Merry Christmas!
The two walked slowly through the door, wands outstretched. It was dark as night, but there was no friendly moon to light the way. There was nothing.
"Lumos." The two men's wands lit up.
It turned out they had been standing on the edge of a huge ravine, that plunged deeply downwards for as far as the eye could see. If they had taken only a couple more steps they would both be dead. However it wasn't the ravine that had grabbed their attention. It was what was on the other side of it.
"Merlin's beard." exclaimed Draco.
Harry expressed a much stronger muggle term which had Draco turning around in confusion. The moment made them laugh and helped to diffuse the tension which was building up inside them and swirling around their bodies looking for a valve. Beyond the ravine was a wall of black stone that seemed to stretch for miles and miles along the ravine. The wall was as smooth as a rock that has been eroded by the sea and there was no immediate indentations that could be windows or doors. Mind you I'm not sure what the point of windows would be, there was nothing here to look out on.
"I think this is it," whispered Draco slowly, "you need to take the pollyjuice potion and change clothes. But change clothes first, we need to have as much time as possible to rescue Hermione."
Harry grimaced and got the clothes out his bag, "Where am I supposed to change?" he asked in shock.
"Where do you think your supposed to change. I mean I don't see any changing rooms, so I do t suppose you do."
"But I can't just, you know, strip." whispered Harry.
Draco laughed, "Harry you're a wizard, I'm sure you can think of something."
Harry looked at him blankly. Draco raised his eyebrows and folded his arms.
"Really man you can't think of anything? Fine, fine. This is a useful one, crearo fumis."
A thick grey smoke poured out his wand and wrapped itself around Harry. The plume of smoke rose so it reached the roof of the cavern and after wrapping itself around Harry it decided Draco needed covered too. What felt like to Draco a long time later Harry emerged from the dissipating smoke plums looking absolutely ridiculous. He was wearing pink jeans with a sparkly top and a pink leather jacket. For shoes, he had a pair of pink combat boots.
"You look-"
"Shut up. If you ever mention this to anyone I will kill you." Harry threatened.
"Just take the pollyjuice potion ok?" said Draco, muting his laugh.
Harry downed the potion in one and retched.
"Ugh Lavender tastes disgusting."
Draco raised his eyebrows in amusement at that one but this time he stayed silent. A few seconds later in front of him stood Lavender Brown.
"Let's do this."
The two apparated to the other side of the ravine.
"I know this probably seems like a really stupid question but where's the entrance?" asked Harry/Lavender.
Draco ran his hands along the black wall.
"There is dark magic at work here. I can sense it. Maybe it will respond to your touch?"
Harry/Lavender joined Draco, standing close to the wall and ran his/her hand across the stone. A sudden crash made them both jump backwards.
"What was that?"
The stone that Harry/Lavender had touched began to move slowly, falling away at his/her feet. The two men stood silent as an entranceway began to be revealed. They exchanged looks, knowing that this was when the true challenge began and that it would require all of their combined skills to rescue Hermione. In front of them now was a long dark corridor, it seemed to have no end. Resolutely they walked forwards into it and slowly vanished into the darkness.
They walked and walked for what seemed like miles. The corridor was lit up only by the small light created by their magic. The light made no more effect on the darkness then the smallest of candles.
"What is this place?" Draco murmured.
Harry/Lavender was silent, he knew that neither of them had anyone idea what they were about to face. Just as he was about to loose all hope he saw a light at the end of the tunnel.
"Look!" He/she whispered.
Someone was standing, blocking that light and as they got closer to the figure, Draco gave a small, quiet laugh.
"Should've known you'd be here Blaise."
"Draco? What the hell are you doing here?" said Blaise suspiciously.
"I'm here with her." Draco said.
"Lavender? We were expecting you days ago. Was the Weasley being troublesome again?"
"You really think I would allow him to be troublesome. I thought I'd thought you to show me more respect than that?"
Blaise laughed before walking over to Lavender and kissing her. The harry inside Lavender was taken completely aback and he squirmed slightly.
"So, Love, why is my old mate here? I thought he was, you know," Blaise said with a shrug, "An enemy."
"Did you really have so little faith in me Blaise? You know how the dark arts has always been my passion."
"Well obviously yeah but I heard you had a thing for Granger."
"I thought we were supposed to be mates yet you think I could have a thing as you call it for that mudblood? You disgust me."
"Now I'm confused. What's going on Lav?"
