Make No Promises
Chapter 2: All isn't well
By: hermioneharry4ever
He made his lips and tongue move, " Hermione, I'm going to a party tonight. Would you want to be my date?" Michel asked.
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Hermione was shocked, she opened and closed her mouth. An surge ran through her body, telling her "NO!" But Hermione ignored the warning, and nodded. " Sure why not? When will you come by to pick me up?"
Michel smiled, and let go of Hermione's wrist. " I'll come by six, okay?" He asked. Hermione nodded, and went out of the door.
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By six, Michel had picked up Hermione, and they both apparated outside of the shop. There was a long line of people waiting. The line was slowly moving when the guards had check if they were old enough to go in.
Soon it was Hermione's and Michel's turn. They hand their wands to the guard, and the guard inspected it. He nodded, and let them go in.
The party at the club was fun. Michel took Hermione dancing to some fast songs, but she was never up to a slow song. She had always said that it made her have bad memories. What Michel didn't know, was that that memories were always of Harry and herself dancing.
" Woo, that was fun." Hermione said as she walked off with Michel. Michel nodded. A woman came up to Michel and asked him to dance.
" Is that alright?" Michel asked Hermione. Hermione nodded, and smiled. She found a seat, and watch Michel and the woman dance. It was clearly easy to see who Michel liked dancing with, the girl danced better than Hermione.
A blonde male went over to Hermione with a glass of water.
" Miss, you look like you need this." The male said. Hermione accepted the glass. She watched the male go back to his group of friends as she took a drink of the water.
After the song was over, Michel went back to Hermione. " Want to dance?" Hermione smiled and got up. As she stood, her legs got shaking. She slumped to the ground, and the world was no more.
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" Harry? Ron? Where are we?" Hermione asked. She looked around at her surroundings. Hermione was tied up to a post, and there was black storm clouds in the sky. Harry and Ron where standing before her, wands raised.
" Where are we?" Ron mocked. Hermione noticed that the voice wasn't truly his. " Well, I know where you'll going to be in one minute."
" Where?" Harry asked, raising his eyebrows, even though he knew the answer.
" Well, The Mudblood is going to end up in hell." Ron said. The name that Ron had just said stabbed her heart. Tears started falling.
" Should we get started?" Harry asked. Ron smirked, and both shouted the killing curse.
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Hermione bolted up in bed. She was shaking all over. Hermione took noticed of her surroundings. She wasn't in the club, but spiders and rodents were over the floor. Hermione looked down, and saw that she was naked. A grasped left her mouth. How stupid could she be to take the glass of water! Her mind screamed. Tears begin falling down her cheeks.
Hermione got out of bed, searching for her clothes. Her legs were weak, so weak that she could barley walk. They weren't there. She let out a frustrated scream.
Then she saw a piece of paper on a cardboard box. She grabbed at it, and read it.
" Mudblood,
You shouldn't have come. If you tell anyone, then I pledge to take the pictures of you naked, and somebody else and post them all over the daily prophet.
Also, don't bother running to Harry Potter, he has his own dealings.
With the little strength she had left, she apparated to her house. By now her face was red, and tears were escaping at hundred miles per hour.
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Ginny walked sloppily into her kitchen. Colin was up, and making breakfast.
" I don't know how you can get up so early in the morning Colin." Ginny griped. Colin just smiled, and handed her the Daily Prophet. Ginny rubbed her eyes, and tore the rubber band off of the newspaper. She gasped at the front page. It said, " Single Attorney Raped." Below it was a picture of a recent picture of Hermione.
Colin heard his wife gasped. He looked at her, and saw that something was wrong. Colin comforted her, and she told him that Hermione had been raped. He was shocked. Ginny pulled away, and told him that she had to go and see Hermione.
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When Ginny arrived on the scene, Hermione, crying, picked up a pillow, and threw it at somebody. Ginny saw it was Ron. The pillow stopped in midair.
" Hermione! Stop it! I'm here to help!" Ron screamed.
Hermione laid on the couch, and pulled a pillow over her head. Ginny looked at Ron with a look that said, Be- Quiet- Let- Me- Do- The-Talking. She went over, and sat one the little bit of the couch that wasn't taken up by Hermione. Ron sat on the other couch that was across from Hermione and Ginny.
