Disclaimer: Credit goes to JK Rowling...(and a few other companies, people, etc. who probably own a little bit of The Boy Who Lived...)
A/N: This was my first fanfic EVER. I wrote this about two years ago, WAAAAY before OOTP, so there are a lot of things that won't fit in with canon. My writing was horrible, and I switched back and forth between plot lines...but I still think this is a pretty darn good story. However, it is the only thing I have EVER completed in all the fanfics I've ever tried to write...so I thought I'd just post it online...It is a love triangle sort of thing...Hermione likes Harry, Ron, and there's some Draco in there too...so if you don't like this...then don't read it... Well, enjoy my REALLY old fanfic...
Chapter Thirteen - Eternally Linked By Hate
Ron woke up the next morning to Neville snoring, as usual. He rubbed his eyes and sat up. Ron looked over and saw that Harry wasn't in bed. Ron dressed and went down to the common room. Sitting by the fire was Lavender and Harry, chatting quietly.
"Good morning, Lavender." Ron said, ignoring the fact that Harry was in there. However, Harry didn't seem to mind too much, he didn't speak to Ron either.
"'Morning, Ron." Lavender replied. "Have you seen Hermione or Ginny?"
"No...why are you asking me?" Ron answered suspiciously, looking over at Harry.
"Well, neither of them came to bed last night."
"Oh really, now?" Ron raised his eyebrows and gave a furtive stare in Harry's direction.
"I didn't do anything!" Harry blurted, noticing Ron who kept looking over at Harry.
"Uh huh, right." Ron retorted disbelievingly.
Lavender just looked between the two of them and then shook her head. "Well, breakfast anyone?"
"No thanks, I'll stay here." Harry said, grabbing his Divination homework and started "predicting" what was going to happen to him in the next month.
Ron saw this and felt a pain in his heart. Harry and Ron always made up their predictions together. But Ron paid no attention to his heart right now, he was hungry, and his stomach was all that mattered.
Lavender and Ron left Harry and walked down to the Great Hall.
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Hermione woke up that morning tied up and gagged in a chair. Lucius was standing over her poking her shoulder to get her to wake up.
"I have a task for you." He croaked. Hermione just stared at him with hatred. He took the cloth out of her mouth. "We can do this either the easy way, or the hard way...you choose."
Hermione never broke eye contact with him but didn't say a word.
"I guess you choose the hard way." Lucius smirked and lifted up his wand. Hermione flinched and closed her eyes, too afraid of what he was going to do.
"Imperio!" He yelled.
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An hour later, Hermione walked into the Great Hall and sat down right as Lavender and Ron walked into the Hall.
"There you are, 'Mione! Where have you been?" Ron asked as he sat down across from her and Lavender sat down next to her.
"No where...what do you mean?" Hermione asked, smiling, but not looking quite like herself.
"Uh...nothing, never mind." Lavender interrupted giving a sharp look in Ron's direction.
They ate, talking normally, for a little while. Hermione finished eating and looked up and saw Draco Malfoy sitting at the Slytherin table all alone. She got up quickly and started walking off to speak to Draco.
"Herm...where are you going?" Lavender asked.
"Um...I have to talk to someone and then go do an experiment." She lied.
"What kind of experiment?" Ron inquired.
"Um...for Herbology...I'm studying the Whomping Willow. I have to go now." Hermione said stiffly, and walked over to the Slytherin table.
"We need to talk, Draco." She said and led him out of the Great Hall.
"Yeah? About what?" He dispiritedly.
"Well, I need to show you something." Hermione said, grinning. Draco rolled his eyes.
"I'm not in the mood, just get to the point." He frowned.
"Follow me and you'll find out." Hermione ran off up the stairs.
"Hermione, wait!" Draco shouted and followed her up the stairs.
They got up to the Gryffindor Common Room.
"What exactly...are we doing here?" Draco panted, clutching his side.
"Firebolt." Hermione said the password and the Portrait Hole flung open. "Come on!" Hermione waved for him to follow.
"This isn't a good idea...I'm not a Gryffindor." Draco said hesitantly.
"Duh! That's the point!" Hermione giggled and stepped inside the Common Room. Draco followed, but reluctantly.
Luckily the only people inside the Common Room at the time were Harry and Neville.
"Hello Neville!" Hermione squeaked, ignoring Harry, who ignored her back.
"Hello." Neville replied, looking over at Draco. "What's he...?" He cut himself off, too scared of the answer.
Hermione ran off up the stairs, giggling like mad. Draco rolled his eyes and ran after her.
"Hermione, are you...high?"
"Don't be ridiculous, Draco, I'm just under the Imperious Curse." Hermione smiled and slowly opened the door to the boys' dormitories.
"Ha ha, good one, Imperious Curse..." Draco laughed and followed her inside.
Hermione tiptoed over to Harry's bed and sat down on the floor next to his trunk. She opened it up and began rummaging inside.
"What exactly are you looking for?" Draco asked curiously.
"Harry's Invisibility cloak." Hermione responded distractedly.
"Potter has an Invisibility cloak?"
"Sure does!"
"Right...and what are you going to do with it?"
"You'll see, come on!" Hermione said, grabbing the cloak and running out of the room.
"Crazy..." Draco muttered and followed her out.
Hermione stuffed the cloak in her robes and ran down to the Common Room. When she got down there, Ron and Lavender were inside the Common Room .
"Hello Ron...Lavender!" Hermione said casually.
"Hello..." they answered in unison.
When Draco walked down the stairs, Ron looked at him suspiciously.
"What are you doing, Malfoy?"
"Shut your trap, Weasely."
Without saying goodbye, Hermione ran out of the Common Room, with Draco trailing her.
