CHAPTER 15~ Hell on Earth
DRACO'S POV~
I started to walk away from her. I thought she was my best friend, and now she was begging me for information so she could please a scumbag.
"Draco wait!"
"Why? So you can just tell everything I tell you to Voldemort? I can't believe you lied to me. You've been my best friend since.forever."
"I never lied to you! I never said anything."
"In my eyes that's lying. Don't talk to me anymore. Just leave me the fuck alone, Death Eater." I didn't give her the chance to say anything more. I bounded up the stairs and slammed the door to my dorm. Once again, I punched a whole in my wall.
Blaise betrayed me. The one person that I could talk to was giving the information I gave her to the people I hate the most. I felt like there was one person in the world I could trust. I didn't know what to do; everything I believed was false.
I began to wonder how many of the students in the school were Death Eaters. I wanted to know what the hell I was in for. I knew I couldn't go out and talk to Hermione because I would be taking a great risk.
Risk-I should just take my chances and go. I had my invisibility cloak in my trunk. I would just use that. Deciding to go, I pulled the cloak around me and slipped out of my dorm. I began walking the now familiar path up to the Gryffindor Tower. As I approached, I saw Potter slip out of the portrait.
"Potter!" I hissed quietly.
"Who's there?"
"It's Draco. I need to talk to Hermione. It's kinda urgent."
"Where are you?"
"Under my invisibility cloak. Just go get her."
He walked back into the portrait and Hermione came out shortly. "Draco?"
"I really need to talk to you."
"Take off your cloak so I can see you," she demanded.
I pulled it off my head and walked toward her.
"Come up to my room," she said. "We can talk there. Just leave your cloak on until we're up there."
I pulled it back over my head and followed Hermione up to her dorm. Once the door was closed and locked behind her, I pulled the cloak off and sat on the edge of her bed.
"You shouldn't be out you know. You could have been caught."
"I know. But I was talking to Blaise before, and she's a-a Death Eater."
"She told you that!"
"Not exactly. I saw the Dark Mark on her arm. I talk to her everyday, and she's probably been transferring my information to Lucius and Voldemort since the beginning of the year."
"But your father said it was Pansy."
"She saw what happened between us that day between you and I and she did write a letter. But he knows that I tell Blaise everything and he wasn't going to say he had been receiving information from her."
"I can't believe she would do that to you. You said that you've been friends since forever. Why would she do that to you?"
"'Cause she's a back-stabbing bitch that's why!" I yelled. She looked a little taken back. "Sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you. I'm just so mad at her. I thought I could trust her. I told her everything and this is how she repays me."
"Now we hafta be even more careful. We don't know how many Death Eaters are in the school. Are you gunna tell Dumbledore about Blaise?"
"I'm sure he already knows, but I'll talk to him tomorrow. I still can't believe she would do this to me. After all the years I've known her, I never expected this. When we were younger she was totally against him. I should've realized something was wrong, though. Over the past year, when the topic came up, she wouldn't say anything. I should have seen this sooner."
"Draco, it's not your fault. Nothing that has happened or will happen is your fault. You didn't make Blaise a Death Eater or your father a psychopathic bastard."
I knew this was true, but there was no one else to blame. I knew that if Hermione was hurt during all of this I would kill myself. I wouldn't be able to live without her. I shifted my weight so that I was closer to her, and I put my arms around her. She leaned her head onto my shoulder and closed her eyes.
"I don't know what to do," I said. "I can't trust anyone anymore. I hate being used. I hate my father, I hate Blaise, I hate everyone except for you."
"Don't hate everyone. It's unhealthy."
"I don't hate everyone. I love you."
"Am I the only person you love?"
"Yup. You're the only person I've ever loved."
She tilted her head to look up at me. I lowered my head so my lips met hers. She pulled me down so that we were laying on her bed. We started making out, but not long after there was a knock on the door."
"Hermione! Are you in there? Open the door, this is my room too!"
She got up and threw her invisibility cloak at me. "I'm coming, Lavender," she called.
She opened the door and Lavender and Weasley were standing there. "Do you think you could give us some time alone?" Lavender asked.
