The Real Me
Disclaimer: I do not own any of this fantastic array of characters. Except Emma, and the plot.
A/N: Hey! Well I survived my first week of high school. It was pretty ok. Anyway! Thanks to all who reviewed, I am going to thank you in the next chappie because I do not have my list of reviewers to thank on this comp.
Oooh, guess what! I got my very first flame! I am so so so proud!! I was laughing out loud as I read it. Wanna know why? Because I read all the other reviews from you fantastic people telling me how great my fic is and then I see this ONE LONE flame. It is for to laugh! HAHA! I would like to address a comment I got a couple times, I realize that the characters are OOC. I apologize. But I have said it before, this fic is writing itself. I have NO power over it.
Hey! Guess what else! I was poking around online, looking for a Harry Potter book V release date, and I found an article on BBC.com (A U.K. news network channel kinda thing.. You know the people who gave us Monty Python's Flying Circus.) It was talking all about...FAN FICTION! It was like SO ironic! There I was mentally writing chap 11 and there was this article about fan fiction! It was kool! And I think that we are TOTALLY justified in writing and reading it. There are only so many times we can reread books 1-4 so many times without getting so completely antsy for numero 5. We are only trying to satisfy our Harry Potter need! And if we fantasize about situations that are completely opposite to the books than so what? This is our way of trying to distract ourselves from the over powering need we have for Order of the Phoenix!
So on that note, Flamers beware! Cause I can blast you out of the water with my theories about how your opinions about how we, the authors of fanfics, write OUR stories are completely bogus! If you don't want to see the characters OOC, don't read the fics about 'ships that we want to happen but in all likely hood will not. So please, don't waste my time by posting some lame ass review that you hate my fic when I will come back with the fact that I have 86 other reviews that are ALL saying how AB Fab my fic is. So excuse my French but FUCK OFF! You don't bug me in the least, so go waste your time somewhere else! And, if you do feel the need to flame, and least have the guts to leave your name. Don't go and be anon if you are going to tell me that my fic suxs. Now, to all of my fans who are supportive! Here is chapter 11!
Ps, please forgive me for venting this, I needed to say it! It felt necessary.
Pps, Song is Smash Mouth's
Chapter 11: Escape. Is it possible?
Last time on "The Real Me"..
"I am just so glad I got here in time!" Draco said, kissing her passionately on the lips.
"Oh really? Well you won't be glad for long!" Said a greasy voice, somewhere near the door.
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"Ugh! How hard is it to yell up a shaft to tell us it is ok to come down?" Moaned Ginny as she paced back and forth. "That's it! I am just going down! I do not care what happens! I need to know if Mione is Ok."
Ginny started for the hole when Fred grabbed her around the middle. "No Gin! Wait!"
"Why?"
"Because!"
"NO!"
"Yes!!!"
"Guys guys!! Shut Up!" Harry said coming forward. "Gin, calm down and don't go! Who knows what is at the bottom? They could be dead for all we know! Worst case scenario of course."
"Yeah. Let's wait for a about 5 more minutes to send someone down to check ok?" Said George, being an uncharacteristic voice of reason.
Ginny sighed but stopped struggling. "It's just.. I need to know! Are they ok? What happened? I'm desperate!"
Ron threw a comforting arm around her shoulder. "It'll be ok-Wait a minute! I am JUST realizing this. did we let Mal--...did they...what the.. Hermione!! Malfoy!!! I'm gonna kill him!!!" He screamed, finally realizing that Draco and Hermione were together.
"Woah," Ginny said, a shadow of a grin coming across her face, "I think that that is the longest ANYTHING as taken! (A/N Shamlessly swiped from a Gilmore Girls episode, aah Sookie.so funny.and sweet sweet Jackson..hmm? Oh yeah.back to the chap.")"
Ron merely glared at his younger sister. "Shut Up Ginny!!!"
