Bellatrix blinked a few times, concentrating on breathing steadily before replying. This had to be some tactic on her part, had to be some sort of ploy to get her to agree to leave the traitor's bratling alone. Well it was not necessary, not at all, as the time that she had spent with Carina BLACK was more than enough to persuade her that children were not something that she wanted to be involved with anymore.

"You're being rash." She said quickly, wanting to shrug it off as nothing more than a typical Black tempermental outburst even though the coldness to her sister's voice and look said otherwise. She wanted Cissy to throw something, to threaten to kill them with far more passionate words. No, this...this was thought out. Calculated. This could be permanent.

But it COULDN'T Bella wouldn't allow it. You couldn't just go through a whole life with someone as your sister and then cast them aside over a cousin who had faked his own death out of cowardice. Why, Regulus (if he was even going by that anymore) had not bothered to tell his family of his survival, why should he benefit from the their help now? She glanced to Rodolphus, wondering how he was handling all of this, from the intruder to her sisters eerily calm temper.

"I won't let you do this, Cissy." Her eyes were dark, still reeling from when her own sister had insisted that she wasn't acting as a Black daughter had been raised to act, but she wouldn't give up now. Her family was at stake. "I won't let you choose this coward over our family. He chose his fate, he chose to run away. We are sisters and we will remain sisters and even if you want to throw around phrases like 'dead to me' now, you're very much alive to me, and I will protect you." even from yourself... Bella inserted silently to herself.