Soul Bound 3

“Any ideas?”Bellatrix asked Narcissa as they walked down the hallway to the ball room where the Dark Lord held his meetings in. Bellatrix couldn’t understand why the man always included her and Narcissa in those meetings. Neither of them were Death Eaters. Nor had they received the Dark Mark. Mostly they just hung around not getting involved with anything. Well Bellatrix made comments and sometimes pulled her wand on those who mouthed off to her but mostly she was just there doing nothing. Narcissa was the only other wife without the Dark Mark that was allowed in the meetings. She did even less than Bellatrix. She never said a word about anything. The Dark Lord didn’t call on her and she did absolutely nothing for the cause. Bellatrix didn’t understand it at all. Then again the man was insane. She bet he probably didn’t even know why he requested their presence.

“Everyone is surprised.”Narcissa hadn’t caught anyone thinking about the reason for the meeting they had been called to attend.

“I hope it’s a quick one because I have plans to visit a friend later.”The friend Bellatrix was talking about was Hermione. A name the sisters didn’t speak out loud without heavy wards in place to prevent anyone from hearing it.

“I have the same plans. I am bringing the new decorations to show them.”Narcissa had gotten permission to add a few things to Hermione’s room and was excited to bring them over to the Granger’s.

“Some of them better be snake related.”Bellatrix wanted to share her house pride with Hermione.

“They are going to be in Slytherin so of course I have snake items and a lot of green and silver to add to their room.”Narcissa and her sisters predicted that Hermione was going to be put in their house at Hogwarts.

“They are going to follow in my footsteps and be the captain of the Slytherin quidditch team.”Bellatrix already bought custom quidditch outfits for Hermione to wear when she was old enough to wear more elaborate clothing.

“It would be nice to have four players.”Narcissa missed playing Quidditch with her sisters.

“Alright let’s get this over with.”Bellatrix held the door open to the meeting room for Narcissa to enter first then followed her sister inside. The room was packed with more people than usual. That meant this was about something important.

“Narcissa come stand with me.”Lucius called out from his spot sitting at a long table.

“She is fine right where she is Lucy.”Bellatrix called back smirking when some people laughed at the nickname.

Lucius’ face turned red.“She is my wife. She will do as I say.”

“Should I remind you what I did to you the last time you tried to order my sister around?”Bellatrix had beaten him so badly with her magic that he was left crying curled up in a ball laying on the floor in a puddle of urine begging for her stop.

“You got lucky.”Lucius blustered.

“I’m ready for a rematch.”Bellatrix would happily hurt the man.

“I got 20 gold pieces on Black.”Someone yelled out.

“It’s Lestrange not Black.”Rodolphus’ weak voice corrected.

As always Rodolphus was ignored because no one wanted to receive the punishment for calling Bellatrix her husband’s family name.“50 gold pieces on Black.”

“100 gold pieces on Lucius.”Everyone turned to see who made the bet seeing Theadore Nott grinning broadly.

“You think that worm could beat me?”Bellatrix laughed at the very idea.

“He could easily beat you.”Nott said.

“Well only one way to find out. Where and when Lucy?”Bellatrix would show Nott and everyone else why it was a bad idea to underestimate her.

“I’m to busy doing important work for the Dark Lord to play with you Bellatrix.”Lucius told her.

Bellatrix wasn’t the only who laughed at Lucius’ pitiful excuse.”Is that the reason you don’t have an heir yet. You’re to busy because we all know it isn’t your wife that is preventing it from happening.”

“Your sister is barren!”Lucius jumped out of his chair and fumbled for his wand when Bellatrix hexed him.

“My sister is no such thing. As has been proven at the last 6 healer appointments you arranged for her.”Bellatrix hex him again.”You however have yet to go to a healer to see if you are the problem.”

“I’m not the problem. A fact that was proven when my son was born two months ago.”Lucius froze as soon as the words came out of his mouth.

