New Beginnings

DISCLAIMER::: Everything you recognize belongs to JK Rowling and Warner Bros. I just love them so much I wanted to play with them a little.

Summary::: Hermione is rescued, but is it in time?

New Beginnings

Chapter Fifteen

"Bill, wake her and see if she knows where Hermione is," said Arthur, indicating the small girl who lay bound on the floor. Then pointing his wand at his wife, he said, "Mobilicorpus!"

Arthur moved his wife's inert body to a room on the other side of Ron's flat. Harry and the twins followed, leaving Severus with Charlie, Bill and Draco to question the girl.

"I can't believe Mom was really here," whispered Charlie. "I knew she would be, but actually seeing her here is... well, it is just unbelievable."

"I know what you mean," agreed Bill. "Ennervate!"

The girl woke with a start, blinking up from the floor at the four wizards staring down at her menacingly.

"Who... Who are you? What do you want? What did you do to me? Why can't I move?" The girl was struggling against her bonds.

"Who we are is of no importance," said Severus in his most intimidating classroom voice. "We are here to find Miss Granger. What have you and Mr. Weasley done with her?"

"I don't know who you are talking about. What have you done to me? Why can't I move?"

"I don't believe you," growled Severus. "Tell me where Hermione is NOW!"

"I don't know anyone named Hermione," cried the girl, shaking with fear.

"If you don't tell me right now, I swear I'll...," Severus growled, pointing his wand at the girl.

"Severus, stop!" interrupted Draco, placing a restraining hand on Severus' arm. "Let me see if I can get anything out of her."

Kneeling down, Draco looked the girl in the eyes, holding his wand in her line of vision but not pointing it at her.

"Do you know what this is?" Draco asked as if speaking to a small child.

"Yes! It's a stick."

Draco nodded and waved his wand over her head muttering something. Then he stood and turned toward the others. "She is undoubtedly a Muggle, but I can tell she has been healed recently by magic, and I think her memories have been modified also."

Severus pushed Draco out of the way and knelt beside the girl. Pointing his wand at her, he met her eyes and said, "Legilimens!"

After sifting in her mind for only a few seconds, he pulled back, panting slightly, and nodded. "Yes, her memories have been modified."

Before the others could respond, Harry and the twins burst out of the room they were in, and Harry cried, "She's in the basement."

As they ran down the hall, they heard Arthur yell, "Ron's there also, hurry!"

Thundering down the stairs, the seven wizards raced to save Hermione before it was too late.

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Hermione watched Ron wave his wand and felt incredibly cold. Ron knelt beside her and ran his hand down her leg, starting at her now-bare hip.

'He spelled away my clothes! Oh, God, I couldn't stand it if he...'

Her thoughts were interrupted by him muttering another spell which forced her legs to spread apart. She was utterly exposed, and trembled with the knowledge of what was to come.

"You've been a very bad girl, Hermione. Do you remember what happens when you point a wand at me?" Ron murmured, almost lovingly, as he continued to stroke her.

She blinked and prayed for the darkness to overtake her. As Hermione's eyes fluttered shut, Ron slapped her with all his strength, and she tasted blood in her mouth.

"No, wench, you will not be passing out this time," he snarled. "I let you get away with that before, but NOT this time. You will learn this lesson if I have to beat you BLOODY to get it through that incredibly THICK head of yours. And I want you to watch me do it. Keep your eyes OPEN."

He slapped her again, and again. Fumbling with his belt, he pulled his trousers down to his knees. Positioning himself between her legs, he crawled on top of her and kissed her forcefully. She felt like retching when he pried her mouth open and shoved his tongue inside.

Hermione wanted nothing more than to bite that tongue, to push him off of her and flee, but she couldn't move. She was bound there, he was going to rape her, and there wasn't a thing she could do about it. No one was coming to help her, he would probably kill her this time, and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

He had stopped kissing her and started licking and biting at her breasts now. She felt him shift his weight and prod his cock between her legs. She closed her eyes waiting for him to enter her, but instead she heard a crash as the door to her cell was thrown open with such force it embedded in the cement wall.

"Stupefy!" a familiar voice yelled, and Ron's body slumped onto hers.

"Hermione? Can you hear me?" a voice as smooth as silk asked. She opened her eyes and saw a blurry mass of black.

"An angel..." she whispered before she lost consciousness.

TBC

AN::: As always I would like to thank my fabulous betas Allison and Piper. Sorry this update was so long in coming. Real life captured both myself and my betas and forced us to life in the 'real' world rather then in here where we belong. In the next chapter Hermione is at St. Mungos, again.