Concurrent Existences

Chapter 29: Unbreakable Bonds

As children, the three made a vow.

Sisters right now.

Sisters before.

Sisters forevermore.

"You're pregnant." Narcissa just decided to be as blunt as possible. Andromeda's mouth was left gaping. Apparently, their eldest sister was now 'fifteen years old and pregnant'.

"WHAT?!"

"I said that you're pregnant." Narcissa was sure that the question was kind of rhetorical, but her mental processes were still stalling with the news.

"I heard you the first time!" Bella shouted. The dark witch mentally searched her memories to how this particular problem could have happened and quickly found the reason when Hermione was playing around with one particular ancient sex spell. "Fucking Hermione!"

"Wow. I didn't know Hermione had balls, literally." Andromeda piped in, slowly getting over the shock.

"She doesn't have balls or a fucking dick! She used an ancient sex spell and probably forgot that ejaculating magical fucking semen would still get me knocked the fuck up!" Bellatrix remembered passing out after Hermione kept plugging up and filling each of her orifices with magic when the brunette was trying to punish her for making her orgasm all over Rosmerta's tavern. She still remembered limping out of the forest, pretending to have escaped from Crescent Manor.

"You're pregnant and unwed." Narcissa stated while contemplating on the thought further.

"Seriously, Cissy? That's what you're conflicted about?! I have a bloody parasite eating my magic inside my stomach!" No wonder she was feeling sleepy so much and getting so hungry. She assumed it was because of the stress from Azkaban and serving the Dark Lord, but apparently it was from Hermione's magical sperm.

Hermione's fucking magical sperm. Fuck!

"We will need to contact Miss Granger. I will not allow you to give birth without getting married."

"Cissy! We've just killed hundreds of green shites! The Aurors are out to get us and you're trying to get me hitched?" Bellatrix sighed, winning arguments against the blonde never really worked. "Never mind. Give me the ring I had on, I'll contact her for your plans." The dark witch pointed to her wrapped finger that still had burn marks lingering under it. Bellatrix would use the artifact to pinpoint and hopefully contact Hermione, wherever the hell she was.

"Not until you heal up first."

"Cissy! I have nine other fingers I can wear the ring on! Give it!" Bellatrix huffed, she needed to get in contact with Hermione to know what their plan was going to be. It had been two days after all, she was surprised that Hermione had yet to contact or even go to her.

You better not have died, mudblood!

"Fine, fine. Be quick about it though, you still need bed rest. We will also need to get a proper mediwitch to check on your baby." Narcissa conceded to the point, her sister had recovered her magic to substantial levels after two days of recuperation.

A loud shout from down the hallway caused Andromeda to stand. "Looks like Teddy is getting into trouble again. I'll spend some time with him. I'll see you two later." Andromeda began to walk out of the room to take care of Teddy.

"Teddy?" Bellatrix asked while Narcissa picked up the slightly burned and damaged ring that Bellatrix had been wearing.

"Nymphadora's child with the wolf." Bellatrix could see the frown and tone of voice when Narcissa said 'wolf', seems like her little sister was still prejudice against some.

The dark witch accepted the ring that Narcissa handed over and inspected it. It looked a far cry from when she first had it. The metal looked dull, slightly cracked and the clean metallic look it had before was now marred with burn marks. She remembered the last time she had trying channeling magic through them, they actually started to burn her as if the magic had nowhere to travel and began to burn whatever area was close.

Bellatrix put the ring on the same finger on the opposite hand. The dark witch began by channeling a minuscule amount of magic, just to test it out first, and she knew then and there that the artifacts were truly worn out when she felt the unmistakable feeling of burning on her finger. It seems as if the artifacts Hermione had made weren't made for the full exertion of an ancient spell with that kind of magnitude, at least when it was only two of them casting it.

"Shite, I hope this crap still works." Bellatrix assumed that she would only be able to cast a few more spells before the artifacts were truly burnt up. The Dragon Heartstring used to create them were probably all nearly burnt up. She began to channel magic, just enough to send her thoughts towards the owner of the other set. She could feel the burn, but ignored it, she had felt pain a thousand times worse than a little burn.

Hermione...

Luv...

...

Bitch, where the fuck are you!

Nothing. Bellatrix felt that the connection wasn't even going through. There was no way to actively just ignore or shutoff the connection between the twin artifacts and that meant only one thing.

Hermione must have burnt out her artifacts when she battled against the Aurors. This was the worst case scenario. Bellatrix could only hope that Hermione would find a way to find her because she had no clue where her lover had gone to. Shrieking shack would be within the search perimeter of the Aurors and they had no other true hiding place.

Panic began to surge again. Hermione was missing. She had no way to find her little know-it-all. Before she could all out panic, a warm embrace came.

