Prelude
If you had told her ten years ago that her life would come to this Bellatrix lestrange would have laughed at you manically before using the cruciatious curse on you so many times you'd either die on the spot you lay or spend the rest of your life locked in your own mind with permanent brain damage.
Yet here she was, facing off against her ex 'friends' (death eaters) in a bid to protect the one thing that had always meant more to Bellatrix than anything in the world - her family.
So yes big bad Bellatrix had just fearlessly thrown herself infront of hundreds of children and is facing off against The Dark Lord on the side of the light. Who would have thought it.
And to think it all started with a teenage girl and her merry band of teenage friends.
The fact that the teenage girl is infact her long lost daughter has everything to do with this sudden change of sides. A fact only known by Bellatrix, the girl and a very select number of others.
~ 17 years ago January 1984 - Lestrange Manor ~
Bellatrix sat on the bed nervously, waiting on her husband Rodulphus coming home. She didnt know how he was going to take the news. She knew he had always wanted to be a father but now? In the middle of a war? She was terrified. She did not want her child coming into the middle of a war, nor could she live with herself if she got rid of the pregnancy so she did not know what she was going to do, especially if her husband reacted poorly.
Just then her husband walked in, smiling softly at her when he spotted her sitting waiting on him.
" hey there Trixie" he called, frowning when he spotted the hesitant fearful look on her delicate features.
"Rod, we need to talk" she whispered glancing up at him through thick eyelashes. Her voice shaking slightly.
"Whats going on love?" He asked tenderly. Sitting beside her on the bed and grasping her hands.
"I'm pregnant Rod, we are going to be parents but im terrified" she whispered, still to afraid to meet his eye.
"Thats wonderful!" He exclaimed "I'm going to be a father?" His excitement was clear and Bellatrix couldnt help the soft sad smile that appeared on her face at his response as she nodded in confirmation.
"Yes but I dont think we can, I cannot allow my baby to grow up in the middle of a war. I cannot let them be dragged into his army, I cannot Rod, I cannot" she cried clinging to him desperately begging him to understand.
~ September 19th 1984 - Lestrange Manor ~
"Merlin isn't she beautiful Bella?" Rodolphus said in awe as he gazed down at his newborn daughter currently asleep in his exhausted wife's arms.
"By far the cutest little girl I've ever seen" Narcissa (Bellatrix's youngest sister) agreed softly as she also gazed at the sleeping infant.
"She is perfect, it's going to kill me to see her go, but it is the only way to keep her safe" Bellatrix replied through her sobbing. Clutching her baby girl close to her.
"Just you remember my little Hermione, mummy and daddy love you so very much and need you to stay safe for us. We will find you again when this is all over" Bella whispered, every heart in the room shattering at the sight of the sobbing mother and sleeping daughter on the bed.
Their hearts were heavy that night, and would be for many a night to come as they witnessed the first and last time Bellatrix Black Lestrange would nurse her newborn baby and hold her through the night.