" Hermione," Ginny said. " Tell me when you're ready. I'm here." Hermione didn't reply, or do anything. Ginny and Ron exchanged looks. Ginny could tell that he had also found out about what happened to Hermione by the newspaper.
About ten minutes later, Hermione pulled her face from the pillow, but didn't sit up. Her head was turned to the back of the couch, and she begin the speak. " I-it was h-horrible. T-they took p-pictures of me." Hermione said quietly, but Ron and Ginny heard all of it.
" A-am I-I that easy t-to take over?" Hermione asked. " If I am, then I-I just want to d-die. M-my l-life is h-horrible. I-I try to have fun, and i-it b-blows up in m-my face. T-they took p-pictures of m-me in intimate places." Hermione sobbed. Ginny started massaging her back. " W-what am I-I g-going to d-do? P-people are g-going to t-talk about t-this."
Ginny pulled Hermione up into a sitting position. She could see that Hermione's face was red, and stained with tears. " You are going to be strong. You are going to now on live happily, no more sadness times. You are going to have fun without it hurting you somehow. I'll make sure that'll happen!" Ginny exclaimed, holding onto Hermione.
She glanced at Ron, and signaled him to make some tea. Ron caught the message. He got up, and left the room. Hermione cried into Ginny's shoulder.
After what seemed an eternity, Ron came back with a cup of tea. Ginny made Hermione sip it, and gave the cup to Hermione.
" What time is it?" Hermione asked a little later.
" Nine-thirty. Why?"
Hermione stood up suddenly, " I have to go to work!" Hermione exclaimed.
" Hermione! You can't go to work like this!" Ginny yelled.
" I have to, I have a new person to help. I gotta go." Hermione said, before she went up the stairs. She stumbled on a few steps, but got up there alright.
Ron shook his head. " She's crazy, for going to work like the way she is."
Ginny narrowed her eyes. " I thought you three had a compromise to never see each other again."
Ron smirked. " Yup, we did. And I just broke it. I'm glad I did."
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Hermione ran into work. She didn't care that everyone was giving her 'pity' looks. She got stopped in the hall by one of the secretaries.
" Oh, miss, we didn't know that you'll be here today because of unfortunate... The criminal is back in his cell."
Hermione put her right hand to her forehead. " Then bring him to the room 535." She then walked off.
As Hermione walked into the hallway she stopped suddenly. Standing before her was Michel, with an pleading look on his face.
" I'm sorry Hermione. I should have stood up to those guys." He said gravely.
Hermione just shook her head. Anger boiled up in her. " Well, Michel thanks to you, I'm no longer pure." More tears escaped from her eyes.
" Hermione! It's not my fault. They beat me up!"
Hermione glared at Michel. " You could have apparated me out of there, or even call for help when I fell. You being beat up is least of my worries. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and try to convince somebody that they should plead guilty." She walked passed him, and continued to room 535.
There was a guard standing outside of the room as Hermione made her way up to the door. Hermione showed the guard a piece of paper, and the guard nodded. He gave her a folder, and took his wand, and knocked on the door three times. It opened, and Hermione entered with a bag over her shoulders.
The table was in the middle of the room. The walls were gray, and there wasn't no windows. Even though there wasn't no windows, the room was fairly bright. At the table, there was two chairs, one on each length of the table.
Hermione put her bag on the table, along with the folder. A pad of parchment and quill were pulled out of the bag. Not at once, she didn't look at the person who she would be defending, who sat at the other end of the table.
The folder was opened, and Hermione read the name at the top of the paper. It read, Harry Potter. He heart stopped a moment, as she looked up.
Indeed it was Harry Potter, the one who she hadn't saw for over seven years. They looked into each other's eyes without saying anything. Both lost their knowledge on how to speak.
Finally, Hermione broke the silence. " Well, how'd you get here?"
Harry looked away. " I didn't do anything." A thought occurred to him. He had been told that his attorney wouldn't be meeting with him because she got raped. He suddenly looked at Hermione. " Hermione, please say that you're just subbing for the lawyer that's supposed to be here."
Harry saw Hermione gulped. " No, I am your attorney."
Harry sucked in a deep breathe. " You can't. You shouldn't have got-- Who did this to you? I'm going to kill them!" What he had just said surprised himself. He thought his feelings had gone away!
Hermione looked down at the table. " I don't want to talk about it."
He sighed. " Just tell me what happened. Please."
