(A/N: Here's chapter two of 'Cry Me a River' I had my friend read the first
chapter before I posted it and she was crying, I personally didn't think it
was that good but o well anyway on to chapter 2!)
Disclaimer- I OWN NOTHING
Chapter 2
Hermione had quickly cleaned the sheets and disposed of the clothing she had worn. Then she had showered several times and dressed trying to shake the feeling of his presence. She walked hesitantly downstairs, the Death Eaters were still there their unconscious forms littering the floor along with both of her parents corpses. She found her wand and picked it up and cast the spell that would summon Aurors. Immediately Mad-Eye Moody and Tonks appeared. Tonks ran up to her.
"O my God Hermione are you all right." Hermione nodded
"T-They c-came last night...I w-would have summoned you early b-but I was d- dueling w-with one of them and... he disappeared b-before I c-could d-d-do anything." Hermione burst out into tears, how badly she wanted to tell them, how badly she wanted to see them arrest that bastard Malfoy and lock him into Azkaban or receive the Kiss even. Tonks hugged her
"It'll be all right Hermione everything will be fine." *No they won't nothing will ever be fine again Tonks* Hermione thought
"Get her things and take her to Headquarters..." Moody said his voice grave, "damn Granger if this had been any other time I'd congratulate you and demand you become an Auror. Ten Death Eaters...Merlin..." Moody muttered *but I didn't get the 11th one...the one who hurt the most...* she wanted to tell him. God but she feared not only for herself but also for her friends. Who knew what Lucius Malfoy would do to them, or what other ways he would find to hurt her.
"Come on Hermione get your things..." Tonks said with a comforting hand on her shoulder, Hermione nodded silently and went upstairs flashes going through her mind
*+*+*FLASHBACK*+*+*
He dragged her upstairs, she tried to fight he slammed her against the wall almost making her lose consciousness...
"Bitch..." He hissed
*+*+*END FLASHBACK*+*+*
Hermione staggered and Tonks helped her to steady herself. Hermione swallowed back tears.
"I'll get your things Hermione...where's your room?" She asked Hermione swallowed.
"T-third door on the l- right." The third door on her left...her parents room...her torture room...
"All right stay here I'll be right back..." Tonks said and headed up to her room her bright orange hair disappearing from sight when she entered Hermiones room. Hermione hugged herself, he was everywhere...in the walls...in the very air...Tonks reappeared a few moments later Hermiones trunk floating behind her, "There you go, you're going back to Hogwarts tomorrow anyway...Harry and Ron are at Headquarters already." Tonks took Hermiones hand and they both apparated to #12 Grimuald Place.
"HERMIONE! ARE YOU ALL RIGHT!?" The two boys rushed up to her. When they hugged her Hermione felt different...she felt...safer...but he was still there.
"I'm okay..." she said tears falling from her eyes and wondered what her two friends would do if she told them. Harry would go out and find Malfoy and kill him slowly, Ron would make the death so slow that it would have made the Dementors kiss seem a mercy.
"Are you sure? Oh wait till you hear this Hermione! Lucius Malfoy is on OUR side now AND he's going to be the DADA teacher at Hogwarts this year isn't that mad?" Hermiones heart stopped
"W-W-What?" She stuttered
"Yea I know he showed up here and got introduced as an Order member mad this world huh?" Harry said shaking his head
"I don't trust him a bit." Ron said crossing his arms scowling, "Draco Malfoy MAYBE just MAYBE but Malfoy Senior? What happened to his change of heart?"
"I-Is h-h-he here?" Hermione said Harry nodded
"In a meeting about the attack on your family." Hermione fought the urge to vomit
"Hermione!" She turned and face Molly Weasley who was standing at the end of the stairs, "Come now we need you at the meeting to explain to us what happened." Her heart stopped and she clutched Harry tightly.
"C-can Harry and R-Ron come?" She stuttered hoping they would make her feel safe
"All right deary now come, come." Hermione walked slowly downstairs clutching to Ron for support when they opened the door and entered the kitchen terror filled her. There he was. Sitting there so casually as if the woman he had just raped wasn't standing in the room. True he did watch her and there was the same look in his eyes as there had been after he had raped her. The eyes that said 'don't tell or else' she swallowed and forced herself to look away from him and at Dumbledore who was smiling kindly at her.
"Now Hermione please explain what happened after you stunned the ten Death Eaters." Dumbledore said, Hermione almost burst and told him everything. No, she couldn't. She shivered badly and Harry and Ron both supported her up, she doubted anyone else saw it but she caught the flash of anger that crossed the face of the senior Malfoy for a split-second before his face became a mask.
