Chapter 19 The Plea

Aphelia had awakened tied to a chair inside the Whomping Willow. On the bed in front of her was Hermione, passed out. She looked horribly beaten which pissed Aphelia off even more.

"Hermione! Wake up! I need your," started Aphelia, but she was quickly smacked in the face by James.

"So, you decided to try to become a bad boy to suit my taste, huh James?" Aphelia asked, a bit of superiority in her voice.

"Oh yes! Considering I am so DEEPLY smitten by you!" mocked James. Aphelia's cheeks turned slightly pink, but she just shoved it off.

"James, James, James! No one messes with A Potter, especially you!" Aphelia taunted, trying to use her telekinetic powers to untie herself.

"Don't you mean nobody messes with a HARRY Potter? I mean, come ONE Aphelia, do you actually believe everyone believes that YOU took down Voldemort, not Harry?" Taunted James.

"I REALLY don't care what everyone thinks! UNTIE ME! OR at least let Hermione go!" Aphelia pleaded.

"No! Now days muggles have these things called dentists, and I heard Hermione's parents work as those! Let's give her the pain her parents give other people!" James said pulling out a Root Canal Drill. Aphelia screamed at the top of her longs and started kicking and thrashing around more.

"Hermione! GET UP! JAMES, you BASTARD! Don't you DARE! What do you want from her?" she screamed, still trying to get herself untied.

"Nothing! Nothing at all! I just get a thrill from hurting people!" James said and he inched closer to the bed.

"Please don't do this! I'd do ANYTHING to keep her alive!" Aphelia screamed in a last minute plea for Hermione's life. James stopped right in front of Hermione and turned the drill off.

"Anything?" he asked, a devilish smile gleaming in his eye. Aphelia glared and spit at him, "Okay, you it was your choice!" he said and turned the drill back on. At that moment Hermione woke up and started screaming.

"WAIT! Okay, I'll do ANYTHING! Just DON'T hurt her!" Aphelia screamed, tears streaming down her cheeks

"Okay then! We have a deal! You stay away from Draco and pretend to be my girlfriend and NOBODY gets hurt!" James said and he untied Hermione, " Do we have a deal?" he asked before untying her. Aphelia's eyes puffed up as more tears spilled down her cheeks.

"Yes! We have a deal!" she cried. James untied her, but when he went to give her a kiss she turned her head away and ran off to her room. She didn't even bother to tell Pansy what was wrong with her, she only asked that Pansy would allow her to put a quiet spell on her so she couldn't hear Aphelia's sobs. Just when she thought she'd have her dragon back, she lost him again, and probably forever.