Authors Notes: First day of Orientation was cool, a lot of sexy guys (not as sexy as Draco...sigh) But anywho, I just got a lap top! Whoohoo, and I hooked the net up tonight even though using the pad is really hard, I miss my mouse! But because I looooove you guys so much I wrote the next chappie and uploaded it. So I hope you like it, even though its not as long as I wanted it to be.

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Chapter 17: Captive

Can any moment be as awkward as it was right now? Her eyes were locked on his no longer cold grey eyes. It was simply irresistible and at the same time so irritating because as deep as it was, one can never read his soul. What was she waiting for? More importantly what was he waiting for? She wanted answers but she no longer had a voice. Finally, Draco walked a bit closer to her causing her to look any where but his eyes. After all, this was really hard for her. If he was warning her, what exactly was he warning her about? And how did all of this tie back to his task? It was annoying, he only gave her half answers.

"Granger, I-"

"Who's in there?!" Someone outside the door was knocking loudly, which caused both of them to jump at the same time. Hermione had an excuse to look elsewhere so she turned around and opened the door. She was face to face with a very displeased Professor McGonagal.

"What are you two doing in here?" She asked sternly.

"We were discussing a project we have for Potions." Draco lied. Professor McGonagal narrowed her eyes at him and then turned to look at Hermione.

"Is that so, Ms.Granger?" She asked.

"Yes." Hermione answered quickly. Professor McGonagal smiled, happy to hear the 'truth' from her favorite student and stepped aside from the door.

"Very well, you may both leave. Just do not use a classroom without the permission of a professor or the Head Master."

"Okay." Hermione said quietly and began to leave.

"Granger, we still-"

"Mr.Malfoy, I need a word with you. It's rather urgent." Professor McGonagal interrupted for the second time.

"Can it wait?" Draco asked impatiently. He seemed rather edgy but only she could tell.

"No, it's about your Transfigration essay. We shall discuss it this minute. Ms.Granger do leave." Professor McGonagal said sternly. Draco gave Hermione a sorry look.

"Don't go anywhere." Draco whispered and closed the door. Hermione gave him a strange look and nodded her head. After all, what he had to tell her WAS important. It was about her death. And she intended to know what was going on. Hermione stood there leaning against the wall, thinking to herself when Blaise strolled over.

"Hey, Hermione. I was looking for you all day." Blaise said smiling.

"Really?" Hermione asked. She hadn't had the chance to think about him all day with all that was going on but seeing his handsome face made her smile. Blaise gently wrapped his hands around her waist and pulled her close to his body.

"Hell yeah! I got something to show you." Blaise said.

"What is it?" Hermione asked.

"It's better if you see it. Do you want to see it?" Blaise replied seductively kissing her lips. Hermione gave a whimper, or a small gasp before they began to kiss dangerously. Once again, the kiss wasn't the same, it was nothing like Draco's. Blaise took his lips away from her and waited for an answer.

"Yes.." Hermione replied breathlessly. "..I want to see it." Blaise gave her the Slytherin smirk and took her hand. They began to walk down the corridor when Draco's voice began to ring in her head. Don't go anywhere. Hermione stopped and Blaise looked back at her surprised.

"What's wrong?" He asked. Whatever Draco needed to tell her could wait till later that night in their common room, right?

"Nothing, I just remembered something but it's not important." Hermione lied.

"Okay, come on then." Blaise said dragging her through the school until they reached the Astronomy Tower. Half way up the staircase Blaise stopped and spun around. Hermione looked up into his eyes. They were no longer soft and unfocused. He grabbed her, pulling her into a tight hug. It wasn't a loving hug, more like a fair well hug. She pushed him back a little startled at his gesture.

"What the hell was that for?" She asked. Blaise didn't answer her, he leaned in and gave her another kiss. This kiss was forceful and dry. Nothing like it was minutes ago. What was he doing? Hermione again pushed him back and stared at him.

