"Good morning Rosie." Bella smiles taking a seat opposite Rose.
"G-god-no...Uh Good morning." Rose  glances at the girl before her then quickly looks away.
Bella smiles, this woman is too cute.
"So did you get a good nights sleep Rosie?" Bella smiles, ever so slowly moving her leg under the table and running it along Rose's foot, who suddenly grew quite tense.

"Oh um...I Uhh- ahh...yes?"
"Is that a question Rose or an answer?" Bella smirks, resting her chin in her hand.

Damn it, does she know what she's doing? No, probably not, I mean why on earth would this gorgeous specimen want to play footsie with an old hag like me, oh shoot what did she say?

"Yes." Rose said with more certainty this time.
"I'm glad, did you have any sweet dreams?" Bella asks innocently as she ran her foot further up Rose's leg.

Holy Mary and Joseph, breath Rose, breath.

"I hope you had wonderful dreams Rose, I know I did."
"Mhm" Rose manages a nod.
"Oh really, did I happen to be in those sweet dreams of yours Rosie?" Bella smirks.

Oh sweet Jesus what the hell Is going on, her gorgeous lips are moving but I can't hear a thing. Just nod and agree.
"Yes" Rose smiles, then realised what the girl just said.
"No. Uhh- I mean...uhh-" Rose stutters, shifting her hand and accidentally knocking the glass of orange juice, that she didn't even notice was there, over and it smashed to the floor.
"Ah shit" Rose mumbles looking at the mess on the floor.

Now you've done it, you useless stupid git.
You just have to ruin everything. No wonder no one bloody likes you, you worthless piece of shit.

"Honestly Rose, you're too cute." Bella chuckles reaching out and taking the woman's hand in her own.

Oh sweet Mary and Joseph, she's holding my hand...again, and she called me cute. What in gods name is going on.

"I'll get you some more orange juice ladies." The man said causing Rose to jump slightly.
"That would be lovely, thank you." Bella smiles, gently squeezing Rose's sweaty hand.
"I-I'm Sorry." Rose sighs looking down at the table.
"For what love? You haven't done anything wrong." Bella smiles.
"I-I...Br-Broke the...the Glass." Rose stutters.

You stupid pathetic wimp. Look at you, she feels sorry for you, because you're so pathetic, I mean why the hell would she actually want to spend time with you.

"It's alright Rosie, accidents happen. They can't be helped." Bella began to caress Rose's hand with her thumb.
"Sweetheart, it's alright. Please don't get upset my dear little Rose." Bella brings the woman's hands to her lips and placed a soft kiss on the back of her hand.

Rose gasps, looking up at the girl.
Bella smiles, placing another kiss in the palm of Rose's hand.
"Sorry love, I couldn't help myself." Bella places Rose's hand back on the table, though she didn't leave it go. Rose began blushing furiously whilst looking down.

***

After breakfast Bella manages to convince Rose to go for a walk with her.
Bella happily links arms with the older woman as they walk along the path.
"So Rose, tell me about yourself. I want to know everything."
"Oh- Uh I'm- I'm pretty ah boring." Rose looks at the floor.
"Nonsense. I think you're wonderful, and I'd love to get to know you better." Bella smiles, nudging the woman playfully.

Wonderful. She thinks I'm wonderful, why is she being so nice? Isn't it obvious, Minerva put her upto this, I mean why would she like you.
You have nothing she could possibly want or need. No! Stop it, she said I'm wonderful that clearly means she likes me. Honestly Rose, I mean look at you, it's so obvious Minerva put her upto this and she agreed because she probably takes pity upon you. Because you're pretty pathetic.

"No you don't" Rose sighs pulling her arm away from Bellatrix.
"Excuse me?" Bella looks slightly confused.
"You're not interested. You're just saying that because you're nice. I know I'm a bore and that I'm a waste of space. You don't have to pretend to like me-"
"Why does everyone think I'm pretending for Merlins sake!" Bella snaps. Rose jumps slightly, moving away from the girl. Bella sighs.
"Listen Rose, I don't pretend to like people, I never have so why would you be an exception? Is it really so hard to believe that I like you for you?"
"But you barely know me."
"I want to Rose, I want to know everything about you, that's why I asked." Bella reaches for the woman's arm and gently pulled her into a hug. Rose tenses "And you're not pathetic Rose and you're most definitely not a waste of space." It took a few minutes before Rose relaxed into the hug.

