gamma_orionis (gamma_orionis) wrote in adventdrabbles, @ 2011-12-08 16:38:00 |
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Entry tags: | contributor: gamma_orionis, dec08, fandom: harry potter, prompt08, year: 2011 |
December 8, Harry Potter, Bellatrix/Rodolphus, God Rest Ye
Title: God Rest Ye
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Bellatrix/Rodolphus
Author: gamma_orionis
Rating: PG
Word Count: 160
Challenge: adventdrabbles – #8 – Carolling
Warnings: Implied violence
Disclaimer: It’s all JKR’s.
Bellatrix and Rodolphus were both immersed in reading when the sound of carollers singing was heard outside their door.
Bellatrix snapped her book shut immediately. “I’ll get them,” she said, hand already on her wand.
Rodolphus caught her arm. “No, Bella, wait!”
She paused, and the voices of the carollers could be made out.
“God rest ye, merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay – remember Christ, our saviour, was born on Christmas day!”
Bellatrix looked back at Rodolphus.
His expression was hopeful. “You used to love this song,” he reminded her. “We used to dance to it at Christmas parties.”
Bellatrix seemed to soften, but that lasted only a second.
“‘Used to’ is the important phrase there, Rodolphus,” she snapped. “And I am certainly not going to let something I ‘used to do’ with you get in the way of me dealing with carollers.”
She slapped out of the parlour, and Rodolphus waited, resigned, for the sounds of screaming to start.