She's Got a Black Heart

Pairing: Rodolphus/Bellatrix
Word Count: 107
Written for: September Event, prompt: (plot) Finding love at Hogwarts

Rodolphus watched from his seat in the corner of the Slytherin Common Room. She was here again - the girl who had captured his heart since the Sorting Hat had screamed, "SLYTHERIN!" before it had even touched a hair on her head.

Bellatrix had only developed more and more as the years at Hogwarts had passed by. She grew crueller, harsher, her childish laughter transitioning into a hollow cackle. Her boyish stature grew softer and supple, until by her sixth year, she was just shy of the woman she would surely soon become.

But Rodolphus didn't know whether he had the nerve to speak to her just yet.