"Stop worrying over everything, Bella. I told you there hasn't been any announcements anywhere. You think the Ministry would keep it a secret if they captured her?" Narcissa tried to appeal to Bella's rational side, she didn't want the dark witch to panic or get depressed, she had seen her sister deteriorate to that point before and did not want to experience it again.

A wave of sleepiness began to engulf Bella and her eyelids began to droop. Just before her little sister laid her back down on the bed, Bellatrix realized Narcissa used a sleeping spell on her.

"Bitch..." Bellatrix was too tired to actively fight the spell though, the parasite was eating way too much of her strength. She would get revenge against Narcissa later.

Narcissa took the ring her eldest sister had just used an placed it to the side where all her other items were. It was still a bit surprising that her sister did not even need to use a wand to use magic anymore. If what Bellatrix said was true, then using all three of her artifacts would enable her to multicast several spells at once.

Terrifying, especially when in the hands of Bellatrix of all people. Narcissa did love her eldest sister very, very much, but she, of all people, knew how dangerous and volatile Bellatrix could be. She could just imagine a full powered Bellatrix infinitely casting dark spells that continued to replenish her own magics while draining and destroying other people.

Narcissa knew about Bellatrix's Tenebrae spells and how destructive they could be when the dark witch utilized it to its fullest potential.

The blonde witch took one last look at her sleeping de-aged eldest sister and left the room headed towards Andromeda, she would let her sister recuperate for a bit more. The stress of hearing that she was pregnant probably did not even hit Bellatrix yet. Everything was already chaotic enough, but Bellatrix being pregnant just brought things to a whole new complicated level.

So much for planning to steal and hide Bellatrix away. Narcissa had heard about her sisters love for the mudblood, but didn't think that the relationship went that deep. Especially since Bellatrix had tortured the girl just over a year ago. Apparently, the missing part of her memory is what is keeping her from remembering Hermione Granger when she existed in the past.

Time magic. Such a ludicrous practice. At least, the Ministry stopped their research of it, well, all their research was now a big time vortex that they still could not figure out.

Still, of all people, Professor McGonagall had actually started all this by giving Hermione Granger her Time-Turner. Hermione Granger actually existed stuck in time, back in time and reliving time while her sister did not even exist in time for a while after Hermione had taken her to her own present and created the doll. Her sister was not even supposed to be alive.

One had led a concurrent existence...

..., and the other was not supposed to have an existence at all.

Maybe these two are meant to be after all. Narcissa just hoped that time would not decided to catch up to the two witches. She would also have to ask Hermione if there was a way to repeat the spell used on Bella, Andy and herself weren't getting any younger.

Narcissa found Andromeda in the living room bouncing the two year old Edward or 'Teddy' on her knee eliciting giggles from the child. The blonde witch smiled at the scene before her and it only reinforced the fact that talking to Andromeda had been the best decision she had made in years.

"Motherhood really does suit you, Andy." Narcissa went over and kissed Teddy's head before she took one of the vacant seats near Andy.

"Hah. You should have seen me with Dora, I was at my wits end not really knowing what to do." The giggling child was finally drifting off after playing so much even before Andromeda had started playing with him.

"Well, you were pregnant at twenty one."

"Better than being pregnant at fifteen." Andy chuckled, still not really believing her eldest sister was actually pregnant.

"True, true. Do you know what I dreamed of way before all of this happened?" Narcissa sighed, remembering hopes that were never met.

"What?" Andy could think of a few, but decided to humor her sister.

"The three of us all pregnant and together. Where all our children would be able to play happily together without regard of anything." Narcissa could only sadly smile at her one true hope when she still a girl. She had seen it, once upon a time in a dream. She could still vividly remember seeing both her sisters as well as herself already pregnant and there were also two other children playing around them, but that particular dream never happened.

Maybe in another time.

Maybe in another life.

"I'm sorry I left, Cissy." Andromeda placed Teddy to the side of the sofa and went closer to her sister, placing a palm on top of her sister's hand.

"It wasn't your fault. You love who you love, but if you really want to apologize, you should apologize to Bella." Narcissa could still remember the events after Andromeda had left their household. She could remember Bellatrix's already fracturing mind start to unravel. This event wasn't what started Bellatrix's deterioration, but it was the event that triggered a shatter point. A shatter point that Voldemort took to bind Bellatrix to his will.

"She covered for you, you know? Voldemort had decided to pursue you, but Bellatrix tried to convince him otherwise." Narcissa knew that Andromeda had only known bits and pieces of what happened since the middle sister had no more contact with any of the Blacks aside from occasional gossip and the newspaper. Now was the time to reveal more about the shrouded events since Bellatrix was already here.

