Draco appeared on the outskirts of Hogsmeade a little after one o'clock. Draco's appearance was followed by several other Death Eaters, including his aunt. Bellatrix was the only one not wearing her mask, although she was in her full Death Eater robes.
"You three, head to the other side of the village." Draco started issuing orders once he was sure everyone had arrived. "The rest of you spread out, I want nowhere in this place left untouched. When I shoot red sparks into the air, the attack is to begin immediately. Go, now."
Draco watched as the Death Eaters hurried into position. He knew that most of them resented being told what to do by a teenager and were only obeying him because Bellatrix was with them. According to what Voldemort had told the others, Bellatrix was merely observing the proceedings and she would report back if anyone failed to listen to Draco and follow his orders.
"Are you ready?" Bellatrix asked her nephew after giving the other Death Eaters time to get in place.
Draco nodded and raised the replica wand, sending red sparks into the sky. The sparks were followed by the immediate sounds of an attack. From his position on the outskirts of the village Draco could see that the Order hadn't made their presence felt just yet, Hogsmeade was mainly overrun with Death Eaters running amok. Sharing a final look with his aunt, Draco began to walk into the village, wand at the ready for when the Order arrived.
While Draco headed into the centre of the village Bellatrix slipped unnoticed into the back streets. Keeping Draco in her sight the entire time she kept to the shadows as she waited for the fun to begin. Less than five minutes after Draco entered the village the Order made their presence felt. From her vantage point Bellatrix realised that several of the Order were already in place, waiting for the right time to strike, while others apparated in from somewhere else.
Watching the fighting Bellatrix longed to join in, especially as she watched Draco handle himself with all the grace and elegance she had instilled in him during their recent training sessions. Watching her nephew in battle Bellatrix couldn't help but think that if this wasn't a set up the Order would have no chance at getting near him, give him a few years and he would be pretty much impossible to either fight against or capture.
As much as Bellatrix just wanted to watch the fight and see Draco emerge triumphant she had a job to do. Moving so she was off to the side of Draco as he battled with a redheaded Weasley, Bellatrix aimed a spell at her nephew the exact time his opponent did. While the spell from Draco's opponent missed, hers hit him perfectly, causing his mask to fly off and reveal his identity.
Once Draco's mask was off the fighting intensified as the Weasley he was fighting was joined by another one identical to him, the father of the brood and Sirius Black. Bellatrix watched as the four wizards cornered her nephew, by this point his fighting skills had decreased dramatically as he prepared to be captured. Taking her eyes off her nephew Bellatrix checked around for any potential interference, luckily the Order were keeping the other Death Eaters busy so none of them noticed Draco's struggle.
By the time Bellatrix had checked out the surrounding fights, Draco had managed to lose his wand. Bellatrix smirked happily at the sight of Arthur Weasley holding the replica of Draco's wand while her nephew tried putting up a fight with wandless magic. Draco managed to put up a bit of a struggle but with no wand the four wizards surrounding him soon had an advantage and minutes later he was stunned.
Bellatrix watched as Sirius hauled Draco to his feet and apparated away with him. Once Draco was safely gone Bellatrix launched into battle, making it clear to the other Death Eaters that Draco had been taken. What followed next was a vicious battle, with several Order members losing their lives, until Bellatrix called a retreat. It was time to put the second phase of the plan into action.
Once it hit lunchtime the time seemed to drag back at Hogwarts. Harry, Ron and Neville soon discovered that Dumbledore had remained behind but almost everyone else was involved in the activity at Hogsmeade. After wandering aimlessly around the deserted castle the boys had retreated back to the Gryffindor common room as they anxiously awaited the rest of the Order's return.
"This is so boring." Ron whined. "We should have taken up mum's offer to go to the hospital with her."
"It may be boring now, but think of the fun when they arrive back with Malfoy." Harry said to his friend. "He's going to be hopping mad."
"And we're sharing a room with him, what fun." Neville muttered.
"It's not as if he can do anything to you, Neville." Harry rolled his eyes at his friends complaining. "He'll not have his wand and Dumbledore's just cast an anti-violence charm on the entire tower a few hours ago."
