A/N So this is an AU because Malfoy manor will be before they destroy the horcrux and some other things also Hermione is so going to ooc now. Also some of them are a bit older, I'll explain later on.
Heavy footsteps echoed throughout the manor as the group of five moved towards a particular room, the dinning room that was currently occupied by the whole of Voldemort's inner circle, four of the five were snatchers and the other was their prisoner so to say.
The lead of the group being the prisoner dressed in dark colours, a hood covering most of their face and a cigarette hanging out of their mouth as they were pushed forward by the four behind, until a set of wooden steps ascended up and all began carefully climbing to the top where the inner circle sat at a long wooden table, the room dark apart from the little light the fire roaring in the hearth gave off and the small amount of moonlight shining in through the window.
"What do you want?" A dark haired witch asked from near the end of the table and the prisoner rolled the cigarette between their fingers before puffing out some smoke, while the four looked confused behind them.
"We found the mudblood!" The lead snatcher announced in a cheerful tone and the whole table of people clad in black looked at them confused, until the same witch said what the rest were thinking. "Mudblood? What mudblood?" She questioned, looking at the hooded figure who kept blowing out smoke rings.
"Hey, Will you stop smoking in my house!" A blonde with an icy gaze shouted towards the figure who finally looked up at the remark before taking the cigarette out of their mouth and blowing it out, placing the leftover in their pocket. "I wasn't aware that I wasn't allowed to smoke, plus it's enchanted so it wouldn't mess up the place anyway." They replied boredly.
"We meant the Granger mudblood. We found her wondering the forest alone." The same snatcher replied, pulling down the hood to reveal a young woman with piercing grey eyes that had a strange tint of red along with long, straight black locks that flowed down her back, she was dressed in a dark green shirt with black jeans and black hoodie on top.
The whole table laughed and the ravenette spoke again. "That's not the Granger girl. Did you get hit by a whomping willow on the way here?" She sneered and some of the black clad figures laughed again, the prisoner smirking along with them.
"Plus Granger was reported as dead months ago, idiots." The black clad woman spoke again, examining the fake Granger. "Nobody could confirm she was dead though." The prisoner spoke again, her head now pointed up in the arrogant way all purebloods did.
"Who is she? She doesn't look like a mudblood, A half-blood? Possibly a pure-blood?" The blonde woman from before questioned but the prisoner remained silent until the snatchers started groaning and gripping their head before they dropped to the floor.
Not long after they stood back up, looking completely confused as to where they were and fear etched into their faces when they realised, the prisoner chuckled at their reaction but not for long, going silent once again.
"Little bitch, you used the imperius curse on us!" The leader, Scabior growled at the woman who just stood there not moving until the dark-haired man pointed his wand at her before pronouncing the spell that hit her in the chest, throwing her to the floor as she seized.
"You have my wand you twat. How could I use the imperius curse on you without a wand?" She growled back while gritting her teeth to suppress screams from the pain flooding her body, he grunted in understanding and took off the curse but she stayed sat up on the floor for a few moments before standing up again and glaring at the four while cracking her bones.
"You didn't mean it properly, it didn't hurt as much as it should have. I've had worse." She piped up and the four looked bewildered at her answer. "And who exactly has done it to you, only worse?" He smirked, thinking she was lying and nearly chocked when she answered him. "Madam Lestrange over there! Much worse then that weak one you just cast." The dark-haired witch's piercing eyes now lay on the young woman.
"I don't remember you. You're lying." Bellatrix shrieked at the dark-haired woman standing down the opposite end of the table. "Well you wouldn't, I looked quite different." Was the reply, a mysterious glint in the young woman's eyes.
"Crucio!" Scabior repeated the curse but the woman had seen it coming and dodged it, shouting a curse back. "CRUCIO!" She shouted, facing the four who now dropped to the floor squirming as a red light surrounded them and screams ripped from their throats. "Accio wand!" She said grinning and her wand flew to her outstretched hand before she flicked it and the curse on them vanished but they still trembled on the floor.
"Pathetic, you can't even take a real cruciatus curse" She spat before returning her vision to the now shocked deatheaters, even the dark lord and Bellatrix had widened eyes in suprise.
"Definitely not the mudblood girl, Granger!" The blonde, Narcissa muttered before looking to her cowering husband and shocked son beside her, both were blonde-haired as well. "What makes you say that Madam Malfoy?" The ravenette asked, tilting her head to the side in amusement as the blonde audibly gulped before replying. "..Because Granger is too much of a good little swot to cast an unforgivable curse on anyone.. even if they deserve it."
