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One Unforgettable Year

Chapter 21: Merlin, Give Me A Break

Info you need to know: "Talking" Thinking

Mudblood. Was now permanently burned into Hermione's skin. It burned like hell and she cried even after the Death Eater finished writing it. Ginny, Harry and Blaise froze shocked at what just happened. Ginny cried even more as she felt useless, that she was a horrible friend who didn't help Hermione in anyway. Blaise and Harry thought the same things and a single tear fell down both the boys' cheeks. Hermione closed her eyes and wished with all her might that this was a dream. That she didn't have the word 'Mudblood' on her arm. That she would wake up and Draco would be back at school smiling at her as she came down from her room.

Draco. Hermione thought and another tear fell down her cheek. She wasn't even sure if he was still alive. Something deep inside her told her that he was but she didn't know how to even rescue him anymore. The rescue attempt had been pathetic. At best. They had waltzed in and weren't even prepared for the lame attack the Death Eaters had. Hermione had failed Draco and that was what hurt the most. She scrunched her eyes making it so that they were closed tighter as she just wished that she had the strength to help Draco.

Meanwhile back in the dungeons Draco was frantically kicking the wall and cursing. The screams had stopped but that didn't reassure Draco because he knew deep down that the screams belonged to Hermione. His Hermione. He vowed if he ever got out here he would make Voldemort pay. He didn't know how to get out of here though and he sank against the wall as a tear fell down his cheeks. He had failed Hermione. He wasn't strong enough. Merlin, that hurt more than the damn Cruciatus curse did.

"Fuck." Draco said loudly. He punched the wall and groaned in pain and shook his hand trying to shake away the pain. "HERMIONE!" Draco yelled, letting out all his despair and frustration on not being able to help her. He then sank back against the wall and closed his eyes, shut tight.

Hermione was still lying on the floor. The tears had stopped, the pain was still there but it had numbed her. She was now numb with pain and she had given up on everything. She didn't see the point in trying anymore because there wasn't a damn thing she could do.

"HERMIONE!" Hermione's ears picked up the yell and she opened her eyes. That was Draco. She knew his voice anywhere, his lush, angelic, silky, husky, sexy voice. She began to feel again, including the pain but at least she was feeling more hope than pain. Harry and the others heard it too and their eyes widened surprised but hopeful. They turned to the door and looked at it curiously, they heard movement and turned back to look at Hermione.

She was now trying to get up. She pushed with her hands and managed to get in sitting position. She then pushed herself up on to her feet and stumbled slightly. Ginny, Harry and Blaise took a step forwards as if to help steady her but they winced as the grip on them tightened. Hermione heard their winces and shook her head and smiled weakly, telling them that she was okay. And she was, she was now standing on her feet. She was a bit wobbly but at least she hadn't collapsed. Yet.

Voldemort didn't do or say anything as Hermione struggled to stand. He was surprised and vaguely impressed that a Mudblood of all people still had enough strength to stand up after the amount of the Unforgiveable he had put on her. Then again he had heard about this Mudblood, she was smart and a very skilled witch. Though he still thought those were lies. Mudbloods weren't good witches, it wasn't in their blood. Hence Mudblood.

Hermione picked up her wand which she had dropped on the floor when she had been it by the Cruciatus curse. She picked it up shakily pretending she was a lot weaker then she was. Truthfully every second that went by she felt stronger because she kept on replying the voice of Draco yelling out her name in her mind and it kept her going. She slowly straightened herself up and then stared at Voldemort.

Then as quick as lightening, so fast that if you blinked you would miss it Hermione whipped her wand and pointed it at Voldemort whilst she said the spell.

"Stupefy!" she said loudly. Voldemort smirked knowing it wouldn't be powerful enough. After all he was the Dark Lord and she was just a Mudblood. But as it hit him his eyes widened as he was forcibly thrown backwards. Everyone was stunned even Harry and the others. Hermione took no time to Stupefy the Death Eaters who were holding her friends captive. Blaise snatched their wands from one of them and chucked them to Harry and Ginny, keeping his in his hands.

Together they Stupefied the Death Eaters and by the time they finished that Voldemort was coming around. Harry pushed Ginny and Hermione together and towards the only other door in the room besides the one they entered. The one they had looked curiously at moments ago, thinking that's were Draco's voice had come from.

"Go find Draco. Blaise and I will handle this." Hermione nodded and told them to be careful, she dragged Ginny with her so that she wouldn't kiss Harry wasting the little time they had before Voldemort would stop them. Before Hermione and Ginny fully left the room they heard Harry and Blaise yell out spells and they just prayed that they could hold their own. But it was Harry Potter; he always seemed to live after a battle against Voldemort.

Hermione and Ginny quickly slipped through the door unnoticed by Voldemort. The door seemed to lead to a long dark corridor, no lights lit. Hermione and Ginny turned to one another, fairly freaked out they grabbed each other's hands and muttered 'lumos' under their breathe so their wands could provide light. They walked down the gloomy dark corridor holding hands.

As they walked, fires lit on the walls and they found that they didn't need their wands to light the way but they kept them on. Just in case. There were doors to the left and right of them though they somehow knew that Draco was not behind anyone of them. Hermione looked forward instead and saw at the end of the corridor was one, plain and simple wooden door. As Ginny and Hermione walked closer to it they could hear faint movement from behind it and they filled with hope and hurried up.

