33. Fanfiction: 20 Things You Never Knew About Bellatrix Black
Title: 20 Things You Never Knew About Bellatrix Black
Author: Liliths_Requiem
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Bellatrix Black, Molly Prewett, Rodolphus Lestrange
Pairings: Bellatrix Black/Molly Prewett, Bellatrix Black/Rodolphus Lestrange
Era: All
Word Count: 1385
Prompt: 100quills: 45. Who? and Subtextual Healing’s Random Fact Fest
1. She’s the rebellious one in the family until Andromeda ran away. This is before Sirius is old enough to pose a serious threat to the Black lineage and before Bellatrix realizes that she would have to make it by herself out there if she runs away. It isn’t filial piety that keeps her anchored to the Blacks all those years, it’s fear.
2. She’s fifteen when she first speaks to Lord Voldemort. Rodolphus Lestrange has just signed his name to their Betrothal contract and the Dark Lord is asked to sign the document as a witness. Even then, Bella can feel the power coming off of that man in waves. That night, she gives him her body. Many years later, she dies at the hands of the person who holds her soul.
3. Molly Prewett introduces herself when they are first years, long before they make it to Hogsmeade. They’re cousins of some sort, of that much Bellatrix is aware. But Andromeda’s always been better at remembering family ties than she was and at the moment, the only thought in the eldest Black’s mind is how red Molly’s hair is and how much she wants to make the other girl smile.
4. She’s a Black, which means getting married and making babies is basically all she’s supposed to do. Falling in love with a Gryffindor girl is not one of those things either of her parents would approve of. This doesn’t stop her from doing it, and by her fifth year she’s spending every free moment contemplating the easiest way to make Molly want her back. It is then she realizes how easily she can become obsessed. It scares her.
5. Molly kisses her behind the Quidditch bleachers one night after Gryffindor practice. Bella needs her help for the Charms exam in the morning and Molly promised practice wouldn’t run this late, but it has. She starts cursing out Molly, the Quidditch team, and Gryffindor as a whole, until Molly silences her with a strong, passionate kiss that leaves them both breathless. They don’t work on their Charms that night, but Bella scrapes by with an EE anyway.
6. She receives the Dark Mark in her seventh year, the same day as Molly’s birthday, October 30th. Molly doesn’t know about it until after it’s there, and then she can’t help but break down in the other woman’s arms and plead for redemption she doesn’t deserve. She rambles on for hours, she remembers that, and it’s the memory of being in Molly’s arms that helps her maintain some her sanity while in Azkaban.
7. Ironically, it’s that memory and the knowledge of all the promises she’s broken that drives Bella to the brink of insanity while on that island for all those years.
8. She gets married on October 31st. Her husband thinks it’s fitting because they’re magical, after all, and they’re fighting for Pureblood supremacy. The Dark Lord approves for the very same reason. She chooses the date though, and she knows that, no matter how many nights she’ll spend convincing herself this isn’t the reason; she did it to remember Molly. Some things are subconscious. This isn’t one of them.
9. Her strange adoration for sweaters, however, is. While the rest of the world sees her as a Dark Queen, rivaled only by Hekate and Persephone, her husband knows that she loves to curl up with a cup of cocoa and a large green sweater. Rodolphus loves her, in his own strange way, and so he indulges this one weakness of hers. ((She has others, he doesn’t know about them.))
10. Her other weaknesses include: redheads, oral sex, chocolate, and kissing in the rain. It’s a cliché list, she knows, but it’s all true. The redheads and oral sex are both courtesy of Molly, the chocolate is something Snape used to force down her throat during the First War when she would return broken and bruised, and the kissing in the rain comes from her last kiss with Molly having taken place that way.
11. She feels a part of her soul die after killing the Prewett twins. She doesn’t care about them, her hands are so stained with blood that two more killings won’t change anything. However, for the first time in her life she sees hatred in Molly Prewett’s eyes. From that moment on, Bella knows there is no going back.
12. Only three other people know about her and Molly: Alice Longbottom, Narcissa, and Lupin. Alice knew because as a first year she walked in on the two of them having sex in the Gryffindor showers. Narcissa found out on Bella’s wedding day, when the bride was so terrified and hurt that she confided, for the first and last time, in her baby sister. She isn’t sure how Lupin knows; she chalks it up to his uncanny ability to know anything.
13. She never does make those babies her mother was so adamant about. After a few failed attempts, Rodolphus just stopped caring and she stopped pushing for it. Neither of them gets much pleasure out of sex with each other, and she knows Narcissa would’ve been a much better match for her husband, but that’s just the way life is these days. It’s good she doesn’t have any kids. She doesn’t know the first thing about maternal instinct.
