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Bellatrix Rose Black-Lestrange ([info]afm_bella) wrote in [info]aftermidnight,
@ 2008-09-21 21:13:00

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Who: Bella and Rodolphus (cause mine and Nikki's muses are impatient little buggers)
What: An actual reunion.
Where: His private room in St. Mungo's and then the Lestrange Manor.
When: Sunday Night, September 21, 2004.
Rating: I have no idea.
Status: Closed/Incomplete.





Bella sat quietly in the chair next to his bed, the same place she had been since they had arrived at St. Mungo's. She kept waiting for it to be a dream, kept waiting for this to all end and for her to wake up and him to still be gone. But it wasn't changing, it hadn't changed and part of her wasn't sure how to react to that, or the whole damn situation for that matter. Even though he had tried to keep everything that was wrong with him from her, Bella had eventually found out. Especially after Andromeda had had her sign the papers for something called a surgery to fix some of the things they couldn't with magic.

She had glanced quickly through the papers, taking note of everything Andromeda had marked as having been repaired or needed to be repaired and it had caused the blood in her veins to turn cold at all it. Rodolphus was lucky to be alive after all of that and she had signed the papers quickly before giving them back to her sister. They had tried to remove her from the room after that, stating she needed to take a break while they worked but she had refused, even going so far as to draw her wand to get her point across and after several minutes of arguing her sister had allowed her to stay.

That had been yesterday. She hadn't spoken to Rodolphus since sometime on Friday after their bond had finally kicked in and they had found them. Being this close to him all she wanted to do was talk to him or lay next to him, but she had been forbidden from doing that as well. Her sister wanted to make sure her shoulder had healed properly after the stupid muggle bitch had shot her. Bella had protested once more, but Andromeda hadn't given in that time. She had charmed her arm in place, making sure Bella couldn't move it so that the muscles could heal properly before charming her to her chair. It irritated Bella but she went along with it.

Shifting about in her chair she winced as pain flared in her shoulder before she settled back down once more, her head resting on her fist as she let her eyes slip closed for a moment, trying to give her mind a break from the millions of thoughts that were running through it. She wouldn't sleep, not until she knew for sure that he was completely and utterly fine but until then it wouldn't hurt to just let her eyes rest for a moment.

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-21 11:19 pm UTC (link)
Rodolphus shifted quietly in his bed, wincing slightly at the stiffness in his--well bloody everywhere, but the stiffness was just that, and not pain filled as every movement during the course of the past month had been.

Finally opening his eyes, he saw sterile white ceilings above him, and the same sterile white walls to the front. Nothing was familiar. Nothing. The first thought that came to mind was that they had finally done him in enough to warrant a hospital bed, but they couldn't have possibly fixed everything that fast, because Merlin, he felt better than he had in weeks.
The muggles couldn't have accomplished that.

No, Bella had been there. And Rabastan, and the twin terrors as well. Merlin, it had to be a dream, he hadn't seen them in ages.

Reality managed to settle in and he sat forward halfway with a gasp, clutching the sheet at his side firmly with his right hand, instinctively not using the other for fear of causing more damage. Looking down to it, he noticed there was a new bandage, not a cast as had been haphazardly placed there before, but a soft, white clean bandage.
And he didn't smell. Not bad anyway, but more like soap and clean things.

He made to glance at his other hand, the right, and looked back up quickly, blinking and squinting his eyes shut several times before a soft smile graced his features.

It hadn't been a dream after all.

Rodolphus lay back down, watching her for a moment before he shifted again, reaching his hand out and brushing his fingertips against hers lightly, desperate for any kind of touch from his wife that he could remember.

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-21 11:46 pm UTC (link)
Bella had been drifting in that place that was in between sleep and being awake as her mind began to shut down, the last month having finally caught up to her as the exhaustion and the days on end without sleep finally demanded that her body give in and rest.

