A/N: WARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREMALY INTENSE AND VIOLANT CHAPTER WITCH SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND DISTRESSING. DO NOT READ IF UR UNDER 18 OR EASILY OFFNEDED

"forever young

I wanna be forever young"

Chapter 26

Voldermort's return

Draco and Hermione both turned around, Draco grabbing a towel to cover himself while Hermione slipped on a hot Victoria's Secret robe. "Wh-who is it?" cried Hermione, squinting into the shadows. A shadowy figure emerged, one they hadn't seen for a long time – Voldermort. Both of them gasped in disbelief.

"What have you done?" shuddered Voldermort, glaring at Draco in equal disbelief. "I knew you had strayed from your master the Dark Lord, but has it really come to screwing this wench?" He motioned towards Hermione, whose eyes were welling up with tears again. "You have no business breeding with this disgusting creature, she is an embarrassment to the wizarding world, and you are a part of the elite. What drove you to fraternize with this pathetic whore?"

Draco's eyes filled with anger. "Hermione is not a pathetic whore, she is the love of my life! Leave me alone Voldermort, I'm not interested in becoming a Death Eater anymore, you can forget about it now!"

Voldermort shivered with rage. "not a pathetic whore? Really? All that this filthy slut has been doing the past few months is drinking and sleeping around with just about every male at Hogwarts while failing at school. She has no use in this world. Whereas you, Draco…" he moved closer, his eyes boiling with rage, "you had so much potential, and all you did was throw it away on this airheaded little harlot."

Hermione wept quietly in the corner, trying not to think about the horrible names he was calling her. Wench, whore, harlot… was this really what the rest of the wizarding world thought of her now? She had heard the rumors about her seducing Dumbledore just to mess with him, and then getting him arrested when she got tired of the sex. They hurt her, but she had managed to ignore them… but how far had they spread?

Draco bowed his head as Voldemort continued his rant. "You have shammed your family and all your fellow Death Eaters. I cannot allow this embarrassment to get out. And the only way to do that… is to destroy the evidence." Draco looked up with fear in his eyes, his hands bunched into fists, his knuckles white. Voldemort raised his wand with a steady hand. "I didn't want to do this you know, but you left me no choice. Goodbye, Draco."

Draco gave Hermione one last look of love, a moment which ended as abruptly as Voldermort's entrance as he shouted "Avada kedavra!" Hermione tried to throw herself in front of the spell but missed. Draco was dead before he hit the ground. She collapsed onto his lifeless body which was crumpled in a heap on the bathroom floor dressed in nothing but a towel. She grabbed onto his hair and wept into his chest. Finally it seemed as if things were looking up for her – she had been ready to spend the rest of her life with draco, but again he had been taken from her. She sobbed as Voldemort approached behind her and quickly grabbed her by the hair, lifting her off the ground as she screamed and writhed in agony.

"And you, my pretty…. What to do with you…" Voldemort pondered as he let his free hand wander up her skirt. Hermione yelped and screamed with all her might as she realized what was about to happen, but inside she wearily accepted that he could do nothing more to hurt her – she had nothing to live for anymore. His cold, long fingers slipped into Hermione, but she fought with all the strength she had left, still only managing to hit him on the side of the face. Voldermort seized both her hands roughly and grasped her to his chest.

"You are nothing more than a dirty tramp, so start acting like it, or I'll make your death slow and painful." Hermione sobbed and nodded, almost succumbing to his wishes, when she felt a sudden feeling of strength washed over her, and she threw a wild punch behind her, hitting him square in the face. He let go of her hair in shock and she dropped to the ground, where she scrabbled for her wand. Just as she grabbed it, Voldemort furiously shouted "CRUCIO!" but she dodged the spell. She got up and raised her wand with a shaking hand, but his hand shot out and slammed her to the floor again with a sickening crack. Hermione felt the back of her head and when she brought her hand back it was red with her own blood. "Now slut, there's only one thing left to do," he said breathlessly, raising his wand and pointing it squarely at Hermione. "Avada keda-"

"EXPERLLIARMUS!" screamed Hermione, pulling her wand out of the edge of the bath where she had concealed it. Voldemort's wand flew to the side of the room, and Hermione seized her chance. "CRUCIO!" she screeched, laughing maniacally as Voldemort's face contorted with agony. His screams echoed through the entire school as he was subjected to the most painful torture in existence, mingling with her crazed laughter. "now you can feel my pain at last, the pain of having the love of your life taken away from you, the same pain that all the friends and family of your victims have felt! Take that you fucking bastard! ABRA KEDAVRA!"

A/N: so hermione and draco have been separated again, for good this time? Read on 2 find out! Remember to r&r and stay on the lookout 4 tha next chapter!