As If In Wonderland

Hermione awoke. Confused and unsure of her surroundings as she found herself in darkness, no it was a blindfold, she could feel the texture of rough fabric pulled tight around her eyes. Another thing she knew was that he hands were tied securely behind her back and she was sitting on a chair of some kind, other than that, she knew nothing.
‘Strange’, she thought, ‘a wizard using muggle methods to keep me secure’.
She wasn’t in pain, though she did become extremely aware of the lack of sound in the room she was in. it was warm but she had a cold feeling about where she was.

“Hermione…”, a voice she hadn’t heard in months said her name suddenly to make Hermione jump slightly, the voice was across the room from her, only a few metres from what she could tell. “You know who I am don’t you?”

“Grindelwald”, she replied simply.

“Very good…it has been a while, and you have changed…”, he whispered as he got closer, so close Hermione could feel his breathe on her face. “You seem nervous”.

“Im not, im just aware I cannot see anything, whilst a man I thought was a friend has kidnapped me”, she spat back. “Maybe explain why you have done this?”, she was met by silence when all of a sudden the blindfold was ripped from her eyes.
Hermione squinted, she wasn’t in a well lit room…just candles. Though it still made her eyes wince after being in darkness for a while.

“Hermione, it’s a pleasure to see them eyes of yours again”, Grindelwald grinned at her. He had stepped back, sitting two metres or so from her, he hadn’t changed at all.
“You ask why I have done this. You may or may not know me and the dark lord have not been on good terms for a while. Killing someone in my family…it is a terrible crime”, he sighed.

“I thought you were ok with that? You chose the dark lords side!”, she cried. He lifted his hand, a silent way of telling her to shh…Hermione respected the wizard enough to quieten down.

“Milady…I do not want to see you suffer, im not like that. You know me…I have brought you here to make you a proposition…”, he smirked when he saw she had become interested yet still she reminded silent.
“You do me, and the world a favour…and you will be free to live your life how you want it, anything you want or will ever need, you can have”

“I have everything I want or will ever need”, Hermione explained quietly.

“Do you? Tell me, have you always wanted to be the wife of the most evil man in the world, forced to be part of terrible things? I always thought you wanted some good in the world…”, he leaned forward slightly. “Will you kill the dark lord?”

“No. and you know I wouldn’t”, Hermione narrowed her eyes, “even if I wanted too. It is impossible”

“The horcruxes of his…you know what they are, you tell me what, even if you don’t know the locations…I will have them destroyed. Once the last remaining horcrux is final, you, you Hermione can kill him. He would never expect someone like you to kill him”

“Why…why would I do any of that?”

“You know he is evil, he doesn’t love you Hermione, you are just useful to him. He has affection for you yes, but really…you deserve someone to really love you. If the dark lord is dead, someone else can rule, someone else can change it”, he breathed.

“You mean you”, Hermione mumbled. “You are no better than the dark lord, I know you would kill a muggle if one came across your path. You are evil, you and I both know this. You want power, you want me to help you get that power. Im not stupid”

“If I thought you were stupid I wouldn’t have brought you here. Hermione, you are going to help me whether you want to or not. You are going to tell me about the horcruxes or consider yourself never being a mother!”, he growled.

“Don’t threaten my child”, she replied almost silently, with her eye bowed down to her bump. “You cant harm my baby, the dark lord has made sure no harm can come to it whilst it’s in me”.

“Whilst it’s in you”, he gave a toothy grin. “Hermione, you are going to give birth soon, it doesn’t mean it will be staying alive too long”.

“You monster! You will not harm my baby!”, Hermione cried. “I am going to kill you for this Grindelwald. No one threatens my child”

“You aren’t really in a position to threaten me my dear…I wish to stay on good terms with you and I have no wish to harm you. However…”, the tone of his voice became more serious as hatred filled Hermione’s eyes. “I will if need be. I ask you now, do you accept my offer of taking part in the fall of the dark lord?”.

“You know my answer Grindelwald”

“I’ll give you an hour to think about it”, he smirked, as if knowing he had the power over Hermione. He stroked her hair before apparating with a pop, she found her hands became released from their binds.

Hermione cried out of anger, she hated the feeling of being weak and at the moment she was unable to do anything. She cursed herself and the situation, when she felt something.

She winced as she felt a pain, instantly she knew what it was, just like the pain she felt not so long ago, she was entering into the first stages of labour. “Shit shit shit, im not having this baby here. No way in hell!”, she thought but knowing she was stranded in this room in an unknown location.
The room was small, plain, with barely any furniture, not even a window or door. She knew it was impossible to leave, all she had was some hope the dark lord would somehow save her.

