Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling is the rightful owner of Harry Potter, I do not own any of it, just the plot.
The train ride to London was miserable. Hermione sat with Draco, Harry, and Ron; they barely talked and hardly looked at each other. It was in the cab to the police station when the first words were heard.
"You don't have to do this if you don't want to." Ron stated still looking out the window.
Hermione looked up startled by the noise, "Oh, I know Ron. But it's what I have to do." she said halfheartedly. She then looked at Draco who was stern and unmoving. She took his hand in hers and smiled at him he reluctantly smiled back. She looked over to Harry; whom she could tell had been crying. She knew that Ginny meant the world to him and she was willing to do anything to get her back from Todd. The car fell into silence again until it came to a stop in front of the station.
"Here you are, that'll be…"
"Yeah yeah, whatever. Here." Draco said as he gave him a handful of coins and walked over to Hermione.
She placed her hand in the crook of his arm and walked in the station behind Harry and Ron.
"Aw… Ms. Granger so nice of you to join us." Dumbledore said.
"Yes well this is my fight is it not."
Dumbledore nodded. "Let's get straight to the point, do you know where he is?"
Hermione blushed, "No. But he did send me an owl Friday. He told me to come alone or something would happen."
"You never told me that." Draco whispered.
"I know. Is there any way of finding out where he is?"
"You'll have to call him and tell him your in town and need to know where he is."
"But I can't call him from here."
"Here use my cell phone." Harry tossed her his cell. He had gotten one after becoming a professional quidditch player as a quicker means to keep in touch with everyone.
She dialed Todd's cell phone and it rang twice before an answer came, "Yeah what do you want?"
"Hey baby, it's me 'Mione, just wondering where you might have ran off to."
"You alone?"
"Yes sweetie."
"Whose phone are you using?"
"Oh well Harry's here with me, this is his phone, I can't find mine."
"That's because you left it at home. You're coming by yourself, aren't you?"
"Yes."
"I'm at 'Le Amour'."
"Oh that wonderful club you took me to on our first date."
"Yes, now are you coming or not."
Hermione then heard grunts and muffled screams in the background. "As long as you let Ginny go."
"Like I said before come alone and no one gets hurt." he hung up the phone and Hermione did the same all the while thinking how cliche he sounded.
"Le Amour." she gave the phone back to Harry.
"Alright let's go." the chief of police said.
"Wait shouldn't we figure this out first?" Hermione stated.
"No, you're going in and we'll be waiting outside for Ginny to be set free."
Hermione's mouth fell open, "And what about me? Are you just going to leave me in that place when he could easily kill me?"
"No darling, we'll come in as soon as Ginny is free and then we'll get you out of there and arrest the bastard."
Hermione mouthed a simple "oh" and followed them outside. There was a car that looked like a cab sitting outside but an officer got in the car and put on the cab driver's uniform. She knew this had to work since the police were involved and it wasn't some stupid little thick minded plan worked out by Harry like in 2nd year when Ginny was in the Chamber of Secrets. She got into the backseat and sat patiently.
Draco came to her window, and she rolled it down. "We'll be right behind you. Don't worry." He leaned in the window and kissed her lightly on the cheek.
Hermione nodded and rolled the window back up. She looked to her driver and motioned for him to go on. The ride to 'Le Amour' was painstakingly heartbreaking. She watched as hers and Ginny's lives flashed before her mocha brown eyes. She blinked away the tears as they pulled up and she got out. Certainly not prepared for the fact that this could be her last few minutes.
"Um… ma'am you might want to at least pretend to pay me."
She realized he was right and reached in her pocket and pulled out a few coins and handed them to the man. She turned away from the car and walked to the building. Her heart was beating a thousand times a second and she could barely breathe. As she walked in she noticed the darkness at once and it took her a second to get accustomed to it, when she did she noticed that the club looked shut down.
"Todd!" she cried.
The sound of footsteps echoed around her as Todd came down the stairs. "Hermione, baby, how are you?"
"Good. And you?" he shrugged. "Can you let Ginny go now? You have what you want."
"Sure. Ginny!" he yelled up the stairs.
Hermione heard the sound of stumbling and then the preceding of two sets of footsteps coming down. She looked up to see. Ginny being lead down the short flight of stairs by Gary, and what's worse she was only in her bra and knickers.
"Gary?" Hermione gasped.
"Yeah so what." he pretended to yawn.
Hermione could see the bruises on Ginny's body and knew that something had happened. "What did you do to her?" tears formed behind her eyes.
