Hey everyone, thanks for reviewing! I found out how to reply to reviews now! Woo! Haha.

Also, I've decided to continue with the story. And, I guess you've all realised who the person is that's speaking to Malfoy (Lucius, not Draco) huh? Yup! Alonzo! Why though? Hmmm...

-There is a bit of swearing in this chapter, just to warn you.-

Anyway, on with the story.

Last time I'll say this but, I don't own anything you recognise!

Lauren. xx

The next morning, Hermione was woken up by Sirius – he was moaning in his sleep.

"James! Harry!" he muttered. He was flailing about as if he was being attacked, and his face held an expression of pain. "No! D-don't touch them!"

"Sirius, wake up." Hermione shook him gently. He shot up, panting and sweating like he'd just run a marathon.

"James!" he called.

"Sirius, it's me, Hermione," Hermione gently said, placing her hand on his shoulder.

"Oh...I had another nightmare. I get these all the time..."

"Really? What happened?" she asked quietly.

"I dreamt that James and Lily were still alive and that they were being cornered by Death Eaters, and then Harry was grown up but Voldemort killed him."

"Oh, Sirius," she sighed, giving him a tender hug and kissing his forehead. "Do you want me to get you some water or something?"

"Yes please," Sirius replied, his voice hoarse.

Hermione sprang off the bed and went to get a glass of water from the kitchens. 'Hopefully, the house elves will already be awake so I won't feel too guilty about waking them up,' she worried, biting her lip.

It turned out that they were awake after all. "Hello Miss!" one called to her as she stepped through the portrait door.

"Good morning everyone," she smiled kindly.

"What would young Miss like this morning?" Dobby asked, bouncing towards her. He reminded her a bit of that muggle cartoon, Tigger.

"If it's not too much trouble, could I have a glass of water please? It seems that my er...friend is in desperate need of some," she said awkwardly.

"It's no problem," a house elf replied, rushing off to get the water.

"How are you, Miss Hermione?" Dobby asked while she was waiting.

"I'm excellent thank you! Are you being paid well?"

"Ooh yes! Dobby is saving up now because Dobby has enough socks." He indicated to the odd pair he was wearing. "Dobby has 10 galleons saved so far!"

"That's great Dobby! Good for you!" Hermione exclaimed proudly. After all, it was down to her that he had enough socks, after she'd knitted the house elves some when she was at Hogwarts in her fourth year – when she started S.P.E.W.

"Here's your water, Miss!" The house elf had returned.

"Thank you very much," she replied, taking the water and leaving the kitchens. "Sirius!" she called, when she returned to him. "I have your water!"

"Thanks babe," he said, gratefully taking the water and gulping it down.

"Are you feeling better now?" she asked concernedly.

"Much. Come here." She climbed onto the bed and wrapped her arms around his neck. "You're amazing, you know that?" he whispered, his breath tickling her ear. "I mean, you do all this for me, and I haven't done anything for you..."

"You have! You took me to Paris," she whispered back.

"Yeah, but I mean...being there for you."

"Don't worry about it," she told him, smiling. "Now...shall we get ready to go down to breakfast?"

They went down to breakfast an hour later, hand in hand. They hoped it wouldn't be a problem with Professor McGonagall – then again, they supposed that the knowledge of the best looking teachers together would put the students off.

Whispers and catcalls were heard throughout the Great Hall during breakfast. While Hermione blushed at this reaction, Sirius smirked.

"You get used to it," he bragged, making Hermione laugh.

"Well, well, well! Hermione and Sirius, is it?" a familiar voice to their left said.

"Yeah!" Hermione blushed.

"How'd that happen then?" he asked, seemingly interested.

"Long story," Sirius butted in.

"Oh, fair enough then."

They sat, eating in a comfortable silence until –

"Hey Hermione, Susan owled me earlier. She said that she's going to be in Hogsmeade tonight, so do you fancy coming with me to see her?"

Sirius tensed, but carried on eating.