Fred released his grasp on Ginny, "Ron, Malfoy seems to have changed. I mean he is the one that is leading this expedition to save Mione!"
"Yeah but.."
"Don't you yeah but me!"
"Geesh you sound like Mum!"
"You take that back Ronniekins!!!"
"No no and no!"
Fred then pounced on his second youngest red haired sibling, tickling the life out of him.
"Fred Fred stop!!!!" Ron screamed between giggles.
"Shut up both of you!!! We aren't in a soundproof area here!! Luscius could be down there right now! He could have heard you guys and now will be coming up here with all his death eater buddies to kill us!!!" Harry said, un controlled panic very evident in his frantic tone.
That shut the two scrambling red heads up. "But Harry!!" Ron whined, "Hermione is with ferret boy!!!"
"I don't care about that at the moment Ron! All I care about is the fact that Malfoy's snake slime of a father has our best friend and is doing merlin knows what with her as we speak. So do I look like someone who cares right now that my best friend is in love with my enemy? I don't think so!"
"Ok---" Ron was cut short by an ear piercing scream that was heard from down below.
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Hermione had screamed the second she saw Luscius in the doorway.
"Woah, Mr. Malfoy.you have REALLY let yourself run down!" Emma said, an amused tone in her voice. "But I guess being a slave to a complete ass hole really does that to you. Well as they say, like master like ugly fucking slithering snaky minion!"
"Uhh.Emms.." Draco said, recognizing the look of poor revulsion on his "father's" face. "I don't think NOW is the time for umm..your "wit"."
"What?" She said feigning innocence, "I just tell it like it is. And the truth is that Voldemort's followers are pure scum! And he, is the the ameoba's on fleas! The ameoba's on fleas on rats!" (A/N Another line stolen from Grease.you know. when Frenchie is telling Sandy about how low Danny is for treating her like that? Anyway.)
Luscius leaped at her, but she was WAY too quick for him. She wasn't where she had been seconds before, she was floating over the bed where Draco and Hermione sat stunned. "Getting a little slow? Eh old timer!"
"What the hell?! You little bitch! Get down here now!" Emma shook her head no and did a few tantalizing flips in the air. "Fine! I can kill you from here! Avada-"
He was interrupted by Draco flinging himself at his father's legs, knocking him to the ground. A flash of lime green light came out of the wand and bounced off of the walls and hit Hermione straight in the chest.
Emma screamed, frozen in shock. "Emma! Get the others!!" With that she flew up the shaft, hoping against hope that Hermione was still alive.
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I was SO SO SO tempted to stop here.but I have made you guys wait so long for this chapter, I wasn't going to be that cruel.
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Ginny and the others were startled by the sudden blood curdling scream that came from below. "That's a girl's scream.but it isn't Mione." She said, staring nervously at the opening. "I have a very bad feeling about this."
They heard Draco shouting something indistinguishable and before they knew it, there was Emma hurtling towards them at breakneck speed. She was already shouting, "Hermione.Lucius...Draco..Avada..Unconcious..Help!!..They..need...help!!!!" at them.
The others sprung into action, and before you could say "Quidditch is easy enough to understand." They were sliding down the slope very quickly.
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Draco was trying desperately to keep his father on the ground. "Mum!! Harry! Emma!! Weasley's!! Anyone! Help me!!"
Draco kept looking back and forth between his father's writhing body and Hermione's unconscious form. He didn't know what to do. He knew that he had to keep his father down at all costs.but he didn't know if Hermione was alive or not.
He was saved from making a decision because 4 red heads, a boy with a scar, and a breathless blond were sliding towards him.
"Got..them...as...fast...as...I..could...D!" Emma said, trying to catch her breath. Fred muttered a spell that brought her breath back quickly. "Thanks Fred!" Ginny and herself ran towards Hermione's unmoving body, while the boys went to help Draco restrain his father.