14. The night she kills Sirius, she cries for the first time in twenty years. She refuses to move from the room and curses anyone who comes near her. Voldemort, finally, walks in and tells her that this display of weakness will not be tolerated. After seven rounds of the Cruciatus curse and three more of horrible spells she never learns to perform, she feels too empty to continue crying.
15. She sees the curse coming and knows she can stop it. There’s enough time between the green light leaving Molly’s wand and hitting her skin that Bella can easily block it or move away. But the anger in her lover’s voice, the hatred in that mother’s eyes, makes Bella realize she has nothing left to stay for. She’s too old, too crazy, and too tired to stay here any longer. So she allows the spell to hit her and crumples at the other woman’s feet. Her last thought is of Molly’s hair, and how soft it still seems.
16. Her favorite sister is Andromeda. Still. They haven’t talked since before her imprisonment, but somehow Andromeda is the first person she wants to see when Molly kisses her and the first person she needs comfort from after her marriage. Instead of apparating to Surrey to see her sister, she goes home with Rodolphus. Over the years, she’s learned to live without the necessities.
17. Honestly? She can’t stand Lucius Malfoy. He’s an arrogant man of new money and old blood and the moment Narcissa says the word ‘love’ Bella knows there’s no hope for the man. Anyone worthy of her baby sister’s love was not worthy of Bella’s time.
18. She does hate muggles. Not because she thinks their blood makes them inferior, because that’s ridiculous and she knows better. She hates them because they can survive without magic, something she knows she could never do. She thinks, deep down, that this is why so many others hate Muggles, but she doesn’t say anything. She’s only kept two things from Voldemort in her entire life-Molly and her jealous admiration for the ‘simple minded muggles.’
19. Out of the three of them, she looks most like her father. This explains why she and Sirius look so much alike. The night before Sirius runs away, Aunt Walburga mistakes Bella for her cousin and Sirius leaves in an angry whirlwind. To this day, Bella wonders if that was the final straw.
20. She only says “I love you,” once in her entire life. Her husband has her loyalty and the Dark Lord has her unconditional devotion, but she’s only ever loved Molly. She knows that the Gryffindor is happy with Weasley, but she wonders if there is love between them. A part of her hopes there is, a larger part hopes there isn’t.
Author: Liliths_Requiem
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Bellatrix Black, Molly Prewett, Rodolphus Lestrange
Pairings: Bellatrix Black/Molly Prewett, Bellatrix Black/Rodolphus Lestrange
Era: All
Word Count: 1385
Prompt: 100quills: 45. Who? and Subtextual Healing’s Random Fact Fest
1. She’s the rebellious one in the family until Andromeda ran away. This is before Sirius is old enough to pose a serious threat to the Black lineage and before Bellatrix realizes that she would have to make it by herself out there if she runs away. It isn’t filial piety that keeps her anchored to the Blacks all those years, it’s fear.
2. She’s fifteen when she first speaks to Lord Voldemort. Rodolphus Lestrange has just signed his name to their Betrothal contract and the Dark Lord is asked to sign the document as a witness. Even then, Bella can feel the power coming off of that man in waves. That night, she gives him her body. Many years later, she dies at the hands of the person who holds her soul.
3. Molly Prewett introduces herself when they are first years, long before they make it to Hogsmeade. They’re cousins of some sort, of that much Bellatrix is aware. But Andromeda’s always been better at remembering family ties than she was and at the moment, the only thought in the eldest Black’s mind is how red Molly’s hair is and how much she wants to make the other girl smile.
4. She’s a Black, which means getting married and making babies is basically all she’s supposed to do. Falling in love with a Gryffindor girl is not one of those things either of her parents would approve of. This doesn’t stop her from doing it, and by her fifth year she’s spending every free moment contemplating the easiest way to make Molly want her back. It is then she realizes how easily she can become obsessed. It scares her.
5. Molly kisses her behind the Quidditch bleachers one night after Gryffindor practice. Bella needs her help for the Charms exam in the morning and Molly promised practice wouldn’t run this late, but it has. She starts cursing out Molly, the Quidditch team, and Gryffindor as a whole, until Molly silences her with a strong, passionate kiss that leaves them both breathless. They don’t work on their Charms that night, but Bella scrapes by with an EE anyway.
6. She receives the Dark Mark in her seventh year, the same day as Molly’s birthday, October 30th. Molly doesn’t know about it until after it’s there, and then she can’t help but break down in the other woman’s arms and plead for redemption she doesn’t deserve. She rambles on for hours, she remembers that, and it’s the memory of being in Molly’s arms that helps her maintain some her sanity while in Azkaban.