"I am sorry. I really am. I'm sorry." He said his voice descending to a mere whisper. Hermione narrowed her eyes. What was he sorry about? He then grabbed her hand leading her the rest of the way up the stairs ignoring her protest for him to stop.

"..why are you sorry?..let me go! stop! Ow! You're hurting me Blaise. let me go!" Hermione yelled. When they finally made their way to the top, Blaise released and stepped away from her.

"She's here." He said loudly and sternly. His voice was no longer sweet and charming. They were cold as ice, with no emotion behind it. Hermione looked around, searching for who he was speaking to.

"About time!" A male voice spoke. Then from a dark corner a man covered in a dark black cloak appeared. His face could not be seen due to the fact of his over sized hood. Hermione had no chance to speak for he glided to her and grabbed her by the neck and raised her above the ground. Hermione was shocked and surprised by the quickness of his movements that she had no chance to suck in air. She felt she was losing her breath by the second. Her hands gripped his wrist, trying to release the tight hold around her neck as her feet dangled. It was pointless because he only held her tighter, causing her eyes to roll back to the top of her head. She just might die from this.

"I should just kill you on the spot. But orders are orders." The man spoke. He released her causing her to tumble to the ground as she tried to regain her breath. Her hands were rubbing her bruised neck and all she could do was stare up at this unfamiliar man. "You've done well brother, now leave!" Blaise nodded his head and looked back down at Hermione who raised her eyes at him. He looked at her sympathetically and sorry but then quickly his eyes shut and he turned around leaving her alone with this man.

"Get up you silly girl!" The man screamed. "We have no time for this rubbish." The man didn't wait for her to get up. He clawed his hands in her arms and dragged her up then slapped her hard across the face. She felt the heat of the pain on her cheek almost knock her off her feet and tears began to come down her eyes.

"I can kill you right now if you don't stop that infuriating crying." The man said coldly. Hermione brushed the tears away and tried her best to not look up into his eyes.

"W-who the hell are you?!" Hermione screamed. The man gave her a wide smirk before punching her hard in her gut causing her to fly five feet and hurl to the ground.

"Do not speak mudblood." He hissed. He then took his wand out and before she could hear his words, everything became pitch black. She could no longer tell where the man was or what was going on. She knew very well that he was a death eater and that Blaise of all bloody people brought her to him. She also knew now that she should have listened to Draco and stayed outside the door. For this man would not have tried to walk through the school. But all that was pointless to think about. All that mattered now was to find away out of this mess.

Hermione tried to raise herself off the ground, but her stomach hurt so badly she had to sit down. She hoped that there were no bruises. She began to search for her wand in the pocket of her cloak. She had forgotten about her wand the whole time because she was in too much of a shock to really think logically.

"Drop it!" A unearthly cold voice spoke. Hermione out of fear dropped her wand automatically to her side and cursed under her breath for letting her wand go so easily. She then tried to determine where the voice came from knowing that it wasn't the death eater who took her.

"Usually I'd ask for a name, but since you are a petty little filthy mudblood you will just experience pain as my kind gesture for hospitality." Quickly a light began to beam, making her aware that she was no longer in the Astronomy tower. The floor was cold and the walls were damp bricks. She looked up at the footsteps walking towards her.

"Accio wand!" Suddenly her wand were in the hands of non other then Voldemort. He came close to Hermione, watching her with such anger and before she had the chance to think he kicked her in the face causing her head to snap back and blood tickle down her lip and cheek. She could also taste the blood in her mouth. Yes, there was pain but all she could think about was the monster in front of her.

"Welcome to your lovely home. Do enjoy the stay for it will only be in a matter of twenty four hours when I get to celebrate your death." Voldemort hissed then kicked her stomach in the exact same place were the death eater had punched her. She gave a loud groan in utter pain then he left. She heard a few clattering sounds of bars and chains. That's when she knew she was locked inside. Hermione lay there for the next thirty minutes trying to regain her strength and energy. From the position she was in she could tell that she was in a small room of some sort with one small door that had bars, making it impossible to squeeze through.

