Draco and Hermione walked stiffly down the tunnel each leaning on each other, with one arm wrapped around the other, for support. Every so often one of them would look back and check to see if anyone was following. Hermione held her wand forward, the tip glowing a strong steady yellow. Draco kept his wand free just in case of a attack.

"Do you think we'll find the entrance?" Hermione asked for the need of something to say to make the darkness retreat.

"I don't know," Draco said, "If we can find the place where I originally slept, probably."

"We can't stay down here for more than three days without water you know," Hermione said worriedly.

"We'll get out of here before that," Draco assured her, turning his head to kiss her forehead softly.

Hermione smiled, "I hope."

"Did you ever wonder why there are so many prisoners?" Draco asked, "You'd think Voldemort would kill most of them."

Hermione shrugged, "It doesn't matter, the fact that they are alive is better for them, they still have a chance of getting rescued."

"If we get out," Draco said.

"Yes," Hermione agreed and then was silent.

***

"Which way now?" Draco asked as they came to a fork in the tunnel.

"You know the saying, 'the right way is always right'?" Hermione asked and Draco nodded, "Well let's go right."

Draco grinned, "Fine by me."

Before they started walking again Hermione wrapped her arms around his neck, "Kiss for good luck?"

"Certainly," Draco said and kissed her. A sweet tingle ran down the back of Hermione's spine and she leaned closer to him feeling aware of all the places their bodies touched. Draco's actually a very good kisser, she thought as they pulled apart. Draco smiled and brushed a strand of hair out of her eyes. Hermione smiled and felt incredibly happy at this newfound relationship, yet also incredibly scared of Voldemort and his death eaters. Life was confusing, she'd never expect to fall in love with Draco Malfoy let alone fall in love while captured and imprisoned in the dungeons of Voldemort.

Then, together they limped down the right tunnel relying mostly on their instincts and on luck to get themselves out of there.

***

"There's light up there," Hermione said worriedly to Draco. Draco nodded acknowledging that he saw it.

"Do we go back?" she asked him.

"Not yet, it doesn't look like torches, lets see what it is," Draco said curiously.

Hermione nodded and with Draco leading they walked carefully forward and moment later the tunnel opened up into a football stadium sized cavern.

"Holy shit," Draco whispered as their eyes landed on hundreds, even thousands, of death eaters, and in the center a very large cage filled with at least a hundred prisoners.

"What the-," Hermione whispered fiercely in awe as well as fear.



A/N: I know, incredibly short chapter. Heh heh, I hate it too, but that was where I wanted to end this chapter and my twin sister, who also writes stories here at fanfiction.net, advised me to end it then and not add on more for the sake of making it longer. Plus we all love cliffhangers. This is kind of one, kinda sorta. Heh heh heh.

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