Chapter 9
I slowly opened my eyes and all I could see was 4 walls of black stone circling me. I shot up quickly and got to my feet feeling all the walls around me. No windows just a bars right in front of me. I grabbed them and screamed for Draco.
I was so frightened at this point. Where am I? What has happened? What is going to happen to me? Will I live?
So many things were going through my mind, and the feeling in my stomach of anxiety didn't make me feel better. I looked down, I was wearing the clothes I wore at the confrontation with Blaise in the Malfoys kitchen.
Where was I?
I blinked and I heard a loud bang, a door slamming then footsteps coming down from somewhere to my right. I pressed my face up to the bars to see if I could see down the hall. But nothing. My breathing quickened and I started to sweat. Who was it?
Please be Draco! I pleaded with myself and God.
Suddenly out of nowhere I fell to the floor as a person jumped right into my vision. As I fell to the floor I looked up. It was Blaise.
"Hello my Darling"
I looked up at pure horror, I soon realised where I was. The basement of our American holiday home. No one knows about this home, the ministry don't know because Blaise didn't want to pay the taxes. I soon realised, I was never going to get saved.
I sobbed as I knew my fate, I normally cry silently. But this time I sobbed loudly. I was going to die.
He put out his bottom lip in a sad way as he saw my tears, but then he laughed at me. More of a cackle than a laugh. He slid the bars apart so he could get in, and as he did I backed against the wall scared of what was going to happen.
"So, what do you want to do? Drop the charges?" He asked me
"I cant do that Blaise!" I screamed back through my tears.
"YES you can! My lawyer said you can plead that you weren't well. That you imagined it all" He said, he folded his arms and leant against the cell wall.
"What will you do to me after I do that?" I asked
"Well naturally, Doctors will put you on drugs to suppress those visions and you can come and live with me again. Everything back to normal"
"Draco saw you hurt me" I said in a matter of fact kind of way.
"I have already told the judge that you were coming for me with a knife. Self defence sweetheart. Seeing as you was in protective custody no one could ask you if its true. SO they went with what I said" He cackled,
I buckled against my own weight, I realised there was nothing I can do now.
"So all you need to do is sign something then you will be mentally ill" He laughed
"But I am not mentally Ill Blaise. Any doctor will know that!"
"Oh ill make you take a potion Hermione that will sort that right out" He laughed. I slowly slid down the wall as I realised I was well and truly stuck.
Draco was going to be wondering how to find me but he wont. He will probably be checking all the homes Blaise has registered for but I wont be there.
I sighed.
*Draco's Pov
I looked around the beach condo, everything is quiet. Blaise was definitely not here. The last house one the list. I was in Marbella at the last house Blaise owned. I sighed as I realised no one had been in here in years.
The pile of letters from many owls was on the kitchen counter top, I sighed as I walked over and sorted through them. I was determined to find her, I needed to save her. She is part of my life now. I need to keep her safe. I shook the thoughts of Blaise hurting her right now, and I looked through the many letters. Most of the letters were from Italian restaurants asking him to invest, many letters from his bank. I curiously opened one of the letters.
Blaise Zabini
28th July 2003
Your current bank balance is - £34,600,003
Your current Private bank account balance is - £68,998,001
Thank you for banking with us Mr Zabini, Here is the June monthly outgoings.
1st June
£3,000 at Juniper retail
3rd June
£500,000 at American real estate
I dropped the letter, I double checked my list of homes Blaise owned. All from Europe and a home in Japan. But that was it. No American home. I smiled as I realised, I think I can find her. I can finally find her and protect her.
And then I apparated.
*Hermione's POV
Blaise kept me in this cell all night long, and I hated every minute. Still in the same clothes, I was cold and tired. I tried to sleep but with no prevail. I shivered as I cradled myself from the chill that was over me.
I think I had been here for about a week now, my hair was a mess and I felt filthy. Blaise washed me everyday but it wasn't nothing like a warm soaking bath. How I crave a lovely bubble bath.
Suddenly Blaise was at the cell door, I sat up as I always did. He unlocked the door and walked in.
He had a plate of toast in his hand, I sighed as my tummy rumbled at the smell of the food. But he sat down opposite me and began to eat it.
I cried as he ate, he is one cruel man.
"You are truly cruel Blaise"
"I wouldn't talk to me like that Hermione. You need to learn to be nice for when the doctor sees you. don't want you to let anything slip do we?"
"Treat me nice Blaise and I wont let anything slip" I said back to him.
"Are you blackmailing me?" He slammed the plate into the wall.
I cringed at the crash noise. He whipped out his wand and pointed it towards me. This time my breathing stayed the same and I looked deep into his eyes.
"I am not blackmailing you Blaise, I am telling to you I need to be appreciated" I said to him.
"You gave me a ultimatum" He screamed back.
"No please, Stop this before you do something you regret"
"The only thing I regret, IS marry you! YOU FILTHY LITTLE MUDBLOOD" suddenly I felt a warm feeling all over my body again. This time I allowed the burning to take over me, I closed my eyes and I let the silent tears fall from my eyes.
I could hear his cackle as I felt the pain.
I then heard a different voice, I opened one of my eyes and through the fuzzyness I saw a tall figure in the doorway and the same flash of blonde. Draco? It was too tall to be Draco though.
Everything went black again.
