Theme # 78: Author's choice


Bellatrix had loved him for as long as she could remember. She had been young, not even seventeen, the first time she had been tried [and sentenced] and, though others might have hated him for it, for being the cause of their downfall, she had not.

Even in that terrible place, the love had lingered in some dark, shadowy corner of her mind.

Is it possible to love a killer?

Bellatrix, once beautiful, proud and arrogant but not a killer, definitely not a killer until she had met him, could give you the answer, and give it, unashamed: it is.