Chapter 1 - Realisation
Hermione awoke startled. Carefully she looked around her, she wasn’t at home but she couldn’t remember how she got here. The last thing she remembered was the horrible pain she had felt in her house before falling to the floor. She had no idea where she was or why she was there, why did she have to be captured? Why couldn’t it be someone else?
Hearing footsteps Hermione lied back down and closed her eyes, she didn’t want the person to think she had awoken, not yet, she needed time to adjust first. Hermione could feel them getting closer until finally the footsteps stopped but now she could hear the person breathing and getting louder and louder as if it was getting closer and then she realised they were bending closer to her.
“Draco” A voice spoke from in the distance and the breathing stopped quickly as she felt him straighten up and turn to face the person who had spoken. She couldn’t believe where she was. She only knew one Draco and that meant that she was in the very house of the Malfoy’s. Her enemies. Her best friends enemies.
“Draco, what did I tell you about coming down….” The persons voice stopped sharp as he looked down at Hermione. He had noticed something he hadn’t noticed before, she was breathing and was in a different position. “Did you move her?” the person asked Draco inquiringly.
“No father, I didn’t” Draco said before being pushed aside as Lucius bent over Hermione himself. He looked straight into her eyes and Hermione could feel them burning straight through her skull. She knew that he knew that she was no longer unconscious and that she was actually conscious. Hermione kept her eyes closed and her breathing steady for if she changed it he would be able to confirm it all.
Suddenly she felt a pain in her stomach. Lucius had kicked her. Upon instant reflection she curled into a ball clutching her stomach. Lucius smirked as Draco stood up beside his father and looked down at Hermione with disgust. He couldn’t believe that she wasn’t dead, he had wished so hard.
“So she does live” Lucius drawled with a smirk, “Draco you are in charge of her, make sure she doesn’t try to escape” he spoke fast and then whispered something to Draco that Hermione couldn’t hear and left the room. Hermione kept her eyes closed and didn’t move. Being in the presence of Draco was worse than Lucius.
“Open your eyes Granger” Draco snarled as he kicked her in the stomach again, “Or I’ll have to curse you and you don’t want that now do you?”
Hermione clutched her stomach once more before opening her eyes and glaring at Draco. Why did he have to be so mean all the time? He could at least try to be civil but then he would never be able to do that, he was Draco after all. Nothing in this earth would change the way Draco treated others.
“Got a problem Granger?” Draco asked glaring straight back at her, “I’ve been given strict orders to make sure you don’t escape and so that’s exactly what I’m going to do, I don’t exactly want a mudblood running around in my mansion now do I?” Draco sneered, as he sat himself down next to Granger, but not too close. Hermione glared at him but didn’t say anything, what could she say.
“Your silence is boring me Granger, Pansy’s shrieks are better than silence so if I were you I’d speak or I might just have to curse you” Draco said with a smirk, “We don’t want the guard bored now do we, that’s just not on, it wouldn’t be fair at all would it?”
Hermione still didn’t say anything, just clutched her stomach and glared at Draco, how she loathed him. He thought that he was so high and mighty when really he was nothing but a stupid little bug that she could crush in an instant. If she had a wand on her anyway but she knew that the Malfoy’s would have taken that away from her, they aren’t that dumb.
Draco pulled out his wand and started playing with it in his hands. “I wasn’t lying Granger, I will curse you, I do hate being bored and talking or cursing you would definitely remove that boredom, I don’t mind which really, although I would prefer to curse you” Draco said with a smirk as he pointed his wand at Granger, “How about a nice little teeth growing charm? It sure was a better look on you”
“Shut up Malfoy” Hermione said angrily, “It would be a better look on you but that’s just my opinion.” Hermione hated this, she had no weapon against him and she knew there was nothing stopping Draco from cursing her. She just wanted to wake up and find out it was all a dream but that would never happen. Ever.
“Oh look the mudblood can speak” Draco said with a grin as he stood up and started walking from one side of the room to the other. “I’m actually amazed you haven’t started using your brain yet Granger, I know you have one so why don’t you just try to run, it’s what I would do in your position but then I would never be stupid enough to be in your position so I suppose it doesn’t really matter anyway”
At this Hermione got to her feet and walked over to Draco and pushed him, “I have got brains, and therefore I’m smart enough to know you’d curse me if I tried to escape so there’s no bloody point” Hermione said staring angrily at Draco.
“Temper, temper” Draco said with a smirk, “I guess you get your temper from your stupid muggle parents, it’s a shame they’re no longer with you, no longer be able to protect, you’re all on your own now Hermione, you’ll always be on your own, you’ll never see…” Draco was cut short by Hermione’s hand, which slapped him around the face.
“What have they done to my parents!” Hermione screamed angrily although she knew, from the way he was talking, she knew they had killed them. Hermione chocked back the oncoming tears as she stared hard at Draco, “You and your family are nothing but spineless brutes who deserve to be locked up”
Draco laughed at this, he actually laughed, “Like you, you mean?” Draco asked as a smirk spread across his face, “You are never going to see your parents again but I am, I’ll always have my parents by my side, now you have nothing but your boyfriends, Harry and Ron who haven’t even tried to contact you, shows you how much they care”
Hermione fought the urge to hit him again and instead just glared evilly at him but knowing that everything he had just said. Everything he had said was true, she was never going to see her parents again. And if Harry and Ron really did care why weren’t they hear fighting with her? Why weren’t they trying to save her. Hermione bit her lip as she tried not to cry.
“There, there Granger” Draco said giving her a pat on the shoulder, “I’m here for you, I’ll help you through” Draco smirked, he would find it very hard not to laugh if Granger didn’t see through his act but then he was very good at acting, he did it every day of his life.
Hermione moved away from Draco and sat back on the floor, she didn’t want to cry in front of Draco but she couldn’t help it, it was all too much to take in. Before she could stop them tears were hurriedly rushing down her face. Draco smirked as he sat down beside her and put his arm around her shoulder and without thinking she buried her face in his chest and cried her heart out.
