Empty souls

Chapter 8.- The replacement.

The after-effects of the dueling were starting but not too stronger to not keep going in her chaising. She was the one... she was the only one that could follow... no one else was nearby to stop Lucius Malfoy. Hermione knew it. She had an advantage... and she will use it whatever happens to her... ‘For Harry’ thought Hermione while drops of blood were leaking from her forehead to her cheeks slowly skipping to her neck and chest fluently, ‘for Harry’s sake and Ginny’.

Hermione was following the marks that the foots of the deat-eaters left in their way out. She crossed two corridors beforegetting out in the streets of London... a blind alley actualy. Hermione peered out just for a second and hide instantly to not let them know that she was there. ‘There’s Malfoy and five others... Ginny is weak and stopped struggling. I need to take them fast’ with this thought, Hermione sighed quietly and turning on the spot and out of the bulding, rised her wand and shoot two quick stunners that struck their targets. ‘two bodies out’. Ginny screamed. The other three death-eaters immediatly shoot stunners to Hermione’s blured form, but she never stopped. She dove to the floor and rolled hidding behind a trash cart to take shelter. Then, a silver arrow got throughout the cart, slicing Hermione’s shoulder and she moaned in pain.

“Stupid mudblood” shout Malfoy mocking the attempts to stop them. “¿Are you teasing us to get you too? If it’s that the case then... come, come and show us... show yourself.” he hissed.

Hermione breathed deeply and in a quick motion left her hidding place whirling and shooting curses, carefully to not harm Ginny. Two others fell, one grasping his throat with his hands, the channel fo her throat sealed by Hermione’s curse and the other death-eater was screaming in pain; his eyes exploded in his sockets and was scratching his face in dispair and pain. Unfortunately, the third foe was prepared and dissarmed Hermione with a blast sending her four feet away. Lucius Malfoy was laughing maniaticaly, seeing at his last death-eater approaching Hermione’s body in slow motions. Ginny was calling for her frined but she was momentarely confunded, almost at the point of forgetting where she was.

The death-eater now was towering her, looking down on her, simling broadly to his victim. Her foe remove his mask to reveal non other than Dolohov. Hermione looked at him in fear, his features said it all: he was mental...a sickest smile in his nasty face told her what he was planning to do to her. Hermionesearched with her eyes the wand but it was far away. She couldn’t reach it, and paled even more. Her blonde hair wasn’t blond anymore. The blood from the gash, a gift from the debris of the explosion, flooed from her sudden movements earlier, more than half of her hair was soaked and turned red with sweat and blood. Dolohov bent down and gripped Hermione by the hair lifting her, and she let out a cry of pain. The girl siezed by the arm of Dolohov to support her own weight; she was getting weak by the minute.

“You’re no longer a problem, stupid bitch” whispered Dolohov in Hermione’s neck, kissing it and licking the blood. Hermione felt a sick sensation in her guts, and got worse when a hand slowly caressed her thigh under her skirt. Hermione yelped in horror of being touched by the sick bastard.

“Now, now, my friend.” Hissed Malfoy. “Wait until we get to our quarters... someone will come soon.”

With this, Dolohov’s hand made a last caress to Hermione’s private parts, left it, and used now to grip Hermione by the waist, supporting her; she could barely stand up... or so it seemed, becasue while the sick death-eater was leading her closer to where Lucius was, she faked a fainting act and the other three fell for it. Lucius lowered his wand and Hermione saw this action by the slits of her eyes. Suddenly, she set free of Dolohov’s arms and lunged against Malfoy, making him loose his grip on Ginny that fell to the floor.

“¡¡GO GINNY!!, ¡¡RUN!!” yelled Hermione trying to get up.

Ginny hesitated and searched for something that may could help her... then she spoted it and ran for it, while the otherswere trying to stop Hermione’s advances.

Lucius Malfoy was furious, and gripped Hermione’s wounded arm, making her screech in pain. Dolohov snatch her other arm and then saw that the tiny witch wasn’t there anymore. If dolohov pretended to for for her, couldn’t, because Ginny stunned him on the back. Lucius and Hermione turned to see Ginny pointing in his direction and shoot a curse to him, but he steped aside and the curse missed it’s target, colliding on the wall behind. In a rapid motion, Malfoy snatched his wand from the ground.