"T-t-there was an 11th Death Eater...h-he'd been h-hiding in the shadows...h-h-he's the one who k-killed my f-father." Tears cascaded down her face and she wiped them away with the back of her hand, "w-w-we d-d- dueled I l-lost." She took another deep breath here was when the lying would begin, "t-the he tried to u-use the k-killing curse but I dodged it...then faked b-being d-dead." Pathetic but right now she couldn't come up with a better story.
"Why do you have several bruises may I ask Ms Granger?" Snape drawled Hermione stared at her bare arms surprised and then touched her face and throat. Bruises from his hands...
"I don't know..." She said with genuine shock, she hadn't even noticed the bruises. She touched one and felt a sharp pain.
"Now, now it's all right Hermione..." Molly chided healing her wounds. Hermione felt a bit better, wrapping her arms around herself she tried to steady her furiously shaking body. He was watching her. Subtly. But never the less watching her, she was acutely aware of him now, every calm breath he took every beating of his black heart she could almost hear. As if she were waiting for him to do something...but he wouldn't dare...no not now...
"C-c-can I g-g-go please." She stuttered she needed to get out now, or she'd run
"Yes of course Ms Granger get some rest." Dumbledore said gently, Hermione nodded and turned bolting out the door tears falling freely from her eyes as she ran upstairs into the room she slept in while at Grimuald Place and threw herself onto the bed wrapping the blankets and sheets around herself as if they would shield her.
"Hermione are you all right?" Harry's voice called from the other side of the door
"Fine just t-t-tired..." She stuttered
"Are you sure Hermione if you need to talk Ron and I are here to listen." Harry said
"I j-just need some rest...I'll b-be fine." She said *Bull shit* a voice in the back of her head told her *just tell them they'll understand* she pushed the voice aside
"All right...but if you need to talk we're here Hermione." The two headed back downstairs and Hermione cried a little harder. Slowly she cried herself into a fitful and restless sleep.
There was a quiet knock on the door that woke Hermione with a start. She stared at the door apprehensively.
"Come in." She said praying that it was Harry, Ron, Ginny, or one of her other friends. Instead walked in the man she now feared above anything else. She tried to scramble away from him, to shout for aide but her muscles weren't working and her throat was clogged. What was she going to do now?
(A/N: sorry to cut you short but this seemed like a good place to end the chapter anyway REVIEW PEOPLE!)
Disclaimer- I OWN NOTHING
Chapter 2
Hermione had quickly cleaned the sheets and disposed of the clothing she had worn. Then she had showered several times and dressed trying to shake the feeling of his presence. She walked hesitantly downstairs, the Death Eaters were still there their unconscious forms littering the floor along with both of her parents corpses. She found her wand and picked it up and cast the spell that would summon Aurors. Immediately Mad-Eye Moody and Tonks appeared. Tonks ran up to her.
"O my God Hermione are you all right." Hermione nodded
"T-They c-came last night...I w-would have summoned you early b-but I was d- dueling w-with one of them and... he disappeared b-before I c-could d-d-do anything." Hermione burst out into tears, how badly she wanted to tell them, how badly she wanted to see them arrest that bastard Malfoy and lock him into Azkaban or receive the Kiss even. Tonks hugged her
"It'll be all right Hermione everything will be fine." *No they won't nothing will ever be fine again Tonks* Hermione thought
"Get her things and take her to Headquarters..." Moody said his voice grave, "damn Granger if this had been any other time I'd congratulate you and demand you become an Auror. Ten Death Eaters...Merlin..." Moody muttered *but I didn't get the 11th one...the one who hurt the most...* she wanted to tell him. God but she feared not only for herself but also for her friends. Who knew what Lucius Malfoy would do to them, or what other ways he would find to hurt her.
"Come on Hermione get your things..." Tonks said with a comforting hand on her shoulder, Hermione nodded silently and went upstairs flashes going through her mind
*+*+*FLASHBACK*+*+*
He dragged her upstairs, she tried to fight he slammed her against the wall almost making her lose consciousness...
"Bitch..." He hissed
*+*+*END FLASHBACK*+*+*
Hermione staggered and Tonks helped her to steady herself. Hermione swallowed back tears.
"I'll get your things Hermione...where's your room?" She asked Hermione swallowed.
"T-third door on the l- right." The third door on her left...her parents room...her torture room...
"All right stay here I'll be right back..." Tonks said and headed up to her room her bright orange hair disappearing from sight when she entered Hermiones room. Hermione hugged herself, he was everywhere...in the walls...in the very air...Tonks reappeared a few moments later Hermiones trunk floating behind her, "There you go, you're going back to Hogwarts tomorrow anyway...Harry and Ron are at Headquarters already." Tonks took Hermiones hand and they both apparated to #12 Grimuald Place.
