Shattered hearts and broken paths

Discalimer: Not mine, Sorry, I just like to use other people's characters. I promise, I wont harm them... Much! All these Characters belong to the Brilliant JKR! I take no credit!


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Friday October 29th.


"Paige! Wait up!" A deep voice yelled out behind her, it was Blaise Zabani, he was running quickly to catch up with her.


Hermione slowed her pace, but bever stopped. If he wanted to talk to her so urgently, he could walk with her and not waste too much of her time.


When he finally caught up to Hermione who was heading towards the great hall, he reached out and grabbed her elbow. "Paige." he said again. "I was wondering if you were planning on going to the Halloween Ball." he continued, trying not to make eye contact with the blonde.


"Yes Blaise, I am going to the Dance. Draco is my escort. Is there anything else?" She asked slightly irritated by the mans presence.


"Oh, Your still seeing Draco... I thought that would have only lasted till the novelty wore out, you must be a great shag." he said as he walked away.


Hermione was fumming mad! But her mood changed as Draco approached her, he was holding something behind his back, and walking towards Hermione with a look of determination on his face.


A few steps later Draco reached Hermione, She smiled as he kissed her on the cheek, and handed her three pink roses. "These are for you." he said and then turned on his heel and walked away. Leaving a blushing Paige standing in awe for everyone to see.

***


Saturday October 30th.


Hermione and Draco sat in the library catching up on transfiguration, and wondering what their tests might be.


"What if we have to kill someone?" Draco asked, slighlty paling.


"Then we kill them." Hermione replied hardly even thinking about it.


"I dont know about you, But I have never killed anyone before." Draco whispered. He didnt know why he was whispering, everyone else was gone to Hogsmead and the remaining first and second years were too busy helping professor Flitwick decorate the Great Hall.


"I have never killed anyone either Draco, but war is amungst us, we have to start sometime dont we?" She replied still not thinking about it, if she thought too much about it, she got scared and didnt want to go.


"I suppose you are right." Draco said as he tried to concentrate on the page infront of him, but ended up reading the same sentance over and over again.


"Do you have your outfit for the dance tomorrow picked out?" Hermione asked trying to stop thinking about what the next day held.


"Of course I do." He said with a smirk. "And since I have already seen your after the dance costume, I am dressing to match." he continued with a wink.


They packed up thier books and slowly headed off to the great hall for dinner. The rest of the students would be retunrning from Hogsmead soon, and neither Draco or Hermione were in the mood to deal with anyone else.


***


Harry and Hermione sat in the Heads Common room long after Draco went to sleep. "Hermione are you sure you want to go through with this?" Harry asked, reality of what his best friend was really willing to do was finally sinking in and he didnt like what could happen. All the times he thought of war, he thought about having The Order behind him, helping him, and with the current arrangement, he would have Hermione, and the last person he would have ever expected to help him, Draco Malfoy.


If Snape lived after delivering him to Voldemort, he would have him, and his wife, if she was still alive, thats four people other then himself, to the unknown number of Death Eaters that could be there waiting to watch the torture and fall of Harry Potter.


"Yes Harry I am sure." She replied seing a look of sadness on his face. "Everything will be ok. I promise." She continued as she stood up and pulled Harry into a hug.


"This isnt how I wanted this to be..." said Harry


"No one would have planned it this way. But Harry, life is never what we plan, we fight hard to prove somthing for ourselves, to accomplish something everyone expects us to fail at, and something else happens anyways. If we win this battle I know I did the right thing, If we loose, I lost fighting beside my best friend." There was a long pause between Hermione's words. "Harry, It's late, You should get back to your dorms."


With a nod Harry got up and headed to the portrait hole. "Goodnight." He said as he dissapeared under his invisibilitie cloak and into the darkness.


***


Hermione climbed up the stairs to her room slowly, 24 hours, and she would be getting initiated to join the most foulest, people she had ever heard of, the people she hated so much, she would be becoming one of them.