Hermione guessed that he was about to kill one of them, but then he pulled out a piece of partchament and with his wand pointed at it and, for a instant, a blue light surrond it and shuddered in his hand, and then got back to it’s original state. Hermione’s eyes widened in realization...

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Harry survied the scend before him; death-eaters, wizards and witches scattered on the floor, injured or dead, he didn’t know... the only thing in his mind was the two peoplethat he was missing at the moment and the only person he saw that was more or less functional, was a healer that was checking the bodies. The healer lifted his gaze when he heard hurrioed steps coming his way.

“¡Thank Merlin!” exclaimed healer Jacobson at the new comers. Harry and Remus were sorting bodies to get closer. “Help me with this” said the healer signaling a witch in her thirties. Remus and Harry obeyed and moved the witch to sit her while the healer was mending her stomach that was bleeding profusely. Once he finished, the witch blinked and attempted to get up, but couldn’t.

“Don’t” said the healer, “you need to remain seated.”

“Please” said Harry catching healer’s atention. “¿Have you seen a red-head girl?” At this, the healer’s eyes opened wide. “... her name is_”

“¿Ginevra Weasley?”

“¡Yeah!” breathed Harry in a relieved manner.

“¡The death-eaters took her away!”

“¡¡WHAT!!” yelled Harry while his heart was slamming furiously.

“... and other girl left following them.” Finished the healer sadly. “She’s not going to make it.” Added sighing.

“¿What are you talking about?” inquired Remus.

“A girl came to rescue us... she found us in my office when a group of death-eaters had us surrounded, and she helped us to get down here but... the death-eaters again got us cornered and Ms. Weasley and the other girl started to fight against them. Lucius Malfoy blasted that wall” the healer pointed with a finger the hole. “took the red-head with him and his scum. The other girl followed them a minute later to stopped them, but she’s badly injured, she took away my wand and left in death-eaters’ wake.”

Harry’s eyes were wide open once the healer related the story.

“Agirl” repeated Harry in a bare voice. He looked the healer’s eyes apprehensive. “¿What girl?, ¿How she looks like?”

“Blonde... with blue eyes...”

“No... the ones that are blond with blue eyes are Luna and Hannah... Luna is back there in the reception...”

“...and Hannah is dead” finished Remus morosely.

“But then... ¿who is it? It can’t be Hermione, she’s not blonde.” Whispered Harry to himself.

“Unless she had changed her appereance...” sugested Remus and Harry stared at his eyes disbelivingly and was about to replay but they heard noises coming from the hole on the wall and then a faint voice that seemed to came from far away yelling: ‘¡¡GO GINNY!!, ¡¡RUN!!’. Harry’s and Remus’ eyes expanded even more. In that moment, Mad-eye, Tonks and Bill came. One glance to them and Harry broke into a run in the direction of the yell through the wall to get inside of an office, then a door that was opened and looking at the floor, saw footprints and kept following them. The rest right behind him.

While following the path, Harry noticed drops of blood and his heart beat faster against his chest. ‘The injured girl...” thought Harry worried sick. Then he saw a new hole as soon as he turned arround a corner in the far wall.

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“Say goodbye to your friend, bitch” said Lucius with his aristocratic tone. Ginny’s wand-arm was tremblingfuriously looking Malfoy hiding behind Hermione, holding her with his wand-arm by her throat and his other hand grippingthe partchment that in an instant will transform in a portkey. Ginny was crying silently, seeing her friend that was willingly taking her place. Hermione was too weak to move anymore and looked back to giiny in defeat.

“Don’t worry, Ginny” said quietly when a pair of tears appeared in her eyes. “Give my love to everyone... specially Harry.” She sobbed when a twirl of emotions overcame in her heart. Ginny’s eyes opened in realization at her words and suddenly, everything became clear to her. Then several things happened at the same time.

