"Reina never came back last night…" Harry said. "I am kind of worried." Heromine looked at Harry, Ron rubbing her back, trying to comfort her.
"It's strange. She's not one to disappear. It seems people have been disappearing a lot lately…" Seconds after Heromine spoke her words, Hagrid walked into the great hall, holding something.
"I found somethin' of yours Harry." He handed Harry his cloak. Harry took the cloak and looked at it.
"Reina was using this last night…" He said quietly, staring at the cloak. "What else do you have there Hagrid? Was it with the cloak?" Hagrid shook his head, showing them the white shirt with the slytherin necktie tucked inside. It was ripped and stained with fresh blood.
"It appears to be a slytherin's clothing. " He said, stating the obvious. The three wizards were confused.
"I wonder…if a slytherin has gone missing as well?" Ron said, looking at the slytherin table. "I don't notice anyone missing…"
"Draco." Heromine exclaimed. "look, there's Crabb and Goyle, and Malfoy's nowhere to be seen. He's always with them, always plotting." When she finished talking, she looked at Harry and Ron, who looked puzzled.
"You don't think…" Harry started.
"Draco has anything to do with Reina's disappearance." Heromine finished.
"This is bloody strange…" Ron said quietly. "Do you think he kidnapped her? What would he want with her?"
"That makes no sense though…" Harry said, sitting back down. "If he kidnapped her, why would his shirt be in tatters and covered in blood?" Heromine nodded in agreement.
"I agree with Harry. If he did kidnap her, he wouldn't leave any evidence. As much as I hate to admit it, he's smarter than that. I think something terrible is going to happen." Just as she said that, the doors to the great hall burst open, expecting it was nothing, it was a great shock to see Snape waltz through, accompanied by Wormtail, Bellatrix and Lucius. They stepped up at the front of the great hall, Bellatrix cackling in the background. Lucius looked harder than usual, but he changed his look and said for everyone to hear,
"It appears we are taking over the castle." After he said that, death eaters began to flood through the building, wands exposed, ready to curse anyone who opposed them. "Everyone stay right where you are and you won't lose your life." Everyone obeyed what he said. Everyone but Harry. He stood up and yelled over the silence,
"Lucius, where the hell is your son?" Everyone turned their heads to stare at Harry. Ron and Heromine joined him on their feet, Ron grabbing Heromines hand, stroking her palm with his thumb. Lucius looked at Harry, hatred piercing through his soul. He stormed down to Harry and got close to his face and said with venom on his tongue,
"His fate won't be much different than yours Potter." He lifted his wand and forced Ron and Heromine to sit back down. "Filthy mudblood, you shouldn't even be here." He said to Heromine before turning around to resume his position next to the other death eaters.
"Eat shit Malfoy!" Ron yelled casting a spell. Lucius spun around and blocked the spell, walked up to Ron and hit him as hard as he could with his cane. Ron fell to his knees where two chains appeared around his wrists and neck.
"Take him with the others. We can deal with the Weasley later." Ginny got up this time and ran to her brother.
"Ron no!" She screamed, running to her brother. Ron fought against the Death Eaters yanking on his restraints.
"Don't worry Ginny, I'll be back. I promise I'll be back. Harry Take care of…" He disappeared. Ginny Sank to her knees, tears pouring down her face. Harry Knelt down and held her close.
"He'll be back. We will find him." Harry looked back at Heromine, who also had tears in her eyes. "I promise both of you. Ginny your brother will be back, and Heromine…" He wasn't sure what to say to her. "Ron will be okay." The three of them looked at each other with uncertainty.
"Now," Bellatrix piped in, "Is anyone else going to disobey us? No? Good." She laughed her evil laugh. Snape stepped up.
"I order everybody into their dormitories until further notified." He paused when no one got up and yelled, "Don't make me ask twice!" At that, everyone got up and began to walk to their houses. Harry held Ginny close while they walked, trying to comfort his sobbing girlfriend. The three sat in the common room together, Ginny leaning on Harry whose arms were wrapped around her, and Heromine sitting to the left. Heromine broke the silence first.
"I wonder where they took him…" She sighed, looking into the fireplace. "He shouldn't have said anything…"
"He loves you Heromine…he can't just be quiet when people insult you. " Ginny said, smiling sadly. Harry just nodded in agreement.
"He'll be back." Was all Harry could say, because even he wasn't sure where they took him, or if he was even still alive.
Reina laid on the floor of the cell she shared with Draco, trying to sleep. Draco's arms were wrapped around her, his steady breathing hitting the back of her neck. She had just begun to doze off when she heard something. Footsteps and the sound of someone who was in pain. She then heard the voice of wormtail, but instead of sitting up she continued to lay there. Maybe if they didn't move, he wouldn't hurt them anymore. Draco was still bleeding quite a bit, even though her tears had kept him from dying and healed some of the worst wounds.
"Well well it looks like we have some company for you." He laughed as the bars to their cell opened and they heard the thud of a body hit the ground. Draco and Reina jumped up at the same time, startled. Wormtail just laughed, wiped the blood off his hand onto his jacket and apparated. Ron began to come to once again, and slowly sat up.
"Ron?" Reina asked, walking over to her friend. "What on earth…"
"Reina!" He yelled, throwing his arms around her neck and pulling her into a hug. "We were so worried about you! We thought Dr…." He stopped when he noticed Draco standing behind her, badly bruised and bloody. "Well now we know…"
"Know what Weasley?" Draco snapped, sitting back down on the floor near the two of them.
"Well…we thought that you kidnapped her is all." Ron looked down at the ground as Draco began to laugh.
"Right! I kidnapped her, and left my ruined shirt behind while doing it. Sounds brilliant Weasley." Ron began to get angry, but calmed down and asked,
"Why are you even here Malfoy? Aren't you one of them?" Draco shook his head sadly, wincing in pain.
"Not anymore. Now I am a common traitor." Draco shivered as Reina put her hand to his back, checking his wounds. Ron looked at Draco's back, and his eyes grew larger. The deep gashes from the whip covered his back, the skin bruised around them.
"Some of them are still bleeding…but it's gotten a lot better since the last time I looked." Reina said looking at Ron, who looked horrified.
"They really did a number on you…didn't they?" He asked quietly. Draco Spun around, looking at Ron, and in an unusually unsarcastic tone, he said,
"That's not all. There is more where that came from, and seeing as you're here I'm not the only one who is going to be getting it. I hope your made of leather, Weasley." He paused for a second, noticing Ron's busted lip, still with fresh blood flowing out of it, and said, "Why are you even here?"
"You want to know the truth?" He said, looking first at Draco, and then at Reina. They both nodded. "Well, first we found out you took Harry's cloak to go to the library, which apparently you weren't really at." He gave Reina a suspicious look, "Then Hagrid came in holding the cloak and Draco's bloody shirt. Right after Hagrid left, Snape busted into the great hall, followed by death eaters. They took over the school. Harry stood up and screamed at your father Draco, asking where you were. He wouldn't tell us, but he told Harry you and him would have a similar fate, whatever that means. Then he called Heromine a mudblood so I attacked him and now I'm here." Draco shook his head.
"We need to get out of here and defeat them." He started, putting his hand on Reina's. "We need to find a way to somehow contact Potter and Granger, tell them how to find us and where we can go to devise a plan." Ron looked at Draco, confusion written all over his face.
"You want to…defeat your own people? I think you've gone mad Malfoy." Reina put her head down in frustration.
"Obviously they aren't my people anymore Weasley." He turned his head towards the bars on their cell. "Quiet, someone's coming." They all sat in silence waiting to see what horror was walking down the hallway this time.