In the next room, Draco lay awake thinking of all the things his test could be, thinking of all the ways this could go wrong, all the ways this could end up bad, and all the ways he could end up loosing Hermione. The last thought that went through his head before he drifted off into a resltess sleep was Hermione, dressed in white, gliding towards him in her slinky little outfit. A smile fell on his face.


***


Sunday October 31st


The school was unusually loud at lunch, the halls were filled with giggling girls laughing and talking about their outfits for the dance, their dates, and what they wanted to do to them in the dark alcoves in the hallways.


Hermione walked into the hall and took her usual spot at the Slytherine table, in between Blaise Zabani and Draco Malfoy.


Draco had barely touched his lunch when Hermione showed up. He greeted her with a warm smile and a kiss on the cheek when inside he was ready to explode, all the anticipation, and wonder was building up and he was loosing controll.


Hermione smiled and kissed Draco on the cheek in return before grabbing a toasted baggel from the center of the table and spreading raspberry jam onto it. "The dance is in a few hours!" Hermione said as she winked at Draco and continued eating her baggle.


***


Draco stood in the common room waiting very impatiently for Hermione to come down the stairs. He wanted to get to the dance, make an appearance and then get back to the dorms to do what he promised Hermione he would do. Draco's breath hitched as Hermione's door creaked open.


White stileto lace up heels was the first thing he seen, as his eyes wandered up over the creamy skin, he noticed Hermione was wearing a black knee lenght pencil skirt, her top was a soft pink tube top with black flowers embroided into the delicate material.


Hermione, or Paige as everyone else would have seen her, had her soft curls pulled back into a loose half pony tail. A light amount of makeup was dusted across her face. She smiled sweetly as she decended down the steps, taking Draco's outstretched hand.


Draco gabbed a corsage out of a small white box that was on his desk, and put it on Hermione's wrist, the pink roses matched her shirt. "You look absoloutly stunning." he said as he kissed her hand.


Draco wore muggle dress slacks, a white silk long sleeved shirt, with a emerald green tie. His blue eyes stared into hers as he took her hand and started to guide her out of the dorms and into the corrider towards the Great hall.


The dance was already started, The weird sisters were on stage singing and students were screaming and dancing to the beat of the music. It was a fast paced song, Hermione and Draco got alot of looks when they entered the hall. Hermione got a very dark glare from Pansy, but she shrugged it off and walked into the middle of the Dance floor, led by Draco.


Song after song, the couple danced to the slow songs, and on the quicker paced songs, they grinded, and danced. The eyes of a few watching from a distance.


Harry and Ginny were dancing close by, Ron was sitting on a bench with Lavander by his side, He really was never much of a dancer. Lavander was whispering things into his ear, and he could barely gather enough self controll to stop himself from rolling his eyes at the pathetic girl who latched to him like an ethiopian baby latching to its dying mothers tit, trying to fill the void of hunger in its little tummy.


Time went on, and the couple was soon approached by a dark haired professor. "Excuse me, Mr. Malfoy, Miss White." The two stopped dancing and looked at Professor Snape. "Its nearly 9." and with that said he walked away to seperate people who were gropping eachother on the dance floor.


Draco and Hermione looked at the time. "Shit!" Draco said as he grabbed Hermione's hand and led her back to the common room. "Get changed! quick." He said as he ran up the stairs to his room. "We will continue this when we get back." He said with a wink.


Within minutes the two were dressed in black and heading to Professor Snape's dungeons to use his floo. Draco took Hermione's hand and pulled her into a long seering kiss. "We will be ok, I promise." He said as he grabbed a handfull of the green powder and stepped into the fire place.
"Malfoy Manor." He said as he dropped the powder and green flames engulfed them and sent them whizzing and whirling. Suddenly they stepped out of a large fire place into a large sitting room.


"5 minutes to spare." He said with a smirk and once again pulled Hermione to him for another kiss.