Hermione slowly lost focus and blacked out. Harry exited from the bulding through the hole in the wall to see Ginny... she yelled: “¡¡NOOOO!!”. Malfoy was laughing maniaticaly... this brought the attention of Harry that ever so slowly tored his gaze from Ginny to the person that was laughing... and the girl that Lucius Malfoy had unconcious... then, in a swirl of colours they disappeared... the portkey was activated before Harry’s and Ginny’s eyes.

“NOOOOO!!!” yelled Ginny at the top of her lungs falling on her knees.

Harry was shocked. He couldn’t utter a word, or move for that matter. It was as though his brain had stopped it’s functions... his heart stopped beating and his breath was caught up in his throat at the confusion. He was so inmersed in what he saw that didn’t notice when the rest were surviying the scene... or that Bill crouched beside Ginny that was crying histericaly on the ground... or that Tonks was checking the death-eaters... or that Remus was was talking to him, seemingly from afar, to bring him back to reality... or Mad-eye that was helping Tonks...

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In the middle of the swirl of colours, Hermione reacte abruptly at the sensation of being pulled up from her navel. She half opened her eyes to see Malfoy holding her tightly just down below her breasts; that made her awake from her unconciousness.

‘¿Where are we going?’ thought Hermione scared, thinking that probably, they’re going to face more death-eaters, wherever they were headed and fake immediatly being still fainted.

Then, they landed. Hermione felt and suddenly the arm that was holding her let her fall in what seemed to be a polished marbel floor. Her eyes perked to be prepared for whatever came. Then a foot kicked her tentatively in one leg, to test if she was in disadvantage this time; she was not only wandless but in a place she didn’t know and with the worst of the death-eaters at her side.

“Finite” incantated Malfoy, and Hermione’s hair changed back to normal as well as her eyes. “Disgusting... simply disgusting... ¿Who would care about this piece of shit?”

Hermione didn’t move a single brow, but inside she had a mix of emotions; hatred, dispair, sadness, lonliness and fear. She didn’t care what Malfoy think, really, but couldn’t quite stop wondering if there is someone that cared for her. Mulling this, she heard the footsteps of Lucius Malfoy walking away a few meters.

Hermione opened her eyes to see Lucius getting closer to a door. Without another thought, she stood up while looking for something to protect herself. Her surroundings were unknown. ‘Maybe I’m in Malfoy Manor... in Lucius’ office’ thought, all the time looking at the back of the death-eater that was about to reach the handle of the door. If Malfoy alert the rest, she was dead. So, noiselessly, Hermione walked slowly to the desk where she found a big book and with all her might threw it to Lucius’ head, connecting perfectly with the point she had pretended to hit.

Malfoy felt it and with a groan turned around to see Hermione stand beside the desk holding another book. He laughed darkly, pointed his wand to Hermione and shoot her a stunning, but she moved and it missed.

“¡stupid mudblood!” groaned Malfoy. “¿Do you really think that you’re going to escape?”

“I’ll try” she replied, supporting her weight on the desk, behind it to protect herself from a new attack.

“Now, now, child” hissed Lucius, “Don’t look at me with hatred”

“I can’t help it, sorry” replied Hermione sarcastically.

Lucius, far from being enraged, smiled as though Hermione was telling him about the weather.

“Poor child” comented Lucius patronizingly, dragging his words. “You don’t see it, do you? My friends wil be here in ni time... you know that they would like to have fun with you before killing you? Potter would know about you when we leave you outside of the Weasleys’ poor and disgusting house.”

“I’m not scared.” Though, Hermione’s face looked like she was about to cry. At this, lucius laughed even more and begun to walk in her direction; Hermione just rounded the desk where she was hiding. ‘I need to get out of here’ thought desperatly. Lucius was getting closer and Hermione threw the book in her hand to him, but he deflected it with a shield from his wand and rebounded to her. If she hadn’t move, the book would connected with her head. Instead, the book landed few meters away behind her.

“You really are stupid” and as soon as he finished to say this, he shot her a stunner, but Hermione move and missed it. “This game is really boring so, if you are so kind to give up willingly, I’m going to be lenient with you and I’ll kill you quickly, ¿What do you say?”

