As usual, I do not own Harry Potter, its characters, or plot. If I did I wouldn't be nearly as poor as I am. I do own my original character and plot, so yeah. Happy Reading.
"Imperio!" Lucius commanded under his breath, aiming his wand at the nearest auror. The dark skinned auror stiffed as the curse took over is body. A grind spread like poison across Lucius' face. This was his favorite part: the feeling of absolute control. The Dark Lord stripped that power away from Lucius, but now that he had it back, it felt even better. "Bring me the girl," he hissed, and the auror began toward the small school, his partner following, confused.
Lucius lounged on a bench underneath a shade tree patiently waiting for his prize when a distressed woman's voice drilled through his pleasant thoughts.
"She's my daughter! I demand to see her!" The petite, blonde woman demanded. Intrigued, Lucius listened more intently.
"I'm sorry miss, but you are not listed as Rosalinda's mother. I cannot let you see her," the young, lanky male administrator said. He positioned himself between the mother and the door to the classroom.
The woman suddenly turned toward Lucius as if sensing his presence, fear etched upon her face once recognizing him. She turned back to the adminstrator as fast as she turned away. She began protesting with more strength, pulling out her wand and shoving it under his chin. His eyes dilated with fear as she whispered something Lucius could not hear up to him. He began to step to the side to let her pass when Lucius caught on to what was happening. The sly minx.
Focusing on his connection to the auror, he whispered, "now! Bring Rosalinda to the bench under the tree and give her to me."
The auror ran out of the preschool, the small child struggling in his arms, directly to Lucius, dropping the girl in his hands. With a spin and a wink toward the blonde haired mother, Lucius apparated himself and the bastard child to Malfoy Manor.
Upon Lucius' disappearance, all hell broke loose. The auror snapped out of his dazed state and frantically looked for the person who cursed him. The auror' partner rushed up to him, grabbing the tall, dark skinned man by the collar and demanding to know what he just did. Laura was rushing toward Lucius' former position, but upon blinking away, she turned toward the adminstrator and glared daggers meant to kill before apparting herself to a location she knew was close to the Manor. Come hell or high water, she would keep her daughter safe.
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Hermione appeared at the gates to Malfoy Manor, the cusp of a wonderful idea coming to her, when she nearly trips over a small body. Dinky. She lets out a wail and falls to her knees, struggling to find a pulse on the tiny creature. A faint pulse tickles her finger, and she almost cries out in relief. Dinky's blue lids flutter open and his large eyes stare up at Hermione. She gives him a forced smile and holds him closer. "It's going to be okay. It will be okay," she reassures him, holding the little elf close to warm his frozen body.
"Yes, Mistress," Dinky let's out faintly, and his eyes droop shut. Without thought, Hermione twisted, apparating to St. Mungos.
A bustling waiting room appears around her. She runs into the doors to the left of the welcome desk and up two flights of stairs until she is in front of a different desk. 'Magical Beings' is written above a small desk. Hermione gets the attention of the receptionist and upon seeing the nearly frozen elf in her arms, the woman in scrubs calls a doctor.
"Ms. Granger," a woman' voice calls from her right.
Coming from a blank white door was a beautiful woman, black hair shining and black eyes crinkled in a smile. The smile quickly faded once the doctor caught sight of Dinky wrapped in Hermione's arms.
"What happened?" She asked, slightly panicked. She hadn't seen more than five cases of house elf abuse since the very woman in front of her passed a series of laws for the protection of house elf welfare.
"I found him tossed out of the Manor without more than a faint pulse. I want to be here, Cho, trust me, but I have to get back. There are more lives on the line," Hermione explained to her old acquaintance quickly.
Cho nodded and dexterously scoop Dinky out of Hermione's hands. Cho began walking back to the emergency ward when she turned and asked, "I thought you were in law, not law enforcement."
Hermione was almost out of the door, but called back with a hint of amusement. "I'm not. But it comes with being a part of the Golden Trio." With her remark, Hermione rushed back to of the hospital and deftly spun the second she stepped outside of the apparition wards.
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"Dammit. Where is he?" Draco ground out as he finished searching his father's study. He had already searched the common areas and was beginning to search his father's favorite places. Draco knew he should get Hermione, but he just had to search one more place.
His blood was boiling. Draco had spent the past five years protecting his daughter from this very situation, and he had never even laid eyes on his little girl. He just couldn't understand how Lucius could hate mudbloods so much as to want to kill his granddaughter after seeing her. After teaching Draco that the only thing that mattered more than blood purity was family, how could Lucius look at his granddaughter and want to harm her?