The two were interupted by a man with a black cloak on entering the room the same way they had just showed up. "Right on time I see." Said the man "Well lets go, outside now." he said as he walked through the room to the entrance hall and out the door into the cold damp night.


Hermione and Draco followed quietly, hand in hand. Nerves where running high, and any minute they would be meeting with a man who had killed his own father.


Rookwood grabbed Draco's arm, and with a tap of his wand onto his forearm, the three took off spinning through the air.


***


Hermione and Draco followed the greasy haired man with pockmarks on his face, in silence. It was dark, they couldnt tell were they where or were they where going, neither teen dares to talk.


They entered a small room with a black chair in the center facing towards a large fireplace. Knowing that Voldemort was not yet in the room, they stood patiently too scared to move. The door creaked open and a tall thin man walked into the room. Instantly the two teens could feel his presence. Both fell to their knees infront of his feet, kissed the hem of his robes and waited for further instruction.


"Mr Malfy, Miss White, you are here tonight, to prove to me, that you are strong enough to join my ranks." He said in a cold tone.


"Yes Lord." they said in unison.


"Mr Malfoy, Rise." He insructed.


Draco slowly got to his feet.


"Your Father, was a great follower of mine, at least until he ended up in Azkaban." Voldemort said. "I hope you will be as loyal as he was to me."


"I will try my hardest My Lord." Draco said.


"Miss White, Rise."


Hermione rose to her feet, nervously. She was unknown, she had no ones foot steps to follow. "My Lord." she said


Voldemort was taken back by this young girl's beauty. Never in his life has he seen such a pretty girl. He knew his Death Eaters would try and make her their whore, and something sat different, Something wanted him to make sure no one would use her like that. "Your first task, it will not be easy, and must be complete by 11:30 tonight." He said, "Rookwood, take them to the Dungeon." he instructed.


The same greasy haired man walked into the room from the hallway. Hermione and Draco fell to their knees and kissed the hem of Voldemorts robes before they followed the man into the dark hallways again.


They decended down flights and flights of stairs, the air became cold and stale, they were heading to the dungeons.


Rookwood spoke, breaking the silence the first time since they left Voldemorts room. "There are muggles in this room, your job is to kill them. This is to prove that you can indeed kill a person, and will not hesitate when the time comes for you to fight beside our Lord." He then pulled out a key ring and led the two teens inside.


Hermione's stomach flipped when she seen 20 muggles laying on the floor, some were huddled up together and some were trying to hide away in the darkness of the corners. "You have till 11:30, start now." Rookwood said as he left the room and locked the door behind himself.


Draco looked at Hermione, a sudden rush of fear swept over him. Hermione didnt move, she stood there, looking at the people she was to kill, 'dont show weakness' she thought to herself.


"Imperio" She said as she pointed her wand at a large man laying on the floor.


"What are you doing?" Draco asked as Hermione handed the large man a knife.


"We have to kill them, Why not get creative? He is the largest, they wont over power him easily." She responded.


Draco followed her lead and cast the imperius curse on another man, within a moments hesitation the two had the men slaughtering the other muggles.


This also was keeping Hermione's hands clean, she was not exactly killing people, but getting someone to do her job for her, against their own will.


There was 2 muggles left, other then the two who were under the imperius curse when Rookwood came in at 10:30 to check up on the teens progress. A smirk played on his lips when he had seen the rout of torture the teens had taken. "Impressive, finish them off." He said as he sat down to watch the last muggles be slaughtered.


The two men under the imperius curse sliced the other muggles throats, blood poured from the cut and oozed from their mouths as they took their final breaths.


Hermione and Draco lifted the imperius curse off the two large men. "What have I done?" They looked back and forth from all the dead bodies to the two teens who were standing there watching the men quietly.


"What have you made me do?" One man asked while stepping towards Hermione with the dagger held up defensively.


"Nothing I wont do myself." She replied and with a flick of her wand she said the spell she was most terrified of saying. "Avada Kedavra" A green light shot out of her wand and the man fell to the ground, stiff as a board, dead as a nail.