“Never.”

“As you wish.” And with a rapid motion, he jumped over the desk and Hermione fell on her bum by the sudden action, but not before taking a big paperclip with one of her hands that she saw seconds before. Lucius looked down to her, the fear was writing all over her face. Hermione dragged herself backwards on the floor until her back bumped with a bookcase. Lucius jumped down from the desk, his eyes never leaving Hermione’s. Then, the death-eater bent down in front of her and gripped one of her arms. Hermione took her chance and with her other hand punched Lucius on the face with the paperclip, leaving him blind for few seconds.

Hermione stood up from the floor and ran to the door. Unfortunately for her, she hadn’t snatch Lucius wand that, yelling in frustration, shoot her spells and curses rnadomly. A silver beam got through one of her shoulders in her way out. She stopped for a second, stumbling for the sudden pain and reached the door, opening it and closing it behind her. ‘He’s going to recover soon’ thought running for a corridor full of portraits that were yelling at her in their frames. She ran faster that her legs let her, but she was weak. If the portraits keep making noises, Lucius would find her. Hide was not an option, she needed to get out.

Hermione turned around in a far corner and continued running until two doors were in front of her. Thinking that it may be the exit, reached the handle and tored it open. She peered inside to see a big dinning room. She was thinking top get back in the corridor but she heard steps... steps of someone running in her direction and the thought of retreat was blew out of her mind and walked inside thre didning room closing the door behind her. Quicly, she dragged a chair and jammed in the door handle the same instant that someone on the other side struggled to open it.

“¡Fucking bitch!” shout Lucius behind the door and something like a kick move it a little, making it shiver. Hermione steped back, ‘there’s no time’ thought looking around for something that could help her to get free from there. Then, she thought on desapparate and when she tried, Hermione realized that couldn’t. ‘Damn it, it had antiapparition wards’. At the end of the room she saw another door and ran for it. Hermione opened it and ran across another corridor where she saw a set of stairs and beyond that, what seemed to be the front door of the Manor.

She broke in a run for the front doors, but Lucius steped out of nowhere ahead, blocking the front doors and Hermione dove just in time to eluded a green light where her head was a milisecond before and quickly began to climb the stairs two at the time in zigzag to be a hard target. And she did right, because Lucius, as soon as he reached the stairs, shoot a series of curses her way. Hermione landed stumbling on the first floor and ran into the first corridor to her left.

She tested the first door that was at her reach, but didn’t open and tried the next... and the next now more desperatly... and the next and opened it at the first try, and in the same instant that Lucius send her a curse, missing by milimeters,went inside and closed the door, holding tightly the handle that immediatly struggled from the other side. She looked behind her for something, anything that would be a help and the sight before her amazed her.

It was a beautiful room, a big bedroom with a four poster bed with a greencurtains and blankes. A bureau full of femenine furnish and shelves that seemed to be exquisite hand-work, but still, there was nothing that could help her to get out. Of course there was a fireplace, but not flames and she doubt that anywhere would be floo-powder. Then, the handle stopped and the door alighted and suddenly got back to it’s original state.

“If you wanna play” leered Lucius from the other side of the door, startling Hermione from her worries. “Then, we’ll play. You’ll be lovked up here until my friends arrive. You can run, but you can’t hide... not in the place that I know betterthan the palm of my hand.”

A footsteps anounce Hermione that Lucius was leaving and she let herself fall on her knees crying. ‘I need to get out’ thought sadly ‘before Malfoy get back with the rest... ¡Oh, God!’

She stood up and rumaged for all the wardrobes looking a wand or a can with floo-powder... nothing. She inspected the wals closely, wishing to find a hide passageway but there was non. The only way out was the big window beyond the bed but was secured by iron bars.

Almost defeated, Hermione reached the bed and seated. It was comfy, inviting to sleep on it. Suddenly all the fights and th run made her stomach roar from hungry and the tireness was screaming at her. She curled up on the bed and tenderly, placed a hand on her abdomen.

