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~Bella shivered and automatically curled herself into a ball to escape the cold draft that was blowing over her. Where in the world was she?
Looking round, it took Bella a few moments to realise where she was... She was in the dungeons of Malfoy Manor. She had wandered down here once when she was a child at a Ministry Christmas Party held here.
Bella shivered again before she noticed what she was wearing. A small tattered black dress was the only thing she was wearing besides her jewelry. It made her skin crawl to think that a Death Eater had probably changed her clothes for her.
Bella heard a soft moan coming from her right, and looked around to see Lina who was dressed just like her, sitting up rubbing her head...~

~Bella rubbed her forehead, trying to get the feeling that someone else had been there to go away.
"We're in one of the many dungeons of the beautiful Malfoy Manor," Bella said in a sarcastic tour guide voice. "If you look to your right you'll see the lovely green fungus on the wall and the small chamber pot in the corner; if you look directly in front of you, you'll see the vacant spaces for future occupants of this cell; and finally if you look to your left, you'll see Lucius Malfoy looking into our cell..."
Bella paused, realising two seconds later what she had said. "Bloody Hell!" she gasped, scooting back towards Lina to get away from the door which was opening...~

~Bella figured she'd try switching tactics. She stood up and faced Lucius, her high-class pure-blood mask falling into place.
"Excuse my language, Mr Malfoy, but you frightened me. Ignore the mudblood's question. May I ask why you've brought me here? Surely there are better ways of contacting me. Had you contacted my father, he could have sent me your letter--"
Bella was cut off by Lucius back-handing her across her face. Bella fell to the floor cradling her cheek in one hand and whimpering, her ears drooping and her tail between her legs.
"Shut up you silly girl, you're here to lure Potter, and you will not speak unless spoken to! Or have you forgotten all the training my lovely wife taught you?"
"No Master Malfoy," Bella said cowering at his feet.~

~Bella could practically hear the sneer in Lucius' voice. "You're here to punish my idiot of a son for not completing his task for the Dark Lord." Bella managed to turn to look at Lina just in time to her look of confusion turn into one of horror as Lucius continued. "Didn't Draco tell you? He was supposed to kill off Dumbledore." Lucius was practically gloating by the last few words.
"But he didn't," Bella said grimacing, it hurt to talk.
"What did you say, girl?" Lucius glared down at her.
Bella dared to look up at him and spit out, "He didn't kill Dumbledore because he realised it was wrong. He's his own person! He's not going to allow you to control him anymore!"
"How dare you!" Lucius roared as he lifted her off the floor by the neck of the ragged dress.
"He'll never be like you," Bella said glaring, "He's not some moronic b*****d who likes to kiss a half-blood's robes." Bella smirked at Lucius' face and then spat on him.
Lucius roared in fury and threw Bella away from him before he began to wipe his face. Bella flew back a few feet and hit the back wall with a sickening cruch, then crumpled to the floor...~

~Bella felt Angelina crumple beside her as the Cruciatus hit her. Bella managed to lift herself up and crawl towards Lina, calling out to Lucius, "Stop it! Don't hurt her! Curse me instead!"
Bella heard Lucius laugh and then say, "Well, if you insist!" Bella had a split second where she saw that Lina had stopped twitching before the Cruciatus hit her in the chest.
Lucius laughed at Bella's desperate attempts not to collapse again. But he took a step back as Bella finally mangaged to stand up. "Leave us alone!" She screamed hoarsely, gritting her teeth against the pain.~

~Bella dropped forward onto her hands and knees panting for air. She waited for a few moments until she was postive that Lucius had left before she began to laugh softly.
As she began to laugh harder, the noise seemed to echo eerily off the stone walls of the cell. Bella's ribs hurt like hell, but she didn't even care she was laughing so hard, tears rolling down her face as she mangaged to choke out, "I... spit... in... Lucius... Malfoy's... face..."~

~Bella was still shaking a bit, but now it wasn't from laughter, just from the pain. Trying to withstand the Cruciatus curse for almost two minutes could do that to you.
"They'll be fine. I'm sure they'll be able to work something out. But right now, I don't feel like moving. Even if they burst in right now, I'd tell them to come back in five." Bella laughed a bit and then eased herself into a sitting position, her back against the nearest wall.
"That wasn't too bad," she said conversationally, "Normally it's a lot stronger. He must not want us hurt too badly. He was holding back for some reason." Bella was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't even notice Angelina giving her a strange look...~

~Bella nodded, "I was put under the curse by the Dark Lord when I was 7. It was when he came to kill my mother and brother. That's what I meant when I said it was my fault that they died. I wasn't strong enough to throw off the curse in time, and they were killed." Bella sighed, it wasn't the topic she would have liked to talk about, but strangely enough, Bella found that telling Lina about the attack made her feel better...~