“You had a child out of wedlock!!”Bellatrix roared. She made the hexes hurt a lot more than the ones before. Not that she was mad about the child she just had to keep up appearances.”Which one of your whores is the mother?”

“Bella calm down. He isn’t worth it. Besides if he has an heir that means I don’t have to suffer through any more of those one minute sessions of horrible sex with him ever again.”Narcissa held back a smile when the group not only laughed but yelled insults as Lucius. 

“Why is everyone all excitable?”The Dark Lord asked as he and his snake walked into the room causing everyone to go silent.”Well do tell.”

“Lucius had just revealed to the room that he had a child out of wedlock My Lord.”Bellatrix wasn’t afraid to speak up.

The Dark Lord narrowed his red eyes at Lucius.”Who is the mother?”

“A random woman I met My Lord.”Lucius jumped back when the snake hissed at him.

“You lie.”The Dark Lord said.

Lucius gulped so loud that the entire room could hear it.”It is a mistress I keep on the side My Lord.”

“I take it this isn’t a pureblood woman.”The Dark Lord held his hand up.”Be truthful or you won’t live to see the child’s first birthday.”

”The woman is a muggle.”Lucius admitted.

“Is it a boy?”The Dark Lord asked.

“Yes My Lord the child is a boy.”Lucius said.

The Dark Lord growled loudly causing most of the room’s occupants to reach for their wands.”You fucked a muggle and the result of that is the Malfoy family heir is a half blood?!!”

“I’m sorry My Lord.”Lucius apologized.

“It isn’t me you should be apologizing to. It’s your ancestors and your beautiful wife that will have to live with the shame of your actions for the rest of her life.”The Dark Lord told him.

Lucius turned pleading eyes on Narcissa.”Narcissa I am so sorry.”

“If you are truly sorry you would duel Bellatrix.”Narcissa wasn’t at all sorry with how everything worked out. The child being revealed as a half blood in front of this group of people would make it so Narcissa wouldn’t have to pretend to be the boy’s mother. Something she had no interest in being.

“That’s a wonderful idea.”The Dark Lord agreed.

“We will have to make sure you aren’t too busy Lucy.”Bellatrix was loving all of this. Not only was Lucius discredited she was also going to be able to hurt him. He deserved it for cheating on Narcissa. Not that the pair ever had sex but Lucius didn’t know that. He should have been faithful in his marriage. Especially because he was married to her sister.

“Now that that’s out of the way let’s get to why we are here.”The Dark Lord took a seat on his throne at the head of the table.”It has recently come to my attention that there is a prophesy about me. A prophesy that claims that a mere child will defeat me.”

“A child wouldn’t make it past your snake My Lord.”Alecto Carrow said.

“Yes but prophesies are something everyone should be concerned about. How exactly is this child supposed to defeat you?”Bellatrix asked hoping to find out what the prophesy was.

“The prophesy claims that the boy is the only one who can kill me. It doesn’t say how he does it or when he does it. That being the case I want to kill him while he is still a baby.”The Dark Lord told them.”Which brings me to why you are all here. I have narrowed down the boy’s identity to two names. Neville Longbottom and Harry Potter. Tonight I am going to each of their houses to kill both of them. What the rest of you are going to do is cause a diversion. I want most of the Order away from those two locations so I won’t be stopped.”

“Are you going to take people with you My Lord?”Rafael Parkinson asked.

“Yes I want the Lestrange brothers and Lucius with me.”The Dark Lord said.

Rodolphus smiled brightly.“This is going to be fun.”

“You want me with you as well My Lord?”Lucius asked.

“It’s time you prove yourself.”The Dark Lord told him.

“Of course My Lord.”Lucius’ voice was full of defeat.

“Now then we will be leaving in an hour. Do what you need do to get prepared.”The Dark Lord stood from his throne and with his snake trailing behind him left the room.

Bellatrix turned her attention to Narcissa.“Let’s go have some tea.”

