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!

~12~

Hermione and Draco slept well past dinner and into the night, Both were woken up by a sharp, burning sensation in their arms. Draco groaned as he rolled over to face Hermione, whose eyes were wide open. It came sooner then either of them had expected. They were called back to meet Voldemort again.

With a deep sigh, Hermione got up off the couch and walked up to her room to put on her dark robes and pocketed her death eater mask. Looking at the clock on the wall quickly she learned that it was 1:30am, Early morning, Late at night, either way you looked at it there would be no students lingering in the hallways.

Hermione exited her room and walked down the stairs where Draco was waiting for her. He took her hand and led her out into the corrider and down to Snape's dungeons.

After waiting for a few minutes Snape never answered his door, "Now what are we suposed to do?" Hermione asked impatiently.

Draco repsponded with a smirk, "Remember the empty classroom, the one with the floo network hidden deep inthe dungeons? We can use that one." He said as he led her quietly down deeper into the dungeons.

Minutes passed, the two teens walking at a brisk pace, and within moments they were pushing open the heavy oak door into the long abandoned classroom.

"Malfoy Manor." Draco said as he grabbed Hermione's hand and pulled her into the firplace with her.

They stepped out of the fireplace and touched their wands to their fore arms, the familiar nausious feeling crept over Hermione's body as they were transported to Voldemorts headquarters.

This time on arrival there was far more death eaters. It wasnt just Rookwood and Voldemort in the room, there was about 20 other robed Death Eaters lingering in the darkness up against the wall. The teens arrived in the middle of the circle.

They kneeled infront of their Lord, and kissed the hem of his robes. "You called us, My Lord?" Draco said not daring to look up until he was spoken to.

"Yes, Stand." He ordered.

Hermione and Draco did as they were told. Fearing that at any time their plan could back fire, they were unsure of why this meeting was called, why it was so late, and what was going on. Their questions were answered soon enough.

"My Loyal followers." Voldemort started. "It was 18 years ago when I lost my power and dissapeared into hiding to re build my strength. It was 18 years ago, when a defenceless child stripped me of my powers, and what was his secret? You may ask, an old ancient magic spell his mother cast with her dying breath, the spell of love. Three years ago, I came back, The spell was complicated, but my loyal servant made sure everything was perfect. We even got blood from the boy who stripped me of my powers at such a young age. Now, the spell is broken, as his blood also runs through my viens."

There was a long pause. "You may all wonder why I called you so early this morning, away from your warm beds, your wives embrace, and from your family. We have news, and progress, and new members. First I would like to introduce you to our two newest members, Miss Paige White, and Mr. Draco Malfoy." Everyone nodded their heads in approval as Hermione and Draco removed their masks so everyone could see their faces clearly.

Voldemort looked at the stunning Paige White and he had an urge to tell his followers not to touch her, not to treat her as their slave because she is below them in rank, a decision crossed his mind quickly and he spoke it without a second thought. "These two young members are students, you will cause no harm to them, and they will not be used for your pleasure." He said, earning a few grumbles from the men who had obviously already sized up what they thought would be a new toy.

A feeling of relief washed over Hermione as Voldemort made the last comment about her and Draco not being used for their pleasure. Her thoughts were cut short as his speech continued. "Severus Snape has still not brought me Harry Potter, but assures me that everything will be set for the new year. Also meetings will be held later at night to accomodate our new members schedual, being students at Hogwarts they cannot be caught sneaking around, we do not need them expelled, because that would leave us with no one in the school watching over Harry and letting us know what he has been getting into."

The room nodded in agreement, If their Lord was to be the winner of this war that was upon them, they needed to have all the percausions possible, and make sure that everything was very very discrete. "My task for the two young teens is to try and recruite 4 new students."

Hermione and Draco nodded. They would look into students who were pureblood and could possibly help out with lying to a cold hearted killer. If anyone would be comfortable enough.

"The rest of you, There is nothing that needs done at this time. This meeting is dismissed." One by one the masked men went up to their Lord and kissed the hem of his robes, Some of the men stopped and intorduced themselves to Hermione and Draco, other walked passed them not even acknowledging the two students.

Hermione felt so small, these big men could hold their own, and her petite frame was nothing compared to theirs. The only other woman in the room was Bellatrix Lestrange, who immediatly walked over and hugged her nephew. "Oh Draco, I knew you would come around." She said and then looked at Hermione with a smile on her lips.