“I’m sorry” whispered, rubbing the place where her hand was while tears flooed from her eyes.

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When harry got back to reality, was because Remus place his hands on his shoulders shaking him incesantly. Then, he was aware of his surroundings, the sounds were now audible to his ears. It was like stand mind-absently trying to process what he saw. Harry heard the cries of Ginny and immediatly walked to her and hugged her while she cluthed his shirt for dear life.

“¿What happened, Ginny?” asked Bill. He was desperated to know but his sister was crying uncontrolably.

“Ginny” begged Harry “You need to tell us what’s happening. That girl... ¿Who’s she?” but Ginny cried harder.

Then, more aurors got through the hole and went to work. Tonks approached where Remus, Bill, Harry and Ginny were and said.

“We need to go” said sternely “The aurors are working. They want everything clear. Ginny,” she crouched in one knee, “you’re coming with me.”

“¿Why?” asked Bill furious.

“Because she’s involved.”

“She need to calm down first” said Harry.

“No” sobbed Ginny. “No... I just...”

“Shhh, Ginny” shushed Bill at her side caressing her beautiful red hair.

“¡Don’t ‘shh’ me!” yelled Ginny knocking Bill’s hand and lifted her eyes to found The green of Harry’s. She wear a pleding eyes. “Harry” sobbed the girl “I-I promised but... I ca-Ican’t” wailed the tiny witch.

“¿What are you_”

“¡Dont’!” interrupted Ginny. “Just let me talk” Harry was looking at her perplexed but nodded for her to continue. “She... she said... she made us promise to not say anything... Hermione saved me.” Harry’s eyes widened in horror. “She took my place... Malfoy was going to kidnapp me, but Hermione intervened and now... she’s in his clutches... ¡BECAUSE OF ME!”

“¡¡WHAT??” exclaimed Remus, Bill, Tonks and Harry.
“¡¡Please!!, ¡¡Please, Harry!!, ¡¡Save her!!” begged Ginny “Before they took the portkey, she said: ‘give everyone my love, specially Harry’” Ginny’s face was wet for the tears and Harry was struck by horror and fear at the last words. Then she turned to see Remus and Tonks: “¡¡Go!!, ¡¡Go find her!!, ¡¡Please!!”

“¿A-Are... are you sure Ginny?” Harry barely could utter the question. “¿That was He-Hermione?”

“¡¿Are you daft?¡” she yelled almost at the point of breaking right there. Ginny clutch even more tightly his shirt, shaking him to make him realize what she was saying. “¡¡YES!!, ¡¡That girl was Hermione, damn it!!”

Resoluted, Harry stood up bringing Ginny to her feet in the process and looked Remus’ eyes.

“Ginny, you have to give us details” said Tonks and signaled an auror to get close to them. “Bill, go with her”. Tonks eyes scanned the people in the street and spoted Mad-eye. Yelling, he turned and ran to them.

“Mad-eye” said Tonks hurriedly, “we need you, ¿Where’s Kingsley?”

“He’s coming, lad.” Replied the old auror with rasping voice, while his magical eye turned to the back of his head. A second later, Kingsley got through the hole of the wall and seeing everyone gathered there, he reached them. And as soon as he was at their side, Tonks spoke before Kingsley could say a word.

“Lucius took Hermione” said the female auror frantically, and Kingsley’s eyes widened in horror. “she saved Ginny from being kidnapped. ¿Where could they be?”

“I don’t know... Malfoy manor is under supervision by auror twenty-four hours at day. It was secured by the ministry. We need to find where else...”

“¡Dobby!” slapped Harry himself, startling the crowd around him. “¿How could I never figured it before?”

“¿What?” asked Tonks.

“Good thinking, Harry” approved Mad-eye.

“¿What are you talking about?” asked Bill, a tone of exhasperation in his voice.

“Dobby was his house-elf” explained Harry looking with hopeful eyes to his friends. “If someone should know other propierties of Malfoy’s family, is Dobby.”

