With Me, Into The Dark

by Lamia of the Dark

Drabble Collection. Marauder Era, slightly AU (major canon events remain unchanged). Bellatrix is assigned to train the new Death Eater recruits. (Focuses mostly on OCs, you have been warned.) WARNINGS: Violent/disturbing imagery in some chapters (gore), swearing, sexual references.

2. Strung Upon A Chain

~ With Me, Into The Dark ~

"I like your pendant."

Lilith is an awkward conversationalist who is utterly inept at engaging in small talk, so Bellatrix is certain that the compliment is genuine. The pendant in question is a bronze bird skull with a thin chain threaded through its eye sockets.

Bellatrix gives a perfunctory response of, "Thanks, I'm glad you like it."

Lilith continues to stare at the skull, but fails to voice what is on her mind.

The silence drags on for several moments until Bellatrix, unsettled, explains: "It's a souvenir from my first successful Killing Curse."

"Ah, so it is real then...?"

"Yes."

Curiosity assuaged, Lilith turns her attention back to the book of dark magic she has been tasked with studying. Assuming the conversation is now over with, Bellatrix returns to her own research as well.

Silence reigns for a long while - broken only by the occasional turning of a page - until Lilith says, out of nowhere, "Mine was a rabbit."

~end~