The fine line...

Battle for the Sun


“Would you stop fussing mother, you’re embarrassing yourself.”

“Well if you’d just dress appropriately in the beginning we wouldn’t have this problem now would we Bellatrix?” The older woman replied sharply, attempting to straighten her daughter’s robes.

“No body cares what I look like at the moment. I’m leaving for school, I’ll be fixing myself up properly on the train anyway, it doesn’t matter,” Bella shot back, attempting to pull herself from her mother.

“You are a Black. It always matters.”

Bella straightened herself up, standing tall. She did hold a lot of pride in the fact that she was a Black. “I know mother. Sorry to be such a nuisance.” Though her mother seemed pleased with this response and began fussing over her younger daughter, anyone else would have picked up the sarcasm underlying Bella’s words.

She was about to continue talking when something, or someone, caught her eye. It was a girl. A very attractive girl. Bella figured she had to be around the same age but had never seen her before. She stood staring blankly at the Hogwart‘s Express as though she had just appeared out of no where, already dressed in school robes, long chestnut hair falling in waves almost to her waist. The girl seemed to snap out of her reverie as she picked up her trunk and began moving towards the train. “Well then, I best be off,” Bella said to her mother, all the while never taking her eyes off the mystery girl.

“Alright then. Remember, this is your last year to make an impression whilst at school, you must leave there on top if our family is to succeed in the new world.”

“I know mother, I try my hardest.” Bella rolled her eyes as she turned to the house elf that had accompanied them to the station and gestured for it to grab her trunk.

“Do look out for your sister.”

“She’s 15, mother. I think she’s more than capable of looking out for herself,” Bella sniggered, but at the look her mother gave her she sighed. “I’ll try. I know how upset you would be if anything were to ever happen to your precious Narcissa.”

“You watch your mouth, girl.”

“You know I’ll look out for her, little Cissy is precious to all of us…” She replied, glancing out the corner of her eyes at Narcissa who blushed and turned away. “Goodbye Mother. See you in the holidays,” she said, getting impatient.

“Alright. Just remember what I told you.”

“I will, mother.” Bella turned on her heel and stalked off, beckoning the elf to follow her, leaving her nagging mother to hassle her little sister for a while.

Bella had more pressing matters at hand. She had been made Head Girl this year. A position not often won by a Slytherin, but an easy win for Bellatrix. She might as well have owned that school. She had everyone in it from the students to the staff to the Headmaster himself wrapped around her long, delicate fingers. And right now, she had someone else that she wanted to wrap around those fingers, a certain mystery brunette…

“What on Earth are you looking for Black?”

Bella stopped scanning the train to look for the source of the voice. Not that she had to; she recognized it as Lucius Malfoy straight away. Only he managed to get a sneer in his voice and make it constantly sound as though ice was shooting right through you. It was actually the kind of voice she could have been attracted to; she had found her self involuntarily shivering quite often when she heard it. If only the person it came from wasn’t such a wanker.

“Nothing that concerns you, Malfoy.” He sneered at her but she just sneered right back before turning to the house elf again. “You can leave now. Take my luggage to the train then get back home before people see you standing near me.” The elf that had been trailing her bowed and left, dragging the trunk four times its size towards the train.

Malfoy scoffed. “Bloody filthy creatures.”

“So how was everyone’s summer?” Bella asked, acknowledging the rest of the group around her. She couldn’t actually care less about their summer’s and tuned out the second her question was over, but Bella knew that formalities and small talk must be maintained with her friends.

Not that they were really friends, not to her. More acquaintances, really. People she hung out with because they, like her, had rich, well-to-do families and it was only proper that they all stuck together through school. She never felt bad about feeling this way, because she would have bet her life that they only pretended to like her for the same reasons. Besides, she was Bellatrix Black, and Bellatrix Black didn’t like anyone.

The group of Slytherins began boarding the train as Malfoy went in to a long winded speech about his life while his two cronies, Crabbe and Goyle, laughed and agreed with him.

‘Fucking kiss-asses,’ she thought. ‘But that’s Crabbe and Goyle for you.’ They were two of the dumbest, not to mention fattest, boys she had ever met. It was as though their soul purpose in life was to stroke Malfoy’s ego. She shuddered as looked at them. The fact that they were in the running for a position along side the new Dark Lord almost made her sick. As if they were worthy to serve under such a great wizard…

They boarded the train and began the walk to their usual compartment right at the back of the train where they were never bothered. The group had become so powerful within the school that most of the students were too intimidated to even be in the same carriage as them so privacy was never an issue.

As they walked by, younger students ducked back in to their compartments while the older one’s simply stood and stared. As much as the school generally hated the group, there was still something about them that wouldn’t let them look away. They did look quite amazing though, not so much the whole group but just Bella and Lucius. Leading the group, both their heads held high, slight smirks imprinted on both their strikingly attractive faces, walking with an arrogance that could only be gained by 17 years of being raised under the belief that pure blood was next to God.

“Good to be back, huh Black?” Lucius said, as he stride along side her. He loved the fact that everyone wanted him. He wasn’t being arrogant because this time because it was true. It was the same for Bella. The two of them were the most desirable people in the school and it was easy to tell by the looks of lust that most of the senior students gave them as they walked by.

“I’m only here for two reasons Malfoy. To gain as much power and respect as I can,” She said, glaring at what she assumed was a first year, causing him to whimper slightly and walk backwards in to his compartment.

Lucius kicked someone’s random trunk out of his way, causing its contents to spill everywhere. “And what’s the second reason.”

