A/N: So I am finally back with a brand new chapter. The key word being FINALLY! Lol. Unfortunately I do have some bad new. My grandma died in December. So we are all still kind of grieving over that. But the good news is…I know it is better that way because now she is not suffering anymore and its best to just move on. Anyway…enough with that. I honestly cannot tell you how many times I had to rewrite this damn chapter because I wasn't satisfied with it. I lost count after about three. Lol. But in the end…I decided that there really is no point in trying to make it perfect because that is unachievable. So in other words…it was time to just post it and see what you guys think of it. Lol.

Anyway, this chapter I think gets really strange and to tell you the truth it's still not my favorite but I hope you guys enjoy it. For most of the chapter, if not all, Hermione is still in this dark really bizarre place. And she also learns a really shocking thing…and when you read it you guys are probably going to be like "What the fuck?" lol.

Oh yeah, one more thing…I know that this is kind of old to be telling you guys this but your review, Tommysgirl4ever, reminded me. Just to answer your question, that song back in chapter eight is Evanescence's 'Hello'. So yeah, it's not mine. lol.
And in chapter nine, Enter the Darkness, I know that Hermione was freaking you guys out a little but when I said, Hermione thought to herself. "How can this be? I remember this all to well…but why?" Hermione's thoughts were slowly interrupted by Harry once more. I just meant that she remembers this event happening, she remembers Harry telling her this before. But she doesn't quite fully understand yet that…it's not really Harry.

So yeah, that's what I meant. It's kind of my fault because I should have explained that better but yeah. Also too, even if she did remember everything…she can't fully put the pieces together yet because she is too confused and is not fully understanding everything just yet. But she is going a little crazy though…remember what Trelawney had told her about people becoming insane after a while from their visions. So that's about it.

So I'll just shut up now and let you read the chapter. Have fun and don't forget to review.

Chapter Ten
The Face Within the Mirror

Hermione could not see anything. No matter which way she looked, black surrounded her. It was as if the sky had just taken over, swallowing everything in its path. Captivating and embracing everything, internal darkness stretched and dispersed in every direction.
She looked around cautiously….her eyes slowly darting from side to side.

"Where… am I?" Hermione thought. "Did I pass out? Am I dreaming? Is this some kind of dream land?" Thought after thought bombarded and pushed its way through her mind.

"Hello?" Hermione said out loud, her voice shaking with nervousness. Her words just seemed to echo on for miles until they finally disappeared and faded into the distance. Finally dispelling into black.

"Hello?" She called once more, looking around more nervously than before. "What is going on?"

"Hello?"

"Where am I? What is going on?" Her thoughts leashed out again. Hermione began to spin around, looking in every direction. "Hello?" She began to run into this….what seemed like, to her, some kind of darkened gray sky… but was really just this cold, cruel planet we call earth swallowed up in the darkness of the night.

She began to panic, becoming more and more frightened and lost with every step she took.
She finally stopped running, coming to realize that it was getting her nowhere.

"I……I must be dreaming!" Hermione finally decided crossing her arms.

"Hush my child." came an unseen, but familiar, voice. Each word she spoke seemed to echo on behind her as she went on to the next.

Hermione suddenly spun around to face the direction in which the voice had appeared but saw nothing. For a second, Hermione just stood there, staring into the darkness. More confused than before. Hermione began to breathe harder, her voice now caught in her throat.

She opened her mouth to speak, to be brave and conquer her fears but no sound came out.

"I know this is weird, Hermione…but…" Her thoughts began. "…but this is only a dream…remember? It's only a dream." Just some warm comforting thoughts to calm her.

"Only a dream." Hermione repeated over and over inside her head. "I will awake from the nightmare soon enough. I know I will. I have to!" She closed her eyes only to open them slowly again, hoping to find that she was back with Harry, sitting on the Hogwarts grounds.
But as she opened them…..she only came to realize that she was in the same place as before.

"Damn!"

"I'm sorry to say that you are not dreaming, my child." The voice appeared again but this time only in a different direction. Hermione spun around again to face the voice once more but still…saw nothing.

"I-i-is s-s-someone there?" Hermione said with a very shaky voice, staring off into the direction of the female voice. There was no reply. It was as if the voice had just vanished once more.
Hermione took a deep breath, to calm herself. Breathing in the cool air and the darkness of the night sky that seem to have been surrounding her, she continued to stare off in to the darkness. She tried to see just who it was that that voice belonged to but as far as she could see…there was still no one there.

"It's as if it was just a mere voice and nothing more." Hermione whispered.

"Who is there?" Hermione called just a little more bravely. Like before…there was still no reply. The voice seemed to of vanished merely as quickly as it had appeared.

"Hello?"

"Listen…my child." The familiar voice said in a whisper as it echoed once more only in a totally new direction. Hermione, again, turned to face it but this time started to run in the direction it appeared, as if trying to catch it.

