(A/N): Okay, I know i didn't get 20 reviews but I'm REALLY bored right now and I'm getting REALLY tired of waiting for those reviews. So now it's going to be an annual update type of thing. You'll now get one chapter per week. Review are still expected though...lol! And still no flamers, please! Well, here ya go...drum-roll...CHAPTER FOUR!

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Attack from Within

Chapter Four

Harry and Hermione had just gotten back to Hogwarts from Hogsmeade. They walked up to the castle, holding hands, and then all the way up to the Gryffindor common room to work on their mounds of homework. That was when Ron walked in and, not saying a word to either of them. Harry and Hermione just rolled their eyes and returned to their work. "Well, I'm going to bed." Hermione said, standing up and walking over and kissing him on the forehead.

"Goodnight, Hermione," Harry said sleepily, "I think I will, too!" Harry slumped up the stone steps groggily, changed, and hoped into bed. Naturally, Ron was already asleep. Harry turned over on his side and. . . . . .

He was in a very big, dark room. In the center of the room was a single ray of light falling on a black object. Harry strained his eyes to see what it was. At first he thought it was just a mound of earth but when he took a harder look it was. . .HERMIONE! He had started to run toward her, but he wasn't fast enough. Before he could get there, he could see a hooded figure standing over top of her. All of a sudden to figures had come on either side of him and grabbed his arms. At that moment, the hooded figure lowered its wand to Hermione and in a high, cold voice said: "CRUCIO!" Hermione let out a scream of pain and lay on the floor writhing in pain. Harry try to shout to her but no sound came from his mouth. It once again lowered its wand but this time it shouted: "AVAD KEDAVRA!" Harry felt his voice return to him.

"NOOOOOOOOO!" Harry shouted. Harry saw Hermione look at him desperately, her hand reaching for him, a tear in her eye. Harry tried reaching for her but the figures holding him started dragging him back out of the room. Harry saw Hermione's body fall limp on cold, stone floor. . . .

"HARRY! Hermione was standing over top of him, shaking his shoulders. Harry sat straight up in his four-poster, everyone was staring at him. His body was sticky from cold sweat. "Were you dreaming," Hermione asked, "what about? Harry rubbed his forehead, it was searing with pain.

"It. . .It's nothing." Harry said lamely. "Hermione. . .be careful, okay!" Hermione nodded and started to ask why when Harry put his finger to her lips and said: "Please." Eventually everyone had dressed and went down to the Great Hall for breakfast. Harry started to leave but Hermione pulled him aside, sat him on the bed, pulled the curtains, and said: "Harry, what was it that you dreamed anyway?"

"Well it was about you and. . .Voldemort. . .he. . .killed you!" Harry said rather quickly.

"Harry," Hermione began, "Voldemort is miles away and he can't get into the castle while Dumbledore's around!"

"I know, it just worry's me!" Harry looked up at Hermione, there was a tear in her eye.

"Harry, I'll be fine!" Harry looked into her dark brown eyes, her brown hair falling into her eyes. They inched closer. Harry could see every tear clinging to her eyelashes. Their lips touched in a fiery sensation of passion. Harry put his arms around her waist and she put her arms around his neck. They just laid their kissing, talking, and cuddling.

Harry woke up to Hermione's arm around his waist. He looked at the clock: 11:30 p.m.! "Hermione," Harry shouted, "we've missed our classes!" They both jumped up and grabbed their school bags and rushed out toward their classes. They had only missed their Transfiguration and Charms classes and when they got there, everyone was already at lunch or outside. Hermione said she was going to the Library to do some studying and Harry said he'd be out on the grounds.

Harry walked out into the blazing sun and went and sat down by the Beech Tree just enjoying the sunshine. Harry had sat there when he looked at his watch and noticed it was once again time for classes. Harry headed toward his next lessons, Potions and DADA, but strangely, Hermione nor Ron was there and Harry didn't see them for the rest of the afternoon. At around 2:00 he went up to the common room to take a small nap before Divination but when he reached the dorm, Hedwig zoomed into the room with a letter in her beak. Harry took the letter, opened it and read:

Harry, You know the place where I am.

Everyone doesn't know.

Low down in the bowls of the school.

Parseltongue will let it show

 Hermione

Harry read this through three times. So apparently he knew where it and mostly everyone doesn't. It's in the bowls of the school and parseltongue will show the entrance. She had to be in the Chamber of Secrets. Harry just noticed something, the first letters of each line spell out HELP! He couldn't wait any longer. He rushed out of the dormitories and headed toward Moaning Myrtles lavatory. When he got there, he heard Moaning Myrtle weeping from one of the stalls. He quickly found the correct sink and said something in parseltounge which revealed the secret passage to the Chamber of Secrets. The sinks separated and an opening appeared in the floor. Harry remembered that in his second year that the Chamber of Secrets had caved in but there was still a small room that he remembered was filled with bones, and with that in mind he jumped.