"I was actually sleeping in here. Could you guys go somewhere else, please? There aren't many other places I can go to sleep. Why don't you go to the guys dorms or something?"
"Yeah, come on Lav. Let's go to my dorm. We should let 'Mione sleep," Weasley said.
"Thanks, Ron," Hermione answered. She closed the door and walked back to the bed.
I pulled the cloak off me and dropped it back on the floor. "I'm not going back to the dungeons tonight," I stated firmly.
"Where are you gunna go then?"
"I don't know. I don't wanna be around anyone. I hate this shit."
"Wanna go up to the room I showed you yesterday? No one will know you're up there."
"As long as you come with me and we go to Dumbledore first thing tomorrow morning."
"Alright. I will definitely come with you."
I took the cloak off the floor and pulled it around us. We snuck down the stairs to the Gryffindor common room and out the portrait. She led me through a series of corridors again, but this time I was actually able to remember where we were going since we were moving at a much slower rate.
All of a sudden, we walked into some invisible object and fell to the ground while the cloak slipped off us. Lucius suddenly appeared from the spot we had just walked into. Hermione gasped next to me and Lucius had a nasty smirk stretched across his gaunt face.
"It is time for you to serve our Lord," he said.
"He will never be my lord," I answered while getting to my feet. I pulled Hermione up so that she was standing next to me.
"You will, Draco. He has demanded that you be there. He believes that you will be a great asset. I don't know why. I have never seen great prominence in you. You were too attached to your mother, and you are now way too attached to her." He finally acknowledged the fact that Hermione was with me. "You wouldn't make a great Death Eater, but for some reason, my Lord wants you."
"I wouldn't want to make a good Death Eater. They're all a bunch of cold- hearted bastards who bow down to a filthy half-blood. And the only reason they're there is because the simple fact that they want more power. 'The Dark Lord can give us so much power, let's go join him.' That's a great way to live," I spat. "You live to please someone else. You kill innocent people. I don't know why I ever wanted to be like you. That was a mistake. I hate everything about you."
"Imperio!" he shouted twice. "Now both of you come with me."
**Why would I do that?** I asked myself. **You're a no good piece of shit. I am not going.**
"NO!" I said loudly.
"No?" he asked confusedly. "I said you'll come with me."
"And I said that I won't go. I want nothing to do with you. Just go and leave us alone."
"I can't do that. You will come with me. You're stronger than I thought you were, but you're not strong enough to turn down the Dark Lord. I don't think your friend would want you to die, would you Blaise?"
Blaise appeared beside Lucius. "Draco, just join us. It will be for your own good. I don't want to see you die."
"I refuse!" I said louder. "I will not join you sick bastards."
Blaise came closer to Hermione and I. "The Dark Lord has plans for both of you." She ran her hand down my cheek.
"Don't touch me."
"Fine, but if you don't join us, I will kill you precious Gryffindor girlfriend. Wouldn't that make you happy? You'd be rid of her and free to live the way you want." She slowly pulled her wand out of her robes, but Hermione was already two steps ahead of her.
"Expelliarmus!" Hermione shouted. Blaise's wand went flying over to Hermione, and Blaise went flying back and hit her head on the wall. "Expelliarmus!" she shouted again and Lucius was sent flying into the wall, his wand flying easily into Hermione's grip. "They were pissing me off," she explained simply.
I put them both in the full body bind and we levitated them to Dumbledore's office. "He's gunna be mad at us," I mumbled. "We're not supposed to be out of bed."
"Yeah well at least he won't expel us."
We reached the gargoyle that guarded his office, and before I opened my mouth to even say the password, it opened up and Dumbledore walked down the stairs. "I know, I know," he said with a small smile and a twinkle in his eye. "I will have them both sent to Azkaban."
"Thank you, sir," I said quietly. "Do you think they know where Voldemort is staying?"
"I don't know, but I can have Professor Snape bring up an Veritasserum." He threw some powder into the fireplace and called for Snape. I saw them talk for a few seconds, and then he showed up in Dumbledore's office with a vial of silvery liquid.
