what is a king to a god? @rodolphusxander - Tumblr Blog

tinyrab:

Rab was only slightly thrown by the abrupt and violent comment, and more by the fact that Rodolphus was addressing him than the content of the words. He looked at his brother, eyebrow raised. “Are you tempted to die? Because you’d definitely die if you did that. And I don’t want to attend another family event centered around you this year, which… you dying would pretty much entirely mess up.”

Rodolphus scoffed at his little brother, downing the last of his drink in one smooth motion. “You see that’s where you’re wrong. As long as I actually go through with the bloody wedding, I’ll be alive and well. Perfect bloody pureblood son, miserable like my father before me.”

#rabastan

Rodolphus sat slumped in the oversized emerald chair of his room, his eyes fixated on the newly fitting dress robes hanging from the closet door. The silver buttons mocking him as the light hit them just right. It was happening, the robes simply a reminder that life as he knew it was going to be different. The rest of his life was going to be different. He didn’t spare a glance as he heard the door creak open.

“I’m tempted to burn them.”

#bellatrix #rabastan

belladruellalestrange:

Bellatrix laughed, but it was cold and disingenuous. “I thought you knew me better. I’m not ‘looking for’ any of that bullshit. All I ask is that you respect me, Rod, I’m your wife, for fuck’s sake. I know that may be a difficult concept to grasp, respect and decency may be too much to demand from you since you’re so young and immature, but I will demand it.”

Rodolphus laughed. “You’ve just hit the nail on the head, haven’t you. I respect you, Bella, but I was also married off before I turned eighteen. So, forgive me if duty or not, I wasn’t quite ready to settle down.”

#bellatrix

belladruellalestrange:

“Shall I list everything? Shall I lay it all out for you to look over and think up an excuse? …I think I will, I could use a laugh.” Bellatrix began to pace, maintaining eye contact with Rodolphus all the while. “I’ll start by stating the obvious: You’re missing half your clothes, the bed’s all fucked up, and it smells pretty…” She abruptly stopped and sniffed the air. “Pretty sweaty, to put it mildly. Then, of course, there was the giggling and the rustling and the occasional scream of someone being tortured, or fucked, or both. All of that plus the high heels clacking–” She fully enunciated the word– “down the stairs and out the door, which clearly opened and closed, all of which I was able to hear from the first floor.” She paused, catching her breath. “What do you think, darling? I’d say that was pretty good.”

“And you’re looking for what exactly? An admission of guilt? A heartfelt apology? Or perhaps you want to hear that she meant nothing, that it was nothing but meaningless sex. As though it was nothing but a momentary lapse of judgement, perhaps a drunken mistake?”

#bellatrix

belladruellalestrange:

“What’s this, then? Hm?”

@rodolphusxander

“What’s what?”

#bellatrix

littlelestrange:

“I don’t know. I think he sort of lost it, and then people were pulling him away and he realized what had happened.“

“Hmm. No way that King attacked first is there?”

#rabastan #08.73

littlelestrange:

Rabastan shook his head. “He’s told me. Sometimes he gets in fights with other people, but he tells me when it’s someone else, too. And his dad is always more violent than anyone else, Walden was covered in blood when he told me what had happened with King – that’s who he got in trouble with, Robert King.”

“How’d he get caught?”

#rabastan

littlelestrange:

“That’s another thing, the bloke he was fighting is hardly even a kid. He graduated from Hogwarts this year, he’s two years older than us.”

Rabastan shrugged. “He beats him up all the time. Treats him like a problem even when he hasn’t done anything. Almost killed him when he found out what happened. And his mum abandoned him when he was little, so there’s no one around to stop his dad from doing whatever he wants to him. That’s why he’s around here so much, his dad’s a monster.”

“Wait, this bloke had graduated? He should have been able disarm and stun Macnair without effort.”

Rodolphus listened, finally nodding when his brother finished. “He’s told you this, yeah? This isn’t you misinterpreting him picking fights or sommat?”

#rabastan #08.73

littlelestrange:

“He got in a fight with a mudblood because his dad abuses him so much that it’s driven him homicidal,” Rabastan spat through clenched teeth. He didn’t want to cry in front of his brother, but it was probably going to happen.