Hermione walked confidently across the street, right up to the front door of the warehouse that the Death Eaters were hiding out in. Carefully watching her every move were an angel and two fidgety brothers, it didn't sit right with them that this tiny woman was going into the fight alone. But she was. She had now began breaking the enchantments put up outside. They were strong, very strong, but nothing that she couldn't handle. After a very long 20 minutes she finally sighed, the last barrier was broken. She signalled to the guys over her shoulder while doing a final check that she had picked up and broken every spell, sometimes being friends with Bill Weasley came in handy as she spotted one final curse. Quickly she held up a hand, halting the boys in their tracks. It was complicated and required a lot of concentration; it was not something that she had come across before so when Castiel approached her she was a little bristly.
"Keep it quick angel boy, only one wall left."
"Yes. It is angel proofing woven into spell form. I cannot enter, but you and the Winchesters will be unharmed." Without any more explanation he disappeared leaving Hermione more than a little confused. She would definitely have to research angel proofing spells; maybe she could alter them for demons as well. She was bought out of her thoughts by the brothers flanking her, Dean on her right and Sam on her left.
"Where did Cas go?" Sam asked casually.
"There's angel proofing, bit weird really. Why would Death Eaters have angel proofing." Hermione was still musing over this when a scream echoed from inside the building. "Oh I took down the silencing as well. Let's go, be prepared for anything, and they will not be able to see you unless you draw attention to yourself." She didn't wait for them to reply she just moved swiftly into the building as quietly as possible, Sam and Dean followed, standing against the wall after shutting the door again.
Looking around she could see three Death Eaters wearing their cloaks and masks, one that was obviously the ring leader with his mask off, and one boy tied to a chair in the middle of the room. It was very dimly lit, but slowly her eyes adjusted to the darkness she was shocked at what she saw. The leased had hair similar to the style she was championing at the moment, a pale complexion with sunken in cheeks, and piercing silver eyes. Lucius Malfoy stood over the whimpering boy with his wand in one hand and a silver blade in another, the other death eaters sniggering at something he said, she had no doubt that Draco Malfoy was also under one of the masks. She had to stop herself from immediately shooting the killing curse across the room and stopped to observe what was going in. Sam and Dean had also noticed the blade in the man's hand, and it was quite clearly and angel blade meaning that the boy in the chair was either an angel or a demon. Their suspicions were confirmed when Lucius hissed at the boy.
"Where is Crowley, he said that he would meet us himself. This will not do!" He proceeded to slice the blade across the boys' collar bone and he screamed again. A gut wrenching, ear bleeding, window breaking scream. He growled, a deceptively low voice emitted from his mouth.
"He said you haven't proved yoursel-" another slash, and another scream, "you get a few mo-" the blade sliced the seeped so far across the teens stomach.
"We have done everything." Lucius growled, "Everything your master asked us. Now go back to hell and tell him we expect to see him here at noon tomorrow!" He speedily muttered an exorcism in Latin and a pillar of black smoke flew out of the boys' mouth twisting, turning, then sinking straight through the concrete floor. Hermione had never seen an exorcism before, but she did know all about them. That meant that she knew that the boy the demon had been living in was now in immediate danger.
Hermione held up her hand to Sam and Dean indicating that they should stay where they were, and slowly inched around the exterior of the warehouse hiding behind a number of objects scattered around. Sometimes being tiny really was quite handy. When she reached the corner she decided that she had a good enough view, she knew that she was going to have to be fast but that was okay with her, the faster this was over the better.
All of a sudden she popped up from behind a desk an shot a simple wordless 'stupify' and a body bind at the farthest out death eater, following it up with a spell to muffle the sound he made as he fell. She repeated the action on the second death eater, unfortunately at that very moment Lucius spun around catching her in the act. She barely had time to throw a shield out before a stream of green light was directed at her. They duelled quick and violent, spell after spell being thrown and deflected, until Hermione finally hit him with a particularly nasty stinging hex. She hadn't failed to notice the other Death Eater that was stood near the corner; neither had Dean it seemed as he approached him from behind and hit him over the head with a large metal pipe that must have been lying around. The action took away some of her concentration, letting her guard slip for a split second. Lucius chose that minute to send a slicing hex her way, hitting her wand arm causing her to drop her wand. She watched it roll away from her into a dark corner, losing all faith in winning the duel.
She dropped to her knees, the pain intense, the glamour fading away to reveal her true face. She could hear manic laughing so she could only guess that Lucius recognised her. She was right.
He began towards her, knowing that she was very weak at that moment. Swishing his wand he raised her up into the air, an invisible force constricting around her throat, continuing to laugh in a psychotic fashion. "Well hello there miss Granger, nice to see you again." The unseen force on her neck loosened slightly allowing her to reply to his taunting.
"A pleasure" cough "as always" splutter "Mr Malfoy" All too soon the force returned cutting off her air supply.
"What is Potty's little Mudblood doing all the way over in America? Holidaying maybe? Ha! I don't care, killing you will be just as sweet as seeing you writing around in our ballroom." He crossed over to her, letting the spell fall undone dropping Hermione to a heap on the floor gasping for breath. He pulled her sleeve down, "Still have the present that Bella gave you huh? Crucio" She screamed her arms flailing, but eyes set on Dean behind Lucius. Dean held out his gun, pointed straight at Lucius' heart, and shot. Unfortunately Lucius must have spotted Hermione's eye contact as he spun at the last second and managed to apparate away only being nicked by the bullet.