Chapter 1(b): Beginnings

[desdiamonds]

Who: Bellatrix Lestrange, Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson
What: Bellatrix has Draco right where she wants him. Draco has nowhere to run.
When: October 2000
Where: The Malfoy Manor. Bellatrix has Draco and Pansy in one of the top rooms.
Why: Bellatrix is crazy, but we knew that already :P

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[empathapathique]

Tin-Tin, the house-elf, informed Pansy that the young master was in his study, reading, just off his bedroom. Pansy declined Tin-Tin’s offer to escort her to the room. She knew Malfoy Manor as well as she knew her own home. She started up the grand staircase, her pace slow and measured as a feeling of foreboding built within her. She’d expected that she’d feel anxious facing Draco for the first time after the scene she’d created five months ago, but something felt different now, off. She turned to her left when she reached the top of the staircase, heading for Draco’s rooms in the east wing of the manor. Bright, golden air filtered in to the hall through the windows, directly contrasting with the stale air and shadows dancing menacingly in the corners. Pansy remained alert, her pace quickening as she neared Draco’s rooms, yearning for the security being near him always afforded her.

She found herself nearly running the last twenty yards, and she entered the room without even bothering to knock. Draco was there just as Tin-Tin had said. However, his dear, insane aunt Bellatrix Lestrange was as well. And Pansy didn't know much about Bellatrix except that the woman was completely nutters, and he knees wobbled a bit to think that she was now in a room with her.