"I think that last one was more to stop us from hurting him." Ron chuckled.
With a wand in his hand neither boy would even consider taking Malfoy on, but it was an entirely different prospect when he was wandless and didn't have his friends around him.
"Yeah, I think it probably was." Harry said, laughing along with his friend.
Harry and Ron's laughter soon turned to them discussing what they would like to do to Malfoy. They were discussing possible ways to torture the blond without using physical violence when the entrance to the common room banged open. Whirling round the boys saw Sirius and Arthur entering the common room with an unconscious blond Slytherin propped up in between them. Dumbledore followed the trio into the common room and pointed to where he wanted Malfoy putting.
"Arthur do you have Mr Malfoy's wand?" Dumbledore asked. Arthur produced the wand from his robes and handed it to the headmaster. "Thank you." He said, pocketing the piece of wood for further examination.
"Should we wake him?" Sirius asked.
"Not yet." Dumbledore shook his head. "I want to wait until everyone's back safe and sound. Then I'll return and we can speak to Draco."
"We can watch him, if you all want to go." Harry offered.
"I don't think so, Harry." Sirius chuckled at his godson. He could see the glint of mischief in his eye and knew the second their backs were turned he would wake the blond boy up, just to annoy him.
"Sirius and I will stay here." Arthur said. "And if you three want to stay around for this you can sit down and keep quiet."
Reluctantly Harry, Ron and Neville obliged and sat back down. Satisfied everything was in hand Dumbledore headed back downstairs to await the rest of the Order. It was nearly half an hour before Dumbledore returned and when he did there was a sombre air around him.
"What's wrong?" Arthur asked.
"We lost a few people." Dumbledore sighed. "Apparently Bellatrix was there. She must have seen some of what happened with you two and Draco, because she suddenly announced that he was missing and upped the ferociousness of the attack."
"Are all my boys alright?" Arthur asked. Apart from Bill who was in St Mungo's and Ron who had been left at Hogwarts all of Arthur's other sons had been involved in the battle.
"They're all fine Arthur, they're downstairs if you want to go and see them." Dumbledore said.
"I will." Arthur quickly stood up and hurried towards the door. "Are you coming Ron?" He asked over his shoulder.
"I'll see them later, I want to stay here." Ron replied, looking towards the unconscious blond.
"Fine." Arthur rushed away to check on his other children rather than try to convince Ron to accompany him.
"Can we wake him up now?" Harry asked once Arthur had left.
"Yes, I think so." Dumbledore nodded. "Although I want you three to sit and watch, don't provoke him."
After getting reassurances from the teenagers that they wouldn't interfere Dumbledore released Draco from the stunning spell. Because the spell had being cast over an hour ago it took Draco a while to come round, but after a few minutes his eyes were open and he was looking around the room.
"What the hell is going on?" Draco demanded, jumping up and backing away from Dumbledore and Sirius.
"Sit down, Mr Malfoy." Dumbledore said patiently.
"You can't tell me what to do, we're not in school now." As he spoke Draco looked around at his surroundings. "Then again maybe we are, all this red and gold is distinctly Gryffindor."
"You're right, we're at Hogwarts." Dumbledore told Draco. "And this is the Gryffindor common room."
"Lovely." Draco drawled. "And why am I here?"
"We've kidnapped you." Sirius said seriously.
"You can't go around kidnapping people." Draco glared at the Headmaster.
"Why not you lot did." Harry snapped. "Or do you not remember being involved in taking Hermione from the train?"
"Harry." Dumbledore turned to Harry with a warning look on his face. Harry gave the Professor a sheepish look as he closed his mouth.
"This is why I'm here." Draco stated, ignoring the fact Dumbledore had just scolded Harry for speaking. "This is about Granger."
"Yes." Dumbledore nodded. "You have nothing to worry about Draco, you will merely stay with us until we exchange you for Miss Granger."
"Nothing to worry about?" Draco queried with a snort. "From where I'm standing I have plenty to worry about. I've been kidnapped by the Headmaster of Hogwarts, confined to Gryffindor Tower and forced to be in the presence of Potter, Weasley and Longbottom."
