/a/n: Sorry! I am a preschool teacher and 9/10 times my work comes home with me, and I have no time to write. This chapter is not the greatest and I promise I will have better chapters coming soon. I promise to be more on top of this story. I'm actually really happy with it so far. Again, I don't own either of these things, and I just do this for fun.

Your constructive criticism is always welcome!

Chapter 2-

Harry drove down the road slowly, the night had fallen a lot quicker than he had planned, and the wind had picked up. He looked around, squinting, and trying to see any other type of road or sign. Suddenly a giant flash of lighting light up the night.

*screech*

Harry slammed on his breaks and veered the steering wheel to the left, swerving down a new path. He stopped the car, and sat back, his hands shaking and his heart pumping. He glanced around and realized that the lightning had struck down a tree right in front of the only path he needed to take home. Harry sighed and continued driving his car down the new path. He squinted as he started to notice the small white flakes falling onto his hood and windshield.

"Snow.." he muttered "snow… in June…" he felt his car start to lurch. It made a sputtering sound and then died. Harry sighed and his head hit the steering wheel.

"I cannot believe this" he muttered and got out of his car. He looked up and noticed a big black gate, He pushed open the gate. He walked down the path and noticed a rose bush up on his left. He grinned and snapped a rose off. "Hermione said he wanted a rose"

Before harry could blink a hand snatched the rose out his. And he was bound and had his mouth covered. He couldn't see the person that had taken him. He was thrown into a cell and when harry looked up, all he saw was a man, with a hood covering his face.

"This is what you get for being a thief" he growled at harry. Harry frowned and got up, grasping the bars of the cell.

"It was a rose" he stated. The man scoffed.

"A thief," he turned his back completely "is a thief" and with that, the man stalked out of the room, Harry sighed and slumped against the wall. He had no way of contacting anyone for help, so he hoped that Hermione was smart enough to put the pieces together when he doesn't return home.

Hermione walked out on her patio with her water canteen, Watering the flowers she had in the pot on her steps. She looked up towards the path, a sinking feeling in her gut. She knew that something was wrong. She walked towards the town stable. Peeking in she saw Henry, feeding his horse a carrot.

"Hello Henry," she said softly " I was wondering if I could borrow your horse for a couple days, I need to go on a.. mission of sorts" Henry turned to face her and smiled.

"Well of course Miss Granger, you don't even have to ask me, I trust you to take Nickel out anytime that you please" She gave him a hug,

She packed the food for the horse and attached the saddlebags onto the saddle. "Thank you Henry," she called leading the horse out of the stable. He waved goodbye to them.

"Now Nickel" Hermione started "We are on a mission to find harry, He's been missing for 3 days now, he's usually back after 1 day" Hermione sighed, she stopped Nickel and climbed up onto him.

They continued their trek into the forest. Suddenly the scenery around them changed, almost in the blink of an eye.

"Snow?" Hermione looked up at the sky confused. "But" she looked back and realized she couldn't see the green in the forest anymore, everything was grey and bleak. She felt her body go cold and reached behind her to pull her jacket around her. Her jacket didn't do anything to help with the cold, and she realized the feeling was internal. Her senses were off, and telling her that she needed to get out. But she couldn't leave. Not without harry.

Hermione reached harrys car and hopped off, noticing it was empty, but the keys were still in the ignition of the vehicle. She frowned and looked towards the open gate. She held onto Nickels reigns and together they walked down the main drive of the house. The house was tall, and Almost seemed black in color. There was no color anywhere. She tied the horse to a pillar and fed him an apple from her bag. She pet his nose and turned to walk up the giant steps to the front door.

As she went to knock on the door, it swung open. Jumping back slightly, she gripped her wand in her pocket and slowly walked into the foyer. It was cold in the castle. Hermione walked in further until she reached the bottom of the grand staircase, she jumped again when the door swung shut behind her. She looked around, trying to determine which way to go.

"Lumos" she whispered and her wand light up, she didn't see the men above her on the balcony, over looking the foyer.

"Look Nott" Blaise nudged Theodore Nott "a beautiful girl! That's granger isn't it?" He asked and leaned over the railing to get a better look at her. Nott pulled him back. "Yes! It is Hermione"

"What if she breaks the spell?" Blaise asked, and Theodore rolled his eyes.

"Do not jump to any conclusions just yet my friend" Theo said and patted blaise on the back.

Hermione looked up to where they were, but she could not see them, for they were quick to get back into the shadows. Just as she was about to call out for someone she heard it.

"Help" it was almost faint, and it was followed by a really nasty cough. "Help" This time it was louder, and the cough was longer, and uglier.

"Harry!" Hermione gasped and bolted up the stairs, following the sound of the coughing.

"Oh dear" Theodore said as he and blaise took off towards the cells, trying to chase after hermione before HE found her.

"Harry!" she said and ran up to the cell.

"Hermione!" Harry exclaimed. Ecstatic to see her. But his happy face soon fell. He looked around quickly. "Hermione you need to go" his tone was urgent.

"Your hands are like ice, and your poor cough" She observed, ignoring his previous statement.

"He's going to come back" Harry urged her again, trying to get her to leave. Hermione heard a growl of some sorts and she turned around.

"Who's there?" She asked. When she didn't get an answer, she asked the question again. The figure leaning against the wall, pushed himself off of it and walked down the steps toward Hermione. "Do I know you?" she asked again.

"What are you doing here?" The man in the hood asked once again. He stopped about 10 feet away from her.

"I'm here for Harry" She said simply. The man laughed.
"you don't get to take home the thief" Hermione looked at him incredously.

"Harry is not a thief" The man scoffed at her words. "I asked for the rose" Hermione offered, her voice dropping softer. "You can punish me" she swallowed as harry tried to yell over her.

"He's sick" Hermione said. "Please trade me for him." The man shook his head.

"I was stuck in eternal damnation for a rose, I'm merely locking him away. " Hermione didn't like that. She felt something pulling at her gut. She knew this man, something about the way he talked, and the way he walked was oh so similar.

"Show me your face" She put her foot down. She was going to find out who this man was.

"No" he growled out. Before he could blink she took a candelabra and shined it in his face. She gasped and took about 5 steps back .

"Malfoy?" Harry gasped as well and peered at him through the bars.

Draco Malfoy stood before them, in the light of the candle. His blonde hair was as bright as ever, and his silver eyes shone with sorrow. He was skinnier than before, and he had a nice war scar on his cheek. Hermione stepped forward again, as did draco.

"Choose" He stated simply. "I can't have you wasting my time forever Granger" Draco sneered at her.

Hermione studied him. There was something different. He looked like each day, his health dropped, and he looked ill.

"I'm sorry Harry, but I chose to stay" Within seconds, hermione was the one inside the cell and Harry was dragged down the steps by draco.
"Hermione!" Harry called, but soon after she could no longer hear him. She sighed and leaned against the cold stone wall, her tears falling slowly and quietly.