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Chapter Three

Bellatrix

The weekend was over and it was very earlyon Monday Morning. Lucius was still recovering from his arse kicking he got after what he had done. The Dark Lord gave me some space as I dealt with my grief and we had recieved a rather irritating but convincing letter from Draco.

The boy was spouting about how it wasn't fair he was being taken away from his father to live with his blood traitor aunt and BLAH BLAH BLAH. He was playing his, part well, he was good I will give him it. Knowing he was going to be safely ensconced with Andy and Cissy was going to be somewhere safe too made me feel so more comfortable with the decisions I have been making over the past forty eight hours.

I had recieved a rather horrendous letter from my littlest sister condemning me for putting her in the position of having to play teenager. She said how she had been sorted and I truly had to hold in a scoff at her being a Gryffindor before reading on.

Word of the Longbottoms recovery was still being kept all hush hush but word of Cissys death spread like wildfire. She was dead to the world and I can only hope the life she is slowly building for herself with not be too difficult for her. I had just finished up my business at Gringotts and was on my way to a meeting with Albus and Minerva at the Shrieking Shack to give him something important.

An account was set up in Cissys new name and this way she gets to keep what is hers. Spinning away from Diagon Alley I landed outside the infamous haunted building and it seems Minerva was the only one here. She stood as graceful as the feline I know she is with a dark navy set of robes on under her grey and green cloak she wore.

"You're early." It was more of a statement than anything else, I just shrugged and held out the key for her to take along with the pouch and new card system Gringotts is trialing.

"Can you pass that on to your new favourite cub for me please?" She nodded her head and tucked them into her pocket before stalking me as I paced around the room waiting for Albus Dumbledore to grace us with his presence. It was a solid five minutes of not talking and yet my arse felt like it had been on fire with her watching me. As I turned my gaze to the older witch I could see just how much of herself is hidden. I stopped and leant against the wall her eyes trailed up my body and I couldn't stop the old familiar feeling stirring in me.

"Why do you hide yourself from the world my lioness." She looked shocked at my familiar pet name I had for her and she transfigured a broken table leg into a comfortable chair before softly lowering herself down onto it and crossing her legs showing off the shapely calf and black boots she wore.

"It has been a long time Trix. Time has marched on and I have gotten old." I shook my head and slowly walked over to her and knelt forward until my hands were perched against the arms of the chair and I took in her glamoured face. I searched her slightly weathered but gorgeous facebefore smirking and traced along her cheekbone whispering as I went.

"Finite." Her hair darkened down and her face lost some of the wrinkles and those eyes were still just puddles you could melt into. I couldn't help myself and stood my ground looking smugly at her now. She looked exactly the same as she had before I went to Azkaban.

"You were saying? Then again, if the children of Hogwarts had you as their teacher I guarantee you would be entirely too distracting." She shook her head at me before laughing and blushing at my insinuation.

"Oh Trix I feel like an old hag most days. I have lived through two wars and realistically it looks like we are heading for a third. This bucket of bones is weary." I couldn't stop myself, I slowly leant forward and pressed a soft kiss on her lips. I shocked her but she slowly relaxed and pressed herself closer to me. It was brief and sweet and exactly what I wanted, we always flirted back in the day especially when I was doing my Mastery with her but nothing physical had ever happened much to my disappointment.

"The first time I ever saw you was when I was a first year. I was enamoured by you, your presence, your strength and your sheer defiance at any man who crossed your path and deemed you worthless. As each of my years at Hogwarts passed I fell deeper and deeper in love with you. When I was doing my Mastery with you it took every ounce of strength I had inside of me to not push you down on you desk and make you mine. You can do with that information what you will but I need you to know." I turned my back and had only gotten two strides away from her when I felt my hand being gripped tightly in her own and she spun me around and pressed me against the wall.

