Chapter 3 - Family?
[MC POV]
When I woke up again I felt the sun on my face and as I opened my eyes I could see that it was already midday. Before I could start to think about my situation again I felt extreme hunger and kind of helpless when I start to think about the problem, that I am a newborn and can't do anything myself. So I did the only thing reasonable in this situation, I cried. I cried with all I have in the hope of getting notice while becoming angry and thinking that I had to lower myself to such a situation. Well I obviously didn't think this trough before I reincarnated. Whatever.
As I kept crying a creature, which I identified as a house elf, came with a bottle of milk and started to feed me. And I must say, damn, I was never in my life so grateful for a bottle of milk. Wait, what am I thinking? Now I start to worry that my mind regressed together with my body, not that I could do anything about this in my situation. So let's put these thoughts away and focus on the important things.
First let's try to find my magic. So I did what I had read about countless times in those fan fictions and started to search for something deep within my body. And there I felt it, a feeling like a small gush of wind within my body, both refreshing and calming, and I instinctively knew that this was my magic. As I tried to immerse myself in that feeling I felt different things as well. First, the deep connection to nature and magic around me as if I had another sense, which was at the moment relatively weak, but I imagined it would only deepen as my magic becomes stronger. The second thing I felt was the book, with the knowledge I wanted, within my own consciousness. As I wanted to look deeper into it and try its functions, the door suddenly slammed open with a loud 'bang'.
When I stopped looking in my own consciousness and started to focus on the direction of the door, all I could see was a beautiful woman with long black hair and dark eyes. And despite seeing her for the first time I felt a connection between us, which I thought at the moment was probably because I had a connection with nature and magic. With this feeling I instinctively knew that the woman walking in my direction was my mother. And honestly I didn't know what to feel. Despite me being not interested in anyone in my last 21 years of life, I never had a mother. All that would come was new to me and this idea was exciting. But then again, I wasn't really interested in the woman in front of me because she was just another human that would walk along me in my life. I felt no real emotions except excitement of what was to come in this unknown future, especially not something as ridiculous as love.
As I was immersed in my thoughts I suddenly heard a loud scream from my side.
"You dirty thing, what did you do to me?!!"
[Bellatrix POV]
When I woke up again it was already afternoon. For a short time I was lost in thought but then I remembered what I wanted to do. I wanted to see this thing I gave birth to and know what it did to me. So after getting dressed I asked the house elf where he put that thing and immediately ran over. As I arrived at the room I slammed the door open with all I had, because the anger I felt grew with every second when I just thought about my bastard husband and the thing I gave birth to. When I entered the room I instantly spotted the baby bed in the middle of the room and started to walk towards it. As I came closer and stood by its side, I felt it again, this weird feeling I felt yesterday. What was this, why was it here.
"You dirty thing, what did you do to me?!!" Was all I could scream in anger when I laid my eyes on the baby in front of me.
As I tried to think what it was, I discovered that it was a strange connection between both of us. When I learned about this my anger grew even more. How could I be connected to such a thing? And so I thought about many things, but the only solution I had in my mind was to kill or torture the thing in front of me until the connection gets broken. As I reached for my wand I heard footsteps behind me and when I turned around I saw my younger sister Narzissa enter the room. Why was she here? I couldn't find an answer to that question because I thought after I gave birth she would return home.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, obviously confused, but at the same time still with and angry voice.
"I wanted to take a look at my nephew." Narzissa said while walking towards me.
Meanwhile Narzissa thought 'Thank merlin I stayed the night in the mansion. I had this feeling the whole day after Bellatrix gave birth that something would happen if I wouldn't stay. While me and my sister don't have the best bond, I still wouldn't like it if she did something to my nephew or even worse killed him.'
"What do you mean your nephew? You call that thing your family?!!" I asked, obviously angry, that my sister dared to even called this thing her family.
"Sister, even if you try to deny it he is part of our family and our blood so of course I would care for my nephew" said Narzissa while standing at the other side of the bed and watching the baby.
"Ridiculous! I may have given birth to that thing but that doesn't mean it is part of our family! And even after I thought I could finally throw that thing away it still tries to hurt me!" I screamed my anger growing with every word I said. And now I even started to think if I should throw a 'Cruciatus' at that dumb sister of mine.
"What do you mean he tries to hurt you?" she said confused while I tried to calm myself, she was still my sister after all even if we hadn't the best relationship.
"I don't know what he does but I feel strange around him and we have a strange connection. He obviously does something, that is why I must stop him." I said still filled with anger, without even realising that I started to call that thing 'he'.
"You mean you feel a connection between him and you and a strange feeling? But where is the problem?" Narzissa asked confused
"You don't even understand where the problem is? He is the problem, this …" And before I could finish my sentence, Narzissa said something even more ridiculously.
"But sister, he didn't do anything, what you are feeling is only normal"
"What do you mean?" I asked confused and impatient
"What you feel, your connection and emotions, that is the love of a mother for its child."
"WHAT!!" I couldn't believe it. How dare she say that. I was so angry I gripped my wand and pointed it at her "Say that again!!"
"Bellatrix please calm down." Narzissa said obviously a bit panicked and with fear because of my actions. "Please put your wand down, the only thing I ask you is to do nothing to that boy. Please. Even if you don't like him, he is still the heir to your house and the task the Dark Lord gave you."
When I heard her mention the Dark Lord, I instantly calmed down. It was true, I realised. The Dark Lord gave me this task so I should do everything I could to fulfil it. With that thought in my mind I put my wand away.
"Mhph. Fine you are right, it's the task of the Dark Lord afterall. But that doesn't change this weird feeling I get from him."
"Let's forget about that for now sister. But you should still give him a name, afterall an heir to a house must have a name." Narzissa said, which angered me at first but I guess she is right. So I started to think about it without even realising that I lost myself in my thoughts while looking at the boy, to find a name for the thing I wanted to kill moments ago.
"Mikael…" I murmured after a while "Mikael Lestrange"
After that I realised what I did and before Narzissa could say anything I snorted, turned around and left the room at a faster pace while saying "Hmph… You better be grateful that a thing like you gets a name from me."
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Hey guys, it's me, the author. Again.
Well yeah kinda annoying right. But I thought it was important to let you know a few ideas of mine.
First I want to thank you guys again for reading my fan fiction as well as leaving commands under the chapters. That helped me a lot to sort out some worries I had as well as integrate ideas I was not sure about.
So while this chapter is still slow paced, I thought it would be important because you get to see the different character traits of some characters and the situation the main character is in.
In the next chapter (Or the chapter after that, I honestly don't know yet) there will be some time skips as well as some small changes and additions to the story.
One of them will be that I integrated character information (kinda like a status from a system) for the main character. I want to point out that it is not a system, it will just show the strength and general information of the main character every few chapters to see his growth as well as some other things (but no rewards etc.).
When I started writing this fan fiction I struggled if I should integrate something like this but decided against it (don't know the reason anymore). But after I saw the same idea in the commands I thought why not integrate it. I mean the story is new and some quick changes are no problem at this point.
Some of the other comments inspired me as well and after reading some I decided to do both styles, which means we get, as I said, some time skips as well as in depth chapters like this chapter (I will look at the situation of the chapters and then decide).
Under the next few chapters I will probably add such commands as well to explain some changes or the story / idea in general.
So that's basically it, again thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it and see you next time.
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