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IMPORTANT A/N for understanding chapter: I have written this chapter several times, it was different at first, but I changed it because it was driving me crazy because I kept closing the page and deleting it by mistake. This chapter contains a lot of flashbacks then back to presents. I did this because I can't stand writing the same thing more than four times, and since this is my sixth time, I decided that I want to change it up a bit, the first five times it had no flashbacks. It might be a little shorter this way, but I think that I like it better, and it's not really that confusing. If you don't understand any of it though then please PM me, and if you don't have an account then you can leave it in a review and I will explain in my profile. (though try reading it over first, I didn't find it that confusing, I've read more confusing ones) Enjoy!

"I'm so sorry Tom, I know that you must hate me for what I did, I deserve any punishment you throw my way. I just couldn't hurt them. They have been my best friends for so long. . . ." Hermione trailed off. She had awoken from being stunned and disarmed in a soft bed in Tom's huge bedroom in Malfoy Manor.

"Hermione, love, I have no intent on punishing you. I couldn't stand to ever hurt you. And I know that you didn't know that they were following you. I also know that you weren't going to let me hurt them, even if if meant risking your own life, so I went along with you plan,"

-Flashback-

"You bloody gits," Hermione bursted out once she, Harry and Ron were at the old oak tree where she had taken them for there 'punishment', "I can't believe that you bloody fucking followed me-"

"How could you 'Mione-"

"Shut up Ronald," Hermione snapped, "You too Harry!" she added when her other friend opened his mouth to say something.

"But-" Harry began but Hermione cut him off, speak briskly.

"I need you both to listen to me and listen to me good. I am no longer loyal to you or the Order, though I am going to save you tonight and allow you to warn them about Voldemort if you listen to me. When I raise my wand, Harry you are going to stun me, and Ron you are going to disarm me, then you are going to run up to the castle to warn Dumbledore about Voldemort and that he is planning to attack Hogwarts soon. Also tell him that I have gone over to the dark side, and that though I have saved you I have no intent on going back to your side-"

"Her-"

"Just listen to me! Tom and I will be gone before you get to the castle, I have no idea where he will take me though, now do what I instructed earlier when I raise my wand unless you feel like being crucioed, which, trust me you don't," Hermione said cutting off Ron and raising her wand. Harry and Ron beat her too it though, stunning and disarming her. They had listened.

-End Of Flashback-

Hermione lay down next to Tom and sighed, closing her eyes, wondering what Harry and Ron had thought when they had seen her with Tom earlier that night. She had seen it in their eyes, betrayal, sadness, shock, horror, disbelief, and disgust. She hated it. Hated that they had to find out that way. She could have been more careful. She could have taken more precautions, she shouldn't have let them find out, not that way at least. She was hoping to be just fight on the 'dark side' during the battle and have them find out that way, then after her side had won tell them why, she had a plan about saving them, but still winning, but wasn't sure of how to run it through Tom.

Harry's Pov

Harry lay back on his bed. He couldn't believe that Hermione had betrayed them. He furiously wiped the forming tears from his eyes. He wouldn't let himself cry. He remembered sneaking out across the moonlit grounds with Ron. Both hoping that she was just seeing someone when they noticed the motionless figure standing near the bench that she was approaching, both knowing that it was something more, but just not wanting to believe it.

-Flashback-

Harry and Ron knelt behind a bush, watching as Hermione took her cloak off and carelessly tossed it at the man who caught it and set it down on the bench. Then she flung herself at him, pressing a kiss to his lips before speaking.

"I've missed you," she said with a smile.

"And I you, Hermione," the man said, sitting down on the bench and pulling her down so that she was sitting beside him. Harry then got a clear view of his face.

"Tom Riddle!" Harry gasped.

"That's You Know Who?" Ron questioned, his fearful face mirroring Harry's, though there was also confusion masking his face, "But how-"

"I don't know, listen they're talking," Harry said, cutting Ron off.

"I want a horcrux, if anything were to happen-"

"Hermione, love, if you would like a horcrux, I will teach you how to create one, though if you make one you will never be the same, there will be no going back to the Order, love," Voldemort said, and Harry nearly gagged at the affection he was showing Hermione. They had obviously shagged and that was why Hemione would enter the common room late at night smelling of sex and looking as if her clothes had been ripped off of her, her hair even wilder than usual. Harry didn't care what he was doing to his appearance, but to him Voldemort was Voldemort, the same disgusting man, no matter what he looked like.

"I know, I know, and I don't care, I never want to go back to that pitiful place, I love it here," Hermione said, planting a kiss on Voldemort's cheek.

"Alright I can't take it!" Ron suddenly yelled, leaping up from behind the bush, his wand raised. Harry too leapt up, not willing to let his friend face Voldemort on his own.

Hermione and Voldemort sprung up from the bench, wands raised, both looking livid, though Hermione lowered her wand when she saw that it was Harry and Ron, she looked even more angry that it was them that had decided to make an appearance. Harry noticed her glancing at Voldemort than at them, torn.

Voldemort swept his hand over his face, turning from handsome Tom Riddle to snake like Voldemort in seconds. How did he do that?

"So we meet again Potter, though this time-"

"Tom let me handle them," Hermione said firmly. Harry was completely surprised when Voldemort lowered his wand and nodded to Hermione.

"Come with me," she snapped at Harry and Ron before stalking off towards the old oak tree. Harry and Ron hurried after her, wondering what would happen next. Harry sort of wished that he could stay behind and fight Voldemort, but also knew that it was too risky until all of the horcuxes were destroyed, so he followed Hermione.

-End Of Flashback-

Harry sighed, rolling over in bed and closing his eyes, maybe he could still save Hermione, bring her back. She said that she was loyal to 'Tom', Harry sneered at the thought of her calling Voldemort 'Tom', but maybe just maybe he could bring her back to where she belonged.

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Hermione stared at Tom's perfect face as he slept. There was no way that she could give him up. She had found out two things from what he had said earlier about how he couldn't stand to ever hurt her. She had found out that he was falling for her just as hard as she had fallen for him. And she had found out that she loved him. Yes Hermione Granger was in love with Voldemort.

A/N: I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter. It was short, I know, but important, and I think that this story's chapters will be mostly shorter, only like a thousand something words a chapter, maybe two or three thousand sometimes, it's no longer my main story, but I am not giving up on it. the next chapter should be posted this week or next week. If it's not that just means that I am busy and haven't gotten to it. I just got home from Cape Cod a few hours ago. I am drafting a new story though, so keep an eye out for it. Please review!