Hermione's Plight

The last dregs of magical ink shimmered on the parchment, the final flourish on a complex Transfiguration essay that had consumed Hermione’s evening. A sigh of deep satisfaction escaped her lips, echoing softly in the cavernous silence of the Hogwarts library. The scent of old paper and dust motes dancing in the moonlight filtering through the high, arched windows was a comfort, a familiar embrace at the end of a long day. She was exhausted, her mind a buzzing hive of theory and incantation, but it was a good kind of tired. The kind that came from a mind pushed to its limits and found equal to the task.

Packing her satchel, the gentle rustle of parchment and the soft thud of heavy books were the only sounds accompanying her. The castle was asleep, a slumbering giant whose stone corridors were now her solitary path back to the warmth of the Gryffindor common room. The torchlight cast long, skeletal shadows that danced and writhed on the walls, familiar phantoms that had never once given her pause. Tonight, however, a prickle of unease traced a cold path down her spine. The silence felt different—not peaceful, but predatory.

She quickened her pace, the soft soles of her shoes whispering against the flagstones. It was likely just fatigue, her nerves frayed from the lingering tensions of the war that had ended but never truly left them. She rounded a corner into a stretch of corridor between the Charms classroom and the disused lavatory on the third floor, a notorious cold spot in the castle. The air here was always frigid, but now it felt unnaturally so, a biting cold that seemed to emanate from a single point of darkness ahead.

He stepped out of the shadows as if he were born from them.

Draco Malfoy.

He wasn’t wearing his school robes. Instead, he was dressed in a tailored black suit that spoke of wealth and a chilling maturity. He looked older, sharper, the petulant sneer of their school days carved by some unseen hand into something far more dangerous. He stood directly in her path, his posture one of absolute, arrogant stillness.

“Malfoy,” she said, her voice tight. Annoyance warred with a sudden, sharp spike of fear. “Get out of my way.”

He didn’t answer. His silver eyes, cold as a winter sky, roamed over her, and a slow, deliberate smirk stretched his lips. It was a look of profound, chilling ownership. Instinct screamed. Her hand, already gripping the strap of her satchel, dropped, fingers curling, reaching for the familiar shape of her wand tucked into the waistband of her skirt.

She never had the chance.

He raised his own wand—a fluid, economical motion—and whispered a single, sibilant word. “Silencio.”

The breath she had drawn to shout, to scream, to cast a spell of her own, caught in her throat. Her mouth opened, but only a desperate puff of air emerged. A vacuum existed where her voice should have been. Panic, cold and sharp, flooded her veins. Before she could even process the theft of her voice, his wand arced again. “Incarcerous.”

Invisible ropes coiled around her with brutal, crushing force. Her arms were slammed to her sides, her legs locked together. She stumbled, her balance lost, and pitched forward. The heavy satchel slid from her shoulder, spilling her precious books and essay across the stone floor with a series of dull, sickening thuds. Her own wand, half-drawn, clattered from her numb fingers, landing pitifully just beyond her reach. She was bound, silenced, utterly helpless in a matter of seconds.

He advanced on her, his polished shoes clicking with unnerving calm on the stone. He stopped before her, close enough that she could smell the faint, clean scent of expensive cologne clinging to him, a stark contrast to the terror choking her. He looked down at her, at her frantic, silent struggles against the magical bonds, and the smirk on his face widened into a triumphant, cruel grin. It was the look of a predator that had finally cornered its prey after a very, very long hunt.

Cold dread, absolute and paralyzing, consumed her. This wasn't a schoolboy rivalry. This was something else entirely. This was the culmination of a hatred she had never truly understood, now twisted into a terrifying new shape.

He reached out, his hand closing around her upper arm in a grip of iron. The contact was a brand of ice against her skin. She flinched violently, a silent scream trapped behind her teeth. His grin never faltered.

“Don’t fight it, Granger,” he murmured, his voice a low, possessive drawl that she could feel vibrate through his hand into her very bones. “You’ve already lost.”

The world dissolved into a sickening, violent pull. The familiar stone corridor, the spilled books, the flickering torchlight—it was all squeezed and compressed into a vortex of nauseating color and pressure. The disorienting, suffocating sensation of Side-Along Apparition ripped her from the only home she had ever known. And the last thing she saw before the darkness consumed her completely was Draco Malfoy’s face, his eyes gleaming with victory, his lips curled into a smirk of pure, unadulterated cruelty. It was an image seared into her mind, a promise of the nightmare to come.

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Consciousness returned not as a gentle tide, but as a fractured, splintering thing. It came first as a sensation of cold, a deep, seeping chill that seemed to emanate from the stone beneath her, leaching warmth from her very bones. Then came the smell—a cloying, heavy scent of damp earth and ancient, weeping stone, so different from the familiar dust and parchment of Hogwarts. Beneath it, a sharper, cleaner note, something metallic and sterile that pricked at the back of her throat and made her stomach churn with a vague, formless dread.

Her head throbbed in time with a slow, heavy pulse. The violent wrench of Apparition had left her feeling scoured from the inside out. She tried to lift a hand to her temple, but her arm met a sudden, jarring stop. A cold, heavy weight encircled her wrist.

Hermione’s eyes flew open.

The world swam into a blurry, distorted view. For a moment, she thought she was still in the corridor, that the fall had knocked her senseless. But the ceiling above her was not the familiar vaulted stone of the castle. It was a low, oppressive arch of rough-hewn, black rock, slick with moisture that caught the single, cold light source in the room, making it glisten like a weeping wound.

Panic, sharp and acidic, surged through her. She pushed herself up, the movement clumsy and restricted. The fabric beneath her was impossibly smooth, cool and slick against her skin—silk, she registered with a jolt of utter confusion. Black silk sheets on a wide, comfortable mattress. But the bed itself was a lie. It rested not on a frame, but directly upon a massive, flat slab of stone that served as a dais, cold and unforgiving.

It was the jarring stop of her other arm that drew her gaze. Her breath hitched. Both of her wrists were shackled. Heavy, ornate silver manacles, intricately carved with serpents coiling in on themselves, were locked tight around her skin. They were attached to thick, matching chains that ran taut for several feet before being bolted directly into the stone wall behind the bed. She pulled, a desperate, instinctual jerk. The chains held firm, the only sound the dull, metallic clank against the stone. A low, almost sub-audible hum emanated from the silver, a sickening vibration that resonated deep in her bones. Anti-magic enchantments. The realization hit her like a physical blow. The hum was the sound of her own power being suppressed, smothered. She was cut off, a limb severed from her body. The core of her identity, her magic, was being held hostage just as surely as her physical form.

A wave of nausea and fury washed over her in equal measure. She forced it down, her mind, always her sharpest weapon, beginning to race despite the terror. She took a deep, shuddering breath, the metallic tang in the air stronger now, and forced herself to take stock of her prison.