They poured it down both Lucius' and Blaise's throats.
"Lucius," Dumbledore began. "Why are you here tonight?"
"To take Draco and Hermione to Voldemort," he answered.
"Why's that?"
"He has plans for them."
"Do you know what the plans are?"
"No, he just said plans."
"Very well. Ms Zabini, how long have you been a Death Eater?"
"Since last year," came her reply.
"Why did you turn?"
"Lucius came to my house and forced me to. He told me not to tell Draco and to just use him to get information about everything."
"I see. Did you want to tell Lucius everything?"
"Not at first, but it became routine. I didn't like lying to Draco but I had to to survive."
"Do you know where Voldemort is now?"
"No. He travels around and never stays in the same place."
"Where were you supposed to meet him today?"
"In the Forbidden Forest, but sometimes he'll have us meet in other countries. It's basically just wherever he wants to go."
"Ms Zabini, Mr. Malfoy, we will be sending the both of you to Azkaban. As you probably know, there are now qualified wizards guarding the cells and there is absolutely no way to escape. If you try, you will receive the Dementor's Kiss."
Blaise started shaking in her seat. Her shoulders slouched and she began to sob. "Draco! Draco help me! Don't let them take me please! Please! I'll be a spy! I want nothing to do with Voldemort! Lucius made me! Draco!"
I looked up at Dumbledore. We all knew that Blaise was telling the truth because she was still under the veritasserum. Dumbledore nodded to me. I knelt in front of her and took her hands in mine. "You promise you'll be a spy for the light side?"
"Yes." She stopped crying and looked into my eyes. I had never seen her cry before and I hadn't known she was capable of it until that day. I put my arms around her and hugged her. I was glad that I still had my best friend.
Her tears had soon stopped and Dumbledore permitted her to go back to her dorm. She was more than happy to leave, but that meant we now had to deal with Lucius. He was sitting in his chair calmly with a smirk spread across his face. At first I thought he was looking at nothing in particular, but as I followed his gaze I saw that he was staring at Hermione. She was rooted to her spot and was looking into his eyes. Their eyes were locked and I knew he was sending her a vision. He used to do that to me all the time to get me to do what he wanted me to. The visions had never been true but they had always persuaded me until I learned how to easily fight them off.
Thinking quickly, I put one of my hands over her eyes and turned her away from him. Dumbledore and Snape looked at me as if I had three heads.
"Is there a problem, Mr. Malfoy?" Dumbledore asked.
"He can't go to Azkaban, he can't," Hermione repeated over and over.
"Hermione, listen to me!" I said firmly. "Those things are not real. None of what he showed you will happen. It's all bull-sorry Professors."
"No, no. I saw what will happen. You can't send him there. He can't go. You can't send him there. The world will end. Don't do it, please."
"HERMIONE!" I said even louder. "IT WON'T HAPPEN! You're smart. Can't you see what he's trying to do? He's trying to manipulate your mind. Trust me that vision will not happen. I know from experience. Those visions are not true."
Professor Dumbledore was looking from Lucius to Hermione to me. "Mr. Malfoy, what is going on?"
"When my father wants something to go his way, he will send false images of what will happen if you do the opposite of what he wants. I've learned how to fight them off, but he just did it to Hermione. That's why she's so shaken. What she saw will not happen."
"Are you sure of this?"
"I'm positive."
"We will call the authorities and have them take him tomorrow. For now, Petrificus Totalus!" Once again, Lucius' body went rigid. "Mr. Malfoy, Ms Granger, please return to your dorms. Thank you for bringing Lucius to us."
"Your welcome, Professor," I replied.
"Goodnight Professors," Hermione said.
We started walking toward the Gryffindor common room. I still had my invisibility cloak tucked inside my robes incase I needed it. "What did he show you?" I asked her.
I could feel her shudder next to me, and I put my arm around her shoulder. "He found a way out of Azkaban and returned to Voldemort. Voldemort came to the school and then killed Dumbledore and all the teachers and then he made me and you kill each other. Everything went dark and the whole world was covered in fires-kind of like what we were talking about earlier-Hell on Earth.
