Chapter 3: Um What? Mixed with EXCUSE ME?

I couldn't move, all I could do was stare. The wall was lined with cages, and in these cages were… muggles? No. Yes. What were my parents in to? At the end of the room I saw two cages that looked slightly new and the two muggles trapped were my parents. No my "fake" parents. Jean saw me and started to plead and try her best to convince me to let her out. I turned around to look at the other prisoners and that's when I saw him, Antony. My father.

"You took a wrong turn. Your room is up two more floors. What are you doing in here?" He moved towards me and held out his arm. I stepped back and just looked at him.

"What have YOU been doing in here? Why are there muggles trapped like they are high risk criminals in the 1920's. Wait. No. You ARE death eaters. I'm not staying in a house that is hell bent on destroying me and my best friends. Never." I tried to push past him but he put his arm out and looked into my eyes. His eyes looked as if were pleading and begging me to just understand. "Never" and with that I pushed past him completely and started to run for the front door. As I pulled the door open I was almost hit over the head by none other than Malfoy.

"Granger! What are you doing here? What have you done? Is Potter and Weasel her too? Oh you are gonna regret this!" And with that he pushed me up against the wall. I didn't have my wand on me. It was still in my room back in the house I used to call home. "Tell me what you are doing here NOW!"

"Let. Go. Of. Me. NOW Malfoy!" I struggled against him. He was stronger than I remembered when I punched him in 3rd year. I could feel his defined muscles work bit by bit to keep me up against the wall and immobile. Suddenly I hear footsteps coming towards us and then Draco is off of me. I catch my breath and look at the ground. Blaise had tackled Draco.

"Man why did you do that! And why in fucks name did you let this… thing inside your home." Blaise just looked at him.

"First off unlike your family we are not death eaters. And secondly, remember that story I told you about my twin. You are looking at her." Blaise stood up and offered his hand to Draco, he took it and stood up. They both began to laugh. I could feel blood trickling down my back due to the whiping I used to get dailey. The tears began to fall slightly, the boys were both oblivious and I took this as the moment to slip away and run out the door. I heard Blaise yelling but I pushed that to the farthest and darkest place in my mind. How could they not be death eaters. They had a room filled with muggles, they were pure bloods, and they are friends with the Malfoys. That in of itself is enough to sell me on the idea that they are with Voldemort. I found a path in the woods and I chanced a look behind me and saw Blaise and Draco running after me. I turned and ran as fast as I could possibly into the dark woods. When I felt as though I lost them, I sat down at the base of a nearby tree.

I couldn't stop the tears from escaping. I could feel the glamour slowly but surely trickling off and leaving me with my new, real identity. I reached for my wand and then remembered it still resided as far as I knew in my childhood home. I noticed there was a piece of glass carefully preserved around the leaves. What is that doing here. I picked it up and examined it, the edges were ruff and arguably sharp. At that moment every bad and horrible memory i had surrounding my past life came up, i could remember the sweet relief this one moment would bring. I wiped the glass on my shirt in a hope that it would do the best job possible at cleaning it. I lifted the glass to the little sunlight coming through the roof of leaves, I rolled up my sleeve and looked at my arm slowly inspecting it. The past scars and scabbed up lines of pain littered my skin. I move the glass to my upper-middle arm and drag the edge down. One.. Two.. Three.. The blood began to trickle down my arm I leaned my head back against the tree. I could breathe again, I sighed. I didn't have a bandage or anything. I could feel my eyes become droopy and drowsy, and with everything that happened today I knew I needed to take a brief nap. When I wake up I would figure out how to get my wand and then how to get to the burrow. I needed to see Ginny and Ron and Harry. I needed to find some way to be normal again. I needed to replace the glamour. I never wanted anyone to know who I was truly.

When I woke up I felt something soft underneath me, I didn't open my eyes. I faked sleep and listened to hear anyone inside.. Wherever I was. Did someone find me in the woods? Blaise? Maybe Harry? Draco? Shit my arm? I never covered it back up. Shit. Shit. Shit.I could hear breathing beside me and a weight next to me on what felt like a bed. Suddenly someone spoke.

"I know you are awake. Please, I need you to open your eyes so we can talk. Please, Eleanor." Ugh Blaise. I had no choice but to open my eyes. When I did I looked right into Blaise's eyes. Nope. I turned away from him and sat up nearly smacking into Draco. Really, Draco, Still. I stood up and began to walk away. "I have your wand. Just so you know."

"Give it back Blaise." I looked at him with as much anger as I could muster. He just shook his head "no". I turned around and began to leave again.

"I will give it back when you do two things. Hear me out, and promise to stop cutting. Please. Stop." Blaise had stood at this point and was walking towards me.

"Fine. Okay. I promise. Now give me my wand." Blaise held out his hand. I took it reluctantly. But he still hasn't given me my wand.

"First thing first, let me show you to your room." He led my across the hallway. He then handed me a key. "Mom and Dad also have a key to our rooms" I must have looked confused. Both our locks, your room and my room are the same. So your key will open my room and my key will open your room vica versa. Anyway, Ready?" He opened the door, I walked in and my mouth dropped open. It was massive. The wood was a deep mahogany and the walls were covered with books and there was a window seat that looked like it was suspended in the air. The window behind that seat took on a circular shape and curved out. The walls were a deep purplish reddish color. One wall was without bookcases. It had a bed three times bigger than her full from her childhood. There was a door cracked open that lead to a bathroom. As I explored the bathroom I noticed the bear claw tub with enough room for three people. There was a shower that was surrounded with glass that glows different colors. This bathroom was easily the size of my room back when I was still Hermione. I walked out the door and across from the door was a fireplace and mantel. It was beautiful. I could see another door besides the fire pit, but decided I wanted answers first. I turned towards my bed which was now occupied by Blaise and Draco.

"Answers. Now. Also, my wand?" Blaise pointed towards the mantel, sure enough my wand resided there. I grabbed it and turned back towards them. "Now"

"Okay, so our family are not death eaters. Those people you saw in cages, muggles. They were the muggles that got mixed up with he-who-must-not-be-named. Dad, helps them by sorting through their minds, erasing any memory of the wizarding world and sends them to a new home far, far, away." I leaned up against the mystery door and slid to the ground as everything sunk in. Voldemort was using my fake parents, who he thought were my real parents to hurt and degrade me. In a hope to keep the Golden trio broken and lost. It made complete sense. Blaise continued, as for Draco, he has slowly began to stay here more often due to the raising amount of Death eater meetings in his supposed home. He doesn't want anything to do with them. It is all his fathers doing." I could believe that. Draco's father was a force to be reckoned with at times. Plus he was a big motivator against muggle borns. Which she thought she was. Blaise said one more thing but before he said anything I saw a tear escape his eyes, "Will you stay?"

A/N: So what do you think? Leave comments please. It's a big motivator. Again still looking for a beta so sorry about spelling mistakes.

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