The Perfect Heir

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Well Earned Peace and Quiet || Belladolphus

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Bella chuckled with him. “She adores them. Between you and me I despise hiking, but she likes to do it when she feels the need to clear her head..and well, she opens up most then. Hardly a sacrifice.” she smirked, before nodding. “Then I’ll stay.” she granted. “But only if you continue as if I’m not here.” she told him, situating her head on his shoulder. “I’m hardly one to interrupt an artist when sketching his muse.” she murmured, referring to the rose.

“The things we do for our younger siblings.” Rodolphus grinned. He knew what his intended was talking about. His brother enjoyed going for a run early in the morning where as Rodolphus much preferred to sleep in and end his day with a run before dinner. Whenever ‘Stan was struggling with something, Rod would get up as early as needed to run with his brother and help him clear his head. “If that’s what I have to do, I will do my best to pretend as if you’re  not here. I would rather not, however.” He chuckled, glancing at where her head rested on his shoulder and smiling. “My muse?” He asked, his brow furrowing in confusion. “Oh, of course.” He chuckled. She meant the rose.

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Well Earned Peace and Quiet || Belladolphus

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Bella’s eyes stayed on his sketch, unaware of his gaze on her until he mentioned the grounds of his own home and she looked up and at him with an amused smile of her own. “Glad I’m not the only one.” she smirked, glancing down when he mentioned she looked tired and she brushed her cheek with the back of her hand before looking back at him. “Not yet.” she said, having had one too many things on her mind to properly sleep. “But if you want some privacy, I’d be happy to take my leave.” she offered, unsure if it was his way of requesting an evening alone. 

“I’m sure we’re not the only ones either. Though I think your sister might be the exception.” Rodolphus chuckled. He remembered seeing Andromeda out in the gardens on the handful of trips he’d taken to Black Manor. “Andromeda seems to be very fond of the gardens.” He would have liked to see the sixteen year old paired with his brother if he hadn’t already been betrothed to marry Bella. It didn’t make sense for two siblings to marry from one family and another. Pureblood marriages were meant to extend and create alliances. “No, please. I enjoy having your company.”

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Well Earned Peace and Quiet || Belladolphus

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Wherever his gaze was going, Bella didn’t notice, eyes on the fireplace as she let herself relax slightly. Despite not knowing each other all that well, the two purebloods seldom shared an uncomfortable moment. His company could be such a state of comfort that in the silence it sometimes felt as if no one was there to sit straight for, and though she had mastered etiquette like breathing it was a gift that the man she’d spend the rest of her life with never made her feel like she had to be unlike her whole self around him. She looked back at him when he spoke and though he was looking down and couldn’t see it, the surprise and flattery could be seen on her face, his words far more playful than they could ever be in a ballroom. 

“Consider it a unique achievement.” she smirked, knowing she was hardly ever one to feel bashful in the presence of anyone. Moving forward with his permission, Bella came a little closer and rested her head against the sofa, looking down at his charcoal drawing. “You never cease to impress me with how you can take something so ordinary and make it interesting.” she told him. “It’s always been a part of my life, but walking in the gardens can get boring to me without the proper company. Roses are just roses.” Bella hummed, before falling quiet, trying to let the tension slip from her shoulders as she revealed to him another little piece of herself that went beyond their obligated chit chat. 

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” Rodolphus quoted, his graze scanning her face. “I know what you mean, however, mother often likes to take tea on the grounds when the weather is nice, it can get rather dull.” He grinned across at her, the fireplace lighting her face beautifully. If she looked at every other page of the thick book, she’d see her own likeness across the pages. He’d yet to draw her just right though. It was always her eyes that lacked the same life as the rest of his drawings.

“You look exhausted.” He chuckled, moving to continue with the sketch. “Are you sure you don’t want to head up to your dorm and get some sleep?”

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“Don’t ask, just run.”

Rodolphus would trust Bellatrix with her life, so when she ran past him in her wedding robes and told him not to ask any questions and run, he did just that. They’d spent enough time at their reception anyway.

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“We’re going to get caught and I am not getting detention for you.”

“Just another reason for us not to get caught.” Rodolphus grinned, pressing the two of them further into the dark alcove.

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“You’re freaking out over nothing.”

