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Chapter 16
Hermione rolled over on her side, but then a piercing pain flowed through out her body causing her to whimper. Why was her arm hurting so much? She opened her eyes slowly to the sunlit room.
She looked on her right and saw Ron sleeping against the wall, in a very uncomfortable position. She also noticed that he was holding her hand.
Hermione tried to sit up but her whole body was aching.
Ron's eyes flew open when the cot creaked, "Hermione!" he exclaimed letting go of her hand and wrapping his arms around her shoulders.
"Ouch, Ron!" She exclaimed with a smile on her face.
"It's been two days, I've been so worried!" Ron said sounding a bit like Mrs. Weasley, "I tried feeding you your meals, they actually gave us something edible to eat the day before, I was a bit surprised."
Suddenly, the events of two days ago flooded her mind; "Of course they would give us something good to eat, after that night. T-they had so much fun."
Ron looked concerned, "What'd he do?"
Hermione felt her eyes fill with tears.
Ron put a reassuring hand on her arm, "Just tell me, please?"
Flashback
The Death Eater dragged Hermione up a number of stairs and down many corridors, until finally, they arrived in front of a lone portrait in one of the corridors.
The portrait was of a woman who looked like half a hag and half a banshee. Of course, her body was quite human.
The Death Eater ran his fingers down the woman's long black hair.
All of a sudden, the woman in the portrait let out a horrible scream, which echoed off the walls of the empty corridor.
The strangest part was that instead of the portrait swinging open, the mouth of the woman started getting bigger and bigger, until Hermione noticed a silver doorknob shining inside the mouth. The door was completely camouflaged except for the shining doorknob.
The Death Eater opened the door and roughly pulled Hermione through the threshold.
Hermione turned her head and saw that the door magically disappeared into thin air.
"Come on, girl!" The Death Eater said jerking Hermione forward. They walked in silence down another empty corridor. The only sound that could be heard were the clicking of the shoes the Death Eater was wearing while he was walking.
Each torch was stationed about two feet away from each other; letting Hermione's imagination run wild every time she saw a shadow she thought it was Krum. She wondered when Krum would just pop up, but her question was answered only moments later.
They stopped in front of another door, but this door was colored a deep green shade and Hermione noticed that beneath the paint a serpent was carved into the door.
The Death Eater knocked on the door and proceeded to open it.
"She has arrived, sir."
Hermione was shoved into the room, roughly. She looked around the room and gasped. It was huge!
"You may leave now." Krum said getting up from the plush armchair that he was sitting on.
Hermione heard the door close behind her. She watched as Krum advanced towards her. She felt her heart hammering in her chest; her palms were sweating like mad.
Calm down…just…breathe-Oh my God…
Krum was standing right in front of her, he ran his hand over her cheeks, "You look beautiful." He purred, well tried to purr, but he sounded like a messed up voice recorder that was set on slow motion.
Hermione tried to restrain from moving away from him. She looked at him expressionless.
"Vat? You don't like compliments?" he asked. She could feel his breath on her face, her stomach turned in disgust. His breath wasn't helping matters any. Suddenly, he pushed her against the door.
Hermione let out a small scream.
He pinned her to the door, and he was now kissing her face, she felt his dry, cracked lips moving towards her mouth.
"S-stop!" She screamed, pushing Krum off her with all her might. She looked at him angrily.
"Vat's wrong Hermy-own-ninny?" He asked menacingly, his mouth splitting into an evil smile. He started walking towards her again.
With her back against the wall, she shifted to the right; she bumped into a stand causing something to fall onto the carpeted floor with a soft thud.
"Let me show you something." Krum said. He motioned to someone above.
Is he praying or something? Hermione wondered confused looking up as well.
Suddenly, in a blur of gray and white, something crashed to the ground a few feet away from where she was standing.
She stared at the huge, human cage with her mouth hanging open.
"Hermione!"
"Help us!"
"Please! Help…!"
Hermione took a few steps forward and then gasped. In the cage were the two brothers Dennis and Colin Creevy and Luna Lovegood.
Luna looked as normal as ever, as if she were sitting outside in a garden just marveling at the sky above.
Aside from that, all three of them were dirty with their clothes torn in numerous places.
"W-what are you going to do with them?" Hermione asked fearfully.
She hadn't been very close with any of them, but in these times, it wasn't even a matter of who you were close to anymore. It was more a game of survival, a horrible, twisted game, where people really were killed…
"Attamur!" Krum shouted pointing his wand at Hermione.
Hermione felt an invisible claw dig its hand into her shoulder and pull her backwards against the wall, with a strong force. She tried to move away from the wall but she was stuck!
She looked wildly around the room, that's when she noticed that Death Eaters everywhere, some were standing on the beams above and others were standing in the shadows, waiting for Krum to command them.
"Open the cage." Krum commanded.
Silently, one of the Death Eaters emerged from a corner of the room and burst open the door of the cage using his wand and casting a spell.
Dennis and Colin screamed as bits of metal flew in their direction, which resulted blood to drip from the sides of their faces and hands, as they tried shielding themselves.
"Stupid, stupid boys." Krum said thoroughly delighted, "Come forvad."
All three of them moved slowly out of the human cage.
Without warning Krum pointed his wand at Dennis and said, "Avada Kedavra!"
Dennis fell to the floor instantly, dead.
Colin started sobbing loudly, "D-Den-n-n-n-is…" he stammered through his tears.
"Vat are you stuck on repeat?" Krum asked cruelly, now pointing his wand at Luna.
Luna showed no reaction, she looked as if she were in a daze.
Hermione had a sinking feeling that Luna knew that she was going to die; maybe that's why she wasn't putting up a fight like the two Creevy brothers.
She shut her eyes tightly, she heard Krum say the spell again, and then Luna's body fell to the floor.
Colin was now bawling, his whole body was shaking, "W-why'd you have to kill him for? WHY?" he asked angry patches of red forming on his cheeks, "You should've k-killed me instead!"
Hermione opened her eyes; she could feel the tears welling up in her eyes.
"If you insist…" Krum said pointing his wand at Colin.
"N-no…please…" Colin begged falling to his knees.
"Crucio!" Krum shouted.
Colin fell to the ground screaming. His body kept twitching, from side to side.
Hermione was sobbing now, it was like some kind of horrible movie.
She could hear the Death Eaters in the background chuckling and laughing. Her mind was clouded, she could faintly hear them taunting Colin but she just couldn't understand exactly what they were saying.
"Avada Kedavra!" Krum said again after a few minutes. He started rubbing his wand with his robes and then he turned to Hermione.
Hermione's eyes widened in fear, He's going to kill me!
Krum pointed his wand at her and said, "Vemiga!"
Hermione felt herself fly towards Krum's out stretched arms.
"Now it's time to have some fun…" He backed away and pointed his wand at her once more, "Imperio!"
Hermione felt a floating sensation as if all his worries and thoughts drifted out of his head…she felt so very happy…
Bang your head on the wall…bang it on the wall…Krum's voice echoed in her head.
Hermione felt herself running to the wall like a raging bull. After her head collided with the wall, she couldn't remember anything else.
End of Flashback