"Oh this is ridiculous!" George said, "Petrificus Totalus!" He cried at the same moment Ron yelled, "Stupefy!"
Emma and Ginny were trying everything they could think to wake her up. Emma kept crying out "Enervate" with a growing passion, and Ginny was desperately trying to find a pulse. But it was to no avail. Hermione remained there, motionless.
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A/N: Once again, tempted to stop here, but I am determined to make this the longest chapter yet! Oh yeah, and I started this chapter a week ago, so I hope I get this out soon! * groans * I can't believe that this is taking so long!
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This is Hermione in a comatose state, this is well.I am not sure yet, but this is Hermione, K? Everyone clear? Good we can continue. *
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Where am I? Hermione thought desperately. She was walking around this strange room, it was filled with shadowy figures. What shocked her was that a couple of the faces were those that she knew.
"Hermione?" The shadow of Cedric said, walking/gliding towards her, a mixture of confusion and shock covered his face. "What the hell are YOU doing here? Did.HE kill you?"
"I-I-I-I---I don't know.. Lucsius took me from Hogwarts, tried to well.do me. Then he had to leave the room before he had a chance. and then suddenly this blond came flying down this cute above my head. She was, apparently, Draco Malfoy's best friend named Emma. She zapped me some clothes, and just in time too because Draco came flying down too. Emma got the ropes tying me undone, and then Lucsius came and.and..that's all I remember." Hermione gasped for air as she had said all of this practically non-stop.
The shadow of Cedric had a look of under standing on his sad face. "Hermione, I think you might be dead. What is the VERY last thing you remember?"
"Well. Lucsius was pointing his wand at me and said, "Avada" then Draco pounced on him, there was this green light and.now I'm here."
"That is odd.because if he only said 'Avada' then.nothing should have happened right?" Cedric thought aloud, half to himself, half to Hermione.
"Cedric.what is going on??? Where am I?"
"Well.. I don't really know, I THINK that this is were the people killed by Voldemort come because Harry's Parents are here, Bertha Jorkins, etc. But..if it was Luscius that tried to cast Avada Kedavra..I just don't understand this."
Hermione and Cedric walked over to James and Lily Potter. "Mr. And Mrs. Potter? My name is Hermione Granger, you know Cedric right?" They nodded sympathetically, motioning for her to continue. "Well, I am really good friends with Harry and well.. I have NO idea why I am here. Because Mr. Luscius Malfoy only STARTED to cast Avada Kedavra on me.but he only said Avada before Draco jumped on him. Do you know anything about why I am here??"
"Hermione," Lily said, patting the couch next to her, inviting her to sit down, "I think I understand, I believe that your friend's will to save you and his very father's desire to kill you have counteracted somehow. I believe that since he is a death eater, and Voldemorts right hand man, he is so much like the Dark Lord that the people that he well..they all go the same place. But I think that the reaction has forced you into a comatose like state, and unfortunately darling, your heart will have stopped beating. Your friends only have mere minutes to save your life."
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A/N Just a very quick note before I continue this chap, I would have gotten this uploaded sooner, but FF.net has been shut down in honor of 9/11 it said It would be back up 9/12 (today) but it's late. This'll be up asap!
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'And then I saw her face
Now I'm a believer
Not a trace
Of doubt in my mind
I'm in love
I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her
If I tried'
The chorus of "Believer" kept running through Draco's mind. It was befitting, as it described his exact feelings the moment he had seen Hermione this year.
"Mione come on! Please wake up!" Cried Ron desperately, "If you are just doing this because of this stupid prat Malfoy, we can get rid of him!!! Please Mione! Wake up!"
"Oh My Fucking God! I can't find a pulse!!" Emma cried, complete panic rushing through her, "I can't find a bloody pulse!! Oh God! Hermione please don't be dead!! Don't be dead!!!"
"Enervate! Enervate! Enervate!" Ginny kept screeching, more and more tears falling down her cheeks.
