DRABBLE: Shame Upon Her (Bellatrix/Voldemort)

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Title: Shame Upon Her
Pairing: Bellatrix/Voldemort
Prompt: Unidentified Falling Object
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 258
Summary: It hurts when he mocks her.
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He used her lusts to shame her.

It was not an unusual practice, perhaps, to bring shame upon a woman by telling her that her desires were unseemly, but it hurt Bellatrix particularly badly when it came from the Dark Lord. 

It was painful enough when they were in bed and he hissed that she was a slut and a whore, but she knew then that he was only speaking that way to remind her that even though he was allowing her to enjoy pleasures of the flesh with him, she was unworthy and should not allow herself to think that she was somehow good enough for him.

It hurt far more when he insulted her before his Death Eaters.

She was driven almost to tears when he called attention to her gender and hinted to the men that the only reason she was given such a high position among the ranks was that she was a woman and could satisfy him.

After one particularly painful session of mockery, she sat in the gardens, the darkness a comforting presence around her, shielding her from their scorn.

She thought she saw something from the corner of her eye, falling through the sky, and whipped her head around to look for it, but by the time she turned, it was already gone.

Maybe it had been a falling star. 

When Bellatrix was little, Mother used to tell her that when someone died, a star fell.

She wasn’t dead, but when the Dark Lord shamed her, she wished that she was.