Blind Darkness; Eris + Bellatrix
A storm was brewing as soon as Bellatrix and Eris were sent home for a week’s suspension. There’s no avoiding what will happen as soon as the two of them have to split and face their respective parents; to face the fury that will rain down on them. Bellatrix knows that Eris will take what comes her way but as she steps into her own manor, she already knows that she won’t let this be a one-sided disaster.
Hexes are thrown. Screaming chases the house elves into hiding. Threats are made. Bellatrix stands against her parents as they both berate and abuse her; she’s careless, reckless, a disappointment. She hears it, she feels it, and she fights back, letting her rage and resentment fuel her to make is clear to her parents that she’s a witch of age and she no longer has to take their bullshit without dishing it back.
I’ll kill them one day, I swear it. Bellatrix lets the thought pass through her mind, knowing that Eris will hear it in her own time. Seated on her four-poster bed and trying to clear her face of the splotchy redness that comes only when she’s well and truly furious, the daughter of Cygnus and Druella Black thinks nothing beyond the thoughts of how she might kill her parents one day in the future. She knows that the bloodline isn’t secure until Regulus bears an heir of the Black name so to murder her parents now would be premature. But it will simmer in her mind for the time being.
That’s when the owl swoops in through her window, dropping its letter and flying away without waiting for a reply. An ashen grey envelope with a skull and snake entwined on the blood red seal. There’s only one person this could have come from.
She’s finally been invited.
The girl climbs out of her bed with the envelope in hand. Snatching up her letter opener from the vanity, she slices into it and reveals parchment that details the location and the hour of her initiation. She will take the Mark. She will join the ranks. And she will finally have access to the power she so desperately seeks.
But--Eris, have you received the Dark Lord’s invitation? If there’s one thing that drives a wedge of fear and uncertainty into Bellatrix, it’s the thought of Eris and the inherent danger facing them if she appears before the Dark Lord and their diligently practiced Occlumency fails them.