Until she felt him. Her eyes opened immediately and she blinked once before focusing on him, trying to determine if he was awake or merely shifting around in his sleep once more. A smile spread across her face at seeing a pair of green eyes staring back at her that she had missed desperately since he had been taken. Sitting up a bit more she leaned forward and took his hand in hers.

"Your awake." It was as pathetic as any other line could be but at the moment it was the only thing she could think of to say.

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-22 12:00 am UTC (link)
"You're not a dream," he said, smiling. That was all she had been lately when he'd managed to slip off into some restless sleep, but his hand in hers, his fingers squeezing hers gently, proved that she was real again.

Everything was coming back slowly as he looked at her. The fight, the rescue, all of it. Rodolphus lifted an eyebrow to her curiously as he moved his eyes over her, checking for any signs of injury.
"And you're not in bed. You should be in bed, love, weren't you--hurt?"

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-22 12:05 am UTC (link)
"Neither are you," she murmured softly, bringing his hand up to her lips as she pressed a soft kiss against his knuckles.

He looked much better than he had when she had first found him. The fear then that he would die had been more than she could handle and she had made it through whatever battle had taken place and getting him to St. Mungo's on autopilot. It wasn't until he had been taken from her forcefully that the whole situation had finally caught up to her and she had slumped down in a chair in the corner of the room and cried. Her sister had ordered all of the healers out of the room at that time and Bella had been grateful for it as she had been unable to keep a lid on her emotions.

She just smiled softly at his words as her thumb ran across the back of his hand.

"They wanted to put me in a bed in a room that was not this one. I refused to leave your side. Not after everything else. Call it paranoia or whatever you want but I have no intention of letting you out of my sights for a while. So Andromeda patched me up here, healed whatever wounds I had in addition to the one in my shoulder and then charmed my arm in place so it could finish healing properly.

"Besides, the only bed I want to lay in is ours. Preferably with you."

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-22 12:21 am UTC (link)
He smiled warmly at the kiss to his hand, stroking his fingers over hers again lightly.
Right now the entire ordeal seemed like nothing but a bad memory because this was real, he was home. In a hospital bed in what he assumed to be St. Mungo's, but his home was her and wherever she was.

"How is your shoulder now?" he asked, his tone lined with concern. She'd been shot, by that-
He closed his eyes and took a breath to release the memory for now before speaking again.

"I want our bed with you, too. How soon can we get out of here?"

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-22 12:27 am UTC (link)
"A little sore, but I can deal with it. I didn't want any of the potions Andromeda tried to force feed to me. Not after the last time when she and Narcissa drugged me to sleep. I didn't want to take the chance that she would do so again. Not with you so close."

Giving up she rose from her chair and moved to sit on the edge of his bed, the desire to be closer to him over ruling anything else that had been told to her. Andromeda could take her rules and shove them up her arse for all Bella cared. She hadn't seen or been near her husband in a month and she would be damned even more than she already was if they thought she was going to stay away from him now.

"That depends on you love. You know I hate this place with a dire passion. Even more so now after everything that has happened. Do you feel well enough to portkey back to the Manor?"

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-22 12:42 am UTC (link)
"They drugged you?" Rodolphus gave a soft laugh. She must have really needed it for the two of them to get together and knowingly do something to incur their sisters wrath. But he knew their hearts were in the right place. "We're both going to have to take it easy for a bit. No hurdle jumping or running marathons like we do."

His breath hitched in his throat, smile nearly leaving his face when she got up and moved closer to him. They weren't touching any more than the had been moments before, but being this close to her was the thing he'd wanted most for the longest. And greedy as he was, he wanted more. He wanted to hold her, tangle his legs with hers in their bed and fall asleep to the smell of her hair.

"I feel well enough to walk home, love," he said sitting up once more, frowning again at the soreness but even more determined now that she had given him a means of escape to get out of the bed and home with her.