Harry received a death glare from Hermione. " Harry Potter, I don't want to talk about it. We are only here because you killed a muggle. Now, be quiet, I need to read about what you've done."
Guilt and regret spread through Harry's body. What if he would have stayed at the alter and married her? She wouldn't have been raped, he would have been there to protect her.
Hermione looked up as soon as she finished reading the paper. She looked Harry straight in the eye. " There isn't no evidence to say that you aren't guilty, but tons of proof to say that you did killed the bartender named Alfred Williams. Your best bet is to plead guilty, and then maybe your time in Azkaban will decrease, but I doubt it." Hermione said icily.
" No, I'm NOT pleading guilty. I know that in you heart that you know that I'm not guilty of murder, and I wouldn't hurt a fly. I want a fair trail. Why can't you give me some truth potion? Won't that be more easier?"
" Some people have been found bypassing the potion. Only a really strong one would do the job, and nobody is out there wants to make a truth potion where plenty of things can go wrong." Hermione exclaimed. She was still using her icing voice. " Harry, even your wand is being used as evidence against you."
" Has anybody bothered to go look by the bar for evidence that says I didn't kill that ass?" Harry asked, looking deep in her eyes. Hermione glared at him.
" Yes they have, but nothing was found except proof to use against you."
Harry sighed, and buried his face with his palm. He was going to lose control. When he had calm down, he looked up. " I want either you or me to go there and find something! I'm innocent. Do you believe me?"
Hermione looked to the ground, then back up. " I don't know what to believe. I will be back here tomorrow. In the meantime, you have your choice. You can stay here, or have a tracker spell on yourself. If you choose the tracker spell, your location will be watched day and night."
" I'll take the tracker spell. If I stay here I might loose it." Harry said. Hermione nodded, and pulled out her wand. She muttered a couple of incarnations, and that was it.
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Ginny sighed. She was in her own bathroom. There was a pregnancy test in an unopened box. That day, after she left Hermione's, she went to the magic baby store. Colin was out taking photographs of a muggles wedding, and wasn't supposed to be home until five that night.
Their dog made his way in. Ginny glanced at it. " Sammy, what can it hurt?" She picked up the box, and took out the tube. She inserted it into her body, and closed her legs.
She put her hands in her lap. " What if I do have a baby? What would Colin think?" She asked. Sammy barked. Ginny giggled, and picked up a magazine. She didn't have the concentration to read the text, so she just looked at the pictures.
There was a sudden ringing, and Ginny put down the magazine. She then pulled out the tube, and looked at the dog.
" This is it. Remember, I would be okay with any results." Ginny said just to reassure herself. She looked at the side of the tube. It had the color pink on it. Ginny looked at the box, and jumped up and down. " Sammy! I'm pregnant!" She cheered, and ran out of the bathroom.
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By the time that the sun was up, Harry was with Hermione at the bar. The bar hadn't been used since the time Harry was caught. They started the search in the inside. They looked everywhere, beneath the tables, in cabinets, underneath the chairs, and even behind the bar. They didn't find anything.
" Harry, there's nothing here." Hermione said.
" There's got to be! All I did was fall asleep right there!" Harry said as he pointed to the stool where he sat.
" And what? You sleep walked, then killed a muggle?" Hermione said sarcastically.
" No! I don't sleep walk!" Harry exclaimed. Hermione was getting on his nerves. A thought came across his mind, ' Well, maybe she just wants you to go to Azkaban. You practically ruined her life seven years ago,' Harry shook his head to shoo the thought out.
There suddenly was a beeping noise. Hermione looked down at her wand. She sighed, and pulled it out of her jeans. With a simple wave, the wand made a picture of Ginny. Hermione put her wand back in her jeans.
" Harry, I have to go now. Ginny needs me. I'll see you the day after tomorrow. Your trail is at that time." Hermione said, and apparated out of the tavern. Harry kicked the wall, and walked out of the bar through the front door.
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Hermione apparated to her home. Ginny was sitting there, holding Colin's hand. Ginny was smiling along with Colin. Hermione went to sit down across from the couple.
" Hello Ginny, Colin." She greeted.
" Hermione! Guess what? I'm pregnant!" Ginny exclaimed. She had a smile on her face.
The browned hair girl smiled happily. "Congratulations! When did you find out?"
" Yesterday. I told Colin as soon as he got home, and we went to look at baby stuff!" Ginny exclaimed. Hermione kept her smile, and hugged each of the new parents.
