The pleasant weather turned bringing with it dark angry clouds and skin burning rain pelting down from the sky, flooding the uneven grounds that surrounded the castle creating large puddles expanding in to small lakes drowning the neglected plants and wilting the wild grass.
Hermione rested her forehead on the cold glass watching the downpour with bitter resentment, her knees pressed tightly up to her chest sitting on the window seat in the parlour. Her fingers tracing the condensation on the window the feeling of being watched was grating on her overwhelmed emotions.
It had been two weeks since the strange conversation on the fourth floor and breaking down in the arms of the blonde sister. Suspiciously enough the two Black women had seemed to of disappeared since then leaving Hermione and the three boys to roam around the castle without supervision, she knew someone was about as meals still appeared on the dining table every day which she still refused to touch while her bottomless pits she called friends enjoyed the feast without hesitation.
Hermione hated how the boys immediately accepted their fate with no problem. Draco she could understand after all he was finally with his mother but Harry and Neville had loving parents back home waiting for their return. There was more to this than anyone was letting on and Hermione had frequently demanded answers from her friends to met with scornful silence and shifty looks shared between the three young men after a week of her constant harassment she barely saw them around either leaving her alone in her misery.
A soft growl sounded from behind the young woman alerting her to an unseen presence. Scrambling up she turned to the barely lit room, her eyes darting around the shadows. "Hello is anyone here?".
She was met with silence from the room and a bolt of lightning lashing across the sky making her jump, she shakily clutched her chest in a desperate bid to calm her racing heart. A blur of black darted across the doorway followed by a pitter patter of small feet and a hard thump against the floor.
She wished she had her wand with her even if magic didn't work she always felt safe holding her most treasured possession but her wand had vanished when the ship sank.
Another growl this time closer to the shaking woman backing herself into the corner of the fireplace, frantically gripping her fists on the hem of her robes in fear.
Hermione screamed her eyes widened in terror at the black panther slinking towards her it's dark gaze eyeing her hungrily. The moment the creature pounced knocking Hermione hard on her back it opened its jaw showcasing its razor sharp teeth. She was struggling to breathe as the panther pinned her down using its front legs to keep her from escaping. "Please please" she softly cried leaning her face away from the powerfuk jaws. Hot salvia hitting her bare neck.
"Bellatrix!" came a firm voice just as the weight on her chest was removed. Hermione whimpered pushing up from the floor, swaying slightly.
"I told you to remain in your chambers" Andromeda scowled at the panther, a fist buried in the animals fur keeping it still. The old woman smiled glancing at Hermione "sorry about that Bella never did like doing as she was told".
The doors flung open to a frantic Narcissa, her blue eyes darting from Hermione and back to her sister and the panther. "Damn it Bellatrix how many times must I tell you not to scare the young one". She knelt down letting the panther whine pitifully, nuzzling her neck with its wet muzzle.
"Yo... You have a panther here" Hermione stuttered stating the obvious.
Andromeda smirked raising an eyebrow, releasing her hand from the panthers fur. "Bellatrix is much friendlier in this form I assure you". She rolled her eyes at the girls tears. Stalking like a predator similar to the panther she pinned Hermione to the wall her hand holding both the girls arms above her head, leaning in she pressed her body in to Hermione's, smirking as the girls breath hitched. "My oh my you are a frightened little girl I could smell you from all the way over there" her lips brushing Hermione's ear with each movement. "I wonder if you would enjoy yourself as much as I think you will if I had you in my chambers". Her free hand kneading Hermione's breast quiet moans leaving her lips. "I haven't had a good time in a long while". Placing a wet kiss upon the girls neck.
"Andromeda! I can't turn my back for one second" Narcissa scolded her sister. "Let the girl go now". Hands on hips a glare clouding her face.
"But I don't want to" Andromeda childishly whined, trailing her tongue over Hermione's throat. A shudder ran down her spine as Hermione bucked against her pelvis. Her hand wandered down the girls chest and underneath her robes brushing against her bare thigh. "I am so horny why do you keep ruining my fun Cissy? It's not like you will allow me to have my wicked way with you". She pouted backing off from the highly aroused younger woman.
Turning on to her younger sister, her arms crossed over her chest. "Well?".
"No it is beyond inappropriate Andromeda I am your sister not your lover" Narcissa grimaced.
Hermione blushed bright red at the strangely erotic and forbidden topic that Andromeda was trying to get Narcissa to relent to.
"You allow some filthy fool to have his way with you, impregnate you with his spawn but you won't allow me to show you my love" Andromeda sulked closing the distance between them.
Narcissa glared taking one step back for each step her sister used to try to close the gap between them. "Then go to Bellatrix I will not sink low to satisfy your dark desires sister. I maybe stuck here with you both but I shall not and will not allow such unseemly behaviour to ruin everything that I anger worked for".
"We have been stuck here for over five hundred years little sister you can't seriously make me believe you don't get urges" Andromeda spat.
"Of course I do but as any woman I am capable of satisfying myself I do not need to dabble in such forbidden acts sister" Narcissa sneered.
Both women forgetting Hermione was still present who kept her wary gaze on the strangely grinning panther that sat watching the heated argument. She's dead, lifeless body stuck somewhere in the wreckage that would explain the bizarre place she has found herself in since wakening maybe she is just dreaming this crazy, frightening castle up and these strange unhinged people.