7. Ironically, it’s that memory and the knowledge of all the promises she’s broken that drives Bella to the brink of insanity while on that island for all those years.
8. She gets married on October 31st. Her husband thinks it’s fitting because they’re magical, after all, and they’re fighting for Pureblood supremacy. The Dark Lord approves for the very same reason. She chooses the date though, and she knows that, no matter how many nights she’ll spend convincing herself this isn’t the reason; she did it to remember Molly. Some things are subconscious. This isn’t one of them.
9. Her strange adoration for sweaters, however, is. While the rest of the world sees her as a Dark Queen, rivaled only by Hekate and Persephone, her husband knows that she loves to curl up with a cup of cocoa and a large green sweater. Rodolphus loves her, in his own strange way, and so he indulges this one weakness of hers. ((She has others, he doesn’t know about them.))
10. Her other weaknesses include: redheads, oral sex, chocolate, and kissing in the rain. It’s a cliché list, she knows, but it’s all true. The redheads and oral sex are both courtesy of Molly, the chocolate is something Snape used to force down her throat during the First War when she would return broken and bruised, and the kissing in the rain comes from her last kiss with Molly having taken place that way.
11. She feels a part of her soul die after killing the Prewett twins. She doesn’t care about them, her hands are so stained with blood that two more killings won’t change anything. However, for the first time in her life she sees hatred in Molly Prewett’s eyes. From that moment on, Bella knows there is no going back.
12. Only three other people know about her and Molly: Alice Longbottom, Narcissa, and Lupin. Alice knew because as a first year she walked in on the two of them having sex in the Gryffindor showers. Narcissa found out on Bella’s wedding day, when the bride was so terrified and hurt that she confided, for the first and last time, in her baby sister. She isn’t sure how Lupin knows; she chalks it up to his uncanny ability to know anything.
13. She never does make those babies her mother was so adamant about. After a few failed attempts, Rodolphus just stopped caring and she stopped pushing for it. Neither of them gets much pleasure out of sex with each other, and she knows Narcissa would’ve been a much better match for her husband, but that’s just the way life is these days. It’s good she doesn’t have any kids. She doesn’t know the first thing about maternal instinct.
14. The night she kills Sirius, she cries for the first time in twenty years. She refuses to move from the room and curses anyone who comes near her. Voldemort, finally, walks in and tells her that this display of weakness will not be tolerated. After seven rounds of the Cruciatus curse and three more of horrible spells she never learns to perform, she feels too empty to continue crying.
15. She sees the curse coming and knows she can stop it. There’s enough time between the green light leaving Molly’s wand and hitting her skin that Bella can easily block it or move away. But the anger in her lover’s voice, the hatred in that mother’s eyes, makes Bella realize she has nothing left to stay for. She’s too old, too crazy, and too tired to stay here any longer. So she allows the spell to hit her and crumples at the other woman’s feet. Her last thought is of Molly’s hair, and how soft it still seems.
16. Her favorite sister is Andromeda. Still. They haven’t talked since before her imprisonment, but somehow Andromeda is the first person she wants to see when Molly kisses her and the first person she needs comfort from after her marriage. Instead of apparating to Surrey to see her sister, she goes home with Rodolphus. Over the years, she’s learned to live without the necessities.
17. Honestly? She can’t stand Lucius Malfoy. He’s an arrogant man of new money and old blood and the moment Narcissa says the word ‘love’ Bella knows there’s no hope for the man. Anyone worthy of her baby sister’s love was not worthy of Bella’s time.
18. She does hate muggles. Not because she thinks their blood makes them inferior, because that’s ridiculous and she knows better. She hates them because they can survive without magic, something she knows she could never do. She thinks, deep down, that this is why so many others hate Muggles, but she doesn’t say anything. She’s only kept two things from Voldemort in her entire life-Molly and her jealous admiration for the ‘simple minded muggles.’
19. Out of the three of them, she looks most like her father. This explains why she and Sirius look so much alike. The night before Sirius runs away, Aunt Walburga mistakes Bella for her cousin and Sirius leaves in an angry whirlwind. To this day, Bella wonders if that was the final straw.
20. She only says “I love you,” once in her entire life. Her husband has her loyalty and the Dark Lord has her unconditional devotion, but she’s only ever loved Molly. She knows that the Gryffindor is happy with Weasley, but she wonders if there is love between them. A part of her hopes there is, a larger part hopes there isn’t.