"Oh you know we just had a little fun." Gary sneered.
"Fun? Fun, Gary? You call this fun." she practically screamed. Hermione looked over to Ginny and saw the tears in her eyes. "Just let her go." she sat down at the bar.
Ginny walked past her and out the door. Hermione saw the "cab driver" was still sitting there.
All her fear swept out of her as she looked back at Todd and Gary. "How could you?" she spat.
"What?"
"You know what, Todd. She never did anything to you. Now did she?"
"She made you leave me."
"I left you because I was tired of your bullshit. And why is Gary here?"
He stepped forward. "Oh I couldn't help it when Todd came to the inn looking for Ginny I took him to her and as we walked he told me his plan. I had to be involved."
"You are so fired."
Todd walked over to Hermione and embraced her in a rough kiss. "I don't think so sweetheart because if you fire him then it'll only end bad for you."
Her heart dropped. Where are they? she thought as she looked from Todd to Gary and back to Todd. "Well then where to now?"
"Back home darling." he smiled that breath taking smile that used to make her melt on the spot but now only disgusted her.
He took her by the arm and began leading her outside. He stopped dead in his tracks when he opened the doors.
"The place is surrounded, just give us the girl."
Todd growled in Hermione's ear. "You already have her. This ones mine."
Draco stepped out of a police car. "Wrong she's mine." He pulled out his wand, "Stupifie." Todd stiffened and fell to the ground, Gary was behind him and fell with him too.
Hermione ran over to Draco and wrapped her arms around his neck, "Thank you." she whispered before kissing him.
The police officers ran over to Todd and Gary and handcuffed them and placed them both in a squad car before walking over to Hermione and Draco.
"Good job Ms. Granger."
She nodded and turned to look for Harry and them.
"They're at St. Mungos."
"Oh. Well are we going?"
Draco nodded. "If you want." He apparated them to St. Mungos front office.
"What room is Ginny Weasley in?" Hermione asked the receptionist.
"510, 4th floor."
Hermione thanked her before running to the nearest flight of stairs and bolting up them with Draco in tow. As she got to the door she could hear muffled cries and some swearing.
"What the hell is going on in here?" she stormed in.
Harry and Ron stepped away from the bed to reveal Ginny who was now bandaged up.
"She let him."
"What!" Hermione walked over to Ginny's bed. "You let him?"
Ginny nodded. "He's smile." she whispered.
Hermione knew the one she spoke of, the one had given her not 10 minutes ago. "Still, how could you?"
"I don't know Hermione. One minute I hated him for everything he's done to you and the next I was in bed with him."
Hermione slapped her, "Screw you Ginny Weasley." She left with tears in her eyes.
Draco rushed after her. "Hermione wait!"
"No Draco, I'm leaving, I've heard enough." she kept walking.
"Fine you can run all you want. Just don't look for me to be there for you when you need someone." Draco turned back to the room.
She spun around to face him. "Be there? Be there for me? Draco you were never there for me before, and now that you are look where it got me."
"Oh so this week has been nothing to you?"
"NO it's been more than anything in my life, but you act like you and I have been friends for life. Like you would never do something like this to me." she paused. "I trusted her and she betrayed me. I'm not going back in there, and you can't make me."
"Fine but let me at least go get Harry and Ron so you can talk to them." she nodded and he walked back in the room. "Harry, Ron, Hermione wants to talk to you outside." they nodded and followed him out into the hall.
"What is it Hermione?" Harry was pissed, not at Hermione but at Ginny.
"I'm sorry about everything. I never should have dated him."
Ron pulled her into a hug. "It's ok Herm's we still love you. We're just disappointed in Ginny is all."
"But you're right you shouldn't have dated him, then none of this would have happened." Harry joked, but she knew it was true.
"Thanks you guys, but I have to go and you should probably get back in there before Dumbledore gets here. Which I'm sure he'll be here anytime now."
"Right you are Ms. Granger." They all turned to see Dumbledore coming from the stairs. "Great job today, by the way."
"Thank you sir. Well I guess I'll be leaving now." Hermione turned to leave.
"Aren't you going to see Ginny?" Dumbledore asked, holding that I-already-know look.
"I'm afraid not sir. Draco and I have a flight to catch and we don't want to miss it."
"Very well then I'll see you back at Hogwarts in a week," he said. "Both of you."
They nodded and left.
"So where are you taking me?" Hermione asked when they got to the airport.
"Bora Bora." Draco grinned.
They boarded the plane and set off for Bora Bora lost in thought of the days happenings.