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"Draco? Oh dear Draco?" Bellatrix yelled throughout the large house. Her cackle carried all the way upstairs to where Draco was sitting in his bedroom. His mouth gaped open. It couldn't be her. She couldn't be here with him. He heard her voice again. "I have something of yours!"
His heart sank. He raced down stairs skipping steps as he ran. When he entered the grand living room he skidded to a stop. His worst fear had been confirmed. He saw Hermione in the arms of a rather large man, struggling to get free.
"What do you want, Bellatrix?" he choked out, fear trickling in his voice.
She smirked and danced around him.
"Oh I'm just having fun."
He gulped. "Let her go. You can have anything. You can torture me until the world ends please just let her go." He held back a tear.
"What is going on in here?" Narcissa walked in and saw her sister along with a few other men holding her son and his friend back. "Bella, what is going on?"
"Give it up Narcissa. I know you want to see the mudblood suffer just as much as I do."
Narcissa said nothing in return. Instead her son spoke, "How did you know I was here or even alive for that matter?" Draco was now being pointed at by the wand of a Death Eater he barely recognized.
"Well you see while my sweet sister thought I had left the house I was really hiding out in the basement. I knew Cissy had written you and I had to see for myself if you were really alive. When you came I listened to every conversation you had and you so conveniently mentioned that your precious mudblood had gone to Australia and let's just say I had some luck. I decided that since you managed to live I would find some way to make you wish you hadn't."
Draco tightened his jaw. How could she have found Hermione in such a short amount of time on such a large continent? He felt frightened for Hermione. He knew she had already endured Bellastrix's torture once and he didn't want her to have to go through it again. However, before he could even think of a way to get out of this he heard her terrifying screams. He couldn't take it. He couldn't sit here and watch Hermione be tortured again. He started to run towards her but he didn't get three steps before he was hit with the same curse. His body was on fire and pain spread from the middle of his body to the tips of his fingers and toes.
Then the pain and the screams stopped. He was lying on the floor now and he rolled his head to the right to look at Hermione. He winced at what he saw. Her clothes were being torn off. Her jeans were already on the floor beside her and her blouse was unbuttoned.
He heard her whimper soft words. "Please, please don't do this." Her head was going from side to side in order to avoid the man centimeters from her face. Her legs were tightly glued together.
Narcissa saw the look of horror on her son's face and spoke for the first time since she entered the room. "Bella that's enough. You've had your fun now go."
"Shut up Cissy! Unless you would like to join them?"
Narcissa became quiet again. She knew she was being selfish but all those years with her abusive husband had taught her something.
Draco watched as Hermione struggled. He wanted to get up and kill the man on top of her but he couldn't move. The cruciatus curse had weakened his body too much. He felt a million things in those slow moments. He felt betrayed by his mother. He felt terrified for Hermione. He felt sick. He felt like he would rather die than see this but that was exactly what Bellatrix wanted. He had to think of some way to get out of this situation.
At that moment someone came through the door. Draco couldn't tell who it was all he could hear was, "STUPEFY! STUPEFY! STUPEFY!" He gathered up all the strength he had left and weakly crawled over to Hermione using all the breath he had in him.
He brushed her hair away from her face and started buttoning her shirt. "It's okay now. I promise. They're gone."
He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around. It was Harry. "We have to get out of here. Grab her and take my hand." Harry offered his hand to Draco who gathered Hermione in his arm then quickly took Harry's hand.
In a flash they were back inside the Burrow. As soon as they landed, Hermione crumpled to the floor out of Draco's arms and began to sob. Harry took off his jacket and laid it over Hermione's legs for her pants were still back at the Manor. Hermione crossed her arms and started rocking.
Harry sat next to her. "Nothing happened. It's okay."
Draco squatted down in front of her. "Hermione? Baby it's okay. You're safe now. I'm so sorry."
Ginny came down the stairs. "What's going on?"
Harry got up off the floor and rushed Ginny upstairs to tell her everything.
Draco scooped Hermione in his arms bridal style and took her to an empty room and laid her on the bed. He covered her up with a blanket. She turned on her side and he sat down next to her.
He stroked her hair then leaned over and rested his face in his hands. He began to release tears. She reached up an arm to pull him closer to her. He kicked off his shoes and crawled under the blanket with her. He wrapped his arms tightly around her and they both started weeping together.
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"WHAT? Like he was gonna do stuff to her?" Harry had just finished telling Ginny what had happened.
"If I hadn't have gotten there when I did I don't know what would have happened. I mean I do but I don't want to think about it." He sighed.
"I can't believe she's still out there."
"Scary isn't it?"
"Yeah."
He could sense the fear in her voice. "Hey it's okay. I won't ever let anything happen to you. I promise."
"That's sweet and everything but I'm sure Draco has said that to Hermione as well and look what's happened to her."
"How did you know where Bellatrix had taken her?"
"Well Bellatrix only wants two things, revenge and other people's pain. So what's more painful than seeing the person you care about being hurt? I knew she would go to Malfoy to make him suffer."
"That woman should be locked up in Azkaban for forever."
Harry went silent for a few moments knowing she was right. "I've been thinking about something." Ginny looked at him, confused. "I want you to move in with me."
"What? Like you want a get a flat or something?"
"Well no actually, Sirius left me his place. I've just been staying here because well your family really is mine and it's where Hermione has been because of Malfoy but it's time for me to move on and I want to do that with you."
"I-I don't know what to say."
"Yes would be ideal. I don't want to make you do anything you don't want to do and I know you probably want to be with your family due to what's happened and,"
"I'd love to live with you Harry." She smiled.
"Really?" She nodded. "Oh Ginny." He gave her a kiss. "I love you."
She looked at him wide-eyed. "I love you too Harry." She pushed him on the bed and they began to kiss endlessly.
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Hermione was unable to fall asleep for fear of having even worse nightmares than before. When she looked up at Draco, however, he was fast asleep. She slowly crawled out of his embrace and into the bathroom. She felt dirty so she decided to take a shower. It took a second to realize she had no pants on and her blouse was only half way done. The fact made her instantly start crying. She leaned over on the sink unable to breathe properly.
"Hermione?" Draco must have woken up. He opened the bathroom door. Why she didn't lock the door she didn't know. "Hermione, please don't ever scare me like that again." He took her in a hug and she cried harder. He stroked her hair gently.
"I'm sorry. I just," she paused to let more tears flow, "I want a shower. I feel so soiled."
"I'm not going to let anything happen to ever again. You're never leaving my side. You never have to go back to that place. I'm gonna find her and when I do I'm gonna kill her."
She stepped back and wiped her face. She didn't say anything though and that made him worry. Wordlessly he left the bathroom shutting the door behind him. He went over to the window to look outside. It was pitch dark outside. He looked at his watch and saw it was two o'clock in the morning. He looked back at the bathroom door and almost started crying again. He grabbed his jacket and ran down the stairs, through the front door. As soon as he was out of the house he apparated to Malfoy Manor.
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