"Draco, Darling, You and your school mate, should drop by the manor for tea sometime." She said and winked at Hermione who blushed slightly.

Hermione and Draco were the last two people standing in the room. As Hermione got to her knees to kiss the hem of her Lords robes, he waved his hand, and she was on her feet. "Darling, there is no need. You and Draco have completed the initiation task with more creativity, and a faster time then the rest of them. The rest walked in and cast the killing curse over and over again until the job was done."

"My Lord." Hermione said "We just did what we were told to do." she said

A small smile crept up on Voldemorts face which was masked faster then it had appeared, "You both know that the students you recruite must be pure blood, and you are not to inform them of their tasks, If you do this for me before the Eve of Christmas, you both will be greatly rewarded."

Draco nodded in understanding, this might be easier then he thought it could be.

"One last thing, Can you check on the lady in the dungeons and make sure she eats. She needs to be strong." He chuckled and stood as he left the room.

***

Draco and Hermione stood quickly and walked briskly towards the dungeons, Hermione's heart was beating fast, could the lady in the dungeons be her mother? Could she have one quick moment with her to tell her what was going on, was it safe to tell her who she was? So many things ran through her head, she did not even notice Draco push open the heavy stone door.

Hermione stepped into the Dungeon, a small framed woman lay in the corner on the floor. Sobbing hysertically, Hermione's heart jumped, something inside her made her feel complete.

Evalynn looked up at the two teens, fear in her eyes. Something in her heart told her she would be ok, She looked from the boy, to the girl and closed her eyes.

"Evalynn Rose?" Hermione Spoke, her voice startled the girl huddled up on the floor

"What do you want from me?" She asked not bother to meet their eyes.

Hermione walked over to the ladies side and knelt down. "Severus is ok, stay strong, Your daughter is safe, and closer then you know, help is on its way, hang in here." Hermione whispered into the ladies ear.

"Who are you?" She asked taken back by the young womans quick calming words. "Paige White." She said with a smile. Evalynn's eyes bore into the depths of Hermione's, Images of Hermione transforming into Paige infront of a mirror flashed through her mind, Evalynn gasped, it all made sense. "Not a word." Hermione spoke into the womans ear.

"You must eat. You need to get strong, the Lord has plans for you." She said as she walked away, taking the blond boys hand in hers as she left the room.

Evalynn broke into hysterics, Could this young woman that had just been in her presence really been her daughter? Would her husband be as thick to let their only child risk her life and join the ranks of the foul man her husband called "Lord" for so many years?

She touched her hand to her head, the memory fadded, but was not forgotten, If Voldermort tried to pry information out of her, that was the last thing she wanted him to see. Co Operation from here on out would be a good idea. She thought to herself as she picked up the fork and started to eat the cold food that was brought to her by the house elf that has been trying to urge her to eat for the better part of a week now.

***

Hermione and Draco made their way through the corriders in all hopes of not running into Filch or Mrs Norris. The walk was long, and Hermione was debating on running to her father and letting him know of the meeting. A quick tempus spell told her it was bordering 3:00am, with that she realized that the information could wait untill the morning.

Through the portrait hole, and they were safe, another meeting gone, and only a few more hours for the two young teens to sleep. Draco grabbed Hermione's hand and led her upstairs to his room. "Stay with me tonight." He said as he undressed and crawled into bed.

Hermione walked into her room and changed into Draco's boxers and a t-shirt then crawled into Draco's bed, immediatly in one anothers embrace, they both drifted off to get a few more hours of sleep.

***

Thunder crashed outside, echoing across the black lake. Rain pounded off the side of the castle, It was a cold fall morning, a cold, wet, fall morning. The castle was colder then it usually was, and Hermione woke up. Smiling at Draco, whose arms were wrapped around her.

"Draco.. Wake up..." She said as she kissed him on the cheek. "It's tuesday, We can't sleep in!" She continued and tried to escape from Draco's tight embrace.

Draco stretched and smiled, "Ok, Ok, Im up..." And he let go of Hermione who crawled outta bed and headed toward the shower. "Im coming in there too, hold on!" He said as he got out of bed as quickly as his sleepy limbs would let him.

***

Breakfast was quick, Their shower took a little bit longer then they had expected, due to Draco insisting on helping Hermione wash herself properly. Post arrived just as they sat down and Hermione reached out and grabbed her normal baggle and was dressing it with raspberry jam, when a letter landed on her lap.

'Odd' she thought to herself. She never got post during the week, usually only on fridays.

