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Chapter 3

Bellatrix was eating breakfast in the dining room sat at the extensive table. She was the only one in the room, everyone else having eaten a while ago. She hadn't rolled out of bed till almost noon today, she had had a very long, but pleasurable night.

Her pleasing thoughts were interrupted by the opening and closing of the door to the dining room. Bellatrix whipped her head to the side to see Rodolphus LeStrange coming to the table. He stopped in front of the seat next to her, he looked down at her before taking the seat. A house elf popped in and took his food order, popped out, then popped back in after a few moments with his plate of food. He dug into his food right away.

It was an awkward silence.

"I haven't seen you at a meeting before." Bellatrix said to him as she finished her breakfast.

He swallowed the food in his mouth before responding, "I do a lot of work in different parts of the world. I'm not usually home most of the time for a meeting. Occasionally I pop in for one or two, otherwise Evan sends me all the updates and news."

"Oh." She said quietly. "What kind of work do you do?" Bellatrix asked after a moment.

"The dirty kind."

"I like dirty work."

"Me too." He looked up from his plate now, and grinned at her. Bellatrix felt a heat in her cheeks and knew they were red. She couldn't believe she was blushing, she had never blushed before, not like this.

Sure when she was embarrassed her cheeks would turn the normal pink, but now they were almost red. She picked her head up once again and looked over at the man next to her.

He wasn't terribly ugly like she thought he might be, he was actually quite the opposite. He was very good looking indeed.

"Could I perhaps go with you, to assist you once?" She asked meeting his eyes.

"If the Dark Lord approved I wouldn't object." Rodolphus responded holding her gaze, still smiling.

She smiled back at him and got up from her seat.

"Let us ask him now then!" She left the dining room with Rodolphus shortly behind her. They walked to his office only to find it empty. So they traveled further into the manor to find their master in the meeting room with their fellow Death Eater Evan Rosier. Bellatrix knocked on the open door and walked inside.

"I am sorry to intrude my lord." She said bowing.

"It is alright my Bella, I was just about to call on LeStrange anyways. It seems that those vampires from Romania have decided to attack some of our recruits in that little town you were staying in. Killed all of them."

"But that's more than 50 men my lord! They had great training, how will we make up for it?" Rodolphus asked stepping further into the room.

"Certainly not good enough if they couldn't handle a few vampires."

"It was the whole coven my lord" Evan said quietly.

"I see. Well then. We can't risk another attack. We must get the vampires on our side."

"The werewolves won't be very easy to get if we have vampires." Rodolphus said thoughtfully.

"Yes but it can and will be done LeStrange." Voldemort hissed. "You will make it happen."

Rodolphus bowed his head respectfully. "Of course my lord. Shall I leave tonight?"

"Yes, Evan will be going with you. Leave when the sun rises, you'll have plenty of time to get settled in the town before the sun sets. Then go to the vampires, to get to them you must get their queen. I suspect that will be the only way to get them on our side."

"Yes my lord." Rodolphus started to leave when he remembered Bellatrix's request. "My lord, would it be possible for Bellatrix to accompany us?"

"Do you wish to go Bella?" The Dark Lord asked finally looking over to her standing by Rodolphus.

"Yes master, it would please me so!" Bellatrix smiled.

"Then you shall go. Keep an eye on her, both of you. I can't have my protege maimed, if she is hurt it's your heads."

"Yes my lord." Evan and Rodolphus said together as they bowed. They all walked out of the room together leaving Voldemort to himself.

As soon as they were in the hall Bellatrix jumped with glee.

"Oh this shall be so much fun!" She said clapping her hands together.

"Stay out of trouble. I don't fancy losing my head because you want to play silly games, Black." Evan snarled at her.

"Shut up Evan, I'll keep an eye on her." Rodolphus said.

"Of course you will, you never take them off her. Just shag her already and get it over with." Evan said rolling his eyes.

"I shan't lie, the thought has crossed my mind more than a few times. But the Dark Lord requested no harm come to her, so therefore no harm will come to her."

