Hey so this is the last story of the Harry Potter/Wizard of Waverley Place Crossover which I hope you will enjoy. I'm not having the Deathly Hallows book to help me on this one, just trying work chronologically through the events that happen so everything pieces together, but otherwise everything that happens is quite original. For those of you who may not have read the previous two stories you may be slightly confused. But all you need to know is in the summary.
I went to see Katy Perry on Friday, It was amazing! Although I was standing for about seven hours which wasn't so fun and someone was playing with my hair in the crowd...very odd so anyway. Heres the new story.
The Trailer is on my profile if you wish to watch it before reading this story.
Summary: Alex is held hostage by the Dark Lord and his followers; she is indoctrinated to purge the wizarding world of all those unworthy to study magic. Will her rise to power under the eye of the most feared dark wizard of all time change her forever?
Chapter 1 – Distant Memories
Justin sighed running his fingers through his neat black hair, searching through his spell books, but nothing appeared to be any use to him what so ever, his green eyes reading line after line, hoping that something would be of relevance.
"Horcruxes," He murmured to himself. "Harry said something about Horcruxes." Justin was in desperate search, looking up information that could possibly help him to destroy a Horcrux, a dark object, of which a wizard can hide his/her soul to be protected, which in turn would help him save his sister, his only sister who meant everything to him, even though they may not have always got along, they shared a special bond although at times it may not have seemed that way. Justin had been up for the past few nights reading all the books he could but none seemed to contain the information he was looking for. He sighed, watching as the sun began to rise setting off a red glow. He sighed knowing that yet again it was time to give up and get some rest for a few hours before he would begin his search again. "I'm never going to find an answer at this rate." He muttered miserably to himself, he looked over at the photograph of his sister grinning up at him, he swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat.
"I'll figure something out Alex…I promise." He spoke in a hoarse voice. Yawning he left the wizards lair bumping sleepily into his father as he entered the substation.
"Did you find anything?" His father asked hopefully, Justin looked into Jerry's eyes for a few moments shaking his head gloomily. "There has to be something." Jerry murmured to himself.
"Dad, I've tried, there's nothing…maybe I should just go try and find her." Justin suggested, but he and Jerry had already had this conversation many times already, after Alex had been taken hostage by Death Eaters earlier that year. Jerry would never allow Justin to go in search for Alex, telling him that it was much too dangerous for him and that even if he did find Alex it would only cause more trouble.
"The only way you can get Alex back is destroying You-Know-Who and to do that you have to destroy all his Horcruxes." Jerry told him, Justin let out a sigh of frustration he already knew that, but the whole task would be very time consuming but it was the only way.
"Do it again." Bellatrix whispered in Alex's ear softly pulling her hair to one side. Alex shakily raised her wand to her victim lying in front of her, the man panted gasping for air but otherwise his body lay limp. "Again!" Bellatrix urged impatiently, a tear rolled down Alex's cheek, why did she have to do this? This man was an innocent muggle; he had nothing to do with anything that was happening in the wizarding world.
"I'm sorry." Alex whispered as more tears began streaming down her face. Bellatrix let out a sigh of frustration.
"No you're not sorry!" Bellatrix yelled. "If you're sorry you don't mean it, have I taught you nothing at all?" Bellatrix demanded seizing Alex and pushing her aside roughly. "You have to enjoy it remember what I told you?" She smiled evilly turning to face the trembling victim. "Crucio!" Bellatrix said as if it was the most normal thing in the world, the man began to writhe in pain for a few moments, Alex found it hard to watch, she couldn't do it, not to someone innocent, she felt they had to deserve it. Bellatrix laughed maliciously turning to Alex for approval. "Now you try again, this time want it, enjoy it." Bellatrix ordered standing aside and placing Alex once more in front of the victim. "It's not difficult." Bellatrix told her. Alex pointed her wand again this time thinking as hard as she could. "Don't let mercy cloud your vision." Bellatrix warned.
"Crucio!" Alex whispered, but nothing happened.
"Again, try again!" Bellatrix urged impatiently.
