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A/N: Well here is the next chapter. Hope you all enjoy.

Chapter 21: The Dream and the Rescue

She was dreaming, dreaming of a warm spring day in the middle of a meadow. The sun was shining brightly, the flowers swaying in a light breeze. Hermione could feel the warmth of the sun on her face and the slight wind blowing gently through her hair.

Then the winds changed and the sky grew dark. The very air seemed charged with something, something she knew. It seemed familiar but she couldn't place it. That was when she saw him. Walking slowly toward her with his wand drawn pointing directly at her noticeably rounded stomach. The baby. He was coming for the baby.

"Your time is up, you have lived up your usefulness and now you will burn in Hell."

A sudden but blinding pain ripped through her stomach, Hermione gasped in pain and fell to the cold hard ground. She watched out of the corner of her eyes as Albus Dumbledore walked purposely toward her muttering something low under his breath in a language that she was not familiar with.

He was cut off abruptly when a deep emerald green light erupted from Hermione's stomach and seemingly engulfed her entire body in a matter of seconds.

Dumbledore seemed horrified at what was happening. "NO! It's not possible. I made sure... I made sure that it was the Weasley boy who impregnated you that night! What have you done!" He screamed in rage.

A soft voice carried across the meadow causing Dumbledore to freeze.

"Did you honestly think that I wouldn't make that child mine in every sense of the word? Did you think that we wouldn't be able to find the spell? DID YOU FORGET YOU ARE DEALING WITH!" Harry screamed furiously advancing on aged wizard menacingly with his wand drawn and a look of unadulterated hate contorting his face. Hermione could feel the darkness starting to creep around her, her vision tunneling and the images and sound around her fading into darkness.

She could feel a gentle hand brushing across her cheeks, and then she felt a cool cloth being wiped across her forehead cooling down her fevered skin. When she finally opened her eyes she saw Harry's concerned face come slowly into focus, her brain still wrapped around the dream she had just had. At least she thought it had been a dream, but deep down she knew that it had to be more. Something was trying to tell her something, something that was important.

When Hermione glanced behind Harry her eyes met with her mother's and Narcissa, she was immediately drawn to the man standing behind them. When she got a good look at who it was she gasped in shock. "Sirius?" She whispered hoarsely. What the hell was going on?

Sirius grinned, "Long story that I am sure that you'll here later. But all that counts is that I am here now and I don't plan on leaving."

Her gaze then turned back to Harry, "Where is everyone else?"

Harry's small smile wavered and turned into a grimace. "On a rescue mission of sorts. Lucius, Draco and both our dad's went to get Ginny."

Hermione frowned and then she looked sharply at Harry everything clicking in place. "That sly devil, he and Ginny have been together all year haven't they?" And then the seriousness of what Harry had just said hit her like a ton of bricks. She looked into Harry's eyes knowing that she would find the answers that she was looking for.

"He turned on her didn't he?" She saw the flare of pain in the emerald depths and knew that she was right. "That fucking bastard!" She screamed and then she could see flashes of everything that she had endured from the last two years by Ron's hands. The scenes started off in rapid succession and then tapered off to the night in the dungeons to nothing taking her back to the present. Harry was looking at her anxiously probably wondering what she was thinking about. She then started thinking about what the Dumbledore in her dream had said about the night in the Dungeons.

Hermione's eyes flew open and had a look of pure terror in them. There was no way that he did it, no way that he was the cause. He wouldn't have gone that far would he? And then Hermione was reminded of everything that Dumbledore had done over the last decade and decided that it was very likely that he had been the deciding factor in her beatings and rape. But why?

Harry was starting to worry about Hermione, first she had been extremely angry at the thought that Ron was hurting someone else and then it seemed that her thoughts had started drifting off and then out of no where a look of pure terror flitted across her face.

"What's wrong?" He asked her softly while he watched as the rest of the adults left the room, probably going to get things ready to leave.

Hermione looked at Harry and smiled grimly. She then proceeded to tell him about the dream.

Remus ducked behind a large tree and noticed out of the corner of his eyes that the others were doing the same. He watched silently as Severus tossed two invisibility potions toward Draco. The boy caught them easily; after all, he wasn't the Slytherin Seeker for nothing. Draco knocked back the bitter tasting potion and walked swiftly toward the oddly built house. He felt extremely vulnerable for the fact that they couldn't use any type of wand magic for fear that their magical signature could be traced. Remus had told them before they had left that Dumbledore had place wards that would do just that. He hoped that Ginny was all right.

Walking slowly toward the house he glance upwards at the windows, looking for on thing in particular. Then he saw it, the dream catcher that he had bought for her when they had snuck out into Hogsmeade during the beginning of the year. He had bought it for her so that she would always think of him when she was falling asleep. Draco leaned down close to the ground and picked a handful of stones up. He quickly pulled out the Muggle marker that Harry had given him and wrote several letters on each stone. He then took a stone that he had not written on and tossed it at Ginny's window.

He just needed her to open it and he could get a message to her.

Ginny had been sitting on her bed wondering if Draco had received her letter and if he had been able to talk his mother and father into coming to get her. He hoped that she would find out one-way or another soon. She didn't want to deal with her parents fretting over the Great Ron Weasley's mysterious disappearance. After all she was the one getting the brunt of his 'mood swings' as her mother called them. She was just about to get up and go to the bathroom when she remembered that her parents had locked her in her room. For her own safety, they had said. A sudden noise broke her out of her thoughts. She listened harder hoping to hear what ever it was again.

"Tap..."

There it was again. Ginny jumped off her bed and ran to the window and looked out. She didn't see anything so she opened her window so that she could get a better look outside. Just as she was about to close it again a rock landed at her feet.

Cautiously she picked it up and turned it over. Some one had written on it.

"WE..."

Ok, she thought that was extremely weird. And then another rock landed at her feet. She picked it up and quickly turned it over so that she could read the small writing.

"ARE..."

Ginny's hopes started to rise and she glanced back out the window in hopes that she could see who ever was throwing the rocks. She still didn't see anyone. Just then another rock landed on her foot. She picked it up shakily.

"HERE..."

Ginny ran to her bed and picked up the bag that she had packed and ran back to the window. She opened it as far as she could and then threw it out.

Seconds later she heard the unmistakable voice of Draco Malfoy. "Merlin Ginny, what the hell do you have in there?"

Ginny laughed knowing that Draco was here to take her away although she still couldn't see him. She then proceeded to climb out the window she had just thrown her bag out of.

Draco knowing that there wasn't anyway that he would be able to catch Ginny with out hurting her and himself so did the only thing that he could think of.

"Remus, hurry up and get over here!" Draco yelled toward the trees.

Three figures emerged from the shelter of the trees and Ginny watched in amazement as Professor Snape, Lucius Malfoy and Remus Lupin walked swiftly toward the house until they were directly under the window. A few seconds later Draco appeared in front of Lucius, she guessed that he had been using an invisibility potion in case some one else was at the Burrow beside herself.

Remus looked up at Ginny and arranged himself directly under so that he wouldn't miss. He knew the reason that Draco had asked him to catch her was because of his strength and reflexes from his lycanthropy. He just hoped that he wouldn't hurt her.

"Go ahead and jump Ginny, I promise I won't let you get hurt." Remus said softly. And then with in seconds his arms were full of a beaten and bruised red head that had begun sobbing. Thinking that he had hurt her some how Remus quickly tried to set her down but she just gripped his cloak tighter.

"No, don't let me go. Please just get me away from here." Ginny sobbed and for the first time in a year she truly felt safe and secure.