Bella began dragging her hand along the wall as she walked. She turned her to look at him and smiled seductively. “What other reason is there but to screw every worth while person in to submission?” She and Lucius both grinned. As much as they hated each other, at least they had that to agree on.
Ahead Bella saw a fellow seventh year girl standing in the door way of a compartment. Her last name was Dallasy. A Ravenclaw Bella had slept with on several occasions the previous year. When they made eye contact visions of Dallasy refusing Bella’s advances came running through Bella’s mind, shortly followed by Dallasy’s face as she was taken aback in pure ecstasy from what Bella had done to her. The same thing must have flashed through Dallasy’s mind as she blushed profusely.

“Another one of last year’s conquers?” Lucius asked, sniggering.

“Oh yes…” replied Bella as they walked past the doorway, Bella’s hand never left the wall she was dragging it on and ended up rubbing it straight across Dana’s breasts as they walked past. She winked at her as she grabbed one slightly then kept walking. “Yes, it is good to be back indeed.”

Finally they reached the last carriage, which was empty as usual, and settled in to the last compartment. There was about six of them all up. Along with Bella, Lucius, Crabbe and Goyle, there was also the seventh year named Rabastan Lestrange, his family were old friends of the Black’s, a sixth year named Macnaire and a handful of other insignificant Slytherine’s, young and older, who trailed along because they wanted to be a part of it. Bellatrix was the only girl in the group. She wasn’t the only girl in Slytherin, just the only one important enough to be a part of the group. And that’s how she liked it.

“So, Dallasy, huh? She looked pleased to see you,” Malfoy said, settling in to his seat. “Couldn’t take her eyes off, you. Wants you bad, that one does.”

Bella scoffed. “She can want it all she wants; she isn’t going to get it. Not this year.”

“You’re too picky, Black.” Rabastan said.

“She is not too picky, it’s just that the chase isn’t there anymore,” Lucius said. “They pretend they don’t want her, but she finally seduces them in to giving in and makes them want her more and more, only to throw them away the second they stop putting up a fight.”

“That’s the name of the game isn’t it?” Bella said in a slightly mocking voice. “Once they no longer get that look of disgust at themselves after you make them come there isn’t any point in being with them.”

The Slytherin’s laughed. It was a game to them, a sport even, and one that had been going for many years. Pick out the one’s that don’t want anything to do with them and make them beg for more. There was no competition in the world fiercer than that between Bella and Lucius. It was a constant battle to see who could get the most attractive, or the hardest to get, or who could steal someone who was loyal to the other.

Bella hated to admit it, but in this game they played Lucius was a fair contender. He was incredibly attractive with his long blonde hair and piercing blue eyes and could easily get all the girls he wanted. But where he relied on looks alone to get him anywhere and was in it for the sex, Bella relied on manipulation and seduction, thriving off the chase and the power trip it gave her when she finally bedded them.

Because Bella liked taking her time to get them in to bed, Lucius was often the first to sleep with most people, so Bella relied on blowing their minds when she finally got to them, making them always want her over Lucius in the future. She always had that to hold over his head; it wasn’t often that anyone ever went back to Lucius after she had had them because she was, to put it simply, the best.

“Not that it matters, really,” Lucius said. “There’ll be no competition this year, I’m going to conquer this place and the people in it. You won’t come out on top again, Black.”

Bella scoffed. “Alright Lucius, keep telling yourself that. “She looked outside at the changing weather. “Well, it’s about time I set off to patrolling the corridors. This Head Girl position will be useful after all, give me extra time to suss out the students and put some first years in their place.” She got up and started heading out.

“Leave some for me, will you? I don’t want them to be all so scared of you that I have no affect on them at all like last year.” Lucius said, a slight bitterness to his tone.

“If you want them, you can get off your arse and do it yourself,” Bella shot back and left the compartment. Truth be told, she wasn’t really interested in first years at all at the moment. All she could think of was the unknown girl, and how this was the perfect excuse to chase her down before Lucius even knew she existed.

Not even bothering to check the carriage she was in knowing full well that people knew to keep away, she moved on to the next one. She burst in to every single compartment under the pretences of ‘head girl duties’ looking for the brunette and as she moved further and further towards the front of the train without finding her, Bella’s mood grew fowler and those who got in her way suffered for it. She had cursed four various students and actually pushed a young boy who had tried to defend his friend in to a door frame, causing his nose to bleed immensely. After a few moments of just watching the boy cry, writhe and bleed all over the floor, she smiled to herself and began to make her way back to the rest of her group.

She reached the last carriage and shut the door . She didn’t really feel quite up to going back in to her compartment so just leant on the carriage door, wondering where this girl could possibly be. Over the noise coming from the Slytherin boys at the back of the carriage, she heard someone cough. Knowing that it was definitely a girly cough, and that she was usually the only girl in this whole part of the train, she set out to find where it came from.

Bella set out searching the supposedly empty compartments. There was only two left, the one she was originally in that still had the other Slytherin’s in it and the one just in front of it. She looked through the small window on the door and found the source of the noise. It was her, the girl she had been looking for, and she was even more beautiful than Bella had originally thought.

“Fuck you, Lucius, this one is all mine,” she said softly, and smirking to herself she opened the door…

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A/N: Sorry it took so long.

Thanks to all reviewers so far; Crow, Exile, Dooso, kadajclone, hermyone.

Bloob, there’s a good chance something like that might happen ; )

Nymphetamised, I’m going as fast as my laziness will allow.

Cheers oxo