"Crucio!, Crucio!" Alex screamed closing her eyes, she then heard the sound she didn't want to hear, her victim screaming and yelling in agony in front of her, she kept her eyes closed tight not wanting to see his face. Bellatrix cackled whooping with joy. When the screams and yells stopped Alex finally opened her eyes a feeling of guilt washing over her.
"Well done, Alex." Bellatrix whispered, Alex quivered feeling Bellatrix's hot breath on the back of her neck. Bellatrix had been forced to try and indoctrinate Alex into the pure-blood way of thinking, but the task was proving to be very difficult for Bellatrix, Alex was not like her in anyway. Although since Alex had began spending time with Bellatrix she had become less afraid of her, knowing that Bellatrix was more accepting of her. Alex knew that by the end of the week she was expected to be able to curse any wizard, muggle or magical creature without a second thought as if it was to become second nature to her, but she felt she couldn't do it, her guilty conscience ate away at her, each time she tortured the helpless muggle in front of her, she felt that it was her soul that was being tortured too. "Let's play our little game shall we?" Bellatrix grinned evilly, Alex gulped, she knew what that meant. "You know it's my favourite." Smirked Bellatrix, with an excitable glint in her eye. "We'll sort out that muddled head of yours soon enough." She finished, Alex gripped her wand tight in her hand, as Bellatrix strolled casually over the other side of the room, curling the tip of her wand around a black, shiny ringlet in her hair.
"No." Alex spoke confidently. Bellatrix paused, for a moment; she had stopped twirling her wand in the ringlet and turned slowly until she was facing Alex again.
"What was that?" She asked lightly, Alex could tell in the tone of her voice that she had surprised her somewhat.
"I said…no." Alex replied a little less boldly as she had before, Bellatrix gave a small smirk. "I hate your 'little game' it's cruel and sadistic…much like you." Alex said, trying to stop her voice from shaking, but it wasn't working out for her and Bellatrix seemed to find it highly amusing.
"Well thank you, pretty." Bellatrix smiled, Alex frowned, it was supposed to have been an insult but it was then when Alex realised that, which was how Bellatrix wanted to be seen, although it wasn't at all hard to see her that way. "Shall we begin?" She asked coarsely. Alex braced herself simply nodding. She closed her eyes waiting for the excruciating pain to start, she waited a few agonising seconds but the pain, it didn't come. She opened her eyes to see Bellatrix staring at her disappointed. "It's no fun if you just allow it." She said sulkily almost child-like. "So much to learn, so little time." Bellatrix sighed deeply. She caught Alex off guard sending a non-verbal spell at her, a deep blue light came whooshing towards her, knocking her to the floor, wincing she opened her eyes disorientated to see Bellatrix's gaunt face looming over her. "What are muggles?" Bellatrix asked fiercely, her face only inches away from Alex's.
"People that can't do magic." Alex answered.
"WRONG!" Bellatrix screeched, "Crucio!" The unbearable pain hit her instantly after Bellatrix had said the incantation, she felt as if her bones were on fire and she was burning from the inside out. She screamed in agony writhing in pain, it only lasted for a few short seconds, however it felt like an eternity. The pain subsided and then so did Alex's screams, Alex panted glaring weakly up at Bellatrix who showed no sign of mercy.
"I'll ask you again…what is a muggle?" She asked softly and casually as if the answer didn't really matter, while she examined her long, dirty pointed finger nails.
"A…a." Alex racked at her brain searching for an answer.
"A?" Bellatrix urged impatiently, she clearly wanted the chance to torture Alex again. "I'm going to have you hurry you, three seconds pretty." She smirked holding up three of her long pale fingers. "One…" She said slowly lowering her ring finger, "Two…" She smiled then lowering her middle finger. "Three!" Bellatrix shrieked excitedly, sending Crucio at Alex again. After the pain had sub-sided once more, Bellatrix loomed over her once again. "Would you like to know the answer?" Bellatrix asked with a hint of satisfaction in her voice. Alex nodded her head slowly, feeling unable to answer in one word. "Inferior." Bellatrix spat in a disgusted voice. "All muggles are inferior! They're disgusting, a waste a space, they contaminate our world!" Bellatrix spat loathingly, glaring at Alex. "What is a mud-blood?" Bellatrix then asked, Alex thought for a moment.