It was a dungeon, of that there was no doubt. The walls were the same weeping black stone as the ceiling, the floor a collection of uneven flagstones that looked slick and treacherous. A single, heavy wooden door, bound with iron straps, was set into the far wall. There were no windows, no hint of the outside world.

Yet, this was a dungeon of cruel paradoxes. To her right stood a magnificent, dark-wood wardrobe, its surface polished to a mirror shine. Beside it, a vanity table with a silver-backed brush and mirror set, gleaming in the cold light. A plush, high-backed armchair upholstered in deep green velvet sat in one corner, looking grotesquely out of place. It was a mockery of a well-appointed bedroom, a deliberate, calculated display of opulence designed to amplify the horror of her situation. This wasn’t a cell meant for a common prisoner. This was a cage, gilded and terrifying, built for a specific prize.

The silence was absolute, broken only by the soft, rhythmic drip of water somewhere in the darkness and the faint, oppressive hum of the manacles. Every nerve in her body screamed that she was being watched. The cold, sterile light, which seemed to emanate from a glowing rune carved into the ceiling, felt like an unblinking eye. She was on display, a specimen pinned to a board. The chilling finality of the locked buckle on a collar, the click of a cage door swinging shut—she felt it all in this suffocating silence. The life she knew was over. This opulent nightmare was her new reality, and she was utterly, terrifyingly alone, waiting for the monster who had built it for her to step out of the shadows.

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The sound, when it came, was a violent intrusion into the tomb-like silence. A heavy, metallic grating—a bolt being drawn back on the other side of the iron-bound door. Hermione’s head snapped up, her heart hammering a frantic, painful rhythm against her ribs. Every muscle in her body went rigid, coiled with a primal mix of terror and defiance. The oppressive hum of the manacles seemed to intensify, a mocking reminder of her helplessness.

The door swung inwards with a low, groaning protest of ancient hinges. Framed in the dark doorway, silhouetted for a moment against some unseen light in the corridor beyond, stood the architect of her nightmare.

Draco Malfoy stepped into the room, and the door thudded shut behind him, the sound of the bolt sliding home echoing with terrifying finality. He was no longer in the tailored suit he’d worn at Hogwarts. Now, he was draped in robes of a deep, fathomless black, exquisitely cut to hang from his broad shoulders and sweep the filthy flagstones as he moved. The fabric seemed to drink the cold light of the room, making him a column of living shadow. He looked less like a wizard and more like a dark prince taking possession of his domain.

His silver eyes found her instantly. There was no flicker of surprise, no hesitation. He looked at her as if she were exactly where she was meant to be, a piece of property returned to its rightful place. He didn't speak. Instead, he began to move, his polished dragon-hide boots making near-silent footfalls on the stone. He didn't walk toward her, but began to circle the stone dais upon which she was shackled, his pace slow and deliberate, like a predator inspecting its catch.

Hermione forced herself to meet his gaze, refusing to cower. She poured every ounce of her loathing, every shard of her courage, into her eyes. She would not give him the satisfaction of seeing her break. She tracked his movement, her chin held high, the chains rattling softly with the tension in her arms.

He saw her defiance. A corner of his mouth lifted in a ghost of a smirk, one that held no warmth, only a chilling amusement. His eyes roamed over her, a slow, deliberate inventory. They lingered on the frantic pulse beating in her throat, traced the line of her body under the simple school uniform she still wore, and came to rest on the heavy silver manacles binding her to the wall. His gaze was a physical touch, invasive and cold, and she felt a tremor of revulsion shudder through her.

After one complete, silent circle, he stopped directly in front of the stone slab, standing just out of her reach. The faint, clean scent of him—sandalwood and something cold, like winter air—cut through the dungeon’s damp stench.

“Welcome home, Granger,” he said. His voice was a low, velvet drawl, stripped of all its former petulant tones and replaced with a resonant, possessive authority that vibrated in the cold air. The sound of her name on his lips was a desecration.

“This is Malfoy Manor,” he continued, gesturing vaguely to the opulent, grotesque room with one elegant hand. “It will be your world now. The only world you know.”

He took a step closer, mounting the first shallow step of the dais. He was near enough now that she could see the faint silver threads in the black fabric of his robes, the chilling lack of any emotion in his eyes save for a profound, unnerving sense of ownership.

“And in this world,” he murmured, his voice dropping even lower, “there is only one rule. I am your master.”

The words hung in the air, thick and poisonous. Fury, so potent it was acidic, burned away a layer of her fear. Before she could form a silent, venomous retort, he moved. He raised his hand, not with his wand, but his bare fingers, and reached for her face.

Instinctively, she tried to jerk away, but the chains held her fast. His touch was shockingly cold as a single, long finger traced a line from her temple, down the curve of her cheek, to the sharp line of her jaw. It was not a violent touch, but it was the most profound violation she had ever felt. It was a brand of ownership, a clinical, detached claim.

A sound tore itself from her throat, a guttural noise of pure, undiluted hatred. She twisted her head away from his touch with such violence that her hair whipped across her face.

“Don’t. Touch. Me,” she spat, the words almost soundless but backed by the full, ferocious force of her will.

He drew his hand back, his smirk widening into a genuine, cruel smile. He had wanted that reaction. He had savored it. Her hatred was as intoxicating to him as her fear.

“Oh, Granger,” he chuckled, a soft, chilling sound. “You still think you have a choice.”

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His chuckle faded, leaving a chilling void in its wake. Draco’s amusement receded, replaced by a mask of cold, clinical purpose. He stepped back from the dais, putting a few feet of space between them, and for the first time since entering the room, he drew his wand. The pale yew wood seemed to gleam with a sickly light, a stark contrast to the familiar, warm holly of her own wand, which now lay lost and forgotten on a corridor floor miles away.

“We need to dispense with these… Gryffindor trappings,” he said, his voice flat and devoid of emotion. He gestured with his wand towards her feet. “Let’s start with the sensible shoes.”

A flick of his wrist. Not a word, not a spell she could name. Her sturdy, worn leather shoes simply ceased to exist, vanishing into nothingness with a faint, silvery shimmer. The sudden cold of the flagstones through her thin socks was a shock, a prelude to a far greater violation. She curled her toes, a useless, instinctive gesture.

He continued his work with that same terrifying, detached efficiency. Her socks vanished next, leaving her feet bare and exposed on the frigid stone. Then her robes, the familiar heavy wool with the Gryffindor crest over her heart, dissolved away. She was left in her simple white blouse and grey skirt. The cold in the room intensified, or perhaps it was just the loss of the protective layers. She felt the damp, chilling air raise goosebumps on her arms.