"Are you okay?" A small sweet voice spoke behind Hermione. She sat up and turned her head to see who had just spoken to her.

"W-who's there?" Hermione stuttered. Very slowly, a person came out of the shadows towards Hermione. It was a girl no older then herself, she seemed to have just as many bruises as Hermione. Her blonde hair stuck to her sides, she had dark blue dirty jeans and a black sweater. She looked just as confused and hurt as Hermione.

"Me..my name is Ann." The girl replied.

"My names Hermione. What are you doing here?"

"Same as you, sacrifice." Ann replied coolly. It seemed that none of this was bothering her, like was meant to happen.

"Aren't-aren't you scared?" Hermione asked startled.

"What's the point? We're going to die."

"There is a point! We can't let them kill us." Hermione said a bit irritated at this young girl.

"And how are we going to save ourselves? We have no wands." Ann said dryly. Hermione knew then that this girl was a witch just like herself.

"Who brought you here?" Hermione asked.

"A Death Eater."

"Same here." Hermione said then got up slowly towards the bars, there had to be a way out of the mess she was in.

"Don't touch that." Ann warned.

"Why?"

"Spell. It will electrify you and send you flying back." Ann said spreading her hands to show Hermione what happened. Ann's hands were a bit red probably from the burn.

"Thanks." Hermione said sitting back down on the ground hugging her knees. "I hope Harry finds out soon. God, I wish Harry would come and save me." Hermione whispered.

"Harry? Do you mean the famous Harry Potter?" Ann asked with eyes wide open in interest.

"Yes, my best friend." Hermione replied.

"He is? Oh, and how do you suppose he'll find out."

"I don't know." Hermione answered truthfully. For all she knew Harry could be at the Quidditch pitch or hanging out with Ron and the rest of the guys. Then she remembered Draco and how stupid she was to have not listened to him. But then again it was all his fault, why couldn't he tell her the reason why she shouldn't mess with Blaise? If he had then this wouldn't have happened. Hermione sat there for another ten minutes of silence, trying to devise a plan but was really hard.

"Do you go to Hogwarts?" Ann asked after a while, Hermione jumped a little startled by her voice. Hermione put her head down on her knees.

"Yes."

"Oh, I'm a healer in training." Ann said. Hermione was surprised by this because the girl looked too young to have finished schooling.

"That's nice. I want to become an Auror."

"So you can kick some death eater ass?" Ann asked. Hermione gave a small laugh and nodded her head.

"How long have you been here?" Hermione asked.

"Since yesterday. But tomorrow is the day they'll kill us. I over heard from one of the death eaters when he was here."

"Where are we?"

"Dungeon."

"Located where?"

"I have no clue."

"Great, just fucking great." Hermione said sarcastically and curled tighter around herself.

"We might as well get some rest." Ann said as she began to lean against the dark corner of a wall and closed her eyes.

"I can't sleep. How can you sleep at a time like this?" Hermione asked.

"Because there's nothing better to do. What do you suppose we do? Talk about boys and makeup?" Ann said opening her eyes slowly.

"It's better then sleeping. What if a death eater comes in here and hurts us while we're asleep or they discuss important matter that might be helpful to us?"

"Then you listen. I've been here all day and I need to sleep. I'm dead tired." Ann said quietly.

"You sound like Ron." Hermione said remembering how Ron would rather sleep then do hard work.

"Who's Ron? Your boyfriend?" Ann asked.

"No, my other best friend." Hermione answered.

"Oh, do you think they'll notice your missing?"

"Ron will notice by midnight, Harry probably by tomorrow morning and if Malfoy decides to tell them of this fucked up mess we're in then maybe they'll know all of this before tonight. But I doubt it. Malfoy would never go to Harry."

"Why not?"

"Because they hate each other. They're enemies."

"Is Malfoy your boyfriend?"