DRACO'S POV~
I started to walk away from her. I thought she was my best friend, and now she was begging me for information so she could please a scumbag.
"Draco wait!"
"Why? So you can just tell everything I tell you to Voldemort? I can't believe you lied to me. You've been my best friend since.forever."
"I never lied to you! I never said anything."
"In my eyes that's lying. Don't talk to me anymore. Just leave me the fuck alone, Death Eater." I didn't give her the chance to say anything more. I bounded up the stairs and slammed the door to my dorm. Once again, I punched a whole in my wall.
Blaise betrayed me. The one person that I could talk to was giving the information I gave her to the people I hate the most. I felt like there was one person in the world I could trust. I didn't know what to do; everything I believed was false.
I began to wonder how many of the students in the school were Death Eaters. I wanted to know what the hell I was in for. I knew I couldn't go out and talk to Hermione because I would be taking a great risk.
Risk-I should just take my chances and go. I had my invisibility cloak in my trunk. I would just use that. Deciding to go, I pulled the cloak around me and slipped out of my dorm. I began walking the now familiar path up to the Gryffindor Tower. As I approached, I saw Potter slip out of the portrait.
"Potter!" I hissed quietly.
"Who's there?"
"It's Draco. I need to talk to Hermione. It's kinda urgent."
"Where are you?"
"Under my invisibility cloak. Just go get her."
He walked back into the portrait and Hermione came out shortly. "Draco?"
"I really need to talk to you."
"Take off your cloak so I can see you," she demanded.
I pulled it off my head and walked toward her.
"Come up to my room," she said. "We can talk there. Just leave your cloak on until we're up there."
I pulled it back over my head and followed Hermione up to her dorm. Once the door was closed and locked behind her, I pulled the cloak off and sat on the edge of her bed.
"You shouldn't be out you know. You could have been caught."
"I know. But I was talking to Blaise before, and she's a-a Death Eater."
"She told you that!"
"Not exactly. I saw the Dark Mark on her arm. I talk to her everyday, and she's probably been transferring my information to Lucius and Voldemort since the beginning of the year."
"But your father said it was Pansy."
"She saw what happened between us that day between you and I and she did write a letter. But he knows that I tell Blaise everything and he wasn't going to say he had been receiving information from her."
"I can't believe she would do that to you. You said that you've been friends since forever. Why would she do that to you?"
"'Cause she's a back-stabbing bitch that's why!" I yelled. She looked a little taken back. "Sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you. I'm just so mad at her. I thought I could trust her. I told her everything and this is how she repays me."
"Now we hafta be even more careful. We don't know how many Death Eaters are in the school. Are you gunna tell Dumbledore about Blaise?"
"I'm sure he already knows, but I'll talk to him tomorrow. I still can't believe she would do this to me. After all the years I've known her, I never expected this. When we were younger she was totally against him. I should've realized something was wrong, though. Over the past year, when the topic came up, she wouldn't say anything. I should have seen this sooner."
"Draco, it's not your fault. Nothing that has happened or will happen is your fault. You didn't make Blaise a Death Eater or your father a psychopathic bastard."
I knew this was true, but there was no one else to blame. I knew that if Hermione was hurt during all of this I would kill myself. I wouldn't be able to live without her. I shifted my weight so that I was closer to her, and I put my arms around her. She leaned her head onto my shoulder and closed her eyes.
"I don't know what to do," I said. "I can't trust anyone anymore. I hate being used. I hate my father, I hate Blaise, I hate everyone except for you."
"Don't hate everyone. It's unhealthy."
"I don't hate everyone. I love you."
"Am I the only person you love?"
"Yup. You're the only person I've ever loved."
She tilted her head to look up at me. I lowered my head so my lips met hers. She pulled me down so that we were laying on her bed. We started making out, but not long after there was a knock on the door."
"Hermione! Are you in there? Open the door, this is my room too!"
She got up and threw her invisibility cloak at me. "I'm coming, Lavender," she called.
She opened the door and Lavender and Weasley were standing there. "Do you think you could give us some time alone?" Lavender asked.