Hermione’s breath hitched. She fought to keep her expression a mask of cold fury, but she could feel a hot, mortifying blush creeping up her neck, staining her cheeks. She was being systematically stripped, not by hands, but by his magic, an impersonal and absolute force she was powerless to resist. It was a calculated act of humiliation, designed to dismantle her piece by piece.

The white blouse evaporated. Then the skirt. She was left in nothing but her practical, cotton underwear, horribly mundane and intimate in the cold, judging light of the dungeon. Shame, hot and sharp, warred with a blinding rage. She squeezed her eyes shut, a desperate attempt to block out his gaze, to retreat into the darkness of her own mind.

“Oh no, you don’t,” his voice cut through her defense, sharp and commanding. “Look at me.”

When she refused, the air around her grew impossibly cold. The silver of her manacles seemed to burn against her skin. It wasn't a request. With a choked gasp, her eyes flew open, an unseen force compelling her to obey. He was standing there, his wand still held loosely at his side, his face unreadable.

With a final, deliberate flick of his wand, her underwear vanished.

The last barrier was gone. A strangled noise, a sound of pure violation, was trapped in her throat. She was completely, utterly exposed. Naked, shackled, and bathed in the cold, sterile light of his prison. The air was an abrasive touch against her bare skin, every inch of her on display for his clinical, appraising gaze.

And then he began to speak.

His voice was low and even, the detached tone of a scholar examining a specimen. He didn't use crude or lewd language. It was worse. It was a cold, verbal dissection. He catalogued her as if she were an object, a piece of art or a prized animal he had just acquired. He commented on the line of her collarbone, the curve of her breasts, the faint smattering of freckles across her shoulders from hours spent studying in the sun. His words traced the shape of her waist, the flare of her hips, the triangle of dark curls at the juncture of her thighs.

Each observation was a fresh violation, a new layer of shame laid upon her. His words were a violating inventory that stripped away more than her clothes; they stripped away her personhood. Under his clinical gaze and methodical cataloguing, she was no longer Hermione Granger, a witch, a scholar, a friend. She was a collection of parts, a body to be possessed.

Her knuckles were white where she gripped the silk sheets. Tears of pure rage and humiliation burned behind her eyes, but she refused to let them fall. She would not give him the satisfaction. She held his gaze, her own eyes blazing with a promise of retribution so fierce it should have burned him where he stood. She forced herself to endure the verbal onslaught, to absorb every calculated, cruel word, and file it away. She would remember every syllable. She would remember the feeling of his voice crawling over her skin, the chilling detachment in his eyes. It was a new kind of pain, a deep, psychological branding that would scar her more than any curse. And as his voice finally fell silent, leaving her raw and exposed in the echoing quiet, she knew this was only the beginning.

His inventory complete, Draco’s gaze lingered on the dark curls at the apex of her thighs for a moment longer, a faint, cruel curve to his lips. The clinical assessment was over; the possessive appraisal had begun. He let the silence stretch, a tangible thing that pressed in on Hermione, thick with her shame and his triumph. Every naked inch of her skin prickled with a cold fire, a phantom sensation of his eyes crawling over her.

He turned from her then, his movements fluid and unhurried. For a heart-stopping second, she thought he was leaving, and a wild, desperate hope surged through her. But he only walked to a small, iron-bound chest in the corner, the one she hadn't noticed before. He knelt, the black wool of his robes pooling around him on the stone, and lifted the lid. When he rose and turned back to her, he was holding it.

Her new attire.

It was a collar. Thick, at least two inches wide, and made of stark black leather that seemed to drink the torchlight. A heavy, polished silver ring was fixed to the front, gleaming with cold promise. It was an object of utter subjugation, something for a beast, not a person. The sight of it sent a fresh wave of nausea and terror through her, more potent than anything she had felt yet. This was a symbol, a brand.

“Your new uniform, Granger,” he said, his voice a low purr that slid over her raw nerves. He approached the stone slab, the collar held delicately in one hand. “The only thing you’ll be permitted to wear in my presence. A constant reminder of your place.”

Hermione shook her head, a violent, desperate negation. A choked sound tried to escape her throat, but the silencing charm held fast, turning her denial into a pathetic, soundless gasp. She pulled against the manacles, the silver biting into her wrists, her defiance a futile, frantic struggle against the inevitable.

He paid her struggles no mind, treating them as the last twitches of a snared animal. He stopped right before her, so close she could feel the faint warmth radiating from his body, a stark contrast to the dungeon's chill. He held the collar up, letting the silver ring swing gently, a pendulum marking the last seconds of her freedom.

“Don’t fight it,” he murmured, his voice dropping into a tone of false intimacy that was more violating than his shouts ever could be. “It will only make it worse.”

Then, he moved to fasten it.

He leaned over her, his scent—expensive cologne, clean linen, and something uniquely him—filling her senses, an invasion of her personal space that was dizzyingly intimate. His left hand came up, not to her neck, but to cup her jaw, his thumb pressing into the soft flesh beneath her chin, forcing her head up and back, exposing the long, vulnerable line of her throat. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage of bone.

With his other hand, he brought the collar to her skin. The leather was cool and unnervingly smooth on its underside, a stark, foreign sensation against her feverish flesh. He didn't just wrap it around her; he slid it, a slow, deliberate caress of leather against skin. The heavy silver ring settled into the hollow of her throat before sliding down, its cold weight coming to rest directly between her breasts, a chilling metallic kiss on her sternum. Her nipples hardened instantly, a traitorous response of pure, terrified stimulation.

His fingers worked at the back of her neck, searching for the buckle. They were long and cool, brushing against her nape, sending shivers down her spine that had nothing to do with the cold. Each accidental brush of his knuckles against her skin was an electric shock of revulsion and shame. He was so close, his focus so intent on the task, his breath ghosting across her cheek. She could see the faint stubble on his jaw, the concentration in his silver eyes as he threaded the leather through the buckle. He was taking his time, drawing out the moment, forcing her to feel every second of her own debasement. He pulled it snug, the leather pressing firmly against her throat, not enough to choke, but enough to be a constant, unignorable pressure. A reminder.

Then came the sound.

Click.

It was not loud, but in the tomblike silence of the dungeon, it echoed like a gunshot. A final, definitive sound that severed the last thread connecting her to the life she had known. The click of the buckle locking into place. The sound of a cage door slamming shut. The sound of ownership.

He let go of her jaw and stepped back, his work complete. His eyes raked over her one last time, but the gaze was different now. It was no longer the look of a captor at his prisoner, or a predator at his prey. It was the look of a master at his property. He took in the sight of her—naked, shackled, and collared, the silver ring gleaming against the pale skin of her chest.

A slow, satisfied smile spread across his face. “Perfect,” he breathed, the word a venomous caress. “It suits you, Mudblood.”

