A/N…well, after a very rushed end of the school year and a great vacation to Myrtle Beach, I'm back! I got tons of summer homework stupid high school for AP History and Honors English, I have a total of 6 books to read before the end of the summer, with assignments for all of them. Joy. Anyway…how come no one has reviewed my "Forbidden Love" story?! I've had one review…come on people! Here's the next chapter, I hope you like it. I think things should start to look brighter, I have no clue what to write yet, but don't worry…things will work out.

Disclaimer…I own every single word of this story, but none of the characters and such…good enough for you?

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"Professor Malfoy?" Draco looked up to see a timid little girl standing in the doorway of the potions classroom. He knew her, but couldn't recall her name at the moment.

"Yes? Erm…"

"Destiny Harriman."

"Oh, yes. What can I help you with?" He had been grading quizzes for Snape, anything to get his mind off Hermione.

"I-I think I might know what happened to your wife." She said quietly, looking down at the floor and kicking dust around with her feet.

"W-what?" He stood up and went over to the little girl and knelt down. "Where, where's Hermione? Who took her?!" He grabbed the little girl's shoulders and shook her slightly. She screamed. "I-I'm sorry. I…I just need to find my wife. Would you like to go and tell Lupin and Ron what you know?"

Destiny shook her head and still looked down at the floor. "I…I found this in her office, I thought it might be helpful. Please, don't tell anyone I was in there. I was looking for her to…ask her a question, and this was laying by the door." She began to cry as she handed Draco the note.

"Thank you, I promise I won't speak a word, I'll just tell them someone laid it on my desk." He hugged her, he had become much softer toward children since Haley was born. Destiny dried her eyes, shook her head and ran out of the room. Draco stood up and read the note.

As I'm sure you've realized, your beloved wife is gone. She'll be killed within a week if you don't find her. So, don't rush. Because I'm such a nice man, I'll give you a hint, her screams won't be recognized as her own, just lost in the wind.

That was all it said. Draco ran out of the classroom and up to Hermione's office. Ron and Lupin looked up as he came in.

"What is it mate?!" Ron said, dragging Draco a chair over for him to sit. He was white as a ghost and panting something horrible. He handed the note to Ron and watched the redhead go white as he read it.

"What? What does it say?" Lupin and Harry crowded around the note that Ron was holding.

"Her screams won't be recognized as her own, just lost in the wind." Lupin repeated, perplexed.

"Where could she be?" Harry asked, sitting down behind Hermione's desk and reading the note again.

"Anywhere, but that clue has got to give us something. Lets think for a minute, why wouldn't her screams be recognized?" Lupin rationalized.

"Because there are too many that hers would just be lost in the wind?" Ron said. Looking up at Draco who had his face in his hands.

"But…where? The Shrieking Shack!" Lupin jumped up and the men all looked at him.

"That's got to be it! She's got to be there!" Harry said, running out of the office to go and find Dumbledore.

Ron walked over to Draco and helped him up out of the chair. "Don't worry mate, she'll be alright. We're bound to find her now."

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Hermione lay on her bed, her body was aching horribly, but she didn't remember why. Then she looked around the room and the memories came flooding back. Voldemort was going to kill Draco, Haley, and her, and she couldn't do a damned thing about it.

So, she turned over, buried her face into the pillow and cried. It was her weakest moment.

The door opened slightly and Hermione looked up. Peter stood in the doorway, a huge grin on his face.

"What do you bloody want?" She snapped.

"Master wishes to see you." He said devilishly. She rolled her eyes and stood up, it was no use resisting him anymore.

"Hermione." Voldemort smiled, it was Draco's smile though. Merlin, she hated that man with so much passion she felt as if she could kill him with her bare hands, if he wouldn't kill her first. He looked so much like Draco, and Draco was nothing like this.

"Yes?" She said coyly. Not blinking. Might as well be a smart ass, he's going to kill you anyway. She thought to herself.

"Please, have a seat. Make yourself…comfortable." Voldemort watched her as she walked over to the chair across from him and sat down.

"There, as bloody comfortable as sitting on a cloud." She said coolly.