Rodolphus stared at his wife, a dumb-founded expression across his face. “Nothing, Bellatrix? Nothing?” He looked over at his son who had a large bump on his forehead. After how hard they had worked to have their son, miscarriage after miscarriage and now he’d fallen off a toy broom gifted to him by his uncle. “I am going to kill Rabastan. Just what he was thinking giving a two year old a toy boomstick.” He growled, pacing back at forth. He couldn’t help but glance at Neso everytime he stalked back toward the two of them. He could see that Bella was trying to keep calm not to freak their son out, but he was too upset to play along. Every time he glanced at their boy, his gaze went straight to the bump on his head that was slowly turning purple. That only made him more angry. 

Seeing the promise to go after his idiot brother together later in his wifes eyes, was enough to keep him from completely flying off the handle. Taking a deep breath, he managed to still his feet for a second. “Of course. Silly daddy.” He forced a smile and crouched down to his son’s level. “I think we’ll put the broom away until you’re a little older, hmm?” When Neso nodded happily, Rod let himself smile and pull the little boy into his arms before looking at Bellatrix over the small child’s head and swearing revenge.

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“I will hex you and make it look like a bloody accident.”

“Yes, yes, Narcissa.” Rod chuckled, his arms crossed as he leaned against the wall. “If you’re completely done with your little speech. I promise that I wouldn’t dream of ever hurting Bellatrix.”

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“Pass the firewhiskey, if I’m not completely intoxicated in twenty minutes you’ve failed your duty as friend.”

“I supposed I’m just going to have to fail then.” Rodolphus replied, pouring the bottle out into the street. “But in doing so, I win as a brother. You don’t need to do this, Narcissa.” He said softly, his large hand coming to rest on her shoulder. “Besides, you smell as if you’d had enough already.” His hand slipped to her other shoulder so his arm was firmly around her shoulders. “Come on, you can come and sleep it off at our house.” 

He couldn’t begin to understand his sister-in-law’s depression over everything that had happened with Weasley, but if he’d been denied Bella he might have been in a similar position. Besides, she had at least accepted that she would marry Lucius and Weasley had at least been a pureblood (even if a blood traitor at that) unlike Andromeda who had completely shamed her family. Thankfully his marriage was more or less finalized and his parents hadn’t been able to back out of the deal. Of course he didn’t mention it, he knew how much the disgraced Black sister was a sore spot for Bella and Narcissa, but the youngest Black was lucky Lucius was happy to still go through with the marriage after that scandal. 

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Ask Memes Week 5

We’ve decided to trail #TLBYE ask memes as it’s tricky to find era and magic friendly memes that we actually like. As usual, tag all ask memes as #lbyeam so that the mods can see them and tally the proper points.

“Hey, what are you doing over there?”

“Don’t ask, just run.”

“Did you just hex me?”

“That last pumpkin pastie is mine, don’t you dare.”

“I will hex you and make it look like a bloody accident.”

“Did you talk to them? What’s the verdict?”

“I don’t want to end up some 40-something year old ministry official with a mortgage, a wife/husband and two point five kids and a krup! I want to live!”

“I am not kissing that flubber worm!”

“Is that a wand in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”

“You do not want to go in there.”

“I feel like I took a bludger to the head.”

“We’re going to get caught and I am not getting detention for you.”

“I know you’re hiding my [insert your own thing]. Don’t make me hurt you.”

“Pass the firewhiskey, if I’m not completely intoxicated in twenty minutes you’ve failed your duty as friend.”

“Is that a tattoo?”

“You’re freaking out over nothing.”

“You’re nothing but a spoiled child.”

“You are the last person I want to see right now.”

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Well Earned Peace and Quiet || Belladolphus

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Bella could have sworn she picked up on a bit of redness on Rodolphus’ cheeks and for a moment she hoped she hadn’t embarrassed him, not willing to point it out for fear of wounding her fiance’s ego. The wrong step and he might lose his liking for her, she thought. The wrong step and she’d prove the wrong type of bride to be. “I believe you.” she spoke coyly back, a soft smile gracing her lips at his complement even on her post-swim appearance, cheeks flushed naturally and the slightest trace of droplets on the small piece of her chest that poked out beyond her collar.  

“You’re far too flattering for your own good, Lestrange. You’ll only make me blush.” she spoke, glancing down before looking back up at his comment about the water making her happy and she smiled. It wasn’t hard for Bella to know the distinction of courtship and politics when the two were in public, even most of the times when they were in private like now. But sometimes, some few times she’d find herself afflicted by his kindness, that which she had been trained to owe him but he had never once been obliged to give to her, especially alone. Though she supposed that was just the way Rodolphus was. Far better to get along with your future spouse than to be disliked, even when he’d been promised one so proper as the eldest Black. 