He gave her one last, lingering look, a look that promised untold horrors and unspeakable acts, before turning on his heel. His robes swept across the stone as he strode towards the heavy oak door, leaving her alone in the oppressive silence.

Hermione didn't move. She couldn't. The fight had drained out of her, replaced by a hollow, bottomless despair. The weight of the collar was immense, a physical manifestation of her new reality. She could feel the cool leather against her skin, the heavy silver ring nestled between her breasts, a cold, hard promise of everything that was to come. The echo of that final click still rang in her ears, the death knell of Hermione Granger.

The passage of time had become a fluid, meaningless thing, measured only by the deepening ache in her belly and the slow creep of grime under her fingernails. Days bled into nights in the featureless gloom of her cell, the cold stone floor leaching the warmth from her bones until she felt as hollowed out as the room itself. Hunger was a constant companion, a dull, throbbing torment that sharpened into a blade’s edge whenever she dared to move. Her magic was gone, suppressed by the dampening wards carved into the very mortar of the walls, leaving her feeling naked and horribly, pathetically mundane. She was just a body, a thing of flesh and bone, and it was starving.

The grating scrape of the heavy iron door was a sound that had come to signify only despair. It never brought freedom. It never brought comfort. It only ever brought him.

Draco Malfoy stood silhouetted against the sudden, blinding light of the hallway. He was immaculate, as always. His black, tailored robes were pristine, his silver-blond hair was perfectly coiffed, and the bored, aristocratic sneer on his face was firmly in place. But it wasn't him that seized her full, desperate attention. It was the silver tray he held in his hands.

The aroma hit her first, so rich and overwhelming it made her stomach clench with a painful, violent cramp. It was the scent of roasted chicken, its skin a crackling, golden-brown, glistening with juices. There was a mound of fluffy, buttered potatoes, a loaf of fresh, crusty bread still giving off a faint wisp of steam, and a cluster of deep purple grapes that looked heavy with sweetness. A crystal goblet filled with ruby-red wine completed the tableau. It was a feast. A fantasy. It was salvation, and he was holding it.

Hope, fragile and treacherous, fluttered in her chest. Had he finally tired of this game? Was this a truce? An offering?

He strode into the cell, his polished dragon-hide boots clicking on the stone. He didn't look at her, not at first. His gaze was fixed on the tray as he walked past her, his expression one of mild disinterest. He stopped in the center of the room, and with a deliberate, almost languid movement, he bent and set the entire silver tray on the filthy floor.

The clink of silver on stone was a death knell to her fragile hope. She stared, uncomprehending, as he straightened up, finally deigning to look down at her. His grey eyes were chips of ice, devoid of any warmth or pity.

"Hungry, Mudblood?" His voice was a low, silken drawl that slid over her skin like something cold and reptilian.

She couldn't speak, her throat tight with a mixture of rage and desperate, clawing need. Her eyes were locked on the food, her mouth watering so intensely it was painful.

"It's all for you," he continued, a cruel smile touching the corners of his lips. "But you're not a person anymore, are you? You're my pet. And pets don't eat at a table." He gestured to the tray with a flick of his wrist. "Get on your hands and knees. Eat from the plate. Like the animal you are."

The words struck her with the force of a physical blow. The humiliation was so profound, so absolute, it momentarily eclipsed the gnawing hunger. Every ounce of her Gryffindor pride, every fiber of her being, recoiled in revulsion. Her gaze snapped from the food to his face, and a fire she thought long-extinguished blazed in her eyes.

"Go to hell, Malfoy," she rasped, her voice raw from disuse but laced with venom. "I'd rather starve."

His smile didn't falter. It widened. "Wrong answer."

He didn't even say the incantation. He simply twitched his wand—a swift, economical motion—and a bolt of shimmering, sickly yellow light shot from its tip. It struck her high on the outside of her right thigh.

The pain was instantaneous and absolute. It was not a burn or a cut, but something far worse. It was as if a thousand red-hot needles had plunged into her flesh, each one carrying a jolt of pure, agonizing electricity. The muscles in her leg seized and contorted in a violent, unstoppable spasm. A raw scream was torn from her throat as her leg gave out from under her, sending her collapsing onto the unforgiving stone floor.

She landed hard on her hip and shoulder, the impact jarring her teeth. The hex wasn't a fleeting thing; it lingered, a searing, throbbing agony that pulsed in time with her frantic heartbeat. She curled in on herself, clutching her thigh, her breath coming in ragged, sobbing gasps. Tears of pain and fury streamed from her eyes, tracing clean paths through the grime on her cheeks. Through the shimmering haze of her tears, she could see the tray of exquisite food, its aroma now a sickening taunt. And above it, she saw his polished boots, standing firm and unmoving. The lesson was brutal, and it was clear. Her will meant nothing. Her defiance would only be met with pain.

The throbbing agony in her thigh was a relentless tide, pulling her under. Each pulse was a fresh reminder of his power and her own agonizing powerlessness. Through the watery blur of her vision, his boots were two pillars of polished black leather, immovable and absolute. He was a statue of contempt, carved from marble and malice, and she was just a broken thing at his feet.

"I said," his voice was a low, dangerous purr that vibrated through the stone floor, "wrong answer." He took a single, deliberate step closer, the toe of his boot nudging her ribs with calculated insolence. "Now, you're going to learn the right one. Get up. On your knees."

Her body screamed its protest. The muscles in her injured leg were still twitching erratically, sending jolts of white-hot pain up to her hip. The thought of putting any weight on it, of moving at all, was nauseating. But the cold certainty in his voice promised that refusal would only bring a fresh, and likely worse, agony. The memory of the sickly yellow curse was still seared into her mind.

With a choked sob that was equal parts pain and fury, she began to move. It was a clumsy, pathetic scramble. She pushed herself up with trembling arms, the grime on the floor grinding into her palms. The thin, ragged shift she wore did nothing to protect her skin from the biting cold of the stone as she dragged her useless leg behind her, forcing herself into a kneeling position. The movement sent a fresh wave of fire through her thigh, and she had to bite down on her lip so hard she tasted blood to keep from screaming again.

He watched her struggle with a detached, clinical interest, as if observing a fascinating but distasteful insect. Once she was kneeling, hunched over and trembling, he wasn't satisfied.

"To me," he commanded, his voice devoid of any emotion save for a chilling thread of authority.

Her head stayed down, her tangled, matted hair hiding her face. She couldn't look at him. She couldn't bear the triumph she knew she would see in his eyes. Slowly, agonizingly, she began to crawl. Each movement was a fresh torment, the rough stone scraping her knees raw, the pull on her injured thigh a constant, grinding misery. The few feet to where he stood felt like miles. It was a pilgrimage of shame, and with every inch, a piece of her withered and died.