"Well okay then.." She smiled before being thrown across the room away from the table, a large gap was left between the table and the windows where she currently lay awkwardly. "She is Granger, the little bitch is just wearing a disguise or disillusion spell or something." Scabior shouted, he was the one who had sent a stunning spell at the woman.
"STUPEFY!" A voice bellowed from the corner and a blue flash crashed into Scabior sending him down the stairs he stood above, along with Greyback, the other two snatchers just looked dazed before pulling out their own wands and shooting spells at the dark-haired woman, who dodged and sent double the amount of spells back but no lethal ones, just stunning and disarming spells until one of them sent a Avada Kedavra her way which she narrowly avoided.
"SECTUMSEMPRA!" She screamed in response to a narrowly avoided cruciatus curse, hitting one of them in the chest and knocking him to the floor where he starting to bleed from numerous gashes appearing on his body, she glanced at Severus Snape who looked pale as always with a looking of curiosity on his face.
"Avada Kedavra!" Scabior was up again and casting spells at the dark-haired female who had a few burn marks and gashes along her body. More narrow misses and spells thrown at each other across the room and the woman lay on the floor panting after being knocked down by a 'Impedimenta' spell.
The shaggy haired man staring down at her, wand pointed to her chest as she pushed herself up, he wasn't far from her so if he threw that spell she wouldn't be able to dodge it. "Avada.." He only got half way through his incantation before she had shouted the whole of it. "AVADA KEDAVRA!" She even suprised herself with it as a huge jet of green light shot from her wand, crashing into his chest and sending his body through the air, it stopped as it crumpled against the wall, bones snapping clearly heard by all instead of the shattering of all the windows that now lay in gleaming pieces on the floor.
She glanced to the side at the table of deatheaters, who once again all looked shocked including the dark lord. Once she turned back, a figure already pounced at her throwing them both to the floor, her wand sliding along the floor to rest somewhere hidden from her sight. "Get the fuck off me now!" She cussed wriggling underneath the man above her.
He leaned backwards, slamming his fist into her face, a crack sounding as blood gushed down her nose, her nose was definitely broken but she was seemingly unfazed by that, kicking him off her body and across the floor some way away. "If it turns out to be Granger, watch out for the right hook! She's got a mean right hook." Draco informed the guy on the floor from his place sitting next to his father.
The dark-haired female looked over at Draco and smiled, a genuine smile before turning back to the guy charging at her, a swift move to the side and her foot stretching out resulting in him crashing to the floor seconds later. "Mother fucker!" He grunted before picking himself up, she didn't even give him time to steady himself before landing a right hook to his jaw, a crunching noise sounding, signalling she had probably broken his jaw.
"It's a shame the last proper word you said was a profanity." She teased as he stumbled, spitting out blood as his jaw began to turn purple and swell up, definitely broken. He glared, giving her a two fingered salute before throwing them both to the ground, both of them clawing and hitting each other as they scrambled for the win, eventually the scruffy man managed to grab at the young woman's throat, pressing his hands firmly against her windpipe until her hands dropped to her sides.
Like him, everyone assumed she's dead until the man started gargling, falling on top of the female, blood spilling from his neck where a neat cut is carved from one side to the other, a bloodied knife in her hand drops to the floor beside her while she pushes the body away breathing rapidly, aware of the many eyes resting on her.
"Definitely not the mudblood!" Bellatrix laughed out, bearing her usual manic smile while she stared at the woman who was now covered in blood, sticky red blood all over her clothes and a manic smile etched onto her face.
A sudden growl interupted Bellatrix's laughter and the room fell silent once again as Greyback appeared on the top of the stairs, a blood thirsty look in his eyes as he lunged, the woman still looking for her wand that seemed to have dissappeared. "Accio wand" She mumbled but nothing happened and the beastly man advanced on her.
In seconds he would be on her, she accessed the situation before diving out of the way of the man who landed exactly where she had been moments earlier, a hard object now dug into her side as she leaned on it and she plunged her hand into her pocket, cold metal touching her hand and she instantly knew what it was but there was only one chance.
She rolled out of the way again, leaping up and running around the other side of the table, Greyback growled and decided to go over the table just as she expected, so the moment his feet were above the table and he was facing her, she pulled out what was in her pocket.
A gun, she quickly aimed it for his head, holding the weapon with both hands, her right hand pulling the trigger and a 'bang' echoing through the room as the bullet left the gun and landed right on her target, right between his eyes, it seemed his features contorted before his body dropped on the table instead of the spot she stood, blood pooling on the gleaming wooden surface.