"Someone with non-magical parents." Alex managed. Bellatrix screamed in frustration sending Crucio at Alex once again, it seemed to hurt a lot more than the first two times.
"No, no, no!" Bellatrix screamed tugging at her raven black hair. "They're inferior!" Bellatrix told Alex. "What must we do, to those who are unworthy to study magic?" Bellatrix asked in a tiresome voice. This time Alex thought hard hoping to give the right answer.
"Kill them." Alex answered, Bellatrix turned her head sharply in shock and grinned beginning to laugh evilly.
"Very, good." Bellatrix smiled. "I am going to rid you of your confused ideology." Bellatrix grinned, "So tell me again what are muggles and muggle-borns?" Bellatrix asked.
"Inferior." Alex mumbled, Bellatrix smiled once again, assisting Alex to her feet. "Follow." She ordered, Alex obeyed following just a few steps behind Bellatrix as she led her through the cold, dark halls of the Malfoy Manor where their foot-steps would echo obtrusively through the entire manor. They finally came to a dark room, which Alex assumed hadn't been used in years considering the blanket of dust that lay, untouched for sometime on the wooden floor, where a tapestry hung. Alex looked over it quickly.
"What is it?" Alex asked curiously. Bellatrix looked over it for a moment before answering.
"The family tree of the ancient and most noble house of Black." Bellatrix answered caressingly.
"Why are there burns in it?" Alex inquired examining them. Bellatrix turned sharply to her.
"Scum…" Bellatrix answered in disgust, Alex frowned for a moment.
"But I thought you said -" Alex was cut off by Bellatrix who glared at her.
"They disgraced the name of the house of Black!" Bellatrix spat. "See there?" Bellatrix asked pointing at one of the top names. "Isla Black…married a muggle!" Bellatrix made a gagging motion for a few seconds before continuing "Marius, a filthy squib!" Bellatrix flared "Cedrella…married a Weasley." Bellatrix continued still the sound of utter abhorrence in her voice as she spoke.
"But the Weasley's are pure-blood." Alex interjected, Bellatrix glared at Alex for a moment.
"They're a disgrace to the name of Wizard." Bellatrix retorted with revulsion. "Being a blood-traitor is almost as bad as being muggle-born." Bellatrix continued. "Sirius…my deceased cousin, sorted into Gryffindor…as if that wasn't bad enough he then soon ran away from home." Bellatrix went on, Alex remembered back to City Hall where it was Bellatrix who had killed Sirius herself in a duel to the death. She finally came lower to the bottom where Alex saw Bellatrix's name, beside her was Narcissa and then one that had been burned. "Andromeda…married a muggle, Teddy Tonks." Bellatrix spoke with pure hatred in her voice this time. "I do not consider her to be my sister, for such an abomination."
"So, so that means you're…" Alex trailed off looking at Bellatrix stunned, she'd never known.
"Yes, I'm Nymphadora's aunt." Bellatrix spat. "She goes to disgrace our family even more, marrying a werewolf." Bellatrix heaved. "I'll kill her myself." Alex stared at Bellatrix, how could she be happy being so prejudice? "I'd have killed you myself, but not you're not associated with that half-breed of a boyfriend of yours anymore." Alex quivered at the thought, exiting the room slowly, she felt truly shaken by the day events and what Bellatrix had said.
It was when Alex was wandering the deserted halls of the Malfoy Manor one afternoon that she heard the cries and screams of the prisoners that were being held there. For some reason their cries for help intrigued her, her feet seemed to carry her towards the drawing room themselves without Alex really thinking about it as if she was being led by some invisible force. She pushed open the door of the drawing room, where the long table where the Death Eaters frequently held their meetings was left unoccupied. She walked swiftly through the drawing room allowing the sound of the cries to guide her. She searched the room but it appeared to be empty, but the cries were still quite clear.