Finally, her hands brushed against the impeccable leather of his boots. She stopped, her breath coming in ragged, hitching gasps, her body shaking uncontrollably. She was there. At his feet. An animal in its pen, brought to heel.

The silence that followed was heavy, thick with her humiliation and his silent victory. Then, a sharp, metallic sound cut through it: the rasp of a zipper.

Her head snapped up against her will, her eyes wide with a new kind of dread. He was unzipping his fine, tailored trousers. He made no move to hide the action, his grey eyes locked on hers, a cruel, knowing smirk playing on his lips. The dark fabric parted, and with a soft rustle, he sprang free.

Her breath caught in her throat. In the dim, ambient light filtering in from the corridor, his cock seemed to glow with a pale, menacing light. It was not yet fully erect, but it was already thick and heavy, a formidable length of flesh that hung with an arrogant weight between his thighs. A web of thick, dark veins snaked across the surface, pulsing faintly with his blood. The head was a darker, purplish hue, slick with a bead of clear fluid that caught the light like a malevolent jewel. It was a weapon. A symbol of everything he was and everything she was not: powerful, dominant, free.

He shifted his hips slightly, a casual, proprietary movement that made the heavy shaft sway before her face. He was so close she could smell the clean, masculine scent of his skin, a stark, almost violent contrast to the stench of her own unwashed body and the filth of the cell.

"Look at it," he commanded, his voice a silken whisper that was somehow more terrifying than a shout. He nudged her chin up with the toe of his boot, forcing her gaze to remain fixed on him. "I want you to see what owns you now. This is your master. This is what you will obey. Not your pathetic Gryffindor courage. Not your filthy Mudblood pride. This."

She stared, trapped by his command, by the immovable boot under her chin, by the horrifying spectacle before her. Tears of pure, undiluted shame streamed down her face, but she couldn't look away. She was forced to kneel before his raw, masculine power, stripped of her magic, her dignity, her very self, acknowledging the flesh that was to be the instrument of her final, complete degradation.

His cold, impassive gaze raked over her tear-streaked face, taking in her trembling lips and the wild, hateful fire in her eyes. For a moment, he seemed to savor her defiance, even in this broken state. It was the last vestige of the girl he’d loathed for years, and he was about to extinguish it completely. His free hand shot out, faster than a striking snake, and buried itself in the tangled, filthy mass of her hair.

The grip was brutal. He didn't just hold her; he twisted his fingers deep, gathering a thick handful of her bushy mane right at the scalp and yanking. A strangled cry of pain was torn from her, her neck snapping back at an unnatural angle, exposing the long, pale column of her throat. The sharp, tearing sensation at her roots was blinding, forcing her jaw to fall slack, her mouth opening in a silent scream. It was the opening he had been waiting for.

He didn't hesitate. With a low, predatory grunt, he lunged forward, driving his semi-hard cock into her open mouth. The invasion was shocking and absolute. The thick, slick head of his shaft slid past her teeth, shoving her tongue back into her throat with a wet, gagging sound. The taste of him filled her senses—a salty, musky, intensely masculine flavor that was utterly alien and violating. It was the taste of her own subjugation. He was already hardening rapidly, the flesh swelling and thickening against the walls of her mouth, a brutal testament to the pleasure he took in her degradation.

Her body reacted with immediate, uncontrollable violence. A powerful gag reflex seized her, her throat convulsing in a desperate attempt to expel the foreign object suffocating her. Her stomach heaved, and for a horrifying second, she thought she would vomit around him. But he was prepared. His grip on her hair tightened to an agonizing degree, anchoring her head as if it were clamped in a vice. His other hand came up, the thumb pressing hard into the soft flesh of her cheek, digging into the muscle and forcing her jaw to remain open around his burgeoning erection. He was an immovable force, negating her body's every instinct to resist.

"That's it," he murmured, his voice a low, guttural rumble that vibrated from his chest, through his cock, and into the very root of her tongue. "Take it."

Then he began to move. It wasn't a frantic, desperate fucking. It was something far more cruel. His thrusts were slow, steady, and punishingly deep. He established a relentless rhythm, withdrawing just enough for the thick, coronal ridge of the head to scrape against the back of her teeth before plunging back into the depths of her throat. Each deliberate piston stroke was a calculated act of dominance, a methodical, rhythmic violation that ground her spirit into dust.

Tears, hot and thick, began to stream from her eyes. They were not tears of pain, though her scalp burned and her jaw ached under the pressure of his thumb. They were tears of pure, undiluted rage and a humiliation so profound it felt like it was dissolving her from the inside out. They coursed down her temples, carving clean tracks through the layers of grime, dripping from her jaw onto the cold, unforgiving stone below. Through the watery blur, she could see his face looming above her. His eyes were half-lidded, his lips parted slightly, the cruel sneer replaced by a mask of intense, focused pleasure. He was watching her weep, feeding on her despair as he used her mouth, his hips rocking in that steady, damning rhythm. He held her head firm, his cock a brutal gag in her throat, a relentless invasion that promised no end.

The methodical, punishing rhythm was a torment, but it was a predictable one. She could almost brace for each slow, deep plunge. But then, something shifted. A low sound rumbled in his chest, a groan that was not of pain but of a pleasure so profound it was terrifying. His hips hitched, and he drove forward with a new, savage force, pushing himself deeper, harder, until the thick root of his cock was buried in her throat and the coarse, crisp hair at his groin was scraping abrasively against her lips and chin. The pressure was immense, a solid, unyielding column of flesh stretching her past her limits, stealing the very air from her lungs. A panicked, sputtering sound escaped around the thick shaft filling her mouth, a mixture of a gag and a sob.

He felt her struggle, heard her strangled plea for air, and it only seemed to inflame him. The detached, aristocratic control he'd maintained shattered, replaced by a raw, guttural carnality. His thrusts lost their measured cadence and became a frenzied, desperate pounding. He was fucking her face now, not her mouth. His hips slammed against her, a brutal, relentless percussion that made her head snap back and forth with each violent stroke, his grip in her hair the only thing keeping her from being thrown to the floor. The wet, slapping sound of his pelvis hitting her chin echoed in the small, stone cell, a sickening metronome marking her utter debasement.

"That's it, Granger," he growled, the words a harsh, breathy rasp against her ear. "Take it all. Take every fucking inch."

His voice was thick with arousal, the sound vibrating through his body and down the length of his shaft, a direct transmission of his dominance into the core of her being. He groaned again, a long, low sound of pure, animal pleasure. It was the sound of a predator feasting, a sound that acknowledged her pain, her tears, her humiliation, and reveled in it. This was his true victory, not just in breaking her defiance, but in taking his pleasure from the very instrument of her intellect and pride—her voice, her mouth, now reduced to a wet, gagging sheath for his cock.

