She has one light in a world gone dark. Alastor MoodyPenelope Clearwater.

Bellatrix does not know loss as others do.

She would ask, Bellatrix thought, the strangest questions.

Bellatrix was born to rule.

This night, I will be given the Dark Mark. The first woman so honored..." Bellatrix stands amongst the Death Eaters.

Bellatrix Black Lestrange knows exactly who and what she is.

In St. Mungo's, Minerva McGonagall recieves a visitor with dreadful news. SnapeMcGonagall.

The Order of the Phoenix is bound together by the things they know, bound by secrets, dreams, and nightmares. Sometimes friends and lovers, but always allies, their strength is in the knowing. MoodyTonks, SnapeMcGonagall, LupinBlack. OoP spoilers.

He will see that she is in the best of hands... Minerva McGonagall is transfered to St. Mungo's by an unusual road. OotP spoilers.

To stand together, always, no matter how few of us remained, that was what we swore. Severus and Minerva, together at the end.

Somewhere in the world, dawn is always breaking. Dark nights, old fears, and just a bit of hope. Severus and Minerva remember. SS/MM.

Severus Snape has reprised his role as a spy amongst the Death Eaters, passing information to his colleagues at great personal risk. One of those colleagues is Minerva McGonagall, Snape's oldest friend, who is perhaps dearer to him than she yet knows...