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.

3. A Puzzle Piece For Your Thoughts

~ With Me, Into The Dark ~

Lilith is hopeless with the Imperius Curse. Besides her catalpa-and-unicorn wand not being suited to casting Unforgivables, she lacks the proper focus to hold the victim under her thrall for an extended period of time.

Azalais is a different story altogether. While she has not yet managed to cast a successful Killing Curse, and her Cruciatus Curse is more of a tickle than debilitating pain, the strength of her Imperius Curse alone convinces Bellatrix that this girl might be well-suited to learning the magics of the mind.

Bellatrix does not consult the Dark Lord before beginning to teach Azalais the rudiments of Occlumency. Lilith insists on receiving the same instruction as her companion, but she quickly proves too scatterbrained to have any affinity for the art.

And while Azalais feels sorry for her companion for being denied the chance to add a new skill to her arsenal, she is secretly thrilled to finally be spending time alone with their idol. As a healer, Azalais is often sent on different missions than the fighters (when she is allowed to go on missions at all, as her skills are too valuable to be unnecessarily risked). Not that she doesn't like Lilith - they are childhood friends, after all - but sometimes Azalais feels overshadowed during their training sessions, because it so often seems that Lilith requires more of their instructor's attention in order to learn.

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