Her jaw was a nexus of searing agony. The muscles screamed in protest, stretched far beyond their endurance. She could feel the joints grinding near her ears, a sharp, clicking pain that shot through her skull with every powerful thrust. Slobber and tears mingled, dripping from her chin onto the front of her ragged shift, a disgusting testament to his assault. The slick head of his cock, now glistening with her saliva, rammed against the back of her throat again and again, triggering wave after wave of useless, convulsive gags that only seemed to tighten her throat around him, wringing more groans of pleasure from his lips.

He was bucking now, his hips moving in a frantic, uncontrolled rhythm. He was lost to it, lost to the feeling of her hot, wet mouth clamped around his hardened cock, lost to the sight of her broken and weeping at his feet. The last vestiges of his composure were gone, burned away in the fires of his lust and his long-simmering hatred. He was pure, rutting instinct, using her with a brutal, single-minded focus. He drove himself into her one last time, burying his entire length so deep she thought her throat would tear, his pelvic bone grinding hard against her jaw. His whole body went rigid, a shudder wracking his frame as a guttural roar built in his chest.

His entire body went rigid above her, a taut bowstring of muscle and impending release. The thick ridge of his corona ground against the back of her throat, a final, punishing pressure that made black spots dance in her vision. A low, guttural groan tore from his chest, a sound of pure, predatory pleasure that vibrated down the length of his shaft and into the very core of her skull. His hips gave one last, brutal buck, slamming the base of his cock against her bruised lips, and she felt the first convulsive pulse of his climax deep within her, a hot, thrumming promise of the final violation.

But it never came.

With a sharp, ragged gasp, he ripped himself from her mouth. The sudden void was as violent as the invasion, and she choked, gagging on nothing as air and saliva flooded her ravaged throat. Her head snapped forward from the force of his withdrawal, a string of spit and his slick pre-cum flying from her lips. He stood over her, his back arched, his jaw clenched, his eyes squeezed shut in the throes of his orgasm. His thick, wet cock, still deep purple and painfully hard, spasmed in his hand.

Then, he erupted.

A thick, pearlescent torrent of his seed shot forth, hot as a brand against her skin. The first heavy rope of it splattered across her chin and mouth, a sickeningly warm, viscous splash. She squeezed her eyes shut, but the onslaught continued. More of his hot, thick fluid rained down, plastering her cheek, sliding in a sticky trail down her neck and over her collarbone. She felt the heavy, wet impacts against her breasts, saw through her tear-blurred vision the stark white ropes of his semen clinging to her nipples, dripping slowly down the pale, trembling mounds. Another shudder wracked his frame and a final, thick jet of it landed on her stomach, pooling in the delicate hollow of her navel like a conqueror’s flag planted on newly claimed territory.

He stood there for a long moment, his chest heaving, his harsh breaths echoing in the stone-walled silence. He looked down at her, his gaze sweeping over the tableau of her degradation. He saw her on her hands and knees, trembling uncontrollably, her face streaked with tears and his own come, her breasts and stomach painted with the evidence of his climax. There was no pity in his eyes, no remorse. Only a cold, satisfied finality. Without a single word, he calmly tucked his still-dripping cock back into his tailored trousers, the sharp rasp of his zipper a brutal, final sound in the charged air. He turned his back on her as if she were nothing more than a piece of furniture, his polished shoes clicking softly on the stone floor as he walked away.

She remained frozen, a statue of humiliation. Sobs tore from her, but they were silent, broken things, her entire body shaking with each one. The cooling stickiness of his seed on her skin felt like a layer of filth she could never wash away. It was a physical manifestation of her shame, a tangible mark of his ownership. The acrid, salty taste of him coated her tongue, mixed with the metallic tang of her own tears. It was the taste of subjugation, of utter and complete defeat. She tried to spit, but her mouth was too dry, her throat too raw. The flavour of him, of what he had done to her, was now a part of her.

Then came the final, soul-crushing sound. The heavy groan of the iron cell door swinging shut, followed by the deafening, echoing SLAM of the bolt being thrown. The noise jolted through her, a physical blow that shattered the last vestiges of her defiance. Plunged back into the dim, oppressive silence, she collapsed fully onto the floor, her cheek pressing into the cold, grimy stone amidst the leftover food he’d brought her an eternity ago. She was alone, left to drown in the dark with nothing but the feeling of his sticky seed growing cold on her body and the bitter, indelible taste of her own brokenness.

The heavy, iron-bound door slammed shut with a boom that vibrated through the stone floor and up into the bones of her feet. The sound was immediately followed by the grating shriek of a large bolt being thrown home, a sound of absolute finality.

And then, silence.

A silence so profound, so complete, it was a physical presence. It pressed in on her, filling her ears, muffling the frantic, panicked thumping of her own heart. For a long, suspended moment, Hermione didn't move. She stood frozen in the center of the small, circular cell, her bare feet cold against the flagstones, her thin linen shift doing nothing to ward off the subterranean chill. The air was thick with the smell of damp earth, mildew, and something else… something metallic and old, like long-dried blood.

This wasn't happening. It was a nightmare, a stress-induced hallucination brought on by months of running, fighting, and fear. Any moment now, she would wake up in the tent, the scent of Ron’s questionable cooking in the air, Harry’s quiet breathing a steady comfort beside her. She squeezed her eyes shut, concentrating, willing the familiar warmth of her sleeping bag to materialize around her.

Nothing.

Only the cold. Only the silence.

When she opened her eyes again, the dungeon was still there. The rough-hewn stone walls curved around her, seamless and impenetrable. High above, a single, grime-covered grate offered no view of the sky, only a suggestion of distant, grey light that did little to illuminate the oppressive gloom. He had left her. After everything he’d said, everything he’d done, he had dragged her down into the bowels of his ancestral home and locked her away like a forgotten relic.

The initial shock, the paralyzing disbelief, began to recede, washed away by a rising tide of pure, unadulterated fury.

"Malfoy!" The name was a raw tear in the fabric of the silence. It echoed back at her, distorted and mocking. "You filthy, cowardly bastard! Let me out of here!"

She threw herself at the door, her fists pounding against the splintery, iron-studded wood until her knuckles were raw and bleeding. "Do you hear me? You can't do this! You won't get away with this!"

Her only answer was the dull, indifferent thud of her own blows and the faint, mocking echo of her own voice. The rage gave her strength, a burning, white-hot energy that propelled her around the small space. Her mind, her greatest weapon, raced, cataloging, analyzing, searching for any weakness. She ran her hands over every inch of the stone walls, her fingertips probing the mortar between the massive blocks, searching for a loose stone, a crack, a flaw in the ancient masonry. There was none. The cell was perfectly constructed, a seamless tomb.

