Private message to Bella

[alt_rodolphus]

I'm at Le'Strange, since you've seen fit to ward me out of St. James.

I don't know what it is you think that you're doing, but this cannot stand. To legilimise Hydra without my knowledge or consent - no, I won't endure it. And I believe we spoke at length in October about your involving her in any aspect of casual investigation. If you have reason to suspect the Ponds in anything, then you open a case file on them with MLE and take the usual avenues. You don't send in your daughter for tea and then try to rummage through her mind for some trifling thing you can hold against them.

Another matter: I hope you know that the distance between us tonight did not go unnoticed by the other guests. It is one thing to make it clear to me that you no longer care for my feelings, or your daughter's, but to make it so evident to our friends and family, as well...

You test my patience, Bella. And if your pattern of the last year or so holds, I know better than to hold my breath and wait for a reason to forgive you.

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[alt_bellatrix]

Stooping low right back, I see. Looks like that one must have left a mark. Well, take some pleasure in the fact that I actually bothered to leave one. You know how much these outbursts bore me.

It has been exceptionally frustrating, I must say. I'm getting precisely the same kind of resistance that I encountered two years ago, after her experience with the diary. At that time, I concluded that having been so close to Him such power had rendered the experience utterly unreachable in her mind. But now I begin to wonder if she actually has the ability. It could have been previously dormant... perhaps the experience brought it alive in her. Perhaps He it was left behind, inadvertently

[alt_rodolphus]

Left behind, you say? Like a gift? A token of affection, perhaps?

That she inherited the ability from her Mother, and only now grew into it, seems much more likely.

Consider your efforts wasted, and leave her be next time.

[alt_bellatrix]

Oh, what wise and loving advice. I'll be sure to take it to heart.

I'll try again in the morning

[alt_rodolphus]

Sarcasm, even? Why Bella, you almost make me feel as if I've won.

Sleep well, wife.