Souls Forever

25) Aberforth

"How could you! WHY?" Hermione shouted, you could see the anger rising up. Unexpectedly she ran up and punched Ron. The guards held her back before she could get another go at him.
"You know exactly why Hermione!" he shouted, "You were supposed to be with me! Not with that ferret! and besides I'm just playing a minor part in this whole thing, the real dealer wants to see Draco. She said that if I could lure Draco to her, then you'd be mine!" he screamed.
"And you believed her! You imbecile! Voldemoert always bribed his followers but what happened, he would kill them if they say anything a little out of turn and then he died!" Hermione shouted, tears running down her face. 
Draco stood there in shock. Someone wanted him, not Hermione or Blaise, they were just using them as bait to get to him! 
"Ron listen, " he said, "I'll go with you, take me to your real dealer and let Hermione and Blaise go." Draco said. Ron just stood there
"You expect me to beleive you?" he aksed laughing. 
"Yes please Ron." he said. He couldn't risk Hermione's and Blaise's life for him.
"Oh no you don't! I came here with you to stick by your side until the end not just to end up leaving."
"Please Hermione, listen and go." Draco said.
"Woah woah woah, this was not part of the deal, we need all three of you for the dealer's plan and then you do what she decides!" Ron said.
"Shut up you're one to talk, you betrayed all your friends including me so I have no right to listen to you. And as for you," she said turing round to Draco, "I was petrified, tortured and flew on a dragon and you say I can't come. I love you Draco and I will by your side no matter what, and no one , including you, can stop me."
"I love you too Hermione!" Draco said, "Ron she's coming but Blaise can go, he has a girlfriend and real friends waiting for him." Without a doubt, Ron told the guards to let go. Blaise looked at them with tears in his eyes, not wanting to go, but Draco nodded and he knew it was better off listening to Draco. So unwillingly, Blaise apparated close to the Hogwarts grounds with a pop.

"I guess one less person should be fine." he said and the guards held onto both Draco adn Hermione and walked through the forest before coming to a bare piece of land. 
"Remember disillusment charms Hermione?" Ron asked, a grin on his face.
"I don't care, now hurry up or I'll be the one to wipe that grin off your face." Ron came upto her.
"Fiesty, just how I like it!" he said, breathing on her neck. 
"It! Excuse me, who do you think I am, I'm human, not an object Ron!" Hermione screamed, trying to get away from him.

"Ahhh Ron my dear, did you bring what I asked for?" a female voice said, making her way to us, she was wearing a cloak, what is it with villains and their cloaks?
"Got them here, your highness!" he chuckles.
"Good, good, bring them in, we'll have a bit of a chat and get a move on, we can't stay for too long, you should know that Hermione! These disillusment charms!"
"Ron my dear, did you make sure to check all of their belongings?" the woman asked.
"Yes, I stripped them off their wands and there's nothing in those bags. 
'Little did he know,' thought Hermione. She had a feeling something like this would happen so she used an undetectable extension charm. 
"Where's the other one Ron?" she asked, her voice rising.
"He left, that was the only way I was able to bring these two. I knew you wouldn't have minded."
"WHAT! YOU LET HIM GO AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER ASKING ME?!" she screamed. Ron looked down in shame. 
"I NEEDED HIM! HE WAS ALSO PART OF THE PLAN! SEEING AS YOU MADE THIS MISTAKE, YOU WILL BE THE ONE PUNISHED FOR IT. CRUCIO!" she spelled him with no mercy in his voice.

Draco and Hermione both flinched as they heard their ex-friend scream in pain. 
"STOP IT!" Hermione screamed.
"You going to teach me what to do, are you mudblood?" she hissed in her face, "you better learn to follow my rules now, or you'll meet the same end as you're parents. Crucio!" Hermione braced herself for the spell, but it wasn't enough. She fell onto the floor and withered in pain, she had never felt pain this great before not even when she was fighting in the battle of Hogwarts. When the lady stopped, she was unable to even stand up. 

"Leave her alone, she has nothing to with this, you wanted me, you got me, what do you want me to do?" 
"Ah, my dear, I forgot you were even here." she said, moving to him, " I have a very important job for you, but first I need to check something." She handed over her wand to Draco to and made him point to Hermione, who was still lying down, tears spilling out from the corner of her eyes.
"Now Draco, I want you to kill her." she said as though it was an everyday thing.