She tried magic. Alohomora! she thought, her will pushing out, reaching for the lock. Nothing. Not a flicker. It was as she’d feared. The stones themselves were saturated with ancient, magic-dampening wards. She was as powerless as a Muggle. More so. A Muggle might have a lockpick, a tool. She had nothing but a mind full of useless spells and a body that was growing colder by the second.

The fire of her rage began to burn low, the fuel of adrenaline and defiance consumed by the suffocating reality of her situation. Exhaustion, bone-deep and profound, settled over her. She slid down the wall, her back scraping against the rough stone, until she was huddled on the floor. The silence returned, heavier this time, pressing down with the weight of centuries.

How long had she been here? An hour? A day? Time had ceased to have meaning in the unchanging twilight of the cell. The frantic energy gave way to a creeping dread, a cold tendril of fear that snaked around her heart and squeezed. This was it. This was how it ended. Not in a blaze of glory fighting alongside her friends, but alone, in the dark, forgotten in a dungeon beneath Malfoy Manor.

Her fingers, numb with cold, began to trace the patterns in the stone beside her. She followed the faint, web-like veins of quartz embedded in the granite, her touch listless, mechanical. Each line was a dead end. Each swirl a closed loop. The stone was a map of her own confinement, a testament to its own permanence and her insignificance.

The anger was gone, scoured away. In its place was a hollow, aching void. A terrifying sense of hopelessness bloomed in her chest, vast and empty. No one was coming for her. Harry and Ron didn't know where she was. They wouldn't even know where to begin looking. She was utterly, completely alone. The thought didn't scream through her mind; it settled, quiet and cold and certain, into the pit of her stomach.

She rested her head back against the wall, the cold of it seeping into her skull. A single, hot tear escaped her eye, tracing a path through the grime on her cheek. It was a small, pathetic rebellion against the crushing despair. The silence swallowed her shuddering breath, and she was left with nothing but the slow, rhythmic beat of her own terrified heart, a lonely drum in the echoing stone.

The sound was what broke her trance. Not the boom of the door this time, but the tortured, metallic screech of the bolt being drawn back. It was a sound of reversal, of entry, and it sent a jolt of pure adrenaline through Hermione’s exhausted body. Her head snapped up from the wall, her heart instantly hammering against her ribs, a frantic, wild bird trapped in a cage of bone.

He stood in the doorway, a tall, sharp silhouette against the faint light of the corridor beyond. For a moment, he just looked at her, his presence sucking the thin, cold air from the cell. Then he stepped inside, and the heavy door swung shut behind him, plunging them back into the oppressive gloom. The bolt shot home with its familiar, gut-wrenching finality. He was locked in with her.

Her eyes, now accustomed to the dimness, took him in. He was immaculate, his dark robes perfectly tailored, a stark contrast to her own filthy, torn shift. His pale hair seemed to gleam even in the near-darkness, and his face was a mask of cold, aristocratic indifference. There was no flicker of emotion in his grey eyes—not anger, not pity, not even satisfaction. It was a terrifying emptiness, a void that promised nothing but its own continuation.

She noticed he wasn't carrying a tray. There was no bread, no water. The tiny, desperate hope for some basic human decency that had sparked in her chest was instantly extinguished. Her throat was a desert, her stomach a hollow ache, but he had brought her no sustenance.

He had brought something else.

Held loosely in his right hand, tapping softly against his thigh, was a riding crop. It was long and slender, fashioned from a single piece of supple, black leather that seemed to drink the meager light. It looked both elegant and brutal, a tool of precision and pain. Hermione’s breath hitched. Her gaze was locked on it, on the way his long, pale fingers curled around the handle. Her mind, usually a fortress of logic and reason, went utterly blank with a new, specific kind of terror. This was not the random cruelty of a Death Eater’s curse. This was something premeditated. Personal.

He took a slow, deliberate step towards her, his polished dragon-hide boots making no sound on the stone. Hermione scrambled backwards, pressing herself as hard as she could into the unforgiving wall, the rough-hewn stone digging into her spine and bare shoulders. She tried to make herself smaller, to melt into the shadows, but there was nowhere to go.

He stopped just out of arm's reach, his height casting a long shadow that swallowed her whole. The silence stretched, thick and suffocating. He was watching her, his gaze clinical, as if she were a particularly interesting specimen pinned to a board.

"I heard your little tantrum earlier," he said, his voice a low, silken murmur that cut through the silence like a shard of ice. It held no heat, no anger. It was the calm, measured tone of a lecturer. "Pounding on the door. Screaming. Very Gryffindor. Very… futile."

He took another step, and now he was close enough that she could feel the faint warmth radiating from his body, a stark contrast to the deathly chill of the cell. She flinched as he raised the riding crop, but he didn't strike. Instead, he reached out with it, the tip of the pliant leather touching the sensitive skin at the nape of her neck.

An involuntary shiver wracked her entire body. The touch was cold, impersonal, a reptilian caress that sent a wave of revulsion and fear through her. Slowly, with an agonizing lack of haste, he trailed the tip of the crop down the length of her spine. It dipped into the hollow between her shoulder blades and traced each individual vertebra, a deliberate, possessive exploration of her defencelessness. Her skin pebbled with gooseflesh, every nerve ending screaming in protest and horrified anticipation.

The leather tip came to a rest at the base of her spine, just above the curve of her arse, and lingered there, a cold, black punctuation mark to his unstated threat.

"You seem to be under the misapprehension that your will has any meaning here," he continued, his voice still a chillingly soft whisper directly into her ear. "You believe that defiance will yield some result other than your own exhaustion. That is an error in calculation we need to correct."

He drew the crop away, and the absence of its cold touch was almost as shocking as its presence.

"So we are going to have lessons, you and I," he said, the words hanging in the dead air like poison. "A new curriculum. I will be the teacher, and you will be the student. And you will learn obedience. You will learn submission. And you will learn that every future act of defiance, every shout, every moment of resistance, will be met with a lesson in pain. A lesson I will be more than happy to administer, as many times as it takes for the concept to be properly understood. Do you understand, Granger?"

He didn't wait for an answer. He already knew she had none to give. The only sound in the cell was the frantic, panicked thumping of her own heart, a lonely drum beating out a rhythm of pure, unadulterated fear.

His words hung in the air, a promise of systematic cruelty that was more terrifying than any curse she had ever faced. The concept was so monstrous, so utterly alien to her understanding of human interaction, that her mind struggled to process it. A teacher. A lesson. The academic terms, so familiar and comforting in her world, were twisted into instruments of torture.

He gestured with the riding crop towards a low, flat-topped stone slab that jutted out from the wall, its surface worn smooth by time and use she dared not contemplate. It was about the height of her waist, a crude altar in this subterranean temple of despair.

"Turn around," he commanded, his voice devoid of any inflection. "Hands on the far edge of the slab. Bend over."

