Chapter Sixteen; The Rescue

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"Harry, what's going on?" Tobey questioned him anxiously. Harry quickly turned his head and realized that he was standing beside him as the voice continued on.

"They're coming!" it exclaimed inside a whisper. "They're coming!"

"What's coming!? Daddy, I'm scared!" Eve cried as she ran over to her father who bent down and threw his arms around her embracing her tightly.

"It's alright sweetheart," he began as he placed a kiss on her cheek. "Everything's going to be alright. I promise." He told her however that's when suddenly a bunch of humanoid creatures appeared.

"The snatchers!" A woman screamed as everyone else started screaming and began to scramble out of the tent.

"Lily, take the children and leave, I'll go get Harry!" Snape cried as he quickly let go of Eve and ran back over to Harry. Tobey and Eve ran after their mother and little brother and sister while Snape continued to run. "Harry!" he cried. "Hermione! Come with me we have to get out of here! It isn't safe for us here!" he told them.

"Where are my parents!?" Hermione exclaimed as Snape reached out his hand towards her.

"They're already outside with everyone else. They have your brother with them. Come on, I'll take you to them." She said while she started reaching out her own hand, but before Snape had a chance to grab it one of the snatchers appeared behind her and wrapped his arm around her throat.

"Well lookie here boys." He began as he started sniffing the air. "It appears to me like we've missed one. This one's a mudblood for sure." He said while Hermione started screaming and struggling under his grasp.

"Let her go!" Snape demanded as he withdrew his wand and pointed it at him. "You're choking her to death!" he cried.

"So? It's one less mudblood in the world that we'll have to worry about." He said. "She belongs to the dark lord now." He said before he disapparated.

"No!" Snape yelled as he watched them both disappear.

"Hermione!" Ron cried as tears started rolling down his cheeks.

"Don't worry Weasley, Harry and I will get her back." Snape assured him.

"I'm coming with you then." Ron told him.

"Don't be ridiculous, you're not well enough to disapparate yet." Snape told him.

"I don't care!" Ron sobbed. "What would you do if something ever happened to Lily?" he questioned him as Snape just simply looked at him for a moment.

"I'd probably do the same thing that you're doing." He admitted. "Alright Weasley c'mon." he told him as all three of them disapparated together and reappeared a few seconds later outside the Malfoy manor.

"Where are we?" Ron asked him.

"At the Malfoy's." he replied before pointing his wand at Harry's face. "I'm sorry about this Harry but you can't be recognized and it will wear off eventually." He told him as Harry suddenly felt his face start to change and swell up like a balloon.

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Luna stood down inside the basement feeling completely alone, cold, and afraid. She glanced up at the ceiling while she heard Hermione screaming in peril from upstairs. That's when suddenly she turned to see Harry, Ron, and Snape sneaking inside through the window. Snape quickly placed a finger to his lips as they each took their turns climbing into the room.

"How did you guys get here, and what happened to Harry?" she asked them.

"It's a long story." Snape began. "Where's Hermione?" he asked her as she glanced back up at the ceiling.

"They have her upstairs, and from the sound of things they're torturing her." She said with a nervous gulp.

"Oh yeah, well we'll just see about that now won't we?" Snape began holding his wand tightly inside his hand. "C'mon." he told them as they snuck upstairs and stopped on one of the steps peering up at the scene that unfolded in front of them. Hermione was sprawled out on the floor with Bellatrix standing over her pointing her wand at her.

"Tell me where it is you beastly girl!" she demanded as Hermione suddenly broke into tears and shook her head.

"I don't know what you're talking about just please let me go!" she sobbed as Harry got a good look at her arm and saw that it had the word mudblood scribbled a crossed it in what had appeared to be her own blood. It made Harry's mind flashback to the time where Umbridge had given him a detention and had made him write lines in what turned out to be his own blood. He glanced back down at the back of his hand and still saw the scars.

"You tell me where it is or I'll_"

"That is enough." Snape hissed as she quickly whirled around and saw him standing behind her. "Let the girl go." He spoke slowly.

"Oh really, what interest is she to you? I mean it's not like you're her father or anything." Bellatrix said.

"Biologically no, but if you recall thirteen years ago I met a little boy and fell in love with him. I didn't know then that the same thing would happen again. The only difference is that it isn't officially written down that she's mine. But that won't stop me from breaking every bone in your body if you intend on harming her." He growled as Bellatrix bent down and grabbed Hermione's arm pulling her up to her feet before tossing her over to him.

"Fine, you want her here you go. She's useless to me anyway, her only real purpose was to lure that son of yours to her." She said.

"You stay away from him!" Snape yelled angrily as she just simply sneered at him.

"Trust me Snape, I'm not going to lay a finger on him. It's not me that you're going to have to worry about in the end." She said before she turned around and walked away as Snape looked back down at Hermione and bent down in front of her and grabbed ahold of her face as he gazed into her eyes.

"Are you alright?" he asked her as she broke into sobs again but started to nod. "Good," he began brushing away her tears with his thumb. "you're safe with me now, don't worry." He told her as he embraced her tightly and kissed the top of her head before breaking out of it again. "C'mon darling let's go." He told her as he took her hand and started leading her back towards the staircase.