"I know. I read what happened from the newspapers." Andromeda had read the tragedy that happened within the confines of Black Manor, she had almost apparated right back when she read about it, but her husband decided that it was too dangerous especially since she was pregnant at the time. "Mother and father got into an argument with Bella, father threw a powerful hex while Bellatrix countered it which ended up fatally for them. I know it was ruled in self defense since Voldemort already had supporters within the Ministry." Her parents passing was a tragic thing especially when the Blacks held blood above everything. Andromeda couldn't believe that her father had thrown a spell towards Bellatrix either since he had never once raised a hand or wand against his daughters.

"No. That never happened." Narcissa had to ready herself to explain one of the biggest trauma and lie that no one knew the truth to aside from three people.

"What do you mean?" Andromeda could sense the heavy feelings surrounding the story that her youngest sister was just about to tell and she did not like where it was going.

"You know father and mother, neither of them would ever raise their hand against us or a wand against us. I overheard everything that happened that day. I know for a fact that Voldemort knew that I overheard everything as well, but he ignored my presence." Bitterness poured out from Narcissa's words. She always thought that she couldn't have prevented the outcome, but she never even tried anything at the time.

"Voldemort? What does that monster have to do with what happened?" The terror she felt in the pit of her stomach intensified as she didn't even know Voldemort was part of another tragedy yet again.

"I overheard them in Bellatrix's room when she pleaded for him not to chase you down to kill you. You didn't think Voldemort would just let that go right? He asked for an exchange. A life for a life." Tears began to well up in Narcissa's eyes. She felt so weak at the time, she wished she had done something, but what could she have done?

"A life for a life..." Andromeda echoed the words, knowing where all this was going.

"A life for a life. Voldemort told Bella that in exchange for your life and the life of your unborn child, she had to take two lives in return."

"No-"

"Yes. He ordered her to kill mother and father or else he would have mobilized the Hit Wizards loyal to him at the time to hunt you down." Narcissa said grimly. "Voldemort then used his sway within the Ministry to change the story, he didn't want his protégé put away after all. You and I both know that the Dark Lord had already commanded Bella not to interact with us anymore, so she could never get her conscience clear with him hovering around her. There was no one to save her from him nor anyone to save her from herself..."

Andromeda was at a loss for words. She knew her eldest sister had given up so much and sacrificed everything just for them, but she didn't think it was to this extent. Shame began to fill her. When had she given up on Bellatrix? When did she begin to doubt her eldest sister?

"Don't blame yourself, Andy. From what Bella said, all of us have a basic compulsion spell woven into us due to the Sorting Hat. It wouldn't take much for the Dark Lord to put in a suggestion to stay away from Bellatrix. It had been his plan all along to keep Bellatrix isolated. To keep her controlled and to keep her power in check because he knew how much potential she had." Narcissa softly said while she began to embrace her elder sister. There wasn't much else to say as both sisters grieved for what their eldest sister went through.

They grieved for what could have been.

They grieved for what was lost.

However, not all was lost, and right now, that was all that mattered.

Both sisters eventually got up and put Teddy to sleep in his room. Bellatrix did not wake again until the next morning.

Bellatrix could see how Andy was looking at from one of the other sofas. This was the third day that Bellatrix hadn't seen or contacted Hermione, the first two days she was unconscious, but still. The three sisters have been spending the whole day together doing things that they should have always been doing as sisters since before that was taken from them. Andy was giving her weird glances though, she was used to slight suspicion lurking within Andy's eyes, but now? Andy had a tiny smile when looking at her and everything, it was a bit creepy.

"Bewa."

The dark witch was already worried, but after numerous tries with using her artifacts, none of them could connect to Hermione. She realized that using wandless magic was ingrained into her already, she couldn't fully control multicasting spell since that was what the other foci were for, but she could do enough.

"Bewa."

Too bad the artifacts couldn't be used as a conduit for magic anymore, it still worked, but the burn accompanying it wasn't worth it. They would probably be fully destroyed if she used them even for a couple of simple spells.

"Bewa!" Bellatrix couldn't ignore the child anymore as he squeezed on the arm that he was attached to on Bellatrix.

"Andy! Get this off me!" Bellatrix wanted to be able to think clearly! This annoying boy wouldn't leave her in peace! She tried prying him off her leg, but then he attached to her arm. She tried prying him off her arm, then he ended up on her other arm.

"Come on, Bella. He's your grandnephew, besides, you're going to be having a baby of your own, you'll need to learn eventually." Andy laughed, both Andromeda and Narcissa decided not to tell Bellatrix that they knew about what happened to their parents, they just didn't want to give their eldest sister more to think about. Andromeda would always be thankful and she would show that by being a loving sister. That was a piece of that past that should be left in the past, all that mattered was Andy now knew that her eldest sister never stopped being her eldest sister.