Harry was conjuring up a fire in the fireplace, attempting to summon Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, anyone who could save Hermione.
It was useless. Nothing was happening, and Hermione's lips were turing blue. A sign, that she was without air. There wasn't much time left.
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Hemione could here, and see her friends around her body through the T.V. displaying well.just that.
"Is there anyway I can get back to them?!?!" She cried desperately.
"I honestly don't know dear. I really don't know." Lily said sadly, she couldn't tear her eyes away from Harry's desperate form on the screen.
Cedric sat beside her, a comforting arm wrapped around her shoulders. "I'm so sorry Hermione. I wish I could help you."
"It's no use!" Hermione could here the voice of Harry ringing through her ears. "Malfoy's father must have put some sort of spell to not let people other than death eaters come through this fire place."
"Yes, My father did.He didn't want someone from the Ministry just strolling in." Hermione looked longingly at Draco's increasingly saddened face.
Suddenly, Hermione observed the fire in the fireplace glowing brighter and out stepped Severus Snape.
"Severus!" Lily screeched in shock, "What is he doing there??? He's going to kill them!!!" Lily had a devastated expression on her face. "It's my fault that he is like that.I refused his marriage proposal and.he turned to the Dark Arts. It's my fault that my son will die!!" Lily dissolved into wracking sobs.
"Mrs. Potter! You've got it wrong. Professor Snape is there to help! He has been spying for the good side. Yes he was a death eater, and is now masquerading as one, to get information for Dumbledore. He won't hurt them."
"No?" Lily asked, looking up, gazing searchingly into Hermione's eyes.
"Yes, He is good. He even saved Harry on a few occasions. Snape is no more evil than you or I, except for the fact that he favours Slytherin. But what are you going to do."
The four of them stared into the screen, anxcious for what was to come next.
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A/N Okay, Now I am really stopping this chapter. Hope you enjoyed it. I will try to get the next one out quicker.
R and R!!!
Luv
Emma
Disclaimer: I do not own any of this fantastic array of characters. Except Emma, and the plot.
A/N: Hey! Well I survived my first week of high school. It was pretty ok. Anyway! Thanks to all who reviewed, I am going to thank you in the next chappie because I do not have my list of reviewers to thank on this comp.
Oooh, guess what! I got my very first flame! I am so so so proud!! I was laughing out loud as I read it. Wanna know why? Because I read all the other reviews from you fantastic people telling me how great my fic is and then I see this ONE LONE flame. It is for to laugh! HAHA! I would like to address a comment I got a couple times, I realize that the characters are OOC. I apologize. But I have said it before, this fic is writing itself. I have NO power over it.
Hey! Guess what else! I was poking around online, looking for a Harry Potter book V release date, and I found an article on BBC.com (A U.K. news network channel kinda thing.. You know the people who gave us Monty Python's Flying Circus.) It was talking all about...FAN FICTION! It was like SO ironic! There I was mentally writing chap 11 and there was this article about fan fiction! It was kool! And I think that we are TOTALLY justified in writing and reading it. There are only so many times we can reread books 1-4 so many times without getting so completely antsy for numero 5. We are only trying to satisfy our Harry Potter need! And if we fantasize about situations that are completely opposite to the books than so what? This is our way of trying to distract ourselves from the over powering need we have for Order of the Phoenix!
So on that note, Flamers beware! Cause I can blast you out of the water with my theories about how your opinions about how we, the authors of fanfics, write OUR stories are completely bogus! If you don't want to see the characters OOC, don't read the fics about 'ships that we want to happen but in all likely hood will not. So please, don't waste my time by posting some lame ass review that you hate my fic when I will come back with the fact that I have 86 other reviews that are ALL saying how AB Fab my fic is. So excuse my French but FUCK OFF! You don't bug me in the least, so go waste your time somewhere else! And, if you do feel the need to flame, and least have the guts to leave your name. Don't go and be anon if you are going to tell me that my fic suxs. Now, to all of my fans who are supportive! Here is chapter 11!
