Chapter Eight
May 3rd 2002
"What the hell were you thinking?" Draco snapped at his father who was currently shackled to the table, "Did you think I wouldn't look for her…did you think that they wouldn't rat you out when I found her?"
"if they did their job right you would have never found the Mud-Blood" Lucious drawled Draco rounded on the older man, Harry was on his feet and holding Draco back,
"Don't you DARE call her that! How dare you threaten MY wife and child" He screamed, "Let me go Potter!" he snapped
"Draco, calm down, I can't let you touch him" she said, Draco pulled away and straightened his shirt,
"Throw him to the dementors!" Draco said before leaving the room, to find his mother waiting for news,
"Draco?" she said getting to her feet,
"I'm sorry mother, he's made his own bed…there is nothing I can do…and honestly nothing I want to do after what he did" he sighed, "I'm sorry mother, I'm going to St. Mungo's to be with my wife" he said,
"May I come with you?" she asked, he nodded.
April 26th 2002
Hermione let the examination hall her bump now visible, at 18 weeks Pregnant.
"Mrs Malfoy," her lecturer smiled at her,
"Hello Professor," she smiled,
"Last exam?" he asked, she nodded,
"Now to rest" she smiled,
"Indeed, it's a shame that you cannot stay on for the post-advance course" he smiled,
"That had been the plan but life gets in the way" she smiled,
"Indeed best of luck Miss Granger" he said holding out a hand,
"It's Mrs Malfoy now sir" she smiled taking his hand…
With a sharp pull she felt herself spinning, he hand firmly held by her professor, when he feet finally found solid ground a flash or green light and her Professor collapsed to the floor dead, she reached for her wand but it flew out of her hand towards the assailant, one Hermione recognised from school,
"Goyal?" she gasped,
"Crucio" he called, Hermione fell to her knees writhing in pain, he didn't let up, "Crucio" he was enjoying this, the last thing Hermione saw was his face, sadistically laughing at the agony he was causing.
"What do you mean she's not here?" Draco snapped at the dean,
"The collage has been searched, she is not on the premises, perhaps you have just missed her" the said,
"I haven't just missed her" Draco snapped, "Her final exam finished at twelve, she should have been home hours ago. She's bloody pregnant!" Draco snapped, "I demand that you check the wards and see when she left and who with!" Draco snapped, "Otherwise I'll have Mr Potter come and look in every crack or crevice of this place, turn over every stone" Draco said knowingly,
"Fine!" the dean pulled out his wand and began making intricate movements causing the room to fog up "Malfoy" he said and the fog began to clear and the image of Hermione exiting the examination hall, then disappear "Strange?" The dean said, "Students cannot disapperate from the campus…but no one is…" he flicked his wand again and the scene reversed "it's as if the wards were confounded…dark magic to hide who it was with her… must have been someone she trusted"
"A professor?" Draco suggested.
"Most likely, only myself and the heads of departments that can disapperate without permission"
"Can you check where each of them were" Draco demanded,
"It's not ethical" the dean began,
"The safety of you student, a pregnant student…the war heroine and Harry Potters best friend! Draco snapped,
"I'm sorry I cannot do it" He said,
"Fine!" Draco turned on his heels and left the office, moving past the campus wards and disapparating to the ministry,
"Longbottom where is Potter?" Draco demanded as he entered the department,
"He's with the Minister, won't be back today" Neville said, "What's wrong?"
"Get him here now" Draco snapped, "Hermione is missing" Neville choked on the mouthful of drink he had taken, "I don't know how to do a Patronus Longbottom so you get Potter here now!"
"Oh…ok" Neville said pulling out his wand and casting the spell as spectral toad to land on the floor and hopped through the wall, "right tell me from the beginning" Neville said,
They heard running footsteps five minutes later,
"What the hell is going on" Harry snapped at Draco,
"She didn't come home after her exam, I spoke with the dean who reluctantly checked the wards…she came out of the exam and then disappeared, it looks like a dark wizard confounded the wards…someone she trusted took her from the collage and that moron of a dean wouldn't check what the four faculty members that don't need permission to disapperate" Draco snapped out, "I need to find her" Draco said,
"We will" Kingsley said, "I will deal with the Dean" the older man said getting to his feet, "I will send news" he said twisting on the spot.
"Draco, we will find her" Harry reassured him, "Neville" he called,
"Yes" Neville said stepping in the room,
"I need you to take, Draco home and wait there"
"What?" Draco turned on Harry,
"Draco, there is a chance someone is holding her for ransom, they will try and contact you, we need you to be there if they contact you" Harry said
"I need to be looking for her" Draco said,
"Draco please, I will be searching for her, you need to go with Neville just encase they contact you, I swear I will not rest until she is home, we will make your cottage the base of operation so you will know everything that is going on, I'm going straight to the college campus to see what Kingsley has been able to out of the dean." Harry said, "You have my word that I will find Hermione" he said placing a hand on the blonds shoulder,
"Ok" Draco finally conceded getting to his feet and following Neville.