“The happiness you bring me rivals that of the deepest oceans.” she murmured. It wasn’t true. Though she knew in a world where marriages didn’t have to be mandatory and love had found him he’d likely make any woman feel that way. Bella chuckled as he chose to play on with her before glancing at his sketchbook, then over their shoulder to check they were alone. “May I?” she asked, glancing at the space between them as if to ask if she could come closer and see what he’d been drawing. 

He couldn’t help but follow a drop of water with his eyes has it slid down her face and land on her chest before flicking back up to her face. Rod hoped she hadn’t seen that moment of weakness. While it would be social suicide for Bellatrix or her family to break their engagement, Rodolphus didn’t want to go into marriage with any awkwardness between them. Besides, he didn’t want his future wife thinking his attraction to her was purely physical - though that was definitely there. 

He offered her a charming smirk at her comment on his flattering her. “I was only being honest, my love.” The smirk turned into an easy smile before he turned to make some changes to his drawing. “Besides,” He offered, not looking up “Perhaps I enjoy seeing you blush.” One of his only issues with the way his kind did marriages was the fact that mother drilled the fact that their daughters must show their husbands the utmost respect and kindness. It was often hard to tell when Bella was being sincere or if she was following the act of perfect fiancée. If it was the only thing he disliked about being matched with the proper Black sister, he was doing a lot better than some of his friends.

That’s why he didn’t take her sweet words to heart, it was the fact that she thought it would make him happy that he took to heart. He shifted slightly so she could sit comfortably beside him and see the sketch. “Of course.” It usually made him nervous to show his work to other people but not Bella, besides it was a simple rose, nothing too complicated. 

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Oh man, oh man I am not really known for ever being speechless But now, but now somehow My words roll off my tongue right onto your lips, oh I’m keeping cool while you keep smiling Saying all the things I’m thinking Oh man, oh man I am like you so I want proof of what you’re feeling

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Well Earned Peace and Quiet || Belladolphus

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Unlike most public cases, Bella was able to pull her feet up onto the couch and rest her chin in her hand, elbow propped onto the backbone of the leather sofa as he told her about his day. She never got too improper, of course, but at the very least this late and alone in the common room there was flexibility for cozying up. Bella smirked at the mention of Andromeda. “Well, she’s a hard worker. You both are.” she complimented.

“Then again, she doesn’t have NEWTs coming up. Are you sure you aren’t wearing yourself thin?” she asked, knowing the load of coursework she was due and with less classes than he was taking. Glancing down at the fire, Bella watched the flames as they helped ebb the tension in her shoulders. When he called her out for swimming however, a bashful grin immediately broke out onto her lips and she chuckled. “I look that knackered then?” she asked, a small tint on her cheeks as she ran a hand through her recently dried locks and met his eyes again, now purely amused at his words. 

“That I did. He says he’s sorry that Rabastan blamed you for scaring him the other night, it was clearly the shadow of his tentacles.” she replied coyly, eyes soft as her mother had taught her to make them when gazing at a man. “But I’m good. I found a new siren’s egg not far from the tall seaweed. I don’t think there’s ever been a voice more beautiful than theirs.” she commented. The three sisters were taught the art of performing as well, of course but it was hardly Bella that did the singing. She was more private about her voice than actually playing an instrument. Maybe because after so long digging up the sound of mermaids she’d much rather listen than be listened to. 

Rodolphus beamed when Bella complimented him on his hard work. One of the reasons he continued to work so hard (besides family honour) was to make Bellatrix proud. When she pressed that he wasn’t wearing himself thin, he couldn’t help but flush. Perhaps he had taken a little too much on for his final year but it wasn’t anything he couldn’t handle. It was flattering that she cared. “I promise you that I’m having no trouble keeping my head and shoulders well above the water.”

He shook his head, she looked so pretty when she was blushing. “Quite the opposite. I was just thinking how radiant you look.” He grinned, looking back down at his book, tracing the charcoal round the soft curve of a rose petal. “I find myself rather jealous of the water for it’s ability to make you look so happy.” Barking out a laugh, he met her eyes once more. “Well he can be the one to pass that information on to ‘Stan. I’m still in big trouble for that.” He loved the way she talked about her adventures through the water. He begged to differ. He couldn’t think of anyone who sang like Bella though it was a rare occasion he heard her sing these days. 

