Insanity Check! *Complete*

“Miss Granger” The head of the Wizengamont said “Miss Weasley is to be placed in a high security mental ward in Russia”

“But…” Hermione tried.

“It was at the request of Mr. Potter” He said calmly “Personally, I think it’s a good idea. You are way too close to this case and to have her anywhere near you will be stupid and dangerous”

“I understand, sir” Hermione looked at her hands “But…I want to be the one to help her”

“You can’t save everyone, Miss Granger” He said firmly “We’ve made allowances with Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Snape but not this one”

“I understand” Hermione said and she did understand but it didn’t mean that she liked their decision.

“Mr. Ronald Weasley has been cleared” He went on “And Astoria Malfoy has been placed in Azkaban in a high security ward. Is there another member of their ragtag group of misfits that we need to know about?” He looked over his glasses at Hermione and she looked right back.

“No” She answered “I looked in to it and found that the third person must have left the country”

“Very well” He said “Then we’ll just have to hope that he or she doesn’t come back”

“Astoria and Ginny were behind everything” Hermione said “I’m sure the third person was just a pawn”

“I hope so” He said “Have a good day, Miss. Granger”

“You as well, sir” She smiled, shook his hand and walked out of the office.

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Another fight with Cami saw Bellatrix restrained to her bed watching the ceiling. She didn’t understand what was going on, she had been out of it and yet knew what was going on to and around her. She was getting angrier and angrier at the moment and yet didn’t seem to understand why she was mad all the time. She heard a click from her door and turned her eyes to look at it, there was another click and then it swung open and she found herself helplessly watching the little demon child walking in and closing the door behind her. She walked over and shook her head with a laugh before sitting down in the chair next to Bella’s bed.

“Healer Granger really is an idiot” Cami said “She thinks because we all grew up in the wizarding world we won’t know how to pick a muggle lock” She looked around with a grin “Then again, you’ve never escaped so I guess it worked”

“What…” Bella tried.

“Don’t speak” Cami said gently “Bellatrix LeStrange” She weighed the word in her mouth with a smile “A name that struck almost as much fear in people’s hearts as Voldemort’s” She shook her head again “I didn’t know who you were until three weeks ago when Snape was teaching me about the war. Your name popped up of course and I have to say…” She looked as happy as a little girl getting a pony for her birthday “You are inspiring…or you were. Now, you are a shadow of the brilliance that you used to be” She played with Bella’s hair “But not to worry. I’ve been taking care of your potions, watering them down more like…you can feel it, can’t you?”

“You…” Bella started.

“Healer Granger only put a door lock and paddle lock on the potions door in her office” Cami continued “I got in only too easily. Once I knew who you truly were I realized that you are too amazing to keep locked up in a padded cell. Your potions are now mostly water which means they have next to no effect on you” She laughed and ran her hand through Bella’s hair “Somethings going to happen soon. By next week somethings going to happen and all those useless freaks are going to be dead but I will succeed where Voldemort did not…I will kill Hermione Granger” She kissed the older woman on her forehead and walked to the door “Hopefully, you will be on my side…the mother I should have always had”

Bellatrix laid on her back seething and yet she was excited for what the girl had said. Getting out of this room and away from the screaming and insanity that wasn’t her own was nice. There was something else though, Cami wanted to kill Hermione and though Granger was a mudblood Bella found herself second-guessing hurting her. Without Hermione Granger Bellatrix knew that she would be in the prison or possibly dead but the Granger girl stood up for her. Cured her when someone tried to kill her, talked to her like an adult and not a child like the others did and she actually seemed to care for her in a way that no one else ever had…even her parents. She was at war with herself for once between doing what’s right and what would be expected of her.

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Hermione was weary of how calm everything had been in the past week. Cami was doing everything expected of her, Bella was quiet but docile and always seemed to be in deep thought. Severus was finally opening up about his past in their therapy sessions and more than once those meetings would end with heavy snogging. She had to stop letting them get that far but the man was a damn kissing genius and he knew exactly what to do that would make her want to jump him. The week had been long and boring but she had to say that it was well worth it and she felt that for once she would get a good nights sleep.

“Are you sure that you don’t want me to spend the night?” Severus asked walking to the Floo Network in her bedroom.

“I didn’t invite you over in the first place” She said “You only have three minutes to get home” He had come over ‘worried’ about her when she said the Floo was acting up and the house felt too quiet.

“I know” He said “The Floo seems fine now and if you get scared” He gave her flirty wink “You can come over to my place”

“Get out” She said pushing him closer to the fireplace.

Once he was gone Hermione took a hot bath completely shocked when forty-five minutes later she was getting out that there hadn’t been any alarms. Out of the bathroom and dressed in a pair of fleece pajama bottoms and a tank top (winter was around the corner and she was both hot and cold) Hermione braided her hair then left her room. All the patients were still asleep and she mentally clapped herself on the back for finally getting the potions right. She closed and locked her bedroom door before lying on her bed and pulling out a book about the negative side effects of love potions. She was too hyped up to go to sleep so she went to her desk and started to write up a proposal as to why Infatuation Potions should be seen as Love Potions and therefore be illegal. She worked a couple hours on it before stretching and then climbing in to bed, shutting out her light and finally falling in to a deep sleep. Six doors down the hall from Hermione’s bedroom Cami’s eyes snapped open and a deadly smile spread across her face as she stood up and grabbed the muggle lighter that she had found on the floor a month before.

A/N: The next chapter is the last one. I WILL continue it if you guys want me to…that and I already have a chunk of it written in my mind LOL. PLEASE REVIEW!!!!