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Chapter eleven: Back to the Order

She sat down across the table.

"So tell me." She said. "Why did you go back last night. Why didn't you come with me right away?"

"I sent a note to Dumbledore. To tell him we had to flee. But when I tried to follow you, two of my father's men grabbed me by my shoulders and dragged me off to the dungeons. I knew what they would do to me...so...I had the opportunity to 'prepare' myself...After they had...'hurt' me, they wanted to take me up...to see the Dark Lord himself. But I managed to escape because the fools had not taken away my wand."

He stared at the empty plate in front of him.

"But now, let's think about our next move. We can't stay here." She said.

"We could...go back to the Order." He opted.

"...yes...we could."

"I understand you'd rather not."

"No. It's the wisest thing to do. I know that. I'm not going to let a silly thing like Harry get myself in more trouble than it already has. He chose not to rescue me. He chose not to care. And I don't care anymore either. Why should I? And besides...I've got you."

He took her hand. "Yes you have. Right. Now that we know where we're going...we need to decide how and when."

"The safest thing to do is to depart as soon as possible."

Draco nodded. He looked out the window. "We must leave soon. Yes. It will only be a matter of time before father finds this place and I can't send an owl to Dumbledore because I don't have an owl."

"Then we must find one." She said curtly.

Again he nodded agreeingly. "But there is one problem. We don't know who we can or can't trust in the wizarding world."

"But can you live as something you've learned to hate? Even only for a short while?" she wondered

He smiled. "I'll have to. And you can help me act as normal as possible...for a muggle."
Ron was pacing up and down the livingroom. The twins were talking in hushed voices in a corner of the room. Harry sat in a chair, looking out in front of him sadly. Ginny had placed herself not too far away from him and pretended to read a book.

"We must be able to do something!" Ron blurted out savagely. "We can't just sit here and wait, can we! Hermione is in danger, why isn't anyone trying to find out where she is?"

"Because no one can, Ron." Harry said dully.

"Maybe they were caught...they could be captives again!" said Ron.

Immediately he clasped his hand over his mouth and looked at Harry angstily. Harry had been known to snap at the mention of Hermione and words like 'caught' and 'captives'.

But Harry didn't yell. He was fighting back tears. His Hermione...caught...tortured...maybe even dead. And there was nothing he could do. He had known where she was before and he could have lived with that. But not even knowing if she was free...or alive...it was killing him.

Ginny shot her brother an angry glance before laing down her book and sitting down next to Harry to give him a comforting hug. Harry looked at her gratefully.

"Thanks Gin..." he muttered.

"Harry...it's been days since that letter..." Ron said.

"And nothing since..." Harry added.

They looked at each other.

"But we're not giving up yet." They said together.

Ginny got up again and left the room.
"Yes infact we do have a vacancy...but I'm afraid the only room we've got left is the bridal suite." Said the plum-faced woman behind the counter.

"That's perfect. We've recently got married, didn't we sweetheart?" the young man said to the girl next to him.

"Yes we did." She answered him.

The plum-faced woman smiled. "That's so sweet. You don't see that often...love and marriage at a young age like that..."

"Well...we're not that young anymore. Over eighteen of course."

"Yes, of course. Now, shall I give you the key then, mr. and mrs. ...?"

"...Nepo."

"Good...welcome to our hotel mr. Nepo."

The man took the key and the young couple made their way to the elevator. They walked to their room and entered it.

"Nepo?" Hermione chuckled. "What kind of last name is that?"

"Well I had to think of something!" he said indignantly. "And then I saw the reflection of an 'open'-sign in the mirror behind the counter. Open spelled backwards is Nepo...It got us in didn't it?

"Yes it did...Newly weds?"

He smiled. "It would be strange if we weren't...two young people, one hotel room. If we were married then it would all look more normal I figured."

She laughed and opened the balcony doors. Draco felt himself blush. In his pocket he felt the little trinket he had been able to take away with him. It was a Malfoy family heirloom and he had received it on his eighteenth birthday.

'Make a wise decision, my son. This is a thing you can only give once. Once it has been accepted, your lives are bound.' He could still hear his father say those words. He released it and let himself fall down on the bed.

"So...what do we do now?" he said.

Hermione looked over her shoulder. "Now we wait. We're sure that they're out there looking for us. So we can't linger too long. But we have to plan a route first. And this seems to be a safe place."

Draco opened his bag and took out a map. "Then let's start planning."

She nodded and joined him on the bed. "Okay. We're at this point right now, so if we want to get to London we need to..."


Yay! Another chappy done! AND it's my birthday today, I turned seventeen! Man, what a strange age that is...seventeen...oh well, hope y'all liked the chapter!

Dark Angels: Hermione didn't respond to that remark of Draco did she...maybe there was a bit of a time difference between the two chapters. I actually didn't mean to give that last chapter a cliffhanger, guess it was one after all. Lete's just say that Hermione doesn't kiss a guy she doesn't love. So actually she answered Draco before he even asked the question

Iron Morgan: well, THANKS :D

xcharmedx: hope you like this chappy too! Stick around to hear how it all ends!

Sweetlily: yeah EXACTLY the movie was different in a lot of ways and I'm not sure I liked that. It was a good movie though, don't get me wrong, but I just thought some of the things they changed shouldn't have been messed with, like that scene in the cafe of Madam Rosemerta.

Kandie-Spirit-Dragon: thank you Draco is kinda a kewl guy isn't he :)

Rockslutgothpunk: yeah, trust me, Harry's not gonna be happy when he finds out...but then again, who would be. Thanks for the review.

Shadowrayne: There's nothing wrong with redundant...hehe I'm actually very flattered you called me 'bloody brilliant' [blushes]

Sooooooooooooo that was it for today...next chapter and we'll be halfway! (Yes folks...this story has 24 chapters!) I hope that didn't scare any of you off...well, I'm of to by a birthday cake for the friends who are coming by today so I'm going now. Hope you all enjoyed the chapter!
- Raven55