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The Downfall of Greed	By : tcarlson Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Lucius/Hermione Views: 40824 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Kidnapping a Muggle is really too easy. They don’t have detection spells. They don’t have wards. They don’t have anything that magic can’t overcome.

I simply Apparated to the neighborhood where Hermione Granger was known to have lived, found the house based on her memories, broke in, and Apparated back home when I had located the girl named Anna. I didn’t even have to Stun a dog or family member when she woke up to find a strange man in her room and screamed. I guess not all Death Eater business can be challenging.

Hermione Granger was still in the library where I left her when I went to go retrieve Anna. She stood near the fire hugging herself and futilely hoping that I would come back alone. Her eyes widened as I dragged the screaming and crying girl into the room. I dropped her arm and she fell to the floor. “What do you want from me?” Anna said over and over.

“Anna!” Hermione Granger cried out. She ran over to her friend and enveloped her into a hug. “I’m so sorry. I’m so so sorry!”

“Hermione?” the girl sniffled. “What’s going on? Where am I?”

Hermione Granger looked up at me. “Please let her go,” she pleaded. “I haven’t even talked to her in nearly seven years. It’s not fair! Let her go!”

“Life isn’t fair, Miss. Granger,” I replied. “Now, depending on your compliance, she can die quickly and painlessly or slowly and very painfully.”

“Die!” Anna screeched. “I’m only 17! I don’t even know you! Why would you kill me?!”

“Shhhh,” Hermione Granger soothed her, stroking her hair. “It’s ok. I’ll get you out of this.”

“Don’t make promises you can’t keep,” I admonished.

“Well, tell me what I can do to save her life!”

“You can start by admitting that you are a Mudblood,” I offered.

She paused, clearly not quite willing to give in to that yet. I flicked my wand and a deep cut appeared on Anna’s cheek. She gave a startled cry and pressed her hand to the wound. “Fine! I’m a Mudblood!”

“Like you mean it…” I pointed my wand threateningly at Anna. She flinched.

Hermione Granger stood up and faced me. Tears filled her eyes. “I’m a Mudblood,” she repeated. “Can she go now?”

“Why, Miss. Granger, we are just beginning.” She took in a shaky breath and waited for what I ordered next. “Kneel at my feet.” She immediately kneeled. “Bow your head.” She hesitated and then bowed her head low. “Call me Master.”

What I could see of her face contorted in revulsion. That earned Anna another slash on the cheek. Hermione Granger looked at the heavily bleeding Anna, glanced at me, bowed her head again, and murmured, “Master.”

“I like the sound of that coming from your lips,” I nearly purred. “From now on you must only call me Master.”

“Yes, Master.” Her voice broke. Tears spilled down her cheeks.

“Now, if you can follow my next order perfectly, then I will make sure that Anna dies quickly. If you can’t, I will cut her into pieces until she is begging me to kill her. Do you understand?” She gave a slight nod. “Kneel at my side, facing Anna. Do not move.”

She shuffled to my side on her knees. When her shoulders were brushing my thigh, I raised my wand and pointed to the sobbing girl in front of us. “Crucio,” I whispered.

Anna’s screams filled the room. She was writhing around on the floor with her eyes rolled back into her head. Hermione Granger made an unconscious movement forward but was stilled by a harsh look from me.

I lifted the curse. Anna was twitching on the floor, groaning and coughing. She spit out blood. “You may go to your friend,” I said. Hermione Granger crawled across the floor quickly and pulled the girl’s head into her lap. She rocked Anna back and forth.

I walked up behind her “Tell her everything is going to be ok.”

She shook her head, blinking out fresh tears. “I won’t lie to her.”

“Do it.”

“Anna, everything is g-going to b-be ok,” she whispered.

“Now lie her down and back up,” I ordered. She shook her head again and clutched her friend tighter. “Obey me or she’ll get something much worse than the Killing Curse.”

She kissed Anna’s forehead and backed up against the couch. “Hermione? Where are you going? I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!” Anna pleaded. Hermione Granger hid her face in her hands.

“Watch her,” I said. “Know that when the life goes out of her eyes it was because of you. It was because you were too proud to admit to the truth of being a Mudblood. It was because you weren’t smart enough to take orders from me without complaint. It was because you wouldn’t submit to me.”

I made sure that her face was uncovered and her eyes were on Anna. “Avada Kedavra.” The familiar green flash hit Anna in the chest. She slumped to the floor and her eyes stared unknowingly at the ceiling. Hermione moaned and crawled back over to the body, closing Anna’s eyes and putting her into a more natural position.

She took a deep breath and stood up. Her face was blank, her eyes empty. “May I go back to my room now?” she asked.

She followed me numbly up the stairs. When we got to her room, she went right to her mattress and laid down facing the wall. I closed and locked the door. Worried about her mental status, I lowered the silence charm so I could hear her throughout the night in case she tried doing something stupid.

After telling a House-elf to clean up the library, I also fell into bed, quite exhausted. It worried me that no crying came from the other room…

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I was having a weird dream. Something involving chasing a woman through hallways. I was trying to catch her. It was a game. She was laughing merrily as she managed to escape my hands yet again. I laughed too as the end of her dress disappeared around a corner.

Something shattered. I hoped the woman was ok. I peered around the corner but she was gone.

My eyes snapped open. The sound of shattering glass wasn’t part of the dream. I sat up quickly and listened hard through the darkness.

I heard a gasp from the other room. Getting out of bed, I ran to her door and unlocked it.

The toilet tank cover lay broken on the floor. She sat leaning against the wall, a sharp and bloody piece of the broken cover next to her. Her forearms rested on her knees. Even in the dark I could see the trails of blood as they left her wrists and pooled on the floor.

“You idiot girl! What have you done?” I yelled.

She looked up at me with unfocused eyes. “I killed Anna so it only seemed fair that I should kill myself too.”

Cursing, I knelt beside her and took one arm. She was too weak to struggle. I said an incantation and the skin sealed back together. I repeated this with the other wrist. There was a lot of blood on the floor.

She had rested her head against my shoulder during this process, too exhausted to hold it up any longer. “I feel woozy,” she said. She shivered. “And cold.”

I felt her slump against me as she lost consciousness. I picked her up and ran into my warmer bedroom. Plopping her on the bed next to the fire, I went into my bathroom, opened the medicine cabinet, and located a bottle of Blood-replenishing Potion. It is a good potion to keep handy if one is a Death Eater. Voldemort deals out his punishments harshly.

Uncorking the bottle, I went back into my room. I poured the potion into her mouth and massaged her throat to make her swallow.

It was nearly dawn. I was lightheaded from lack of sleep and too exhausted to care about anything at that point. If the Blood-replenishing Potion wasn’t enough to save her life, then would die. Oh well. Too bad. I had been up almost the whole night before. I was up early that morning. I hadn’t gotten to sleep until very late that night. And now she had disturbed my rest.

I just wanted to sleep. I didn’t even have the energy to move her again. The stress of the last week finally had caught up with me.

I pushed her body to the furthest edge of the bed by the fire and fell down into the soft mattress. I was asleep before I even realized that I was sharing a bed with the Mudblood.
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