" When is it due?" Hermione inquired. She saw Colin and Ginny exchanged looks. Colin took a deep breathe.
" Ginny is already three months pregnant, so it'll be in six weeks. We are counting down." Colin said excitedly.
Hermione glanced at Ginny's stomach. The baby wasn't showing yet. " You're going have to go shopping pretty soon for new clothes." Hermione told them. Ginny nodded, and looked away.
" So, how are you feeling?" Ginny asked suddenly.
" Fine, besides the fact that I have to be Harry's lawyer." Hermione said.
Ginny's eyes widened. " What?"
Hermione explained all that happened the past two days. Ginny and Colin were a good audience, listening to what Hermione said, without interrupting her. They soon left, leaving Hermione alone in her house.
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There was a mansion, overlooking a minor town. While all of the lights were out on the mansion, there was tiny bits of lights coming from the window on the second floor. The window was facing South, and a young girl crept up to the window. The girl had bushy blonde hair, and brown eyes. But, if you looked a little closer, you could tell that her ears were pointed towards the top. This creature was an elf.
The elf climbed in the window, and crept into the window. Inside there was only one couch, and a fireplace. The young girl elf stole it's way to where the darkest shadow was.
There was a sudden sound of footsteps coming down through the hallway. The door was opened, and a man with black hair, icy cold eyes stepped in. The man was tall, and had on dark green robes. As the elf saw, there was a snake following after the male being.
Following after the man was another man, who was almost tiny as the female elf, if not a foot taller. The taller one of the men sat on the couch, while the littler one assembled himself by the door.
" Wormtail, I believe is what my heir called you. Am I collected?" Inquired the male on the couch.
The shorter one nodded, but didn't say anything.
" Ah, I see. Voldemort called you that; why did you come?"
Wormtail looked around the room, but he didn't see the elf deep in the shadows. " Because, I heard that you were going to take down Potter. I wanted to help."
The black hair person rolled his eyes. " You haven't been keeping up with the darkness news have you? Potter is already in trouble. He'll be going to Akzaban, not seeing light anymore. But, that is part of it. It seems that Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff pledged against me, and also did a spell to have heirs.
" At the time, I thought that the spell was a dud. But it seems that as of now, their heirs have finally come alive. Darkness needs to rule the world, not light. Muggles need to be killed. They are not like US."
The tiny man couldn't keep silent. " Why now? Why didn't you come back sooner, than now?"
Wormtail received a glare. " Do not question me. I am the only one to asked the questions. Is the borders still up between the worlds?"
Wormtail nodded. " Well, then I'm going to take them down. Ravenclaw was so stupid to have do that.
The elf had heard enough. She tiptoed across the room, staying to the shadows. The young one crawled through the window to run back to tell the elders of what she had heard.
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Hermione suddenly sat up. The dream came back to her, as she closed her eyes. She took a several deep breathes before opening them again. As she looked at her alarm clock, Hermione saw that there was a note taped to it, and something behind the note...
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Coming up next in chapter 3:
A/N: Before I say anything- read this first! DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ IN THIS CHAPTER! Ok... now that um... message is out... How was that? This is probably as long as I'm going to make each chapter. Even though it might take a little long for me to get the next chapter up. Unlike my other story, " The looking Glass," I'm going to only stay ahead by one chapter. Last time I got too excited, and practically put what will happen next that you shouldn't know until you read it in the authors notes. Well, I'll write more later,
-- hermioneharry4ever--
--Special Thanks Section for Chapter 1: Framed--
E.C.R Potter: No, I understand your review. If someone had wrote the same thing, instead of me, I would have freaked out. But I know where this is going, and I think that this is going to be the only part within the story that is bad, except the raping part.
Viv: Good point, but having 43 beers might not hurt Harry- remember he's a wizard, and has that protected shield around him. Also, I don't think you want Michael- you'll see why later.
Allison M. Potter: Thanks!
Smileygirlo3: Here you go!
Lucky_Gurl: :-)
Julie Fisher: Well, I l kind of want to write the fight that they had seven years ago, so you well know, or read the fight somewhere. And about the horse thing- don't underestimate me. The horse will play a big part in the story, and I'm using a horse that I've ridden three times, and is my favorite horse. I don't have any, yet!
-- Disclaimer-- I don't not own the Harry Potter characters, J.K Rowling made them up. I didn't.
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