Ch 7 Caught

At the top of the tree the door opens by itself and she si greeted by a dour wizard, watchng hee with narrowed eyes.

"Y- You're Reglaus Black," Rupertin gasped.

"And you're going to drink a lot of vertiserum soon," he smirked before signaling to his house elf.

"How are you still-" she was cut off by Regulus grabbing her arm and pulling her inside. She shrieked but he threw her on a chair.

"Bottoms up 1/4 breed, blood traitor, lordship thief," Kreacher appeared by her side with a vial of veriserum.

"So you know who I am?" Rupertin could only focus on that fact as Kreacher appeared by her with vertiserum.

"Of course we do," Regulus answered. She looked past him to the elf, that she noticed had a pillowcase of green and silver and a tea cozy on his head, to Regalus.

Regulus wore fancy silver green robes that highlighted his silvery eyes. His grey eyes were darker but less pellucid than Sirius' eyes. Kreacher's wide purple eyes looked at an object behind her. Rupertin started to take in the details around her she didn't notice before.

Think on feet and use his cocky arrogance against him to steal for time, she thinks.

"Why so third cousin?" Rupertin asked. "Afraid your family's ability to have healthy male heirs means that Linny, Bill, or Charlie will usurp your lordship? While you're on the run too?"

"Please," Regulus laughed. "Bellatrix wil pick off Lord Black Weasley's hairs faster than they can say 'help me'. Maybe that is the reason Sirus the official heir to the world, plans on graduating Hogwarts without knocking anyone up."

Rupertin hosted at Sirius. "Are you sure about that? The curse is broken, your family is broken. Bellatrix can't attack the Lord Black Sirius, so what makes you think he can attack me?"

"Why do you think you would be the next Lord Black?" Regulus asked. She had his full attention.

Instead of answering she dodged to the side and pushed Kreacher's feet from under him. Then she held Kreacher and swung him into Regalus' feet, pulling the rug from under his feet. That caused Regalus to fall onto Rupertin and Kreacher to fal on both of them. A risk because house elves had strong magic. Regalus stared at Rupertin before Ruperta rolled to the left, blushing.

She rolled away and used her magic to conjure a quill and scribble ' help RAB' on the Prophet in her hand. Then she accio'd Regulus' indignant owl and used magic to quickly tie the letter on the owls foot. After that she used magic to hover the owl out the window, until it very angrily flew to where Sirius was in the forest. The owl would be back to bite her by she had bigger fish to fry right now.

Regulus and Kreacher stared at her, after they got up akwardly. Then Kreacher bowed. Regalus looked at Kreacher in confusion.

Rupertin laughed, switching Regalus' attention to her. "You're quite in the dark about Black Lordship Ettiquite. I am Lady Black by Proxy."

Reglaus gaped at her. "You see I managed your correspondence to look out for your welfare, and I did this as standing in for you. The Ancient House of Magic Lordship duel ettiquite recognizes me as Lady Black, proxy of you."

"I will stand as proxy until I tell Sirius to deal with you directly. Blacks were traditionally trained to handle their affairs in ways others couldn't, so if someone stole their lordship by being a lord by proxy, they could convince the frustrated proxy to hand the lordship back," she smirked. "The proxy lordship was designed to help thr Lord Black incase they were in trouble and so an enemy couldn't strip take away the proxy's power when the Lord needed their help."

"It's a matter of time before you get frustrated and give the lordship back to me," Regalus sneered.

"The world expects me to give it back to Siruus publicly. But I'm trained in catering, event logistics, food and salutariness, politics, and geography from my clan plus parents. I dot believe that will happen."

"Will it happen when Bellatrix finds out?" Regalus smirked at her as she became a little nervous.