Draco didnt see the other man charge him, Hermione did however; and for the second time in minutes she sent the killing curse at the last muggle she was to kill.


"Very Impressive Miss White." He said, and nodded at Draco in approval. "The Lord will be very impressed with your technique." he said and led them back out of the little room and into the hallways.

The walk back to the dark room where they had started seemed to go by quicker not that they completed their task. Draco and Hermione walked into the room where Voldemort was sitting in his big black chair facing the fire, dropped to their knees and kissed the hem of his robes.


"Its 11:00pm, You two did the task faster then expected. That shows determination." He said in a low tone. "You both have done well, My one last question is, are you sure you want to take this mark? You must be loyal, and follow any command given without question. You will do as you are told, You will come when called upon, and if you fail me, or steer me wrong, you know the consequences can be grave."


A cold shiver crawled up Hermione's spine. She knew she had to do this, She vowed to herself that she would go through with this. She tried not to be hesitant when she spoke. "My Lord, I understand that from now on out, I am your follower, I will listen obediantly, I will come when beckoned, I will not steer you wrong, I will not fail you, because, If I fail you, I fail myself."


Voldemort looked pleased at the young ladies determination to please him. To show him she was worthy of being a follower, to wear his colors, to take his mark.


Draco followed Hermione's speech. "My Lord, My father has served you for as long as I can remember, he failed you, and I am here to make up for his mistakes, and restore the Malfoy honor. I pledge my alliance with you, I will listen, come, and never steer you wrong, I will not be a failure like the pitiful excuse I call a father." Draco's voice was cold. You could hear the hate for his father in his tone.


Voldemort was suprised at how long the young Malfoy had come. Lucius boasted about how brilliant his son was, and he could see the potential in Draco to surpass his fathers loyalty and try his hardest not to fail him.


"Very well." Voldemort hissed. "Please show me your left forearms" he instructed. Hermione and Draco moved their long sleeves off of their pale skin and held their arms out towards the man.


Hermione slowly began panicking, she knew she was going to be getting the mark, she wasnt sure if it was going to hurt, or what the process was going to be, she had never known a death eater before, and she was scared.


Draco could sense Hermione's nervousness and he moved his right hand and placed it beside Hermione, a small gesture, He was rubbing the side of her leg with his thumb, trying to calm her down.


'Pull it together, pull it together' Hermione told herself.


Voldemort touched his wand to Draco's pale forearm, and then to Hermione's, neither teen heard the small spell he muttered under his breath. Seering pain shot through their arms, It felt like their arm was burning from the inside out. Moments passed and the pain subsided.


With another flick of his wand, Hermione and Draco's clothing was changed, replaced by long black cloaks, and they had the death eater mask put on their faces. "You are now Death Eaters, Do not let me down." Voldemort said.


"Rookwood! get them back to school before their absence is noted." Voldemort said.


Hermione and Draco kissed the hem of Voldemorts robes one last time as they stood to leave the room.


***


When Rookwood, Hermione, and Draco got back to the Malfoy Manor, he asked to see the two teens wands. With a flick of his own wand he cleared the last spells cast, as a just incase, they were student, and they couldnt very well be watching over Harry if they had been expelled and sent to Azkaban for leaving school, and killing a bunch of muggles, while using 2 of the 3 unforgivable curses.


With a loud pop the man was gone.


Hermione and Draco walked back into the Malfoy Manor, it was quiet, Draco sighed in relief that his mother was now asleep. He did not want to bump into her on this perticular adeventure. He grabbed Hermione's hand and led her to the fireplace. Without a sound he grabbed a handfull of floo powder, and whispered, "Hogwarts, Severus Snape's Quarters." The two teens were engulfed in green flames and a momet later they stepped out of the fireplace back in Hogwarts.


Severus stood from his chair. The dark haired pale man was obviously stressed. "Oh Merlin! I am so glad you are both okay!" He said as he rushed forward and embraced his daughter in a hug. "What was your task, you had to kill people, I know you did, its to prove you are not weak, did you get the mark?" He had so many questions, and Hermione and Draco were obviously way to tierd to have this meeting right now.