“That would be lovely.”Narcissa followed her sister out of the room both keeping silent until they reached Narcissa’s personal bedroom. Narcissa walked inside and shut the door when Bellatrix made her way in the room with her. She spent time casting powerful wards before speaking.”Well that was eventful.”

“I think the war is going to end tonight.”Bellatrix was sure of it.

“I think you’re right.”Narcissa agreed.”I don’t feel good about him killing a child though.”

“He said that the prophecy claimed that the child was the only one who could kill him but not how he did it. We know that the Dark Lord is going to be resurrected so maybe when he attacks one of the boys something happens to him. I mean prophesies aren’t always crystal clear. If the seer isn’t that good the predictions are usually very vague.”Bellatrix didn’t think that a baby was going to defeat the Dark Lord.

“You’re right something will likely happen when he attacks one of the boys. Not that it really matters. No matter how bad I feel about it we can’t interfere. This isn’t our war. Our war is the next one with Hermione and the three of us defeating both sides.”Narcissa reminded her.

“It’s been hard sitting on the side lines but I know it’s important to keep ourselves away from things so we can keep Hermione safe. That and we are kind of forced to be on this side by our imbecile husbands.”Bellatrix wished she didn’t have to marry anyone but it was the role she had to play to save the world.

“My imbecile husband who admitted in front of a large group of people including the Dark Lord that his heir is a half blood.”Narcissa smiled just thinking about Lucius saying the words.

“What an idiot. At least now know you won’t have to be forced to raise his bastard.”Bellatrix wouldn’t have allowed it anyway.

“I was worried about that. I think if he had told the Dark Lord in private they would have tried to make me adopt the boy but him saying it in front of everyone I will be expected to shun the child. Which I will.”Narcissa couldn’t have asked for a better outcome.

“If the war is going to end soon and Lucius goes to Azkaban like we planned the boy is going to be raised in the muggle world. Unless you let them live on a Malfoy property because we both know that Lucius won’t have time to set anything up while he’s fighting for his life.”Bellatrix would be surprised if Lucius even thought about his son while he was in prison.

“I’m not inviting that filth into Hermione’s home.”Narcissa wouldn’t let anyone live on the Malfoy’s properties. They all belonged to Hermione and it was up to her what was done with them.

“Speaking of Hermione. Do you think we should hold off on visiting until we find out what happens?”Bellatrix didn’t want to miss out on time with Hermione but knew that she and Narcissa would be needed when everything came to a head.

“Let’s send a message to Andy and let her know what’s going on. Then I think we could spend about two hours with Hermione if we leave now.”Narcissa wanted more than that but would take what she could get.

“I need to grab some things out of my room then I’ll be ready.”Bellatrix kept a room at Malfoy Manor where she mainly lived so she could be close to her sister. Her husband once tried to force her to live with him but she just pulled her wand on him. Before Bellatrix could even cast a spell he apologized for even suggesting it and never brought it up to her again.

“I’ll send Andy the message and collect my things. Meet me in the garden in ten minutes.”Narcissa told her.

“I’ll hurry then.”Bellatrix gave Narcissa a chance to drop the wards before rushing out of the room.

Narcissa made her way over to her desk and pulled out some paper. She was hoping Andromeda could meet them at the Grangers so they could discuss everything in person. Narcissa didn’t think her sister would mind because it would give her a chance to see Hermione again. None of them had been back after the first visit. Not because they didn’t want to but because they couldn’t get away safely to go. Hopefully things would end that night. Then once the cleanup happened and everyone who was supposed to be was held accountable Narcissa and her sisters wouldn’t have to hide their link to Hermione. Of course no one needed to know about the prophesy or that they were soulmates but they wouldn’t need to hide their connection to the girl. It would be well known by the time she got to Hogwarts that Hermione was the rightful Head of Household to six pureblood houses and it was just natural for the sisters to offer their guidance when they were members of at least three of those houses.