Regrettable Agreements {COMPLETED}

[aliceagain]

Why, why, why had she ever honestly thought that this would be a good idea? A tutoring club? What in her right mind had possessed her to agree to help? She should have made some excuse about having too much homework or something, but no, once again she'd spoken before she'd let her brain kick in. A bad habit that she was really going to have to get rid of one of these days...

Now, here she was, sitting in a cold dusty room full of desks that didn't look like they'd been used in a century and a tilting bookcase full of molding books. If it wasn't bad enough that she had to do this in the first place, she had to do it in the most depressive and disgusting room in the school. Couldn't they at least have made it look clean?

Narcissa had no idea who was going to turn up for this little tutoring club thing, if anyone at all, and she didn't know what she'd be expected to help 'tutor'. She didn't have any details at all... Actually, she rather hoped that no one would show up, at least then the professors could rule it out as a no show and not run it after Christmas, seeing as this was just supposed to be a trial run.

If no one showed by ten past then Narcissa was going to sit down and work her way through some of her own homework... But she was going to practice her cleaning charm till then. This room was too dusty and gross for her to even put her bag down, never mind sit and work in. She set to wait, letting the minutes tick by slowly.

[bellatrix]

Bellatrix creaked open the door to the dusty old classroom to she her sister cleaning. Of all the things Narcissa could be doing, why was she cleaning? Bella sometimes wondered if it wasn't just something in the family blood that made her sisters a little bit ... mental. Bellatrix herself was perfectly fine and well, completely sound of mind, but her sisters? Well Andromeda decided that she liked the idea of socialising with mudbloods and Narcissa? Well she'd decided that she wanted to become a cleaner, a cleaner.

"Good lord Narcissa, what in the name of Merlin are you doing? Planning on becoming a house elf some time soon, are we?" Bellatrix made her way into the classroom and took a seat. She was by no means interested in learning anything and she knew Narcissa had been expecting a student to teach, a younger student, however it was not Bellatrix. One Bellatrix was two years older and two the student Narcissa had been expecting had been stuffed into a broom closet near the great hall thanks to Narcissa's most darling older sister.

"I heard you might be tutoring today so I thought I'd lend a hand in keeping you company until your 'Student' arrived." Bellatrix snickered a little and pulled out her wand, playing with it, running her long fingers along the harsh wood. "Though for some reason, I'm honestly not sure why, but I seem to get the feeling that your little friend won't be arriving for today's session." Bella smiled to her sister before she pulled out a recently cleaned seat. She parked herself down on it and kicked her feet up, resting them up on the table as she looked about the simply disgusting room. Surely someone should have cleaned it before Bella's most precious sister had come into it, if Cissa got sick, Bella would blame this room and she would be sure that someone would pay, even if they weren't in charge of keeping the rooms well kept.

[aliceagain]

It wasn’t that she liked cleaning, far from it actually but she could not work in such horrible conditions. She knew if her mother or father saw her doing this, that well they’d think she’d lost it. No true pureblood would be cleaning up like this. She was somewhat torn between following the path of her older sister Andromeda, whom she had always been close to, but also following the family’s obligations like her sister Bellatrix had. But Andromeda was a little more crazy than she was. She’d never had the intent of betraying what it was that her parents and Bellatrix had set up for her. She was a family oriented kind of girl and so she struggled when she knew that Andromeda was turning into a different way of life, or at least risking it. Andromeda had no problem with socializing with others who weren’t purebloods, or at least accepting them, and well things had changed somewhat in the Black household.

It wasn’t that she liked cleaning, or wanted to clean...but she had to do something. The dust and grime was just that bad in here. Hearing Bella, she turned and had a smirk on her face. “No, but clearly the houseelves aren’t doing that good of a job, maybe they need replacing.” This was clearly not the intended student she was waiting on. However, it would suffice it until things changed. Not that she minded having her big sister around. It was just, that well Bella was two years older and she hoped that the student she had been waiting on would arrive sooner rather than later.

