One Black Petal Ch10

"What's your hurry, Rose?" Draco said. "We just barely woke up and you want to go back to the dungeons." Rose looked at him pleadingly.

"I'm sorry Draco. I promise, we will spend all afternoon together, but right now I must speak with Snape." Rose explained as Draco walked with her down to the dungeons.

Draco looked at her in concern. "Alright, but what the heck is the big emergency." He grabbed her by the arm and they stopped on the spot.

"I really need to understand that potion we were working on last night. We are having a test over it tomorrow and I still haven't quite figured it out."

Draco wasn't convinced, but he went along with it as Rose began walking even faster down the corridors. 'Why would she be in such a hurry to practice a little potion.' He thought. 'Oh, no, I think Hermione is rubbing off on her.'

"Hey Drakey wakey." A voice said from the right of them. "Where have you been?"

Rose looked over to find Millicent Bulstrode making goo goo eyes at Draco. "Why would he tell you that?" Rose spat.

Millicent looked at the girl in confusion, then walked up to Draco and grabbed his arm. "Why are you hanging out with her?" Draco was not understanding the situation at all.

"Because she is my girlfriend, of course." He shook her off his arm and started walking down the hall again.

"Girlfriend? But what about me?" She went on. "What about us?"

This caught Rose's attention and she whipped around swinging Draco along with her and he fell on his face with the force. "What about you?" She growled. Draco struggled back to his feet and could almost see a demonic glow coming from Rose's eyes. She was ready to kill the girl in front of her.

Millicent seemed to be cowaring away from Rose. "Wh...Why should I tell you?"

Rose wasn't sure if Millicent was faking it or if she actually thought she and Draco were together. "If you don't tell me, I will be forced to curse you." She walked slowly towards Millicent with her wand at the ready. Millicent cowared even more. 'She can't be telling the truth, Draco wouldn't do that would he?'

"He's probably off preparing his devious little trap that you and everyone else that believes him are going to naively fall into."

Rose couldn't shake the words from her mind. Was Harry right?

"Millicent, We aren't together, so come off it." Draco seemed sincere as well.

Rose closed her eyes in concentration. "Who is lying to me?" She whispered. Draco looked at her in surprise.

"You actually think she might be telling the truth?" Draco couldn't believe she would listen to the obvious lie. Draco took her hand in his to try and make her understand, but before he could say anything...

"You can't fake a kiss Drakey." A sharp pain went through his hand as Rose squeezed at the word kiss. "I am telling the truth you filthy half blood, so get used to it. Draco is a Slytherin, why would he change for someone like you?" She kept digging deeper and deeper. Rose lowered her head as if she were going to cry.

Then as if Rose had come to a conclusion she smirked. "Well don't you worry Bulstrode, I can tell a big fat liar when I see one. And you are definitely lying." She turned and walked away with Draco holding her hand. Draco glanced at her wondering if she actually believed him or not. "I think I can make it the rest of the way myself." Rose said as she released his hand.

"I love you." Rose was caught off guard by the words and turned towards him in surprise.

"What?" She had to hear it again, it just wasn't possible was it? "What did you say?"

He turned towards her with a smile and gave her a hug. "I think I'm in love with you." He whispered in her ear.

Rose smiled at the words. There was definitely no way he was lying to her. She hugged him tightly and a lone tear of happiness glided down her face. "I can't believe I was so stupid."


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Wormtail was standing next to the Dark Lords throne with a wicked smile on his face. He knew someone was in trouble which made him happy that he wasn't the main focus of the Lords anger. Someone was going to be tortured today, maybe even killed. It sent chills down his spine just thinking about it.

Voldemort touched the tip of his wand to the Dark Mark on his wrist and a second or two later the deatheaters gathered. As soon as they were there they bowed to their Lord and stayed in that position until told otherwise.

"Well my faithful followers, you may stand." All of the deatheaters in the room stood and Voldemort frowned. He paced the floor in front of them for a moment. "I do believe I said faithful." He turned to face Lucius Malfoy and the blonde man's eyes went wide. "Get on your knees Malfoy." The man lowered himself slowly in confusion. "Travers."

"My Lord." He answered.

"On your knees."

"But...My Lo..." Voldemort used the killing curse on the disobedient man.

"Bellatrix, Fenrir, on your knees." They did as they were told immediately. "Malachai, come." He gestured for the vampire to join him at the front. "I would like you to explain why they are in this predicament." Voldemort turned towards his throne and listened as he walked up to it.

"He is displeased that you have found it necessary not to follow orders, and to threaten the life of someone who is to be valuable to him." Malachai explained and then turned to Voldemort. "As much as I would like to see you end their pitiful lives, I have other matters to attend to." Voldemort smiled menacingly at the man.

"Of course." He stood from his throne as the vampire walked out of the mansion. "I don't believe I will be killing all of you." He walked up to each of them. "I would however love to hear the reason of your treason."

"My Lord." Lucius began. "We were informed by Bella that we were to kill the girl and take back Draco." Voldemort looked at him in anger.

"Lucius, I could give a damn less about your boy." He walked over to Bellatrix and grabbed her by the hair. "So Bellatrix, what reason did you have."

Bellatrix looked at him pleadingly. "I only want what is best for you My Lord. The girl is a menace, she needs to die." She looked at him in the eyes. "And... I love you My Lord." The bored expression on his face never faultered.

"So jealousy drove you to disobey me." He said and a split second later she was laying face down on the floor dead. "Lucius, I will spare you one last time, but next time..." He glared at the man.


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"This is very peculiar." Snape said while examining the black ring that had made its way from Rose's finger to her wrist. "You're sure Ron did this?" He looked at the girl as she nodded.

"Yeah and the odd thing is that it was tingling a few moments ago." She explained. "It never did that before. Should we try it again?"

"What again?" He lifted an eyebrow in confusion.

"The powder." She said. "It seemed to react with the powder." Snape looked at her as if she were crazy.

"Do you really want to be sent flying across the room again?"

"It wasn't that bad." She said with a frown.

"Not for you maybe, but I am still aching from it." He rubbed his head where he had hit his desk.

"Well stand back then, I'm gonna try it." Snape did as he was told and stood back a few feet. She walked over to the cauldron and scooped some more white powder out and threw it on her wrist. She braced herself for the explosion.

"What is it doing now?" Snape looked at it as it turned red. He walked over to inspect again and the explosion went off again. Snape flew back a little ways and Rose went flying again. She hit the wall and sunk to the floor. Snape walked over to her quickly.

"Are you ok?" He asked as she rose to her feet.

"Yeah." She looked at her wrist and scowled when she found that the ring returned to her finger. "This isn't getting us anywhere."

"It seems that way." Snape agreed.

"Well I have to get going." Rose said as she walked towards the door. "I promised Draco I would spend the afternoon with him."

Snape looked at her curiously. "For looking soo much like your mother, you sure have a much different life." Rose turned to him with a smile.

"Thanks, I don't really know if that was a compliment or not, but I'm gonna take it as one."