"Now now, there's no point in being smart. It won't make me kill you any quicker or any less." He laughed again, she hated that laugh as much as she hated him. It was so cold it felt like someone had stabbed an icicle down her spine.

"What do you want with me?"

"Your husband is on his way, the note I meant for him to find, was found. He knows where you are now. I also have a sort of…proposition to make to you." It was now his turn to smile coyly.

"Really? Well I'm not interested."

"Oh, I really think you should be. It could involve you walking away from this alive, along with your daughter, along with a lifetime of protection for you and her both."

"And Draco?"

"He'll still be killed, but wouldn't you rather live than die with him?"

"I'd rather be dead than live a day without him." She said coldly.

"How…romantic." He hissed. "But, you're still going to help me, or else I'll make you watch him die, horribly and painfully." He laughed again, and Hermione could feel her heart begin to sink. There really was no way out of this.

"Never." She stood up from her chair and looked at Peter. "Take me back, I have no further things to talk about with this evil bastard."

Peter looked at Voldemort who just glared at Hermione and then nodded to his servant. "You'll regret that wench. You will."

"I don't regret you bloody bastard." She walked with Peter back to her room and sat down on the bed, fuming. How dare he even suggest letting her watch Draco die just so she could live. She'd rather burn in the depths of hell than to have that on her for the rest of her life.

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"Our first step has got to be to get back up from the ministry. If we know where Voldemort is, we'll have to kill him." Lupin said. They had formed the group in Hermione and Draco's common room and they began making their strategy.

"But we'd be putting Hermione in danger." Draco said. "I think we should just go as we are, less spells flying, the less chance that there is that Hermione would get hit."

"Voldemort will have death eaters there though." Ron sighed.

"He's right. If we get the entire ministry together, we might just have a fighting chance." Lupin agreed.

"Alright, so we get the ministry together, then what?" Draco looked around the group of men.

"Then…we attack and hope for the best. Merlin only knows what Voldemort is hiding, or has planned. We've got no better chances than that." Ron said, shaking his head unknowingly.

"Everything will be alright Draco. We've beat Voldemort for the last 7 years of our lives, I'm not about to give up now." Said Harry, patting Draco on the shoulder.

Draco nodded his head. "I'm going to go and spend some time with Haley. Write the ministry and let them know." The men just looked at him sadly as he stood up and went off to the nursery.

Fiona was in there feeding the baby as Draco walked in. She looked up and smiled warmly. "Would you like to give her the rest of her bottle?"

"If you wouldn't mind." He said, taking Haley from her nanny and sitting down in the rocking chair. Fiona smiled at him again and then shut the door to the nursery as she walked out.

Draco felt his throat clench up as he looked as his daughter. She looked so much like Hermione, she had curly brown hair but Draco's light complexion. She also had Hermione's honey brown eyes, they stared up at Draco, and he could almost tell that the little girl knew what was going on.

"Haley…I know you probably don't understand this, but I love you with all of my heart. I have to go away for a few days to go find your mommy, an evil man took her. But, I promise you will be safe. I'd never let anything happen to you. I let something happen to mommy, and its all my fault, and I'm so sorry. I promised that I'd never let anything happen to any of my girl, and I let you both down. Now, you're all I have until I find her, and I will. Daddy promises that much, I will find your mommy and I'll bring her home, and that night, we'll have a big party, and you'll get so many hugs and kisses that you'll think that you'd been gone for a year. And then I'll never let you or mommy out of my sight again, and that evil man that took her, he'll be gone forever. And we can live happily ever after, just like in your fairy tales." He looked down at his daughter as the first few tears dropped from his eyes. She was sleeping now and he stood up, kissed the crown of her head, and laid her down in her crib.

"I love you Haley." He whispered as he blew out the last of the candles in her room. "And your mommy loves you too."

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A/N…wow, just about cried writing that, anyways, hope you like that chapter, and please review! Now that it is summer, you can expect more updates from me! Yay! So please review this and then r/r my other Hermione/Draco stand alone called Forbidden Love, if you like this, you're bound to like that one.

Love and fluff,

Natalie