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Well Earned Peace and Quiet || Belladolphus

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Excluding one or two people, Bella’s best kept secret had always been her late night dips into the Black Lake, when the grounds were bare enough to grant her the privacy she needed to take a bite out of her pocketed gillyweed and swim down to the depths of the body of water that circled the castle. She never wandered too far, knowing full well the dangers she needed to avoid, so the area by the coast and the Slytherin dorms was her sanctuary. It was some time past curfew that she’d snuck her way back to the warmth of her house’s common room, the only tell that she’d been anywhere she wasn’t supposed to be being the last wet locks that framed her face. 

With a pass of her wand, she dried them as she stepped in, not realizing she wasn’t alone until Rodolphus spoke up from the couch and she looked up to see him, a smile tugging at her lips before she lowered her wand and placed it back into her garter. “That it is.” she asked him, walking around the furniture and sitting down across from him. "And yet you seem perfectly comfortable by the fire.” she told him, thankful for the warmth herself as she shivered just slightly. “How are you?” 

“I can’t complain. It’s been a busy day, but nothing I couldn’t handle. I’m not sure what possessed me to take on so many classes. ‘Stan tells me not unlike your Andi.” Rod grinned, stretching out on the couch slightly before closing the book and resting the charcoal on top of it. He gazed across at his fiance, an easy expression across his face as he did so. “How are you, Bella?” His gaze swept her face, reading her features as if they were his favourite book of poetry. “You’ve been out swimming.” A wide grin almost split his face as he took in her slightly mussed up features. He liked Bella the best when she was looked a little mussed up. 

One day, she’d be look exactly as she did now because of him. Positively glowing with happiness. They’d have a good marriage, he’d make sure of it. “Did you say hello to the giant squid for me, darling?” He teased gently, picking up the charcoal and opening the book once more to resume his sketch.

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Well Earned Peace and Quiet || Belladolphus

It had been a long day with little to no chance of reprieve when Rod finally settled down onto the couch in the common room. The fire was roaring and most of his classmates were in bed which was how the pureblood preferred things. He watched as the last couple of stragglers made their way up to their dorms for the night before summoning his sketch book. As the charmed book made it’s way silently but quickly through the air, Rodolphus pulled a piece of charcoal from his rucksack just as the book landed in his lap. He placed the tip of his wand on the cover of the inconspicuous book and murmured a few spells to break the tight wards he had on his property before turning to the page he’d been working on the night before.

He wasn’t sure how long he’d been working when he heard someone else enter the dorms. Rod’s hand stilled on the paper, glancing up for a second.

Bella. 

It felt as if a weight was lifted from his shoulders as his betrothed came into sight. “Bella, nice night for a late night stroll?” He grinned, his eyes shining light and cheeky in the dimly lit common room. 

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“Have you been drinking? You look terrible.”

Looking around, Rod wondered where the voice was coming from only to lock eyes with Petunia Evans. He swayed on the spot, firewhiskey muddling his brain. “Evans.” He slurred. “Mind your own business.” It wasn’t like him to lack such finesse but he’d seen something that afternoon that had rattled him to his inner core. His future sister-in-law in a heated embrace with a Hufflepuff mudblood. He wasn’t sure what to do with that information. It was selfish but he couldn’t ruin his match with Bella.

He brought his long finger up to his lips. “Shhhh. You didn’t see me.” He nodded slowly before continuing to stumble toward his dorm room. He’d let Andi have her fun, some purebloods liked to sow their wild oats before settling down, his future sister-in-law didn’t seem the type but he wouldn’t say anything. She’d be 17 and married soon and that was all that mattered. No one would ever know any wiser.

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“Let me clean your wounds…”

He should have stayed out of it but Rod knew how much his wife loved her sister and Pius just hadn’t shut up about Bellatrix or her family and their former association with Andromeda, shit, she’d be Tonks now. Just the thought of that left a foul taste in his mouth, however Greengrass had no right to be shooting off about his wife and her loyalty to their beliefs. 

Perhaps he shouldn’t have started a duel, but if he looked bad, Pius looked worse and the older man would be too embarrassed to press charges. Beaten by a younger man. Rod chuckled even though it hurt to breathe let alone laugh. 

Bella had not been impressed when he’d shown up reeking of alcohol and looking like bloody death warmed up. His darling wife had just sighed and held open the door so he could hobble inside. She didn’t ask any questions as she wrapped her arm around his waist and helped him into the front living area.

“Let me clean your wounds...” “I love you.”