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-22 01:00 am UTC (link)
"They did. Right after Rabastan came in. The sots ganged up on me and slipped it in my coffee. Their lucky their still breathing." She smiled at his words, a soft chuckle escaping from her lips. "I don't know about hurdle jumping or marathon running but what do you say to a month in Greece alone with your wife?"

Bella caught his movement and the hitching of his breath and any resolve she had to wait until they were in the privacy of their own home safely behind the wards she had put up flew out the window. Moving closer to him she smiled a bit and wrapped her arm around his neck before kissing him soundly, her fingers working themselves into his hair.

After a few moments she pulled away, her forehead resting against his own. "I missed you. Gods you have no idea how much I've missed you." Her words were barely above a murmur but with as close as they were she didn't need to say it any louder.

"And you needn't walk home love. Just say the word and we leave. The portkey is in my pocket and will activate at either of our touches. Just say the word and we're gone."

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-22 01:17 am UTC (link)
"I'm glad to hear that they're still around. Have to remember to send them flowers or something once I'm settled back in," another laugh mingled with hers. "Just a month? I'm all for something permanent and never laying eyes on another soul, save you, for as long as I live, honestly."

He was tired, he knew she was tired and right now he would take even just a week away with her. But he was Rodolphus, and he did have to be difficult.

The kiss came as a complete surprise, but he closed his eyes, wrapping his arm around her waist and lost himself completely to it, only opening his eyes to give a disgruntled sigh when she pulled away.

"Word," he replied with a grin, nodding and pressing his forehead back against hers.

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-22 01:25 am UTC (link)
"I'm sure Narcissa will be tickled pink by that. Or even just a note from you to know your alive. She's been worried about you a well." Bella just shook her head at his words. "Do not tempt me love. Not after all of this. Taking you and just disappearing sounds better and better with every passing second. Do not say it unless you mean it."

Gods she had missed him, missed this. If she had her way things would go further and she would loose herself in him in order to try and forget the last month but now was not the time for that. That would come later.

She frowned at having to let go of him so she could reach in her pocket and pulled out the portkey. Giving the room a quick glance to make sure there was nothing she needed to grab she took firm hold of his hand, the feather pressed between them and they disappeared without another word, only to reappear in their bedroom.

"Welcome home love," she murmured before leaning in and kissing him once more.

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-22 01:45 am UTC (link)
"I'll write to her then, tomorrow." He gave a firm nod, smiling again at her. "Since when do I ever say things I don't mean. Providing I'm not completely pissed, of course. Disappear with me, we'll leave the world a Dear John letter. Or not, bugger them."

He looked down at the portkey, not worrying about anything else that was in the room, for if he wasn't touching it right now, then it wasn't important. The tug in his stomach seconds later was rather unpleasant, last he'd felt it was the night of the charity ball, but he didn't show it, quickly replacing whatever expression he had made during the fall with a grin, which only widened when he realized where they were.

"It's good to be home, my heart," he mumbled, focusing his eyes on her lips right before she kissed him again.

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-22 01:52 am UTC (link)
Bella finally relaxed after what had felt like weeks of being strung up as tight as she could be as she moved closer to him, eliminating any space that had been between them. They had been seperated by enough space for long enough. Now that they were both back at home she saw no need for them to continue to be so.

After a few moments she pulled away once more as her gaze traveled over his face, her hand coming to a rest on the side of it as her thumb rubbed circles across his cheek.

"I was afraid I wouldn't make it to you in time. Afraid that this would never happen again, that you would never come home again." She paused as emotions she had been working so hard to keep suppressed came rushing to the surface. She didn't want to cry or breakdown in front of him. At least not at that moment.

"You have no idea how good it feels to have you here, with me once more and to be able to touch you and reassure myself that your real and not just another figment of my imagination or a way for the voices to trick me so that they can have control once more."

