Chapter 1; Betrayal
"They aren't coming back Miss Granger." The voice said from the corner of the room where Hermione was currently chained to the wall. "They left you to die."
"No, you're lying!" She said lifting her head and looking in the direction of the voice. "They will come for me. I know they will." On her face she wore a smirk, one that would normally make him want to Avada someone right on the spot, however not this time. Watching her spirit break would be good enough for now.
"Young Malfoy." He called, a second later the door to the right of Hermione open and in stepped Draco Malfoy.
"Traitor!" She screamed. "We trusted you! You led us into a trap!"
"Ah Granger, as smart as ever." He smirked. "Yes I led your little Potthead and Weasel into a trap, you as well, too bad they escaped and left you here to die."
"They'll be back." She growled.
"I wonder young Malfoy, do you think she'll be this loyal to us?" The voice from the corner asked, causing Hermione to laugh.
"I will NEVER be loyal to you."
"Crucio." Bella yelled from the corner, Hermione screamed as the curse hit her."Do not talk to our Lord that way!"
"Enough Bella." Bella lifted the curse, and the room grew silent minus Hermione's heavy breathing. "Un-chain her Bella."
"My Lord?"
"Do as I say, but do not let go of her."
"Yes my Lord." She said walking towards Hermione. When she stopped in front of Hermione, Hermione lifted her head and spit in her face. Bella reached back and slapped her across the face before whipping out her wand.
"Bellatrix, do not harm our guest any more. Young Malfoy, it will be your duty to hold on to the Granger girl. Bella come over here and get the pensive ready." Bella glared at the girl before walking back towards her master. Draco walked over to Hermione and casted a binding charm over her so that when he un-chained her, she couldn't hit him, which he was sure she wanted to do judging by the glare she was giving him and the hatred in her eyes.
With Hermione's arms bound behind her back Draco walked her over to his master, who grabbed her arm, very gently. Hermione assumed her didn't want Mudblood germs on his precious body. Draco then took his wand and extracted a memory from his mind and placed it into the pensive, before grabbing Hermione back from his master.
"Are you ready, Miss Granger to see that your savior won't be troubled with you?" The Dark Lord asked before pushing Hermione and Draco's head into the pensive.
Hermione and Draco landed in a very chaotic Grimmauld Place. They entered the kitchen together to see Draco Harry Ron Ginny Molly Arthur Remus and Tonks, who were standing around the table while everyone was putting up defenses around the house.
"Did anyone see what happened to Hermione?" Harry asked, just then the Dark Lord appeared beside Hermione. She looked up and smirked at him, surely they would start planning her rescue.
"Oh Harry, I did." Ron started with his head down. "Bellatrix had her, and honestly Hermione didn't look like she could handle it, I tried to go help her but that's when you grabbed me." Hermione looked outraged she never had the underhand against Bellatrix until the Dark Lord cursed her from behind.
"If she was captured we have to go and rescue her." Draco stated. Hermione shot him a glare realizing that he was trying to lead them into another trap by pretending to care, but when she looked back at the scene her heart broke.
Harry stood at the head of the table shaking his head. "No that is what they expect us to do. We can't risk it." Draco leaned in and whispered in Hermione's ear, "If you were one of us, I would have gone back for you."
"You do realize what they'll do, don't you Potter?" The memory Draco said. Harry just nodded. "They'll kill her when she doesn't talk. Are you just going to let her die like that?"
"Malfoy I can't risk everyone to save her when we know it's a trap." Tears were rolling down Hermione's face as she shook her head back and forth.
"No no no this can't be happening. They have to come back for me."
"She may have been the brightest wicth but her dueling has been off a lot lately, she's more of a liability than an asset." Remus added while Tonks nodded.
"So I've been a little dazed lately, I still saved both of their asses tonight, how can they say that?"
Bellatrix who had been standing beside the Dark Lord, looked at the young girl. "For a Mudblood you held your own pretty well against me, I, of course, was still better, but you are definitely not weak." The Dark Lord nodded his head in agreement. Hermione just turned back to the scene at hand.
"Harry, we should go get her." Ginny said, Hermione smiled, at least she could count on Ginny to be there for her.
"She won't be much help Ginny. All she did was read her stupid books and boss us around."
"Ronald!" Hermione scolded, forgetting that he couldn't hear her.
"She was our friend! Or did you forget all the times that she saved your ass from something she learned in one of her books?" Ginny was outraged. "Draco I'm with you we need to save her." Draco just nodded.
