A/N Ohh Ive been away for sooo long. Those thinking A-Levels are easier than GCSE because you have less subjects you are sadly mistaken. Well thats over now. And I have more time to finally finish or get ahead on this work. So after many months here is the 6th chapter of the Ministers Wife. Please F&F and reviews will activate my creative juices once more. Warnings- includes sexual assault and character death. Most of the chapter is comprised of flashbacks which are shown in italics.


Little Miss Peters

Hermione awoke to find her wrists heavy and realised she shackled again. This time in a cold cellar. The cold stone floor under her dirty bare feet. Was it really a dream or had she been tricked by Cormac?

She looked around the dark room, the only light came through a small opening in the concrete wall which had three bars. She heard sniffing and crying from one of the corners. She realised she had a cell mate.

"Hello, who is that?" Hermione said desperately. The person sounded in distress.

"H-hello" Said the small voice and the heavy shuffle of chains was heard as the person moved into the light. Her blonde hair fell into her eyes, the top of her head held spots of blood. She looked up with her dark green eyes.

"Hermione" Marie whispered hopefully through a coarse throat.

"Marie...oh gosh. What did he do to you?" Hermione said in a worried tone as she saw the state of her friend.

"Just roughed me up a bit Hermione, I'm fine. I thought you had escaped" She said softly. Hermione could see the bruises on her face and on her wrists and throat. She felt so responsible for Marie's injuries.

"I did. Cormac must be working for Theo" She said sadly, kicking herself for trusting him so much. She thought she could trust him.

"It's not the first time I've been in this cell" She sighed.

"How did you end up here in the first place?" Hermione asked.

"Theo found out that I had been talking to you and healing you. So he got angry as usual, had his way and threw me in here" She sighed.

"No. I mean at the manor" Hermione said softly.

Flashback

Jenny and Marie stood in front of Lady Nott. It was the new job that they had taken at the manor at the top of the hill as Jenny's husband Philip was ill and needed medicine.

"So The Peters'. Jennifer and Marie. I am Anastasia Nott, your new employer. My husband is in Azkaban for crimes against muggle borns however I currently and never have been involved in the dark arts or practiced them. I understand you have cooking experience Jennifer?" Lady Nott addressed them gently and not at all intimidatingly. Jenny nodded in reply.

Marie admired Lady Nott, a still beautiful woman at her age. Long brown hair tied into an elegant up do, draped in fine green silk and adorned with gold jewellery.

"And you Marie. You will help your mother in the kitchen but you are also to be my ladies' maid. Is that understood?" She asked. Both Peters' nodded. Marie was happy that Lady Nott was giving her such an important position, it showed that she was trusted by the matriarch.

"Come on I'll lead you to the kitchen, ladies" She smiled as she led them out of the dining hall. They bumped into a tall, handsome young man who carried a broomstick.

"Oh ladies. This is my son, Theodore. Master Nott." She said as they curtsied to Theo. Marie could feel Theo's eyes on her. She felt very uncomfortable. They seemed to scan from her eyes all the way to her toes, following the curve of her ample bosom and buttocks.

"Ladies. Mother I'm off to play quidditch at Blaise's. I will be back for dinner" He kissed her cheek and as he left he grabbed Marie's backside.

"My world that boy is" She smiled and led the daughter and mother down to the kitchen.

End of Flashback

"So even then he had a sick obsession with you. Wait what year was that?" She asked.

"It was 1997, I think." She said.

"I was with Theo then… When we were together and he wasn't a psychopathic bastard murderer" She said angrily.

"Fucking bastard...I think I may have seen you at the manor. One summer, that summer before you went back to Hogwarts. You were wearing a p..." She was continued by Hermione.

"A purple sundress" She said.

"Bastard" Marie hissed.

Flashback

"Theo!" Hermione squealed as he chased her on the decking by the lake. She sprinted as her boyfriend ran after her determined to get her in the lake. He caught her around the waist and jumped with her into the lake with a huge splash.

Water sprinkled the decking where Lady Nott lounged. Marie stood next to Anastasia holding a tray with a lemonade on it which Lady Nott took gently and sipped on. She looked up at Marie.

