DRABBLE: Crossing the Line (Bellatrix/Voldemort)

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Title: Crossing the Line
Pairing: Bellatrix/Voldemort
Prompt: Invisible Line
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 167
Summary: The Dark Lord is lenient with Bellatrix, but she is in danger if she crosses the line.
Author's Notes: Would one of the mods be kind enough to tag for me?  Thank you :)
Link to Prompt Table: http://gamma-x-orionis.livejournal.com/9118.html

From the very first night Bellatrix was instructed to come to the Dark Lord’s chambers, to go before him and submit in a way that no other Death Eater was told to, she had known that she could get away with more than the others.  She knew more of the Dark Lord than her fellows did, and he granted her more lenience than he did them.  She could tease, or scratch, or bite, and he would humour her, so long as, in the end, she did submit to him – which she always did.

But there was a line, a line Bellatrix could not cross.  It was so easy to take things a step too far, try to force him to hold out just a moment too long, bite just the tiniest bit too hard…

She always knew immediately when she had crossed that invisible line, because it was then that the Dark Lord would stop humouring her, and when he stopped, things became very ugly, very fast.

Comments

[brightflower]

I like this! It's a great picture of their relationship, you've really managed to say a lot in a few words.