"They're coming for under the floor." Came the cool drawl of Draco Malfoy, Alex whirled around turning to face him, her eyes setting on his sliverish-blonde hair and his sleek face with pointed features. When other Death Eaters and Voldemort weren't around Draco seemed to be more cool and calm, the way Alex remembered him to be when they were at Hogwarts together. "Sometimes I hear them late at night." Draco said this time more shakily, his eyes beginning to dart around the room, unable to maintain eye-contact with Alex anymore as if he were ashamed.
"Who is down there?" Alex asked curiously, staring at the floor beneath her feet.
"I'm not sure." Draco told her honestly with a shrug. "Bellatrix told me that I shouldn't go down there." Draco answered, Alex raised her eyebrow at him for a moment before letting out a small giggle.
"Then that just means we have to." Alex smiled taking a hold of Draco's wrist but Draco restrained attempting to pull himself from Alex's firm grasp. Alex stared at him and she saw the flicker of fear in his cold, stone gray eyes.
"We shouldn't." Draco said in a small voice.
"We shouldn't! That's why we should, so where is the door?" Alex asked curiously looking desperately for something that would give her a clue.
"If members of the Ministry can't find it you ca-" Draco was cut off when Alex pulled back a tapestry revealing a stone stair-well, Alex smiled. "Maybe you can." Draco sighed with disappointment.
"Are you coming?" Alex asked beginning to make her way down the stone steps, Draco shook his head staying rooted to the spot. "Fine then you coward." Alex smirked.
"I'm not a coward!" Draco retorted quickly, blushing slightly, allowing his pale thin cheeks to flush a light shade of pink. Alex smirked ignoring him before continuing to make her way down the steps. As Alex's head disappeared from view through the darkness Draco was forced to follow.
"Alex!" He hissed nervously following her down into the cellar reluctantly. "Alex, we're not supposed to be down here." Draco whispered as he came to Alex's side, his voice echoed slightly off the dirty stone walls, it was nowhere near as glamorous as the rooms that existed above. "Alex I-" Draco was cut off once again by Alex shushing him nosily by so doing making even more noise than he had been making in the first place.
"Lumos." Alex whispered, the tip of her sleek, black wand instantaneously lighting up, illuminating the dark room. The cries had abruptly stopped instead it had been replaced by muttering and whimpering, Alex narrowed her eyes straining to see with the little light that her wand gave her. As Alex and Draco drew closer Alex recognised both the faces gasping when she saw them. "Mr. Ollivander?" Alex asked looking at the old man with wispy white hair and penetrating eyes. His eyes looked up at her unable to register her completely, he seemed not to believe it was her. Alex moved her wand slightly to the right noticing the person whimpering beside Ollivander was Alex's Muggle Studies professor. "Professor Burbage?" Alex asked curiously edging her way forward, stopping in her tracks as Draco seized tightly hold of her arm allowing her to edge no further.
"We should go." Draco murmured trembling beside Alex. Alex pulled her arm from Draco's feeble grasp ignoring him completely.
"Alexandra…" Professor Burbage whispered hoarsely a long with a whimper, as Alex drew closer lifting her wand so that her wand illuminated the room a little more, Alex was horrified to see her Muggle Studies teacher cowering in a damp corner her face was supporting a rather nasty looking swollen black eye, which was in fact deep shades of purple and blue. "Alexandra…you must leave, the Death Eaters, they'll…they'll." Alex had drawn too close to Professor Burbage and she snatched at her pulling her in closer. "Help me!" She whimpered sobbing into Alex's body as she clutched onto Alex as if for dear life. Alex tried to pull herself free but it was no use her hold on Alex was like a vice that wouldn't release. Alex struggled against her grip vigorously but her Professor was not about to give in any moment soon.