"Who are you?" Hermione asked, continuing to run after the voice only to have it vanish once more but then reappear in a new place as it has done plenty of times.

Hermione suddenly stopped….it finally hit her who that voice belonged to.

"It…….it can't be." Hermione whispered, swallowing hard. "It just can't."

"Why…you dunno who I am?" the voice asked, answering Hermione's question, her words echoing behind her, as she disappeared then reappeared quickly.

"Well…I think I know who you are but…..that would be positively…. absurd." Hermione replied. "Why can't I see you? And you still never told me just who it is you really are." She added.

"Well..." the voice echoed." "You can not see me…because I am constantly with you…lingering for ever more." She vanished only to reappeared in a new direction once more. "and….I am afraid…I am your past, your present, and your future."

A look of bewilderment spread across Hermione's face. She narrowed her eyes and looked off into the distance again.

"I'm afraid I do not understand whatever it is you mean." Hermione said frankly.

"Wait…what am I saying? This is stupid. I have got to be dreaming." She gave a sigh, turning away from the direction of the voice and crossing her arms as ifrefusing to believe that this was really happening.

"I thought I told you, you are not dreaming, Hermione." The voice echoed into the darkness.
Hermione turned around slowly, a look of shock written all over her face.

"How do you know my n-name?"

"Never you mind, my child…besides I am here to bring you a message, to warn you that you are in grave danger."

"What? What are you talking about?" Hermione asked, looking around, trying to see who was there and if it was the one person she suspected.

"I can not tell you what it is you need to look out for….but I can show you." The voice vanished and dispersed in every direction, finally leave Hermione standing there alone.

"What do you mean 'you can't tell me but you can show me'?" Hermione asked but no reply came. "Hello? Hellllooo?" Hermione became more frustrated. "Where are you? Hello?"
She began to spin around. She was lost and confused and didn't know what to do. She had no idea where she was. All she knew was she just suddenly felt empty inside, like she was alone and would always be alone.

Hermione suddenly stopped and looked up, as if hoping to find the same voice again.

"LOOK! I JUST WANT TO WAKE UP NOW!" Hermione shouted at no one in particular. "Okay?" She gave a giant sigh. And then…suddenly…out of nowhere, a very bright light appeared.

At first it was small and then…it became bigger and bigger with every inch it got closer to Hermione.

Hermione let out a scream or at least she tried to... but it was muffled by the bright white light as it engulfed everything in its path including Hermione.

As Hermione was being pulled and swallowed up into the light…she could suddenly hear that familiar female voice again.

"Listen and I will take you on this prolong journey, backwards through time. You have ignored your visions and your dreams for the last time. And now….. Hermione… you must pay close attention. You are the only one that can stop this. You have been…. forewarned."

"My visions and dreams? How does she know about that?" Hermione thought traveling and spiraling down the bright and long tunnel.

"AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Hermione screamed as she came abruptly to a stop and hit the ground hard with a loud thud.

Hermione laid on the ground for a second. She then finally picked up her head to look around, to find any trace of where she was but her vision was too blurry for her to see anything at all.

Finally, she found the strength to pull herself up off the ground. Her vision still a little bit of a blur; Hermione looked around. "Where am I now?" Hermione thought to herself.
"Where is everyone? Draco? Harry? Ron? Ginny? Anyone? Hello?"

"This is stupid!" she added rubbing her eyes. Finally, her vision came back to her and she realized where it was she had traveled. She was outside where her and Harry had once sat under the branches of the appletree not to long ago before she disappeared and was swept away by the darkness.

Hermione finally realized that it was now in the dead of night and the rain was now pouring and coming down rather hard. Although it was raining, Hermione seemed to be completely dry, not a single drop of water rested on her and yet…she felt so cold still.

"How can this be?" Hermione asked no one in particular. "How could I have just ended up back here? I thought that voice had something to show me?" Hermione crossed her arms and pulled her robes tightly around her. She gave a shiver from the cold air and suddenly noticed how eerie the castle looked in this weather.

"That is strange." Hermione stated, gazing up at the massive building in which we call Hogwarts as a giant lighting bolt struck the sky and reached out to one of the castle towers.
"There is something terribly odd about this place."

She couldn't help but to notice that Hogwarts somehow looked….different? That is because it was different…very different indeed. To Hermione, it looked old and decrepit, not at all like the Hogwarts she knew.

Another lighting bolt rang out and stretched causing the sky to light up with radiating electricity.

A long cold shiver ran gently through Hermione's spine.

Was it from the cold rainy air? Or was it perhaps because of the dark, inexplicable fear and dreaded sight in which the castle projected causing her to feel such fright, leaving a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach?

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"Hermione! HERMIONE!" Harry shouted. "Hermione, please wake up." He cried out.

Harry was sitting on his knees, on the ground, Hermione in his arms. She seemed to have been unconscious but somehow was breathing terrible fast.

