18. August, 1979, The Malfoy Manor

The room was dim litted, a long table was placed in the middle, a dining table it was, but as of right then it was being used for something completely different. It was seemingly empty, but as you zoomed closer to it you could she a shape that looked like a body. A human body.

An unmistakable locket was hanging around the persons neck. It's eyes were wide in terror. A long fuzz of blonde hair was on it's head and that was when he stepped into the room. A white scalp, a nose that seemed to have been sucked into his head, and eyes deep into his head just like he was being sucked up from the inside.

"Very well, I thought mud bloods knew better than to take my things." He laughed an evil cackling laughter and then pulled out a long thin wand from his robes and pointed it at the body.

"No please I beg-" The person on the table said frantically, but it was of no help. There was a flash of red light and a horrible high pitched scream rung through the room. It's body curled in pain twitching back and forth on the table trying to escape the spell that was hitting it.

He cackled again and then stopped. The person was breathing heavily, gasping for it's last breaths of air. Then it smiled, madly like all the pain had suddenly turned it insane. "You will never get away with this Tom, never!" It shouted but He just sneered and snatched the locket from the person's neck leaving it bleeding. Then he pointed his wand at the body on the table.

"We shall see about that." He said a devilish smile forming on his lips. Then it was a blink of green light and the body stilled into death. He turned around, flicking his wand so that the room lit up a tad bit more. That revealed a gang of people in black robes behind him as well. Everyone smiled evilly, but one of them, a boy at the front, yes that was it, he couldn't be much more than a boy, had eyes flickering in fear.

His name was Regulus Black. Dark hair was hanging in his face, not at all combed as neatly as it used to be. His eyes were a dull gray and dark shadows was under them signing that he hadn't gotten much sleep for a while. His face was thin and pale, lips constantly pursed and with a wrinkle in between his eyes that no boy his age should have. Despite all this he was really handsome, with a tall slender figure with muscled arms.

"Very good my dark lord." A very beautiful woman at the back grinned. Her eyes was heavily lidded and had a dark color, but a look in them was just not right, signalizing that she was not completely sane. Her hair was black and tangled and she had the same thin face shape as the boy. They were unmistakably related.

"Thank you Bellatrix, now please sit down." He said gesturing to the table. Everyone seemed to be hesitating. None of them wanted to take place by the table as the body of the dead person was still was there, and He didn't seem like he was going to remove it. "But my lord-" one of them started but He interrupted.

"I told you to sit Mulciber, now do as I say." He snapped making most of them take half a step backwards in fear. The first to move again was Bellatrix Lestrange. Placing herself at the dark lords right side. The second one to move was the man with long blonde hair and a thin pale face called Lucius Malfoy. The owner of the place they were just in.

After him came his wife, Narcissa a beautiful woman with long blonde hair and pale porcelain skin, looking as though she was very nervous about this entire thing. She was not a part of the death eaters, but as Lucius her husband was and they were in her house, she were there, and most of the others were sure she would join them soon enough. She was the younger sister of Bellatrix, but though as well the complete opposite of her.

She took a place beside Lucius and one by one the other death eaters joined them. The last one to sit was a tall dark man named Rosier, known as one of the most loyal servants to lord Voldemort. He took the place on the left side of his master, as Bellatrix occupied the one to the right.

"Now, my servants." Voldemort begun his gaze moving from one to another of them while talking. "Since we have finished the business here." He gestured to the dead body on the table. Some of the death eaters shivered slightly avoiding to look straight at both him and the person he had just killed. If anyone had looked under the table just then, they would have seen several wizards and witches clutching their wands desperately as if loosing them meant loosing their lives. They would have also seen Him, at the end of the table clutching the locket he had just taken of the body as if his life were depending on it. In both cases they were right.

"Now tell me Mulciber, Rosier, how did it go with the halfblood family you were to fetch?" He asked and the two wizards nodded eagerly.

"We have got them." Mulciber said excitedly as if he was really proud of his work. Rosier almost rolled his eyes.

"The man working for the ministry is under our control. We are getting closer my lord." He said and smiled too this time, while Mulciber kept nodding eagerly.

"Yes, yes exactly my lord." He added and the dark lord nodded with a face of someone in deep thought.

"Very good." He said slowly while looking around at his death eaters once more.

"Severus, any news from Hogwarts?" He asked and the man with the greasy black hair and hawk like nose shook his head.

"Nothing that I know about, my lord." He spoke in his slow boring voice and Voldemort nodded slightly understandingly.

"Well, I need some of you to press some aurors get them on our side, do whatever you have to. We need some information about what is going on in the ministry, what kind of things they are doing to try and go against us." He continued and Bellatrix looked excited.

"Let me lead it my dark lord." She said eagerly and He looked as though he wondered for a second but then he nodded. She grinned widely.

"Very well Bella, now this should be the end of it today, except. I need to borrow a house-elf, you have one don't you Lucius." He said putting his gaze directly into Malfoy. The man gulped while looking away quickly.

"I can not, can't borrow you mine my lord." He said nervously clutching his wand harder in his hand. The dark lord didn't look happy with this answer and was about to say something when someone came ahead of him.

"You can borrow mine, my lord." The voice that spoke belonged to no other than Regulus Black. For once he did not seem afraid of him, rather proud that he could offer something no one else seemed to be able to offer.

He nodded approvingly and Regulus smiled slightly. Even though his face paled more as the dark lord did not say anything for a while. "Good, very good Regulus. I will send you a letter when I need it, expect it to be soon." He finally said settling on the matter. Then he stood up and with him did all the death eaters.

"Very well, I expect you all to be here tomorrow for another meeting." Then he quickly left the room and some of the death eaters, such as Rosier, Bellatrix and Lucius with him. Narcissa went quickly over to the door giving a good night to everyone as they left.

Regulus was the last one to come to the door and Narcissa put her hand on his chest, her long nails burying into his skin. He looked at her with a confused look, especially her desperate grip on him and the worried look on her face.

"Be careful with him Regulus, you do not know what you have gotten into." She said and then she took her hand away from him and let him leave the house confused.

When he got outside of the Malfoy property he pulled out his wand apparating from the place and back home onto the front stairs of Grimmauld Place 12.

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So this was my first part, I know this probably is not the way it happened, but I made it this way to put the locket more into the story, and of course Voldemort asking to borrow a house elf.

Also wanted to add that the dating is of my own imagination. There was no specific date that he died as I know. I only made sure it was after he left Hogwarts, which was the same year he died.

Hope you enjoyed :)

Jamie, xx