It's the way the world works

Draco was still upset. He had stopped crying. He couldn't believe he had led Hermione right into a trap. It was all his fault if he hadn't been so stupid. If he had just told her right from the beginning about his tattoo. But there was no way to save her though. Andre had taken out all the bits in the book which would be useful for him. He didn't know how to take back what he had done.

He looked up and saw that the door was gone! He scrambled to his feet and felt over the bare stretch of wall where the door was. Nothing. He couldn't feel anything. He took out his wand and muttered a couple of spells so the door would reveal itself. It didn't work.

Draco felt so lost and alone. How was he ever going to find her? She was the smart one, she was the one who would be able to figure everything out. But she wasn't with him. She was with Andre.

Saying that sentence made Draco snap out of his state of self pity. She was ALONE with him. And he was just standing around, when he could be doing anything to her. He would have to find him somehow. Draco sat down on the floor again and thought, he thought about his child hood days with Andre, trying to remember anything about him that would help him find Hermione.

Hermione felt something pulling on her robe sleeve. Where was she. The thing on her arm kept pulling with more urgency. She opened her eyes and saw . . . Draco!

"Draco?" Hermione cried "Is that really you?" Draco looked down on her as she was lying on the floor.

"Yes it's me" he said. "I've come to get you" Hermione's eyes shined with tears.

"You really do care about me" She said, "But where Andre? I can't remember anything about what happened. Where are we? How did I get here? How did you get here?" She asked in puzzlement.

"Shh." Draco said soothingly "Everything is going to be ok" He motioned for her to go over to him and she struggled to her feet. But just as she took some steps something held her back. She looked around in some puzzlement and found that she had chains round her wrists and ankles. She looked up into Draco's face to ask him if he could undo the chains. But when she looked up it wasn't Draco she was looking at . . . it was Andre.

"How did you do that?" She asked, curiosity overcoming her fear.

"I'm a shape shifter! I can change into anything I want!" He took a step towards her., "I thought it would be a laugh to see what you would do!"

"Don't come any closer" She screamed. "You're wicked! You're really evil! Why are you dong all this! Why are you doing this to me! I haven't done anything wrong" She sobbed.

"That's the way the world works! I need to get back at Draco. The only thing I can do is to kill you." Hermione opened her mouth to say why, but he cut her off. "Because you are the thing he cares about most! Plus that and I have to fulfil that love prophesy that he has started!"

"The what . . ?" Hermione began. Then her eyes went wide and she uttered a small oooh. "The prophesy to do with the angel and the devil! The tattoo that's on my back! But what's it got to do with me and Draco?" Hermione asked, her forehead puckered in a frown. She was sitting down again and huddled at the bottom of the wall in a heap.

"For a smart ass you really aren't all that clever at the moment!" He said gleefully. She was still looking at him in some puzzlement so he went on. "There is a prophesy where a girl and a boy from Hogwarts will be bound together as soul mates for eternity . . ." He explained how her and Draco were the girl and the boy and how they came to be that way. He didn't tell her the end of the prophesy where she was going to die. He would wait to see if she would ask that question herself.

"Yes that all makes sense" She said, "But what has it got to do with me? So what if we're soul mates. Why does this prophesy have anything to do with you and why do you have to fulfil the prophesy?" He looked at her with a glare full of wickedness and triumph!

"Because, if a lover has their love denied then they have till the next full moon for the other person to say that they love them or they will die on the night of the first full moon!" He laughed maliciously at her and watched in glee as she put her hands to her mouth in fright and the tears start to fall. She shrank even further away from him.

"But . . . but . . . but tonight . . . tonight is . . .is the first . . ." Hermione stuttered

"First full moon!" Andre finished off for her. Once she heard those words she fainted.

A wave of loneliness and fear overcame Draco as he was searching through his memories for some clue of where Hermione might be hidden. It was ironic that he had only just realised how much he loved her, when she was not there to know it too. Thoughts of Hermione and him kept interrupting his thoughts, and every time he allowed himself to think about her he felt his heart throb, and knew that he regretted everything nasty he said to her. How he wished he could give her a hug. Just something simple. Perhaps stoke her hair. Tell her how much he loved her. He might not be able to do that now if Andre had his way.