Ps, please forgive me for venting this, I needed to say it! It felt necessary.
Pps, Song is Smash Mouth's
Chapter 11: Escape. Is it possible?
Last time on "The Real Me"..
"I am just so glad I got here in time!" Draco said, kissing her passionately on the lips.
"Oh really? Well you won't be glad for long!" Said a greasy voice, somewhere near the door.
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"Ugh! How hard is it to yell up a shaft to tell us it is ok to come down?" Moaned Ginny as she paced back and forth. "That's it! I am just going down! I do not care what happens! I need to know if Mione is Ok."
Ginny started for the hole when Fred grabbed her around the middle. "No Gin! Wait!"
"Why?"
"Because!"
"NO!"
"Yes!!!"
"Guys guys!! Shut Up!" Harry said coming forward. "Gin, calm down and don't go! Who knows what is at the bottom? They could be dead for all we know! Worst case scenario of course."
"Yeah. Let's wait for a about 5 more minutes to send someone down to check ok?" Said George, being an uncharacteristic voice of reason.
Ginny sighed but stopped struggling. "It's just.. I need to know! Are they ok? What happened? I'm desperate!"
Ron threw a comforting arm around her shoulder. "It'll be ok-Wait a minute! I am JUST realizing this. did we let Mal--...did they...what the.. Hermione!! Malfoy!!! I'm gonna kill him!!!" He screamed, finally realizing that Draco and Hermione were together.
"Woah," Ginny said, a shadow of a grin coming across her face, "I think that that is the longest ANYTHING as taken! (A/N Shamlessly swiped from a Gilmore Girls episode, aah Sookie.so funny.and sweet sweet Jackson..hmm? Oh yeah.back to the chap.")"
Ron merely glared at his younger sister. "Shut Up Ginny!!!"
Fred released his grasp on Ginny, "Ron, Malfoy seems to have changed. I mean he is the one that is leading this expedition to save Mione!"
"Yeah but.."
"Don't you yeah but me!"
"Geesh you sound like Mum!"
"You take that back Ronniekins!!!"
"No no and no!"
Fred then pounced on his second youngest red haired sibling, tickling the life out of him.
"Fred Fred stop!!!!" Ron screamed between giggles.
"Shut up both of you!!! We aren't in a soundproof area here!! Luscius could be down there right now! He could have heard you guys and now will be coming up here with all his death eater buddies to kill us!!!" Harry said, un controlled panic very evident in his frantic tone.
That shut the two scrambling red heads up. "But Harry!!" Ron whined, "Hermione is with ferret boy!!!"
"I don't care about that at the moment Ron! All I care about is the fact that Malfoy's snake slime of a father has our best friend and is doing merlin knows what with her as we speak. So do I look like someone who cares right now that my best friend is in love with my enemy? I don't think so!"
"Ok---" Ron was cut short by an ear piercing scream that was heard from down below.
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Hermione had screamed the second she saw Luscius in the doorway.
"Woah, Mr. Malfoy.you have REALLY let yourself run down!" Emma said, an amused tone in her voice. "But I guess being a slave to a complete ass hole really does that to you. Well as they say, like master like ugly fucking slithering snaky minion!"
"Uhh.Emms.." Draco said, recognizing the look of poor revulsion on his "father's" face. "I don't think NOW is the time for umm..your "wit"."
"What?" She said feigning innocence, "I just tell it like it is. And the truth is that Voldemort's followers are pure scum! And he, is the the ameoba's on fleas! The ameoba's on fleas on rats!" (A/N Another line stolen from Grease.you know. when Frenchie is telling Sandy about how low Danny is for treating her like that? Anyway.)
Luscius leaped at her, but she was WAY too quick for him. She wasn't where she had been seconds before, she was floating over the bed where Draco and Hermione sat stunned. "Getting a little slow? Eh old timer!"