I always knew she was hiding behind herself and seeing her cheeks flush and her chest heaving underneath her robe filled me with arousal. She pressed her lips against my own and I could feel those long fingers holding onto my hips and I was in heaven. Not twenty seconds later I could hear a creak of a floorboard and I broke away from her knowing she wouldn't want Albus to find her in this position.

"This isn't over." She nodded and wandlessly applied her glamour charm and she aged right before my eyes. We shared one last look before standing at separate ends of the room again just as the headmaster walked through the threshold with that damn twinkle in his eye.

"Ah Bellatrix, good to see you again, I trust you have heard Narcissa is settling well into Gryffindor House." I only nodded at the man in question and without waiting for anything I pulled out a black cloth covered object. The old man might be an idiot but he was an ally to have against the dark lord.

"I did indeed, I am sure Minerva will look after her for me, onto other business I am guessing this will help secure my place as your spy, my families safety and anything else I can do to see Draco's future children being born into peace." I sat it down on the half broken table in front of me with a loud thump echoing against the walls. He looked curiously between myself and the object and as I drew the cloth cover back and off the surface his eyebrows went flying up and the gold glittering from it.

"Bellatrix. How in name of Godric? Why do you have? Do you know what that is?" I nodded my head and even though every instinct in my entire body wants to snatch it back and keep it safe thanks to this fucking mark on my arm, I knew this was the only way forward to ensure Cissy, Draco and I don't spend the rest of our lives in Azkaban.

"I don't know how many there is but I do know his snake is one too. A bit of fiendfyre, should take care of it. Be careful don't destroy it yet, I think he has more so have as many of them together because he will feel it when they are destroyed. That's all I know." Dumbledore nodded his head at me and wrapped the cup into the cloth and tucked it into his robes.

"Thank You Bellatrix, I can guarantee that your family will never be harmed. In the Summer Draco will be sent to live with Andromeda and I was thinking Narcissa could go also." I immediately shook my head at that. There is too many people who know of Cissys not dead as it is, it would be too much of a risk.

"No, not if you want to keep her secret. It has been a long time but Drommie is still our sister, she will sniff Cissy out if she has to spend any length of time with her. Drommies Occlumency was always shite." I could see the Headmasters face pinch when I swore and I wanted to whip out my full repertoire of curse words on him but maybe not the best plan when he is the most powerful wizard in the past one hundred years.

"What about Sirius? We wouldn't have to tell him but if he accidentally found out his Occlumency is more than above reproach." I guess that would work, she would be safe with Sirius. I nodded my head at him before he announced he was to get back to the castle.

"I will be right behind you Albus, I need to talk to Bellatrix for a second." He nodded before smirking knowingly and told her to take her time and left us to our own devices.

It was a solid five minutes and we didn't speak just stared at each other. I couldn't help myself and held my hand out to her. Reluctantly she came over to me and I held onto her waist.

"We are in the middle of a war and on opposite sides, why would you do this now ." I smirked and kissed her again, merlin she was gorgeous. If anything she had gotten more beautiful with age.

"We could die in this war Minerva, I am so sick of wasting time, I ended up in Azkaban for a crime I didn't commit, granted I am not an angel and have done some horrible things but I didn't harm the Longbottoms. We could perish and I don't want to die without allowing myself some semblance of happiness. I think once this war is over and we survive and we also owe nothing more to anyone our life together could be extraordinary. If you want me." She looked conflicted but eventually a soft smile came over her face and she held onto me before pressing her lips against my own.

It started off slowly and tentative, it had been a while since I had been with anyone and that was before Akzaban. A threesomewith Antonin Dolohov and Alecto Carrow was less than fulfilling. Feeling her arms grip me and her tongue fight against my own filled me with so much want and need.

"Min, I have waited for this since I was Fifteen, I am not having our first time together be in this house. I will send an owl soon and we you can meet me here, I will whisk you away from dreary and wet Scottish castles to the sunshine and bottomless margaritas." She looked nervous for a second but seemed she trusted me and nodded slightly. I kissed her once more before pulling away feeling the burning in my arm.