Draco looked at her completely shocked. There was no way, he's be able to do that. They needed to get out of here and fast. Draco threw the want to the other side of the room. The woman picked up her wand and screamed, "Crucio!" Hermione was feeling the pain all over again and it showed no signs of stopping. She screamed, it hurt much much more than when Bellatrix carved the foul name into her hand. She finally stopped, and Hermione felt herself gasping for breath.
"Take these two to the dungeons. We leave tomorrow. And give them a piece of bread and water, your father wouldn't want you to be on an empty stomach would he." she cacked and left, dragging Ron by the collar with her.

There was only one cell, so Hermione and Draco were put with each other but were handcuffed to oppsite sides. They couldn't get close enough to hold hands. They could hear Ron screaming on the floor above them and Hermione felt horrible She had no idea, she'd have to face something like this again. She couldn't even reach her bag, which still hung on her back.
"D-draco," she croaked. He looked at her, his hair was all meesy and fell above his eyes, his face was grim and his smile was gone, replaced by a frown, "d-do you know any non-verbal spells?" 
Draco shook his head, he was going to cry again, this was the 3rd time he couldn't help Hermione, he felt like an awful boyfriend. He got her stuck here in the first place. He thought about their date and the fun times they spent together.Why didn't he just kill the woman when he had her wand?
"You know the answer to that Draco, the wand wasn't yours, it wouldn't have completed what you wanted properly and you've changed, you didn't want to kill her." Hermione said. 
He looked over at her. Was she a legilimens?
"No, before you think I'm a legilimens, I'm not, you just said that out loud." Hermione said with a smile. But it was fake, Draco knew that. She hid her pain so well.

Hermione was concentrating on getting the mirror out of her bag. The mirror, that Harry had once possessed, and he could see Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth. Harry had given to her, he couldn't keep it, said it reminded him of dumbledore and he couldn't keep it. He gave it to her just after the battle. Is the 'accio' charm even possible without a wand? she thought, but then something shrarp hit the back of her head. She looked over and saw the mirror. She gasped in hapiness. It worked! She no verbally levitated the mirror. She looked in the mirror until she saw Aberforth's face. 

Aberforth looked at her concerned. 
She mouthed the words 'FOREST OF DEAN'.  She would've used her fingers but her hads were in chains, tied to the walls.
Aberforth told her to wait. She could still hear Ron's screams, which means neither the woman nor the guards would be coming any time soon.
Aberforth took out an alphabet chart, that used to be his sister, Ariana's, he used to teach her using this. He promsied himself never to take that out, but at this point there was no other choice. He pointed at each letter one by one, till he got the first word, 'FOREST', he then went to the second word, 'OF', 
as for the last word he only got the letters 'DE. Too late. The woman came in. 
"What's that you got there mudblood." 
"N-nothing." she said.
"LIAR!" she said, she dragged Hermione out of the cell and casted the cruciatus curse once again. This caused Hermione to lose her focus and the mirror dropped but not before Draco stretched out and caught it on his leg. The further he streched, the more the handcuffs would dig into his skin.

Aberforth was making his way to Hogwarts, he saw Ginny, Harry, Blaise, Luna and Pansy standing there, whispering amongst each other.
"Harry!" he said and made his way to him. As he got closer, he heard them talk about splitting up to try and find Hermione and Draco. Blaise knew they were at the Forest of Dean, but hewasn't sure where they went after he apparated away. 
"Harry! Look." he said. Harry looked up and was surprised to see Aberforth.
"Hi -"
"Hello to you too but greetings later, Hermione used the mirror and I saw her, she's been handcuffed in some sort of prison in the forest of dean."
"How do you know?" Blaise asked.
"DO you want to save your friends or not?" Aberforth asked angrily, "she only gave me the first two letters of the forest, but there is no other forest I know of, that begins with DE apart from dean. She was trying to say something else as well, I think it was disillusionment charms or something." 
"Thank you Aberforth." Ginny said and the 6 of them went off to find Draco and Hermione, but not before telling McGonogall who reluctantly agreed.

A/N - Thank you so much for 1.2k reads.  <3 I hope you enjoyed this chapter. A few more and then this book will be completed!