"I am standing right here." Bellatrix said raising her eye brow.

"Well go get packed, we shall be gone for a couple of days." Rodolphus told her. She ran up the stairs to pack her bags, she wasn't exactly sure what she should bring so she just decided to shrink her wardrobe and put it in her pocket.

Packing was quick, she doubted Rodolphus was ready. She grabbed a slip of paper out of her desk drawer, and sat down to write. If she didn't leave a note for Cissy, she would never hear the end of it when she returned.

Cissy

Going on a mission. No idea when I will return. Don't fret, I'll bring you back something.

Bella

Bellatrix folded the note and left her room, on her way to her sister's. Not bothering with knocking, she opened the door and walked right in. She placed the paper on Narcissa's pillow and started to leave.

"Do you snoop often?"

Her head shot up. "I'm not snooping! I was leaving something for my sister."

"Hmmnhm."

"I wasn't snooping!" She said again.

"Calm down, every one does it."

"I. Wasn't." She gritted her teeth.

"Of course you weren't." He walked beside her down the hall way. "Are you ready for tonight?"

"Yes, what time will we be leaving?"

"I think four in the morning will be alright. We'll get into town, find a place to stay and go over plans."

"Sounds good. Do we know where their hideout is?"

"There is a cave right outside town they have taken upon themselves to inhabit."

"Well that makes it easier for us."

It was four o'clock exactly and they were preparing to disaparate to the town they were going to stay at during their mission. Bellatrix had her shrunken wardrobe in her pocket, Evan had two bags, and Rodolphus carried nothing.

"Aren't you bringing anything?" Bellatrix asked as he came to stand next to her.

"Never know what I'll need so I just shrink my closet and bring it." Bellatrix smirked at their parallel thought train.

"Let's get going. I want to take a nap before we have to go see the blood suckers."

Rodolphus grabbed Bellatrix's hand so she could side-along apparate with him. She didn't know the location they were going to, and he didn't want to risk the chance of losing her. They landed in a small quaint town, with shops and houses on the sides of the street.

Straight across from them was the inn they were staying at. It was one of the few places run by magical people; although it was a muggle town, wizards and such were excepted by the muggles. They sometimes even worked together, against the vampires when they raid the town to feed.

Rodolphus pulled Bellatrix close to him before walking across the street.

"I can walk on my own you know." She sneered at his lecherous grip.

"You need to stay close, the vampires have just gone to sleep; the werewolves are hunting. They go for magics if possible, apparently we taste better." Bellatrix moved in just a little closer to him. She had only seen a werewolf once, when she was a little girl, the age of 7. One of her best friends was brutally torn apart by the hideous man wolf. It showed no mercy for the poor girl and Bellatrix had barely made it out alive. If it hadn't been distracted by eating her friend, she was sure she would have died.

They finally made it into the inn and Rodolphus slowly released his grip on her.

"Stay close. Who knows what's in here." He whispered in her ear. They approached the elderly looking woman at the desk in front of them. There was only one room available, they took it.

Rodolphus dropped a couple galleons on the desk.

"We are not sure how long we will be staying. Let me know if that runs out." He said nodding his head towards the money. He then led Bellatrix to their room. Not to their surprise it only had one bed.

"If you'd like I can go find Evan and sleep in his room." Rodolphus suggested.

"You can sleep in here if you'd like, I see no problem in it. The bed is quite large." Bellatrix said shrugging her shoulders. She took her mini wardrobe out of her pocket, placed it on the floor in an empty corner and made it large once more with her wand.

"There well I am all unpacked. Shall we go look around the town?" She asked as she smiled at him. He enlarged his closet before turning to her.

"I can show you the town if you'd like. I've been here a few times. I'm sure we have plenty of time to kill while Evan sleeps."

"I can't believe I am related to that git."

Rodolphus snorted, "Let's go."

Rodolphus took her to all the little shops and let her look around in the ones that peeked her interest. She had gotten Narcissa a pretty little trinket; a silver chain that had a locket on the end. It was supposed to glow when she was around someone that was under the effects of a polyjuice potion. They were coming out of a bookstore, Bellatrix had bought some books about dark arts and ancient magic.