*

The dark lord sat fuming in his study, only 10 minutes ago he had been called back to his home as he was informed of an emergency situation. Hermione had left the grounds and had disappeared off the radar. Only 5 minutes ago he received an owl which carried a small lock of Hermione’s hair and a message.
Milord, I can only offer my greatest sympathies at the predicament your whore appears to be in.
Revenge is sweet.


“Grindelwald…”, Voldemort whispered.

*

One thing Grindelwald had forgotten was that the dark lord was the most powerful wizards in the world, maybe in history. Kidnapping his lady was not a wise decision, even if you had checked a million times you had made sure the plan was perfect.
Hermione was bound to Voldemort, and he would find her, he always knew where she was.
The dark lord only knew his Grindelwald’s motive was revenge, maybe it was. It didn’t matter to him, he just knew the one person he cared about was in danger. He wasn’t a fool, Grindelwald was a powerful wizard, however it didn’t make him the best.

*

“My lady, any decision yet?”, Grindelwald asked smoothly after returning to the room, he stayed standing while looking down at Hermione who sat with her back against a wall with her knees bent.

“Please, I need a healer…”, she choked.

“Hermione…you have many hours left before a baby even thinks about appearing-”

“-I don’t care! I cant go though this here, I cant! Your stupid actions have started this!”, she breathed angrily. She held her stomach, knowing she did indeed have a long time to go but still…labour in this hell hole wasn’t pleasant.

“Tell me you will agree to what I ask, and I will get you a healer”

“I could lie”

“Why? If you lie and then give birth, I will have your baby until you decide to agree properly, take an oath”, he smirked.

“I cant! Please, please you don’t want the dark lord dead! If he dies all his death eaters will kill you, the world will be in chaos! The dark lord provides order, everyone is getting on with things…if you come and take over, everyone will be lost again. don’t you get it?”, Hermione growled before wiping her forehead.
“He will come for me”

“The only way to get into this room is to apparate in, and if the dark lord doesn’t know where this room is how do you believe he will get in?”

“He will find a way. When I get my magic back I will enjoy killing you”

“Then im sure you will enjoy spending the rest of the duration of labour alone. Good luck milady”, he cackled before apparating away.

Hermione stared at the spot he had just left, fear rose in her veins.
She was alone in labour, may possibly had to go through child birth with no one as well. Tears fell down her cheeks as she prayed the dark lord would hurry. The longest labour duration she knew lasted around 24 hours, she knew she had less than that.

*

Voldemort made sure to keep the situation quiet, he didn’t need people to know he was suffering a slight moment of weakness.
His wife being kidnapped, that was a moment of weakness.

An hour had passed and he was getting closer to tracking her location, he had a few members of his inner circle searching for Grindelwald as well as Hermione. And he was happy to know, there was good progress.
He had found out where Grindelwald had been spending his time during the last few months, who he had met, what he had been doing etc. He had also traced Hermione’s last whereabouts, Potters grave.
He felt a rush of anger at the thought of her going against his orders to not leave the grounds, especially for such a pathetic reason, however his priority was getting his lady back to safety.

The dark lord had no idea what kind of danger Hermione was in, although he wasn’t going to accept having the knowledge of her going through severe torture or even having a single thought of his son being hurt in anyway.

A knock on the door followed by Snape appearing made Voldemort look up, his face expressionless.

“It seems Grindelwald had a servant, a wizard who worked in the ministry…he is dead, killed himself after I questioned him-”, he started silkily before being cut off by the dark lord.

“-information I need, not gossip!”

“I apologise milord. I happened to find out before his death that Grindelwald has been plotting to kill you for some time”, he cast his eyes downward before rising them again. “He plans to force Hermione to real your horcruxes and then assassinate you, he is quite persuasive at the moment…it appears Hermione has started going through labour, and he is using it against her”.

“Why would this man reveal all this to you?”

“Legilmency of course milord”, Snape replied. “And it is all true. I couldn’t find out anything else, he killed himself when he realised I had entered his mind”

“You have done well, I shall reward you later. However now the situation has gotten more urgent…any leads to a location?”

“I can quite easily trace back to where the wizard had been in the last day, he was the one to kidnap and bring Hermione to Grindelwald. Im afraid it could take a few hours, you must remember his death makes the process take longer”.

“Thank you Severus. I do need the process to move as fast as possible, if Hermione is in labour the stress of this situation could make things worse for her”. the dark lord said simply, he could feel his anger boiling inside but kept his outer shell cool…for now.