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-22 02:19 am UTC (link)
It was nice to be back at the Manor. He didn't even have to look around again to know that he was there, the smells, the general feeling of the room and the way her body finally relaxed against his told him where he was.
This was their space, their private space, and no one they didn't allow in could intrude on it, and you could sense that it was just a place the two of them spent a great deal of time.

"But you did, love, and I'm here and whole," he took the hand on his face, placing a kiss in her palm, and moving his lips to her wrist. "I'm not going anywhere again love. And I'll be hard pressed to leave your side for quite a while."

He dropped several more kisses, to her face this time; the tip of her nose, her forehead, and eyelids and tugged her gently back against him.

"I'm here," he said softly once more. "I've got you now, and my voice will drown the others."

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-22 02:37 am UTC (link)
Frustrated that she couldn't touch him completely she removed whatever spell Andromeda had placed on her arm before wrapping both of them around him as she settled herself in his lap.

Her eyes slipped closed at his kisses, the walls she had spent the last month building up and surrounding herself with came tumbling down as she allowed herself to just be. She didn't have to pretend with him, didn't have to wear a mask or keep her emotions in check or worry that if he saw something aside from what most people saw or thought about her that she would judged for it. With him she could just be.

"I love you," she murmured, letting herself drown in his words. Bella had been worried that with as easy as it all came. That ease at which she had slipped, even without the aide of her addiction that she wouldn't be strong enough to make it back. That they would have to go through the time they had just after getting out of Azkaban all over again. And she couldn't do that to him again. Bella refused to put him through that again.

But he was right. He was there now, and so long as she focused on him, focused on them then none of the rest of it mattered. She nodded at his words as her eyes slipped closed and she allowed herself to just be. Drowning in the feel of him there with her, in the feel of him being so close and the longer she sat there the easier it got to breathe, and the quieter it became.

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-24 01:08 am UTC (link)
"I love you," he whispered back, tightening his arms around her and pulling her even closer against him.

"I've missed holding you like this." I didn't think I'd ever get to do it again he added silently as he moved his hand up to stoke over her hair.
That wasn't something he had to worry about now, he was there, she was there, and for the moment everything was all right.

Being conscious and feeling this good was something he was going to have to get used to again, but he was willing to do things like this as much as it took until he readjusted.

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-24 01:38 am UTC (link)
"Do it as much and as often as you like love, I for one am not going to complain or stop you." She smiled softly at him as her gaze roamed across his face taking in everything she had already memorized and for a while there was beginning to wonder if she was ever going to see again.

"What do you say," she murmured as her lips traveled across his jaw, soft kisses pressed against whatever skin she could find, "to a hot bath with your wife, a light meal and then a night in bed with said wife?" Her words came out mumbled against his jaw but she couldn't be arsed to care. He would get the point one way or another. And if not, well sitting there like that with him didn't bother her at all either.

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-24 01:51 am UTC (link)
"I intend to," he said, giving a soft laugh, pressing another kiss to her face. "As often as I can get you alone like this."

He felt himself relaxing further at her kisses, before he suddenly stiffened, a slight jolt of panic coursing through him at the mention of a bath.

He wanted to, Merlin knows the hot water and his even hotter wife would do him a lot of good. But he wasn't sure how he looked beneath his clothes, whether everything had been healed properly or not because he'd not had a chance to look.
It wasn't vanity speaking, because in truth he wasn't a vain man--that he left to Rabastan--but he squirmed lightly at the thought of her seeing the full extent of his injuries.

"The food and bed with you are perfect," he said, looking down to her and quirking a brow. "But maybe--if I smell or something I can just grab a quick shower?"

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-24 02:06 am UTC (link)
"Hmm, well I don't see my being alone with you as a problem seeing as how for the next month its going to be just you, me, and the beach in Greece. So I intend to hold you to your word."

Bella placed one last kiss against his jaw before pulling back a bit, her gaze wandering across his face once more as she tried to figure out what would make him freeze up like that with her. She ran a hand up and down his arm for a moment as she tried to figure it out. And then his words hit her ears and she smiled once more.

