Hermione POV

Remus,

Please meet me in the hospital wing. I need your help.

-Hermione.

Hermione read over the short note to Remus before handing it to the small owl by her bedside. "Take this to Remus please. He should be in the gryffindor common room by now." The owl hooted happily before flying out the window. Hermione sighed before going back to doing her make up work. She still couldn't believe that Lucius could do this to her. He knew how she felt about things, she had made her opinions more than clear to him.

She wondered if Regulus and Severus knew about Lucius's plan. She would hope, more than anything, that they wouldn't have betrayed her like that. Then again, she had hoped the same thing of Malfoy, and she could see how that turned out. She had mistaken him to be someone she could trust, someone she could confide in. But, sadly, he had taken that little butterfly of hope that she had and crushed it underneath his boot.

The sad thing was, she really did like him, maybe even a little too much. And, despite everything she knew about him, and everything his family had done to her she couldn't think him a bad man. A little arrogant and narcissistic maybe, but never evil.

"Hermione?" Remus said as he walked through the doors to her bedside. "You needed to see me? Is everything okay?"

She sighed. "Not exactly. Please, sit down. Remus, what do you know about a wizard's chosen?" Remus looked taken aback but her question, but quickly recovered.

" Well, basically it's a pureblood tradition. It originally started when a wizard, Horvath, wanted to marry a witch, Madalana. The problem was,Madalana didn't see him that way. This caused Horvath to become angry and vengeful, he claimed that he wanted her more than anything, and that he would do anything to have her. He spent years creating the spell that would make her his. He finally invented a spell he called 'The call of the chosen'. And, without her permission or knowledge her bonded her to him, irreversibly so. This spell gives the bonder, or the male, the ability to control the chosen, almost to the level of the imperious curse. All chosens are always protected by the families of the choosers. They are seen as irreplaceable objects, things to be kept on a high shelf. The only bad side for the chooser, is that if the chosen dies, so does the chooser. Horvath found that out the hard way. Madalana, so depressed in her life of servitude, jumped out a tower window, killing herself immediately, and Horvath soon after."

"Oh my gosh! That is so awful! And doing that is still legal?" Hermione asked, her eyes wide.

"Yeah, the ministry said they didn't see it as morally wrong. As long as the choosers doesn't ask you to perform one of the unforgivable curses, you can do anything. Why are you asking?"

"How do you know so much about all this stuff?" Hermione said, quickly changing the subject.

"My dad is a pureblood and my mom is his willing chosen, they thought that it was only right to inform me of everything. Now I'll ask again, why are you asking?" Remus pinned her with his eyes, and she seemed to shrink under his gaze.

"No reason, I-"

"Don't lie to me Hermione," Remus growled "It's not in your character, and you're not very good at it." Hermione mumbled something under her breath, so low even Remus couldn't hear her. "What?"

"Lucius has made me his chosen...without my permission." Hermione squeaked out. Remus snarled and let out a loud growl, standing up he started making his way to the doors.

"Remus! Where are you going?"

"To kick his ass!" He yelled.

" Remus don't!" But it was too late, he had already left the infirmary. Hermione stood up on her wobbly legs and tied her robe around her waist. She started after Lupin, running after him as fast as her body would let her. When she rounded the corner, she saw Regulus and Severus on their way to the hospital wing.

"Hermione what are you doing? You're not supposed to be out of bed!" Regulus said, running to her side.

"I have to catch up with Remus. He's going to fight Lucius. I have to stop him." Hermione pleaded, trying to break out of Regulus's hold.

"Look here Hermione, Severus is going to go find them, And he's going to make sure that neither of them are hurt. And you and me are going to go back and get you in bed. Okay?" Hermione looked at Severus and he gave her a small smile before running back down the hallway.

"Come on honey, let's get you back." Hermione nodded weakly as she situated herself under his arm and sagged into his chest.

When they got back to Hermione's bed, he sat her down carefully, before going to madam Pomfrey to get Hermione's potions.

"Hermione, what's going on? Why is lupin trying to fight Lucius?"

"I need to ask you something. Did you know that Lucius was going to make me his chosen?" Hermione watched as Regulus let out an inhuman like sound of rage, gripping his fist so tight that he broke the potion bottle in his hand.

"He. Did. What?"

"He-he make me his chosen. I-I didn't have a choice. I'm sorry." Hermione said, starting to cry.

"Why on earth would you be sorry Hermione?"

"Because we can't all be together anymore. Lucius practically owns me."

"Now you listen here Hermione," Regulus said as he sat down on the bed. He grabbed her face between his hands gently, and wiped away the running tears. " I will make sure, no matter what, that we stay together. Even if I have to kick Lucius's ass everyday for the rest of his life." Hermione gave him a weak chuckle and he smiled at her. " I care about you far too much to just give up on this. Infact, I might even say I love you."

"Might even say?" she said, giggling. But was soon stopped when he leaned in and caught her lips with his. It started off soft and sweet, but soon turned into something more. When they finally had to break apart for breath, he placed their foreheads together.

"I love you." He muttered, kissing her forehead.

"I love you too."

Just as he was about to bring them back together, the doors opened to reveal a very shocking sight.

A/N: Guys….i have been super busy with all types of tuff and I am soooooo sorry! I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I thank you all for reading! Love to everyone!