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IMPORTANT A/N: Rightyho….I think it would be wise, (only if you wanted to of course) just to go back and read all the present chapters…there's not many…but they all hold clues to what happened to Hermione and where she is.
A tale to tell, Harry is named after, Keep the faith, Living on a Prayer and Bounce.
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Chapter 35: This Aint a Love song
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Hermione stared at herself in the mirror, or stared at where her reflection was supposed to be. It had been two hours since she had been taken, two hours since she saw Sirius, two hours since she'd seen herself.
She looked around the small room invisible tears forming in her eyes; she had no idea who had taken her and no idea where she was. The room was sparsely furnished a small bookcase along one wall, a box bed with a small threadbare blanket in one corner with two doors on either side of the room. She wandered to the door on the left and pulled it open revealing a small bathroom consisting of a shower and a toilet. She closed the door and made her way uncomfortably across the room, it was unnerving to be walking around when you couldn't see any part of your body. She reached the other door and swung it open; it appeared to lead out into a long corridor. Hermione, thinking there was no harm in wandering around if no one could see her stepped out of the room.
The next thing she knew she felt like she had a hundred knives stabbing her as she flew through the air across the room. Stunned and dazed Hermione gathered her wits and stood, looking cautiously around the room.
Cold laughter came from the direction the door.
"Malfoy," Hermione snarled unable to see her captor.
"Stupid, stupid Mudblood, do you really think you could just leave?"
Hermione could have sworn she actually heard the blonde Slytherin smirk.
"No, I believe you will be here for a long time, no one knows where you are; even you don't know where you are. Of course I'll pop in every so often just to make sure the dirty mudblood isn't dead. I'm sure you will become handy by the end of the war." He said as Hermione saw the door begin to close.
"Oh and I might warn you not to come near the door, nasty shock there and all," Hermione heard him warn before the door closed and the room was encased in silence.
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Sirius stood in Dumbledore's office, he was numb, he felt cold and clammy, and he felt somewhat empty like something was missing.
James and Remus stood on either side of their friend in support. Dumbledore had left with other members of the staff to search for Hermione, Lily was presently with other prefects gaining all the help they could, but Sirius knew it was all in vain.
"She's not here," he choked out startling his friends who had grown accustomed to the silence.
"Padfoot..." James started.
"No James, she's not here, I'd know if she was, she's gone," Sirius croaked out, his voice breaking with every word as another wave of tears threatened to spill.
Lily entered the room then, looking very pale and shaky, all three boys looked up as she stepped over the threshold hope flickering in their eyes as they waited for the redhead to speak.
"They…they tried….Sirius I'm sorry, they don't know where she is," Lily started to sob as she tried to control her emotions. "They…they tried a…a locator…spell…but, but…"
James moved to the girl as the tears started to spill and pulled her into an embrace, Lily openly crying in his arms.
Sirius just stood there looking blankly at Lily, his face had drained of all blood and he looked deathly pale. Suddenly his knees gave way and Remus caught him before he hit the floor.
"We'll find her Sirius, don't worry we'll find her." The werewolf promised holding his friend as he broke in two.
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November 1997
Remus looked over at his friend, and smiled sadly, they were presently crouched outside Malfoy Manor waiting for the signal for Moody to enter.
Sirius glanced at his fellow Marauder and returned the smile, a long lost hope flickering in the pale grey eyes as a promise made long ago was about to be fulfilled.
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A/N I know short Chapter but it was a spontaneous thing, this one wasn't supposed to exist, I just felt like writing it as a little go-between. Hope you all understand what's happened to Hermione, if you don't refer to the A/N at the top of the page.