Hermione turned to the Dark Lord."Please don't hurt her if she comes for me, she's the only true friend I have." She said before breaking down and crying harder. This memory was too much for her, everyone she loved and fought for was turning on her.
"She's already here, young Malfoy led her here, and we have not harmed her yet. I think this is enough of the memory let us leave."
They landed back in the dungeon with a thud. Hermione was sobbing. Draco undid her restraints and walked her over to the bed in the room. She flung herself on it and cried mercilessly into the pillow. They all turned to leave the crying girl when she spoke.
"Kill me, please." She begged.
"No." The Dark Lord said.
"Why? Why not kill me? You already have all the information you could ever want from Malfoy what could you possibly want from me? I have nothing. No friends, I'm a filthy Mudblood, why do you want me. They left me here to die! They don't care about me! They aren't going to come for me! I'm of no use to you. Please just kill me." The Dark Lord, dismissed Bella and Draco from the room before he turned back to the girl.
"Miss Granger, I do not plan on killing you."
"Then what do you plan on doing with me?"
"I plan on training you. Channel your betrayal into anger, fight alongside us. We will be your family, your friends. We won't leave such a powerful witch like you behind."
"But I'm just a Mudblood."
"With your power, we can overlook that little flaw. Join us Granger, and get your revenge on Harry Potter."
Hermione sat up on the bed and dried her eyes. She looked at the Dark Lord and thought about how easily Harry dismissed her. Her blood started to boil as she thought of every time she saved him from a near death experience, every time she stayed up until the next morning trying to figure things out for him. She looked the Dark Lord in the eyes.
"Train me."
Hermione Granger awoke to knocking on the door. She opened her eyes and found herself in a room she had never seen before. The walls were a dark green and she was lying on a bed with silver silk sheets. She sat up and rubbed her eyes before asking who it was.
"It's Ginny." Ginny? The Dark Lord said she was here. Hermione got up and walked to the door, figuring that Ginny couldn't open it from the outside or she'd already be inside. Hermione slowly opened the door only to be forced backwards by a blob of red hair.
"Oh thank Merlin you're alright!" Ginny cried. The door to the room automatically slammed shut behind Ginny causing the two to jump, and giving Ginny her first good look at Hermione. She was a bit beat up, her left cheek was swollen, she had a couple cuts across her face and arms, she had red marks around her wrists from where the chains were, but something else was off.
"Hermione? Did you die your hair?"Ginny asked looking at what used to be chestnut locks, which were now a darker brown, almost closer to black than brown.
"Ginny, why would you ask such an absurd question like that? Of course I did not die my hair, geez you saw me yesterday."
"Your hair wasn't this dark yesterday." She said pushing Hermione towards a mirror. Hermione looked in the mirror and screamed.
Draco Malfoy was given the job to stand outside one of his many guest rooms of his manor and make sure that Granger didn't try to escape. The Dark Lord assured him that he didn't have to worry about that, he was sure she wouldn't go back to Potter, it was just a precaution. He had let the Weaselette in only moments ago and then he heard a scream.
Malfoy tore into the room wand at hand only to see Hermione standing in front of a mirror screaming at her own reflection.
"Merlin Granger, what the hell is wrong with you?" She turned and looked at him, eyes wide in horror, he wondered for a second if she forgot where she was and what was going on, but then he noticed she looked, different.
"Did your master do anything to me last night?"
"Don't flatter yourself Granger, he would never sully himself with your filth." Both the Weaselette and Granger glared at him.
"I didn't mean that way you perv. I mean did he change my hair color and my eye color?" Malfoy walked closer to her to get a good look. She was right her hair was dark and so were her eyes. Her eyes actually looked familiar like he had seen similar ones before but he couldn't figure out where.
"No Granger, the Dark Lord didn't do anything to you, but we will resolve this, come with me to the study, you too she-weasel." Before the two girls could protest their hands we bound behind their backs and he grabbed their arms and led them out of the room.
Malfoy walked down the hallway with the Weasley girl and Granger in toe. They walked up a set of stairs, down a hallway, down a set of stairs, and down another hallway, before stopping in front of a door.
Malfoy opened the door and waited for them to go through before following. The room was dark, with only a couple candles lighting the desk where the Dark Lord sat. Bellatrix and Lucius were standing on either side of the Dark Lord, who was currently reading some papers. His head shot up when the girls and Draco entered.
"Young Malfoy is there a reason you interrupted me this morning?" The Dark Lord said coldly while returning his eyes back to the papers.
