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Chapter 16: That led me straight to you

The night had come, and the weather had grown colder. The wind rustled a few leaves as a weary Draco lifted his head from the ground.

His first thoughts were how did he get out here and why in the bloody hell did he have such a bad headache. But soon the pain, the plan, and the strange 'Stupefy' came back to him in an instant. Looking around he found no Hermione and knew exactly what had happened to them both.

"Oh gods, Hermione." Ignoring the pain, Draco rushed to his feet, flew to the entrance of Hogwarts, and down to the dungeons to find his uncle.

He ran into the room, and unlocked the door to Severus's private rooms. "Uncle, uncle?" The call soon found its listener as he saw his Uncle sleeping in a chair.

"Uncle, please wake up." The plea woke up the man, who immediately reached for his wand, but loosened his grip when he noticed his nephew.

"What is it, Draco?" Severus had said that a lot harsher then he had intended to. He caught his breath a bit after waking from just another nightmare.

"Please, it's Hermione, she is gone." Draco paced before the fireplace.

"And why do I care, I am no longer the one in her life." The bitterness apparent in his voice.

Draco heard this and came right up to his Uncle, almost nose to nose. "If you really believe that, then you are a greater fool then I have ever believed."

Severus sighed, knowing he could not let Draco leave in this state. "Ok, what is it? Where is Miss. Granger?" But Draco just went back to pacing trying to decide the best way to tell this story. "And, Draco, if you do not stop pacing, Miss. Granger or not, I will throw you out of here faster then you could imagine."

Draco glared at his uncle, but quickly sat down on the couch. "Ok, see when she ran from the Great Hall yesterday…" Severus nodded his head remembering the evil look in her eyes. "She went up to the Astronomy Tower and waited for Harry to follow. I did too of course, wanting no harm to come to her, but she really did not need any protection." A bitter laugh came up as Draco recalled how Harry had looked afterwards. "I don't know exactly what happened, but about an hour and a half after I went to search for her, I found her up in the Tower her hair blowing in the wind and blood streaked across her face mixing with her tears." Severus could not even imagine Hermione like that. All he thought was her hair careless and free, her smile lighting up the room and…

"Hey, are you going to pay attention to me or not because I know that you are worried for her. So if you wish to help her then listen to me." Draco looked at his uncle impatiently and saw the look of worry in his uncle's eyes.

"Please Draco continue." A hand waved Draco on still. The story came out again and he tried to think of where Harry may have taken Hermione. After Draco finished he flopped down in the chair and regained himself.

"And you think Miss. Granger is where and with whom?" Severus broke the uneasy silence as he started up the pacing over by his desk, where he could better think.

"Come on, Uncle, a spurred lover is not lying where he was earlier today. Then both I and Hermione where knocked out with one powerful spell. Of course, she is with Harry. How could I have not known that he would seek revenge?" He knew that the blame should be squarely set upon his shoulders. Draco sighed heavily and rubbed the back of his neck.

At the mention of Harry, Severus stopped his pacing and his thoughts slammed to a complete halt. His words came out at a very strict and harsh whisper, forcing Draco to lean forward quite a bit out of his chair. "Draco, you will start from the beginning. You will tell me everything you know, and everything she told you. I want nothing left out or the consequences will be immense."

And so once again Hermione's story was told to another person. Severus kept his back to his nephew the whole time and couldn't help but smile at the memories that flooded back to him. The 'incident' came and the smile was ripped off his face. Then her trip to that dreaded house. Soon though the dark turn to the story came and Severus couldn't even contain his anger when Hermione had told Draco how Harry had beat her and how she defended him still.

"Uncle, we need to find her soon, or I fear she will not be alive if we find her."

"When, Draco, when her find her. I know where that little fool has gone, the only place in the school where he alone could get." Draco eyes flashed as the knowledge of the hiding place came up. He and his uncle nodded heads and dashed off from the dark dungeons off to find Ginny Weasley.

Harry's cold laughter echoed throughout the caves under Hogwarts.

"My dear, dear Hermione, did you really think that you could get away that easily from me." Harry walked up to her his eyes glinting more maliciously with every passed step.