After the search of both his father's study and private library came tits up, Draco decided to call Dinky to let in Hermione, but upon multiple calls the little elf didn't come. Worrying even more than he knew he could, Draco ran to the gates to retrieve Hermione and ask about Dinky.
Opening up the gates, questions and complaints on his tongue, he took in a breath and promptly let in fall out at the slight before him.
Hermione's shirt and face had small amounts of blood on it, and her eyes were filled with anxiety and bewilderment. The reason for which stood next to her.
"Laura." The name dropped from Draco's mouth like a brick.
The woman in question darted toward him and without warning slapped him with all of her might.
"What the fuck was that for?" Draco spluttered, stumbling backwards, clutching his red face.
"For putting my daughter in danger you son of a bitch!" Laura growled, stalking towards him for seconds.
Hermione raced to put herself in between them. "Now is not the time for a fight!" She said sternly toward the raging woman. "Your daughter is in danger! We will point fingers like children later," Hermione admonished.
With both Draco and Laura's attention back on Rose, Hermione marched forward toward the Manor with the parents following closely behind. She began commanding orders. "Draco, put up a ward to alert us when the aurors get here. Laura, keep my back as I preform my searching spells. Once you're done, Draco, keep searching your father's regular haunts."
As ordered, Draco began muttering spells and waving his wand toward the gates, and Laura took up Hermione's back, wand at the ready. They began searching the West wing, room by room, ignoring the bedrooms at Draco's advice.
Without warning, Laura darted down the hallway, Hermione following close behind in confusion. With a sharp left and right down a dark passage, Hermione found herself following Laura down a dark, mildewy staircase that could only lead to the dungeons.
While Laura was descending the stairs, slowly, Hermione sent her patronus to tell Draco where they were. "It looks like the dungeons on the southern wing," Hermione whispered to her otter which promptly took off, taking it's soft light with it.
By that point, Laura was at the bottom of the stairs warily looking around. Hermione cast lumos and followed silently. "Laura?" Hermione called quietly after ten minutes of searching.
Laura turned around, her eyes unseeing, her wand pointed at Hermione, a spell on the tip of her tongue. Hermione didn't hesitate to quickly stupefy the woman. In the blink of an eye Hermione found herself back in the war, and she would die if a curse got past her shields.
Rounding the corner, she found Lucius Malfoy grinning like the cat that got the canary. Without thinking, she whipped her wand, determined to take him out and retrieve Rose, but a whimper stopped her long enough to hear his speech.
"You Gryffindor learn so little," he smirked at her frustration. "While you were always the most intelligent out of the pack, you are still as brash as the rest of the little lions. You should know that if you shoot a curse at me, the girl dies. Just like she should have upon her conception."
Hermione growled in response, barely containing her anger when her savior came up behind her and shot a stupefy at Lucius.
The elder Malfoy deflected the spell, and narrowed his eyes to the man beside Hermione.
"Draco, how could you betray your family in this way? Have I taught you nothing?" Lucius screamed. Rose let out another whimper as his wand shook under his temper.
Draco managed to give his father an incredulous look. "Me betray the family?" He demanded. "How about your vices father? You have dragged our name through the mud! You followed a mad man for years and put our entire family in near constant peril the entire time! When you screwed up with the Dark Lord, I was the one that had to atone for your mistakes with the threat of both my and mother's life. Do you not care for either of us?" Draco ended out of breath. He had never talked to his father so disrespectfully, but the longer he kept the man talking, the more time Hermione had to figure out how they could release his daughter.
Lucius was growing ever more infuriated, grinding his teeth and balling his unarmed fist. "I did everything in my power to protect you and your mother and give you both the best life possible!"
"And that includes inducting your son into an insane man's cult? Did you truly think I wanted to torture and kill people when I was sixteen? I just wanted my father to be proud of me!" Draco screamed. Hermione had never seen him so angry. It was terrifying. The silence that followed has deafening; both mentoring at each other while also seeing each other differently.
Just as Lucius began to lower his wand, a cry interrupted the moment. Laura stood up, albeit shakily, from the spot she was stunned and ran toward Lucius. She managed to hit his with a powerful cutting curse that tore into his non-dominate shoulder, but before she could do anymore damage, he whipped his wand around in a feat of impressive wand work that put both her on the ground screaming under the Crucio, and shield blocking Hermione's rapid-fire curses. Rose began to sob uncontrollably, and a grand duel began between Hermione, Draco, and Lucius; the former slowly losing his upper hand.