"Let go of me!" Alex yelled panicking as she was unable to free herself from the secure grip that her Professor had on her. "Let go!" Alex turned sharply facing Draco signalling for help but instead of helping he simply ran out of the cellar and disappeared up the stone steps. Alex was forced to raised her wand pointing it threateningly at Professor Burbage. "Let go of me." Alex repeated this time more forcefully, she wasn't sure if she'd have been able to do what Bellatrix had taught her, she still wasn't ready, within a few short seconds she lowered her wand and continued to tug against her captor. She heard footstep above coming from the drawing room floor, Alex gulped, she was about to be caught. It only took a few moments until Alex heard the familiar bone chilling cackle that belonged to Bellatrix.
"Got yourself into a spot of trouble have we, Alex?" Bellatrix said in a low voice, she could hear Bellatrix's footsteps drawing closer behind her and gulped, what would Bellatrix do to her as punishment? Alex's heart was pounding in the middle of her chest and she felt as if she was about to throw up. She heard Bellatrix giggle once more before her demeanour changed as if with a flick of a switch, Bellatrix was angry now, she wasn't being playful, she meant business. "Get off of her you filthy blood-traitor!" She shrieked sending the Cruciatus curse at the Professor, she had instantly let go of Alex's wrist and Alex watched painfully as her teacher writhed a withered in pain, letting out screams of pure agony. A few moments later and the screams had subdued to whimper and Bellatrix turned to Alex her hard black eyes fixing on Alex with disapproval. She said nothing seizing Alex by her hair and tugging her sharply out of the cellar, Alex screamed the tears welling up in her eyes, when they had got to the drawing room floor Bellatrix shoved her forcefully to the floor. "What did I tell you?" Bellatrix questioned Alex in a hard voice, Alex didn't answer, Bellatrix hadn't told her anything. "ANSWER ME!" Bellatrix screamed impatiently. Alex gazed up at Bellatrix for a few short seconds.
"Nothing." Answered Alex, "You didn't tell be anything." Bellatrix paused for a moment, she twirled her wand between the curls of her raven black hair as she usually did, she narrowed her black eyes on Alex staring at her.
"But you knew you weren't allowed." Bellatrix spoke finally, "I can see it in your mind." Bellatrix went on. "What did I tell you about closing your mind!" her harsh voice raged, "I told you to close your mind! Have I taught you nothing over this past week?" Bellatrix fumed, her patience was growing short with Alex, Bellatrix did not want to fail the Dark Lord, she knew that if she were to, there would be a severe punishment waiting with her name on it.
"If you just please-" Alex started but was cut off by Bellatrix's evil giggling.
"Please what?" Bellatrix asked. "Stop torturing you? Stop making you do things you don't want to do?" Bellatrix went on in a patronizing tone of voice. "Let me give you the reality girl, we always have to do things we don't want to because we have to. I'm stuck here teaching a pathetic little girl to use the Dark Arts." Bellatrix spat, "Grow up little girl and face your reality." Bellatrix giggled poisonously.
Alex had been learning occlumency with Bellatrix for a few weeks and in turn Bellatrix had found out some of Alex's deepest, most dark secrets, things she would have never wanted Bellatrix to know. Bellatrix took full advantage of it, teasing and taunting Alex about the things she had seen in Alex's mind only making Alex's will to close her mind greater. Alex was forced to recollect painful memories which could only have been made worse while Bellatrix was inside her head.
"Stop it." Alex pleaded, she had, had enough, Bellatrix had seen too much, she just wanted more than anything for it to stop.
"Stop it!" Bellatrix mocked in a high pitched squeak followed by Bellatrix's usual playful giggle.
"Please." Alex begged, but Bellatrix ignored her please invading her mind once more, the memory of Alex, Harper and Stevie played out.
"You can't stand up against five-thousand wizards, who want to be wizards forever." Alex watched as her old deceased friend Stevie, informed her brother of her master plan to keep her powers. Watching as Harper's face turned to Alex in horror.
"You're not really gunna do this, are you Alex?" Harper asked a tone of hurt in her voice.
"Yes, Harper, I am." Alex informed her best friend taking hold of her shoulder. "I hope that when this is over we can still be friends."