Hermione woke her muscles burning, her back on a cold concrete floor,
"Welcome back Miss Granger" someone said hovering above her, "It wasn't very nice of you to go and pass out when I was just starting to have fun"
"Please, don't hurt my baby" she begged,
"And why would I care what happens to filthy Mud-Blood spawn" he laughed, "Crucio"
Hermione screamed out as her body convulsed tears streaming down her face,
"Not so cleaver now" he laughed, "Maybe I can have some fun with you before I put you out of your misery"
"Draco will kill you" she hissed!
"He'll never find you" Goyal laughed, "Crucio" Hermione's voice echoed through the room!
April 28th 2002
"Potter it's been two day! You have no leads" Draco snapped,
"Draco please, the Professor has been located, he's dead…it appears that he was under the Imperius curse, we are doing everything to trace who used it but whoever it is, they are good at covering their tracks," Harry said, "We will not give up"
"Potter, I want my wife back…I want her back now" Draco snapped,
"I know" Harry said, "we will find her…I'm not blaming you but is there anyone you could think of that would use Hermione to get to you?"
"Who wouldn't, there are any number of people who would kill me, I don't know many that have the balls to touch her "Draco sighed," If I didn't know that it wasn't possible I would say this had my father's fingerprints all over it…but"
"Wold he risk his freedom?" Harry said,
"I really don't know," Draco sighed running his hands through his hair.
"I think I'm going to speak with him," Harry sighed.
"Mother?" Draco called through the manor, "Father?"
"Draco dear, what are you doing…Mr Potter?" Narcissa's face fell,
"Where is Father?" Draco said,
"Um, I'm not sure" she said, "He…he was gone when I woke…what's going on Draco," she asked, Draco opened then closed his mouth,
"Hermione is missing" Harry said,
"What since when?" she gasped,
"Two days" Draco choked out,
"But…why are you here?" she asked,
"There is only one person who would have the balls l to touch her" Draco snapped, "Even if she is the only one keeping him out of Azkaban"
"Narcissa, are you sure that he is not here?" Harry asked,
"He's not" Narcissa said moving to hug Draco, who pulled away,
"That's against his bail agreement" Harry said, "I can trace his magic now" Harry said,
"She better be safe" Draco snarled walking away.
"Why is she still alive" The blond said grabbing Goyle by the scruff of his shirt,
"You didn't give me a time limit" he snarled, "I wanted to have fun with the slut first"
"The longer she lives the more the chance someone will find her" he snapped shoving the man away, "Give me your wand!" he demanded,
"I don't think so" he said, "Stupefy" he snapped causing the blond to collapse, "I'll have some more fun then I will kill her with your wand, you lose everything" he snarled,
Leaving Lucious paralysed on the floor he entered the room, where Hermione was curled as small as possible in a corner,
"Good morning Mud-blood…Crucio" he said pointing Lucious wand at her, Hermione bit hard on her tongue refusing to scream out again, "Tut, tut" he smirked, "Well now you're ruining all my fun" she said kneeling beside her, "I like it when you scream" he said grabbing her by the hair, and moving her face to meet hers and forcing a rough kiss to her lips before throwing her against the wall, his free hand moving to touch her bump, "Always had a thing for pregnant women" he smiled. Hermione tried to turn from him protecting her unborn baby but he was bigger, stronger and faster than she was, having only had a stale slice of bread and a bottle of brown water to drink since he brought her hear, "mmm, I like them frightened" he snarled, "Crucio" she still didn't scream but soon after blacked out.
"I have a trace on your father, using an unforgivable curse. They are triangulating the location as we speak" Harry said,
"I'm coming with you" Draco said,
"I can't let you do that Draco," he said, "There are rules there to keep everyone safe"
"No to keep my father safe" Draco snarled,
"That…is kind of true, I can't let you kill him…" Harry said, "Please Draco I will bring her straight to you…please just work with me" Harry said,
"She's my wife, I'm supposed to look after her" Draco snapped,
"I know, we will bring her home" Harry said "I need you to trust me" Harry said placing a hand on the blonds shoulder.
May 2nd 2002
The wards were falling one by one, it was time consuming and Harry was at his wits end…he knew he couldn't just run in there but knowing Hermione was in there…he was praying Alive, his nerves were close to snapping.
"Potter" one of the code breakers called him over, "Three more to go" he said, "But that is just the grounds, some wizards have the grounds covered and then the house itself,"
"Thanks for the warning" Harry said moving to the gate were the codebreakers were tirelessly working coming up for twenty-four hours now. "Keep up the good work" Harry called,
Hermione was woken by a bang, she couldn't move her body battered and bruised her muscles cramped from the constant convulsions, her clothes ripped off of her, living her bare to the frigid cold of the windowless room…she was trying to conserve what little strength she had left for one last fight, one last hope of breaking away from the psycho who had forced himself upon her.
She could hear shouting…was that Neville's voice? She must be hallucinating. Another explosion, closer now…Was that Harry's Voce…Kingsley's voice, she must be losing it now, fighting to keep her eyes open and locked on the door waiting for him to come in and attack her again…
"Bombarda!" she heard the spell and the door blew open, she couldn't see who it was, the sudden flood of bright light blinding her. "Hermione" She heard her name, something soft wrapping around her, as the stars disappeared from her sight she saw Emerald Green eyes and she blacked out.