These feeding bites were all to get her ready, to make sure she didn’t flinch when she accepted Hermione’s greatest gift, her claiming mark. By the time they took that leap and made their relationship permanent, there would be not a sneer of discomfort but a satiated smile on Bellatrix’s face. Hermione had big plans for her and Bellatrix, they would spend eternity together and not a moment of it would be dull. For a new life to begin, the old one had to be snuffed out, and Hermione had plans for that too, she would prove to Bellatrix without a shadow of a doubt that the life she had led up to this point had no place for her, she didn’t belong. A dressed up debutant she was not, Bellatrix was a bitch always four seconds from heat, and pretending to be otherwise was a waste of her time and Hermione’s patience.