Chapter 9 - Alone

Ivie sat down in the plush chair in her library as she towel dried her hair, she had changed out of her soaking clothes into Draco's green and grey sweatshirt and pants. It soothed her as she smelled his scent on them, he had worn them the day before and she purposely didn't put them in the wash.

She hated that Draco had gone to Azkaban leaving her alone in her large apartment, she knew Crabbe and Goyle were scouting the place constantly but that didn't ease her anxiety. It had been a week since their encounter with Astoria, Ivie could remember the hatred in her eyes clearly. Astoria knew Draco was searching the ends of the earth to dissolve their marriage and Ivie would replace her as Lady Malfoy and make her home at Malfoy Manor.

Her face fell as she remembered her own marriage predicament, the spells cast on her marriage were much different to Draco's, they couldn't be broken unless both parties wanted to be divorced or one of them died. Ivie knew Draco planned to find Dimitri and kill him but she would never let Draco do that for her. She would never let him tear his soul for her, she knew he had never killed in the war that is all he would tell her. She knew he would never be the same after, her father had killed before and he was never the same.

Rubbing her hand across her expanding belly Ivie sighed deeply as she relaxed on the couch, willing her nerves to calm down for her babies sake. They were nearly at 13 weeks, they would be able to find out the sex shortly, Ivie hoped for a girl but she knew deep down it was a boy she could feel it. Draco Malfoy's son. She smiled as a vision of a small platinum haired boy entered her mind, her heart soaring as she imagined their son.

Suddenly Ivie felt a wand tip press against her neck, her whole body tensing, careful not to move she peered to her side at her attacker.

"Good morning dear wife" Dimitri hissed before punching her, knocking her out cold.

Ivie awoke slowly, her head groggy and her right eye almost swollen shut. She tried to move from her seated position but realised her wrists were chained behind her and attached to the steel frame of the chair so that she couldn't escape. She quickly looked down at her belly and spotted her bump under Draco's green hoodie. Unable to protect her bump with her arms, her vision blurring as she cried.

"Dimitri!" Ivie screamed as she struggled against the chains.

Silence.

Looking around the large damp room, Ivie realised she was in some kind of dungeon. The walls were made of large stone boulders, a small barred window behind her letting in a small amount of light. The floor was damp as rainwater seeped in from the open window.

Ivie shuddered as the winter breeze came through the small window, chilling her. She closed her eyes and thought of Draco, he was all the way in the middle of the North Sea in Azkaban with his father, she was alone. Ivie wondered what happened to Crabbe and Goyle and the wards Draco put up around her apartment.

"The wards are taught to all Malfoy's" Ivie heard a female voice from the shadows, she looked around frantically to find a face to the voice.

"Even their wives" Astoria said darkly as she stepped into the light, she was dressed in a black silk gown that touched the ground. Her deep brown hair pinned neatly at the back of her head. She held her wand by her side.

Ivie gasped. "How?" Ivie knew Astoria would not have been able to get past Crabbe and Goyle and get to the wards by herself. Astoria and Dimitri had never met before, they weren't even from the same country they couldn't be working together. Could they?

Astoria smirked wickedly at Ivie, her hazel eyes staring at her in disgust. "I just happened to be doing a spot of shopping in Knockturn Alley when I overheard my husband and Blaise organising their trip to Azkaban" Astoria explained as she twirled her wand in her hands delicately.

Ivie's blood boiled as her use of the word 'husband' in regards to Draco and she knew Astoria only used it to anger her. There was also no way she was shopping in Knockturn Alley, she had to have been following Draco.

"I headed to Gringott's to access the Malfoy vault when I ran into a rather handsome Swedish man." Astoria explained as she examined her fingernails casually.

Ivie gasped. Astoria was working with Dimitri.

"After he thoroughly fucked me amongst all of Draco's prized possessions he took me out to dinner and we got talking." Astoria explained nonchalantly.

Ivie resisted the urge to vomit as Astoria casually explained her meeting with Dimitri, the bile rising in her throat.

"You're a filthy whore, you never deserved him" Ivie spat, glaring at Astoria.

Ivie didn't see the large hand coming as Dimitri backhanded her, her head snapped to the side and blood trickled from her lip.

"Let her finish" He growled as she grabbed her hair and pulled it back painfully.

"We got talking about my husband and his infidelities" Astoria continued, her eyes flashing as Ivie as she emphasised the words 'my husband' again. "Dimitri told me about his runaway wife. I was curious to know more so I urged him to tell me her name. It was as if fate had called to me as he said your name, expressed his disgust."

"I have explained to your husband here about your infidelities" Astoria said as she grinned at Ivie, her eyes flashing to Ivie's wedding ring that was now visible on her left hand. She had it glamoured almost permanently, she had never allowed anyone to see it since she had left Dimitri,he must have lifted it. Due to the spells of their marriage she could not take it off unless the marriage was over.

"He was shocked to know you were sleeping with my husband, and having his love child" Astoria spat.

Dimitri grabbed Ivie's face roughly and pulled her to face him. "So it seems you are the whore my dear." He said quietly.

Ivie swallowed loudly, her tears falling silently down her face. She knew there was no way out, Dimitri would kill her and she would never see Draco again, her heart ached painfully for him. He would be left with nothing, he would be free of Astoria and free of Ivie. He would be alone.

"No" Ivie whispered, she suddenly felt brave and ready to fight.

Dimitri laughed in her face and backhanded her again, blood splattered on the dungeon floor at their feet.

Ivie spat her blood at his feet, glaring at him. "Draco will come for me" She hissed.

Astoria skipped over to her laughing. "Not before we destroy you" She hissed.

Ivie spat her blood in Astoria's face and she screamed in outrage, Dimitri's large hand wrapped around her throat instantly. Crushing her windpipe, Ivie struggled to breathe. She couldn't fight back as her hands were still chained.

Astoria had wiped the blood from her face and her wand pointed threateningly at Ivie's belly. "You'll regret that you bitch!" Astoria spat.

"No!" Ivie screamed. "Astoria don't! Please!" Her voice cracking under the pressure of Dimitri's fingers crushing her throat.

"This is for stealing my husband" Astoria hissed, she then whispered a curse at Ivie's abdomen, Dimitri let her go as the curse hit her.

The red jet of light hit Ivie's stomach with force, the chains holding her hands and legs to the chair broke away. She fell forward onto her hands and knees and vomited violently, excruciating pain erupting in her womb.

Astoria backed away with a wicked grin on her face, disapparating as she hit the wall.

Ivie felt the blood soaking her thighs as she screamed. "No" She cried. "Draco!" She screamed as she collapsed on the damp dungeon floor, unconsciousness slowly taking hold.

Ivie reached out to the small blonde haired boy that consumed her vision as she drifted off. Her eyes closing slowly, her breathing shallow, her heartbeat slowing.

Dimitri took a step towards Ivie but stopped as he heard a man's voice roar upstairs. Disapparating at once and leaving Ivie unconscious and bleeding out on the Malfoy dungeon floor.