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Bellatrix Lestrange (first_bellatrix) wrote in _firstwar_hist,
@ 2009-11-24 02:40:00

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* incomplete, 1972, bellatrix lestrange, sirius black

Who: Bella and Sirius.
What: Bella surprises Sirius by teaching him how to fight like a Muggle and in fact revealing that she know show to do so as well.
Where: The Black family summer home in France.
When: Summer of 1972.
Rating: IDK. I'll fill this in later.
Status: Closed/Complete.

The summer couldn't come fast enough for Bella. To say that her year had been busy was an understatement. Missions, recruitment, moving up in the ranks and proving herself to be more than just a female with thoughts and ideals of her own had kept her far busier than she had ever expected it would but never once had she complained. She had been knocked down, beat up, pushed to the brink of exhaustion and then pushed even further but she had taken it all and dealt with it as was expected of her and in the end her dedication had paid off and she was quickly rising in the ranks, surpassing many of the men who had had their marks for years now and were still no further than when they had taken them. Bella was pleased with herself, incredibly much so. But her dedication to her cause and her mark had caused other areas of her life to suffer, mainly her relationship with her family. She had closed herself off and withdrawn from in favour of being able to focus and she knew they noticed. The owls from her sisters and her parents were piled up on her desk, unopened, unanswered and collecting dust. Furious wasn't what they were with her and she knew it but at the moment it didn't matter to her. She had a mission of her own and she would see it completed if it killed.....something it might very well do yet.

Summer arriving though changed all of that. She had informed her Lord that she would be spending it in France and that all he need do was call and she would come as she always had but she needed to work on her relationships with her family and prove to them that she was not as horrible as they believed her to be and that she did in fact still love them. They had arrived at the manor the week before and Bella would have been with them but loose ends needed to be tied up before she could go. Rodolphus was accompanying her but he was staying at the Lestrange family home and she would travel back forth between the two. The moment she set foot inside of the manor though and took a breath it seemed as though all of the stress of the past nine months just disappeared. Summers in France were always relaxing for her and this would be no different than all of the other times she had been there. Heading up to her room she dropped her bag on the floor and kicked off her shoes, a grin spreading across her face as she did. Sure the summer was a time for relaxation but for her it was filled will lessons, adventures and relaxation. It meant more time with her family and now more time with Sirius. He had gone to Hogwarts the previous fall and as such she had not seen as much of him as she usually did and if she were honest it bothered her a bit to not be able to see him whenever she liked or to show him new things such as the wide array of spells and tricks she had learned in her time with her Lord. That would all change now though. They had the rest of the summer and she was determined to show him as much of what she knew as she could before they all had to part and go back to their normal lives.

Barefoot and clad in a pair of shorts and a tight black shirt she left her room and went in search of her cousin. The spells could wait until later. At the moment she had something more important she wanted to show him, or well something she felt was more important. Most would be shocked if they knew she could do it but she felt it was a necessity, especially with the life she led. One always had to be prepared and this ensured that she was. And as such was the case what she knew she passed onto Sirius and this was going to be no different. She really was in no hurry though so she wandered through the hallways slowly, poking her head in and out of random rooms trying to find the others and simply to see what had changed and what hadn't in the she had been away.

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first_sirius
2009-11-29 12:27 am UTC (link)

Oh, right.

In his interest to make his point, he'd overlooked the fact that he wasn't terribly keen to discuss the conditions. Really, anything that highlighted the fact that Sirius had been sorted into Gryffindor instead of Slytherin was a bit taboo once Sirius had gotten home from Hogwarts. It wasn't as if Bella had reacted poorly to the news, certainly nowhere near as bad as his mother had, but it just felt odd to talk about. She'd been in Slytherin. And he wasn't. And it wasn't as if there was much love lost between the two Houses.

With an air nonchalance that was perhaps just a little too studied he shrugged, "A few boys from Slytherin." Sirius's gaze didn't stray from hers. "It was just a lively debate that... escalated."