"I have to go, I will see you later?" She nodded her head at me before I left the room. I had to, if I stayed any longer I would have my wicked way with her. Leaving the building I apparated back to Malfoy Manor. Getting a full weekend away from the Dark Lord would be a problem, but eventually it would happen. I will just be honest, I am in need to some gratification that my husband cannot and will not please.

Walking back into the manor was always a surprise, his minions violated every inch of the entire house and Lucius being the waste of man that he was allowed them too. Except the library it seems, the Dark Lord forbid anyone to touch the impressive Malfoy collection they had accumulated over the centuries.

"My Lord." He sat in his throne and smiled at me, I might have believed in the cause at one point but not now, I lost too many years of my life and my sister almost lost her life to this megalomaniac. I wanted a future with Minerva, I wanted my sister to be able to have her life back and I wanted my nephew to grow up and have a family of his own one day.

"Ah Bella, I was wondering where you had gone to." I called up a fabricated memory of me torturing some poor unsuspecting muggle woman before having my sick way with her. All untrue of course but what the dark lord didn't know was I am a master occlumens, even better than himself or Severus and I taught Cissy during the first war and it seems she taught him whilst I was gone. I had brushed up on his shields when I first came from Azkaban.

"Ah I see, as long your foul mood isn't torturing my followers you can do whatever you want." I nodded my head and thanked him before he let me go. Oh yes most definitely his favourite. All I could think of was my weekend with Minerva. I would have to be strategic about it, maybe create a trail of something powerful that the dark lord didn't know but wanted.

Yes, I would have to use all of my Slytherin thinking when planning it, I couldn't wait. Now all I had to do is put up with these idiots for another little while and not kill or torture anyone else. It wouldn't be easy.

Narcissa

Monday Morningcame around pretty quickly and seeing Gryffindor Colours of red and gold lie on my bed seemed slightly blasphemous. Never in a million years did I dream I would be anything other than a Slytherin. Hermione had made it her mission to show me around the castle throughout the weekend and introduce me to a lot of people.

Having never had many female friends before it was nice and she seemed genuine, of course if she knew who I really was then the whole thing would go to hell but as she showed me around and pointed out something or another I couldn't help but be enamoured by the little witch.

The intelligence that comes off her in waves almost took me by surprise, I knew she was smart. I have had to Listen to Draco bitch and whine and complain that the girl was beating him in almost every subject for five years now. Even I couldn't have anticipated how much she young woman had already stuffed into her brain. All of their friends were kind and welcoming to me it seems.

Harry Potter was an enigma, after everything the boy has been through he should be in St Mungos catatonic in his bed but he was incredibly well rounded. After hearing about his awful muggle relatives I was furious, over the summer if I could maybe help him out in that regard it would be good.

The two Weasley siblings were strange, Ginny who was a fourth year it seemed had a temper to rival her mother and the same skill with a wand as I had seen her prankster twin brothers possess. Ronald was the one I was the least close too but he had accepted me and even looked out for me when some of the other school were staring at the newest spectacle.

Luna Lovegood was a chip off the old block, even weirder than her mother but just as kind and her thread of Magic was one of the purest I had ever seen. It was still early and I transfigured my Pjs into some comfortable walking clothes before grabbing my wand and making my way out of the dorm and common room. The sun was just starting to creep over the horizon and all of my dorm mates were still sleeping. I needed to run, I had been bombarded by Gryffindors and students all weekend and I just needed a breather. Just when I thought I was free and clear a soft clearing of the throat startled me.

"Shit! Mr Potter!" He smirked at my cursing before standing up and walking over to me. I am going to have to keep remembering that I am supposed to be Sixteen not the adult that I am.

" There are easier ways to sneak out of the castle." I nodded at him and knew I wasn't getting away from him without an explanation. The young man had the same intensity that Hermione had just in a different way, it was as if he could see right into your soul. I had only ever seen that in one other person...Tom Riddle.

