"Hermione? Stweetheart don't forget to buy the bread." Her mother called out to her as she put the light jacket over herself. It was the summer and she'd recently got back from the burrows after ron's brother's wedding.
"Alright mum." She called back loudly. Her friends had asked her to stay the whole summer but she'd refused, saying that she needed to spend time with her parents too.
They hadn't been happy of course but understood. She'd drifted apart from her family lately and felt it was nessisary to bond again.
Just because she was a witch didn't mean she wasn't human. She walked out the door closing it gently. She had thought about apparating but shook her head, no it wasn't proper and besides she'd promised her mum and dad to keep the magic to a minumim outside of the house.
She knew they didn't reproch her magic, on the contrary they were very proud of it but they knew how some of the neigbourse were. They'd talk and judge her over nothing.
She'd even left her wand in her room so she wouldn't be tempted. She walked slowly down the street in the late afternoon heat thinking of someone she knew she shouldn't be thinking about.
Draco Malfoy should have been the last thing she had on her mind but for some reason she couldn't stop. She wondered if he was alright, after what Harry had done to him in moaning Myrtill's bathroom well he was very lucky to be alive.
Unknown to her friends a few days after the inncident she'd went to the hospital wing to see madame pomfrey for a different reason.
She'd seen him laying on the hospital bed looking whiter than snow. He didn't have a shirt on and she could see the scars on his chest.
As an impulse she'd walked over to him, he hadn't even flinched at her as she stared at him.
"What is it Granger? Come to get revenge?" He said softly. It still hurt she could see it on his face.
"I'm sorry, you didn't deserve this." She whispered. She placed a hand on his arm and brushed it lightly.
"Why do you care?" He asked looking straight at her.
"You're a git Malfoy but you're still human, i don't believe in this." she said with a sad smile. She rubbed his arm again and then turned and walked towards Madame Pomfrey's office.
She'd been so distracted by her thoughts that she didn't hear the footsteps coming up behind her, she didn't feel their pressence as they moved in close and she didn't even have time to breath as she was pushed into a dark deserted ally.
"Don't move or make a sound or we'll slit your throat do you understand?" A silky voice said as two pairs of hands pulled her into a dark abandoned building.
"Do as we say and you'll live, so just relax." The voice said the other twoo laughed. She flet rope aroudn her wrists and it hurt. The sensation was brutal because they'd tied it so tight the blood was having trouble circulating . Her fingers were already getting numb.
she was so frightened and cursed herself for being so stupid, she should have brought her wand. She should have listened to herself. Oh merlin please don't let them hurt me. She thought.
She looked at her attackers. There was three of them, a tall guy with dark skin and brown eyes who was at the moment busy taking off her shirt with a knife. A shorter guy with brown hair and blue eyes who looked like he'd been in the sun too long, he was getting her skirt off.
The leader was tall and built, he looked as if he could break her in half. He had black hair with intense brown eyes that looked hungryily at her. He was rubbing his hands against her bra.
Hermione started to panic. She wanted to scream but the guy with the knife would run the blade roughly on her skin every time she flinched.
It was a very sharp blade because her skin had already ripped. The leader took his jacket off and ordered the other two to lay her down. He pulled the rest of her clothes off staring at her with anticipation. she kept shaking her head no over and over again trying in her mind to call for her wand.
If she could just have her wand she could stupify them and get away, save herself rom what she knew was going to happen.
"She's a virgin." He said to the other's who smiled. "I cn smell it on her. watch the way she jumps, she's never been touched."
"Please no." She begged but they ignored her. she kept wriggling trying to get away but stopped when one of the men grabbed her hair and pulled her downtill she was still.
The leader was on her now, she could feel his bare skin on her legs and she closed her eyes, she felt a burning stinging sensation on her face and opened them as he removed his hand from her cheek
"Don't you dare close your eyes, you better never close your eyes." He said in a harsh tone.
she kept them open and she shook with tears as he opened her legs wide. "PLease, no."
"Shut up." te other guy said putting the knife to her throat but the leader todl him to let her beg.