Narcissa gasped being the first to remember their audience. "Miss Granger I must apologize for our unseemly behaviour". Smoothing down her wrinkled dress. "Bellatrix needs to return to her floor if you would be so gracious to see that she does Andromeda".
Hermione stared after the dark haired woman and panther leaving the parlour.
"I must explain your situation you have unfortunately found yourself in Miss Granger" Narcissa coldly informed her, taking a seat on the couch. "My sisters and I are imprisoned on this rock that we call home since we were young naive women. I was barely sixteen, Andromeda eighteen and Bellatrix our oldest sister was twenty one".
Hermione slumped undignified in the armchair, watching the sad blonde with curiosity.
"Our father was a wretched man a cruel selfish individual that enjoyed abusing his power by torturing young innocent girls that came to our home. Our mother kept him away from us till she passed away shortly before our imprisonment". A lone tear slipped down the blondes pale cheek. "Bella protected me from his depravities that he inflicted on my sisters. You see the insanity that plagues them both was the result of the sexual abuse they suffered. It is why they drift towards each other for sexual release even now and why I refuse to be they toy".
"Your father raped them?".
Narcissa jerkily nodded. "It is part of the reason I sent my son to live in the world, he could of stayed but I didn't, don't trust my sisters not to pull him in to their darkness".
"Why did your father imprison you?".
"The authorities caught on to his depraved behaviour after a young woman from an important and high class family disappeared and instead of us being set free, unknowingly to us he brought the island many years before for this exact reason. The castle was built and became our home and has been for over five hundred years. The castle has magic intertwined in its structures it is how we have the kitchen with more up to date features and the entertainment room of course" she sighed dejectedly. "The castle must of sensed your arrival before you even became aware of the journey you were going to take. The entertainment room and the cottage that my son and boys share only created itself a year before you arrived. I should of realised then but even if I did I wouldn't of been able to stop it". She rubbed her temples.
"What do you mean I am the key?" Hermione asked.
Narcissa turned her gaze upon Hermione, sadness filled her blue eyes. "You are not who you believe you are Miss Granger".
"Hermione".
"I'm sorry?" Narcissa confusedly asked.
"My name is Hermione you call the boys by their given name".
Narcissa shook her head "that would be improper". Her tone cold.
"Why? I don't understand any of this. Why are you treating me differently? Cold and distant while you give the boys warm smiles and join in their conversations".
"You can not ever fully understand any of this Miss Granger" Narcissa elegantly stood, turning to leave.
Hermione finally had enough of not getting her answers, threw herself in the blondes path. "How dare you keep doing this to me. I never asked for this and I certainly wouldn't of choice to follow my friends if this would be the outcome. I may not had much of a life back home but at least it was something instead I'm here with you a cold distant uptight woman that has shown me nothing but how twisted you are while my friends have a jolly of a time forgetting our friends are missing. Did you and your sisters hurt them?".
Narcissa flinched as if she was slapped. "You are the reason we are here. You are the reason my son is trapped with me. You were our downfall..".
"Enough Narcissa. You have said quite enough" Andromeda coldly intoned standing rigid behind Hermione.
"How? I wasn't even born five hundred years ago you bloody demented bitch" Hermione shrieked stepping menacingly towards the blonde.
"I suggest you return to your chambers Miss Granger" Andromeda smoothly intervened, grabbing the back of Hermione's robes halting her pursuit.
Spinning on to the dark haired woman anger cursing through her veins. "Fuck you I am not going to do a thing you say". A dark cold look passed over Andromeda's face but Hermione didn't stop. "Each day I am stuck here with you and your bloody sister" spitting out the word sister as if venom on her tongue "I realise just how backwards you are. You are not right in your head trying to get your sister in to bed nor is she. I am leaving this hell hole even if it is the last thing I do". She slapped Andromeda across the face with as much force as she could muster.
"You are going to regret this Miss Granger I assure you" gritting her teeth, Narcissa yanked Hermione by the upper arm and violently pulled the young woman out the parlour and through the main doors.
Within seconds Hermione was soaked to the bone. She was ungracefully dragged through the waterlogged garden, the rain water seeping through her trainers and drenching her tights, she tumbled to gain her feet. Her right shoulder grinding in protest at the furious blondes unfriendly treatment.
A large stone mausoleum covered in thick green vinery stood looming over Hermione it's gaping doors reassembling a wide dark unforgiving mouth stood waiting to swallow her whole.
She was shoved roughly in the lower back sprawling on the concrete ground, her elbow colliding unexpectedly be beneath her sharp twinges of pain blossoming up her arm. Tears sprang forth as she coddled her injured arm to her chest, her eyes trained on the dangerous woman who was shutting the heavy doors.
"You want to attack my family then you can stay here where I should of left you to rot the moment you dared to darken my land but I thought I knew best obviously my sisters were right" Narcissa snarled. "It won't be long till you perish you ungrateful little whore".
The last thing Hermione saw as she was sealed up was the animalistic feral grin of her warden bearing down upon her.
A shaky sob escaped in to the pitch black darkness eerily bouncing off the walls. Hermione curled up on the ground shaking uncontrollably. All she wanted ever wanted since arriving on the island was to go back home but now she was sent to her death like a criminal.