"Okay?" Bella asks pulling back slightly, her hands either side of the woman's shoulders.
Rose nods, currently unable to speak.
"Good." Bella smiles taking hold of Rose's hand and they continue their walk along the path.

***

"So you're a fashion designer." Bella smirks, multiple ideas floating around in her head. Oh the things Rose could design, she must be really talented with those hands of hers. Bellatrix couldn't contain the cheeky smile when she thought of how talented her own hands were, and how much she would love to show Rose.
"Was" Rose corrects with a sigh as her memories come flooding back.
"My shop, the place where you found me...it got destroyed by those...those...those mean people." Rose frowns, tensing slightly as the images flashed before her eyes.
"It's alright love, you're safe now. I won't let anything happen to you." Bellatrix meant it, no harm would ever befall on this woman again, not if she had anything to do with it. She brought her free hand to their entwined arms and caressed the blondes in hopes to bring some form of comfort to her.

"I loved that shop...now...now I-I have nothing." Rose sighs, she could feel the tears starting to swell in her eyes. She sniffled trying very hard not to cry in front of this woman...again. Bella felt a tug at her heart, she really hated to see this beautiful woman upset.
Then an idea popped into Bella's head.
"Well Rose, You never know what's waiting around the corner." Bella squeezes the woman's arm gently, before adding
"Now let's go get some of that chocolate you like soo much hmm?" The woman nods, unthinkingly leaning her head on Bellatrix's shoulder much to the dark woman's surprise.

Bellatrix couldn't resist placing a kiss on the woman's head, and revelled in the little whimper that escaped her lips. Oh yes, Bellatrix was very set on what she wanted.

She wanted Rose.

One way or another she'd have the woman all to herself.

***

"Bella you can't be serious." Minerva couldn't believe what she was hearing, as she stated wide eyed at the clearly crazed young woman.
"Oh I'm very serious Minerva darling." She smiled quite proudly at her newly revealed idea.
"But Bella-"
"No butts Minerva, I've planned it all out.
Not to mention my home is more than large enough to accommodate all her needs." Bella folds her arms. Minerva studies the girl for a moment, trying to figure out what's gotten into her.
"Don't look at me like that, I'm perfectly sane." Bella rolls her eyes.
"Sweetheart, you were never sane to begin with." Minerva smirks.
"Cheeky." Bella returns the smirk.

Minerva chuckles.
"In all seriousness though Minerva, I want to do this. So can I count on you?" Bella asks.
"One question before I agree?" Minerva leans forward in her chair.
"Fire away."
"Why are you doing this? And I want the Truth Bellatrix, none of your half truths, I want the entire truth." She arched her brow, and Bellatrix felt like one of her students.

With a sigh, Bellatrix hesitantly decides to share a small amount of her feelings with the woman, perhaps she could help somewhat after all she helped Severus...
"It's come to my attention that Rose, well she's...the thing is Minerva, I've not known her very long however she's wormed her way into my cold twisted little hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation and I think she'll be there quite permanently." She met Minerva's gaze
"You could of just said heart Bella."
"I'm trying to open up to you here." Bellatrix frowns before continuing
"There's this urge I have, to help her in anyway I can. So that is exactly what I intend to do."

"I think you're in love with her."Minerva's smile was far too sickly sweet for Bella's liking.
"I never said that."
"Not in so many words, but you did."
Silence fell amongst them as Bellatrix gathered her thoughts. It was quite true that Bellatrix had developed a fascination with Rose, despite knowing her for so little, and it was also very true that Bellatrix wanted something more than friendship with the witch. She cared for her of course, a great deal as it turns out but was it love? Romantic love, or just that, a strong fascination?

No, Bellatrix cared far too much about her happiness for it to be a fascination. Rose was going to be quite a permanent character in her life, she already knew that. She wanted that. She wanted her. Her and all her ups and downs and bizarreness. Was it possible to actually love someone like Minerva was insinuating in such a short period of time?