"Do you really think ancient magic will be necessary?" Bellatrix asked they stepped out into the street.

"It's a war Bellatrix, you never know what you'll need. But it's better to be prepared." Rodolphus said as he grabbed her hand.

"Shall we grab something to eat?" She asked as she pulled away to walk ahead of him.

"Bellatrix, wait." Rodolphus called out to her. Bellatrix turned around to smile at him and picked up her pace. She wasn't paying attention to where she was going and bumped into something.

"Oh! Excuse me, I wasn't looking where I was going." Bellatrix apologized to the man she had bumped into. He was very very tall, she had to tilt her head all the way back to look him in the eyes.

"It's no problem at all." He grinned at her. It was then she saw his sharp dangerous looking teeth. He grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him, she tried to resist but he had the strength of ten full grown men. He lowered his head to her neck and took in a deep breath through his nose.

"You smell as good as you look, sweetie." He growled. He started to pull her with him and she pounded on him to let go.

"Get off of me! Unhand me right this second!" Bellatrix screamed. The man didn't loosen his grip at all, if anything he tightened it. He continued to drag her down the street until something hit him in the back, making him stumble.

"The lady asked for you to let her go." Rodolphus said with his wand pointed at the man. The stranger turned around to face him, a smile spreading across his face before he started laughing.

"Rodolphus LeStrange! My old friend!" It was said with venom, not with friendly hospitality like most would think.

"Let her go Parrux." Rodolphus said. "And you won't have to get hurt. We can finish our fight later."

"Why should I wait to kill you later? I could kill you now, and get this little thing here." Parrux said as he shook Bellatrix a little; she was not at all pleased.

"I'm warning you Parrux. Let. Her. Go." Rodolphus said through gritted teeth.

Parrux simply turned around and started to walk away, dragging Bellatrix. He was blown onto his face, bringing Bellatrix with him on the ground. Parrux pushed away from Bellatrix and got on his hands and knees. Before her eyes Parrux's skin fell away from his body, in its place fur could be seen.

An inhuman like growl came from deep within his chest, and escaped past his lips. As every piece of skin fell away more of the thick black fur was revealed. Bellatrix's eyes widened in fear. All her life there was nothing that could scare her, nothing. Only her master.

And werewolves.

She tried to scramble away as fast as she could, but Parrux grabbed her ankle and pulled her towards him. He opened his mouth wide, revealing all of his pearly white, razor, canine teeth. He was going to eat her, Bellatrix was sure of it.

He flew to the side of her and let out a dog like whimper. Rodolphus was next to her now, did he really move that fast?

"Get up Bellatrix." He said grabbing her arm trying to get her up off the ground. "Come on." He finally got her standing next to him, and checked her over.

"Are you alright? Did he bite you? Scratch you?" He asked as he checked her arms and neck. All Bellatrix could do was shake her head, she was in a state of shock. She turned her head to see Parrux getting up, but Rodolphus was still looking her over and didn't see him. She was frozen, couldn't even open her mouth as Parrux jumped at them.

She hit the pavement hard. She was too afraid to open her eyes. She heard the loud rawr and the grunting. Then she realized it wasn't above her, but a far. She opened her eyes, it was a bright blue sky. Her head whipped to the side.

Parrux was on top of Rodolphus.

Her hand went for her wand, but it was gone. She looked around frantically and saw it over to where Parrux had pulled her down. She crawled over to her wand, picked it up and held it out.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" She screamed it as loud as she could. Watched as the green light traveled slowly towards her target, before finally hitting him square in the back. He crumbled on top of Rodolphus, and she ran over to them.

"Rodolphus?" She called for him as she tried to get the big lifeless ball of fur off of him.

"Nice shot." He coughed, she laughed.

"Are you alright?" She smiled.

"Perfect, Bellatrix. Just perfect. " He grinned as she helped him up.

