Hello, Thanks to all of those who review my story, it is greatly appreciated. Sorry for taking so long o update but I've been busy. I'm sorry in advance if I get any of the spell incantations wrong

I don't own HP

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Hermoine ran and picked up Draco's wand. She looked at Harry, fear evident in her eyes. "Harry..." Tears started welling up in her eyes.

He grabbed her arm and pulled her to her feet. "C'mon, We have to find Dumbledore"

On their way to his office, they ran into Ron, who was running and out of breath. "Thank God. I've been looking all over for you two! You have to come quick!"

"Whoa, Ron, calm down. What are you talking about?"

In response to Harry's question, Ron lifted Marauder's Map. There you could see two dots in the Room of Requirement. The dots were both labeled Malfoy. "I knew something was up so I figured I'd show it to you. I told you he hasn't changed."

"Ron," Harry said, keeping Hermoine from hitting him. "Draco turned his father in, we have to get to him now! Who knows what his father is doing to him."

Ron just stared at them at first, soaking in the new information. "I'm sorry, Hermoine, I didn't trust you judgement. This way, come on!"

They ran to the Room of Requirement. Once there, Ron opened the door and allowed Hermoine and Harry to enter first.

When they entered, they saw Draco chained to the wall and writhing in pain under the Cruciatus Curse. "Draco!" Hermoine turned towards his father and pointed her wand. "Stupefacio!" and a red beam of light shot out towards him.

Lucious dropped his wand from his son, breaking the spell, and yelled "Protego," causing a shield to block Hermoine's attack.

"Hermoine, run! Get out of here!" Draco said struggling against his chains.

"Accio wand" Lucious whispered, causing Hermoine's wand to fly out of her hand and into his.

Harry stepped next to her and raised his wand, about to attack when a voice behind them said "Stupefacio," and the red beam of light hit Harry in the back, sending him to the floor unconscious. Hermoine turned and saw Ron. Standing with his wand pointing to where Harry had been standing.

"Ron?" She asked, completely confused. All he did was smile, but it wasn't the sweet, caring smile she had seen so often for all these year. This one was sinister, and cruel. "Ron, what are you doing?"

"Good job Ron. You got them here."

"I told you they'd follow me." Said Ron. Stepping around Hermoine to stand next to Lucious, but was careful not to turn his eye or his wand away from her.

"For the smartest witch in school she sure is easily fooled." Said Lucious, the amusement evident in his voice. "Mudblood," he addressed Hermoine, "Pick up Potter and chain him next to my idiotic, disowned son." She didn't move, she just stood there, staring at Ron with an anger and hatred that burned greater than the fires of hell. "I advise you to do what I say, or my pathetic excuse for a son will pay." He raised his wand to Draco, ready to do a curse if she didn't move.

Hermoine glanced at Draco before bending down and grabbed Harry by his arm, dragging him to where another set of chains appeared on the wall. She stood Harry up as best she could and shackled him tot he wall. "Why are you doing this Ron?" She asked as he came up to her and chained her between Harry and Draco.

"Because. I'm sick of Malfoy always coming out on top. He has all the money, fame, fortune, everything. I have nothing"

"You had a heart," She whispered, trying her best to keep her tears from falling.

"I wanted yours. But no, Malfoy got that as well." As he stepped away from Hermoine, Lucious stepped up and backhanded him.

"You fool! You could have had it all, money, power, the blessing of the dark lord. You could have ruled by his side. But no, you threw it all away... and for this filthy little Mudblood."

"I threw it away for love." Draco said, staring his father straight in the eye.

Lucious punched Draco's jaw, probably coming very close to breaking it. "You threw it away for pain and death! A Malfoy does not love." With that, he raised his wand. "Cruccio." Draco screamed as an immense pain swept over his body.

Hermoine looked away as he strained against his bonds, writhing in pain, she couldn't bear to see what was happening to him.

The screaming stopped after a few seconds and she turned to see Draco hanging limply against his bonds, gasping for breath. "You bastards." Hermoine said to both Ron and the father of the man she loved.

Lucious raised his wand, ready to do some horrific curse on Hermoine, but Ron gently touched his arm, "Wait, let me have her."

He hesitated a minute before lowering his wand. "Do what you will."

Ron smiled his new, cruel smile and turned to Hermoine. "You are going to willingly have sex with me or Malfoy and Harry will pay."

She glared at him. If looks could kill, he would have died a thousand painful deaths. "I would sooner die than have sex with you!" she spit at him. Ron slapped her then stepped back.