“You lot.” Said Mad-eye abruptly, “go to our quarters, while Ginny and Bill go to the ministry to give her testimony to this auror.” He pointed with his thumb at the auror behind him. “I’m going to contact McGonagall immediatly and fetdh Dobby with me. I’ll see you then.” And with that, he desapparated.

Fifteen minutes later, Harry, Remus, Fred, George, Angelina, Kate, Neville and Luna arrived in Black manor. Molly and Fleur ran to them to see the girls still sobbing, but Ginny and Bill weren’t with them. Remus aproached the two women and Harry on his heels.

“¿Where’s Ginny?” cried Molly, “¿and Bill?, ¿Where are they?” Molly gripped Remus’ arms like her life deppend on it.

“They’re fine, Molly” replied Remus firmly staring into Molly’s eyes to convey with it and Fleur was behind her sobbing. “They’re ok... right now Bill and Ginny are in the ministry. Ginny is giving a report of what she saw.”

“¿Was she harmed?”

“Just a bit, but nothing to attempet her life.”

“¡Thank Merlin!, ¿How are you?, ¿Where are tonks, Kingsley and Mad-eye?... ¡I want to see my baby girl!”

“Bill will bring Ginny back in a while, don’t worry. And for the rest, they organizing a rescue team.” Said Harry anxiously.

“A rescue team...¿Why?” asked Fleur.

Remus and Harry exchanged glances to one another, calculating if they should said something or not. The rest were silent, waiting to hear. No one besides them knew.

“Because_” Remus was interrupted by Harry.

“Because Lucius was there... and was about to kidnapp Ginny but...” Harry’s brows furrowed in anger and the air around him densed by his own magical energy. In fear, everyone steped back. “... but Hermione took Ginny’s place.”

The girls gasped in horror. Molly fainted right there in Remus’ arms. Neville and the twins suppressed a cry, and before someone else moved, two things happened at once; Tonks and Kingsley came out of the fireplace, startling at the people gathered in the room, and a loud ‘pop’ announced an apparition. When they looked for the source of the noise, found Mad-eye and Dobby, who ran to Harry’s legs and almost tackled him.

“Mr. Potter, sir” screeched Dobby in delight, “I was wishing to see Harry Potter, sir”

“I’m glad to see you too, Dobby... but we have things to do” replied Harry .

“I talked with Dobby” said Mad-eye survying the crowd with his magical eye. “He said that he may knows where Lucius is.”

Harry fell on his knees, grasping Dobby’s shoulders, his eyes sparkling with hope and decision.

“¿Can you help us, Dobby?”

“I help, sir. Harry Potter will get back his friend, sir. Dobby help to find your friend, sir.”

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Hermione lost track of time. She just passed the time seated in the middle of the bed, resisting the urgency to sleep. Fortunately, her wounds weren’t bleeding anymore, but she lost a great amount of blood. Outside was darkening slowly. The sun was on the horizont and a purple sky was announcing the upcoming night.

Hermione was trying to hear noises that could alert Lucius’ presence, but everything was quiet since his last words to her.

Subconsiously, she was thinking in all the things the death-eaters would do to her, and her fears increased by the minute. She’s been thinking on taking her own life, after all she’s brave enough, but the thought of not having her own and wanted family was unbereable. Then, she thought about the time-turner, but that wasn’t an option. She already used it, and if she do it again while the past time is reconstructing itself, then the turbulence in time would transform in a paradox, where past and future would colapse and then... she didn’t dare to think the next, and shivered involuntary. Playing with time factor was and is against nature, and what she did already changed the world, like a circuit of domino’s files moving slowly in parallel lines, changing everything in it’s path milisecond by milisecond... A chill ran down her back at the thought of the matter... she then stopped her breathing. ‘¿What if the death-eaters find the time-turner on my neck?’. Hermione touched the artifact, feeling it through her clothes and sighed in relief. That didn’t last long, ‘if they find it... they can go back in time and... change everything... even Voldemort’s death’.

Hermione shivered again, ‘No... I rather die that let them do it’. Then she thought that hiding the artifact wasn’t an option either. They’ll find it eventually. Now she was more worried for the stupid thing that for her life.

