A/N: This story was inspired by The-shiny-girl's "In The Dark." This is my first fanfiction and my first time doing this. Please read and review!
Two songs are referenced here - About Her by Malcolm McLaren; and Tonight by Stephen Sondheim, from the musical West Side Story
Fade in. Red – the colour of pain swirls around, distorting the image of the room. Cold hard marble floor. A swift kick to the gut and a reluctant whimper emanates from her. Then a throaty, insane sounding voice cuts in.
"Mudblood. Where is he?"
"I don't know…."
"Oh you want to play, do you? Crucio!"
Piercing agony washes over her as she struggles to breathe. It seems like forever before the spell is lifted.
"I will ask you only one more time, Muggle filth. WHERE IS HARRY POTTER?"
Her voice falters as she tries to speak, only unintelligent sounds emerge.
"Speak up!"
"Who…." She is almost passing out.
"We have no time for this. ANSWER ME."
Hermione Granger draws in her breath, then forcefully expels "I…don't know who…you are talking about."
"LIAR. Avada Keda…"
An unmistakeably chilling voice cuts in. "That's enough Bellatrix."
"My lord?"
"Legilimens."
Red eyes pierce into dark brown ones. Hermione is too weak to fight, and allows her mind to be violated. Those red eyes release her and he looks up. A sigh, then he says softly, "Interesting. The girl speaks the truth."
A pervading sense of fear, then darkness overcomes as she mercifully passes out.
Hypnotic beat, then the singer's plaintive voice soars -
"Well no one told me about her,
The way she lied.
Well no one told me about her,
How many people cried.
But it's too late to say I'm sorry,
How would I know, why should I care.
Please don't bother trying to find her,
She's not there…
She's not there…"
Hermione lay curled up on the floor of her cell, crying, repeating this chorus over and over in her mind as she sobs. The pervasive sense of mourning dominated the feel of the room.
Blackness again. Then the room again, only Hermione is looking out of the tiny window. An orchestral swell sweeps the image of the room, and then a soprano's voice singing
"Tonight, tonight,
It all began tonight,
I saw you, and the world went away…
Tonight, tonight,
There's only you tonight,
What you are, what you do, what you say."
Then a tenor's voice cuts in
"Today, all day I had the feeling,
A miracle would happen,
I know now I was right."
Then the two join together
"For here you are,
And what was just a world is just a star, Tonight!"
A sneer curls the lips of the man watching Hermione. This must be what constitutes as a muggle love song, he thought with distaste.
His thought was interrupted. "Lucius!"
Lucius emerges from the pensieve and focuses. "Bellatrix."
"It's Draco. They found him. He is safe."
"Where is he?" Lucius starts to rush out of the room.
"The Dark Lord has taken him for questioning. Come, they are waiting for you."
A/N - So? How did I do? Please read and review!