When Draco opened his eyes, he immediately wanted to close them again. They were in a dungeon from what he could gather. And they were bound and gagged. He looked over at Hermione expecting to see fear in her eyes, but surprised to see her seething with anger. Literally, seething. She looked at him and nodded as an acknowledgement of his presence. But right after she peered around the room as if taunting the person who brought them there to step out of the shadows. No one came forward. Finally after at least 5 minutes of her angry stare, she dropped it and scooted closer to Draco. (A hard and difficult task when your arms and legs were bound let me tell you.) She motioned with her head for him to flip over on his side so his back was facing her. He almost declined seeing as that would put him in a very awkward position if Sir Voldy were to walk in. But he realized this was something she really wanted so he accepted it, and rolled on his side. He felt her face against his hands, which were bound behind his back, and wondered what she was doing. She rubbed her face against his fingers a few times before he realized that she was trying to get her gag off. He assisted her some by threading his fingers underneath her gag and helping her slowly pull it off of her mouth and down around her neck. As soon as it was off she took a deep breath as if it had hindered her breathing. "Draco I'm so sorry…" He rolled over to face her, nodding slightly as an acceptance of her apology. "Here let me help you." She leaned forward, and for a split second he thought she was about to kiss him, until she bit down carefully on his gag, as to not bite his skin. Then she tugged it down over his chin until it hung loosely around his neck.

"Are you alright?" He asked her, worried.

"Yah, I'm fine." She sat back against the wall they had been previously leaned against. "That son of a bitch must have stunned us as soon as we got in here." He looked at her surprised that she still wasn't feeling or at least showing any of the fear that he felt.

"Aren't you scared?"

"Like hell I am. But I'm more pissed off that he interrupted us when I was having such a great time. He's going to pay for that, that bastard." He tried hard not to laugh at that comment, wondering what Voldemort would say if he could only see her now.

"Ok, he'll pay I promise." He nudged her slightly with his shoulder.

"Yah, he will. First I'll conjure up a knife, a dull one mind you." She said at him before looking back out into the darkness. "And then I'd slowly but surely cut off that little piece of extra skin that he calls his 'manhood.' Oh yes I will." She said threateningly to the darkness. "Not that he will miss it, of course, seeing as he never uses it. It will just be harder for him to aim while peeing. Although I doubt that's much of a talent to brag about." She ranted. "Ohhh, you just wait asshole. Just you wait."

"Ok… Hermione, I think he gets it." He nudged her again. "Hold on something's poking me." He shifted around with his bound hands and pulled out the stick that had been protruding into his spine. His wand. He rolled his eyes to himself. This guy was so idiotic; leave the victims with their wands. I mean really how amateur can you get? He nudged Hermione again, but she ignored him. He nudged her again a little harder and she almost fell over, barley catching her balance. She turned to him.

"And what the hell was that for?" She looked at him. He widened his eyes and looked down at his wand as if to say: Check it out. She snorted at the stupidity and looked away into the darkness. After a few seconds of no one coming, she moved her hands around her back, found her wand, pulled it out of her pocket and then picked it up from where it had fallen. Then she leaned over in Draco's ear and whispered "This is so bloody pathetic I actually almost feel bad about using these." She paused. "Key word: almost." Then she grinned at him, and then pointed her wand (which was behind her back) toward the ropes around his arms. "Diffindo." The ropes immediately split in half and Draco rubbed his wrists and ankles gently. Then he returned the favor and split both of the ropes that bound her legs and wrists. "Thanks."

"No problem." He stood up and wavered a little on his feet before offering his hand to her, which she took. When they were both standing, Draco pointed his wand toward the darkness. "Lumos." The dungeon lit up, and they were both relieved to see that no on was in the room but them.

"Now what?" Hermione asked stroking the blood back into her hands.

"No clue. Come on lets see where we are." He took one of her hands in his, the other holding his wand in front of him. They walked along the walls, hoping to stay out of the way of any booby traps that Voldemort might have set. As they were walking he felt something move underneath his feet and looked down just in time to see the stone floor move creating a hole that was rapidly growing bigger. "Hermione back up." He tried to say calmly but failed. She looked over his shoulder and saw the hole. She practically dragged him backwards into a corner watching the hole grow larger and closer toward them.

"What should we do!" Hermione asked frantically as the hole widened.

"Well, there's no other way out… maybe we should jump in it." Draco said after a few seconds of watching it.

"You're insane aren't you? I got stuck with an insane person. Just my flucking luck." She leaned her head backwards as if she were talking to God. "You jerk."

"I'm not insane. Look, one way or another we are going to have to get to Voldemort. And I don't think he is going to let it be easy. This is probably just an obstacle we have to get through… he's hoping we get injured or something. Less of a threat."

"Ok, so that makes sense. But what are we going to do about that!" She pointed toward the hole. "There's nothing we can see down there. It's a bloody pit."

"Uh… uh… wait! I got it. The cushioning charm."

"What?"

"Its for broomsticks… to make them more comfortable."

"I know that! But how will it work, you can't see the bottom."

"I just have to imagine it, alright!"

"Ok. Here's your chance now." They both looked at the hole with now was the size of the room blocking off any way of running. There was only about a foot left of stone between them and the hole. Draco took a deep breath and pointed to the middle of the hole and downwards with his wand.

"Mollis!" He shouted into the hole. Nothing seemed to happen but he closed his eyes and took another deep breath. "Get ready to jump." He put his wand into his pocket and waited until she did the same. He took his hand in hers. "Hermione?"

"Yah?"

"I love you."

"I love you too." They smiled at each other for a few seconds before remembering what they had to do.

"Ok on three. One, two, three!" They both jumped together into the black pit.

A/N: Don't kill me. haha Ok now to answer some questions. Yah the rose was in fact a portkey. How it got there is unimportant, but if you really want to know it has something to do with the Imperius curse. But again, not important. And stackles, i didn't have any definite ways of getting them out there to touch the rose but i knew i wanted to use the rose as a port key. I had different ways of getting them down there (i.e: a romantic stroll through the forest, etc) but i loved yours. Anyway. Hope you guys liked it! Review