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Our Last Summer [Flashback] // Bella & Rodolphus

The sunrise filtered through the open windows, creeping across the floor and bringing with it a cool morning breeze from the ocean as Rodolphus slowly roused from a deep sleep. He wasn't sure whether it was being in Spain or the fact that his parents' had no qualms about sleeping arrangements during the summer holidays, but he found he had slept much easier since leaving the United Kingdom. Glancing to the dark head resting on his chest, he smiled. Judging from his own amount of sleep and the lack of bruises he sustained, she seemed to be sleeping more soundly for the time being. The downside was that they only had just over a week left before she had to go home. He couldn't have her to himself all summer, not without some scandal involved back home. Though he was certain she wouldn't care about throwing a cat amongst the stuffy pigeons, mostly her family, he couldn't do that to her. Or bring himself to insult her family that way. Still, he didn't want to let her go.

His hand moved from her waist up to her hair, brushing the stray strands back from her face. Bellatrix Black. His fingers drifted to her shoulder, idly tracing patterns down her arm. It would be strange not spending the school year with her. It would be strange not being at school, he supposed, but more confusing was the idea of all the time he was missing with Bellatrix.

With that in mind, he brought his free hand up to tip her chin up. Tenderly he pressed his lips to hers, gently prying them apart as he deepened it.

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This Old House // Bellatrix & Rodolphus

At first he had ignored it and he had hoped it had been a glitch. But after a number of days seeing the indicator noting a disturbance in the wards around the old Black Estate, he decided he best check it out. He had expected Bellatrix was still in the process of walling herself in to Malfoy Manor in a bid to permanently block him out. It wasn't like her to venture far from someone she trusted when she was feeling vulnerable. Yet, as Rodolphus made his way through the Manor once owned by the late Cygnus Black he realised something must have changed.

The disturbance, he found, was prominent in a bedroom he never expected to step foot in again. And, in which, he shouldn't have ever stepped foot in. Wouldn't have if the Blacks had known of his comings and goings as a teenager. Despite getting the feeling he knew who he would find he kept his wand drawn just to be safe as he made his way through the upstairs hallway and stopped nearby the door to Bellatrix' old bedroom. The last time he had been there was the night before their wedding. He'd climbed the trellis below her window, knowing the Blacks would detect any magic he used, and spent the evening with his eyes firmly shut so she wouldn't have to worry about him seeing her before the wedding. He knew she hadn't been looking forward to the wedding, and her mother's overbearing nature hadn't helped matters, but if he could give her a few moments of calm and a sense of security that was all that mattered. They'd barely spoken to one another after the first hour or so, finding a comfort in just being together as they always had.

He pushed away the memory as he pushed open the door, holding his wand up as he entered the room. When his eyes fell on her, he stopped and let out an unconscious sigh of relief. Despite everything that had happened he found he found himself instantly relaxing at the sight of her. A mistake, no doubt. He should be angry with her. He should demand the divorce papers she kept threatening him with or file them himself. Merlin knew he now had just cause. But that was one of the many differences between the two of them. When she felt pain she lashed out, when he did he'd keep his distance.

"I thought you were with Narcissa," he said after a moment. Not really sure what else to say.

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‘Blush Response’ by Vangelis

During a party he wasn’t supposed to be at when he was 17, someone dropped a muggle psychedelic drug in the punchbowl, leading him into a very surreal and mind tingling experience with Bellatrix. The one and only time they ended up having sex in a public place. They spent four intense hours making love in the cold grass, melding their bodies and minds together as the moonlight shimmered like a magic dust on their skin.