"I'm not used to being around so many people and I just wanted to go for a walk, clear my head before classes." He nodded before shaking his head and looking at me, he had a sad expression on his face and it seemed a war going on in his head.

"Please don't take this the wrong way but you're not going to hurt yourself are you?" I stared up shocked at him before shaking my head. What on earth gave him that impression?

"I don't know whether or not I should be offended at that. What on earth makes you think I am suicidal?" He just shrugged his shoulders before looking directly at me.

"You seem sad. I know you have lost your family and I know how hard that is." Seeing the kind hearted boy in front of me made me realise how much had been taken from him.

"Thank You Mr Potter." He smirked at me before nodding his head and looked nervously at me before holding the back of his neck.

"Its Harry, umm so I should probably warn you, considering Hermione has taken you under her wing and we all like you. Some of the boys have taken bets on who can get you to go to Hogsmeade with them." I rolled my eyes at his nervousness and held onto his arm.

"Thank You for telling me Harry, they are in for a bit of a shock then aren't they. I am not interested in men in anyway shape or form." He nodded before it dawned on him what I said and he blushed as I went to walk away and he let me go.

"Be careful of Filches cat, breakfast is in an hour." I nodded my head at him before slowly leaving the room and making my way down and out of the castle. My skin was itching to get running and I could feel my excitement as I made it to the tree line. Just on the outskirts of the forest I morphed and my wolf form stood instead of whom I was before.

Only three people knew I was an Animagus, Severus Snape, Bella and Draco. I used to climb up into his bed when he was a boy and let him cuddle me. I couldn't stop myself, I just took off, I don't know how long I was running but it couldn't have been more than ten minutes when a small tabby cat appeared in front of me and hissed. I morphed back into my human form and she followed soon after.

"Exactly how long have you been an Animagus?" I blushed under the scrutiny of Minerva McGonnagals gaze and knew I was in trouble.

"A while, although in my defense I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want to be a pawn for the war. Did you follow me in here?" She nodded her head curtly and I could see she wasn't all that furious with me.

"If you are feeling the itch to run then come and get me, I will happily accompany you. I cannot let a student regardless of who you really are run around the Forbidden Forest." I nodded and she morphed back into her taby form and ran off toward the school and I morphed back into my own wolf form and we made our way back together.As we reached the outskirts she transformed back into herself and I followed suit as we made our way back up to the castle.

"Bellatrix seems to think you living with Andromeda over the summer would be a bad idea." I nodded my head and scoffed before looking at the woman who was formidable in her own right.

"Not if you want to keep the fact that I am alive a secret. She is my sister and will sniff me out if I had to live with her. Her occlumency is horrendous. " She nodded her head at me and we just kept walking.

"Well we have a compromise, Sirius?" I laughed slightly at that absurd idea but she looked deadly serious at me before I shook my head.

"You're joking, that impulsive idiot." She just shook her head at me and we had almost reached the front doors at this point and she just stopped me.

"He is family and Albus is contacting him as we speak." I nodded and knew as far as Sirius went he would leave me alone. Merlin forbid it was the Weasleys, someone would end up dead. She ushered me away to get ready for my first day of classes.

It didn't take long to get back to the common room. Some people were doing their homework last minute and others were reading or gossiping and as I made my way into the dorm I was greeted by Hermione in her uniform sitting on her bed looking nervous.

"Where have you been? I was worried." I smiled at the little witches panicked state before going over to her and lifting my uniform from my bed.

"Calm down little witch, I am ok. Needed to go for a walk and got a bit lost." It seemed to appease her for now but she seemed to know I wasn't telling the truth and I went into the bathroom to change.

I cannot get attatched to these people, once the war is over and they find out who I really am everything will be different. Keep them at arms lengrh. As I put on my Gryffindor Tie it felt strange, I know Bella would make fun of me if she could see me now. I dread to see what kind of face Draco would make at my red and gold attire.

