Fic - Doomed - 1/1

[evandar]

Title: Doomed
Author: Evandar
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Angst
Pairings: Bellatrix/Lily
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and am making no profit from this story.
Summary: It didn’t take long for her to realise that Bellatrix was a tease.
Author's Notes: Written for the prompt Harry Potter - Bellatrix/Lily - tease on femslash100's Drabbletag5. There's a second fill for this prompt over here.



It didn’t take long for her to realise that Bellatrix was a tease. Not with her implied sexuality – that had been there from the start – but with her kindness. With every gentle word or delicate touch; with every time she stroked Lily’s neck instead of scratched, or kissed instead of bit, she taunted Lily with the person she could have been had her House and her family not trained her to be as cruel as she was.

Lily lived for those flashes; lived for the times Bellatrix would choose tenderness over savagery, and she vowed each time to see more.

Comments

[salmon-pink.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous, a side of Bella we don't see explored very often, and I love the idea that that flashes of compassion and tenderness are cruel in their own way. ♥

[hikarievandar.livejournal.com]

Thank you <3 Any relationship between these two wouldn't have a happy ending, I think, and this is leaning towards the 'make her a better person' trope. But yes, there is a cruelty in Bella's kindness.

[fresh-brainss.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this is lovely. I too would like seeing the softer, gentler side of Bellatrix.

[hikarievandar.livejournal.com]

Thank you <3 The softer side of Bellatrix would be really interesting to write - and I can definitely see why it would interest Lily so much.

[killing-kurare.livejournal.com]

Omg how fantastic is this? You did a great job on the what if, giving us just enough to really wonder about a different bellatrix and how lily could have changed her ...
Awesome ♡

[hikarievandar.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thank you! I love hinting at possible unexplored AUs, and good!Bella would have been a really interesting one.