A/N: thank you for all the wonderful reviews! Here is Chapter 10 which is actually where we left off from before I rewrote it. I hope you enjoy!
Chapter 10: Breaking the Rules
Severus Snape and Albus Dumbledore stood in the small room with Pierre who was bound to a chair for safety purposes. They had been interrogating Pierre for the past twenty-four hours to discover why he had bee trying to rape Hermione when he had known her for so long. So far, he had said nothing.
"Sir," Snape began. "I think we should take serious consideration to the use of Verisiterum."
"You know the school policy, Severus."
"He is not a student, sir."
Dumbledore contemplated this truth, and then agreed. Snape returned a few minutes later with a small vial from his store rooms. They forced Pierre to open his mouth and put the potion into his mouth. He swallowed it on pure reflex and they started their interrogation once again.
"Why have you been attempting to rape Miss Granger," Dumbledore started.
"I was paid to kidnap her so I thought I would get a little out of the deal."
"Who paid you to kidnap her," Snape asked urgently."
"My uncle."
"Why did he want her kidnapped," he prompted.
"So he could have her himself."
"Who is your uncle," Dumbledore asked before Snape lost his temper.
"Lucius Malfoy."
"Is he the one who put the tracking spell on her?"
"I did that so I could find her. But he ordered me to do it."
"Did he spread the rumors about Miss Granger and myself."
"No, his son overheard her telling you about the rape, so he went to his father, who told him to do it. Lucius knew it was only a matter of time before you discovered who had placed the tracking spell on her. He also knew that because I'm not a student here, you would use your precious potions on me to get me to talk rather than torturing me like any normal Death Eater would."
"I'm not a Death Eater," Snape told him and then left the room.
Entering Hermione's bedchamber, he looked at her clock to discover that it was after three am. Heading to Hermione's sleeping form, he undressed before sliding into the bed beside her. Without waking her, he removed her lace underwear and bra with careful hands. Slipping his arms around her waist, he kissed her and nibbled her neck until she stirred awake from her restful sleep. When she turned to him, he told her what Pierre had revealed.
"So it was Malfoy all this time," she asked.
"Yes," he said kissing her again, his hands sliding over he naked body.
"What about the new rule," she asked him through his kisses.
"To hell with the rules," he said as he kissed her again. And for a long time, that early Monday morning, they both forgot about the rules.
Meanwhile, in the school governors headquarters, Lucius Malfoy stood before the other governors as they argued. They had finally probed enough of his brain to see his plans for the mudblood Granger.
"We need to do something! We can't just let it happen!"
"What do we do? It's not like we can make the Ministry do something about it. They won't believe us."
The eleven governors argued over what to do while Lucius inched around the room to his wand. In one swift movement, he killed them all before they knew what had hit them.
"I couldn't have you messing up my plans now could I," he asked the empty room. He then left nonchalantly and headed to Malfoy Manor.