A breath she had held finally released as she took in quick breaths of air but keeping a stoic expression like she didn't care because really she didn't, she was just tired off all the bullshit she had been through recently.
"So who are you really? You're clearly not Miss Granger." Voldemort asked calmly, unlike how she had expected him to react after they had ruined his meeting. "You really want to know?" She asked, looking him dead in his red snake-like eyes and he nodded.
"If you wish dark lord.. but I shall need my wand back first" She replied, gazing over everyone's faces. Voldemort looked over his followers faces and spoke again, this time to the older dark-haired witch, with the piercing black eyes who always wore black dresses with leather corsets.
"Bellatrix, her wand please." He ordered and she stood up, walking around the table to give the young witch her wand back but not before examining her, blood covered her face, leaving only her eyes and above as the pale white she usually was, her hands and clothes as equally splattered with blood, as all attention was drawn to her and the dark witch who was now circling her like a predator after it's prey.
Her wand was placed in her outstretched palm as Bellatrix walked away, licking her lips in satisfaction as she wondered who this woman really was. The woman quickly pointed the tip of her wand to her hair and it began to change, first growing longer and then curling so curls cascaded down her back, the young witch looked very much like Bellatrix in that moment before the hair turned a dark brown and her eyes changed to brown as well, before she pulled her wand away from her face and pointed it at the window, mouthing spell so the windows repaired themselves before she let her arms fall to her sides keeping the wand in her grip.
"It is the mudblood!" Bellatrix shrieked in suprise looking at a bloodied Hermione instead of the bloodied ravenette woman from moments ago. "Hermione... Granger, no way in hell is that really you! Merlin's balls! What happened to you Granger?" Draco stuttered before Hermione's gaze moved to land on Serverus, her old potions teacher had his eyes fixed on her although in his opinion she looked nothing like the old Hermione, she looked like a new person.
The dark lord looked just as equally dumbfounded by the discovery as everyone else before he laughed and everyone snapped out of their trances on the brunette, instead glaring at her. "Polyjuice potion? Another disillusion spell? A muggle disguise? Metamorphmagus abilities? It has to be something else, a mudblood girl can't have taken out those four like that, mudbloods steal magic and yet she just controlled it like it belongs to her." Voldemort poundered out loud as he fiddled with his wand.
"None of the above... It took two months for them to presume I was dead, at least four for them to believe it, six to accept it and on the eighth month they had forgotten I was even there, funny huh, how things can change so drastically in such a small amount of time when one runs away from it all." Hermione announced.
Nagini slithered around the floor and Hermione looked at the snake and smiled, crouching down to pet the snake, Nagini seemed fine with the brunette petting her and slithered up one of the chairs nearby the girl and eventually managed to rest across her shoulders, the dark lord and Bellatrix looked truly astonished that the snake had not attacked the girl yet.
The looks of astonishment increasing when Hermione talked to the snake but instead of english the sentence came out as a load of hiss sounds and strange words, she had spoken parseltongue to the snake. "You won't go hungry anytime soon, there's plenty for you to eat on the floor now." Hermione hissed and the snake nodded slightly and she crouched down again so the snake could slither off again, but not in the direction of Voldemort like she had expected instead Nagini approached one of the bodies now all on the floor and began to swallow it whole, the snake had actually obeyed what she had said even though it wasn't an order.
"What the hell was that? How can you speak parseltongue?"Voldemort hissed and she actual understood and answered in english. "I don't know, honestly." Bellatrix stood up, stalking over to the brunette and a 'slap' resonated through the air but the brunette registered no pain from the slap as an angry red handprint appeared on her check.
"Seriously I have no clue." Hermione replied and Bellatrix this time threw a punch colliding with the girl's stomach and she buckled over, the snake was near her again hissing at her and she understood it. "Why have you got that? It's not yours, it doesn't belong around your neck girl!"
She shuffled back away from it's beared teeth and replied. "I don't know why I kept it but I felt the urge to stop Potter and Weasley destroying it so it's here safe while they think it's destroyed. You can have it, it can go back to it's rightful owner now."
She grabbed the locket from around her neck, passing it to the snake and now she felt emptier than before as she stood back up. "I think.. I know now and so does Nagini" Hermione asked and Voldemort looked at the snake that appeared in his lap with the locket in it's open mouth for the man to take.
"Thank you" Nagini hissed at her and the dark lord examined it knowing what it really was but he didn't look very angry like she imagined in fact he looked rather calm.
Bellatrix was by her side and digging sharp nails into her shoulders before the dark lord called her back, Hermione observed the surroundings and figured it might be best if she left now, the locket had been corrupting her and now it was gone she felt better...
