jenn_kei

"Memories frozen right at that instant of time...not allowed, not wanted, to be acknowledged, for fear of..." Set after OotP…did Sirius really die? Who is the boy who enrolls for sixth year at Hogwarts and why does he keep having the feeling he knows the people around him…but in another place, one called Rialle? What, or rather who, has Harry been dreaming about and what could possibly happen if Sirius..? [slash in later parts]

A fic about the intricacies of the relationship between Sirius and Bellatrix Black and the intoxicating blend of blazing passion and icy disdain, the inherent freedom of release, tainted by a bitterly necessary restraint. Sirius and Bellatrix second-guess each other, never thinking that they will gain true acceptance from the other -- when in reality, the lustre of a black opal reveals all.

After the war that led to the defeat of Voldemort, the young Healer-Auror retreats to a small hamlet, unable to bear seeing the scars, visible and invisible, of injuries her friends had afflicted. Yet Hermione Granger's presence awakens something, someone, that begins to haunt her dreams... guilt renders her unable to surrender her heart, and justice sends her searching for an answer to the questions that emerge. Will she be strong enough to act on what she knows to make the final decision?

From Bellatrix's pov... (interior monologue/s.o.c) passion and restraint. Will Fire-passion or Ice-passion be the one to finally lower her masks and render her illusions useless... only to him?