellatrix pour what was in her bowl into the other one. This was pretty simple she thought with wry smile. Maybe Mother was just being lazy liked she accused cousin Sirius of being. She watched as the cookie dough came together pretty quickly. She pulled a pinch off the sweet smelling dough and popped it in her mouth.

"Bella, honey, you're not supposed to eat the cookie dough raw," Beatrice's mother told her. "We have to put them in the oven to cook or you'll get sick."

Bellatrix looked confused as the cookies went into the oven. The uncooked dough tasted pretty good by itself. She wouldn't mind sitting there and eating it that way.

"It's because of the uncooked egg," Beatrice explained.

Bellatrix nodded as the both sat waiting for the cookies to finish.

"Why don't you girl go outside and play?" suggested Bea's mother. "I'll call you when the cookies are ready to eat."

They nodded and raced outside to go play in the garden for a few hours. Bellatrix smiled to herself. Maybe she could cook for herself, she thought as she raced after friend playing a game of tag. But she'd never tell her mother this.

I hope you all enjoyed Sleepover Cookies. I made up the characters of Beatrice and her mother for this story because I like to think as a younger child Bellatrix had friends. Also she used to go to sleepovers like any other little girl.