"What the hell?! You little bitch! Get down here now!" Emma shook her head no and did a few tantalizing flips in the air. "Fine! I can kill you from here! Avada-"
He was interrupted by Draco flinging himself at his father's legs, knocking him to the ground. A flash of lime green light came out of the wand and bounced off of the walls and hit Hermione straight in the chest.
Emma screamed, frozen in shock. "Emma! Get the others!!" With that she flew up the shaft, hoping against hope that Hermione was still alive.
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I was SO SO SO tempted to stop here.but I have made you guys wait so long for this chapter, I wasn't going to be that cruel.
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Ginny and the others were startled by the sudden blood curdling scream that came from below. "That's a girl's scream.but it isn't Mione." She said, staring nervously at the opening. "I have a very bad feeling about this."
They heard Draco shouting something indistinguishable and before they knew it, there was Emma hurtling towards them at breakneck speed. She was already shouting, "Hermione.Lucius...Draco..Avada..Unconcious..Help!!..They..need...help!!!!" at them.
The others sprung into action, and before you could say "Quidditch is easy enough to understand." They were sliding down the slope very quickly.
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Draco was trying desperately to keep his father on the ground. "Mum!! Harry! Emma!! Weasley's!! Anyone! Help me!!"
Draco kept looking back and forth between his father's writhing body and Hermione's unconscious form. He didn't know what to do. He knew that he had to keep his father down at all costs.but he didn't know if Hermione was alive or not.
He was saved from making a decision because 4 red heads, a boy with a scar, and a breathless blond were sliding towards him.
"Got..them...as...fast...as...I..could...D!" Emma said, trying to catch her breath. Fred muttered a spell that brought her breath back quickly. "Thanks Fred!" Ginny and herself ran towards Hermione's unmoving body, while the boys went to help Draco restrain his father.
"Oh this is ridiculous!" George said, "Petrificus Totalus!" He cried at the same moment Ron yelled, "Stupefy!"
Emma and Ginny were trying everything they could think to wake her up. Emma kept crying out "Enervate" with a growing passion, and Ginny was desperately trying to find a pulse. But it was to no avail. Hermione remained there, motionless.
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A/N: Once again, tempted to stop here, but I am determined to make this the longest chapter yet! Oh yeah, and I started this chapter a week ago, so I hope I get this out soon! * groans * I can't believe that this is taking so long!
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This is Hermione in a comatose state, this is well.I am not sure yet, but this is Hermione, K? Everyone clear? Good we can continue. *
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Where am I? Hermione thought desperately. She was walking around this strange room, it was filled with shadowy figures. What shocked her was that a couple of the faces were those that she knew.
"Hermione?" The shadow of Cedric said, walking/gliding towards her, a mixture of confusion and shock covered his face. "What the hell are YOU doing here? Did.HE kill you?"
"I-I-I-I---I don't know.. Lucsius took me from Hogwarts, tried to well.do me. Then he had to leave the room before he had a chance. and then suddenly this blond came flying down this cute above my head. She was, apparently, Draco Malfoy's best friend named Emma. She zapped me some clothes, and just in time too because Draco came flying down too. Emma got the ropes tying me undone, and then Lucsius came and.and..that's all I remember." Hermione gasped for air as she had said all of this practically non-stop.
The shadow of Cedric had a look of under standing on his sad face. "Hermione, I think you might be dead. What is the VERY last thing you remember?"
"Well. Lucsius was pointing his wand at me and said, "Avada" then Draco pounced on him, there was this green light and.now I'm here."
"That is odd.because if he only said 'Avada' then.nothing should have happened right?" Cedric thought aloud, half to himself, half to Hermione.
"Cedric.what is going on??? Where am I?"
"Well.. I don't really know, I THINK that this is were the people killed by Voldemort come because Harry's Parents are here, Bertha Jorkins, etc. But..if it was Luscius that tried to cast Avada Kedavra..I just don't understand this."
