19. Wand

"You know what, I don't care if I fail these exams,"Bellatrix told Rodolphus as she practised levitating a book with her wand,"Do you?"

"Not really, but what could we do if we failed them? We could never get a job?"Rodolphus replied as he failed yet again to perform a switching spell

Bellatrix swiftly looked at him then decided to go ahead and say it.

"Do you trust me?"she asked suddenly.Rodolphus looked at her."Yeah, I suppose."

"I've been talking to Rabastan and I don't think we'll be needing NEWTS. He's agreed to introduce us to him."

26. Quill

The seventh years dropped their quills as the Charms exam ended, there final exam. Next week, they'd be all leaving Hogwarts to pursue normal jobs in the outside world.

Bellatrix was delighted about leaving school and pursuing her dream 'job'. Rodolphus wasn't so delighted about his choice, however, he wanted to make his family just as proud of him as they were with Rabastan.

It wasn't like they were the only ones. Macnair, the Carrows, Malfoy, Dolohov and a few others were also deciding to follow a unpredictable and dangerous 'career'.

13. Quidditch

Bellatrix and Rodolphus wandered outside near the Quidditch pitch after the exam. Rodolphus had always loved Quidditch and it was what he'd miss most about Hogwarts, playing Beater for the house team.

"We're doing the right thing, Rodolphus,"Bella said, watching him carefully,"We'll be doing something useful, not sitting around, working for the Ministry with all the muggle-lovers."
Rodolphus nodded, thinking forward to two weeks time.

"Aren't you worried?"Rodolphus asked her,"The way people speak about him, The Dark Lord they call him."

"He knows the right way the magical world needs to be run,"Bella replied smiling.

14. Hogwarts, A History

Bellatrix was up in her dormitory, throwing away her school books as it was the last day. She picked up Hogwarts, A History and threw that on the heap of books which were in the bin beside her bed.

Smirking at what Madam Pince would say, she left her dormitory to search for Rodolphus, who mentioned he would be at the library.

Arriving at the library, she saw Rodolphus having a heated conversation with Andromeda, who was looking angry.

"Your making a mistake,"she said to her sister.

I am not!"Bellatrix snarled back,"You'll be the one who's going to realise that hanging around with mudbloods isn't the way forward."

30. Feast

The end of year feast was as excellent as always as the last night finally arrived. Rodolphus glanced around at everyone laughing and joking, without a care in the world. He looked at Bellatrix who was laughing at a joke Alecto had just said with the other Slytherin 7th years.

She'd been a lot happier since her decision to join the Death Eaters. Rodolphus still wasn't sure he was doing the right thing, but he'd do anything to make his family and Bellatrix happy.

He looked at the Gryffindor table and saw Andromeda looking as though things were also on her mind.

27. Owl

Bellatrix put her owl, Topaz,in her cage. She liked her owl, it had been a gift from her father. Sighing, she had one last check of the dormitory and left, walking down to the common room with her trunk and cage.

Some of the fellow Slytherins were looking at the common room with sadness as they prepared to leave it for the last time, but not Bella. She couldn't wait to leave and official become a death eater.

"Come on, Cissy,"Bellatrix said to her sister, who scarpered after her and together they left the common room.

28. Timeturner

Rodolphus watched as Hogwarts castle disappeared behind the hills as the Hogwarts express gathered speed. He was unsure if he'd ever see it again, particulary because of the path he'd chosen to follow. He wished he had a timeturner where he could go back and change things, start school all over again.

Bellatrix was also watching the castle disappear feeling a strange sense of happiness. I'm going to become the Dark Lords most loyal deatheater, she thought to herself.She smiled and enjoyed the train ride back to London, without a care in the world.

47.Portkey

"One...two...three!"The group all touched the portkey and after a few seconds found themselves in a large room which would have been total darkness if a single candle had not been lighted.

"I see, Rabastan, that you have brought guests?"came a voice from a armchair.

"Y-yes my lord, do you remember the ones I told you about?"he said, kneeling on the floor as the others hastily copied him.

The wizard said nothing but stood up from his chair and strolled over to where Bellatrix Black, Rodolphus Lestrange, the Carrows, Lucius Malfoy and a few others were kneeling in the floor, feeling terrified.

93. Chicken

"Stop being a complete chicken, Rodolphus!"Bellatrix shouted at her husband,"Why did you join five years ago if you were going to worry about everything he get's us to do?"

Rodolphus sighed and looked up from the Daily Prophet."I'm not being a chicken Bella and will you please stop shouting, my heads getting sore and there is no need for you to shout."

Bellatrix stormed out the room and slammed the door leaving Rodolphus close his eyes and worry about his wife's obsession with everything to do with the Dark Lord. Sometimes ,he wondered if she even loved him at all.

76. Zap

ZAP! The spell narrowly missed Bella's head. All around her, Rodolphus, Rabastan and Barty Crouch Jnr were trying to defend themselves from the aurors while attempting to escape out an open window.

"Bella, come on!"Rodolphus said to her urgently."Its all over. We're going to get chucked in Azkaban if you don't get a move on!"

But she just looked at him as the aurors stunning spell hit her in the chest and she collapsed onto the floor. She would go to Azkaban. And the Dark Lord would return and rescue her. That was Bellatrix's last comforting thought as she became unconscious.

45. torch

The corridors of Azkaban leading to the cells were lit by torches, but the flames did not make the place seem friendly. Screams and crazed mutterings punctured the air.

Rodolphus was thrown into a cell by the dementor, while another pushed Bellatrix into the cell next to him. The dementors glided off to attend to Rabastan and Barty leaving the Lestranges to lie in their cells, unable to speak as a horrible sense of fear, loss and dread washed over them.