"Sure! I haven't seen her in ages!"

"Great! I'll go and owl her now." He got up, folded his paper and strode out of the Great Hall.

"'Mione, I'm going to get going now, I'll see you after," Sirius said before walking out after Alonzo.

Hermione cocked her eyebrow at the receding figure. "What's got his wand in a knot?" she muttered.

"Hermione m'dear, I couldn't help but overhear – it seems that Sirius is a bit jealous," Professor Sprout spoke, leaning towards Hermione.

"Hmm..." the young Professor pondered on this for a moment, and then decided to leave to get ready for her first lesson of the day – Gryffindor and Slytherin fourth years. Joy. She left the Great Hall and climbed the stairs to her classroom.

"Morning, Professor," a seventh year boy said to her.

"Good morning," she replied.

"Saw you and Professor Black earlier," he winked.

"I think everyone has," she said darkly. The boy laughed and walked off.

She reached her classroom in less than a minute before the fourth years started filing in. 'This is going to be a long week, if I'm honest with myself...' she thought to herself.

"Good morning, class. I trust you've all had a nice weekend break? We'll be carrying on with the summoning charm today."

Six lessons later, (A/N. I assume there are six lessons a day, two before break, two after break and then two after lunch, one lesson lasting 50 minutes. It's how it works in my school :) ) Hermione returned to her quarters, slumping on her sofa.

"Teaching is so tiring! I mean, now I have to get ready for the meeting with Susan," she whined to herself.

She forced herself off the comfortable sofa to have a shower – at lunch, Alonzo informed her that he'd acquaint her to Hogsmeade at 5.30pm.

20 minutes later, she felt refreshed and relaxed. 'I wonder if I should go and see if Sirius is okay. I mean, I haven't seen him all day! He didn't bother coming to lunch or anything,' she worried. 'Actually, nah. I'd better leave him alone for tonight."

5.25 slowly came, and Hermione started making her way down to the entrance hall. This seemed to be a regular thing by now! She wore a simple jeans and tee shirt, the same as Alonzo, but he also wore a blazer. 'Hmm, he looks quite hot,' she smirked as she saw him waiting.

"Hiya!" he exclaimed. "Good day?"

"Not really, no," she sighed. "I'm knackered!"

"Aw, how come?"

"I dunno; they've all just been...tiring me out! It's only Monday as well!"

"Ah well – come on, don't want to keep my sister waiting!" he said, smiling.

They headed for Hogsmeade.

"So...how did you and Sirius end up together?" he questioned.

"Well...he took me on a date to Paris," she chuffed, "and we went to the top of the Eiffel Tower!"

"Cool," he said awkwardly. Men are so dodgy about this stuff. They carried on talking, but mainly about the students. They arrived at Hogsmeade soon after. They rushed to the Three Broomsticks, seeing as they were late.

"Hmm...She's not here yet," Hermione panted.

"Yeah...come with me a second," he said. She became aware that he was a bit edgy.

"Um...okay."

He led her down a few dark streets, behind the bar, The Hog's Head.

"Well hello, Miss Granger," a dark voice behind her said.

"Shit. Malfoy," she muttered.

"I'd advise you not to run. Nearly all of the Death Eaters that weren't captured are here in Hogsmeade tonight," he said with a cold smile. "Grab her Bones! Take her to the manor!"

Before she could struggle, Alonzo had a firm grip on her and disapparated, dragging her along with him through the darkened abyss. They reached the manor, and Hermione passed out.

A few hours later, Hermione woke up. She was in a dark dungeon; the floor was filthy and she could smell something a bit like rotting corpses.

"Ugh," she moaned. She tried to get up, but found she was too weak. She heard voices up above the dungeon, reverberating through the rotten room.

"Go give the stinking Mudblood its food," she heard.

"Why me?" a voice replied. She recognised that voice immediately. Alonzo. Hmm. Payback! She checked her pockets for her wand but unfortunately, it had obviously been taken from her.