"Call me Bella." She smiled up at him. He had saved her from something she had feared since she was a little girl. He didn't show the slightest bit of fear while doing so either, and the power emanating off of him now was unbelievable.

"Let's go get lunch, Bella." He smiled back at her before taking her hand, she squeezed it, she wasn't letting go this time.

They got back from lunch to see Evan standing outside their door.

"Where have you two been?! It's almost sundown and we haven't gone over any plans yet!" He nearly screamed at them.

"Calm down cousin, you act like the world will be ending. Rodolphus was showing me the town." Bellatrix said as she waited for Rodolphus to unlock the door to their room. They all stepped inside and Evan looked around.

"You two are sharing a room?" He asked with a raised eyebrow and a smirk.

"We're on business Evan, not pleasure." Rodolphus said sternly. He went over to a desk against the wall next to his wardrobe. He opened the top drawer and pulled out a folded piece of paper, he opened it and placed it flat on the table before beckoning Evan over.

"There is a route that leads to the back of their cave, we will take that." Rodolphus said pointing to the small road on his self made map. "And you will be pleased to hear very few werewolves tend to travel it." He finished with a smirk.

"Sweet. Wait," he paused "why don't they travel it." Evan asked.

"Because it's right by the queens lair."

"Oh Merlin, you are trying to kill me. I knew it." Evan mumbled and began to pace the room.

"We aren't looking for a fight, we are going to create an alliance. To do that we have to talk to the queen." Rodolphus said as he refolded his map and placed it in his pocket.

"How do you suppose we get to her? Just walk in? 'Oh hi, so we are the wizards that killed about a quarter of your coven, in return you killed our men in the village. Well we just came to ask for your friendship. You know, so we can use you in the upcoming war.' Yes 'cause that'll go brilliantly!" Evan said sarcastically as he threw his hands in the air.

"Well, yes actually. I'm hoping they'll give us a chance to explain." Rodolphus said. The three of them walked out of the room and Rodolphus locked the door behind them. They left the small building and started on the road to get to the path that would lead to behind the cave.

They had been walking quite a ways now, and the path had switched from rocks to just dirt. It wasn't a very cold night, but the wind was unpleasant Bella thought to herself. Her hair was whipping around her face and she sighed irritably, wishing she had something to get it out of her way. She used her hand to brush a few strands out of her eyes and pushed them behind her ear. She could then see the enormous cave just ahead of them; it was dark and did not at all scream enter.

Rodolphus nodded his head towards it, "that's it."

After a couple more feet they were stood at the entrance to the cave. They all just stood there, staring inside.

"Shall we go in then?" Bellatrix asked annoyed. These were supposed to be some of Voldemort's best men, and they couldn't even walk inside a cave.

'A cave full of pissed off vampires.' She reminded herself.

Evan cleared his throat and was the first to take a step inside, followed by Rodolphus and then Bellatrix. It was dark but there was a small light coming from the other side of the cave. Bellatrix took her wand out.

"Lumo-"

"Don't." Rodolphus pushed her arm down. "They'll know we're here."

"Aren't they supposed to?" She asked.

"Not yet. Just keep your wand at the ready, and stay quiet." He turned back around and started to follow Evan again.

"Stay quiet." Bellatrix whispered mockingly before crossing her eyes and sticking her tongue out at the back of Rodolphus' head.

As they got closer to the light they heard giggling and laughing. There were women gathered around a chained up man. It was probably a stray werewolf that dared to come into the cave.

He was a well built fellow that happened to wander into the wrong place. His clothing was missing, and he had blood all over his face and chest. There were chains coming down from the ceiling which held him hanging just off the ground.

"Poor guy, doesn't look a day over 18." Rodolphus whispered.

"The mutt probably deserves it." Evan whispered back as he turned to face Rodolphus. "Rodolphus? Bellatrix?"

Evan's arms were grabbed tightly and held behind his back, he struggled to get free but couldn't.

I am hoping to get the next chapter up by next week. But there might be another delay, my friend from Montana has come to visit and she only has two weeks until she has to leave.

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