It probably wouldn't even have come to blows if they'd left Sirius's friends out of their criticisms of his House. Probably. After that first time, Sirius found that they were just too easy to goad, easy to entice into a brawl when he was feeling bored. Or restless. Or frustrated. Slytherins were perfect for it, because half they time they'd start trouble all on their own. Not to mention the fact that they had a penchant for picking on people who either wouldn't or couldn't defend themselves. Interceding there was just... an ethical thing to do.

And besides, fighting with their fists instead of their wands got them into much less trouble.

"It's fine, though. Mostly just tussles till they get broken up by professors," he was quick to add, a more natural smile creeping back in. "Beats homework, anyway."

He didn't want her to worry, and even more, he didn't want her to think he couldn't take care of it himself.

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first_bellatrix
2009-11-29 12:40 am UTC (link)

"Ah." It was really the only answer that Bella could come up with that didn't sound patronizing or biased or judgmental. And she wasn't...not really anyhow. Sure his being sorted into Slytherin had shocked the hell out of her, so much so that when her Aunt had told her the news she had missed the chair she had aimed to sit in and had ended up flat on her arse on the floor and she had wondered if perhaps the hat had been tampered with or if maybe it was all a big joke but upon confirmation from not only her Aunt but her father as well that it was true reality sank in and she realized that she and Sirius were not as alike as she had thought. After all the hat had barely been placed upon her own head before it shouted out Slytherin and off she went. There had been no debate over where she had belonged and she had thought the same was true for Sirius and that he would follow in everyone else's footsteps and end up in Slytherin. But he hadn't and it had taken her a while to come to terms with that fact. It still bothered her a bit that he was in Gryffindor but she could easily over look it and in fact it was something that could be a great advantage to him. With him being a lion and the rest of the family snakes everyone would think him to be different and would never expect him to be like them. It was something Bella planned on working on with him later, using his sorting and the traits he picked up in Gryffindor to his advantage but that lesson would come another for today was already all planned out in her head.

"Just about anything beats homework, especially for a Slytherin. And goading Gryffindors is one of our favourite past times. You just need to remind them that even though you are a Gryffindor you are a Black first and foremost and that fucking with you is not the wisest of ideas. Even if the national past time for a Snake is picking on Gryffindors." Bella had done it off and on for seven years and by the time her seventh year had arrived her goading of them had turned much more violent and hateful but she always made sure to never get caught. It was something she was rather proud of and something that she used to her advantage in what she was doing now to ensure that she never got caught in what she was doing.

"Who was winning? Before the fight got broken up that is."

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first_sirius
2009-11-29 01:16 am UTC (link)

That one syllable was really the best possible response she could have given. The simplicity of the acknowledgment settled his wariness of the topic.

Sirius didn't much care for the notion of winning on the merits of his name alone, though he knew that wasn't quite what she was saying. It felt kind of like cheating, and not in the pleasant sense- but like it would have cheated himself out of something. He liked recognition for his own sake, not just for the family that had preceded him. He didn't want them to be hesitant to fuck with him because he was a Black, he wanted them to be hesitant to fuck with him because he was Sirius Black.

He shot her a look with an arch of his brow that implied he was offended she even had to ask.

"It was hardly a fair fight, though- one of me and only two of them," he said with mock graciousness, as such odds clearly stacked up in his favor. The first boy had seemed as if he'd never even seen a punch thrown before, let alone been up close and personal with someone else's fist. "They weren't anyone of note."

By that he meant they weren't purebloods - which wasn't surprising, since the halfbloods in Syltherin seemed to feel the need to pair up seeing as to how there were so few of them - let alone purebloods from families of enough status to put them within the realm of her interest.

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first_bellatrix
2009-11-29 01:26 am UTC (link)

"They are the ones who are most dangerous though. The ones of very little to no note for they are the ones who have to try harder to prove themselves and to make themselves known and be able to get somewhere. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain and as such have no fear of doing whatever it takes to get themselves noticed. Even if it means picking fights with those that they shouldn't. Just because they are not known or even known very little doesn't mean that you should underestimate them or count them out as they will be the ones to surprise you and will more often then not be the ones to defeat you. Especially if you get cocky or are so sure of yourself because of who you are and who they are. Never underestimate your opponent, no matter who they are. If there is one lesson, one rule, one thing you take from everything we teach you and everything we throw at you its that you should never underestimate anyone, regardless of who they are." Bella had learned that lesson the hard way from her father as she had assumed that because he was her father that he would take it easy on her and that she would have the upper hand because of that. It was that thinking that had gotten her knocked on her arse on several occasions and Crucio'd more than once because she had not been paying attention and had instead been focusing on the fact that he was her father and as such would not hurt her.

