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Chapter five: Can I stay here tonight

His cloak was billowing out behind him. A shout through the silence.

"Rookwood! What happened?"

'Damn.'

He was discovered. The place would soon be swarming with Death Eaters.

Stairs! Quickly he ran down the stairs in front of him. He felt his dad's cloak was jerked of his head. He looked back and saw it hanging on a nail in the wall. He cursed under his breath, but he had no time to retrieve it now. He was sure he heard footsteps behind him.

As the stairs ended he saw he was in a stone hallay. He passed huge, strong doors with little barred windows. He looked through them, but it was too dark to see. Finally, in the last of the prisons, he could see a figure. Long brown hair...it had to be her.

"Hermione? Hermione! I'm here!"

She didn't respond.

"Hermione?"

He tried to open the door. "Alohomora!" but it didn't work.

Why wasn't she moving? He started when he felt someone was standing behind him. He snapped around and stared straight back into a mask. He knew that whoever was wearing that mask, was smirking.

He couldn't move, his wand had fallen to the floor. This was it. This was how it would end. He couldn't save her, not now he would die right here.

His eyes darted from the man to his wand on the floor. He could try and dive for it.

Suddenly the man stretched out and fell towards him. Harry clould jump back just in time. In his jump he had grabbed his wand from the floor and pointed in the direction where the stunning spell had come from.

"Who are you, stand back." He hissed at a group of shadows.

One of them stepped forward. "You idiot!" it hissed, slapping Harry in his face. "You stupid git. You reckless-"

"That will do miss Weasley. Harry, you must come with us. This is all a trap."

"No! I won't leave Hermione here."

He shook the bars of the door again. "Hermione!"

"Harry, this is not her. Our contact informed us. You have to come."

Ginny grabbed his wrist. "Come on!"

He wrestled himself free again. "Then we have to find her. She's still in this building. I-"

"Harry shut up." Ginny slapped him again.

He felt his arms were held tightly.

"I'm sorry Harry." She whispered before she stunned him.

He felt himself be dragged up the stairs through the corridors. He couldn't struggle, he couldn't fight, he couldn't scream. His hope of saving her...gone.

"Draco?" she carefully opened the door to his room. "Are you asleep?"

She saw a figure in the bed. He turned around and looked at her with sleepy eyes.

"What? Huh? Oh...what time is it?"

"Don't know. After midnight."

"Oh..."

"Sorry if I woke you up...I couldn't sleep. I keep hearing people running up and down the corridor. I heard someone shout really loud five minutes ago...and I'm scared."

Draco sat up and looked at the door.

"Sorry Hermione. I don't know what's going on either. My father locked me in here, saying it would be too dangerous for little boys like me. Tssh. As if I can't handle myself."

Hermione pulled her vest closer around her and sat down on an empty spot on the bed. "Sounds like your father treats you like that more often."

"He thinks I'm weak. He thinks I can't do anything. He always tells me I'm not a true Malfoy because a true Malfoy wouldn't let himself be beaten by someone like...er..."

"Someone like me?" She said quietly.

He nodded.

"But I can't seem to prove to him that I can do something. That I'm not weak."

"You feel you need to do that? Even if...even if you know he's a Death Eater? Even if you don't share his views of the world and even if he will kill you when he finds out?"

Draco hesitated slightly. "...yes. He's still my father. I can't just deny that."

"I understand. But...you must see how strange it looks to us. All those years at school you behaved just like him..."

He smiled. "Yeah I know...I guess I'm a great actor then."

She smiled back. She shivered and rubbed her arms.

"Are you cold?" he asked.

She nodded. He gently pulled her closer to him and rubbed her arms for her.

"Can I stay here tonight? I just don't want to be alone." She asked quietly.

He smiled and made some more room so she could sit on the bed properly. Gratefully she crawled to the empty spot. Draco blushed when he saw her nightdress as the vest she was wearing fell open a bit. He quickly looked away and waited until she had seated herself.

She noticed and quickly pulled her vest closer around her again. They sat quietly for a while.

"Draco? Have you...have you heard anything about...Harry yet?"

He hesitated. He knew the truth would hurt her. But he could not lie to her either.

"...No. Sorry Hermione. Nothing."

"Oh."

It was silent again.

"I guess...he didn't...come here then." She said.

Draco put his arm around her to comfort her. "Hey, don't be down. They're probably keeping him at H.Q."

"...If Harry really wanted to save me...no one could keep him at H.Q. I know what he's like. He didn't come."

"Oh...hey no! Potter's not like that, he's all goody goody. He wouldn't-"

"He didn't come Draco. He chose not to."

She got up from the bed. "I'm going back to bed. Thanks for letting me sit with you Draco."

"Hermione I-"

But she had already closed the door behind her.

"I'm sorry for you..."

'Nice Potter. Real nice' he thought sarcastically.

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