Chapter 86: Embarrassment
The second task being over and no clues given for the third task, the three champions were free to enjoy the rest of their school year. Fleur made a speedy and complete recovery within days and was back to attending class. Viktor giving notes on the ones they shared. Almost all but Dark Arts for him and Alchemy for her.
After probing a bit, Rose found out to her relief that Viktor didn’t lead on Hermione. They had gone to the ball as friends and the organizers believed it was more than that. They had met at the Library where he was more often than not hiding away from his fans. Hermione found him charming and quite learned and they struck a very good friendship.
Somehow he also got to be acquainted with Lea and Luna and found them fascinating but most of all true to themselves. Lea got into her head to teach him how to paint and Luna told him everything she knew about the creatures she could see (and a lot of conspiracy theories too).
Surprisingly to Rose, he believed Luna about them. He explained that when he was a child there was a seer living near his house and the man talked a lot about the same creatures. It couldn’t be a coincidence if two people who never met each other and living in two different countries talked about the same thing when the age gap between them was more than a hundred years.
Rose and him couldn’t help but tease Fleur, who subconsciously, made the doe eyes to her father and blushing everytime he looked her way. They could understand why. Rick was quite handsome and the amazing display of magic he did to save the french witch from the bottom of the lake while carrying her in his arms, left quite the impression.
From time to time the control of her allure slipped because of it to her eternal embarrassment. Whether Rick noticed or not the effect he had on Fleur was up in the air but Lily and Bella sure did.
“I want her.”
“Bella, no.”
“But Lily-!”
“No but, Bella. She’s eighteen. We’re twice her age.”
“You are!”
“And you’re even older!”
“... She’s a veela! She’ll make a great addition to master!” Bella completely ignored any reference to being older than Lily.
“... No one is off limits to you, isn’t it? Your sisters, your own mother…”
“I still can’t believe she said no.” the Black witch grunted in distaste.
“That’s not the point, Bella!”
“I have limits! I don’t go after children. Although once they’re adults…”
“It’s so wrong on so many levels.” The redhead shook her head.
“I just want a new toy for master! You got yours, why can’t I get myself one?”
“Amelia is not a toy, Bella.”
“You’re right. With her body she’s more of a sex-toy.” The Lady Black cut Lily off before she could utter a single word. “Even you, want a go at the little veela! Don’t you dare deny it.”
“... Maybe if she was a few years older.” Lily begrudgingly admitted.
“Then wait a few years! That’s making my point stand by the way.”
“That’s not… You are his wife. The whole female population in the country is jealous and envious of you for that. You won! You are better than them! Why do you need to add more women in his life?!”
“And yours! I don’t just do it for him.”
Bella raised from her chair and went to kneel at Lily’s side where she rested her head on her lap. Instinctively, the redhead began to stroke her hair.
“I want her for us.”
“Bella… Why? Truly?”
“... Because knowing and seeing are two different things. The thrill I get when I see my sisters being fucked to a melting mess is the greatest. They have him because we allowed it. We can take him away at a say so. This… is power. Power over them. Power over their lives. Power without even using magic. But they are my sisters. I love them. I won’t take him away from them. But the veela?”
“Fleur. Her name is Fleur.” Lily corrected but Bellatrix shrugged her shoulders.
“Whatever. She’s innocent, she’s not related to me in any way so I don’t care. I could twist her into worshiping him. Having his babies. Making them stronger from her veela blood. In a few generations it would be passed on into the Black line by marriage. My line. It would become even more powerful. The Blacks good looks with the power of allure? We would get everything, bend everyone to our will. We would cement our position for centuries. There would be no better family than ours. And she’s beautiful too. I want to make her submit to me. To you. I want to watch you, walking her on a leash as if she was a bitch in heat. Riding her face and having her eat your cunt.”
Bella spoke softly and with her eyes closed, enjoying the feeling of Lily’s hand going through her curly hair. Lily didn’t know what to make of it. She didn’t understand Bella’s obsession with power. Her need to be the one who had the most. Her need to be on top of others.
That was a concept a bit foreign for her.
She could understand the thrill of being in charge. She could easily see having her legs spread and Fleur looking at her with devotion in her blue sky eyes while she munched with nothing but love for her pussy. But she was also a giver. She gave as much as she took. She just as easily imagined a reversal of the situation. It was a matter of love and lust shared. Dominating someone, ruling over someone outside the bedroom? That was the part she had no clue about and drew a line.
“Bella… I’ve always wondered… About your fixation with power? Why are you obsessed with it so much?”
The Lady Black opened her eyes, turned her head and looked at Lily with burning intensity.“Because power is everything. Power is right. Power protects you. Power makes you safe. Power makes you free. You won’t ever be controlled if you have power, you won’t ever be treated badly, you won’t ever be sold. You have value if you have power. And the more you have the better for you.”Inwardly, Lily felt for Bellatrix. She grew up in a household where power, be it through magic, money or politics, was everything. She was wrapped by her father and aunt. Used and in a way abused because they had power over her. She understood why she had joined Voldemort.