Hermione opened the letter and was ready to rip it in half when she noticed the barely readable writing. It was a letter from Ron, probably against Harry's judgement, but she decided to read it anyways, It wouldnt be like Hermione to not respond to her best friends letters.

*Hermione.

I know I have been a right foul git, and I am sorry for the way that our relationship had ended. I wanted to talk to you that day in the hallway, but the stupid bouncing ferret wrecked that by making you even more angry then you had already been. I was going to try and talk to you again, but the next thing I knew you were being whisped off to some school half way across the world! I really am sorry, and I hate how I not only wrecked our relationship I wrecked out friendship as well. I have been avoiding Lavander, I miss you so much, Please come back to me!

All my Love in the world.
Ron

P.S The new Head Girl is whoring around with Malfoy*

Hermione chuckled at the note, It wasnt Draco who made her angry, it was him, and how he had found him and his whore, He hasnt been avoiding Lavander, there was rumors floating around that they where now a couple, and No, the Head Girl was not WHORING as he so blatantly put it, around with Malfoy, they where in a relationship.

If Ron only knew! She thought as she pocketed the note, with all intentions of showing the note to Harry and Draco.

***

The first 3 classes and lunch flew by very quickly. Now Hermione was sitting in Double potions with Gryffindor, a smirk on her face as a plan was forming in her little head.

"Draco, I am going to do something, do not make a scene." She whispered and squeezed his leg.

Severus was in the back room doing an inventory check, and the class was supposed to be brewing a simple pepper up potion, recently Madam Pomfry was going through alot. Which was odd as not many students had been injured recently.

Hermione walked up to Harry and smiled. "Hi, Im Paige." she said extending her hand to Harry and winking at him.

Harry smiled and took Hermione's hand and kissed the top of it, "I'm Harry Potter." He said with a smile. "This is my friend Ron Weasley." He continued.

Hermione looked from Harry to Ron, and then she asked Harry. "May I please borrow a quill? Mine just broke." She said and batted her eyes at Harry.

Trying to supress the laugh that was threatening to escape his throat he simply nodded and handed her the quill.

Hermione waved her hand the slightest of an inch and the quill fell to the ground, a foot infront of Ron. She simply smiled and bent over, her ass directly infront of Ron who groaned at the sight of her tight ass. Grabbing the quill then standing up and walking back over to her seat beside Draco she laughed.

"Fuck, I'd love to tap that." Ron half heartidly whispered to Harry, and Hermione over heard. She rolled her eyes, Ron obviously didnt miss her that much if he was still looking for ways to get his rocks off.

'Stupid Git' she thought to herself and she scribbled on a piece of paper.

*Dad, Please Ask, Draco, Harry, and Myself to stay after class, there is some things we need to discuss.*

She walked into the storage room quickly and handed the potions master the note who read it quickly and nodded.

The rest of class went by quickly and right before they where let out, Snap walked out of the storage room. "Miss White, Mr Malfoy, Mr Potter." Stay after class please." he spoke then walked back into the storage room, organizing the last section of the room.

The class room emptied out, and the three students moved up and all sat at the same desk. With a wave of her hand, Hermione locked the Potions room door and put up a silencing charm. "Here it is, short and sweet. We had another meeting last night, Voldemort is very pleased with Draco and I, and our technique of how we completed our tasks. He expects Harry in the New Year, and He asked us to get 4 new recruits before Christmas Eve, if we succeed, we will be rewarded, I seen mum! Shes okay. Shes still alive, looked weak, but I think she will start eating and gaining her strength, She knows who I am dad." Hermione stopped and paused waiting for anyone to say ssomething.

"You never said anything to her though." Draco said.

"I know I never, But she looked into my eyes, I showed her who I was, an image of me practising my transformation, and you never heard me whisper anything to her." She replied with a small smirk.

"Are you insaine?" Severus said standing up to pace the room, "What if he prys into her mind? What if he finds that, then not only do I loose her I loose you too." He said while trying to smooth his robes.

"Dad she is going to co operate with Voldemort, She will understand the plan, I will slowly explaine everything when I have more time to see her." She said.

"There are no raids, there is nothing else being planned, we are waiting for you dad, to do your part, New Years would be a good night, but that is not why I wanted to talk to you, I need Idea's for who we are going to use as recruits who will help us, and not go against us." She said "Any Idea's?"

"Well there is Mr. Zabani. He has always been neutral, and not openly out about being neutral, He would be a good candidate." Draco said. "He would do it for me."

