Disclaimer: I own none of the characters except for Ardere, Mel and that's it. I don't own any other characters, they belong to JKR, sorry i didn't write this in the last few chapters.

"Hermione's story"

Safely back in my room, I sat on my bed and reached over to my book that I laid there this morning. Opening it, I allowed my mind to be taken away to the story, to be engulfed by it. Time really flew by, as I got deeper and deeper into the story. I actually felt that I was apart of the story, like I was actually there.

Further and further I read, my mind no longer was in the real world, no longer was I alert to my surroundings. It left me vulnerable to anyone coming into my room. By the time I reached the middle of the book, my mind cleared and my senses returned, once more, I was alert. Before setting the book down, I heard my door open and in walked Hermione with a tray, on top of it, were a teapot, teacup, milk and sugar.

"Hey Hermione," I said putting the book down on the table.

"Hey, I brought you some tea," Hermione replied placing the tray on the table, careful not to hit the book. As she began to turn away, I stopped her.

"Wait, stay with me, too bad you didn't bring an extra cut, we could have had tea together and you can tell me what's been going on."

"Don't worry, I did bring an extra one," Hermione said with a smile as I gave her a confused look. She took out something from behind the teapot. It was an extra cup.

"I have taught you well," I smiled as I watched her pour the hot water into each of our cups. When mine was handed to me, I added in the milk and sugar, the exact way I like it.

After Hermione had hers ready herself, I crossed my legs so she could sit close to me on the bed.

"Okay, tell me everything that happened after I said my goodbyes to you."

"All right, we were at the gate, Mel, Luna, and I were talking, saying our hellos to the Weasley's, me to my mom, my dad wasn't there, which surprised me," Hermione said. All the memories from a few days ago came back.

After we said our goodbyes to Ardere and her sisters, and making sure that Luna was all right, we remained behind near the gate talking, trying not to have a silent awkward moment.

"All right, so seriously what are your plans for the summer?" I asked, even though, I knew Luna was still upset about her loss of her father. Mel leaned against one of the pillars before answering.

"I am staying at home, sleeping, with a good possibility of me getting drunk."

I laughed at that, it was amusing hearing her say that, I always assumed that I was her goal in life to get drunk. Even though with her, it was not unknown for her to get randomly drunk.

"I'm not even sure what I'm going to do over the summer, I'm not sure if things will ever be the same, I mean, I lost my mom, and now I've lost my dad."

"Listen, if need be, you can always come spend the summer with us," Mel said.

"I know that, I'll think about that."

"Hermione, are you ready to go?" a voice called over to me. I turned around to see a woman with curly shoulder length light brown hair. It was my mom; I ran over to her and wrapped my arms around her.

"Where's dad?" I asked looking around.

"He didn't want to come, something came up that he had to get done," my mom said.

"That sucks, I really wanted to see him."

"Come on, he should be home soon," my mom said.

Turning around I waved to the others and said goodbye to them before leaving with my mom. The air felt nice outside of the train station, it was nice and warm. I was so happy to be going home, to be with my family, this is what I needed though I wanted to be with my friends as well.

Sitting in our black Honda, I wanted to leave this place, get away from all the hurt that surrounded this place. I've always had an excitement about going home, to see my family, to just being with after them, after not seeing them for months. But this summer was going to be even more exciting then any other summer. Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour are getting married. Fleur only wanted Ginny Weasley and her sister Gabrielle as bridesmaids, but somehow Ardere got suckered into the whole thing. She didn't seem to have a problem with it; all she hated was the dress colour (which was pale gold).

My heart kept beating with excitement as got closer and closer to my house. I couldn't wait to see dad again, even Crookshanks was getting eager. His head randomly lifted up every time we stopped. But I felt my head almost stop when I saw something green glowing in the distance. As we got closer, I could see that it was the Dark Mark. I could feel my heart skip three beats in total, as we got nearer. My breathing became irregular when we got into the driveway. I could no longer breathe normally, something truly felt wrong, but I couldn't figure it out. Of course there was the fear of my dad no longer living.

Just as my mom stopped the car, I undid my buckle, opened the car door and raced inside. As soon as I was half way to the house, I could hear my mom's footsteps behind me. Opening the front door wide, I could only see darkness, no light shone inside. Cautiously heading closer into the house, I felt someone grab my wrists. I began to struggle, with the fear of who had me. Looking up, I saw that it was Lucius Malfoy.