“Keeping me company? What a generous offer, Bella.” She smiled as she kenw her sister too well. The woman had been considered dangerous by all means of the word, though she knew too well how true some of it was. She watched as her sister pulled out the wand she had gotten and played with it. For now the cleaning was done so she could pay full attention on her older sister. Which, depending on the circumstance, could be a good or a bad thing.

She sighed as she heard Bella speak once more. “And what my dear sister did you do to my student?” It was something she had to ask.

She smirked as she looked at her sister, as she knew Bella well enough to know that Bells had to have done something to them. Though it wasn’t a surprise. Saved her from repeating the last lesson’s work. “Not that I would blame you, as I was just going to have to repeat everything I mentioned during our last session. So what’s going on with you? Since I rarely see you these days and Dromeda is off doing whatever it is she’s doing....I have no idea what is going on with her anymore.” She hadn’t gotten any news from home so she figured the next safest topic would be their sister, although whether that was a smart plan or not, was unclear at that present moment.

[bellatrix]

No, the houseelves weren't doing a good enough job, it was certainly below the standards expected by a Black and any other self-respecting pureblood. This sort of mess might have been good enough for a mudblood, but not someone of Cissy's standing. A beauty such a Cissa deserved a clean, light room with pretty things and an extraordinary view. There was no denying to anyone that Narcissa was the family jewel, the absolute most beautiful of what Bellatrix considered a fairly stunning bunch, they were all beautiful it just so happened that Narcissa out shone everyone in the family and it wasn't just the blonde hair.

"I'm a generous sort of person Cissa." Bellatrix's lips curled into a nasty sort of smile, she was far from generous really and she knew that Cissa would know that, it just so happened that Bella wanted to spend a little time with her youngest, most giving sister. "As if I would do anything untoward. No, I have absolutely no clue where your little student is at, possibly a closet somewhere, maybe near the great hall, but who knows!" Bella grinned a cheeky sort of grin and then shrugged her shoulders, attempting to also give an innocent sort of look though she highly doubted she could pull such a thing off, Narcissa could and Andromeda could but innocence had never sat well on Bella, it was quite probably because she was so corrupt.

As Narcissa turned the subject towards common grounds, Andromeda Bellatrix pondered what to say. She trusted Narcissa completely and it was probably going to be fun talking about rumours they'd heard, gossiping to one another, but then again it was their own sister they were talking about and even though Bella would feel comfortable talking to one sister about another, she wasn't sure how Cissy would feel on such a subject that could potentially be so delicate, after all the three sisters did care about one another but what Andromeda was supposedly doing could potentially tear them all apart.

"I intend on getting to the bottom of whatever it is that Dromeda is up to and putting a stop to it. If the rumours are true I ..." Bella stopped and took a deep breath. "Have you heard any of the rumours surrounding our darling sister?" Bella rolled her eyes "There's one that's claiming she's pregnant," she scoffed "And another that she's actually adopted. Some people are ridiculous and so are some of the rumours, but some I fear have truth to them, like her and that Tonks boy." Bella sighed again, she'd seen Drommie and Tonks at the Halloween dance together and it had been all that she could do to keep from tearing Andromeda's head off there and then but Bella had to give her sister one more chance, it was Andromeda after all.

[aliceagain]

Being the youngest of the Black sisters, anything was possible. She didn’t like being in the position she was in, but she had had no other choice. The filth was not fit for her or for any other pureblood, or other blood status to be in but especially not a Pureblood. She couldn’t help but love her big sister, no matter how vile others might see her.

She knew Bella was no generous. “Generousity today? Quite a difference. Oh please, we both know you would have done something to my student. After all I am your little sister, I have picked up on these sorts of things. Not that I’m surprised, it’s just like you to lock them up in the closet, no matter if it was in the great hall or near it. But you know you never could pull off that innocent sort of look well. And besides I know you too well.”

She couldn’t help but smirk at her big sister some.

She knew Bella well enough to know that if Bella wanted to do something she was going to do it, irregardless of what others thought. She loved Bella, no doubt about it, although she was closer to Andromeda.