"Dad, can we please do this in the morning, You, Harry, Draco and Myself? How about in the common room during breakfast, We will have the house elves bring it to us so we can discuss what happened in private." She said as she moved to the door.


"Yes I suppose you are right, I am just glad you both made it back to me, in one piece and alive." He said and then bid them goodnight.


With a wave of Hermione's hand the two were back in the clothes they had worn to the dance. Hand in hand they walked up the dungeons, checking the dark alcoves as they went. "Great timing." Draco said. "We can even do our rounds up to the Heads Dorm, then we can get a well deserved sleep." He continued.


They reached their dorms and once inside Hermione got a new burst of energy, There was something Draco promised he would do, and she was not letting him get away that easily. With a wave of her hand, her clothing changed once more. This time it was into the outfit Draco had seen her in a few days prior. The white corest top, the small white thong, the high leather boots. Her hair fell over her shoulders and she pinned him up against the wall.


Within seconds, Draco went from kissing Paige to Hermione, being very worn out, her apperance would not hold that of Paige's. Draco didnt mind, this was the girl he had started to fall for after all.


The kiss was deep and passionate, One of Draco's hands cupped Hermione's ass, and the other pulled her closer to him. Hermione fumbled with the buttons on Draco's shirt and gave up after finally getting the fourth one undone.


A smirk played across her lips as Draco moved to kiss the crook of her neck, she waved her hand again, and Draco was wearing nothing, but his silk green boxers. "Devious wench" he said as he picked her up and led her up the stairs to his room.


Hermione wiggled her way out of Draco's grip and pushed him onto a chair that moved from the other side of the room. Slowly, and so seductively she started taking off her clothes. Dancing to a beat that wasnt there, her hips swaying in a non existant rythem.


Draco had never been so turned on in his life, Hermione removed each article of her clothing and ran her hands up her body. He couldnt take the sight of it, he was ready to explode. He stood up and grabbed Hermione and roughly pushed her onto the bed.


Hermione gasped in shock as she went flying onto the green silk comforter. Draco slowly crawled ontop of Hermione, Licking from mid torso up. He stopped to lavish attention on her perky nipples, licking one and rolling the other between his thumb and index finger. A moan escaped Hermione's lips as Draco moved higher up licking and kissing right to the crook of her neck.


Hermione ran her hands down Draco's back and he twitched at the feel of her touch. She rested her hands on his shoulder blade and urged him further up her body. She was wet, she had wanted him so bad. Draco took her earlobe in his mouth and tugged and licked playfully at it, sending shivers through out Hermione's entier body.


"Make love to me Draco." She said, and something in her tone, drove Draco absoloutley wild. He positioned himself at her entrance, the head of his cock slowly sunk into her wet folds. Hermione felt the pressure build up as Draco pushed harder into her, and within moments the pressure turned to pain as Draco ripped through the barrier of her virginity.


Draco stopped and looked into her eyes, he could see the pain, he didnt want to hurt her, "Dont stop now." She whispered. Draco pushed in the rest of the way and stopped letting her wet cavern adjust to his size. After mere moments he began to thrust in and out, slowly, trying to make the experiance enjoyable for her.


The pain lingered only for a moment, and was soon being replaced by a feeling of heat building up in her stomach. Pleasure began to run through her veins and it didnt take long until she was meeting Draco's thrusts by moving her hips up, taking him in as deep as he could go. Their breathing quickened, and their bodies were shining in the moonlight from the thin coat of sweat.


Hermione began moving her hips in a faster rythem and Draco followed her lead. Both teens panting, moaning, and lavishing eachother with love, their sounds of extacy filled his room. Hermione reached her climax and when she came, her muscles tightened around Draco's cock, a few thrusts and he too came, spilling his seed high up into Hermione's cavern.