Lavender/Harry smiled sweetly at Blaise, "Lets just say that I have the power to destroy that girl forever. She thinks that Draco is in love with her, poor thing. But really he's been on our side all along."
"Really?"
"Don't you trust me Blaise?"
"You know I do Lav, but we've all heard so much to the opposite.
"Just trust me. Can you take me to see my dear friend Hermione. I want to destroy her."
"Well you're the second in command and the owner of my heart. You're wish is my command."
He waved his wand and the door behind him opened, "Ladies first."
Lavender/Harry turned around to look at Draco in panic.
"Don't tell me you've forgotten where you're going again Brown. Honestly why is you're sense of direction so terrible?"
Blaise looked momentarily confused before shaking it off and taking Lavender/Harry's arm, "I'll go the quieter way. You're hated at the moment Draco so we'll need to make some kind of announcement saying that you're actually innocent apparently."
Draco looked around him, trying to save every moment to memory for when they had to leave again. They walked along cold and dark corridors that reminded him of his home the Manor. They barely saw anyone but by being observant Draco noticed that there were small cameras everywhere. His lip curled slightly at the irony of these muggle haters taking advantage of their technology. The threesome reached an iron door, deep deep underground. A young man and woman stood at the door in a heated argument.
"Why didn't you tell me where you were?" The man shouted, "What do expect me to think happened?"
"I'm not your prisoner, Dennis, you don't need to know my whereabouts at every moment."
"Im not asking to know you're whereabouts every moment just when you tell me that you'll meet me and then you don't turn up I can't help but worry about you."
The woman shook out her long black hair and was just about to yell back when an icy voice cracked through their argument.
"What is the meaning of this?"
"Blaise, sorry we were just-" the man stuttered.
"You were what exactly? What if we had had a breach and you two had just been standing here not paying any attention whatsoever?! I shouldn't need to tell you that the consequences of that would be severe," Blaise said slowly. "Dennis I would have expected better of you."
Harry/Lavender let out a small gasp at realising who was standing in front of him/her.
Blaise turned around confused again, "Was there anything else Lav?
Realising his mistake Harry nodded quickly.
Draco found himself becoming impatient, "Will someone just let us in? I've been looking forward to this for too long."
"I quite agree. Blaise?" said Lavender/Harry.
"Of you two go. I'll handle it from here."
Dennis walked quickly off, the woman followed in his wake, but as she was just about to turn the corner she stopped and turned back to look at Draco. She stood still, like she was concentrating hard, never taking her eyes of Draco.
"Its good to see you again Pansy." He said with a wink.
Just as Pansy opened her mouth to speak Dennis pulled her around the corner.
As Blaise opened the large iron door Draco turned around to whisper in Lavender/Harry's ear.
"She was trying to get in my head."
Lavender/Harry paled and he/she turned around in shock, "Did she manage?"
"I don't know. I was never very good at keeping my head shut. Let's hope so."
After Blaise had finally got the door open, he walked off down the corridor with Lavender. Left alone for a moment Draco whispered a spell, "Moram ope"
The lock in the door disintegrated. Draco winced at the sudden noise before running to catch up with the other two. They stood outside a cell door. It was the only thing around them in the corridor for as far as they could see.
"Well this is it. I'm looking forward to this. He opened the cell door and walked inside.
Draco stood behind him, 'Sorry mate, petrificus totalus."
Blaise fell to the floor with a crash. A scream echoed from within the cell. Draco ran inside. It was so dark he could barely see anything.
"Hermione?" He whispered, feeling hope more precious than diamonds trickling through him. A figure limped forwards with long frizzy brown hair.
"Who's there?" a small voice asked.
The figure walked into the light and looked up, looking Draco straight in the eyes.
A moment of realisation passed over her face and she walked straight into his arms.
"I can't believe you're here." She said wrapping her arms around his neck.
"I thought about you every moment that you were gone. I was so scared-"
Hermione cut him off in the most surprising way. She pulled his head down till his lips met hers. Draco shivered slightly at the sudden burst of electricity that ran through him at their kiss. It could've lasted for hours; it could have lasted for seconds. It didn't matter to either of them.
The moment was broken when alarm bells rung out. Hermione and Draco jumped apart.
"They know there's been a break in."
Harry (who's pollyjuice potion had faded away) turned to Draco, "Pansy."
Draco nodded, "We need to go. Run! Now!