"I was actually sleeping in here. Could you guys go somewhere else, please? There aren't many other places I can go to sleep. Why don't you go to the guys dorms or something?"
"Yeah, come on Lav. Let's go to my dorm. We should let 'Mione sleep," Weasley said.
"Thanks, Ron," Hermione answered. She closed the door and walked back to the bed.
I pulled the cloak off me and dropped it back on the floor. "I'm not going back to the dungeons tonight," I stated firmly.
"Where are you gunna go then?"
"I don't know. I don't wanna be around anyone. I hate this shit."
"Wanna go up to the room I showed you yesterday? No one will know you're up there."
"As long as you come with me and we go to Dumbledore first thing tomorrow morning."
"Alright. I will definitely come with you."
I took the cloak off the floor and pulled it around us. We snuck down the stairs to the Gryffindor common room and out the portrait. She led me through a series of corridors again, but this time I was actually able to remember where we were going since we were moving at a much slower rate.
All of a sudden, we walked into some invisible object and fell to the ground while the cloak slipped off us. Lucius suddenly appeared from the spot we had just walked into. Hermione gasped next to me and Lucius had a nasty smirk stretched across his gaunt face.
"It is time for you to serve our Lord," he said.
"He will never be my lord," I answered while getting to my feet. I pulled Hermione up so that she was standing next to me.
"You will, Draco. He has demanded that you be there. He believes that you will be a great asset. I don't know why. I have never seen great prominence in you. You were too attached to your mother, and you are now way too attached to her." He finally acknowledged the fact that Hermione was with me. "You wouldn't make a great Death Eater, but for some reason, my Lord wants you."
"I wouldn't want to make a good Death Eater. They're all a bunch of cold- hearted bastards who bow down to a filthy half-blood. And the only reason they're there is because the simple fact that they want more power. 'The Dark Lord can give us so much power, let's go join him.' That's a great way to live," I spat. "You live to please someone else. You kill innocent people. I don't know why I ever wanted to be like you. That was a mistake. I hate everything about you."
"Imperio!" he shouted twice. "Now both of you come with me."
**Why would I do that?** I asked myself. **You're a no good piece of shit. I am not going.**
"NO!" I said loudly.
"No?" he asked confusedly. "I said you'll come with me."
"And I said that I won't go. I want nothing to do with you. Just go and leave us alone."
"I can't do that. You will come with me. You're stronger than I thought you were, but you're not strong enough to turn down the Dark Lord. I don't think your friend would want you to die, would you Blaise?"
Blaise appeared beside Lucius. "Draco, just join us. It will be for your own good. I don't want to see you die."
"I refuse!" I said louder. "I will not join you sick bastards."
Blaise came closer to Hermione and I. "The Dark Lord has plans for both of you." She ran her hand down my cheek.
"Don't touch me."
"Fine, but if you don't join us, I will kill you precious Gryffindor girlfriend. Wouldn't that make you happy? You'd be rid of her and free to live the way you want." She slowly pulled her wand out of her robes, but Hermione was already two steps ahead of her.
"Expelliarmus!" Hermione shouted. Blaise's wand went flying over to Hermione, and Blaise went flying back and hit her head on the wall. "Expelliarmus!" she shouted again and Lucius was sent flying into the wall, his wand flying easily into Hermione's grip. "They were pissing me off," she explained simply.
I put them both in the full body bind and we levitated them to Dumbledore's office. "He's gunna be mad at us," I mumbled. "We're not supposed to be out of bed."
"Yeah well at least he won't expel us."
We reached the gargoyle that guarded his office, and before I opened my mouth to even say the password, it opened up and Dumbledore walked down the stairs. "I know, I know," he said with a small smile and a twinkle in his eye. "I will have them both sent to Azkaban."
"Thank you, sir," I said quietly. "Do you think they know where Voldemort is staying?"
"I don't know, but I can have Professor Snape bring up an Veritasserum." He threw some powder into the fireplace and called for Snape. I saw them talk for a few seconds, and then he showed up in Dumbledore's office with a vial of silvery liquid.