"No." Hermione said giving a small unexpected blush. Ann noticed this and crawled over to sit next to Hermione.

"You like him, don't you?" Ann said. "It's okay, you can tell me. It's not like I know any of them." Hermione bit her lip and looked down at her feet. How could she answer that? She did like Malfoy, sometimes. It was confusing because for every thing she liked about him there was something she hated about him.

"No, I don't like him. Let's not talk about boy's right now. I just pray Malfoy tells Harry and Ron. But I have a feeling he won't."

"Doesn't he want you to be safe? If he knows you're missing he should tell. Does he like you?"

"No! That's impossible. He's a git, a major asshole. And he might be the one who kills me tomorrow! I hate him!" Hermione said angrily.

"Don't worry, I know how you feel. My boyfriend is the one who turned me in." Ann said softly.

"Oh my god! How could he do such a thing?"

"Because he tricked me! That's how."

"I'm sorry about that." Hermione said sincerely. Ann gave her a smile for the first time. They both sat there next to each other until they ended up curling on the cold stone floor to sleep. Ann at least fell asleep, Hermione couldn't. Too much was on her mind and as much as she hated Draco for the shit he pulled on her, all she could do was think of him. Hermione shut her eyes and forced herself to get at least a fifteen minute nap. She was a light sleeper, so no matter what happened she would wake up quickly.

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Hermione woke up later to the sound of footsteps walking into the cellar. She didn't know how long she had slept, or what time and day it was. She sat up straight and tried to figure out who it was that was coming for them. Then the person entered the dungeon they were locked in and Hermione noticed it was one of the death eaters. The hood was once again over sized making it hard for her to see their face. She just wanted to die, what if they decided to torture her for fun? Hermione began to move backwards until her back hit the cold wall.

The man leaned down next to her and touched her knee with one hand and pulled his hood down with the other. "Granger?" The male voice spoke. Upon hearing Draco Malfoy's voice, Hermione jumped to embrace him, he may be an enemy but he was a familiar face. It felt so right to be in his arms, it was nothing like hugging Ron or Harry but that was besides the point. His arms came around Hermione and she knew that this was just wrong. She suddenly jerked back pulling his arms away from her.

"I can't believe you! I hate you!" Hermione yelled and slapped his arm away from her. "You could have told me! You could have-"

"-shut up Granger! Don't you dare try to blame me for this! I have my reasons." Draco yelled over her voice causing her to listen. But that got her so angry, what did he mean it wasn't his fault?!

"Of course its your bloody fault! If you had told me it was Blaise..I wouldn't be here." Hermione screamed.

"I can't go back on a word! Blaise is my best friend, you have to understand that."

"Understand? UNDERSTAND? He lead me to a death eater who brought me to god knows where and you want me to understand?" Hermione yelled furiously.

"If it was Potter or Weasley, you would have done the same."

"No! No! Don't you dare try to compare my friends to yours! I would never have agreed if they were trying to do something as horrible as this!"

"What the hell did you expect me to do? Tell you that Blaise will bring you here? You can't expect something like that when you know how long we hated each other!"

"So why did you warn me!"

"Because as much as I hate you, it was wrong and if I couldn't tell on him at least I could warn you!"

"By using that stupid message? Those who meddle with the snake will die a poisoned death. How the hell was that helpful?"

"For someone who's a smart ass, I'd expect you to know! But no, you had to ignore it and then you just had to fall for Blaise. After all the times I told you not to mess with him!"

"Did I fucking know! If you at least hinted it or something-"

"-I did and what was rather stupid of you if I might add was you didn't listen to me when I told you to not go anywhere!"

"So he did his part." Hermione stated calmly knowing exactly what was next for her, so why make it drag?

"What?" Draco asked a bit confused.

"He did his part, now-" She looked down at his wand which he held on to tightly. She then took his hand in hers, the one that held his wand and she pointed the wand to her chest. "-now do your part. Kill me you sick bastard! Just fucking kill me right now and get it over with!"