Chapter 64

After the restaurant, the next place the couple visited was the cinema, which, oddly enough, Bella really liked, although she tried not to show it, because she had more than once told Severus that Muggles are stupid, insignificant creatures that can never be compared with wizards, and, like a true Black, she was very stubborn and did not want to admit her mistakes or take her words back. 

Although she still considered them insignificant creatures: nevertheless, it is very difficult to force out what fits into the head from the very beginning, and one day is definitely not enough.

After the cinema, they visited the amusement park, although both of them found it utterly boring, so they left it after half an hour. 

There was a shopping center behind the park, in which Bella, almost crying, looked at the windows with clothes, but she dragged Severus forward with her because there was lingerie and she was sure that he would get some weird ideas in his mind as soon as he would enter the shop.

Severus, on the contrary, was amused by such things, and especially liked seeing the struggle between women over sale items.

And he noticed the mannequin standing on display as well. After all, he was noticing everything that the eyes of the aristocratic woman fell on, and the brownie(elf) was already buying it up for them. 

The next place was "confectionery heaven", a kind of indoor market the size of a large Hogwarts hall with nothing but sweets. 

And although Bella tried to pretend that she was not interested at all, but cakes, cakes, pies, cheesecakes, rolls, donuts... This time it was a complete rout because such a huge assortment of sweets can not be seen even in Diagon Alley. 

Although she was not a big lover of sweets, she still scored as many as four packages. 

The last place was a simple park near Grimmauld, where they had already decided to just take a walk in the evening ...

[London. Grimmauld Place, 12]

Approaching a simple-looking three-story house that looked rather inconspicuous and almost did not differ from the others in the neighborhood, Severus could not help but smile because he had not seen so many protective and hiding charms in his life for a long time. 

Finally stopping in front of the building, the wizard turned his gaze to Bella, who was looking a little tired, but at the same time pleased. For the woman herself, this day was one of the brightest in her life, not counting the beginning, of course. 

"I won't ask how you know where our house is, but I thank you for this day," she said with a half bow, deliberately polite, not trying to look at the building, from where a gloomy elderly lady was looking at them from the window. 

"And I hope that you will think about my words and make the right decision, until the next meeting, Miss Black, and one more thing…" Taking out a square white box with a red bow, he handed it to the taken-aback witch. 

"Don't worry, this is not a ring or a marriage proposal, although this can be changed at any time, but it's still too early." Handing her a gift the size of a ping-pong ball and narrowing his eyes, he looked towards the window, catching the elderly lady by surprise, because, like the house, the windows were also enchanted, like the interrogation room that Severus once visited. 

And the fact that the young man noticed and even smiled at her caused her a real shock. "How is that possible…? Did he see me through the enchanted windows?" and before she could think of anything else he transgressed from their territory, seeing which Walburga frowned yet not knowing why, but felt relieved as well and, seeing the pleased face of her niece, she frowned again. 

"First with one in the party, and now you return this night with another ... what is going on with you? Have you decided to defame our family ?!" Angrily knocking on the windowsill, she turned around and went along the long corridor of the old house toward the stairs. 

At the same time, Bella, who entered the house, quickly closed the door behind her and, leaning her back against it, smiled "It was the strangest day in my life... but... why don't I feel the same emotions? Did he tell the truth…?" 

Earlier, only one mention of the Dark Lord in a bad way was enough for her to break down at the same second and be ready to kill the bastard who dared to say this, but now, although these emotions have not disappeared, they ... seem to have become dull. 

Two strange feelings fought inside her: one screamed at her to torture Severus for insulting her master, and the second, on the contrary, told her to wait and watch him… like two different personalities were having a war inside her head. 'I need to calm down and think about everything …' the woman tried to move away from this momentary obsession, looking down at the box. 

Hearing footsteps, she quickly hid it in her purse and looked up at the gloomy Walburga. "Bellatrix, do you want to disgrace our kind? Like that ungrateful creature, Andromeda, who ran off with a Muggle?"

"No, aunt." 

"Then what does that mean?" Walburga exclaimed angrily, slamming her hand on the railing. "At the beginning, at the ball, you behaved like an easily accessible woman right in front of your fiancé, and now you are returning home at almost ten o'clock in the evening with some unknown man! Why are you silent?!"