They poured it down both Lucius' and Blaise's throats.
"Lucius," Dumbledore began. "Why are you here tonight?"
"To take Draco and Hermione to Voldemort," he answered.
"Why's that?"
"He has plans for them."
"Do you know what the plans are?"
"No, he just said plans."
"Very well. Ms Zabini, how long have you been a Death Eater?"
"Since last year," came her reply.
"Why did you turn?"
"Lucius came to my house and forced me to. He told me not to tell Draco and to just use him to get information about everything."
"I see. Did you want to tell Lucius everything?"
"Not at first, but it became routine. I didn't like lying to Draco but I had to to survive."
"Do you know where Voldemort is now?"
"No. He travels around and never stays in the same place."
"Where were you supposed to meet him today?"
"In the Forbidden Forest, but sometimes he'll have us meet in other countries. It's basically just wherever he wants to go."
"Ms Zabini, Mr. Malfoy, we will be sending the both of you to Azkaban. As you probably know, there are now qualified wizards guarding the cells and there is absolutely no way to escape. If you try, you will receive the Dementor's Kiss."
Blaise started shaking in her seat. Her shoulders slouched and she began to sob. "Draco! Draco help me! Don't let them take me please! Please! I'll be a spy! I want nothing to do with Voldemort! Lucius made me! Draco!"
I looked up at Dumbledore. We all knew that Blaise was telling the truth because she was still under the veritasserum. Dumbledore nodded to me. I knelt in front of her and took her hands in mine. "You promise you'll be a spy for the light side?"
"Yes." She stopped crying and looked into my eyes. I had never seen her cry before and I hadn't known she was capable of it until that day. I put my arms around her and hugged her. I was glad that I still had my best friend.
Her tears had soon stopped and Dumbledore permitted her to go back to her dorm. She was more than happy to leave, but that meant we now had to deal with Lucius. He was sitting in his chair calmly with a smirk spread across his face. At first I thought he was looking at nothing in particular, but as I followed his gaze I saw that he was staring at Hermione. She was rooted to her spot and was looking into his eyes. Their eyes were locked and I knew he was sending her a vision. He used to do that to me all the time to get me to do what he wanted me to. The visions had never been true but they had always persuaded me until I learned how to easily fight them off.
Thinking quickly, I put one of my hands over her eyes and turned her away from him. Dumbledore and Snape looked at me as if I had three heads.
"Is there a problem, Mr. Malfoy?" Dumbledore asked.
"He can't go to Azkaban, he can't," Hermione repeated over and over.
"Hermione, listen to me!" I said firmly. "Those things are not real. None of what he showed you will happen. It's all bull-sorry Professors."
"No, no. I saw what will happen. You can't send him there. He can't go. You can't send him there. The world will end. Don't do it, please."
"HERMIONE!" I said even louder. "IT WON'T HAPPEN! You're smart. Can't you see what he's trying to do? He's trying to manipulate your mind. Trust me that vision will not happen. I know from experience. Those visions are not true."
Professor Dumbledore was looking from Lucius to Hermione to me. "Mr. Malfoy, what is going on?"
"When my father wants something to go his way, he will send false images of what will happen if you do the opposite of what he wants. I've learned how to fight them off, but he just did it to Hermione. That's why she's so shaken. What she saw will not happen."
"Are you sure of this?"
"I'm positive."
"We will call the authorities and have them take him tomorrow. For now, Petrificus Totalus!" Once again, Lucius' body went rigid. "Mr. Malfoy, Ms Granger, please return to your dorms. Thank you for bringing Lucius to us."
"Your welcome, Professor," I replied.
"Goodnight Professors," Hermione said.
We started walking toward the Gryffindor common room. I still had my invisibility cloak tucked inside my robes incase I needed it. "What did he show you?" I asked her.
I could feel her shudder next to me, and I put my arm around her shoulder. "He found a way out of Azkaban and returned to Voldemort. Voldemort came to the school and then killed Dumbledore and all the teachers and then he made me and you kill each other. Everything went dark and the whole world was covered in fires-kind of like what we were talking about earlier-Hell on Earth.