"HERMIONE! ARE YOU ALL RIGHT!?" The two boys rushed up to her. When they hugged her Hermione felt different...she felt...safer...but he was still there.
"I'm okay..." she said tears falling from her eyes and wondered what her two friends would do if she told them. Harry would go out and find Malfoy and kill him slowly, Ron would make the death so slow that it would have made the Dementors kiss seem a mercy.
"Are you sure? Oh wait till you hear this Hermione! Lucius Malfoy is on OUR side now AND he's going to be the DADA teacher at Hogwarts this year isn't that mad?" Hermiones heart stopped
"W-W-What?" She stuttered
"Yea I know he showed up here and got introduced as an Order member mad this world huh?" Harry said shaking his head
"I don't trust him a bit." Ron said crossing his arms scowling, "Draco Malfoy MAYBE just MAYBE but Malfoy Senior? What happened to his change of heart?"
"I-Is h-h-he here?" Hermione said Harry nodded
"In a meeting about the attack on your family." Hermione fought the urge to vomit
"Hermione!" She turned and face Molly Weasley who was standing at the end of the stairs, "Come now we need you at the meeting to explain to us what happened." Her heart stopped and she clutched Harry tightly.
"C-can Harry and R-Ron come?" She stuttered hoping they would make her feel safe
"All right deary now come, come." Hermione walked slowly downstairs clutching to Ron for support when they opened the door and entered the kitchen terror filled her. There he was. Sitting there so casually as if the woman he had just raped wasn't standing in the room. True he did watch her and there was the same look in his eyes as there had been after he had raped her. The eyes that said 'don't tell or else' she swallowed and forced herself to look away from him and at Dumbledore who was smiling kindly at her.
"Now Hermione please explain what happened after you stunned the ten Death Eaters." Dumbledore said, Hermione almost burst and told him everything. No, she couldn't. She shivered badly and Harry and Ron both supported her up, she doubted anyone else saw it but she caught the flash of anger that crossed the face of the senior Malfoy for a split-second before his face became a mask.
"T-t-there was an 11th Death Eater...h-he'd been h-hiding in the shadows...h-h-he's the one who k-killed my f-father." Tears cascaded down her face and she wiped them away with the back of her hand, "w-w-we d-d- dueled I l-lost." She took another deep breath here was when the lying would begin, "t-the he tried to u-use the k-killing curse but I dodged it...then faked b-being d-dead." Pathetic but right now she couldn't come up with a better story.
"Why do you have several bruises may I ask Ms Granger?" Snape drawled Hermione stared at her bare arms surprised and then touched her face and throat. Bruises from his hands...
"I don't know..." She said with genuine shock, she hadn't even noticed the bruises. She touched one and felt a sharp pain.
"Now, now it's all right Hermione..." Molly chided healing her wounds. Hermione felt a bit better, wrapping her arms around herself she tried to steady her furiously shaking body. He was watching her. Subtly. But never the less watching her, she was acutely aware of him now, every calm breath he took every beating of his black heart she could almost hear. As if she were waiting for him to do something...but he wouldn't dare...no not now...
"C-c-can I g-g-go please." She stuttered she needed to get out now, or she'd run
"Yes of course Ms Granger get some rest." Dumbledore said gently, Hermione nodded and turned bolting out the door tears falling freely from her eyes as she ran upstairs into the room she slept in while at Grimuald Place and threw herself onto the bed wrapping the blankets and sheets around herself as if they would shield her.
"Hermione are you all right?" Harry's voice called from the other side of the door
"Fine just t-t-tired..." She stuttered
"Are you sure Hermione if you need to talk Ron and I are here to listen." Harry said
"I j-just need some rest...I'll b-be fine." She said *Bull shit* a voice in the back of her head told her *just tell them they'll understand* she pushed the voice aside
"All right...but if you need to talk we're here Hermione." The two headed back downstairs and Hermione cried a little harder. Slowly she cried herself into a fitful and restless sleep.
There was a quiet knock on the door that woke Hermione with a start. She stared at the door apprehensively.
"Come in." She said praying that it was Harry, Ron, Ginny, or one of her other friends. Instead walked in the man she now feared above anything else. She tried to scramble away from him, to shout for aide but her muscles weren't working and her throat was clogged. What was she going to do now?
(A/N: sorry to cut you short but this seemed like a good place to end the chapter anyway REVIEW PEOPLE!)