"Don't remind me! I can't believe I got knocked up after over forty years of staying parasite-free!" Bellatrix said while trying to get the two year old child off her. She had fended off enemies that people could only dream of fighting, but she couldn't fend off this two year old!

The dark witch still couldn't believe that Hermione actually impregnated her. She was the Dark Witch, Death Incarnate and a slew of other crap, but she wasn't mother material! She wasn't even able to take care of her sisters like she wanted! How was she going to handle being a mother? Could her body even handle being pregnant? She was fifteen and her body was still undergoing magical stabilization!

I'm going to use that spell to get her fucking pregnant!

Bellatrix was just about to tell the two year old off again when she looked at the child that was staring at her on her lap. The child morphed his face into a face that resembled her in her childhood. Bellatrix couldn't say anything else as she began to imagine what her baby would look like. Would it have more of Hermione? or more of herself? Would it be a girl? Well, two X chromosomes should give them a girl, but with ancient magic involved, who the fuck knew.

Instead of tossing or kicking the child off, she eventually just put a hand on his head and let the kid lay on her for a while. In all her life, she actually had never held a child. There just wasn't any chance.

Suddenly, Bellatrix felt the kid put his tiny hands on her breasts.

"None! None!" The child shouted and Bellatrix magically hurled him towards Andy.

"They're growing, you little imp!" Even a child made fun of her chest! She would have to ask where Hermione had gotten that book of ancient sex spells, there should at least be something that would increase her breast size!

I might be actually able to get used to this. Able to get used to having family around again, even the little imp.

Bellatrix hadn't felt this relaxed in a long time, aside from the times when she was with Hermione. It seemed as if fate finally wanted to let her have a family. She could have gone without the parasite, but she wouldn't do anything to it until Hermione knows about what she did. Bellatrix conceded to herself that Hermione would tell her to keep the child and she had to admit maybe there was a really tiny part of her that actually wanted this to happen.

Bellatrix had actually been scared of seeing her sisters again, but, apparently, there was nothing to be afraid of. She had her sisters with her, all she needed was Hermione and everything would be great.

As soon as Hermione found her, everything would be complete...

..., but fate is a spiteful bitch at times.

Narcissa had a few minutes earlier to talk to a few of her sources to get updated news on what was happening around them especially at the Ministry. The Malfoy Matriarch entered the room slightly paler than usual with a paper in hand.

Bellatrix knew she wouldn't like whatever the hell was on that paper.

"Bella, I'm sorry." Narcissa clutched onto the small paper, crushing it in her hand.

"Spit it out, Cissy!" Bellatrix knew she wouldn't like it, but had to hear it.

If Hermione was dead she would recreate the Obliteration spell and use it on the whole Ministry.

"The Ministry has Hermione. The information I received is what the headlines for tomorrows newspaper is going to be." The youngest Black handed over the small crumpled piece of paper. Narcissa wanted to hide this, but she knew that her sister would not live without the brunette witch.

Bellatrix quickly took the crumbled paper and opened it to find a short message to what the headline for the Daily Prophet.

"Hermione Granger Incarcerated for the Destruction of Hogwarts and the Massacre of Goblins." The small piece of paper ignited as soon as the dark witch finished reading it.

Was this why she couldn't contact Hermione?

Had the Aurors destroyed her artifacts? Was that why they wouldn't synchronize?

Bellatrix had numerous questions, so many things were uncertain, but one thing was certain.

"I'm going to the Ministry."

The only thing certain was she had to get to Hermione. If this Ministry was in her way, then so be it. The Ministry does not know who the fuck they were messing with.

I will break them all.

This time the Ministry would learn their lesson.

Nobody messes with Hermione...

...,and no one fucks with Bellatrix Black.

AN: What happened to their parents is actually what Bellatrix hid from Hermione way back in Azkaban during Legilimency training. This just shows more background to why Bellatrix acted like she did in the books/movies.

Would've liked more sister bonding, but Cissy's spies cut their bonding short! Will Andy and Cissy actually let a newly pregnant Bella charge into the Ministry?

By the way, if anyone was wondering. The Obliteration spell that Hermione used took over 70% of Bella's magical reserves(She also had to control the massive vector spell), around 10% from the Dark Bombardment, and the rest were being drained by the baby and hunger. Hermione burned around 50% of her own reserves because Bellatrix had taken the brunt of the spell exhaustion. The Obliteration spell is no joke to cast, they also wanted it controlled and limited. If the spell was uncontrolled, the disintegrated area could easily be 5 - 10 times the size of Hogwarts. (The base requirement of the ancient spell also required 5 people minimum.)

Hermione focused chapter is next, probably. (This was actually supposed to be the Hermione chapter, but a some readers wanted a bit of bonding so... bonding chapter!)