Curses are flying back and forth between the two parties, when a sharp cry steals away Hermione's attention. Rose was struck by a cutting curse, her leg bleeding profusely. If she had not already been boiling, Hermione was so far beyond furious she began seeing red. Her hair sparked and her fingers randomly shot out little lightning bolts as she sent curse after increasingly dangerous curse toward Lucius. Draco was growling as he sent a series of dark curses at his father. He was weakening quickly under both her and Draco's assault, sweat condensing on his brow and soaking the collar of his expensive silk robes.
With a swish of her wand, Hermione sent a bombarda at Lucius, intent of finishing the duel. The curse was deflected back at her, without thinking she ducked, however, Draco was not as lucky. Despite avoiding the curse, a piece of shattered stone lodged itself in his hip, and he fell. The brief distraction was enough time for Lucius to put a shield between Hermione and Draco, and himself with Laura and Rose.
Hermione let out a frustrated cry when her first seven spells didn't break the shield. She punched the invisible wall so hard, she was pretty sure she broke something, but alas, the wall still stood between her and the former death eater.
Hermione quickly turned back toward Draco, seeing him attempt to stand up despite the gash in hip. She knelt down next to him and whispered directions, hoping her plan would work.
When Hermione turned back, Lucius was casting his third Crucio on Laura and Rose was screaming 'Mummy, mummy, no!' Over and over again. If she had not been in war-mode, the sound of the little girl's cries would have killed Hermione, but she was determined to kill Lucius, and she had to block out everything else between them.
"Bombarda maxima!" Hermione shouted. The shield crumbled under Hermione's powerful curse, and luckily Draco's shield over Rose's cell remained, because parts of the walls imploded, sending jagged rock towards Lucius. Hermione tried, but a small piece got past her shield and cut Laura's leg. Lucius had a long cut down his face and a few on his arms. His glare toward Hermione told her he was done playing games. He turned toward Rose, murder in his eyes when Draco shouts, "the aurors are here!"
A panicked look over comes Lucius long enough for both Draco and Hermione to silently cast stupefy. The power of both spells at once blew Lucius back against a broken wall. He crumbled, unconscious. Rushing forward, Hermione bound Lucius with maybe-a-bit-too-tight conjured shackles, and started healing Laura's wounds. Draco, meanwhile, released the shield on Rose's cell and pressed a bloody hand against the door to release the lock. The little girl was quaking with terror, curled up in a pool of blood and urine in the corner of the cell. Her eyes unsure of Draco.
At least twenty aurors, lead by Harry Potter himself, stormed down the stone stairs in that minute. "What happened?"
Hermione began reporting the event while she healed Rose's injuries to the best of her ability. "We got a call that Rose was in danger, so we headed for the safe house. When she didn't show up, I sent a patronus to Kingsley, he then informed me that Rose was at Malfoy Manor. We rushed there, where we met Laura, Rose's mum, and all three of us began searching. We found him in here with Rose locked up. We dueled. Now, call two healers and have everyone taken to St. Mungo's." She looked up to see Harry staring blankly in shock. "Now," Hermione growled.
The next thirty minutes were a rush of events. Two healers were called in. The aurors hauled Lucius to St. Mungo's, Laura was stabilized by healers, then also taken to the Magical hospital with instructions for an auror to find and contact her family. The other healer quickly stitched up Draco's wound before beginning on Rose under the watchful eyes of both Hermione and Draco. "mummy. Mummy," Rose kept whimpering.
"Hermione," Harry called from the other side of the room after a few minutes of the couple worrying over their little girl. Hermione tore herself from Roses' side. Draco squeezed her hand and whispered, "I'll go with her to St. Mungo's. Meet me there soon?" With a nod, she walked over to her long-time best friend.
"Kingsley and I need a debriefing before you go to the hospital."
"Of course," Hermione replied with a sigh. She took one long look back at Rose and Draco before following Harry out of the Manor. At the gates, they were met with Narcissa Malfoy being held back three aurors while she screamed at them, "this is my home! Let me go! My son is in there! My husband is in there!"
Harry gave a side glance to Hermione as if to ask if she knew anything about Narcissa's involvement. With a shake of Hermione's head, Harry turned to the aurors holding Mrs. Malfoy. "Bring her to the Ministry. Put her in a holding cell, and I will see to her within an hour."
The three men nodded and dragged Narcissa toward the other side of the antiapparation wards. "You will tell me what is going on! I saved you! Does that mean nothing?" The woman screamed, but Harry did not turn back.
A.N:/ It's been a super long time since I updated, and I'm sorry for that. I'm not giving up on this, I'm just trying to survive this semester. I hope you all have a fabulous week! Thank you for reading.