Hermione made her way across the room to the door and pushed. To her incredible surprise, the door slowly swung open, revealing the concrete dungeon where she had been tortured for the last two days. Shocked, Hermione hurried to the other side of the room, her bare feet lightly hitting the floor as she ran towards her chance at freedom. She made it up the stairs and into the fireplace-lit living room, but before she could reach the front door, the she heard a cold and sinister laugh behind her. Hermione froze in terror, but before she could turn around to see who it was, her head was slammed into the stone wall, and her vision blacked out.
Lucius Malfoy stood by and chuckled again as he watched the young woman slump to the floor after Goyle had bashed her head into the wall. He gave a nod to the massive man, who picked the unfortunate Hermione up and threw her unconcious form back down the stairs.
The impact of hitting the stairs and finally banging into the concrete floor caused Hermione to wake up again with a moan, looking up at the faces of Lucius Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Snape, and Bellatrix staring down at her. Realizing her escape had been thwarted, Hermione began to cry, unable to fathom the punishment she was about to receive for the attempt. Malfoy laughed, and to Hermione's surprise, no attack of any kind came.
"Stupid girl, did you really think we would just allow you to escape? Did you think us to be that foolish?" Hermione didn't answer, and Malfoy continued; "since you still seem to have some fight left in you..I'll tell you what. We'll give you a chance to fight for your freedom." Hermione's eyes widened in shock and she stopped crying, managing to stammer, "wha...wh..really?"
Lucius continued, "Some of us have learned muggle fighting for fun..if you can defeat Bella in a muggle duel...you will be allowed to go free." Hermione couldnt believe her ears. She looked at Bellatrix, figuring that while she was slimmer and more frail looking than Bellatrix, she was also taller. She figured she actually could pull it off. "Fine...I accept."
Bellatrix cackled. "Excellent! I shall return in ten minutes!" As Bellatrix stalked out of the room Hermione was so unable to believe her "luck" that she failed to notice Crabbe and Goyle approaching behind her...
Goyle reached down and grabbed Hermione by the hair, causing her to let out a shriek as he forced her to her knees. Crabbe ran up and kicked her in the small of her back, as the poor girl screamed again and fell face first to the floor. "TIME TO SOFTEN YOU UP FOR YOUR FIGHT MUDBLOOD!" roared Goyle as he squatted over her and grabbed her head. Lifting Hermione's head off the floor, he slammed the side of her face into the concrete. "AHHHHHHH!" Hermione screamed. He did it again. "OWWWWWWW!!" Again. More screams. He let go of Hermione, who curled up sobbing and clutching her head as blood flowed from a cut on the side of her face. Crabbe stepped forward, and wrapped his massive hand around Hermione's neck, lifting her off the ground with one arm, as the crying teenager struggled in midair to escape his grasp; her bare feet kicking at air, and her small hands trying to pry his fingers off her throat. Chuckling, he walked over to the wall, and began slamming her back against it repeatedly. Each time she was slammed into the wall, Hermione let out another scream of pain. Finally, he dropped her, and she slumped to the floor, barely conscious and whimpering. The two of them then grabbed her arms, twisting them behind her back almost to the breaking point, to ensure she wouldn't be able to move them. All the poor Hermione could do was cry and allow them to brutalize her, before they threw her back on the floor.
Malfoy used his wand to innervate her, barking at the two brutes. "Come on! Your orders are to make sure she cannot win her fight with Bella!" Hermione sobbed out "No wait dont! Please, I take it back, I don't want to fight her anymore!" Malfoy laughed at her "Too late mudblood!"
Crabbe picked up the crying witch, lifted her sideways, and slammed her back down across his knee. "AHHHHHGODPLEAAAAASE!!" Hermione cried. Cruelly grabbing her legs and hair, Crabbe bent her even more over his knee, bending her back to the point that she was almost broken in half. Hermione was growing hoarse from screaming, but still she pleaded for mercy. Finally, Crabbe pushed her off his knee and she fell to the floor, curling up and wrapping her arms around herself, tears spilling onto the floor.
Hermione attempted to crawl away, but Crabbe and Goyle each grabbed one of her shapely bare legs, and began to kick and twist her knee joints. Hermione screamed in unbearable agony as she felt her knees being broken. Throwing her legs down, they forced her to sit up on her busted knees, which by itself caused her to yelp painfully. Goyle grabbed her right hand, and Crabbe took her left. They grabbed the index finger on each of her hands...and snapped them sideways, breaking them instantly. "AIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Hermione let out a bloodcurdling shriek as they broke her index fingers and flung her down. "We'll save the rest for Bella. Dont want to spoil her fun do we? And look...here she is!"