"My Lord, help me,"Bella murmered to herself, pulling at her hair and wishing that the fellow prisoners would shut up.

81. Depression

It felt all hope had been wiped out for Bellatrix. She could hear Rodolphus screaming sometimes, then he'd be quite for weeks. The deep depression that Bellatrix was feeling that she'd never get out of here, never see her Lord again and that she'd probably die here.

"At least I'm not screaming and crying,"she said, speaking aloud to herself . She felt the sound of her own voice gave her a bit of company, however small. A dementor entered and pushed in a plate of stale bread and Bellatrix closed her eyes as a new wave of overwhelming hopelesness hit her.

37. Animagus

Bellatrix peared out through the bars in her cell door. It was nearly dinner time and she was hungry, but nobody seemed to be coming. She sighed leaning her forehead against the coolbars. She never thought The Dark Lord would take this long to rescue her.

She began mumbling to herself until she heard a noise. Footsteps. Her heart leapt. They were drawing closer and closer. And then, she saw it.

A large black dog, whom she recognised, was walking quickly past the door.
"You!"she screeched,"HE'S ESCAPING!"

"Shut up,"came Rodolphus's voice from next door, which Bellatrix couldn't hear.

29. Pensieve

As soon as Rodolphus had stepped outside the walls of Azkaban, all thoughts had came back to him, as though they had been stored in a pensieve and were now being placed back in his memory.

While he felt as though he'd recovered some of his sanity, the same couldn't be said for his wife. She was not the same person he'd met all those years ago at Hogwarts. The way Bellatrix looked at him, as though he was nothing to her at all.

Rodolphus chose to ignore this at the present time and threw himself back into his work as a deatheater, while feeling all the while very depressed.

82. Careful

"It was all Lucius' fault,"Bellatrix told Rodolphus angrily,"He kept being all careful and trying to talk to Potter first! And now the Prophecy's gone, and you should have seen the way the Dark Lord looked at me! It was as though I was some burst Flobberworm!"

Rodolphus sighed wearily."Bellatrix, your sisters very upset over Lucius' imprisonment. Shouldn't you go and comfort her?"

"You shouldn't worry about her! You should worry about me,"Bellatrix said, pacing and pulling at her hair slightly.

"I do worry about you Bella..."Rodolphus muttered.

43. Headmaster

"I very much doubt Draco will be able to carry this out,"Rodolphus said, in a somewhat bored voice,"He's always come across as being weak."

"Excuse me, he is related to me,"Bellatrix said coldly,"If he does fail, imaging the shame for the entire family? I don't know why it would be so difficult anyway. Dumbledore's not that great, anyone could be Headmaster of a school. I just hope I can convince Narcissa that asking Snape for help is a bad idea."

Bellatrix shook her head and went off to look for her sister, who was currently attempting to hide from her.

85. Snappish

"Rodolphus' birthday in a few weeks,"Rabastan Lestrange told Bellatrix casually.

"Is it?"Bellatrix replied, quite unconcerned as she finished writing a letter.

"Don't you think you should get him something? I mean, he has been dropping a lot of hints and I think he does feel quite annoyed when, you especially, forget -."

Rabastan shut up at the look Bella was giving him, waiting for her to start shouting as she normally done when someone asked her something or advised her what to do

These days, she was especially snappish, due to her being replaced by Snape as The Dark Lords favourite.

87. Plaid

"Er..thanks Bella,"Rodolphus said to his wife, who'd already left the room after throwing an unwrapped plaid, moth-eaten jumper at him.
He wasn't bothered with birthdays anyway, but suspected his brother had told Bellatrix to get him a present. He sighed, but quickly looked more cheerful as Bellatrix re-entered the room.

"You could wear that to the meeting tonight,"she said to him seriously.
Rodolphus looked puzzled.
"You know. The meeting with the Dark Lord,"she explained, rolling her eyes.
"I'm not wearing that!"Rodolphus said angrily. He normally agreed to everything his wife asked for an easy life, but he had to put his foot down here.

70. teem

"Bellatrix not speaking to you again?" Nott asked Rodolphus at the Death Eater meeting that night.

Rodolphus shook his head, teeming with rage. The way in which Bellatrix was staring at the Dark Lord was making him sick. He was hoping she was doing it out of revenge for him not wearing her stupid jumper, but he doubted she could even remember she had a husband.

"Alright, Rod?" Lucius asked him from across the table. Everyone turned to look at him, including Bellatrix.

"Fine," he lied, catching Bella's eye. Bellatrix looked confused for about two seconds and began talking to one of the Carrows.

34. Parseltongue

Severus Snape was given some information at the latest meeting, but for once, Bellatrix wasn't paying attention. Why does the Dark Lord keep that snakeshe thought as Nagini circled the table.

She took a side-ways glance at Rodolphus but he didn't seem bothered by it at all. Annoyed, she stood on his foot under the table to get some reaction from him, but he completly ignored her.

A weird hissing and spitting noise was heard from across the table and her eyes shot up, but she realised it was just the Dark Lord using Parseltongue to call the snake.

60. Joke

Bellatrix was steadily turning an ugly, blotchy red colour. The Dark Lord and the rest of the Death Eaters were laughing at her over her mudblood niece getting married to a werewolf.

The Dark Lord said something to Draco, but she wasn't listening. Rodolphus, her husband, was sat a few seats away from her, also laughing, as though he found the whole thing a joke.

Bellatrix felt a strange sensation after this, one she'd only felt once before in her lifetime when she was five and her father and ripped the head off her favourite teddy bear in a rage.