An unlikely pair

9

I woke up to my nose being licked. I told Sirius not to do that. Guess he never listens, I thought. Opening my eyes to see a black dog wagging his tail at me. I rolled my eyes, placing my paw on his head. After Padfoot headbutted my paw, we turned back to humans.

"Why did you sleep on the floor idiot?", Moony asked, making me realise that all the boys were awake now staring at me.

I told them what happened at my dorm last night. "Bellatrix Black was seen crying by you?", Wormtail asked having a hard time believing my story. "And then politely asked you to not sleep in your own bed?", by their expressions, both Sirius and Regulus were thinking why Bellatrix of all people would cry.

"Enough about female Satan. Let's go and eat!!", James grabbed Regs hand and stormed off to the Great Hall. "And I always thought Pete was a foodie.", I chuckled and followed the boys out and to breakfast.

I sat next to Peter, with a great view of the Slytherin table. While eating I scanned my house table for a certain messy haired witch, whom I found glaring at me.

"Five galleons. I say that she'll treathen you at some point during today.", Padfoot said after swallowing a piece of bacon. Regulus scoffed, "Fifteen galleons. I say that she'll treathen Tina right after she exists the Hall." The two brothers shook hands, both confident that they'll win.

I shook my head at the two, grabbing my bag ready to head to ancient runes."Rem, you coming?", I turned to the werewolf, we always went together since he was the only Marauder besides me to take the class.

My mother wrote to Dumbledore, demanding that I take ancient runes. Dumbledore had told me the reason behind the request, as usual I didnt pay attention to what he said, walking out of his office the moment i recieved my altered schedule. "Oh yeah.", he grabbed  his bag checking for his homework. "Fuck!", he cursed, "I left it somewhere in the dorm." Sirius immideintly jumped up to go help him find it.

Like I didn't notice where Siris hand was the entire breakfast. Rolling my eyes, I walked off biddding the rest of them a goodbye.

I barely managed to turn a corner when I was shoved into the nearest wall with a wand at my throat. "Listen here. Utter one word about what you saw last night to anyone and France will not see their precious princess ever again.", Bellateix spoke full on French rage, glaring at me so intensely she might as well burn a hole in the wall behind me. Fuck me, no one warned me she can be hot. Especially hot when talking French. Fuck. My. Fucking. Life.

I kept my panic from showing. Being as calm as I possibly could. I managed to subtly nod and mutter an 'alright'. She lowered her wand, which now probably left a visible burn on my throat.

Fixing her robes and patting down mine, trying to somewhat smooth out the wrinkles I assume. Bellatrix grinned at me, ruffling my hair. "To class you go.", she shoved me off the wall and into the hallway.

"Bloody Blacks.", I huffed. I arrived in the clearing just in time for ancient runes, of course Moony wasnt there so as much as I would have loved to zone out this entire class I'm not allowed to. Since Remus will most likely ask me for notes I need to have at least something or I wont hear the end of it for weeks. These days I had to be extra careful, time of the month and all.

To no one's surprise, I ended up zoning out somewhere near the end of the class period. Bellatrix Black wouldn't leave my mind as much as I tried to force her out of there. It's not the fact that she spoke fluent French in order to threaten me, okay maybe a little. It was more the fact that- "VALENTINA!!" "SODDING!!!" "LAFENIER!!!!" I heard three voices shout, bringing me out of my daze.

"What?", I looked at James, Regulus and Peter all standing in front of me arms crossed. They looked like they were about to ground a child, the child clearly being me. "You are fucking forty five minutes late to potions.", Regulus glared at me. He just sweared, oh hell. May the Founders show me mercy.

It has become a known thing that you are truly in big trouble if a Black swears while talking to you. "Aren't you as well?", I asked getting up.

"No. Slughorn sent me out to find you. James and Peter tagged along.", he explained basically dragging me back to the castle with Prongs and Wormtail behind. "That's nice. Sirius owes you 15 galleons I believe.", I tried to somehow get out of the death grip he had on my left forearm. "We know.", the three chanted in unison. "Saw her follow you right after you left.", Peter explained.

"James, help.", I whined, my hand has lost all blood flow by now. He smiled and kissing Regulus on the check to grab his attention. "Love, let Tina's hand go.", Regulus of course listened to his boyfriend muttering a sorry followed by some sort of healing spell directed at my arm.

We walked for a little while and eventually James and Peter had to leave us, mentally preparing to enter their dorm to grab their school bags. "Is that from Bella?", Regulus pointed worridly at my throat. "Yeah. It's a wand mark.", I made sure that he didnt think that Bellatrix gave me a hickey. Him and Padfoot are strange when anyone mentions Bellatrix and me to them.

The rest of the day was a blur, until after dinner. I told the boys I'll see them near the Whomping  Willow but first I had to go check on Reggie. His transformation was nearing and he was positively terrified about it not working out.

3rd persons POV

Valentina was approaching Reguluses dorm when she was stopped by a hand on her shoulder.

Turning around she was met with a tall guy. Rodolphus Lestrange was his name a 7th year. He wasnt very attractive but still had a few witches asking him out here and there. His hair was pitch black, never styled. The Lestranges were one of the sacred 28, they were wealthy and held to their appearance. Well everyone except Rodolphus.

His hair was always a mess, never cut properly. His robes were without a single wrinkle. His eyes, always glaring at someone, either a Gryffindor, muggle born, half blood or someone his family thinks is below him.

"Can I help you?", the blonde asked in a hurry. "Yes. Since none of the Blacks will talk to me, tell Bella that our marriage will be good for both of our families.", without waiting for the younger witches reply he let go of her shoulder and went his own way.

"What the?", Valentina sighed heading towards Regulus.

"Ready to become one of us?", she smiled guiding him out of the Slytherin chambers. "If either of you utter imbeciles come up with some ridiculous nickname for me I will petrify all of you and place you at the bottom of the Black lake.", Regulus threatened. "I'd love to see you try and throw your brother and boyfriend in the lake.", she retorted knowing that he could never do that. Not after all Sirius and him had been thru while living with their parents. Certainly not after everything that happened between him and James.