Disclaimer: All credit for characters and world belong to the genius that is J.K. Rowling. Otherwise, plot is mine. :)
A cold hand forced her chin up to stare into his eyes. She had been locked in the dungeon, trussed and hauled off in the minutes after Ron had selfishly left her. She hadn't struggled; she'd been too far gone to realize what was happening.
Rough hands had dragged her into an empty room. The only things inside here were chains and her logical mind briefly imagined this was the room Filch used to use for his short time running the disciplinary procedures before lapsing back into fog.
She had been slapped in cuffs and magically restrained, though with her broken arm, she would have been hardly able to resist even if she wanted too. Her back was to the wall facing the door. The unknown wand had been taken away and she had been left alone. Until he had entered, her mind had been unfeelingly blank
Empty brown eyes met muted red ones. Here in the dank greenish light of the dungeons, his pale translucent skin gave off an ethereal glow. This close to his face she could see the spider webbing of blue that fed his blood back to the void in his chest where a human heart would reside.
"Ahh the mudblood friend of the dead Harry Potter," his voice hissed out lingering viciously at the word dead and slithering in one of her ears and out the other causing her skin to break out in goose flesh. His eyes searched hers and she stared blankly back, visions of her beloved Ron crumpling to the floor playing over and over in her mind.
A prickly sensation pushed at her senses and withdrew quickly as he snorted in disgust, dropping her chin.
"You desired the blood traitor, I can see it in your mind," he spat, "A mudblood and a blood traitor, the brains and brawn behind The Boy Who Lived's lucky life, creating nasty little offspring. How utterly revolting," he mocked, eliciting nothing from her other than her head drooping back down, her eyes glazing over in grief.
"You will look at your Lord when he speaks to you," he hissed, painfully wrenching her chin back up to meet his eyes, this time filled with a fiery anger.
Her head lolled to the side, only supported by his long reptilian fingers. She had no will to live anymore. Ron was gone. Harry was gone. The world was over. She just wanted to die as well. Maybe then she would see them again.
"Kill me," she whispered, pleading, her voice gravelly from disuse and unshed emotion.
At this, he dropped his hand again, her head falling limply to touch her chest. She saw his feet turn and stalk away and then quickly return.
In an instant, his hands were gripping her chin again, cutting off her trachea's ability to take in air but not quite with enough force to end things for her. Turning her head forcefully to the side she watched from her peripheral vision as he drew closer to her, close enough to touch his mouth to her ear, his hot breath puffing and warming the side of her face.
"You repulse me. You are a vile, abhorrent creature and even touching you makes my very skin burn. Your veins run full of dirt and you taint the power of magic by your existence but no, I will not kill you. You could be of use in more ways than one. Instead, I will tell you something very few know. I myself, the eminent Lord Voldemort, had filthy scum for a father. The foul swine was a muggle, undeserving of my mother's attention or infatuation. But see, even you lowly beasts have a purpose. Without him, I would not be alive so in the end his short life was permissible. Somehow, you nauseating mudblood were the key to keeping my return at bay for so many years. I am brilliant and I was not fooled. Your admittedly impressive intelligence saved Potter and kept him alive this long so I believe I'll do the same for you, at least for a time. Potter needed to be exterminated and the redhead was useless. Maybe you'll be of use to me. Plus despite being vermin, you are not…difficult to look at," he whispered into her ear, his voice causing her to violently shiver, draining her of warmth aside from where his breath hit.
Then he opened his mouth she thought perhaps to speak again. Yet instead, he bit down hard on the lobe of her ear. With a startled cry, she shook, unable to pull away due to the chains. The abrupt movement shifted her arm and her mouth pulled open into a hoarse scream of throbbing as her nervous system throbbed with pain once again.
Pulling back, he watched in amusement and then looked at her appraisingly, blood staining his thin lips. Her blood was dripping down the side of her chin. He lifted a thin finger to the rivulet of blood flowing from her ear and pulled away, his finger smeared with red despite her cringing away from his touch. Then he brought his finger to his lips and licked it off slow. She was surprised to see his tongue was not forked.
"Fascinating," he murmured more to himself to her.
Then leaning in close again, he placed his hand on her waist and the other gently brought her chin back up to meet his eyes. He was scant inches from her face.
"You don't taste of mud."
And with that, he licked the blood from her cheek leaving a slimy trail. With a merciless smirk he pulled away and swept from the room, the door clanging shut behind him and her bonds opening.
Left alone, she slumped into the wall sliding down into a ball on the floor with a sob. Cradling her destroyed arm she huddled on the ground, he body shaking with anguish and fright. The only thing that has just kept her upright were the shackles around her wrists.
The tears flowed thick and fast down her cheeks mixing with mucous, the blood from her forehead and ear and his wretched saliva. Minutes, maybe hours passed as the tears ran dry. For a long time after she just stared at the cobblestoned ground in front of her, unable to control her thoughts which reeled about. Somehow amidst it all, her mind drifted off to oblivion.
Authors Note: I'm having writer's block problems with my other story Old Friends and so freewriting created this. I'm dark and twisty, I know. I have more written but my continuation will be based on reader's discretion and reviews!