She waited for someone to approach, and they soon did. Footsteps grew louder as they came closer to Hermione's location.

"Oi! Mudblood! You awake?" Alonzo shouted from outside the dungeon.

"Piss off," she fumed.

"Ooh, Granger in a moody is it?"

She didn't even reply to that taunt, just sat there waiting for him to enter.

"Alohamora," he said. The door swung open, letting light stream in. "You've been out for a day. Lazy cow."

She could feel tears welling up in her eyes. 'Why is he doing this?' she asked herself.

"Why are you being like this?!" she screamed desperately.

"Why am I being like this? I hate filth like you. I've been planning this for months! You aren't worthy of holding that wand you possess. You helped destroy the Dark Lord. You should've been expecting this, you little naïve bitch! Plus, you're dating that bastard, Sirius Black. This is probably the only way we could get to him after the attack we made on him. He's been fucking pining after you for months. You're one of the only ones he actually pissing cares about."

"You're doing this because of Sirius? How stupid can you get? He's in the Order of the Phoenix! Just like me! I mean, come on! If one of their members went missing, they'd be out looking for me! And I'm sure you remember the last time the Order kicked your stinking arses!"

"Silencio."

Lucius had arrived. "Now, now Miss Granger. Don't you want to know our real intentions? We want to destroy Sirius Orion Black. Who better to use, but the girl he's so desperately, sickeningly in love with?"

The only thing Hermione could do at that moment was glare at him.

"Now, Alonzo has very kindly brought you some food so I suggest you eat it. You won't be getting much else, Miss Granger."

With a wave of his wand, the silencing spell was undone.

Malfoy gave her one last glance before swiftly strolling out of the dungeon, Alonzo on his tail. When they weren't looking, Hermione made a very rude hand gesture towards them.

"Colloportus," was heard.

Sitting on the stole cold, dirty floor, the young teacher mulled everything over in her head. 'It's all to do with Sirius then? Ugh. I can't believe this! I bet they waited until we got together to take me or something. Pathetic.'

Oh, the irony.

Meanwhile, back in the kitchen of Grimmauld Place, Sirius, Arthur and Moody were all frantic with worry.

"She's been gone all night! Where in hell could she be?!" Sirius shouted at no one in particular. He'd gone to Grimmauld Place as soon as lessons ended that day.

"Sirius, calm down!" Moody said. "You aren't doing any good by shouting."

"Alastor's right, Sirius," Arthur told him. "Anyway...why are you so worried? I mean, we're all worried but...you know."

"Oh. Um, me and 'Mione started err...dating," he admitted.

At that present moment, it had to be Sirius's luck for Molly to walk in.

"Did I just hear right? You and...Hermione?"

"Yeah," he said.

"SIRIUS BLACK! She's way too young! What were you thinking?!"

"She's old enough to make her own decisions, Molly," Sirius replied warily.

"He's right," Arthur said.

"Well I'll tell you this, if you ever hurt her, I'll personally see to it that you couldn't ever walk again," she warned.

"If you haven't realised, she's disappeared, so she may already be hurt!" he retorted angrily. "Where could she be?!"

"How come you weren't with her last night, if you're dating then?"

"Oh...I was a bit angry with her. You see, she agreed to go out with Alonzo Bones last night. He's the brother of her old friend, Susan Bones. He said Susan was in Hogsmeade and wondered if Hermione wanted to see her with him. She went with him...I just got annoyed," he said ashamedly, realising how jealous his actions had been.

"But...Ginny...she's gone away with some old school mates – mainly the ones in Harry's year. Susan was one of the girls that had gone with them. She couldn't have been there last night!" Molly said to him.

"What?! I always knew that bastard was dodgy!"

"Do you think he could be in league with the remaining Death Eaters?" Moody asked.

"Maybe. He said that he had to send a letter to 'Susan' so that could've been a Death Eater for all we know."

"So he works at the school?"

"Yeah, he's the potions teacher."

"Okay. I'll be back in a second," Moody told them and stumped out of the room.

