Love is weakness, but only if you let it be

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Narcissa, Lucius, Draco, Pansy, Blaise and Bellatrix sat in the kitchen that sunny morning, and the two sisters seemed to have an argument, and Lucius was trying to appease them
"Don't raise your wand on me, Bellatrix!"
"Do not tell me what to do!"
The children only watched this with terrified feelings, and sighed with relief, when the door opened to reveal their Potions professor. He walked to them and asked his godson, Draco, what was happening.
"Cissy, Bella, take it easy!"
There was a flash of light, which missed Lucius's head only by a few inches, and the man quickly ran away from his sister-in-law.
"You dare to curse Lucius in his own house!"
"Oh Narcissa, you have no idea of what I dare to do!"
Everyone's attention, except the two sisters of the house of Black, was now on a window. There was an owl behind the window, desperate to get in.
"Isn't that?-"
"I think it is-"
Bellatrix's attention moved on them now, and she had a questioning look on her face.
"What?"
She snapped to the children. Pansy Parkinson spoke next.
"It's easy to recognize, I've never seen another that black owl - that's the owl of mudblood on the year above us"
Bellatrix's eyes widened and she moved her eyes to Severus, who started speaking;
"That - that is her owl"
That was when the Dark Lord stepped into the room, probably to see what was with all the shouting, the children just looked ununderstanding and curious, Bellatrix moved her hand to her mouth and gasped, Narcissa was already walking towards the window to open it. But Bellatrix couldn't wait that long, she shot a spell and broke the window, sending small pieces of class fly everywhere. The Dark Lord spoke almost, almost, angrily, using her whole name;
"Bellatrix! You can't let an owl from anyone inside!"
Bellatrix turned her head and eyes to him,
"That is her owl!"
Voldemort didn't say, or do anything visible, but from the inside, a piece rose to his throat. Narcissa was ready to let the owl lay on her hand, but instead, it flied straight to her sister. Pansy Parkinson, who again, spoke past her mouth;
"Why we let a mudblood's owl in here?"
Bellatrix would have cursed her, but she was too focused to get the letter. No one answered her, all the adults knowing who this letter was from, and what it could mean, while the teenagers were completely unaware of what was happening. It took Bellatrix a second to read the letter, another one to process it, and then she was already in a breakdown. Narcissa, who had known the woman for her whole life, took a tight and strong hold of her wrist before she could do anything stupid. But Bellatrix was not afraid of sending a spell to get her sister lose her hold of her, and Narcissa soon had an evil burn on her palm. Everyone else were too afraid to stand up against the mad woman, and she was already by the door, ready to blow it out from her way. But the Dark Lord was faster, and he shot a spell to make it impossible to get out. Bellatrix screamed, a scream to make everyone's ears chilling. She shot a spell, a spell after another, and it was impossible to get any connection with her to get her calm down. The whole room was in pieces, and the teenagers were all in an edge of a panic attack. Narcissa, Lucius and Severus were trying to shiel themselfs and the children from her fatal spells. But Voldemort calmly mastered a wandless spell, and the piece of parchment flied to him. When he read it, he reached even faster than Bellatrix and he walked up to her, ended her powerful spells and took a hold of her wrist to force her to follow him. Once they were out of the hall, Bellatrix gasped tried to get her breath back to normal,
"Bella, calm yourself!"
She looked straight to his eyes with a very rare weakness and emotion from her, tears in her eyes, before saying;
"I know what blood looks like, and that, most surely is blood!"
Her yelling was heard in the kitchen, where the others were, because Voldemort opened the door. He told Snape and Lucius to come, and they did, with their eyes at the ground for their master. Severus walked to Bellatrix, and held out his hand to get the letter;
"Show me"
She gave him the letter, like it was her most precious treasure, and he read it and then gave it to his fellow Death eater. While Lucius read it, he asked, turning to the Dark Lord;
"This could be a hoax from Dumbledore, right?"
Severus walked to Bellatrix, took her hand, and made a quick, sharp cut on her wrist and bottled up her blood. The woman didn't even wince, just stood up like normally. He gave the bottle to the Dark Lord, and Bellatrix didn't even bother to heal her bleeding cut. Voldemort took the piece of parchment, and with his wand, he dissolved the blood from the letters, made it slide into the bottle with Bellatrix's blood in it. Lastly, he somehow, without even making a cut, got his own blood in the bottle and performed the spell. Bellatrix stepped closer, eyes glowing with suspend and curiousity. And a red smoke appeared from the bottle. A match. Bellatrix started shooting curses again, blowing up things and setting them on fire. Voldemort stayed silent for a moment, before turning away from the crazy woman to face his two followers.
"You go and collect her, bring her here."
And when the two men were already by the front door, ready to do their mission, both, Bellatrix and Voldemort, a mother and a father, spoke at the same time;
"Alive."

I'm sorry, I know you wanted Bellatrix to see her child already, but I promise, that she'll soon!!! This is up to you, but I was wondering, that would you like Victoria have a little brother/sister?

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