Despite how much of a monster the man was, he was powerful. Bella chose to serve him because she knew she couldn’t match his power and she deserted because she was offered the opportunity to be able to do so but also because she was offered better conditions. While Rick punished her when she did wrong, he never hurt her. Never crucio-ed her.
“There is more than power, Bella. You-”
“I know. Master showed me. You showed me. I guess… It’s my own brand of madness? I’m very happy with him. With you. More than I have ever been. I discovered love. Real love. Real care and kindness. More than I have ever got.”
“And putting down others, making them… serve… Is a way to stay at the top and continue to enjoy it? In your own way?”
Bella nodded slowly but without an ounce of hesitation. Lily couldn’t help but think she loved that woman, she truly did and that she would do unspeakable things to the people who ever hurt her. Pulling Bella up from her kneeling position, Lily made her straddle her. She grabbed her face and pulled her down for a loving kiss.
“Power or not Bella. Whether you’re strong or not. I love you and that won’t change.”
Bella cracked a smile and pushed Lily to the back of her chair for a more aggressive kiss.
“We’re getting that veela then?”
A sigh escaped Lily’s lips then she began to chuckle. She could always count on Bella to never lose sight of what she wanted and go at it relentlessly. That was endearing in truth.
“Never change my little Bell. Never change.”
“Why would I? I love the way I am.”
“Fine. We’re getting her. But no more after her. Rick wants to be done with raising children. He wants some time for himself and he deserves it.”
With a nod, Bella agreed. “I was thinking of retiring from the duelling circuit. I’ve played enough. I quite like this teacher job. Regular hours… Lording over young and weak students. As for the veela. She’s the last but… Nymphadora is included in the group. We need more metamorphmagus in the Black Line.”
“Ugh… Not as a wife. I already have to share with you the man of my life as such. Maybe also Amelia. No more.”
“Oh, Lily. No matter how many wives he has or how many sluts. You’ll always be his one and only. Even I, am not that blind.”
“Blind to what?”
Both women broke eye contact to look at the direction of their husband entering the room. With how sweaty he was, it was clear he was done with his DADA practical. They exchanged a quick glance and agreed to not talk about Fleur.
“That I am your one and only woman in your life.”
“Of course. Always have been since the first time we met to my dying days. Although… You’re my one and only pet Bella, so don’t feel too down.”
“I’m not. But I’d like a reminder master.”
Bella, who was still straddling Lily, began to move her ass back and forth into her lap. Instinctively. The redhead smiled and firmly grabbed her pet’s ass. Giving it a powerful slap that made her moan in need. Even she became aroused when she heard it.
“Then I’ll gladly give you one.”
Rick magically closed and locked the door to Bella’s quarters and began undressing. His wives wanted to play and he would never tell them no.
The three champions plus Susan all blushed when they came to visit. Viktor wanted to ask Bella about a particular curse he wanted to combine with another and talk about a chain of spells. Fleur wanted to talk with Lily about the arithmancy behind a particular charm but also speak with Rick because she had alchemy related questions, most notably transmutation with a wand. Also because she loved feeling herself wet at the sight of the man she was crushing on.
Finally, Rose and Susan wanted to talk about the situation with Amelia and the one between House Potter and Bones. It was Professor McGonagall who told them they were all in Bella’s quarters. They didn’t expect to hear what they heard.
“FUCK ME! MASTER! HARDER! HARDER! AANNNHHH!! MASTER! MORE!”
“Give her all of those eight inches! Pound her into the bed! And you shut up and eat my pussy!”
The moans full of lust, cries of ecstasy and the loud *thud* of a wooden bed hitting a hard stone wall repeatedly, resonated through the door. Rose quickly cast a soundproof charm on it and led away the group. Now Rose understood what was happening when the door to Bella’s quarters was closed and no one answered when she knocked despite having been told her aunt or one of her parents were there.
None of the members of the group had a face unblemished by a blush. Fleur most of all was as red as Rose’s hair and was breathing heavily.
“... Let’s talk about this never.”
“DA!” / “O-oui, jamais!” / “Good idea.”
The group quickly went away. Each champion went their own way, Susan staying with her girlfriend. Rose decided to get some fresh air and exited the Castle to go and sit at the fountain. Both redheads sat in silence, trying to wrap their minds about what just happened.
“Eight inches.”
“SUSAN!”
“What?! You heard your mother!”
“I wish I didn’t!”
“You never heard your parents… going at it before?” shaking her head, Rose realized that she had been very lucky.
She knew they were very active sexually. They had four children, almost all born one year apart after all. Same with Aunt Bella. She had never imagined that the three of them were… together like that. Not like she ever thought about her parents having sex to begin with.
“That explains a few things. Why your mother is okay with your father having a second wife and perhaps a third with Auntie. And your Aunt Andromeda and Narcissa. Also why she doesn’t mind us two being together.”
“... Now that you said it. If my mother is… that makes sense, yeah.”
“You never had any idea that your mother was into women too?”