His face went steely and cold. He felt his chin rise in determination and defiance as he thought about Andre and what he had done to him. How he threatened Hermione, how he had tricked Draco into starting off the prophesy. He would get Hermione back! He lay back on the floor and tried to get comfy. He would start by going through all the places that Andre had been. Perhaps he would remember something. He closed his eyes and began to think.

Hermione was in a bleak landscape, with a damp fog pressing in around her, she could see foggy shapes about her, but what they were she could not tell. She must be dreaming! Why was she here? Just as she was thinking how familiar this was becoming to her, she realised one of the black shapes were moving . . . towards her! All she could do was wait and see what or who it was.

"Hermione!" A voice shouted. She knew that voice . . . but it couldn't possibly be . . . could it? Would he be that careless?

"Hermione!" The voice shouted again. "Are you there?" Then the black shape collided with her.

Strong arms pulled her into a tight embrace, and she could feel all the protectiveness and love coming from the hug. The person pulled back and Hermione could see him for the first time.

"Draco!" Was all she could say as she hugged him back hard.

"Hermione we don't have much time." He looked deeply into her eyes and opened his mouth to say something.

"Why? Why don't we have much time? What's going on? How did this all happen?" She asked, again curiosity making her ask questions.

"The spell of Andre's is wearing off. The one that connect us! We need to hurry before he realises and stops it completely. That's why there isn't much to the landscape, even now it's fading. Look!"

As Hermione looked passed him she saw that the landscape was fading, darkness was overtaking it, there was almost nothing left.

"Hermione!" He said again, drawing her attention to him. "Hermione I need to tell you something before it wears off completely!" As Hermione watched his image began flickering, disappearing then coming back. Andre must have realised and was trying to stop it!

"Hermione, I don't know what good it will do but what I need to say is that I . . . That I . . . That I" his form flickered, "You"

"What? I can't hear you! What did you say?" Hermione asked desperately, panic starting to sink into her, she could sense that somehow it was very important!"

"Hermione I" He began before he faded completely.

"Nooooooo!" She screamed.

Hermione woke with a start on the cold dank floor with Andre standing over her smirking, with a look of triumph and knowing in his eyes. As if he knew something she didn't. She took one look at him and burst into tears and buried her head into her arms.

"Nooooo!" Draco yelled as he woke with a start on the cold concrete floor of the Great Hall. He had been so close to telling her. He even said but she didn't hear it! He was going to kill Andre! He felt Hermione wake up with a start. The connection between must be having a last burst of strength. But before it faded he heard a faint cry of despair and pain.

He jumped to his feet and began pacing to help him think. Lying down wasn't very good as he went straight to sleep. Where did he last see Andre? He wouldn't be able to take Hermione out of the castle. It was impossible, there was all sorts of spells to protect the students, and Andre wasn't that powerful. Where could he be?

Draco had already thought about him hiding her in a dream but, it was too much like that muggle movie he had seen about a guy he killed kids in their dreams. Andre wouldn't base his grand master plan on a muggle film. Where could he be?

Suddenly Draco stopped in the middle of his pacing. No. Andre wouldn't be that stupid. Would he? Would he seriously think that Draco wouldn't be able to figure it out? Of course. It all made sense, it was where he, Draco, had first felt for Hermione, first got jealous over her. It was where Andre had first met Hermione! But, still, Andre wouldn't be that stupid. He was bound to have all sorts of spells waiting for him. Well it was worth a try.

Draco set off for the room of requirement, going to fight his enemy, going to declare his love and going to save his Damsel In Distress!

"Please will you stop crying? Please? Stop crying! You're giving me a headache!" Andre moaned, holding his hands over his ears to block out Hermione's wailing.