A few seconds later, he returned, looking grim.

"McGonagall says she hasn't seen him around either."

"Well...do you know which Death Eaters that have left or evaded Azkaban?" Sirius questioned.

"Well there's Macnair, Rookwood, Dolohov and...Malfoy."

"Hmm. The worst ones. What's the possibility that they've got Hermione at Malfoy's?"

"Most likely," Moody growled.

"Okay, well I think we should call an Order meeting, right now. Arthur?"

"I'll get right onto it!" he said, rushing out of the room, presumably to floo everyone.

"We need a plan, Alastor," Sirius said to him, worried.

"We'll rescue her, Sirius," Molly comforted him.

"Sirius?" he heard a familiar voice call. Harry walked into the kitchen concern etched all over his face.

"Hey Harry," Sirius said grimly. "Sit down. There's something the Order needs to discuss."

He sat down, the chair legs scraping against the floor, making Sirius wince.

"Me and Hermione...we're dating."

"Oh."

"I won't hurt her I promise, but we have a bigger matter to discuss."

"Hey everyone."

Tonks, Lupin, the younger Weasleys and the Minister for Magic; Kingsley had arrived.

"Everyone, I don't know whether you've heard, but Hermione has gone missing."

"WHAT?!" Harry shouted.

"Yes Harry," he said sadly.

"But...how?!"

"It seems that there was an unperceived Death Eater working at Hogwarts. We think that he led her into a trap and took her somewhere."

"What was this Death Eater's name?" Lupin cut in.

"Alonzo Bones," Sirius replied.

"Bones? As in Susan Bones? Amelia Bones?"

"Yes, Harry. He was Susan Bones' brother."

"Personally, I think that she's been taken to the Malfoy Manor," Moody said.

"Have we got any plans to get her back? We don't know for sure that she's been taken to the Manor," Harry said.

"Well, I could ask to see the Malfoys personally, to lure them falsely from their Manor – talk to them about a money matter and then some of you could try getting into the Manor," Kingsley said in his deep, reassuring voice.

"That's a good idea, I'm sure a few of us could fit under my invisibility cloak," Harry said.

"Yeah Harry but you're forgetting about their gate. How would we get in?" Ron piped up.

"Bombarda maxima," Harry referred to the spell previously used by his hated D.A.D.A teacher; Delores Umbridge.

"Ah yeah," Ron smirked mischievously.

"I think that Sirius, Ron and Harry can go under Harry's invisibility cloak and then if I can get mine, Remus, Tonks, Arthur and I can go under it – after all, it's slightly bigger," Moody said. "We can go in different directions around the Manor."

"Oi! What about us?" Fred argued.

"You can be disillusioned and wait outside by the gate, ready to cause a diversion in case they come back – get some of the stuff from your shop. It'll give us more time."

"Right. Back in a minute," the twins said and disapparated.

"Kingsley, you know what you have to do?" Sirius asked.

"Yeah, I'll be off. Good luck everyone," he said and also disapparated.

"I'll give everyone a minute or so to prepare, get what you need, then we'll get Miss Granger back from the Death Eaters," Moody said.

Harry rushed upstairs to get the invisibility cloak as Moody flooed to his home to get his. Five minutes later, they were all ready and waiting for the signal from Kingsley.

"Fred, George, got what you need?" he inquired.

"Yes, sir!" they said evilly.

"Everyone not got their wands in their back pockets?"

"Aye," the all said in unison.

"Invisibility cloak, Harry?"

"Yeah," he said apprehensively, and held it up to show him.

"Good. There's the signal; let's go."

There's that chapter done!

If you got confused, the reason that they took Hermione was that they wanted to hurt Sirius emotionally and Hermione was the way to do it.

Will they get their "comeuppance"?

R&R, won't rest til I have at least 6 reviews! :p It's not much but I'm not getting even that much!

:)

Lauren. xx

P.S. Fred, Tonks & Lupin obviously didn't die in my story. :)