Bellatrix was out of Alex's head once more staring at her bewildered.
"You were involved in a wizard revolution?" Bellatrix asked, in a surprised tone. Alex gulped she wondered if she would be able to lie, Bellatrix had only seen part of the memory.
"I um…yeah, yeah I was." Alex said trying to act proud. "As you can see I didn't lose my powers." Alex added the lie hoping that it would build the lie to be more believable. Alex and Bellatrix continued practicing for hours, Alex was tired she felt as if it took all of the energy out of her.
"Concentrate!" Bellatrix told her firmly, Bellatrix too was tired but she knew that she couldn't fail the Dark Lord, she knew that she would have a break through with Alex soon enough and it didn't matter how long it would take, she didn't care how much Alex begged, cried or pleaded she was not about to let herself or her master down. "Remember to close your mind. Come on DO IT!" Bellatrix urged, as she tried to penetrate Alex's mind, she was soon unable to. Bellatrix smiled they had just made a break through, Bellatrix was unable to penetrate Alex's mind, Alex let out a sigh of relief thinking, or more so hoping that that lessons would now be over but to her dismay she soon found out that they weren't. "I'm going to try and penetrate your mind in the future at any given time and I will give you no warning." Bellatrix told Alex firmly, Alex had never seen Bellatrix talk or seem so normal as if she was just being a Hogwarts professor. Alex smiled she was beginning to get used to Bellatrix even if she could be evil and sadistic most of the time. "Now leave, your presence is making me sick." Bellatrix spat, this wasn't unusual for her it was Bellatrix's way of saying 'good-night'.
"All is going well…Bellatrix?" Voldemort asked as Bellatrix appeared in the drawing room where Voldemort and a few select Death Eaters were waiting upon her arrival.
"Yes, My Lord…all is well." Bellatrix replied bowing her head, as she took her seat at the wooden table where her eyes finally set upon her master. "Alexandra Russo has just mastered occlumency…My Lord." Bellatrix reported in a proud voice, Voldemort's snake like face curved slightly as his lip made a small smile.
"I knew I could trust you Bellatrix." Voldemort said slowly, Bellatrix blushed slightly soon beaming with the amiable words from her master, a warm feeling travelling through her pale, slim body. "Although I must warn you." Voldemort cut in through Bellatrix's shining moment bringing it to an abrupt close. "That Alex Russo has the ability to possess power that you or I could only cease to imagine, she…being naïve does not know the power that she currently possesses, you must not allow her to know this." Voldemort told Bellatrix sternly. "If she should learn of this too early in time, she may betray us, we can not afford to let that happen, she must be treated well, but also be taken with disciplinary measures to learn our ways and learn who is master, otherwise she is a threat to us all." Voldemort announced in a hiss, the Death Eaters surrounding the table strained to hear his words. After the rest of the Death Eaters had left Bellatrix was left sitting with the Dark Lord.
"My Lord…what must I do?" Bellatrix asked shakily. "If I must not let her know of her power and how must she learn?" Bellatrix continued in a shaky voice.
"If she succeeds in a task you must reward her, if she does bad you must punish her-"
"But how, My Lord?" Bellatrix interjected.
"Silence!" Voldemort roared with rage at Bellatrix's interruption, Bellatrix bowed her head silencing herself while Voldemort spoke. "I did not finish." Voldemort said glaring at Bellatrix while she sat quivering in her chair. "If she is bad you must punish her as you have done before, she will soon learn." Voldemort continued from his last sentence before he had been interrupted.
"And to reward?" Bellatrix asked curiously.
"Allow her to do as she pleases…within reason." Voldemort finished, he then immediately dismissed Bellatrix who fled from the room into the dark stone halls.
Ok so do you think I have Bellatrix in character? Oh I'm not sure if you may think Alex is out of character...I don't think she is but you may think so? Do you like the beginning? Reviews and Constructive criticism is always nice. I know a lot of you may be confused, this is set before they take Harry to the Safe House, like a few weeks before that has even happened.