"No! I will not stop crying just because you want me to! Why should I do a thing you say? You're the one who's kidnapped me and is going to be the one to kill me! Why should I make life easy for you?" Hermione shouted at him in rage. All the hurt and fear that she was feeling she directed into making her last hours as difficult for Andre as possible. "I hate you! I hate you! Draco is going to kill you when he finds me, and I can't wait." She turned her back on him and faced the wall. Probably a very dangerous thing to do when the person you're turning your back on is a psychopathic killer!

"I really don't know what you see in him you know" Andre said, trying to engage her in some sort of conversation. Why was he doing that, Hermione thought.

"Hello I asked you a question! Answer me!" She shouted at her. HE strode over to her and turned her roughly around.

"Why? Why should I talk to you? Why should I tell you why I love him?" She yelled in his face. He still had a tight grip on her arms but she managed to hold one up and slap him hard around the face. He let go of her with fury in his eyes, he really did look murderous.

"Do that to all the guys you like do you? Didn't you do that to Draco in your third year!" He asked.

"No, he was pissing me off . . . how did you know?" She asked, why did he seem to know everything about her?

"Because when Draco came home that summer that was all he could talk about. It was Granger this and Granger that. It annoyed me. That's when I first began to think that he liked you." He explained. "And I want you to talk to me because I am going to be the last person you ever talk to, so you might as well make the best of it." He went and sat next to her. She eyed him warily and shifted away from him slightly. He really was unhinged.

"How do I die?" She whispered, afraid to know the answer but needing to know. She looked him straight in the eyes waiting to see what his reaction was, but he was emotionless, there was a wall behind his eyes.

"I'm going to stab you. With this knife." He twirled his fingers and a knife appeared out of thin air, it was a small dagger, it was made from silver and the handle was of a dragon with red rubies for eyes. She looked at the blade and was relieved to see that it was extremely sharp.

"Oh. How . . . how long do I have left?" She asked, kind of glad that he was answering her questions and kind of sickened by them.

"That depends on when your lover gets here" He answered smoothly as if he was talking about the weather. She gave him a look. "Oh, yes he'll be able to figure it out, it depends how long it takes him, I have a charm on the door which will give em a signal when someone is trying to get in" She followed where he was looking and saw in one of the dark corners of the room a door.

"Where are we then?" She asked again. "Are we still in Hogwarts?"

"Yes we're still in Hogwarts. I wouldn't have been able to get you out of here, so I had to get everyone else out instead. We're in the room of requirement."

"How did you get everyone to leave then?" She asked, curiosity briefly blocking out her fear.

"I learnt some stuff from the Dark Lord before he was killed. He taught me how to brain wash a whole crowd of awake people. So last night, I knew that you and Draco were asleep as you were both trying to stay awake and when I was sure you were both in a deep sleep so nothing could disturb you, I made a commotion. Just so that I was sure that everyone was awake. Then I cast my spell and made them all believe it was time to go home. So off they all went. IT will be a good surprise when they get home and the spell wears off!" He finished, looking arrogant, about how his plan had worked out.

"Why did you come and see me the other night?" She asked suddenly. "When I slammed the door in your face and told you to leave me alone and go."

"I had to see that you had truly changed and I knew that you would act that way if you had changed, and I was right!" He told her smugly.

"But how do you know so much about me?" She enquired.

"I had to learn everything about Draco's most precious thing so that meant knowing how you acted and . . ." He stopped talking as a booming sound met their ears. Andre smiled evilly. "Enough questions for now. IT sounds like Lover Boy has arrived!"

He jumped up and dragged her to her feet and spun her in front of him with the dagger pressed against her throat. From the angle at which it was pointing it pierced her skin on her throat slightly and she could see the handle clearly for the first time. It had an inscription on it: Draco Malfoy!

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A/N: What will happen next? Who knows? I do! Hiya everyone! Please review once you have read. I am sorry but I have to end this exciting chapter with some bad news. I can not continue this story . . . until the 17 June! I am so sorry but I have very important exams coming up, and what with revision and course work I must have done I will not have time for this story! But after June 16 I will be all yours for like 3 months, so I will hopefully be able to finish this story! Luv Water Demon xXx