She didn’t know anymore, and musing about the situation was worsening her headache. Once again, she strode to the high window, analizing for the tenth time if she would escape one way or another. The room was dark. There was no switch to light up the room because it was a wizard house, not muggle like hers. She watched outside... the firsts stars were up there, blinking... ‘Maybe they’re mum and dad, smiling down just for me’ thought sadly, ‘what would I give for them to be alive’. Hermione closed her eyes praying for a miracle, but had the total conviction of what she had done was right. Saving Ginny was cleaning her soul.

Hermione was so inmersed in her thoughts that never saw little discret shadows moving noiseless outside. Though, she heard suddenly a few steps, as though they came from far away... from the stairs...

Then, the footsteps came closer... and wasn’t just a pair of footsteps, it was like a good bunch of it... ‘They’re coming’ thought Hermione almost histerical. Then the footsteps stoped just outside the room... someone was talking in whispers... and a laugh... and then she heard a knock on the door once... twice.

“¿Are you ready little mudblood?” The voice of Lucius made her feel ashiver down her spine in fear. “It’s time to play”.

A click on the door said to her that the locking charm was lifted and her breaths came erratically. She didn’t move from her spot in the window and her whole body began to shake, looking the entire time to the door.

It was opening slowly with a loud screach, until it opened completly. The light from the corridor peered inside and the people in the frame were just shadows on her vision.

“Look what we have here” said a female voice, but Hermione recognized it at once; Bellatrix Lestrange. “Our toy in turn.”

Her childish voice made Hermione’s body tremble even more.

“We’re going to dispose of her, then. Now, ¿Someone have ropes?” said other death-eater and the rest laughed. Slowly, one by one, went inside the room.

“¡Incendio!” exclaimed another, and the torches on the walls ignited, providing the light, blinding Hermione momentarely. Quickly, her vision adjusted after all the time she had passed there in the darkness, but didn’t move from the window. Then, she could see more clearly at the new comers: inside was Lucius, at his right was Bellatrix, to his left was Augustus Rookwood, behind them were Avery and Jugson... and all of them wearing faces that let plainly clear that they were thinking on the sickest things to torment her.

Lucius stood his ground and the rest did the same.

“If you cry, yell or scream, no one will hear it. The wards prevent it to. And even if there weren’t magical wards, we’re in the middle of a thick forest... the closest town is twenty-two miles away” said Lucius confidently, glaring her from head to toes. “But Bella here” pointed to her wtih his finger, “said that she want to hear you cry, yell and scream... I don’t doubt that the rest expect the same. The Weasley girl should be here, but you devoted yourself to us... and the consecuences you’re going to pass, I must say, will be the worst and we aren’t going to stop until the rest of air in your lungs vanish in our hands”.

With a signal, Bellatrix and Rookwood approached slowly where Hermione was and gripped her by the arms. She struggled but couldn’t release herself from their grip. Lucius strode towards her, until Hermione was face to face with him and slapped her so hard with the back of his hand, that the blow turned her head. Her mouth started to bleed. Lucius gripped her chin pinfuly and forced her to looked at him. He saw Hermione’s eyes almost closed and his smirk pronounced in his paled face.

“¡Avery!”yelled Lucius, and Avery obeyed instantly, walking up to them and the blonde man moved and pointed in Hermione’s direction.

Wordlessly, Avery began unbutton her cloack slowly. Hermione couldn’t help but shriver and Bellatrix and the rest were laughing quietly...

¡BOOM!

An explosion was heard in the whole manor, startling it’s inhabitants. Bellatrix and Rookwood released their grip on Hermione and she fell on the carpet panting. Then, from below, they heard yellings and things crashing and footsteps running in all directions... someone was fighting...





A/N: I KNOW I NEED A BETA. AND AS SOON AS I CAN I'LL EDIT THE CHAPTERS.

FOR THOSE THAT DIDN'T LIKE MY STORY... WELL, I'LL JUST SAY THAT IT'S OK. READ & REVIEW.

TO CREAMY TASTY: MAKE US A FAVOR AND KILL YOURSELF.