"I see that you escaped Azkaban," I said with a tone of sarcasm.

"You won't be doing any more of that," he said.

"Why wouldn't I? Let me go!" I shouted as he tightened his grip more on my wrist. "What's going on in here? Where's my dad?"

"Hermione, please, you need to calm down hunny," I could hear my mom say from the doorway.

"What's going on? Mom please tell me what's going on!"

"They killed your father, they told me that I will live if I went to pick you up and do as they say," my mom's voice was filled with fear.

"Why do they want me?" I asked not even caring that five more Death Eaters came.

"That for us to know, and you to find out," Lucius replied in a dangerously calm voice.

"I'm not leaving, there is no way you can take me," I said struggling in attempt of escape.

"Oh, isn't there?" Lucius said. He released my right wrist, but kept a tight hold on me while he took out his wand from the end of his cane. My eyes widened in fear, I couldn't believe it, and he pointed it toward my mom, her eyes widened with fear as well.

"Avada Kervada," Lucius hissed. I let out a scream as I watched my mom hit the floor, the life leaving her body. Tears welled up in my eyes. I couldn't believe it, my mom was dead, so was my dad, there was no one else in my life anymore.

I could feel my body grow weak, my legs started to become useless. Lucius had a triumphant smile on his face. He knew that now I would go without a fight, there was no place for me to go, I had to admit defeat.

"There's nothing else here, time for us to go!" Lucius said to the other Death Eaters. He tightened the pressure around my body as he Apparated us out of my house. My eyes remained shut, images spun through my head from what happened.

With an instant, I opened my eyes we arrived at a mansion it was huge and spacious. We stood in a long hallway, I moved my head around to get a better understand of where I was. A staircase was only feet from me; more Death Eaters were circled around someone. I could still feel Lucius' grip on my waist; there was no way he was giving up. As I continued to watch I saw a Death Eater carrying a body, I had no idea who it was at all.

I could see Voldemort come closer and closer with the other Death Eaters. When he got to us, he stopped in front of Lucius and I. He looked down at me with an evil smile.

"Excellent, you have done well Lucius," Voldemort said.

"Thank you my Lord."

"What do you want with me?" I asked.

"You'll make a wonderful addition as a servant," Voldemort replied getting closer to my face, I moved my head back, not wanting to be near him.

"Take her to her new room."

Lucius pushed me away from Voldemort and took me to a door at the end of a corridor and both of us headed down some stairs. It was five minutes later when I reached a dungeon like room, opening it, Lucius pushed me inside and shut the door not saying anymore to me."

"After that, I remained in my room the entire time, I only came out once to wander the house after I knew everyone went to bed. I got some bearings of where everything was," Hermione finished.

"Wait, what time did you go wandering?"

"Close to midnight or so," Hermione answered.

"That's when I was heading back up to my room, you're the one I heard strolling the corridor."

"That was you? I thought that was a Death Eater," Hermione responded.

"Wow, we really need to keep track on one another."

"You think," Hermione joked.

Both of us placed our teacups on the tray and Hermione came to lie down next to me. I wrapped my arms around her and just held her; at least I knew that one of my friends was safe.

"I'm promising this right now, and I keep my promises, I am getting you out of here no matter what the cost may be in the long run," I said looking down at Hermione.

"How can you promise something like that?"

"Trust me on it, I will get you out of here!"

"I know you do, I'm glad about too."

Both of us fell silent for a little while, I didn't know what else to say to her, I knew that both of us were still anxious about what happened to us. When I looked down, I noticed that Hermione had her eyes closed, I knew that all she wanted to do was sleep, and she must have been so exhausted.

"Oh, before I forget, I met a new friend when I was wandering the halls," Hermione said, her voice quiet.

"Are you seriously? Who is it?"

"His name is Adam, he is a really nice guy."

"That's awesome, could you introduce me?"

"Sure, we'll leave at eleven, I don't want to get into serious trouble."

"I hear you. Wait a minute, what about you staying here? Aren't they going to get suspicious now?"

"Oh well."

"You are completely amazing, you worry about going now to see Adam, but you don't care about staying up here."

"Meh."

"I swear Mel and I rubbed off on you."

Hermione laughed, it was good to hear her laugh once more. It was a long time ago since I head her laugh. I smiled as I rested my head back on the headboard.