"I warned you..." he said as he lifted his wand and pointed it at Draco, then pulled out Harry's wand and pointed it at Harry. "until you agree, all they will feel is pain... Cruccio!"

The screams she heard from Draco when his father performed the spell was like noting compared to what she heard now from Harry and Draco. Their screams didn't even sound human. "NO! Stop!" she screamed. Ron dropped his arms to his sides, breaking the spell. "I'll do it," she sobbed.

He smiled. He walked over to her, slipping Harry's wand into his pocket, and lifted his wand and spoke the charm that would unlock her bonds.

"H-Hermoine..." Draco said, still gasping for air, "d-don't"

"I can't bear to see him hurt you." She said, gently touching his cheek. Ron yanked her toward him, causing her to abruptly break contact with Draco.

Lucious just watched, clearly amused by what Ron was pulling, he laughed softly to himself, but it didn't escape Hermoine's ears.

Ron pushed Hermoine against a sturdy table that suddenly appeared and pressed his mouth roughly against hers, with almost bruising intensity, obviously not caring about how she felt. And he wondered why she liked Draco instead of him sarcastic

He pulled back when she didn't kiss him back. "Hermoine..." he said dangerously. She turned and looked at Draco, who had tears threatening to fall from his eyes.

"No..." he whispered, and shook his head. Ron raised his wand and pointed it at Draco. Before he could utter the curse, however, Hermoine put her hand on his wrist and put her other one on the pack of his neck and pulled him into a kiss. Hermoine looked past Ron at Draco, whose pain was evident in his eyes. He held her gaze for a few seconds, but looked down when he could no longer bear the sight. Tears falling from his eyes.

Close to tears herself, Hermoine closed her eyes and imagined it was Draco she was kissing and opened her mouth as Ron's tongue pushed past her lips. He bent down a little and grabbed her thighs, picked her up and set her on the table.

"Ron... Please..." she whispered as he pulled himself up onto the table and pushed her onto her back. He answered her by grinding his hips into hers. She whimpered, but kissed him back so he wouldn't hurt Draco or Harry..

"You bastard!" Harry shouted, desperately pulling against his bonds. Ron just smiled cruelly and ground into Hermoine again.

Suddenly Ron flipped Hermoine and himself over, causing her to lay sprawled against his chest. He laughed and roughly grabbed the side of her face and brought it down to his in another brutal kiss while his other hand went to her waist, encouraging her to move against him. She complied, grabbing his robes.

While Ron though she was doing it out of passion (yeah right) she was actually looking for Harry's wand. When she found it, she abruptly sat up and pointed the wand at Lucious. "Stupify!" He wasn't prepared for her attack so he fell to the ground.

Hermoine then punched Ron in the face, stood up on the table, and brought her foot up into the air and let it fall to stomp on his crotch. Ron howled in pain and then seemed to pass out.

Hermoine jumped off the table and ran to where Lucious lay. After searching through his robes, she found her wand, but she couldn't find Draco's wand. She slapped her forehead stupidly, of course, it's in Harry's pocket.

((A/N: just to let you know why Harry didn't use that wand to help Hermoine was because the shackles he was in actually attached his wrists to the wall, making them useless.))

She rushed over to Draco and Harry. She quickly said the spell that opened the locks of their bonds. They were free. As soon as Draco was free he threw his arms around Hermoine and held her tightly to him. "Hermoine..." he whispered," I'm sorry"

She pulled away from him enough so she could look into his eyes. "For what?"

"It's because of me that you had to go through this. If I had listened to Snape, Ron wouldn't have snapped and you wouldn't have had to go through any of this."

"Oh, Draco," she tenderly caressed the side of his face. "It was his fault he could deal I... I love you. And even if I had known ahead of time what our being together would do, I would make the same choice. I just want to be with you." She then tip toed and placed a kiss on his lips.

He held her tightly and kissed her back.

Draco heard a slight movement behind him. He quickly grabbed Hermoine's wand. Lucious had recovered and was now on his feet. "Avada Ka-"

"Avada Kedavera!" Draco was faster with the spell. The green light shot out of his wand and hit Lucious. He fell down dead.

Hermoine just stared, barely believing what just happened. Draco killed his father to save her. He turned back to her. "Are you alright?" She nodded and he put his arms around her again.