When they left, Ron got up and walked up to the boys' dormitories. When he walked in he saw Harry's trunk wide open. He just bent down and started to close it when he saw the Marauder's Map. He lifted it up and watched two little dots labeled Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy run down the stairs and into the Entrance Hall; he watched where they were headed to.
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"Hermione, where are we going?!" Draco yelled, running down the stairs after her.
"Just trust me!" Hermione shouted, skipping a stair every time she took a step.
Once they got down to the Entrance Hall, Hermione went over and opened the doors to the grounds. She waited for Draco and then stepped outside.
"Hermione, what..."
"I've said it a billion times already! Just follow me!" Hermione said and ran over to the Whomping Willow. She got a stick and prodded the knot on it to make it freeze. She led Draco down into the passageway and led him all the way up to the Shrieking Shack.
"I'm back." Hermione said when they got into the Shack.
"Who are you talk---" Draco whispered but was interrupted by Hermione.
"I have the Invisibility Cloak." Hermione stated.
"Good...and my son?" Lucius responded; he was sitting in the same chair as he was yesterday.
"He's here as well." Hermione declared.
"Good...good." Lucius said and turned around to face Draco.
"F...F...Father?" Draco stuttered.
"It's nice to see you, Draco." Lucius smirked. "Come here, boy."
Draco didn't move an inch.
"You can't control me." He breathed.
"You think so?" Lucius said, a sparkle in his eye. He snapped his fingers and Hermione grabbed Draco's arm.
"Hermione...ow...what are you..." Draco tried to pull himself loose, but Hermione was too strong. Draco knew that if she hadn't been controlled by his father, she wouldn't be this strong.
Hermione dragged Draco over to Lucius and threw him at Lucius. Lucius grabbed his son's arm and lifted it up.
"No...father...no..." Draco pleaded, his voice cracking. Lucius grabbed Draco's left wrist and pushed up Draco's robe sleeve, revealing something like a vivid red tattoo. It was a skull with a snake sticking out of its mouth...it was the Dark Mark.
Lucius pressed a finger into the mark on Draco's arm, causing it to burn with pain. Draco cringed and pulled away.
"I did not ask for this father!" He screamed, grabbing his wrist which the mark upon it was now jet black. "You forced me to! I didn't want to...you did this to me! You horrible, insensitive, controlling bastard!" Draco shrieked.
"How dare you speak to me in such a way!" Lucius spat. "So it is true that I forced you to become a Death Eater...but that still makes you one!"
"Liar! It was forced upon me unwillingly, so I am not truly a Death Eater!" Draco yelled, but sounding more like he was begging.
There was a silence and Hermione snapped out of the Imperious Curse. She looked over in a chair next to her and saw that Ginny was stirring. She tiptoed over to her and stood next to her while Draco and Lucius yelled at each other.
"The mark on your wrist proves that you are a Death Eater, Draco." Lucius said, calmly.
"Draco..." Lucius said warningly, but Draco interrupted.
"You do know that because of your foolish decision to force me into becoming a Death Eater that we are connected forever?"
"What are you talking about?" Lucius said, terror striking him for the first time ever.
"Since you were the one to force your own reluctant son to become a Death Eater, our lives are connected forever." Draco responded, sounding as if he had blackmail on his father.
"Our lives our linked forever?" Lucius asked tensely.
Draco nodded his head. "But only through hate."
Lucius slowly reached into his robes and grasped his wand. He pointed his wand at Draco.
"Father?" Draco said, seeing his own parent lift their wand up and point it at him. Draco began to get frightened. "Father?" he repeated. "Don't please...please don't...father...dad? Daddy?" He pleaded.
"Crucio!" Lucius yelled, and Draco fell to the ground, his body struggling with the pain.
Lucius let Draco be tortured for a few moments. When he stopped the curse, he walked over and tied Draco up to a chair. He walked over to Hermione and took the Invisibility Cloak from her. He tied her up in a chair near Draco's and left with Harry's cloak.
Hermione was left there with Ginny, who was half unconscious and tied in chair, and Draco who was lifeless in yet another chair.
"Draco? Draco? Are you alive? Please be alive..." Hermione asked and beginning to cry. She kept repeating over and over again until he would respond. She didn't want Draco to be dead. She didn't want to witness his death...Hermione prayed and prayed that he would still be alive...and then...
"Hermione?" Draco moaned, turning his head to look at her.
"Oh my gosh, Draco! You're alive! We're alive!"
"Yes...but not for long."
"What do you mean?" Hermione sniffled.
"I can feel it coming."
"Feel...feel what?"
"Death." Draco muttered.
"Death? Draco...you...you can't die." Hermione begged.
"I don't know if I will be the one dying though...I can just feel it..." Draco said wearily.
"Feel...death?" Hermione stuttered.
"Hermione..."
"Yes?"
"You're going to die."
There was a pause.
"Well yes I'm going to die...eventually." Hermione said, hoping Draco was just joking, even though this wasn't a funny joke.
"No, you're going to die...today."
"Draco...stop scaring me."
"I'm sorry if I scared you."
"Draco...how do you know that I'm going to die? Besides...being able to feel it..."
"He's...he's...going to kill you..." Draco said slowly.
"Who? Who's he?" Hermione replied, starting to cry again.
"He...he..." Draco dozed off.
"Draco...Draco? DRACO!?" Hermione shrieked. She wanted to run over to Draco and wake him up, but she was tied in too tight.
Hermione cried softly to herself, wondering if what Draco said was true. After about a half an hour of being alone, Hermione could hear footsteps; someone was coming! Or maybe it was just Lucius again. Hermione turned her head to see who it was.
Hermione turned her head just in time to see the person walk into the Shack. The person was holding a dagger in their hand. The person was...Harry Potter.
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A/N: Please Review! This isn't the end! Only 5 more chapters to go! I'll post them when I have the time!