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| t was not often that Miss Black appeared in public. It was even less often as well as likely that Miss Black appeared in a public place that was crawling with muggles such as Hyde park was on this particularly busy Saturday. Bellatrix tended to stick to the strictly wizarding sectars of the world, and was quite content to let the muggles stick to theirs. Her being in Hyde Park on this blistering day only intensified and heightened the chance that a muggle could die before sundown. It was actually funny, when she thought about it. Tons of muggles turned up dead every week, but a murderer was never found; no marks were ever left on the body; no fingerprints either. Tracing the killers that were plaguing the world in this day and age was quite a hard task for muggle and wizard authorities alike. The funny part: there was a killer walking among the muggles now, and they didn't even know it. She looked like any other person, though she didn't particularly blend in. Bellatrix even gave muggles the feeling that they should cross to the other side of the sidewalk, or even walk in the grass beside it in order to get out of her way. A suspected Death Eater, and a bit of a bitch, her name was well known, never far from the tip of anyone's tongue in the wizarding world, but here; here no one knew her name or had even seen her before. No one gave her a second glance as she stalked through the park. And to tell the truth, sometimes Black prefered for no one to know she was coming, for no one to give her more than a second's glance as they walked past her. It was nice to not be noticed, every once in a while. Her steps were light, not quick, but not slow; somewhere in between. She strolled along leisurely, grateful that no one knew where she was, grateful that her parents were out of the country for a month. Narcissa was out of her hair, Andromeda had moved out. Life was no longer complicated or frustrating. This was as close to happy as Bellatrix had probably ever felt, and it felt funny, to say the least. Her stomach felt light, filled with something bubbly. It was a feeling she could not grasp, could not describe no matter how much she tried. So, she simply walked, and didn't think, didn't try to understand this new thing called happiness. Lately, she had taken to spending more and more time away from home. Living in her parents' manor at the age of twnety-three was not something she had planned and not something she enjoyed, but it was better than being married, or engaged for that matter. She smirked at this thoguht. Her, married? Least unlikely even to ever occur. Hands in the pockets of her jeans, boots clicking against the pavement (yes boots, for even in this heat, Black refused to go out in anything but), she came to a small bend in a curve. The bend produced a tree which sat beside a small creek. "How quaint." It wasn't quite clear whether she was amused with the setting and wanted to sit there because of that or whether she had wanted a setting like this and therefore wanted to sit there. With unplanted steps, she sat down under the tree, back against the trunk and watched a frog opposite of her on the bank. The frog sat there for a while, staring back at her before he grew some sense and jumped into the creek, disapearing from sight. A sigh escaped her lips as she closed her eyes, but it wasn't a sigh of boredom or of anything unpleasant. It was a sigh of existance. Yes it was blisteringly hot, and her hair was falling from it's holding and was plastering to her neck. Her shirt was sticking to her body, and her feet were dying, but all that was okay. Everything was okay. Bellatrix Black, for the first time in her life, was okay. |