He had been doing a good job of playing the grieving son over the past few days and we hadn't been able to speak. I knew his house demanded it but I just wanted to hug my son.

"Ok lets do this." She nodded and I grabbed my bag and we made our way out of the dorm to see Harry and Ron waiting for us. Walking down to the Great Hall I was given the play by play of each Professor.

"Just keep your head down in Umbridges class ok, we have her first and she pulls no punches and is using Blood Quills on students." I stopped dead just as we reached the doorway caising a poor unsuspecting Second year to nearly collide into us.

"She is what!" Hermione just shook her head at me before trailing me into the great hall and making me sit down.

"Look, we have lost so many points and had so many detentions at this stage just don't cause a scene." Ronald Weasley really was an idiot but he wasn't all together stupid, Harry on the other hand looked primed and ready to attack. Could I sit idly by and let this woman torture these kids.

We sat down to our breakfast as I scooped some fruit and granola onto a bowl with some Yogurt. I was fuming, why were they all just sitting and taking it? Something had to be done, someone had to put that Pink Toad in her place. Breakfast passed without another word and Hermione took my arm in her own as we walked to the Defense Classroom. Walking in I noticed a spare seat beside Neville and he offered to me.

It didn't take long for the woman to make an appearance, I never had much love for Delores Umbridge and that had disappeared completely at this point. I needed to apply some Slytherin thinking to this group of Lions. I sat perfectly poised like the Pureblood I was taught to be and upon spotting me she handed me a textbook and smiled. This pompous bitch thinks she has an ally in me, I needed to prove her wrong. I couldn't stop myself and put my hand up in the air.

"Miss LeFevre am I correct?" I smiled sweetly at her when realistically I wanted to slap her.

"Yes Professor its a pleasure to meet you, I was just wondering..." I could see Rons head drop to the table in frustration before peeking out between the crack in his fingers, Harry was smirking and enjoying himself a little bit too much and Hermione looked terrified between us both.

"Seeing as I have came in halfway through the year I was wondering if you had a list of the practical aspects of this class. To see how much I have to catch up on." She let out a small giggle before glancing down at me again.

"Oh there will be no need for that Miss LeFevre? There has not been any practical lessons thus far and will not be, I am unsure if your classmates have told you but we are aiming towards a theoretical knowledge. If you study hard enough you will be able to understand the practical aspects enough to cast them." I smiled just as sweetly back at her and Ron had peeked one eye out to look at us and Hermione just bit her knuckle on her pinky.I could see the Slytherins looking at me in confusion, they knew I was a pureblood and they knew exactly what I was doing. I could see Draco smirk at me along with Theodore Nott, even the Purebloods hated this woman.

"Forgive me Professor, if I understand correctly you expect us all to pass our exams without even practicing? Is that correct?" She hardened her smile a little bit now at this point I wasn't a friend and the defensiveness on her face was obvious at this point.

"I don't see why this is so difficult for you children to grasp, you do not need to be trained in defense because you are safe. No one is going to attack children in a school so Miss LeFevre please stop this ridiculous line of questioning." I actually chuckled a little, I was really enjoying this.

"For a Slytherin you are showing your hand Professor. You're trying so hard to ram the idea down everyones throats that everything is hunky dory. I know better. Voldemort..." Everyone except Harry , Ron and Hermione shuddered when I used his name and I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.

"Its just a name get over it..." I glared at everyone including Delores who looked as pale as a sheet at me before schooling her features again and went to interrupt , not that I let her.

"Voldemort came into my home and corrupted everything he touched, I lost my family, my sanity and almost my life because some idiots decided to start licking the boots of a half blooded orphan on a power trip." Quite alot of the students looked shocked at me and yet I kept my cool and did not change my face too much.