Harry just watched them from across the room, feeling a mix of different emotions. The scene of Hermoine n Draco's arms sparked a little bit of jealousy and even a little anger. But it also gave him a calm, almost serene feeling.

None of them noticed Ron waking up, getting to his feet, and raising his wand to Draco and Hermoine. "Cruccio"

Hermoine didn't even hear him. All she knew was that all of a sudden she felt pain like she never felt before. Although through her haze of pain she noticed that her screams were accompanied by Draco's.

Soon the pain was gone. She lifted her head and seen Ron with his wand pointed at Harry, who was put in a binding curse.

Ron turned to them. "Stand up, leave the wands n the floor." He knew Harry still had Draco's wand. He stepped a little closer and Draco lunged at him, ready to beat the crap out of him. "Cruccio," Ron said, pointing his wand at him and Draco fell to the floor in convulsions.

After a few seconds he dropped his wand from pointing at Draco and pointed it back at him, breaking the first spell. "Mobilicorbups" he lifted his wand and Draco rose to his feet. When Ron dropped hi arm to his side, Draco's knees buckled and almost fell, but he caught his balance and braced himself against the wall.

Ron pulled a wicked looking dagger from one of the pockets in his robes and set it on the floor. "Pick up the knife," he said, kicking it towards Hermoine. She picked it up. "Now," he said laughing, "Ram it through your boyfriend's heart!" He laughed louder and crueler than before at the look on her face.

When her shock wore off, she gripped the knife in both hands and lunged at Ron. "Imperio!" Ron shouted, pointing his wand at Hermoine, who stopped dead in her tracks and lowered the knife. Ron chuckled. "I know the real you is still there, and can see and feel and hear everything that is going on. So first, I want you to take that knife and ram it into Malfoy's stomach, and then," he stepped close to Hermoine, grabbed her butt and ground into her motionless form. "You and me are going to have a little shag."

On the outside, Hermoine was cal (due to the curse) but on the inside she was screaming in outrage.

Ron seen the look in her eye and laughed, knowing what she must be thinking.

Draco, enraged by what Ron was doing, rushed to grab his wand. Ron pointed his wand at him. "Crucio,"

Hermoine could hear him scream, but she couldn't move from the position she was in. 'damn you Ron! Why are you doing this?! You were supposed to be my friend.' If she could, she would have been in tears.
Almost as soon as Ron said the words he stopped the curse. Not wanting him to pass out or anything, he wanted him still alive so he could watch him shag his girl.

"Now," he said, turning to Hermoine, "Go, take your knife and stab him in the chest, but make sure It's not the heart or the lungs." He turned to Draco, "Oh, and if you resist in anyway, I'll put the Cruciatus Curse on her, and I won't take it off."

As much as Ron hated Draco, and as unwilling as he was to admit this, he knew Draco would do anything to protect Hermoine, even if it meant going to his death.

Draco did nothing but scowl, what else could he do?

Hermoine had the knife in both hands as she slowly walked over to Draco, her face showing no emotions. You probably couldn't tell by looking at her, but she was mentally battling the curse, trying to fight it so she wouldn't stab one of the few people she allowed herself to love.

She lifted the knife over her head, prepared to plunge it into Draco's chest, when he looked into her eyes and whispered "I love you".

At that point she had already given up, but hearing those words caused her to fight twice as hard as she did before. As the blade came down, Draco closed his eyes and awaited the pain and the death.

Hermoine couldn't quite fight the spell completely away, but she was able to divert the path of the knife as it went down so she stabbed herself instead of Draco.

Draco's eyes shot open as he heard the knife hit flesh and seen the knife protruding from Hermoine's stomach as she fell to the floor.

Before Draco could go to her or rush to the wand, Ron pointed his wand at him. "Cruccio" and Draco fell to the floor as the pain coursed through him.

Hermoine, who was for now free from the curse, reached for the closest wand, "Accio wand" she whispered, her strength starting to leave her. With her last bit of strength, she whispered the spell that would free Harry from his bonds.

As soon as Harry was free, he pulled out Draco's wand from his robes. "Imobalus" he shouted and Ron was petrified, which caused the curse he placed on Draco to end.

The last thing Hermoine seen was Draco and Harry standing over her. There were tears in their eyes and they were saying words she couldn't hear. She reached up to touch the side of Draco's face. "I love you" she said then her world went black.

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Ok that was it. I might post one more chapter... but I kinda like this ending. Let me know what you think/. Please review! It makes me a very happy writer. And when the writer is happy.... The reader gets another chapter.