Both teens layed on Draco's bead, their heart beats slowly returning to normal, the sweat drying, and their bodies returning to normal temperature. Hermione smiled and cuddled closer into Draco as he pulled the blankets over their naked bodies.


"Hermione?" Draco asked quietly.


"Yes love?" She replied on the edge of unconsiousness.


"You wre great tonight, You really held it together."


"You were great too Draco." She said, and with a small sigh, and a smile on her face, she drifted off into a dreamless sleep.


***


The next morning the two teens were woken up by Snape, banging on the portrait door. "Breakfast with Dad and Harry." Hermione groaned and she got out of bed and walked into her room.


Draco stood up and dressed quickly and ran down the stairs to let the two men into their common room. "Hermione will be right down." Draco said as he sat with Harry and Severus on the couched in their common room.


Hermione bustled around her room, She threw on black baggy sweat pants, and a white form fitting long sleeve shirt. "Dammit you can see the mark through the shirt." She said and walked down the stairs, smiling at the boys and greeting them with a warm hello.


"How are you this morning?" Harry asked with a smile on his face.


"Good, a little tierd still, but good." Hermione replied


"Okay, enough time wasted, tell us what happened!" Severus said. He wanted to know everything, in detail.


Draco looked at Hermione, she seemed to be the one both men wanted to hear from. So he would let her tell the story, he was still thinking about everything that had happened last night.


"Okay, so we got to the Malfoy Manor, and Agustus Rookwood was waiting for us. He port keyed us to Voldermorts head quarters and escorted us right up to our meeting. We talked to him, told him why we wanted to be there, he has no Idea I am Hermione Snape, and not Paige White. Everything went well there. Then, we were givin our task, we were put in a room with 20 muggle prisoners, and ordered to kill them. Draco and I put two of the prisoners under the imperious curse and had them kill off all of the muggles, when the last of them were killed we lifted the curse and killed them with the killing spell." Hermione stopped and took a breath. "Rookwood came back and escorted us back up to the room we first met Volemort in and he asked us if we were sure we wanted to go through with this. We pledged our loyalty to him, and took the mark."


Harry gasped, he had never thought that they would actually take the mark, they were students for Merlins sake, why would he send them back to school full wll knowing they would get expelled if they wore his mark.


"You.. You took the mark?" Harry asked in disbelief.


"Well Yah Harry, that was the plan wasnt it? To get into his inner circle, to be there, to help you out?" Draco finally spoke up.


"I guess, I just didnt think that you would actually take the mark." Harry replied, sadness falling over his handsom features.


"Did you erase your wand history?" Severus asked in concern.


"Rookwood did it for us." Draco responded


There wasnt anything left to say, the four ate in silence, mulling the conversation over in their heads. Draco and Hermione's minds wandered to what had happened after they returned from their meeting. A small smile crept upon Draco's face as he remembered the feel of her touch.


"What if you get called back to him?" Harry asked.


"Then we go!" Hermione said. "It is our dutie not to fail him, we go when called, we do what we are asked, we show 100% loyalty, we earn his trust, he get in there and get to know what is going on. We have to be there when you are brought in!" Hermione contiued.

"Did you see Evalynn?" Severus asked quietly.


"No we never had much time to look around, but we will look for her next time." Hermione replied. "Dad, I am sure she is okay."


***


After the meeting with Harry and her Dad, Hermione changed into Paige, and walked to her classes, they day went by quickly, and Hermione couldnt wait to curl up in her bed and get a good, long sleep.


Draco was sleeping on the couch in the common room when she got back from her last class, Draco was there, but had looked very tierd all day, he prolly just sat down and was out like a light.


Hermione crawled onto the couch beside him and snuggled into his hard chest, 'need to be up for dinner' she told herself and then fell into a deep sleep as well.


***


Too all of you with kids, go and see Happy Feet, everyone else, you can probably view the trailer on youtube.com

p.s I wrote this extra long to try and make up for my lack of posting!
Hope you all enjoy!