"She's stunning isn't she. Hermione Granger. The brightest witch of her generation and my future daughter in law. She makes Theo so happy" She smiled at the blonde maid. Marie looked out onto the water, Theo and Hermione were locked in a passionate embrace in the water.

"Theo" Hermione shrieked as he splashed her and climbed out, helping his girlfriend onto the decking. Her once lavender sundress, now a dark purple.

"You've ruined my dress, Theo" She chuckled. He smirked at her and caught her by the waist, hoisting her into his arms.

"I prefer when you're moaning about something else" He whispered in her ear, biting her lobe.

"Stop. Don't be so crude around the maid and your mother Theo" She chuckled.

"Marie bring some champagne to my room" Theo ordered. Marie scurried off.

"She's a woman Theo, not a slave" Hermione said slightly angry. She hadn't seen him treat a woman like that before. He certainly hadn't displayed that type of behaviour to her. She would speak to him about it later.

"Are you going to be okay Ana?" Hermione asked. She nodded.

"You kids go and have fun" She smiled. Theo carried Hermione up to his room and placed her down on the bed. He kissed her passionately and kissed her neck as he ripped her dress.

"I'll get you a new one, darling" He whispered to silence her protests. She giggled as his lips attacked the pale flesh of her neck. There was a knock on the door. Theo smirked at her.

"Get in bed, I'm going to eat you up" He demanded. Biting his lip. Theo sauntered over to the door, he opened it to find Marie. She held a tray with a bottle of champagne and two glasses. Also a bowl of strawberries. He shut the door and pushed her against the wall.

"You jealous of her Marie my dear" He stroked her cheek. Gripping her neck swiftly.

"No, sir. You're choking me" She was struggling to breathe as Theo's grip restricted her airways.

"You'll be mine when she leaves, you understand" He kissed her roughly, biting her lip and drawing blood.

End of Flashback

"Marie." Hermione gasped.

"He would have had me and my mother fired" She sobbed.

Flashback

Marie stood in the kitchen scrubbing the surfaces after everyone had gone to bed. She heard the kitchen door creak open and felt hands on her hips.

"Hello slut" Theo breathed in her ear. She shuddered as he bent her over the surface.

"You be a good girl and not tell anyone okay" He said as she heard his zipper. Tears came to her eyes as he pulled down her tights and knickers. She felt him push inside her and she cried out in pain as he thrust roughly into sobbed loudly as Theo clamped his hand over her mouth.

End of Flashback

"Marie I'm so sorry" Hermione whispered. The door opened and they heard sarcastic clapping. Theo walked in slowly, holding a bottle of Polyjuice Potion. He shot the torture curse at Marie. She screamed loudly. Hermione just watched, unable to free herself from the shackles.

"You told her then. How much of a monster I am?" Theo chuckled darkly.

"Theo, what are you doing?" Hermione whimpered, terrified. He plucked a hair from her head and placed it into the polyjuice potion.

He tipped Marie's head backwards and poured the potion into a chapped mouth, bleeding from the corners.

"Drink, bitch" He spat as he clutched her face, squeezing her cheeks. Marie shook her head and didn't register the slap she had received from Theo until she was on the floor. The movement made her swallow.

"Hermione" Marie cried out and Hermione watched as the women before her morphed into the exact profile of her. Bump and all.

Theo withdrew a dagger and slowly dragged it along the skin of Marie's throat.

"I told you not to get close to her. This is your own fault" Theo said threatening in a hushed tone, laced with poison. Hermione sobbed loudly, pleading with Theo not to kill Marie.

"Please Theo. I'll do anything. Dont kill her!" Hermione screamed and with a dark smirk, his lips tweaking, he slit Marie's throat. Marie fell to the floor, grasping to her throat as she bled out. Hermione fell to her knee's and sobbed for her dying friend.

"You evil bastard!" She spat, tears rushing down her face. Marie's strangled screams died as her body went limp and her skin turned pale. Hermione sobbed over her dead friend and that was when she lost the energy and blacked out.