She knew the risks though, of what her older sister was up to. If they ended up falling apart she didn’t know what she would do. Rumor has it that Andromeda was seen with the muggle Tonks. And although she didn’t say it, she didn’t like how things were turning out.

She’d heard the very same rumors that Bella had. “What....exactly are you going to do if the rumors are true Bells? I’ve heard the same ones that you have. Especially regarding our darling sister. I’m worried about her. You know what that kind of talk can do to one’s reputation. Especially if dear Mom and Dad found out. I can just imagine how they’d react to it.” She sighed as she looked at her big sister, this was a delicate topic.

Especially considering what happened with Sirius.

“I’d heard that one too, Merlin’s Beard. Especially if the father is that Tonks’ character. And yes, I’d heard she might have been adopted. Given how ‘different’ the three of us are, or so I’ve been told. Andromeda has always been closer to Sirius than she had with either one of us, so who knows? Maybe the rumors about her and that Tonks boy are true. And if that’s the case...I don’t know what I’d do. She is after all still our sister. I know what would be expected of course, if it were true. To turn our backs on her, though it’d be very hard for me to do so.”

[bellatrix]

Bella laughed softly, a little maniacal laugh. She had indeed done something to Cissy's students but it wasn't as if he was hurt, Bella had been the generous sort today in that she hadn't harmed anyone yet. Admittedly the student may or may not have a bump to the head from being thrown, by magic, into the broom closet. But that wasn't Bella's fault. She hadn't intended on hurting anyone and as far as she was aware, she hadn't, so that counted as not having hurt a single soul.

"You're right, innocence never was my forté. It was always your area of expertise." Cissy was the doe eyed little beauty of the family that could get away with bloody murder. Though Bella was hoping to one day soon get away with murder but in the literal sense.

Bella ran through in her mind all the rumours she'd heard about Andromeda. She'd heard the one about Andromeda having been adopted by a fellow Slytherin snickering behind their backs, probably just a rumour that Georgina had thought up but it held no plausible grounds, after all she and Andromeda looked so similar, Andromeda was certainly a Black, though if she carried on much longer with the mudbloods then it would only be a matter of weeks before she got disowned and blasted off the family tree. She was as bad as Sirius. Possibly worse. At least Sirius was open about his hate for his family. Andromeda, if all this was true, was hiding her dislike for her family and to Bella, that was far worse than what Sirius was doing.

"If the rumours are true." Bella sighed and looked away from her sister for a moment. What could she do really? Tel mother and father? Give Meda another chance? Forget about it all? Ignore it? No, she couldn't ignore what was happening. She would kill Meda before she would ignore all of this. What was happening was an outrage and telling mother and father, well it might just give them both a heart attack or stroke. This new would not be well received, after all they prided themselves on having raised three proper daughters and being better at parenting than Aunt Walburga and Uncle Orion. Not that they'd ever say it outright, but it was all very well implied.

"I suppose if the rumours are true then I'll have to sit down with Drommie and talk to her about it. Maybe get her to confess to what's happening. I doubt she's pregnant though, that's just gossiping getting out of hand, like the whole ridiculous adoption thing." Because if she were, Bella would be more than willing to set up an 'accident' to abort that unborn filth growing within Andromeda.

Bella put her feet on the floor in a flash and stood up, pushing the chair back and letting it topple over, falling to the ground with an unheard crash as Bella spoke and looked at Narcissa. "You're too soft." Bella was borderline yelling at her sister. "If things are true, if we have to do such a thing, then it will be the easiest decision of my life. I will not have the Black family name tarnished any more than it already has with that filthy cousin of ours." Bella was yelling now and that was it. She had to find out if these rumours were true. She had to find out from everyone what they had heard and find out from Andromeda what was true and what was not. She would not have her family made fools.

"I'm settling this one and for all." Bella stormed out of the classroom and down the hallway. She was now successfully in the mood to hurt someone, badly.



notes: I hope you don't mind me ending it there but Bella's kind of nuts and that's just where she's gone in my head. Actually in my head she's in the common room throwing things around and kicking up a fuss, attacking random students, asking them what they know!
>.< Bella's a little Bipolar and Crazy I fear.