A/N: Sorry every one! I had a busy couple of months which left me no time to update! I'd like to thank everyone for not giving up on me or this story! There will most likely be 2 or 3 chapters left and then it will be finished! I'm thankful for everyone who has stuck with me the entire time, as we near the finish. Thank you!

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Terror. Hurt. Absolute pain.

She felt this, all of this.

Hermione had never felt such pain, never in her entire life. She still had her wedding dress on, even though it was stained with dirt and blood.

She wished Draco was here, and she wished she could be rescued.

She wished she was married.

But his dad had other plans.

"Mudblood, I see you are awake. Ready for another bout of torture?"

She wished he was here.


"Why are we still here?! We should be out looking for her!"

"Draco, we need to think reasonably. We need to plan out the moves to capture your father and rescue Hermione," said Harry as he tried to calm down the frenzied blonde.

"She could be dead already! They both can be dead! And it'll be all my fault! I can't lose them!"

Ginny interrupted. "Draco.. Whose 'they'?"

Draco turned to her, sadly, "Hermione, and my baby. She's pregnant. Has been for two weeks."


Hermione looked around her cell, dazed. Why was he hurting her so much? Why couldn't he just kill her?

She heard another voice then, a woman's. She knew, by the sound, it was Pansy Parkinson's. She talking to another male, yet this voice was very familiar. She heard everyday for multiple years.

It belonged to Ron Weasley.


Harry turned, and asked if anyone else knew about this pregnancy.

"Only you guys and Madam Pomfrey know. Except..."

Snape snapped. "Except for who Draco? We need to know all the details do we can rescue your fiancé and child. We cannot rescue them if you do not tell us what is going on and what you know about this.."

Draco turned cold. "Pansy and Weasley were both in the hospital when we found out. And we know neither of them were happy when it came to our matches, so I think they teamed up to help my father. But he has other plans, plans for murdering Hermione and my baby. WE NEED TO FIND HER!" He shouted suddenly.

Harry petrified him."Petrificus totalis!" He watched Draco jump in shock and fall to the floor. "Draco, I understand you are worried, but we need to execute this in a strategic manner. We can't just go in and wing it. We can end up killing ourselves as well as Hermione. We don't know for certain that it was Ron and Pansy that tipped off your father, but we need to locate them an check their alibis. We have motive, so right now they are our prime suspects. Please try to I understand, we are dong everything we can to locate them. Bear with us Draco."

Draco just glared. Intensely.


Hermione almost fainted on the spot.

'Why was Ron with them? Has he also been captured? But what about Harry? Wouldn't they try to capture him too? Non of this made any sense.' She realized that Ron must be doing this of his own accord.

They walked in then. "How has Mr. Malfoy been treating you Mudblood? Badly I hope." Smirked Pansy.

Hermione just stared at Ron. "Why are you doing this?" She asked.

He slapped her.

"No body gave you the right to talk to me you filthy Mudblood."

She felt like crying, at the sound of her old friend calling her the vulgar name she had to put up with for years. She was strong, and didn't want to let them know how much it hurt, so she just spat her blood at him.

He smirked. "Tut tut. Looks like the Mudblood needs to be taught a lesson on how she should treat her superiors."

And the torture began once more. But what about pain? She felt nothing.


Draco could feel a whole lot of pain. The spell he put on her bracelet was coming into play as he activated it. Her screamed like no one has screamed before. Harry and Ginny rushed to him, but didn't understand why he was screaming. He stopped screaming, and gasped out: "I...put a protection spell...on her bracelet... I take all the pain...she should've been feeling...I just activated it."

Harry was dumbfounded, and soon quickly took off his ring.

"Stop! That'll return the pain back to hermione! Leave it!"

Harry ignored him as he took it off and quickly put it on himself. "I should have been protecting her. I will deal with the pain as you try to find her. Go to the manor. She should be there. I saw the manor his mind as he disappeared, using legimency. Go quick, he looked like he wouldn't stay long. Hurry- Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Harry screamed as the pain started once more. "Gooooooooooo!"

Draco looked apprehensive, but took off cot the gates of hogwarts where another Auror said a port key was waiting. As he ran, he thought, 'Hermione, hang on! I'm coming!'

He got there, and grabbed an old broken tennis racket and quickly left to the manor.

When he arrived, his first thought, seeing the browning overgrown bushes, the dark looming mansion, and the old rusted swinging gates, was 'Welcome home Draco.'

He walked to the house, and met darkness.


Sorry for the cliffie! The next chapter should be up this weekend! But, remember, I have a problem with updating quickly. As for 'A Chance to Change', my reading the books story, tue next update will probably be next week sometime. Thanks again for waiting patiently!