*

The sweat dripped off of Hermione, the pain felt like it was getting worse and worse, and she was helpless to make things better.
Grindelwald hadn’t returned, and she knew he wouldn’t, not for many hours.

“Im not giving birth here, I wont I wont I wont”, she cried to herself. “He will come for me, Voldemort wont leave me here”

*

Voldemort paced his study, it had been over three hours since Hermione had first been kidnapped, all the information he had received was that the only way to gain access to Hermione was find where Grindelwald was, and that could be many places according to Snape.
Searches of every location in the dead wizards head were in place, the problem was doing it quickly without causing too much attention.

“Milord! We’ve found him!”, Snape exclaimed as soon as he apparated into the room. “He wont reveal her location, his occlumency skills are like none that I have ever seen-other than yourself. I think he wanted us to find him”

*

The next few hours of Hermione’s life were a blur, the dark lord appearing from nowhere, scooping her into his arms before apparating to a hospital ward of some kind.
“Volde-Voldemort, I-I feel like death”, she croaked. Not able to see him through her tears, but she could sense he was there with many healers.

“Shh, I will tell you how I got you back as soon as you well again…just do what the healers tell you”. Voldemort told her calmly before kissing her forehead.

“Milord she will be giving birth within the next ten minutes-”

“Did you hear that Hermione? Now do all you can, and you will be ok again soon. You are going to bring our son into the world”

*

“Meet your son milord”, a healer pass a tiny baby into the dark lords arms, a real smile came from his lips.

*

“There were some complications, she may not come back to consciousness for…well we have no idea”

*

“She should of accepted my offer, maybe she would be awake right now”, Grindelwald smirked being metal bars before being tortured by Voldemort.

“What did you do to her”, the dark lord asked almost silently. He stood on the other side of the bars to the dungeon, his eyes unblinking as he stared down at Grindelwald on the floor.

“She knew she would suffer if she didn’t accept. Lets just say she is suffering many nightmares during her time asleep”

“A nightmare curse. You knew she was going through a complicated labour, you used that against her. Drain the energy out of her and give her nightmares”

“Of course”, he was tortured once again.

“She awoke this morning”, Voldemort said to Grindelwald’s surprise. “It seems your not as powerful as you make out to be, you caused barely any of the damage you thought you would”.

“I made her suffer, I made you suffer, and I risked your child’s life. A pretty big achievement if you ask me”, he smirked. “Why are you here with me, if your darling whore is awake?”

“I came down to kill you, but I have changed my mind, Hermione requested to do it. She is currently getting to know her son, my son, and I wanted to see you suffer before you die”.

*

“I love your eyes, your fathers eyes, your pouty lips, your tiny toes, those small brown curls on your head…”, Hermione beamed down at her son who sucked his thumb in her arms. “I love you Tom”

“I cant believe you called him that, hardly the most powerful name in the world”, Voldemort said to her as he pulled his arm round her.

“Well, I already know one Tom that happens to rule the world, it cant be that weak a name”, Hermione replied dreamily before kissing him on the lips.

“Im sorry you went through what you did, but now we have all we need in the world. Now we are parents, now we are the most powerful family that ever lived”, Voldemort whispered.

“A family…how perfect”, Hermione smiled. “Before we welcome Tom to the world, may you give me the please of taking the life of the wizard that nearly destroyed mine?”

“My pleasure milady”.

*

“Yes master”, Hermione replied as the dark lord demanded she torture the prisoner, “with pleasure”, Voldemort smirked as she tortured Grindelwald one last time.

He screamed on the floor, Hermione’s curses weren’t soft, she was the most powerful sorceress on the planet.
“Im sorry to say Grindelward, this is the end…”, she turned around to look at Voldemort, her finger curled round her wand. She smiled at him before spinning round and screaming “Avada kedavra!”, green light and a hard thump as he fell to the ground.

“Im so proud of you my beautiful wife”, Voldemort stood up from the chair he was observing from. “Tom should be waking up around now, we should go and get him off the carer before having one of those…what do they call them?”

“Maybe just a moment of normality”, Hermione laughed as she pulled her arms round Voldemorts waist.
“My lord, my master, my husband, the father of my child…I love you”, she replied as if in Wonderland.
Yet this was her reality.


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Im extremely sorry!
I have had the busiest year that i have had no chance to access this for so long, i did want to finish the story however.
Even though it isnt the best of endings, i hope you can forgive me :)
Thank you for the lovely reviews, and i have enjoyed this pairing.
I do wish to write another story with Voldemort and Hermione, any suggestions for the future would be great :)