Harry was sliding down the long pipe that lead to the Chamber of Secrets. Harry felt like he had been sliding for hours when he slid onto the cold stone floor that was littered with bones. Harry looked around to see where Hermione was but saw nothing. Harry climbed through the pipe that lead to the Chamber of Secrets. He knew it was blocked off by fallen rocks but he had to look somewhere, but Harry was surprised to what was in front of him! It had appeared that someone one had blown the rocks away and exposing the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets! Harry climbed up onto the opening and walked down the damp corridor lined with snake statues. Everything was dark except for the lone ray of light in the main chamber. He thought he saw a black figure lying on the floor, and when he strained his eyes harder he saw golden, brown hair flowing down it's back. That's when Harry realized. . .it was Hermione! Harry ran the rest of the way and when he got there he just dropped to his knees in anguish. "Who could have done this?" Harry thought. Harry reach toward Hermione and grabbed her shoulder to turn her over on her back, but when he did he didn't see his love's face but. . .Ron! "Hey, Harry!" Ron said. Ron stood up and pulled a golden, brown wig off. Your gullible! Send a fake distress signal and you come running. Ron raised his wand and pointed it into a dark corner and shouted: "MOBILICORPUS!" Harry heard a soft whoosing noise issue from the corner but saw nothing. Ron kept his wand raised and said: "Accio Hermione!" That's when Harry saw it, Hermione was hovering about five feet off the ground and she was bound in ropes. "Nice isn't it," Ron began, "I learned the Incarcerous Charm just for the occasion!"

"Ron, let her go!" Harry said hotly.

"Can't do that Harry, if I can't have Hermione nobody can!" After Ron had said this, he raised his wand to Hermione throat.

"You wouldn't kill her, Ron!"

"I guess you should know. . .I'm not Ron. . ." Ron pulled his wand from his robes, gave himself two quick taps on the head and right before Harry's eyes Ron had turned into Voldemort! "Well. . .I should get back to work destroying what you love most, that is unless you give yorself up . . ." Voldemort once again raised his wand at Hermione and said . . ."Avada Ke. . ."

"No," Harry shouted, "take me instead!"

"Now your coming to your senses. . "

"Harry, NO," Hermione shouted, "you need to save yourself!" Voldemort had already grabbed Harry around the neck, after releasing Hermione, pushed him against the wall and wrapped him in ropes from his wand.

He raised his wand toward Harry's forehead and said, "A-V-A-D-A K-E-D-A-V-R-A!"

Harry suddenly saw a flash of green light, he heard Hermione scream in the background and a high, cold cackle and then. . . .darkness. . . . .

As soon as Voldemort had completed his dark deed, He had vanished in a split seconds time. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Hermione screamed as she ran toward Harry's limp body. She knelt over him, her heart swimming with emotions. She felt tears welling up in her eyes. She couldn't believe it. . .he was. . .gone! As she was kneeling there looking into Harry's blank eyes a single tear dropped from her eye and landed on his lips. Hermione then leaned down and kissed him on the lips. For a moment it seemed as if they were locked together at the lips, but then she felt a soft breathe on her cheek, and did she feel his chest moving? He was alive. . .Harry was alive!

"Where am I?" Harry said lamely, rubbing his head.

"The Chamber of Secrets.."

"Why are we down here?" Harry said quickly.

"I'll explain everything!" Hermione helped Harry to his feet and on the way back to the entrance of the chamber, she explained everything. Once they got back to the entrance they started to call Harry's broom to go back to the dorms but they decided to just sit and talk for a while. They had been talking for over three hours when Harry and Hermione fell asleep. . . . . . . . . .

When Harry and Hermione woke up and they looked at Harry's watch they saw that it was 3:00 a.m. They considered sneaking back up to their dorm's but they figured Filch would catch them out of bed and give them detention so they decided to spend the rest of the night in the Chamber till morning and they could run up to the dorms grab their books and head off to classes. Where they had just woken up there was no way of going directly back to sleep so they just sat and cuddled together and kissing every now and then. "I knew you would never leave me, Harry!" Hermione said quietly, laying her head in his lap.

"I made a promise didn't I?" Harry said proudly. He leaned down and kissed her on the forehead and she cuddled closer to Harry.

"Harry, do you think we'll get married, after Hogwarts of course? Hermione said hopefully. For a moment there was just silence but then Harry finally broke the silence.

"I hope, that would a dream come true!" Harry said. Hermione raised up off of Harry's lap, looked him in the eye's, rubbed her hand through his hair and kissed him. As they were kissing Harry opened his eye's for one brief second and saw a tear streaming down her cheeks but he didn't stop to see if she was O.K. because he knew it was more or less out of happiness because he had sacrificed his life for hers or sadness from the fact that she had almost lost him. After they had pulled apart they just stared at each other for a long while before either of them said anything.

"You know Harry, we could do anything we wanted to down here and no one would ever see us or find out!" Hermione said quietly. Harry looked at her and then both of them got a small smirk on their face.

"What kind of anything" Harry said slyly

"Let me show you. . ." Hermione said. After Hermione had said this she sat up in front of Harry and put her hand on his chest and pushed him back onto the cold, stone floor. She then climbed to where she was over top of him and pulled him off of the ground by the tie to where his head was a few inches off of the floor and gave him a small, passionate tap on the lips. Harry put his arms around her waist as she started to undress, GOD she was beautiful. This was going VERY well! Harry wondered how far she would actually let him go.

I think I'll end this chapter RIGHT here...Mwahahahaha!

(A/N): Tell me what ya think, send me LOTS of reviews, no flames, please! Chapter five should be posted by next Friday, if not, don't be mad at me...I'm probably just really busy!