"Mr Malfoy, stop with the dramatics." Dumbledore said wearily. "Nothing will happen to you and in a few days' time you'll be back at home with your family."
"That's all right then." Draco muttered. "As long as it's only a few days, why should I care?"
"That's enough." Dumbledore said sharply. "Things will be a lot easier if you just accept what's happening with grace."
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were supposed to take getting kidnapped in your stride." Draco retorted.
"I'm just saying, it will be easier if you co-operate." Dumbledore said. "Now if you would give me your signet ring, the boys can show you where you'll be sleeping."
"Why do you want my ring?" Draco asked, looking down at his ring that showed the Malfoy family crest.
"As proof that we do actually have you." Sirius explained. "After all you can't do a hostage exchange if you don't have a hostage."
"If you don't give it to me willingly, I have no problems with stunning you." Dumbledore said, when Draco failed to remove the ring.
Complaining loudly Draco slid his ring off his finger and handed it to Dumbledore. Dumbledore then said he'd be back later to check he was settling in and left.
"Settling in? What does the old fool think this is, a hotel?" Draco scoffed.
"I bet this is a lot better than the treatment Hermione is getting at the Manor." Ron snarled.
"I'll have you know Granger is treated excellently at the Manor. She's free to go wherever she wants in the house and has a comfortable bed to sleep in every night." Draco laughed as Ron turned red, clearly he thought Draco was mocking him.
"You're not denying you have her then?" Sirius looked at Draco in surprise, he'd expected the blond to deny knowing anything about Hermione.
"What would be the point?" Draco shrugged. "You obviously know we have her, hence your ridiculous plan to capture me and exchange me for her."
"The plan is not ridiculous." Harry hissed.
"Sure it's not." Draco rolled his eyes at his rival. "It's not ridiculous at all to bank on the fact the darkest wizard in the country would be willing to bargain with you lot."
"You don't think Voldemort will trade you?" Sirius asked, surprised that Draco seemed uncertain that Voldemort would try and save him.
"The Dark Lord is unpredictable, who knows what he might do." Draco smirked as the four people in the room visibly blanched when he called Voldemort, The Dark Lord. "Anyway, didn't Dumbledore mention something about where I'd be staying. These robes are really hot and I could do with getting them off."
"Ashamed of your Death Eater outfit are you?" Ron sneered.
"Were you not listening, Weasley? I'm hot, that's why I want to take them off. I'm certainly not ashamed to be a Death Eater." Draco retorted.
"Well you should be." Sirius snapped. "Boys, show him to the room, please."
As Draco followed Harry and Ron out of the common room and up a flight of stairs he couldn't help but smirk to himself, it seemed that everyone was slightly touchy about his allegiance to The Dark Lord so he would do his best to remind them of it as often as possible.
"You can take one of the beds over there." Harry pointed to two beds at the other side of a circular room the second they entered it.
Draco took a quick look around and ascertained that one bed would put him next to Weasley while the other would put him next to Longbottom. Choosing the lesser of two evils Draco walked over to the bed beside Longbottom's and began to remove his Death Eater robes.
"What's that?"
Draco turned at Ron's question, finding the redhead pointing at his shoulder and upper back. Draco's shirt had come off with his robe and revealed the red marks that Hermione had given him that morning.
"Nail marks." Draco replied, pulling his shirt back on and rolling the sleeves back to reveal his Dark Mark.
"How did you get nail marks there?" Harry asked.
"Sex." Draco laughed at the naivety of his girlfriend's two supposed friends as their eyes widened. "I would say you should try it one time, but to get a girl to mark you, you have to be good. I very much doubt either of you could please a girl enough to have her claw at your shoulder and back as she begs you for more."
Harry and Ron both turned nasty shades of red before they turned round and stormed from the room, leaving Draco howling with laughter behind them. Once he stopped laughing Draco followed the two Gryffindors back down to the common room. Maybe being kidnapped wasn't going to be all that bad, he might be able to have a bit of fun at Potter and Weasley's expense.