Starter for: Sirius Black @siriusbpadfoot Where: Ministry of Magic, heading towards the Auror Department When: afternoon
Sirius was truly one of the last people Bellatrix wanted to see. Yet here he stood, looking far too much like Regulus for her liking. She saw Regulus's portraits often enough, lining the walls of his parents' home, a few photographs scattered around her own manor, too. Yet it was far more acute, seeing flesh and bone with such striking similarity. Regulus's absence was driving her to every corner of this wretched country - and to the limits of her sanity. Her fingers twitched. It would have brought an obscure sort of closure to kill Sirius Black at this very moment. At least that would be one branch of the brothers' tree whose end she'd know for sure.
Fortunately for him, committing bloody murder in the middle of the Ministry would be one of the stupidest things she could do. So she didn't. Instead, she ignored him. But as they both seemed to be going in the same direction, she started to smell a rat, and it wasn't her traitorous cousin.
"Those idiot Aurors have summoned us both at the same time, haven't they?" Sidling beside him, she turned and paused, blocking his path in a way that reminded her very much of their childhood. It disgusted her. "Well, scurry along back to wherever you came from. I'll tell them I sent you away - and why."