A/N: I do not own anything involving with Harry Potter.
Boring chapter... I'm having such writers block.. I can't seem to think of anything right now. I have so much on my mind. I want Draco to have a full explanation for Bellatrix and to what more she said to Narcissa and her.. BUT i dont know what yet..
Chapter Twenty-Four: A Possible Beginning.
Hermione couldn't move from off Draco's bed. Draco stood in front of her, trying to think of something that he could do to hide Hermione quickly. He brushed his hair out of his face with his hand, while thinking. They were running out of time; they knew somewhere in the house already, Bellatrix was there.
"Hermione, you know how to do the Disillusionment charm don't you?" he asked, with an urgency in his voice. He grabbed her by the upper arm to pull her up from the bed. "Come on, Hermione. Speak!"
"Yes, I know how!" she blurted out, trying to loosen his grip. She pulled out her wand that had been in her left pocket, and tapped it over her head. No sooner then she had done so, Narcissa walked into the bedroom, looking as more worried then ever.
"She wants to see you, Draco." the woman said quietly, trying to keep a steady voice to show no suspicion. She glanced around the room to notice Hermione was no where to be seen. After a moment later, Bellatrix walked in, her face more gaunt and skull-like, then he had ever seen her before.
"Well," said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. "You've grown more from the last I saw you." and with the hint in her eyes, he knew she was remembering when he backed away from her Lord and went to the light.
"What is this about, Bellatrix? I have events to attend too." said Draco rather quick. Hermione knew she wasn't visible to Bellatrix, but remained very still. The longer Hermione stayed in the room with her, the more she began to feel sick. "You shouldn't be here. They are still looking for you everywhere. You can get caught!"
"I've come for revenge!" she spat. "I've come to warn you, Cissy. I have yet to be caught and I will gain revenge for that Potter boy to have done what he done."she began to pace the room, with an excited grin on her face.
"Bellatrix, this is not the time or place to speak of this." she said with a glance to Draco. "You know what happened near the end of the the war. We don't want anything to do with this any longer!" said Narcissa flabbergasted. "This entire war is the reason why I don't have a husband anymore! You will not bring my family down any more then what it has fallen too!"
Bellatrix glanced around the room. "I'm ashamed to hear this.. I do have a plan. The Dark Lord wanted me to do this! I have to do this for him!"
Hermione couldn't take the voice of the twisted woman any longer.
"My room. When you can." Hermione had managed to whisper in Draco's ear. He glanced around wondering where she was now. Bellatrix and Narcissa had taken no noticed as they continued to bicker at one another. When Narcissa had entered only minutes before with Bellatrix, she left the door half opened which Hermione managed to sneak through as quickly and quietly as she could. She went straight to her room that she had been staying at.
Sitting on the bed she thought to what she could do. She had a feeling that Bellatrix had no intentions to leaving any time soon. Coming up with a last minute plan, she kept the Disillusionment charm on her just to be on a save side, and began to pack her bags. She then pulled out parchment and a quill and scribbled a quick goodbye to Draco.
Draco,
I've come to the conclusion, me leaving at the moment is probably the best to do. I don't find myself
save with knowing she's here. I hope you understand. I don't mean to be some sort of burden. Please
let me know as soon as she leaves so I know everything is alright and what exactly happened. I'm going
to go ahead to where I was supposed to be leaving for till tomorrow. I also hope her being here will not cause
any future planning to occur.. I love you Draco.
-HG
Placing the note on her bed, somewhere she knew surely Draco would find it. She took one last glance at her room, before fleeing the Malfoy Manor. She didn't stop running until she reached the outdoors or to take a glance back behind her. She walked to the beginning of the trail to the front gate before she took the charm off herself and popped out of thin air and arrived right before the Weasley's trail to arrive at The Burrow.
She picked up her belongings rather quickly, walking as fast as she could to The Burrow. She most have looked insane with her bags flying which ever way as she rushed through the grass and her king brown hair flying frantically behind her. The first thing she saw was the kitchen light, beaming through the window. She didn't bother to knock, as the thrill of seeing her best friends awaiting for her. Then without hesitation, she burst through the backdoor that led straight to the kitchen. At once everyone looked at her in alarm, she knew it was written on her face that something wrong at happened. Her trying to hide her emotions was a task that she never could never seem to manage. She wore her heart on her sleeve.
"Hermione!" they all seemed to spit out as they stared at her, with confusion. She looked at the long kitchen table, nearly everyone was there. Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, the entire Weasley family excluding Percy and Harry. Hermione stopped as she dropped her bags and began to breathe heavily as she tried to catch her breath.
"What happened?!" asked Harry at once, when she didn't say anything. Mrs. Weasley jumped out of her chair, nearly knocking her chair down and she rushed over to Hermione.
"Hermione dear, what happened?" she asked in a hush voice as she grabbed her into a hug.
"Bellatrix came to the Malfoy Manor." she gasped out and then she heard the utensils drop onto the plates.
"We've been searching for her because-"began Lupin but was soon cut off by Harry.
"We thought she was dead!"
"What happened?" asked Lupin as he stood up and went to Hermione.
"I think we should take this conversation to the other room." said Mrs. Weasley, as she shut the back door. They all nodded in agreement. Ginny, Harry and Ron rushed over to Hermione as soon as the crowd began to move to the next room and hugged her tightly.
"Are you alright?" but she wasn't able to answer as they all continued to ask questions.
"What happened?"
"Is she planning to do something?"
"How did you get away from her?"
"If you would so please, Hermione could explain all of this in the next room." said Mrs. Weasley who came up from behind them. They all followed and sat around as Hermione, who stood in front of the crowd.
"Hermione, please go on." said Remus Lupin who was sitting closest to her. His scars on his face had darkened, just as Hermione had remembered several nights ago was the full moon for the month. She sighed, before she began her story.
"Draco and I were in his bedroom talking and discussing things before Narcissa came barging into the room and yelled to Draco that he needed to hide me because Bellatrix was lurking about. Then she rushed out of his room. The quickest thing Draco could come up with was for me to cast disillusionment charm on myself. By the time I manged to do so Narcissa came back in with Bellatrix trailing behind her. She looks awful too and she's seeking out for revenge."
"What exactly did she say, Hermione?" asked Ron, who had remained silent, nearly the entire time.
"Draco asked what she wanted, putting out that she wasn't exactly welcomed there. Then she told him that she had come for revenge. She was sending a warning out to the two of them and that since she was yet to be caught she was going to gain revenge against Harry." Harry rolled his eyes, he should have known that the mental woman wouldn't have rest. "Narcissa tried to be reasonable with Bellatrix. But she kept saying that The Dark Lord wanted her to do this and she would have too."
"What sort of plan? Did anything else happen?" asked both Mr. Weasley and Tonks together.
"Narcissa told her that it wasn't the time or place to speak of the subject. Said she knew what happened at the end of the war and how she didn't want anything to do involving with what she wanted to do. Plus how the war was the reason why she didn't have her husband any longer. I left the room then because I was afraid she would somehow manage and see me. I sneaked out, packed my bags and immediately rushed here. I left Draco a note asking him to please explain things to me as soon as he could."
"Do you really think she will try and start another war?" asked Harry, looking straight at Lupin. "We lost so many innocent lives and I know Bellatrix isn't the only Death Eater out there."
"She may try to bring out the Death Eaters in again and try to plot something. To what, I'm uncertain. No matter what, I'm sure she would be outnumbered." admitted Lupin.
"Well, what are we to do?" asked Mrs. Weasley when none of the others spoke.
