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she almost falls for it. she’s so close to telling dorcas just how she’d meet her end, but she catches herself before either of them get the satisfaction. a brutal smile ( shaped by years of terror ) lingers on her lips, and she cocks her head to the side, pretending to be interested. “careful, dorcas — or that’ll be your undoing,” she replies, not bothering to feign actual concern. they both know where she stands, and bellatrix prefers to be straight forward anyways. smile turns wicked, and she strolls forward, putting herself close enough to dorcas so that she’ll feel her breath against her neck. “don’t test me,” she hisses, her voice chilly. she can practically hear the screams already —- the pleads for mercy. it’s a hymn that she’d like to savor. “counting the days?” she whispers, painting on a vicious smile, her teeth grinding together. there’s a devilish flicker in her eyes, and she takes ahold of dorcas’ jaw, jerking her face towards her. “or maybe i’ll just show you.”
dorcas did love when someone indulged her in her little games, and it could be seen in the amused smile on her lips. "how grateful i am to have you looking out for me." someone wiser would have walked away, taken a step back, reached for their wand, but dorcas simply watched as bellatrix got closer, wilder, scarier. there was a certain pride in her expression - she'd done it, she'd poked the snake enough times to SEE the reaction, and so far it was every bit as nefarious as she'd imagined. her expression stiffed a little when bellatrix touched her, but her smug smile was unwavering. "keep your talons to yourself, bella. mine are just as sharp." someone wiser might have stopped there. someone with the faintest trace of a survival instinct would be shaking - the words 'bellatrix lestrange wants me dead' should be ringing in her head, but no. nothing in her awakened a sense of flight, and that would indeed be her doom someday. "so prone to violence, so indisciplined - i really thought you lot would be a bit more intelligent, the perfect soldiers and all that shit. d'you blame it on all the inbreeding?"














