Love is weakness, but only if you let it be

20.

"Malfoy!" Lucius lifted his gaze, and muttered towards his outrageous;
"Yes, My Lord?" He was afraid of what he would do to him, because he was so angry and fustrated.
"Go with Severus! Others come with me!", and then he added to Lucius, his voice poisonous, warning and cold; "Better not to fail this time, Lucius". Lucius quickly whispered something like 'Yes my Lord', and then went after Snape.

Back with the OOTP:

Bellatrix was starting to feel extremetly exhausted, and knew, that it wouldn't be good to strain herself like this, mainly because of the poison. But she couldn't show it to anyone, allthough she was now alone in the room, knowing there were two aurors right outside the door, and without her wand, she could do nothing. The door cracked open, just a little, but enough to Bellatrix to hear the argument going on in the other room.
"What should we do?" She heard her cousin's, Sirius Black's, voice and then a woman's voice;
"If we don't do anything soon you-know-who-"
"Voldemort, Alice" Bellatrix winced at his name when a sudden pain flashed in her left forearm, in her Dark Mark, and then the woman continued;
"If we don't do anything soon he'll come to us!" Then a man defenced her too;
"This child has too much value to him! It's far too dangerous to let it to him!"
"-We can't murder an innocent child!" She heard a purposive woman's voice, and then Dumbledore, speaking with a low volume;
"It's for the greater good, Lily"
The argument continued, but Bellatrix was distracted when the door went wide open, revealing the dark figure of Severus Snape. He shutted the door, walked over to Bellatrix and started to cut the bounds which linked her to the chair, with his wand, and she was curious;
"What do you think you're doing, Snape?" She spatted, this man didn't belong to her favorites. He replied with a calm voice, but hurriedly;
"What does it look like, Lestrange? Freeing you" She almost laughed at this, and she would've, if she wasn't so exhausted.
"You can't even fight me! How the hell do you think you can fight Dumbledore?"
Severus that Bellatrix didn't know, and explained;
"I don't have to. He thinks I'm on his side, Lestrange"
An understanding expression spreaded on Bellatrix's face, at the same time when he released her and tossed her wand at her, while speaking;
"Lucius is as close as he can, at the edge of the forest. The aurors are under imperius, but I can't promise it'll last long", she silently walked towards the door, and just when she was about to open it, she whispered to her, and she turned to face him again, he looked at her directly in her eyes, meaningly;
"And Bellatrix?", she looked at him questioningly, and he continued; "Run".

And Bellatrix did run. Faster than she had ever ran, forgetting everything about not straining herself. And when she got to frightened-looking Lucius she leaned on him, looked at him straight to his eyes.
"Lucius, they know. They know all about it. Tell Him, that they know. Tell Him-" She said, just before passing out to Lucius's arms.

When Bellatrix next time woke up, she felt extremetly dizzy, everything was spinning around, and she couldn't really move, but saw Lucius sitting by the door, and she weakly questioned him;
"What a- are you doing here?" She said, feeling her eyelids drop.
"This is my house, so that's what I'm doing here. But I'm in your room because the Dark Lord gives us turns to watch you, he said to let you sleep as long as needed-" but Lucius stopped when he saw Bellatrix go sleep again.

When Bellatrix woke up the second time, she already felt better. Not good, but better. She opened her eyes, and saw the Dark Lord standing on the edge of her bed, laying his gaze on her.
"How long was I out?" Was the first thing she came up with, though immediatly after she said it, she realised it was stupid, when she had probably only slept like two to four hours.
"27 hours" he replied with an unreadable tone, and her expression got surprised, and she realised that she had been out of duty, making herself unuseable for him. Bellatrix immediatly tried to apologise and shot out of the bed, only to get dizzy again.
"Bellatrix!" Voldemort teased her, knowing that only him using her whole name made her feel upset to herself. She muttered an apology, closing her eyes to get fully concious again. He sighed, but the next thing he did was unexcepted - he walked next to the bed and laid down with Bellatrix. His tone softened much from earlier, when he next spoke;
"Bella, this child is now more valuable to us - than anything else".

Hey, 20th chapter already! First, thank you for reading! Sorry for the bad and boring chapter, but I have really much schoolwork to do. Next thing, I would like to hear your ideas for the child's birth. I'm already planning something, - but it's actually really boring - so I would love to hear your suggestions too!

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