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Chapter 18: The meeting (from Severus's point of view)
I felt bad for leaving Hermione by herself, but it's something that I have to do. I walked down that familiar street and turned into Knockturn Alley. I then went into the pub and saw Lucius with his son. They were waiting for me to come.
"About time you showed up, what took you?" Lucius asked sounding annoyed.
"I had to take my wife shopping. She is in Diagon Alley right now." I told them trying to sound like I was going to die from it.
Lucius then laughed in amusement while his son followed.
"Well, Professor. The Dark Lord is calling a meeting, and he wants everyone present." Draco told me.
"Ok." I shrugged and with that, we all walked into the back and we apparated to the Dark Lord.
When I got there, I pushed through all the others and when I got in front of the Dark Lord, I bowed my head lower than the others. Then I heard the Dark Lord speak.
"I see that you always push up, Severus.. is it because you want to get it done and over with?" Voldemort hissed.
"No, my lord. I wish to show you my loyalty by pushing all the lowers aside and bow before them. I show you more loyalty than the lower ranks." I answered.
" I see." Voldemort responded seeing where I was getting at. "Well, you are all here today because everything is in position to raid the Ministry of Magic. I will need everyone of you to put your loyalties to the test when we take over the system. Then we will take over the entire wizarding world. Because of Lucius paying a great deal of money to Cornelius, I hear that marriage law has been put into affect. Every one is married, Ha!"
I cannot figure out why he would want to pass this dumb law.
"I want to weaken Harry more, I want Hermione Granger here in front of me."
"My lord.." Draco interrupted bowing his head.
"Yes Draco? You may speak." Voldemort said.
"From what I understand, Severus is Hermione's husband." Draco said informingly.
Dammit. Now what am I to do?
"Severus, is this true? You are married to that Mudblood?" Voldemort asked, anger slightly rising in his voice.
"Yes, my lord. What do you want me to do?"I asked bowing myhead. Damn, please don't say kill her.
"I want you to bring her here. Since she is your wife, have you touched her yet?" Voldemort asked.
"Yes.." I gulped."I have."
"I see. Well, I will promise you this, I will not hurt her. Rather, I want her to stand by you."
"My lord, I cannot control her will." I told him. I did not want to bring her to the dark side, because I like her the way she is.
"Are you telling me no, Severus?" Voldemort hissed as he pulled his wand from his robes.
Before I could answer, I was then in a ton of pain and I dropped to my hands and knees before the dark lord. I was screaming through my teeth in both pain and anger.
"You will do this for me, Severus. After we gain the Ministry of Magic, we will attach Hogwarts. We will take all the maidens and kill the men. All except the Slytherins because all of the children in there are members of this family." Voldermort hissed at me taking his anger out on me with the crucio.
I didn't know how much more my body could take, I was starting to feel my consciousness slip away from me. Then the major part of the pain finally stopped.
"Well, that is all for the lesson, you may go home." Voldemort said dismissively.
Voldemort then apparated back to his home with wormtail and all the other death eaters left except for Draco and Lucius. They ran over to me and asked in unison.
"Are you ok, Severus?" Lucius asked kneeling down to me.
"Can you walk, Professor?" Draco asked as he strided over to me.
"I can't feel my legs. I do not want Hermione to see me this way." I told them.
"But, Professor. You have to tell Hermione that Voldemort wants her on the dark side. I am guessing that the lord is sparing her."
I never thought of it like that. I was then filled with hope and the will to try to get up, but I fell to the ground.
"Ok, Draco. We will have to apparate him back to his manor and wait for Hermione to come home. Then we will have to explain the situation."
I then saw the look on Draco's face. I could see that what he was thinking was exactly the same as mine.
"Father, Hermione hates and fears us. I do not think she will listen to us." Draco said.
We apparated together back to my manor and they helped me up the stairs to my room.
"Ahh. I see what you mean Draco. Then we will have Severus there to prove that we are not lying and that we are trying to save her. Does Hermione know that we are all death eaters?"
"She knows you two are, but not me. I know that she will feel betrayed and try to run from me. Draco, you will not let her leave the room when she comes home from shopping. I told her- no I didn't. Dammit, Lucius I need a favor. Go find my wife and give her my wedding ring to show that you are a friend. Bring her here and only here. I will meet you at my manor. I know how long it will take so you are being timed." I told them. I will kill Lucius personally if he touches her in any way; however, I kind of know him too well so, I am sure that he will not touch her.
"What do you want me to do, Professor?" Draco asked.
"Two things; the first is when you hear them coming, I want you to hide behind the door. The second thing, I am your uncle so you can address me by that. I do not care if it is in public anymore. I also need you to go into my potions lab and get me a few healing potions from my potions bag." I told him as I walked over to my bed and laid down while Draco scurried out of my chambers to do the task he was given.
I then saw Draco come back with my black bag and he then dumped the contents all over the bed. I sat up and pulled out 2 purple vials and I drank the first one.
I then heard a struggle outside my door, and I watched Draco run behind the door as it swung open. Lucius was man handling my wife, and I got really pist off for him touching her like that.
"Lucius, get the hell off my wife!" I yelled and watched as Lucius immediatley let her go and shut the door. Draco then leaned against it and watched the scene.
"Severus, what are they doing here?" My wife asked me almost in tears. I could tell she was scared by how tight she was hugging me.
"The ring didn't work, Severus." Lucius told me as he handed me my wedding ring back.
I took the ring and immediately put it on, and I noticed that Hermione was watching me.
"Severus, what's going on?" Hermione asked me looking me in the eyes with her chestnut eyes.
"There is something I haven't told you, I am a death eater." I told her with a sigh.
"What?" Hermione looked at me shock written across her face.
"Hermione, look me in the eyes. " I told her as I held her by her forearm firmly to keep her from running away from me.
Hermione then looked me in the eyes.
"I will not hurt you; infact, these two are family to me. Lucius is my brother and Draco is my nephew. So you would be sister and aunt. They will acknowledge you because of what you are now, they sense that you are in the family. They will not hurt you, I want you to know this. The dark lord has given me a gift to pull you to the dark side only to protect you. If he wants loyalty, you will be branded;however, I will never leave your side." I told her.
Hermione began to cry and then she shouted at me, " I WILL NEVER JOIN VOLDEMORT! EVER!H-HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME? I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU WERE A DEATH EATER?" Hermione cried.
"Because of you, I took the crucio curse for 5 minutes." I told her and she looked up at me in disbelief.
"It is true, Hermione?" Draco spoke up.
Hermione looked at Draco, then she looked back at me.
"I need to talk to you about a plan. Will you give me that chance?" I asked her. Then I was grateful that she nodded yes and sat down next to me.
"Did you really take the crucio curse for 5 minutes?" Hermione asked me.
"Yes, it felt like an eternity. I thought I was going to pass out." I told her honestly.
"So what is the plan?" Hermione sighed, getting down to business.