"W-why are we here?" I asked my voice squeaky from fear.
"That's for me to know and you to find out" Bellatrix answered, dancing around to the gates from glee. "Now follow!" She yelled, yanking at the ties that were bonding us together.
I walked behind Bellatrix as slowly as possible, as if maybe if I walked any slower I would come up with some kind of plan to free myself.
My surroundings were dark; the only light was from the moon that cast an eerie light through the trees, almost as if to set the mood. As I started to become more alert, every swish of the leaves, every broken twig made me jump from fear, but not only for myself, what if the others had caught Ron, or even Harry? What were we going to do then?
I shivered as the cool air blew gently on my cheeks as we walked up the front steps to the door.
Bellatrix knocked the hollow sound of wood echoing through my head. "We found them!" She called through the door, and immediately we heard running footsteps.
"Good job" Luscious grinned evilly as he studied me. "Well, well, well, what do we have here? Is it perhaps Granger? What would you be doing out on a night like this? It's a good thing Bellatrix found you… Little girls shouldn't be wandering the streets at night…" Luscious reached a hand out to touch me, probably to drag me inside.
"Don't touch me!" I lashed out at him, anger filling me body. How could Draco be related to somebody like him? I pushed the thought from my mind as Bellatrix led me inside.
"Get in there and we'll deal with you later!" She cried, pushing me down the dirty cold steps into a dark room.
"Where am I?" I wondered aloud.
"I think it's a dungeon, I could never be too sure though, they never let any light in here" I heard a lofty voice drift out to me through the darkness.
It took me awhile to realize who it was, but finally I said "Luna?"
"Yeah, is that you Hermione?" Luna asked, as she fumbled around in the dark to stand near me.
"Yes, it's me. So why are you in here, what could they want from you?" I asked, puzzlement written all over my face, but of course she couldn't see.
"I have no idea; I've only been in here for a couple of days…" She told me.
I was about to answer her before I heard Bellatrix scream, "Get up here Granger we need to have… A word with you…"
"Wish me luck…" I whispered, as I slowly began to walk up the old, winding stone stairs.
When I got up to the top I was faced by Luscious Malfoy who led me to what is apparently a secret room. Once I was inside I heard the door slam behind me.
"Where is Potter?" Bellatrix asked me, every word in her sentence dripping with acid.
"I don't know…" I answered looking straight into her cold eyes.
"What were you guys doing?" She asked, a little more forcefully this time.
"I don't know…" I answered again.
"Just tell us!" Luscious roared, his eyes blazing from anger.
"Now, now, Luscious… Don't lose your temper with the poor girl, if she wants to play games with us, then that's what we'll do" She smiled her sickly smile, before pulling out her wand.
Bellatrix walked up to me slowly, circling around me like a hunter hunting her prey. "Hmm… Where should I start?" She asked her eyes drifting up my body to my head. "Such a pretty little face we have here… Why not start with that?" She cooed, as she teasingly began to trace the tip of her wand around my lips. "Crucio!"
Before I could even gasp my whole body was grasped by an agonizing pain, everytime bone in my body was screaming at me. I heard a blood curdling scream and tried to work out where it had come from, before realizing it was me.
"Stop! Please stop!" I begged as tears began to stream down my cheeks.
"Will you tell us what Potter and you lot were up to?" She asked.
No matter how much this hurt, I would not betray my friends. I stayed silent. If I had to die, I would at least be noble and use my silence to stand defiantly till the end.
But as suddenly as it happened, it stopped.
"Sectumsempra" She cackled, a deep gash slashing into the side of my body.
"Calm down Bella, we will leave the rest of this to the Dark Lord, see if he can make any sense out of her" Luscious said, in his deadly quiet voice. "Draco, lead our new guest back to her room!"
I heard hurried footsteps as Draco appeared. Draco didn't look hardly surprised to see me, someone must have told him I was here. Hoped filled my body from head to toe. Draco wouldn't leave me here to die would he? He would help me… Right?
"Come on" He grunted, yanking my arm out the door as he led me back to the stairs.
"Don't leave me..." I begged, tears filling up my eyes again.
"Here" Draco whispered, placing something in my hand.
"What?" I asked, my voice hoarse from screaming, but Draco had already began to scurry off.
I entered the dungeon and opened my hand. In it I could just make out the shape of two things. A lighter and I note.
I quickly started the lighter and opened up the note…
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