Harry was even more confused than before. All he could remember was that the sky suddenly became dark and depressing and then suddenly Hermione just passed out, loosing all consciousness.

"HERMIONE!" Harry began again, tapping her in the face, trying to do anything to help her regain consciousness again. But nothing did help. It was to late. She couldn't possible hear him now. Hermione was long gone, lost deep inside…what was to be known as…her dream.

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A/N: Okay, sorry to stop you guys but just to let you know…it may start to get a tad bit confusing as you read on. This whole part keeps bouncing back and forth between what Hermione is doing and then to what the people she is trying to overhear are doing and then back to flashbacks Hermione keeps having. So… sorry if I confused anyone. I'll try and do my best to explain everything to the best of my ability. Lol. So let me know if you don't understand something and I'll try to explain it better.

"I've been looking all over for you!" Hermione overheard in the distance. She noticed that the voice she heard was the same voice of the woman she was talking to before she got swallowed up by the light and ended back here at Hogwarts. "Why are you sitting out here in the pouring rain all alone?"

"Where is that coming from?" She couldn't help but to look around to see who could possible be out here at this time of night in the rain, other then herself of course. Hermione continued to look around but saw no one at first.

Then, out of nowhere, she spotted a man sitting on the bench just over yonder and what appeared to be a woman walking up to him.

Although they were too far away from Hermione and she couldn't see them all to well, for some reason she could hear them perfectly, as if they were standing right next to her.

"Aren't you cold?" the woman continued, moving closer to the man sitting on the bench.
Hermione listened very intently. She was determined to find out just who these two people were. She began to run in the direction of the voices, striving to reach the end of this never-ending quest.

It felt like she just kept running forever. Just running down an empty never-ending hallway that seemed to be growing and stretching with every step she took.

The man just seemed to have ignored her questions. "There is something that I must tell you." Hermione continued to listen. She could now see that the man had his head tilted downward. He twiddled nervously with his fingers, refusing to dare look up at the one he loved.

A/N: I really don't think I need to explain this but this part that is in all italic….. even though it is still going on with the two people that you don't know of yet…Hermione is now having a little flashback thing as she is running and trying to catch up with these people. Get it? Lol. Like I said before, I really don't think I needed to say that since its kind of self-explanatory but I mine as well just do it anyway. Lol. Okay so I think I'll just shout up now.

"'Oh'." Hermione began to speak in just a whisper. She couldn't help but to feel dread and panic. She suddenly began to bite on her lower lip. Hermione then took a seat next to Draco on the bench. He sat leaned forward, his arms resting on his knees.

"For a long time…..I wanted to tell you this." He continued. "But I could never find the heart to…" He began to brake off, continuing to keep his head down, still never daring to look up from his feet. "I could never find the heart to tell you….you were a bet, Lenne."

"Lenne?" Hermione echoed. "Who is Lenne? And where have I hear that name before?" she added as she approached the two. Finally, she could see them clearly now.

Hermione now faced the back of the woman called Lenne. She had very pretty, luscious, short curly brown hair.

Both Lenne and the man she had been talking to were wearing old fashion Hogwarts robes. Hermione could tell just by looking at their robes that Lenne belonged in Gryffindor and that the man obviously belonged in Slytherin.

"Hello?" Hermione called after them but they didn't seem to have heard her.

"Hello?" she repeated, taking a step toward them. As she did, she accidentally tripped and began to topple over, heading straight for the woman named Lenne.

But instead of smacking right into the woman….Hermione seemed to have just went straight through her. Doing so, Hermione smacked hard into the ground. She quickly got back up and turned to face the woman now.

Hermione's eyes widened as she stared in disbelief at Lenne.

She let out a horrifying scream as she stared into the face of…..HERSELF?

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A/N: OH MY GOD! I told you that you guys are going to be like…'WHAT THE FUCK!' When you read this. Or perhaps you're all like….'OH PLEASE! NO big deal. I saw that coming. No big shock here. I think you need to go back and rewrite this damn chapter again because you FUCKING SUCK!' Lol. Just kidding.

But reading Dumdumditz23's review for chapter nine, enter the darkness, made me laugh so much. You're all like 'Who the hell is lenne?' As soon as I read that, it instantly reminded me of what Yuna said in FFx-2. I dunno if you did that on purpose but I would assume so. But either way… it made me laugh so hard. So thanks for that. Lol.

And for those of you who dunno how to say Lenne's name. Just to let you know…it's not Lenny (as in the guy's name. Lol) like my sister thought it was. Lol. It's more like…Lenny but without the ee sounding part. If that makes any sense at all. Or if any of you have ever played FFx-2…then you would automatically know how to say it.
But I'm sorry that I had to leave you guys hanging there. I know that I always do that but I have to leave you begging for more. Otherwise you guys may never come back. Lol.

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