A/N: Muhahaha… lol

Heres chapter ten….

Whispers

Cinderella Unexpected Love

Chapter ten Facing the enemy

Roger stood at the gates of the cemetery watching his niece as she placed the flowers upon his sister's grave.

He noticed that she wasn't really paying attention to anyone or anything around her. She was just sitting there, staring into space.

This continued for about an hour before he noticed that she was coming out of her thoughts.

As he watched her stand, he heard something behind him and spun around.

Right in front of him were no more than six Death Eaters, all dressed in black and masks covering their faces.

Before he could pull out his own wand, they had drawn their wands to point directly at his heart.

With his hand over his wand in his pocket, he slowly began to walk backwards to try and warn Hermione, but he hadn't even gone three steps before he was stunned and dragged into nearby bushes.

From where he lay, He watched helplessly as the Death Eaters sent his niece flying.

As they lifted her from the ground, he saw Voldemort standing behind the five with an evil smile on his face.

Roger lay there helplessly as the wizarding world's most hated man and his followers apparated away with his niece.

All the while he lay there thinking over and over, I'm so sorry 'Anna.

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When Hermione woke, she could feel pain on most parts of her body.

Over and over she was silently praying that it was just all a dream and she was going to wake up in her bedroom and go down to her mother's day.

Her wish didn't come true.

As her eyes came to focus, she saw that she was in dungeon chamber, with iron chains around her left foot.

She sat up, far too quickly, for when she was up properly, she deeply regretted it. She raised her hands to her head and held it until the dizziness stopped.

She opened her eyes once again and looked around the room.

The walls were mad of stone and there was a solitary door on the opposite side of the room.

Not to far away from where she was sitting, she saw a stick like shape on the floor.

One thought went through her mind, my wand!

Hermione stood shakily, hand on the wall for support, and walked slowly over to her wand and picked it up.

As soon as it was in her hands, she sat down and tried to free herself from the chains, but they stayed there.

As she was doing this, she didn't realise that someone had come down to check on her, until she heard them shout 'expelliarmus!'

Hermione was flung into the wall, causing her to be in more pain, and her wand went flying towards the caster.

'You think your so smart don't you, you mudblood bitch!' the man spat from behind the door.

'What do you want from me?' Hermione asked helplessly.

'You'll find out soon enough!' was the reply, before Hermione heard the man's footsteps fading away.

Hermione laid there, silent tears rolling unnoticed down her face.

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When Roger was able to move again, it was almost 10 in the morning, for it was late in the evening when Hermione was taken.

He stood shakily, cursing himself under his breath for not going with her to the cemetery.

He started to run towards the house, almost losing his footing numerous times.

When he reached the house, he didn't bother knocking; he just ran in and slammed the door, causing Ms. Patil (she had changed her name back when her late husband died) to come out to the foyer.

'You the hell do you think-' she started, but was cut off by Roger.

'There is no time for explanation!' He practically shouted. 'We need to send word to Minerva that Hermione was just taken!'

At this point in time, Padma and Parvati had come downstairs to see what the racket was.

The former was standing there as if it was a natural thing for one's step-sister to be taken in the middle of the war, her mother had the same kind of expression, but Parvati was scared for Hermione's sake.

'What do you mean she was kidnapped?!' she asked frantically.

'She was in the cemetery visiting her mother's grave when some Death Eaters and Voldemort,' gasps were heard from the women at the name, but Roger ignored them and continued speaking. 'Came up behind me, stunned me and then knocked Hermione into a headstone and took her away.'

Without further word, Roger transformed into his mouse form and scuttled away to the room where the owls were held, before transforming back and sending Minerva a letter.

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Hermione sat helplessly in the cold, stone room, wondering what the time was when the door was flung open and two men in black robes came in.

Hermione moved back as far as she could, but was stopped by the stone wall. She pulled her knees up to her chin and wrapped her arms around her legs.

The men kept advancing until they were right in front of her; one was unlocking the chains, while the other grabbed her arm rather hard.

'Let me go!' Hermione screamed, as she struggled to break free of the vice like grasp.

Before she could duck out of the way, the other man punched her in the side of her face, causing her to bow her head from the pain.

The men dragged her from the room and into a larger room that was filled with many other Death Eaters, all looking at her with evil smiles that were covered by their masks.

When they reached the centre of the room, the two men flung Hermione to the floor, bruising her more.

Hermione pushed herself slowly from the ground and stood helplessly, waiting for whatever was coming.

On the left side of the room, the door opened revealing a very smug Voldemort, who was twirling his wand around, looking at Hermione with amusement.

'What do you want with me?' Hermione asked, never taking her eyes away from the face of the man that could take her life with a simple flick of his wand.

Voldemort seemed unfazed by her question, but didn't answer until he was seated in his thrown like chair at the front of the room.

'Answers.'

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A/N: What do you think???

Also a question.

I was thinking about changing the title of the story. I have some ideas, but I would like it if you can help me choose.

The ones that I was thinking about changing it to are:

- Safety in The Enemy's arms

- Unexpected Love

- Unexpected safety

Those are all I could think of…. Could you please help me???

Whsipers