"So Professor, are you telling me that me almost dying doesn't warrant you an educator to teach me how to defend myself. Cedric Diggory went into that maze and had no idea what was waiting for him and he was killed. Mr Potter here has also almost been killed on numerous occasions so please tell me, are you going to do your duty and teach the next generation of Healers, Aurors, Unspeakables or are you too busy with your head up Cornelius Fudges arse to see what needs to be done." She had gone even more pale and I could see quite a few of my classmates hold their breath

and look between us.

"I have never heard so much insolence in all my life! I don't know what they are teaching you in France young lady but perhaps a detention will make you obedient." I nodded my head at her and she seemed even more pissed off her threat hadn't rattled my cage.

"I will happily take your detention Professor but it still doesn't change the fact that you haven't answered me." She was furious and whipped her wand out at me and on instinct I took out my own and cast a shield non verbally around the other students as I stood in the aisle between the desks.

" Who do you think you are girl?" I didn't see at this point Draco disappearing from the classroom no doubt to find someone to slap her.

"Professor I am not going to fight you, please put your wand down. All I want is a simple answer." She cast quick and I cast my shield to protect myself.

"You wanted to see some defensive magic, alright then little girl." All of the students plastered themselves against the wall and she fired first. Duelling with Bella had taught me everything I needed to best her but deciding not to get expelled on my first day I decided to just cast shield to stop her marage of spells. As I lazily flicked her spells away from me I truly was bored, she was going hell for leather and the words CRU.. she started to say it before her wand flew up into the air, behind me was Severus Snape and Albus Dumbledore. Both looking furious at us, Draco called in the cavalry.

"What is going on here?" Delores looked livid and I just smirked at the woman before turning to Albus who glared at me.

"I simply asked a question Headmaster one our esteemed Defense teacher could not answer." Delores took a step toward me before Albus dismissed the class. All of my new friends walked out without me, Hermione was shaking her head, Harry however looked smug as hell.

"This girl has been nothing but insolent, offensive and rude since the second she walked in. She has detention with me until the end of the school year." Albus pinched his nose and looked between us before relaxing his face.

"Well considering how well you both get on it might be prudent to let Severus deal with the detentions." I nodded my head and so did Snape who looked smug at the the witch.

"Professor, under Section 8B of the school handbook it states that any student can independently study a subject, I would like to withdraw from Professor Umbridges class and independently study Defense on my own." The woman started spluttering and tried to get her hooks into me again.

" She cannot do that Albus. She, needs parental consent. " I smirked at her before looking her directly.

" I am emancipated, I don't have any family left." Albus nodded his head and promised to think about it before turning to Severus and asked him to escort me to my new class which it turns out is his own. He ushered me out the door and started to walk down to the dungeons with me, it was still half an hour until class and so I figured I would sit and irritate Severus for a while instead of trying to find Hermione. He was quiet for a few minutes before we came to his classroom, I walked on in and he sat at his desk with papers in front of him.

"I have to say, I would have expected you to keep your head down Narcissa. " I snapped my head up to him in fear, of he knew the Lucius and the Dark Lord would know too.

"Relax, your secret is safe with me. We can meet for your pretend detentions I have missed you my friend and have been truly distraught at the prospect of this world and you not in it." Severus was a good friend. We spent the next little bit chatting before the students began to arrive. Hermione was the first one to arrive and came over to hug me tightly, she seemed genuinely worried for me. Once she pulled away it seems she realised what she had done.

"I am sorry but I truly thought that woman was going to kill you." I looked offended and threw my hair over my shoulder before shaking my head as Harry and Ron appeared.

"I can hold my own agaisnt a Toad like Unbridge. She is nothing of concequence." We weren't able to speak much longer and were interrupted by Severus starting his lesson.

"At the risk of Miss LeFevre kicking off about my class too how about a practical lesson shall we. Pair up and I will like a sample of the Wiggenwald Potion at the end of the two hours." We got started and the day passed.

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