"And that situation, two of them and one of you is precisely why we are doing this. Most fights are not going to be fair, they are going to be just like that and you need to know how to take care of yourself for just because you are beating one does not mean that the second can't come up behind you, steal your wand, and then murder you before you can even blink and all because you are without your wand. Granted two on one is never fair and will more often then not lead to the person who is on their being defeated but if you can handle yourself both with and without your wand then you are one step ahead and above the rest. It is something no one will expect and may very well save your life if you ever need it to." With that statement Bella was done talking. It was time to back up what she had said and time to get the lesson underway. She only had a little while before her parents and her Aunt and Uncle returned and she wanted be well underway with the lesson before they showed up this way when they did come home they couldn't stop them if they were already so involved in it.

A dark smile spread across her face as she glanced up at him and in one fluid motion she was on her feet and then crouching again as she swept her leg out towards his own, intending to knock him off of his feet and therein starting their lesson.

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first_sirius
2009-11-29 02:46 am UTC (link)

Well, Sirius wouldn't have called it a fair fight unless it had been him against at least two or three more Slytherins. The first time, neither of the other two boys seemed to have expected a physical altercation to much beyond a bit of posturing. They had just seemed so caught off guard by sudden action, and Sirius had a knack for going from perfectly at rest to full-on. If they hadn't been interrupted, Sirius had little doubt that he'd have been the clear and obvious victor.

Her casual mention of him being potentially murdered wasn't terribly anomalous. It hadn't been that many years since she'd been telling him bedtime stories about muggles who killed wizards to steal their magic, something that was perhaps a bit keeping with the instruction to avoid underestimating even those who seemed weak. The certainty behind those stories had been pretty thoroughly torn asunder, but Sirius was kind of writing them off as just another vein of stories they told magical children in order to.... well, he hadn't quite figured out the actual moral, or the applicable point, but he was still working on that. The underlying awareness of the possibility that there were people out there willing to attempt killing him, however, was much more difficult to discard. It just seemed obvious to him. A self-evident truth.

Her initial attack was a move he'd seen before, a move she used when they were fencing, and he was familiar enough with it, and practiced enough in avoiding it, that he managed to evade free before her foot could take out his ankles. Exceptionally pleased with passing her first little test, Sirius flashed her a rather smug little smile from where he stood, now a couple of feet away. She might still think he was young, but Sirius was quite certain he wasn't as ill-prepared as she seemed to think.

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first_bellatrix
2009-11-29 03:27 am UTC (link)

Bella was nothing if not every bit of a Slytherin and in that house you learned that there was no such thing as a fair fight. You used whatever was presented to you to your advantage regardless of whether it was fair and clean or not. If it meant your life or that of the other you used it and Bella had come to embrace and love that fact. Rarely if ever when dueling did she ever do it fairly the only difference between her and everyone else was that she was able to keep everyone from noticing that she was deliberately fighting dirty. Her tactics and motives were well hidden and it had taken her quite some time to master that art and now that she had she wasn't letting it go any time soon.

He may have avoided her first attack and she had all but expected him to seeing as how they had fought before although not in such a way but that was not to mean that she was finished, not by a long shot. She wasted no time in closing the space between them, her fist coming up to collide with the side of his head. His smugness and feelings of being cocky at having avoided such a thing were going to be the death of him and she would beat common sense into him if it killed her to do such a thing. Giving him no time to adjust or shake off her hit she advanced on him once more, her hand shooting out to wrap firmly around his arm and she yanked him towards, spinning him around so that his arm was pinned behind his back between the two of them.

"Your arrogance may be a skill for you but for others it is a weakness that can be exploited. You must learn to temper it when it a fight or you will end up loosing far more than you could ever imagine." Her voice came out in a low hiss as her grip on his arm tightened and she turned it just a bit, preventing him getting away....for the time being any how.

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