"Harry, please this isn't you, this isn't you." Hermione tried to get through to the old Harry that was there, but his eyes just went blank at her pleas.

"Isn't me? ISN'T ME?" His screams made Hermione flinch just a bit. "Oh, my love, those words do have a sentimental value to them, don't they. Yes, I do believe those are the words I used when you were beating me to a BLOODY PULP just a yesterday." A dangerous grin crossed his lips. "Oh how time does change things." He clapped his hands together viciously.

Hermione's face went white. 'Oh, god what is he going to do to me. Please Severus, find me soon!' She once again struggled against her restraints but Harry again laughed at her failing attempts.

"There is no way of getting out." He walked around the cave slowly extinguishing a few candles. Then almost reading her thoughts from just moments before he turned and shouting back at her. "And don't you worry, my love, there is no way that your precious Severus could get down here to us."

"How…how do you know about him?" Her voice quavered with trepidation.

"Please Hermione; do you really think me stupid? It was so obvious. Making eyes at him whenever he was in the Great Hall, calling his name in your sleep, asking for his protection when a nightmare would plague you." He stalked up to her closely, but with only a few candles lit in the huge cave, Hermione could barely tell were he was. His voice though gave him away.

"It is disgusting. You were always the one I could see myself with. But you just had to fall for that old bat, didn't you?" The look in Harry's eyes changed from loathing to pure revulsion. "Did you drug him Hermione? Cast a love spell on him when you realized that he could never love you? Please, Hermione, no one will ever love you but me!" Harry rashly pointed to himself and swung around so that he was on the left side of her face. "I am the one who will stay with you forever, even if you can not always remember your place." He quickly slapped her face which snapped her neck to the side hitting the hard wood where she was strapped.

"I did not drug him you, filthy fop! He can to me with open arms. Telling me how beautiful I am and how he would always be with me." Harry's breathing became heavy as Hermione spoke so harshly and with such distain. "You will never be half the man he is. You will hardly ever be a man."

"Stop it!" Harry whispered out as he clutched his ears, trying in vain not to hear her insults.

"Beating a woman, causing her to live in fear, just so you could force her to love you?" Hermione saw the effect she was having on him and hoped to the gods that this would buy more time.

"I said, stop it, now!" Harry was getting angrier and was beating his fists against the hard stone.

"You, Harry Potter, do make me sick. You are not a man!" This was spat at him as his fists became bloody and the stone fell off in little pieces.

"I am not a man? Not a man?" He ran to her and his seething hatred towards her was shouting in her face. "I, my dear, will show you who is a man!"

Hermione's eyes grew wide as she heard the rustle of clothing. She couldn't really make out what happened next but all she knew was that Harry was soon on top of her. He was viciously beating her, making her weak with the pain.

"This could have happened so much easier. We could have done this a long time ago, with so much love. But you had to ruin that. You and your damned love!" Harry ripped off Hermione's robes and began to shred the rest of her clothes.

"Damned boy, move faster or we will not make it." Snape was shouting back at Draco as they ran to the Gryffindor common room. Finally they reached the secret door and Draco was sent in to find Ginny.

"Ginny?" Draco called out and garnered a lot of odd looks from the rest of the house. Many frightened that he was in their common room but most were just mad. "Ginny, please come out we need your help!" Draco shouted once more and found Ginny rushing down the stairs.

"What, is it? What happened?" Ginny frantically tried to get an answer out of the flushed boy.

"There is no time, we need to go. Hermione is in trouble and you are the only one that can help us." Ginny's eyes grew wide and nodded her head.

The two of them rushed out of the door and with Professor Snape in the lead, ran down to the Girl's Bathroom, Moaning Myrtle's to be exact.

A/N: Hey guys I am so sorry that I haven't updated in so long and then when I do it's so short.

I have had such a writer's block with this story and then I got an idea for a one-shot so now that it's out I'm really hoping that I can get on with this story and think up new ideas.

Please if you have anything to contribute email me or tell me in a review, I have the worst case of writer's block that I just want to die.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed my last chapter.

And a huge thanks to my Beta, bloomgirl247, who really helped me with my one-shot. So read it and review you'll like it.

I promise the next chapter will not take as long to get out and will be longer. BYE!