"What should I answer? It was the Master's order! What can I do about it?" Not restraining herself, Bella coldly answered her, forcing the elderly lady to abruptly shut up, because she, like no one else, knew about the unrequited feelings of her niece, and for almost twenty years under her care, Walburga understood Bella well, because Bella grew up right before her eyes, for her the witch was like an open book, and the aristocrat saw all the pain that was written on the face of a woman. 

"He ordered me to carry out any of his orders, no matter how terrible it may be ... and Rudolphus is aware of this, so stop teaching me how to live right!" 

As soon as these words left the witch's lips and she released everything that had been tormenting her heart all this day, she felt as if something cracked inside her, it was some strange feeling, but at the same time, it was soothing... as if she had overcome some kind of a barrier in your mind ... as if waking up from a long sleep.

"I'll go ... don't worry, aunt, I'm still innocent, that person is not so terrible as to make me do indecent things, we just walked and just talked, " Bella said in an emotionless voice and simply walked past the confused head of the Black family, heading towards her room. 

Walburga, in turn, did not try to stop her niece, because she also noticed a sharp change in her, and this feeling was also very familiar to her ... it was an epiphany. 

After graduating from Hogwarts, she still remembered her Bella as a strong-willed, cunning, smart, and self-confident woman, very reminiscent of herself in her youth, and after a quarrel with Sirius, who left the Black house, an elderly lady with her husband, who is currently in another country, even thought about temporarily appointing Bella to the post of head of the family, but after joining the ranks of the Death Eaters, she began to change dramatically, and this blind infatuation with the Dark Lord made her(Walburga) very alert. 

But Walbruga tried not to pay attention to this because she considered Voldemort's ideas to be correct and was proud that her niece joined the Death Eaters, but at the same time, she also tried to act carefully because the Black family was always her priority and that is also the reason she and her husband didn't become death eater when Tom implemented his plan. Instead, they tried to keep their distance, so that they can join the neutral side at any moment.

And, seeing this change in Bella, Walburga experienced excitement, because at last she will, perhaps, become the same again. 

And although almost everyone in the family considered the elderly lady an unemotional woman with no heart, she, like no one else, tried to take care of everyone, albeit in her own way and maybe even cruelly in places, but such is the world of magic. "I considered him a smart person, but to act like this with a woman in love with herself...." a barely visible smile appeared on the lips of the head of the Black clan, at the sight of which the house-elf, who was nearby the mistress, froze in shock. 

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At the same time, not far from the house of the Black Family, Severus was sitting in a park, under a lantern.nn 

He was watching all the action unfolding in the Black House with his own eyes. 

"I had thought that my words would affect her but I did not expect that so quickly, apparently, I underestimated her personality. She's more interesting than I thought. And well...Tom 

helped me a lot ... " he thought with a grin on his face, and in his head there was still an image of a woman lying in a dark room on a bed and looking at the ceiling, completely immersed in her thoughts. 

Of course, Snape could have "directed" her in the right direction, but he didn't want to do this: he was much more interested in what Bella herself would come to. 

And there is another reason why Severus did not want to use the seal in her body(which he added), which is because he is not a mind mage, but a fighter who simply cannot influence the mind of a wizard so subtly. 

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Just at this moment, Bellatrix got out of bed and turned on the light, and then took out the box, hoping that this could distract her from all these thoughts. 

And as soon as she channeled some magic into it, a variety of dresses, t-shirts, trousers, and much more began to appear on the bed. 

"When did he manage and how did he guess?" she muttered in disbelief as the bed was already filled with various outfits and the floor filled with shoes.

"But that's just ... how did he know my size …?" She had just thought till here when underwear began to appear on the mountain of things and her cheeks flared up sharply. 

"Damn, pervert!" She said through her clenched teeth, rummaging through them and realizing with embarrassment that they were all the same size… her size… 

Severus himself, watching the angry and embarrassed lady, could not help smiling playfully. "She hasn't read my message yet…" and at this moment Bellatrix found a piece of paper, and, with difficulty restraining her anger, she picked it up and, having read it, immediately burned it. 

"Means, you want to see me in red with lace…?" taking out her wand, she pointed it at a mountain of clothes, but ... she couldn't do anything and, snorting with displeasure, put it back, and then, like an offended child, she began to cast glances at them. "To hell with you!" and with a gleam in her eyes, she went to the clothes and began to sort through them. 

At the same time, Severus took out the popcorn and put a bottle of soda next to him, because today he was expecting a great fashion show that he simply could not miss…

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