"Rodolphus, you know I love you, no matter what. Even if you were covered in scars from head to toe I would still love you, but I can assure you, you look just as you did the last time I saw you. Andromeda saw to it that nothing was permanent or would show. You have a few faint silver lines along your ribs but other than that your still my husband and that is all that matters to me.

"So again, have a bath with your wife?"

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-24 02:31 am UTC (link)
"I was hoping you would hold me to that."

Unconsciously, his hand moved to his ribs when she mentioned the scars that were there, his mind automatically flashing back to the reason the scars were there in the first place.
He shook his head slightly to rid himself of the memory though. He had been through much worse than that before and he wasn't going to let this affect or haunt him that way.

"All right," he agreed, nodding slowly after a moment. "A bath is almost as good as finally falling asleep with you again, love."

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-24 02:55 am UTC (link)
"As if I wouldn't. A month, one solid month. I intend to hold you to that everyday of that month. To make up for the one we missed."

Slowly her arms dropped from around his neck to rest at his sides, her hands covering his own.

"It doesn't matter to me Rodolphus. It never has and it never will. Do the marks on my body, all of them, even the self inflicted ones bother you? Yours will never matter to me or make me think any differently of you. If anything," she paused as a wicked grin spread across her face and she leaned in closer to him until her lips were right next to his ear, "it gives me something new to run my tongue across."

Still grinning she pulled away from him and removed herself from his lap and standing up. She stared down at him for a moment, a thousand images flashing in her mind but she paid no attention to them, she just simply stared at him. Quietly she reached up and behind her head, undoing the clasp the gold chain she wore around her neck before removing it from around her neck. The chain pooled in her hand, a stark contrast between its colour and the pale of her skin but that's not what she focused on.

"You know, the day I gave this to you, you swore to never take it off unless you had to. And yet I keep finding myself in possession of it." She slid his ring off of the chain and tossed the chain onto the bed before sitting back down on it and taking his left hand in her own, sliding his ring back into place where it belonged and she raised his hand to her lips and pressed a kiss against it.

"Try and keep it on longer this time yeah? I much rather prefer it be on your finger than around my neck."

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[info]afm_rodolphus
2008-09-26 09:07 pm UTC (link)
Rodolphus just smiled at her, watching her hands as they moved to cover his own.

"Nothing about your body could ever bother me," he said, giving a bit of a sheepish grin. "I've never seen anything more beautiful than your body, particularly when it's pressed firmly against mine."

He felt himself shudder warmly at her last word, an eyebrow quirking up at her when she pulled away from him, intent green eyes focused on her every movement.

His wedding band.

Rodolphus parted his lips to say something when she placed the cool metal back into place on his finger, but for a moment all he could do was look from the ring, back to her face. He felt like the pieces were slowly coming back together, and his wedding band, the large piece that had been missing from his center, was now back where it belonged.

"I- I won't love," he promised, as he had promised once before. "It won't ever come off again."

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[info]afm_bella
2008-09-26 11:53 pm UTC (link)
"And the same stands for me Rodolphus. Its just another mark. It does not, and will not bother me so do not even think about it. As for the later, well I do recall asking you to have a bath with me. I'm sure I can find a way to make sure you remember what that feels like."

She watched him carefully, trying to gauge his reaction to what she had just done but failed horribly at it. It didn't really matter to her anyhow how he reacted. Bella was just happy that the small band of gold was now back where it belonged. While yes it had been a comfort knowing that it was with her and could not be tarnished in anyway by those he had been with, she still felt much better with him in possession of it.

"I would say I'll hold you to that as well, but given recent events and the way we seem to find ourselves in situations that we can not control, I think for now I'll just say good."

Smiling softly she stood up, still grasping his hand in her own.

"Come with me?" she asked quietly, waiting for him to make the next move.

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