Okay, I'd like to say SORRY! For the wait. But unfortunately I may not be able to update this for a while and if I do it'll only be on the weekends, if I don't you'll have to wait a month. I'm doing my GCSE's at the moment and they're hard.
So enjoy and please review. ^_^ I apologize for the length.

It all started the day before Bellatrix's first day of Hogwarts. Bellatrix Black was alone in her room, packing her bags. She was grinning excitedly as she threw anything and everything into her suitcase. Soon she'd be away from all of this, away from her abusive parents, her boring locked-in life, the stupid relatives, the even stupider rules. Soon she'd be free. Well, that's how she saw it; young and innocent Bellatrix Black.

But today was the day that all that changed, the day that Bellatrix was no longer an innocent child. It all began with two quiet knocks at her door.

The young girl sighed and continued to pack. She assumed it was one of her sisters as neither her mother nor her father would have the kindness to knock on her door; they would quite happily just stroll into her room at any time of the day or night.

"Come in..." Bella called.

The person who walked in was neither Andromeda nor Narcissa but Bellatrix's father, Cygnus Black. Bellatrix's eyes widened slightly and she stopped packing, instead standing upright and looking to her father.

"Y-yes?" She asked, trying to look brave in the eyes of the man who she feared the most at that moment in her life.

The man smirked and went to sit on his daughter's bed. "Come sit next to your father, Bellatrix."

Bella did as she was told, slightly hesitant; her father seemed to be in a good mood. This was odd, very odd.

"Now... Bella," The man's smirk grew as he spoke his daughters nickname, snaking an arm around her small waist, "It's your first day at Hogwarts tomorrow. Do you know what that means?"

Bellatrix quickly shook her head, she was frozen with fear in her father's grip, she could sense trouble coming her way and she didn't like it one bit.

Cygnus chuckled, fingering the hem of the small girls skirt "It means, that you're going to meet lots of boys."

He watched as she couldn't help but smile slightly. Bellatrix had thought about this a lot. A boy was her ticket out of this place, a nice Pureblood boy. Someone to love and protect her, something she had not yet experienced.

Cygnus gripped her daughter's thigh tightly causing a gasp to escape the young girl's lip, the old man's hand creeping further up as her eyes widened.

The next half hour of Bellatrix's life would haunt her forever more. When she sat in her lonely cell in Azkaban, with no-one but the soul-sucking Dementors to ensure that empty hole inside of her only grew and ached more and more each second of her miserable existence, that was one of the moments she was forced to replay again and again whilst her sanity slowly slipped away from her.

But as the now broken girl laid bloody and naked under her sheets, curled into a ball and hugging an old teddy bear so hard its old tattered head threatened to fall off, Bellatrix Black had not yet been sent over the edge into the dark abyss of insanity. It was her younger sister, Andromeda, who assured this.

When the younger girl had seen her father walk out of her older sisters room, a cold yet satisfied smirk upon his lips, she knew straight away that her big sister needed comfort. As much as her parents thought otherwise Andromeda Black knew all about her parents' exact behaviour towards Bellatrix. When her mother or father would take Bellatrix away it was all too obvious what was going on. Although Narcissa was... lacking intelligence, Andromeda was not. She was smart enough, even at her young age, to know what was happening, especially when Bella gained mysterious bruises and scars that could not be explained.

Andromeda walked into her sister's room, wincing at the pain it caused her to hear her big sister cry. "B-Bella...?" She spoke in a quiet voice to not startle her.

Bellatrix only continued to cry, completely ignoring her sister's presence in the room. Dromeda silently crept over to Bella, crawling onto the bed and laying next to her. She wrapped her arms around her and kissed her cheek.

"I love you Bella..." Dromeda said innocently, hugging her sister tight.

Bella burst out into renewed sobs then turned and hugged her sister tightly, crying into the younger girls shoulder.

Cygnus continued to sexually abuse his first child for what seemed like forever to Bellatrix. And every time Cygnus left Bella within the hour Andromeda would be beside her, hugging her, stroking her hair and telling her everything was going to be okay. Even when Bella no longer cried for the sins her father committed Dromeda continued to come and make her feel better, only ever finding out what was actually going on once she was in her third year of Hogwarts.

Andromeda was the person keeping Bellatrix sane during her teenage years; she would have fallen to pieces without her. The two sisters loved each other more than anything. But everything had to change the summer after Andromeda's fifth year and nothing would ever be the same for any of the three sisters again. Another large step into the mutilating of Bellatrix's sanity.

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