Hermione and Cedric walked over to James and Lily Potter. "Mr. And Mrs. Potter? My name is Hermione Granger, you know Cedric right?" They nodded sympathetically, motioning for her to continue. "Well, I am really good friends with Harry and well.. I have NO idea why I am here. Because Mr. Luscius Malfoy only STARTED to cast Avada Kedavra on me.but he only said Avada before Draco jumped on him. Do you know anything about why I am here??"
"Hermione," Lily said, patting the couch next to her, inviting her to sit down, "I think I understand, I believe that your friend's will to save you and his very father's desire to kill you have counteracted somehow. I believe that since he is a death eater, and Voldemorts right hand man, he is so much like the Dark Lord that the people that he well..they all go the same place. But I think that the reaction has forced you into a comatose like state, and unfortunately darling, your heart will have stopped beating. Your friends only have mere minutes to save your life."
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A/N Just a very quick note before I continue this chap, I would have gotten this uploaded sooner, but FF.net has been shut down in honor of 9/11 it said It would be back up 9/12 (today) but it's late. This'll be up asap!
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'And then I saw her face
Now I'm a believer
Not a trace
Of doubt in my mind
I'm in love
I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her
If I tried'
The chorus of "Believer" kept running through Draco's mind. It was befitting, as it described his exact feelings the moment he had seen Hermione this year.
"Mione come on! Please wake up!" Cried Ron desperately, "If you are just doing this because of this stupid prat Malfoy, we can get rid of him!!! Please Mione! Wake up!"
"Oh My Fucking God! I can't find a pulse!!" Emma cried, complete panic rushing through her, "I can't find a bloody pulse!! Oh God! Hermione please don't be dead!! Don't be dead!!!"
"Enervate! Enervate! Enervate!" Ginny kept screeching, more and more tears falling down her cheeks.
Harry was conjuring up a fire in the fireplace, attempting to summon Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, anyone who could save Hermione.
It was useless. Nothing was happening, and Hermione's lips were turing blue. A sign, that she was without air. There wasn't much time left.
~*~*~
Hemione could here, and see her friends around her body through the T.V. displaying well.just that.
"Is there anyway I can get back to them?!?!" She cried desperately.
"I honestly don't know dear. I really don't know." Lily said sadly, she couldn't tear her eyes away from Harry's desperate form on the screen.
Cedric sat beside her, a comforting arm wrapped around her shoulders. "I'm so sorry Hermione. I wish I could help you."
"It's no use!" Hermione could here the voice of Harry ringing through her ears. "Malfoy's father must have put some sort of spell to not let people other than death eaters come through this fire place."
"Yes, My father did.He didn't want someone from the Ministry just strolling in." Hermione looked longingly at Draco's increasingly saddened face.
Suddenly, Hermione observed the fire in the fireplace glowing brighter and out stepped Severus Snape.
"Severus!" Lily screeched in shock, "What is he doing there??? He's going to kill them!!!" Lily had a devastated expression on her face. "It's my fault that he is like that.I refused his marriage proposal and.he turned to the Dark Arts. It's my fault that my son will die!!" Lily dissolved into wracking sobs.
"Mrs. Potter! You've got it wrong. Professor Snape is there to help! He has been spying for the good side. Yes he was a death eater, and is now masquerading as one, to get information for Dumbledore. He won't hurt them."
"No?" Lily asked, looking up, gazing searchingly into Hermione's eyes.
"Yes, He is good. He even saved Harry on a few occasions. Snape is no more evil than you or I, except for the fact that he favours Slytherin. But what are you going to do."
The four of them stared into the screen, anxcious for what was to come next.
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A/N Okay, Now I am really stopping this chapter. Hope you enjoyed it. I will try to get the next one out quicker.
R and R!!!
Luv
Emma