A/N: Hi guys! Here is the first chapter of my new story.
Let me know your thoughts about it.
THIS CHAPTER HAS NOT BEEN CORRECTED.
I listened to System part of the soundtrack of Queen of the Damned sang by Chester Bennington while writing this chapter which also inspired me for a new story.
Disclaimer: All the characters are owned by our Queen JK Rowlings.
Christmas was already past, but the snow was still sticking to ground very well.
Waiting on new years eve, Hermione could not wonder to what party she was going to attend that night, everything from the location to the organization was kept secret, the only information she got that was from the invitation she received three weeks ago by owl.
It was going to a masquerade ball, long gown for the woman and tuxedo for the men, having no one to attend it with, and after having sought from advice from her best friend Ginevra Weasley, Hermione opted for a long vintage burgundy and black dress with pearls drew in the corset, a simple black lace mask, paired with some black heels, Ginny would come to make her makeup and hair on the thirty-first December, so she could leave in time to get the portkey in the ministry to get there.
Hermione was living in a cozy flat in Diagon Alley not too far from the Weasley shop after she broke up with Ron two years ago, George and he had made a serious business from the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes shop.
Voldemort dead everybody thought that nothing bad could happen to them anymore but apparently, they were all wrong.
Harry was a brilliant chef Auror in training, he leads men in the operation in the whole of Great Britain, catching remains Death Eater and stopped multiple attacks around London and Edinburgh. Proud of both her best friends, Hermione was working for the Mystery Departement, she could never tell what she was working on, but she had some good previous case, as a Mudblood she has been fed with the story of Monsters as a kid, but none of them were lies.
She had two days of holidays to spend before the secret party of New Year's Eve and she was looking forward to it.
Deciding to go visit the Potter, she left her flat to desipparate in the designated area in the courtyard behind the building unaware of the eyes observing her.
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Arriving in front of the Grimmauld place, Hermione waited a few seconds before she could gravitate the step, knocking at the door she had to wait few seconds before she could see a half-naked Harry opening her.
Stepping in the entrance, she waited on her friend to follow him, leading her in the kitchen where he was cooking with Teddy, Hermione wonders why Teddy had flour all over the air and tomato sauce on his face. Hearing someone coming from the fireplace, Hermione wondered if it was Ginny.
Leaving his cooking on the side, Harry went to check on the arrival, as she heard the feminine voice of Ginny cursing his fiance about his habit of being half naked the whole day during his day off, Hermione was sure that Ginny had a bad day. Rising from her seat to go greeting her best friend, Hermione was joined half way by her, making that they had a good laugh about it.
returning to the kitchen both of the women sat on the chair near Teddy, looking at Harry meal getting finished, while Kreattur seems disgusted by the sight of it.
"How did your training went today," asked Harry to Ginny.
"Well not as good as I planned it, I fell from my broomstick in the middle on the practice, making the media witch of the team, giving me a full week of rest before I can come back," replied Ginny showing the bruise on her arm to her friend in the same time.
" A week of rest, that is a lot for a single bruise, isn't ?" questioned Hermione
"Yeah I thought so, but she wants me to get an exam in St Mungo tomorrow, she thinks I have an anemia," answered Ginny.
On that news Hermione could feel the pain of her friend, she knew how much she loved playing.
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Leaving the Potter's House after dinner, she went straight back home,while getting ready to go to bed, Hermione spotted a bouquet of Black roses in a jar not far from her bed, along with petals widely spreads on top of it and some chocolate on her pillow, she wondered who could have left that, knowing that someone would have broken into her flat, Hermione grab her wand to send a Patronus to Harry so he could come to check her flat.
Returning to her bathroom, she checked it to find evidence of the identity of the intruder, hearing someone knocking at her door a few minutes later, she opened it to find the whole team of Harry.
As the Auror checked her flat, Harry questioned her if she could think of someone or if a detail in the way the gift was presented made her think about an ex-boyfriend. To those questions, Hermione had no answer, but one who came in her mind was that it looks about the case she was working at the department.
Finding no trace of the intruder, left Harry tensed cause that would mean, that the guy was very smart and did not want to be found. For the sake of her friend Harry left three men on site in case something else would happen that night.
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No more accident happened until the night of the ball, while Hermione was getting dressed, she wondered what the mystery of tonight was all about.
Opening her door, so Ginny could enter, Hermione left to grab her shoes in the bedroom and the mask, she quickly returned to her living room.
When Ginny arrived, she folded Hermione hair in a complicated bun while she still had some curls out of it, for her makeup she made Hermione lips red as blood and a simple smokey on her eyes.
Ready for her evening, Hermione left her flat escorted by the Auror until the portkeys she had to take in the ministry.
Posing her hand on it, she saw twenty women and two men on fives other portkeys waiting to leave.
When she felt the sensation of movement coming, Hermione waited to see the other girl with her to start getting her hand off of it before she would do it herself.
Landing near what seems to look like an old Castle, all surrounded by forest, Hermione wondered where she was. Was she even still in England?
Waiting for them to arrive near the gate was a servant, one by one they were lead into the ballroom where the evening was about to start.
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All the person invited where arrived at his castle, which means that the game could start for him and his coven could start. Smelling his special guest, he wondered if she knew what was going to happen to her tonight. She had dug too deep and almost discover the identity of his coven and their location after they left England at the end of the war.
Wishing if the blood of the witch would be as good as she smelled, he joined his coven in the salon near the ballroom.
The chase was about to begin and he was seeking revenge tonight.
Organising a ball to arrive at his final goal was the best he ever had.
A/N: Let me know your thoughts about that chapter. The warning will remain for the next few chapters coming. A sporadic Updated chapter on that story. I hoped that I did not lose anyone on the side of the road. What do you think is going to happen to Hermione? And who is speaking?
Take care of you
Lenhan