"Anyone else?" Hermione asked looking from Harry to her Dad, they both shook their heads trying to think of who they could use.

"What about Mika Doresy? The 5th year from Syltherin? Hes always really quiet when the conversation turns to that involving Voldemort." Draco replied once again. "If we get all 4 recruits from Slytherin it would be better."

"Well if youa re going with the quiet ones, what about those black haired twins in the 5th year as well, the Pattin Brothers, what are their first names?" Harry asked trying to have some part of say in this conversation.

"Taylor and Tam?" Severus said with a smile creeping up his face.

"Thats four." Hermione said. "Now how do we go about this meeting?"

"Well. I can call upon them right now?" Snape offered. "Might as well get it all over with at once, At least this way Dumbledore wont expect what is going on. He still has no clue about any of this."

"On with this meeting?" Hermione asked as she looked at her father expectanlty.

"Tipsy!" Severus shouted. In a loud pop a tiny fragile house elf was standing infront of him, "I need you to find me these students." He said and handed the little elf the piece of parchment he had written on.

"Yes sir." She said and with another pop she was gone.

***

Twenty minutes passed, and there was a loud knock on the dungeon doors. "Hermione, waved her hand and the plates they were eating off of dissapeared.

"Come in" Severus ordered as he opened the door to the 4 young wizzards standing outside the door.

They came in and sat down looking between then three students. Severus went into his storage room and came out a moment later with 4 glasses of pumpkin juice and set down a glass infront of each student.

Patiently waiting for the students to drink their pumkin juice, he made light conversation.

With the empty glasses sitting infron of the students, Severus asked the first question.

"In turn, I want you all to tell me who you want to win, in this war,"

Blaise was first. "Honestly, I want Harry to win." He said and looked down, He never admited this before out loud, always in his most private thoughts.

The Pattin twins were next. In turn one after the other they both answered Harry.

The Doresy boy sat quietly and when it was his time he said "I want Potter to win, Then I could date who ever I wanted, Blood would not be a problem, Harry would fix everything."

It was so simple, they had their four. It has been easier then they had expected, now all they had to do was try and convince them to go along with their plan.

"Will the four of you meet Draco and myself in the Heads Common room, Tommor night after dinner?" Severus asked.

After each individual said yes, they were given another glass of pumkin juice to drink while making small talk, after their glasses where drained they were free to go, "Do not tell anyone about this meeting." Draco warned and shot a death glare at all four of the students. "You have our word Draco." Blaise said as he led the other 3 out of the room and into the corrider.

"Brilliant!" Harry said, He was just starting to realize how trickey the potions master really was.

"Potter, I just broke a major rule, You are not to give out a potion without consent, do not follow my foot steps." Snape said as he stood up and cleared the table.

"Potion?" Draco asked wondering what he missed.

"Yes potion you stupid blonde" Harry said with a smirk, "Professor Snape fed them Vertiserum"

"Draco looked baffeled, he had no idea. 'How often did the potions master randomly slip the truth serum into juice when he had company?' He asked himself trying to remember all the times he blurted out his most private thoughts and deepest secrets.

"I will be present at that meeting tomorrow," Snape said "Not Visible, of Course." He added on when he got an ify glance from Draco.

"Okay, see you tomorrow then." Harry said as he left the dungeons and headed towards the gryffindor tower.

It was the second of November, he had less then 2 months to prepare himself for his fate. He would either come out on top of this, Or he would come out, in a casket. His death not even mourned because those who supported Harry would be too scared to endure the wrath of Voldemort. He had two months to train the four recruits if they agreed, He had 2 more months of lying to Dumbledore. He could not wait for everything to finally be over, one way, or the other.

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AN: Okay so this chapter didnt have very much action in it at all, but it needed to gap the chapters together, and It needed to throw in names so the interview with the students wasnt too confusing. I have been writing this late at night, so if there is alot of mistakes please bear with me, I am trying to get my Desktop back and working so Im not always on my lap top, which doesnt have word. So if there is tons of spelling mistakes sorry!!

If there is anything you do not understand please leave it in a comment and I will try and answer it to the best of my abilitie. Oh yah, I made a goof in the last chapter that I havnt fixed yet, no one has pointed it out yet tho, It is where I said, Hermione waved her hand and they where back in the clothes they where wearing at the dance, they cant be, because Hermione was in a tube top, no more short sleeves.. Ill fix it when I can!

Until next time!
Magzie

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