A/N: So, I have 32 people with this story on story alert. I only have 21 reviews… I was doing wishful thinking and thought that if every person who liked this story reviewed, even just a little bit, I would be so thankful. I've already put out 4 chapters with only 21 reviews. I'm not demanding you to review, I'm just stating how wonderful it would be.
Due to the lack of response to the last chapter, I'm worried it wasn't very good. If you had a problem with it, or noticed a problem, please tell me. But since I didn't get enough submissions to truth or dare, I won't be including their game in this story. I may make a one shot about it though.
Sorry for the delayed chapter. Please don't kill me! I'm busy with school and homework and such.
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I was in Malfoy Manor. Bellatrix was torturing me again, I screamed and screamed but no one could hear me. Suddenly, a flash of purple light filled the room. The pain left me for a minute as several people joined me. Bellatrix began to torture Harry, then Ron. As they went through the same torture as I did.
"Help us, Hermione!"
"Help! It hurts!"
"Make it stop!"
Another flash of light and Ginny was the one being tortured, Rona and Harry lying dead on the floor. Another flash, it was my mum. Another flash, it was my dad. People kept appearing, being tortured then dying. George. Mrs. Weasley. Charlie. Percy. Bill. Fleur. Mr. Weasley. Neville. Luna.
"It's your fault!"
"Help!"
"We never did anything wrong!"
"Only you can save us."
A final flash of light and the bodies disappeared. Bellatrix turned back to me and I whimpered, sure I would be the next one to go.
"Crucio!"
The curse went over my shoulder and hit someone standing behind me. I whipped around as screaming filled the air again. It was Fred. Withering in agony of the floor, unable to stop the screams.
Suddenly, he stopped. He was standing and walking towards me. We were no longer in Malfoy Manor, we were standind in a forest. Fred walked towards me looking like death. He looked like someone who had been dead for several weeks. I couldn't move. His mouth was at my ear, he even smelled like rotten flesh.
"Everything is about to change," he whispered in a gravelly voice. Then his hands were around my throat choking me, I couldn't breath. I tried to scream but no sound came out. I was going to die.
"I'm going to kill you just like you killed me", Fred laughed in a voice that hadn't been used in a long time.
"Hermione!" Ginny shook me awake, "Shhhh…. It's okay, it was just a dream."
I stared wildly around. Ginny was here? That can't be true, Bellatrix killed her. Did I die? Did Fred kill me? I backed out of my bed and against the wall. Where was I?
"Is everything okay in here? We heard screaming," Fred and George's face's appeared at the door. I screamed and backed away. They were back to kill me again, I was sure of it.
"Stay away from me! Don't send me back! I'm sorry I killed you," I sobbed, "Fred, I'm sorry. I should've let you die. It's all my fault. I'm sorry. Please don't hurt me!"
Fred and George stared at each other for a second and then ran out of the room. Ginny gripped my shoulders, and stared into my eyes.
"Hermione. Wake up." She said so forcefully, that I managed to stop believing she was dead. Was everyone alive? Was it really just a dream?
"It was a dream?" I whimpered. Ginny nodded and I fell into her arms. She rubbed my back soothingly as I continued to whimper.
Harry and Ron burst into the room, with the rest of the Weasley's close behind them. At the sight of me whimpering in Ginny's arms, everyone froze. I noticed Fred in the back of the group and felt a panic rise up in me. Did I accidently tell him about the soul bond?
Fred walked forward with an extremely confused and angry expression. George looked guilty. I pushed Ginny away and stood up.
"I'm sorry", I whispered.
"George told me that… you saved me. He told me how. Why the fuck would you not tell me? Don't you think I deserve to know? How could you, Hermione? How the fuck could you?" Fred said growing angrier with every word.
I was sobbing now. I couldn't stop shaking. "I did it for you. I did it for everyone, Lissy would have wanted it that way. Oh My God. I'm so sorry."
The rest of the Weasleys looked at Fred, then me, then Fred again. Fred looked at me harshly.
"Just go."
I took his words as an eager invitation. I pushed past Ron and Harry's shocked faces and ran out of the room, just in time to here the questions launched at Fred and George.
"What is she talking about?"
"What happened?"
"Who's Lissy?"
"Why are you so mad? She saved your life", George said softly. I stopped running and waited to hear his reply.
"She never told me. She kept this fucking secret from me that changes everything. I don't know if I can ever forgive her." Fred replied, still shaking with anger.
Tears sprung to my eyes once again and I began to run. I made it past the steps and out the door. I ran until I could no longer see the house, until I was emerged in the forest deeper then I had ever been before. When my legs couldn't run any longer, I fell to my knees.
I saved his life. Couldn't he be grateful? Or forgiving? It's not like I had a lot of choices. He's going to be even angrier when he finds out about the soul bond. How would he ever marry me now?
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the mudblood bitch." A cold, hard voice spoke at me from above. I stiffened. I recognized that tone. I slowly turned my head up. It was Lucius Malfoy.
He had his wand out, and was smiling with an ugly grin. Now I wished I hadn't gone so far in the forest, no one could hear me scream.
"Stupefy!" I shouted. He blocked it easily.
"You're going to have to do better than that. As I remember, you were a horrible shag. We'll have to work on that, won't we? Crucio!" I attempted to block it, but my shield charm wasn't strong enough.
I flew backwards, hitting my head against a tree. The shield charm helped enough that I didn't feel the normal pain, but only flew backwards.
"Expelleriamus!" Malfoy shouted. I was still dazed from the impact of the my head against the tree and my wand flew out of my hands. Malfoy clearly intended to catch my wand, but it flew short of him by a few feet. It was dead center between us. There was a beat of silence, then we both lunged for the wand.
I got to it first and sent a quick bat bogey hex at Malfoy, he shrieked and tried to scrape his bat bogey's off.
"Petrificus Totalus!" I shouted. Malfoy froze, his legs and arms snapped to the sides. I turned my back on him and conjured my patronus.
The otter swam happily around me, while I tried to decide on a message to send to the Weasley's.
"I need help. I have been attacked. I'm in the middle of the woods. Use tracking spell."
The otter disappeared in a flash of light. I turned back to Lucius Malfoy. I did a double take, he was gone. I silently cursed myself for being so stupid.
"Tantum Sanguinus", I heard an oily voice whisper. Blood spurted from me. I suddenly had cuts all over my body; it was if someone had peeled of all my skin. I screamed from the pain. It was almost worse than the soul bonding. It was worse than being tortured at Malfoy Manor, it was even worse than being raped.
Evil laughter bounced off the trees, five death eaters emerged from the trees. The only one I regonized was Lucius Malfoy.
"A new dark lord is rising. He will be more powerful than anyone before him, even Voldemort. It will be a new world, a changed world. Too bad you won't be here to see it", Malfoy said angrily.
"Avada Ke-"
"Stupefy!"
Fred's voice shouted. The death eater's eyes widened in surprise and he toppled over. Curses filled the air as the Weasley's joined in the battle. I couldn't move anymore, I could barely think. I had lost too much blood. I would surely die here. I felt another curse hit me and I was thrown into a tree.
"Crucio!"
I screamed as even more pain filled me. My vision started to blacken at the edges. The pain hadn't left yet, I was still screaming. Time is different under the crucio curse. Seconds feel like hours, minutes feel like days. You lose all sense of who you are and what ties you too the world. All that matters is the pain and when it will stop.
"Avada kedavra!"
I saw a flash of green light and I knew nothing more.
A/N: Ahhh! Cliffhanger! I'm sorry to leave you guys here, but I need to go to bed. Did Hermione die? Or what? Find out as soon as I post another chapter!
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