Hermione rattled the door knob but found it was locked. She muttered a curse under her breathe but then expertly preformed the 'Alohomora' spell. The sound of a lock clicking open was heard and Ginny and Hermione unconsciously took a deep breath and held it as they slowly pushed the door open.

Draco's head snapped up when he heard the door's lock click open. With dread he realised it must be Voldemort coming to kill him. He just sat there waiting for the Voldemort to waltz in and kill him seeing as Draco couldn't do anything else but sit. But he was surprised – not to mention unbelievably happy – when he saw that it wasn't Voldemort. No, it was Hermione and Ginny. Though he barely registered Ginny, his mind automatically focusing on just Hermione.

He looked up at her and relief flooded both their faces. Ginny and Hermione released the breath they hadn't realised they had been holding and Ginny smiled at him. Draco nodded back and Hermione went over and hugged him tightly but briefly. She unlocked the chains on his feet, took his hand and dragged him out of there. The reunion would have to wait till later. Blaise and Harry needed them now.

Ginny, Hermione and Draco ran down the corridor. Well Ginny and Hermione did, Hermione had to pretty much drag Draco seeing as he didn't really have much energy at the moment. She didn't mind, she was just grateful that he was alive. They burst through the door and in the corner of his eye Draco saw a curse heading towards Ginny. He let go of Hermione's hand and jumped so that he pulled Ginny down with him and out of the curse's direction. She looked up at the wall were the curse hit and saw that it was singed. She thanked Draco and he shrugged it off, stood back up and helped her up too.

Draco found his wand in the pockets of one of the Death Eaters. Hermione joined the fight against Voldemort with Blaise and Harry and Draco asked Ginny to cover him. He didn't like leaving the others to Voldemort but could see that they were fine. Blaise and Harry worked surprising well together, Harry attacking, Blaise protecting and when he couldn't protect they dodged. It was evident that they completed trusted each other. Thank Merlin for Hermione's uniting idea. Hermione joined in so that they had another attacker and defender.

Draco went around the Death Eater's and muttered the spell under his breathe so a rope wound its way around the Death Eater's torsos tightly and so that they couldn't escape it. Ginny followed making sure to use a protection spell whenever Voldemort managed to throw a curse their way. A few minutes later and Draco was done with the tying up, Ginny and Draco now joined the fight.

The room was frequently lit up with different colours as curses were flying around. It was a wonder no-one got hit yet. But then again they had been lucky but you can't be lucky all the time. Voldemort sent an explosive curse their way and Blaise grabbed Hermione to safety seeing as he was closest to her. Harry pulled Ginny to safety as he was closest to her and that left Draco on his own with his reflexes.

Draco had fast reflexes. Usually. But he wasn't at his best game at the moment, the Cruciatus curse had affected his magic deeply had affected his whole body, he still felt the pain and moving around this much wasn't helping him. So he was slower than usual. To slow. He put his hands over his face to protect his eyes so he wouldn't go blind. But thankfully the curse only reached a few yards away from his feet. He sighed a sigh of relief but he had left his guard down. Voldemort smirked as he silently sent a curse straight towards Draco while no-one was looking.

Draco removed his arms and saw the curse coming towards him but all he could do was widen his eyes as he was hit by an Unforgiveable Curse for the second time that day. He screamed loudly as his whole body was once again filled with pain. It was like white searing hot knives were digging into him and he fell to the floor already exhausted from the earlier dose. He writhed on the floor and his friends stood their shocked.

Hermione watched as her boyfriend got tortured, her mind wasn't working. Her body wasn't working, she wanted to lift her hand up and kill Voldemort but her hand wouldn't move at her command. A few moments later and after a lot of screams from Draco, Harry was finally back to reality.

Voldemort was focused on inflicting pain on Draco and he smiled as he did so. He didn't notice Harry pointing his wand at him but he didn't notice him scream.

"AVADA KADAVRA!" There was a flash of green light, the curse lifted off Draco and they all stayed still. Not sure if Voldemort had managed to avoid the curse or not. The green light faded so they could see clearly now and opposite them at the other side of the room.

They watched as Voldemort's body sank to the floor. His face frozen with a look of shock and panic. His body fell with a soft 'thump' but it was the loudest noise in the room. They couldn't believe it; just like that he was gone. After seven years of trying to kill him and always fighting against him he was finally dead. The Wizarding World was saved. No longer did they have to live in fear of the name Voldemort, or of his return. He was dead, gone forever. Along with him was his ridiculous views of the wizarding world. The Death Eaters would either be sent to Azkaban, killed or just never heard of again. They were saved.

Hermione was the first one to snap out of the shock. She ran over to Draco's body lying emotionlessly on the floor. Pale and stiff, almost corpse like. Her fingers flew to his neck and she searched for his pulse. For a few moments she was filled with absolute terror and panic. She couldn't feel it, she pressed slightly harder. She almost fainted with relief when she felt the slow and steady 'thump thump' of his heartbeat. He was alive. They all were.

Everything was going to be okay now. At least that's what Hermione hoped. But she had been recently let down a lot so who knows if there would be anymore upcoming disasters. Knowing their luck there probably was going to be some more problems in her life and her relationship with Draco. She sighed and shook her head. Hermione thought tiredly: Merlin, why can't you just give me a break?

A/N: Yay, Voldemort is finally dead. But is Draco really going to be okay? Find out next chapter. Please review telling me what you thought, hope you liked it! Thanks :3 Only 2 more reviews and then we reach 100 reviews, my goal! :)

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