"You can scream if you want." He whispered in her ear in a seductive yet cruel mannor.
She didn't though, she cried as he forced himself on her. Her innocnece taken with one swift movement. She felt like someone had jabbed a thousand knives inside of her and she cried harder.
The whole time she cried staring at the man who was raping her, his face burning it's way into her mind. His eyes, beautiful brown eyes that were filled with lust and hate. Eyes that would haunt her because she would hate them.
He moaned enjoying her pain taking away everything that belonged to her. Virginity, trust, passion, love and worst of all he was taking away her choice.
He seemed to have been on her forever, she didn't know what time it was and didn't care. She was bawling after he was done and she was hurting. The other two men were pulling and tugging on her body feeling her.
"Didn't even need to get her wet." He said with a grin. He pulled the comdom off his body and threw it to the ground. He leaned in close to her and laughed.
She wished it was over, wished she could go somewhere else. Anywhere away from here. She tried to think of someone who could save her, her parents. No her friends no and then she thought of him and for a moment she felt peace.
She knew he wasn't htere, she knew he couldn't help her but she whispered in a plea anyway. "Please help me. Please Draco help me."
Why him she didn't know. She just knew of all the people in the world he could protect her.
"Calling to your boyfriend?" the leader said. "Well i should let him know how good you were shouldn't i?"
He grabbed the knife from his companion who was already getting undressed. No please not again. She pleaded in her mind.
This time she did scream. Her tender skin was bruised already and this guy was vicious. He didn't care to hurt her, actually he was enjoying it. the more pain he caused her the more excited he became and as he did it the leader was causing her to scream louder. He was carving lines into her skin with the knife.
It was leaving marks of blood all over her body and she just begged. Her mind screaming for Draco to help her, please anyone please find me.
she was so badly bruised by the end of it she couldn't move, big black marks were forming around her body and the blood was still dripping down sowly. Like red drops of tears.
Her face was bruised too, her bottom lip was split after the black guy punched her for trying to bite him. Her eye was swollen too and the leader was finished carming whatever he'd been carving into her breast.
she knew what was going to happen and she just couldn't fight anymore. she didn't scream she didn't cry se just lay there as the last of them had his way with her. She felt light headed and started to fall unconcious which she finally did and she didn't ever want to wake up again. As her mind started to slip she uttered one last word. Draco.
she awoke and felt she wasn't naked anymore. She was wearing a hospital gown she knew that much. She didn't feel any pain anywhere, just felt numb. She opened her eyes and realized hse could only open one. the other was patched wiht gauze and surgical tape.
She tried to talk but couldn't get the words out, a gentle voice spoke to her quietly. A voice she recognized.
" Hermione can you hear me?"
"Mum?" she choked out and tears started falling down her face. Her mum's arms wrapped around her and they were both crying.
"Don't cry sweetheart, i'm so sorry. I should have never sent you out alone." Her mother sobbed. Hermione couldn't speak the tears bring in the back of her throat.
"Mum i can't feel anything." she whispered with tears. "Mum they... they..."
"No darling, not now. Please just try to calm down." Her mother pleaded.
"I can't." she cried out. Her mother held her again not caring about he monitors. A nurse came in to see what was going on and she called for the doctor.
she didn't take long to get there and she tried to calm her down as best she could. She explained who she was and removed the patch. She was still swollen but she could see out of it.
It took two hours for Hermione to be stable enough to even speak properly. Her mother made her eat after they took the IV out of her arm. Her father was nowhere to be seen and Hermione finally asked in a quiet voice. "Where's dad?"
"He's at the police station. He refuses to leave untill they find whoever..." Her mother dabbed at her eyes. "Whoever hurt you."
A detective came in twenty minutes later and Hermione knew what she'd have to do. She'd have to recall everything that happened. She couldn't look the man in the face as he came in but she knew deep down she had to do it.
"I know it's hard but i need you to tell me what happened, how many were there and what they looked lie."
"three." She said quietly. "There was three of them, i can still see them in my mind and i can't get them out. I can't get their voices out." She said putting ehr hands over her eyes.