"I am sorry my Lord, but Miss Granger, well there's something different about her and she has some questions."
"If you don't mind sir." Hermione added hoping to not get Draco into too much trouble, even though it was his idea.
Ginny was a bit shocked that Hermione was being so polite to the Dark Lord, wasn't he supposed to be her enemy?
"Go ahead Miss Granger, but quickly I don't have all day."
"First I want to thank you for placing me in such a beautiful room last night." The Dark Lord just nodded for her to continue. "But this morning when I woke up I noticed some changes in my appearance." The Dark Lord's head shot up again to survey her. "My hair and eye color is darker, than it normally is; I panicked when I saw it this morning causing Malfoy to run into my room. I was curious sir, if this is your handy work?"
"No, Miss Granger I have not placed any glamour charms on you, but maybe someone else already has. Miss Granger is there something you do every single day since you can remember; maybe something you take every morning or every night; that you haven't taken recently?"
Hermione thought about it, something she's always took. Ever since she was little she always had to take this pill, which she ran out of 3 days ago, and because they were so busy with the war she didn't have time to owl her mother and ask for more.
"Actually now that you mention it, I ran out of these pills my mother has made me take since I was young, 3 days ago." Ginny stared at Hermione whose skin was getting darker as she spoke. Bellatrix and Lucius's eyes got big as the young girl changed in front of them.
Lucius leaned in towards his master and whispered something in his ear. The Dark Lord nodded his head briefly.
"We can't be completely sure yet Lucius, go to your wife tell her to brew the proper potion and we will find out tonight."
"Yes my Lord." Lucius said before exiting the room.
"What's going on?" Hermione demanded.
Voldomort looked at her, and smiled, not smirked, not grinned evilly, actually smiled. Hermione in turn cocked up her eyebrow.
"17 years ago, there was a set of twins born to a powerful pureblood wizarding family, a very unique set of twins. As you have seen throughout your years in Hogwarts, twins are normally always the same sex, always. It is incredibly rare to have a set of twins born one boy and one girl. When twins are born of opposite sex in a wizarding family they are said to be more powerful than a normal wizard. Before this set of twins first birthday however the little girl was stolen in the middle of the night. There was no ransom, no letter; the mother just woke up to her son crying and her daughter gone. The daughter was never found again. Most believed she died. The little girl's name was Rosaline Zabini."
"Why are you telling me this?" Draco's eyes got wide and he grabbed Hermione's arms and swung her to face him. He studied her eyes intently, before letting her go.
"I knew those eyes looked familiar." He mumbled.
"What was that young Malfoy?"
"Her eyes are exactly like Blaise's. When I saw the change in her eyes this morning I knew they looked familiar but I couldn't pin-point how I knew them. Sir, may I be excused to go floo Blaise?"
"Yes young Malfoy, tell him to report immediately."
"Yes my Lord."
"Wait, no I'm not some pureblood. I'm Hermione Granger!"
"That might very well be true, we will see once Narcissa brews the potion."
"Let's say that Hermione is this Rosaline girl, who kidnapped her, and why?" Ginny asked.
"The Zabini's were a very powerful pureblood family; while they weren't my servants they had very strong ties to most of them. We believe that Dumbledore or one of his followers stole the little girl from the Zabini's so she would grow up a "good" witch, one with no ties to our side."
"That's terrible, Dumbledore would never do that!"
"Really Granger, do you really believe that?" Bellatrix asked making the girl stop and think. "Weren't you also so sure that Potter would come rescue you?"
Ginny looked at Hermione confused. "Mione, Harry sent me for you."
"No Ginny, Harry said so himself, he would not risk everyone for me. I saw Draco's memory, I heard everything they said."
"Oh Hermione!" Ginny cried. "Can I please be unbound so I can hug her?" She asked. Within a second her arms were around Hermione and they cried knowing that the boy who they trusted had let them down.
Just then 4 people walked into the room, Lucius, Narcissa, Draco and Blaise. Narcissa walked up to the crying girls and gently pried them apart.
"Miss Granger, this potion will tell us your true blood name."
"Blood name?" Hermione asked.
"Yes when you are born, the first name you are given is ingrained in your blood, hence the title blood name, taking blood from a person and running a test on it will produce the blood name, or drinking this potion." She handed the potion to Hermione who took it gingerly. All eyes were on the young witch as she dumped the contents of the vial down her throat. A moment passed before letters started to appear above her head.
The letters spelled out Rosaline Zabini.
end of chapter 1,
a bit of a twist for our poor Hermione huh?
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