"They’ll hurt me." Bellatrix knew Hermione would hurt her, would find new and interesting ways to torture her mind body and soul, but she also knew Hermione loved her, it was a sick and demented love, but it was sincere. She wanted to keep Bellatrix for herself for years, decades, millenia, in this moment there was security in that. "Don’t let them hurt me Alpha." Bellatrix whined, her smarts were dimming, her instincts taking over, she needed an Alpha to protect her.