Rose shook her head. She had seen how her mom acted with members of the same sex. Close, touchy. Especially towards Bellatrix and Marlene but she thought it was because of how close they were. Marlene was a sister to Lily and she had heard tales of their time at Hogwarts. Always together.
In Bella’s case, they were wed to the same man. Man they had a boundless love for. That was reason enough to bring them close together. She had never been inappropriate however. Never a misplaced word or action that would make anyone think that there was more than deep friendship and family bonds.
Now, looking back at all those moments with what she had just learned, many things made more sense.
“I guess I got it from her.”
“I don’t think that’s hereditary, Rose. It’s not like magic.”
“It’s because magic exists that I don’t discount the possibility.”
“... That’s a fair assumption.” admitted Susan. Taking her hand in hers she asked a question. “Does that change anything for you?”
“I- What do you mean?”
“I don’t know. Did it turn you away from sex? Gave you some ideas? Made you reevaluate your view on boys?”
“...No. I still want to put my head between your girls and die like that.” that was said with a knowing smile. Every time they were a bit randy, Rose always found a way to be in contact with Susan’s tits. “It does give me some ideas. Yes, plenty of it.” At this point Rose moved from the cold stone of the fountain’s edge to her girlfriend's lap and was face to face with her. Almost nose to nose.
“And boys?”
“I don’t know. Still the same I suppose. I find Draco really handsome, Viktor in a rugged way too. The weasley twins have nice muscles but… I’ve never thought of them in a sexual way. They’re just… Like they’re… babies? And I’m not talking about the incident with the twins and the goblet of fire.”
“Babies? None of them look anything like babies. With the exception of Draco they all look like men to me. Especially Viktor.”
“No. None of them looked like men.” the potter redhead denied firmly on the spot.
“... I’m pretty sure they do, Rose.”
“No. My father is a man. They can’t hold a candle to him.”
“Your father?”
“You know… Strong but kind. Supportive, wise, sure of himself.”
“I know, yes. He helped raise me too, remember? But… he’s one of a kind. I don’t think using him as a standard is a good idea.”
“That’s… true.” the more she thought about it the more Rose realized that Susan was right.
“And I get why you think so. It’s a bit weird that you only see your father as an actual man and no one else but again he’s my paternal figure and all the males in our lives come short by a wide mile so really… I get it.”
“Do you think we’re into women because all the men suck compared to dad?”Susan took a moment to consider it but didn’t come to a conclusion. In the end she shrugged her shoulders and rested her head on one of Rose’s.
“Don’t know, don’t care. I know that I love you and that’s all that matters to me.”
“... Yeah, you’re right.”
The next class with her father was quite awkward for her. Same for Fleur and Viktor who had classed with Lily but also Bella. It lasted a couple weeks until a reminder that there was still a final task from Rick, put their head back in a good mindset.
They survived the dragons because of intensive knowledge and training. Survived the second task because Rick had been there. There was no reason to take the third and final task lightly. That was a stupid invitation to get oneself killed.“Any idea on what the last task is?” Lily asked one evening as she got in bed joining Rick and Bella already snuggling to him but not asleep.
“A labyrinth. Dumbledore kicked me out of the quidditch pitch for the practical and I saw ministry officials making a maze made out of edges. If I had to bet, they would have to find their way to the center and deal with dark creatures and traps in their way. Some kind of obstacle course.”
“I hope there won’t put XXX-”
“NNNNGHHH!”
Rick and Lily turned to Bella who rose from her position holding her left forearm. It took a fraction of a second for them to understand what was happening.
““Bella!””
“I’m alright it’s just… There was a sudden spike of pain from the mark.”
“Now? Why now?” inquired Lily in worry.
“The mark never did that before.”
Bellatrix looked at them and hesitated to answer their questions. For whatever reasons only known to her she relented and did.
“A few months ago… It began to darken again. It was a small itch at first then as more time passed the more it began to itch. I asked Severus about it and it was the same for him. We think… we think the Dark L-...Voldemort… is gaining back his strength. We told Dumbledore about it but there is nothing he or we can do. Severus gave me an onguent for the itchiness so it’s been alright.”
“...Bella.”
“What didn’t you say anything?” questioned Rick pulling his second wife towards him and laid her between him and Lily.
“You had plenty of your plates already. Rosie being entered in the tournament, your classes…”The Potters exchanged a look and shook their heads.
“Bella, that wasn’t very… smart of you. I’m your husband, I need to know those things. There is no secret between us.”
“Us three.” corrected Lily a bit.
“It’s not like you could have done anything about it.”
“It doesn’t matter, Bella. You endured it alone when you shouldn’t have.”
“Lily, it’s just an itch.”
“It doesn’t matter. No secret. Period.” Rick ordered and spooned his wife.
He buried his head into her curly and messy black hair and kissed the nape of her neck while grabbing her flat stomach and one of her breasts. Lily gave her a kiss on the lips and rested her head just below Bella’s chin. It was in this position they fell asleep, Bella with a smile on her lips, happy to be loved like that.