"I know it hurts." The detective tried to say soothinly.
"You don't know anything." she said angrily.
"Hermione, he's tryig to help." Her mother said softly. Hermione nodded her head.
"I'm sorry." She said and proceeded to tell him everything, every smell every painful feeling and then she remembered the leader marking her breast.
She tried to say it all quickly, as if it would stop her from remembering but it didn't help. Every sound, image was burnt into her brain like all of her books.
It took her a while to get all the facts clear and then she asked, she knew she had to know. What happened after she'd fallen unconcious. How had they found her.
"I called the police after you weren't back, i was so worried and me and your dad went to look for you ourselves. I thought maybe something had happened that we couldn't understand but not this oh darling when they found you." Her mum started crying again.
The detective had left after getting all her information and promised that they were going to do everything they could to find the bastards.
"Where did they find me?" she asked mumbly. She needed to know. even though it hurt she had to understand.
"By a dumpster, you were covered with a big peice of plastic and your clothes were missing, a homless man found you and had someone call the police. they called us the minute they identified you. I just couldn't breath when i saw you. I couldn't breath and i just wanted to die. Oh my baby."
She hugged her mother tightly trying to feel her comfort but it didn't help.
She found it hard to sleep for the next few days. They wouldn't let her leave until she was completely healed. They'd ripped her to shreds and the docters were worried because it was so damaged she may not be able to have children.
She didn't care, she didn't want children anymore. She didn't want a husband and family she just wanted to die.
The day before she left the hospital she got an unexpected visit. She was trying to eat breakfast when a knock came to her door.
She was suprised to see three familiar faces. "Harry, Ron, Ginny what are you doing here?"
"Oh hermione!" Ginny cried and hugged her best friend tightly. Hermioen hugged her back jsut as hard comforted by her frineds presence.
"I'm alright Ginny, i'm here." She whispered but she wasn't alright because whe Ron went to touch her hand she flinched. "I'm sorry."
"No i understand, are you really alright Mione?" Harry said before Ron could say a word. ron had been so angry at whoever had done this to her but he hadn't expected her to flinch like that.
"No." she said wiht a hint of fear in her voice. "I'm not, i can't feel anything and i really don't want to and i keep thinking that they'll come through the door."
She started crying all over again and ginny held her. Harry made Ron back away, he was muggle raised and he understood one thing. she was afraid of them. Afraid of men now. He'd seen enough of it on the telly.
"Do you want to stay with us?" ginny asked after they'd cried. Hermione shook her head.
"I just want to go home." She whispered. "I'm sorry i know it's stupid but i just don't want any company for the rest of the holidays."
'We understand." Ron said reluctantly. Of course he wanted her to stay so he could take care of her but Hermione would have non of it.
They stayed as long as they were allowed to. she felt a little better around them but the burning in her body didn't go away. she'd been told not to worry about getting pregnant beause there was no traces of semen. Just to come in regularly for check ups. When she'd explained she went to boarding school they made a five page letter to the school nurse to follow.
Hermione knew she could take care of most of this at home. She knew enough spells to get rid of most of the markings and bruises.
As she got ready to leave that morning she finally looked down at her breast. It would be the first thing to go. The detective had pictures taken because he was convinced it was a gang symbol but Hermione knew what it was. It was a branding. It was a dragon.
She remembered what he'd said to her before marking it. Was she calling out her boyfriends name? He would need to tell him how good she was?
Draco's name was dragon, could he be a wizard? Could the leader of the men who raped her be from her world. she thought of it for a while as she got clothes on but realized something. the guy had a tattoo of a dragon just like this on her breast.
Oh merlin he'd branded her. He'd marked her with the knife so that any man who had her would know that the dragon took her innocence.
She started crying again, the thought of any one else touching her disgusted her but worst off. Who would want her? Who would ever want to be with her, they'd look and see her broken and dirty.
She ran into the bathroom and started to puke.
Well that's chapter two. I figured i'd give a back ground on what happened, it's not the best i don't think but i'm getting there. If you have any questions let me know.