The order was so blunt, so degrading, it struck her with the force of a physical blow. A thousand years of pride, of Gryffindor courage, of her own unassailable sense of self-worth, rose up in a furious, defiant tide. Her chin lifted. Her spine straightened. The word burned on her tongue, a single, explosive syllable of refusal. No.

She would not. She would not turn her back on him. She would not present herself like an animal for slaughter. She would face him, meet his cold gaze with her own fire, and if he was going to hurt her, he would do it while looking her in the eye. Let him see the defiance. Let him see that he could break her body, but not her will.

Her muscles tensed, her bare feet planting themselves more firmly on the cold floor. She opened her mouth to spit the word at him, to hurl her defiance into his impassive face.

She never got the chance.

He saw the rebellion kindle in her eyes, the stiffening of her posture. A flicker of something—not anger, but cold impatience—crossed his features. His wand, which she hadn't even seen him draw, was a blur of motion too quick to follow. There was no incantation, only a silent, focused pulse of his will directed at her.

Petrificus Totalus.

The curse hit her like a physical wall. Every muscle in her body seized at once, locking into unyielding rigidity. The breath she had drawn to shout her refusal was trapped in her lungs. Her arms, which had been clenching into fists at her sides, were frozen in place. Her legs became pillars of stone. She couldn't move, couldn't speak, couldn't even blink. She was a statue of defiance, trapped in the last moment of her resistance, a prisoner inside the cage of her own flesh. Panic, stark and absolute, screamed through her mind, but it had no outlet.

Malfoy stepped forward, his expression unchanged. He looked down at her, a sculptor examining a flawed piece of marble. With a sigh of irritation, he placed a cold hand on her shoulder. "You see?" he murmured, as if continuing his lecture. "This is what I meant. Futile."

He shoved her, and her petrified body, unable to adjust its balance, tilted forward. He caught her, his movements economical and strong, and maneuvered her stiff form as easily as if she were a mannequin. He turned her around, her back now to him, and forced her rigid torso to bend at the waist, slamming her stomach and hips down onto the freezing stone slab. Her arms, locked straight, were pushed forward until her frozen hands rested on the far side. Her thin shift, already torn and flimsy, rode up her back, snagging high on her hips and leaving her completely exposed from the waist down.

The cold of the stone was a brutal shock against her skin, but it was nothing compared to the wave of absolute, soul-crushing humiliation that washed over her. She was frozen, bent over like a mare for breeding, her bare arse and cunt presented to him in the dim, oppressive light. She could feel the cold air on her exposed flesh, on the vulnerable, intimate parts of herself that were now displayed for his detached inspection.

He took a step back, the soft sound of his boots on the stone echoing in the silence. She couldn't see him, could only stare at the grey, lichen-spotted surface of the slab beneath her face, but she could feel his gaze on her. It was not a hot, lustful gaze; it was something far worse. It was cold, analytical, a clinical assessment of the canvas before him. She could feel it tracing the curve of her spine, lingering on the pale, goose-pimpled globes of her arse cheeks, on the dark thatch of curls between her legs, on the shadowed, vulnerable cleft of her cunt. He was taking inventory of her shame, cataloging her utter helplessness.

In the profound silence, she heard the faint, whispery sound of the leather riding crop slicing through the air as he tested its weight, its balance. The sound was a prelude, a promise. The real lesson was about to begin.

The world had shrunk to the cold, grey stone beneath her face and the terrifying silence behind her back. In that silence, she heard the almost imperceptible rustle of his robes, the soft sigh of leather as he adjusted his grip. Then came a sound that would be forever burned into her memory: a thin, sharp whistle as the riding crop sliced through the dense, cold air. It was a sound full of venom and intent, a harbinger of the agony to come. Her mind screamed, No, no, no, please, a frantic, silent litany against the inevitable.

CRACK.

The sound was explosive in the stillness, a gunshot that echoed off the stone walls. It was followed a nanosecond later by the pain. It wasn't a simple sting. It was a line of pure, liquid fire drawn across the tender, upper curve of her right arse cheek. White-hot, searing, it ripped through her flesh, through her nerves, and exploded in her brain in a silent, blinding supernova of agony. The shock was so profound, so absolute, it shattered the magical bonds holding her silent. A scream, raw and piercing and full of disbelief, tore from her throat. It was the sound of an animal caught in a trap, a sound she didn't recognize as her own, and it was swallowed almost immediately by the indifferent stone.

The Petrificus Totalus held her body rigid, but the pain was a living thing, a frantic, writhing serpent inside her. She couldn’t flinch, couldn’t clench, couldn’t do anything to brace against it. She was forced to absorb the full, unmitigated force of the blow.

He didn't give her a moment to recover. The thin, whistling sound came again, and then the crack, this time landing just below the first strike. Another bolt of lightning shot through her, another silent scream ripped through her mind. He was methodical. There was no rage in his movements, only a cold, terrifying precision. He was not lashing out; he was working.

Crack. A third line of fire, parallel to the first two.
Crack. A fourth.

Her mind, the orderly, logical fortress that had been her salvation a thousand times over, fractured. It could no longer process thought, only sensation. The burning on her right arse cheek was so intense it felt as if her entire body was being consumed by flames. She could feel the skin breaking, the welts rising like angry, Braille lettering spelling out her degradation.

Then he moved to her left cheek.

Crack. The shock of the new location was almost as bad as the first blow. A fresh wave of agony erupted on untouched, terrified skin. He began to lay down another set of precise, stinging stripes, perfectly mirroring the ones on the right. Her world was reduced to this brutal rhythm: the whistle of the crop, the crack of impact, the explosion of pain.

And then he changed the angle. He began to strike diagonally, bisecting the first set of lines. He was creating a pattern, a crisscrossing lattice of torment on her pale flesh. Each new strike landed on skin already screaming with pain, compounding the agony, turning the searing lines into a solid sheet of fire that consumed her from the waist down. The cold of the stone slab against her stomach and breasts was a distant, irrelevant fact from another lifetime. Her entire universe was now contained in the geography of her own violated skin.

The defiance she had clung to was burned away. The pride, the courage, the very essence of Hermione Granger was incinerated in the crucible of his systematic cruelty. There was nothing left but the pain. And then, something else broke. A dam of composure deep inside her shattered, and a hot, wet flood of tears spilled from her wide, unblinking eyes. They streamed down her temples, into her hair, and dripped with soft, pathetic plinks onto the stone slab below.

Her body remained locked and rigid, a statue of humiliation, but her mind was lost in a storm of sobbing. Choked, hiccuping sounds began to catch in her frozen throat, small, desperate noises of a spirit being broken. She was sobbing for the pain, for the helplessness, for the girl who had believed her mind was her greatest weapon, now reduced to a piece of meat on a slab. He continued his work, unperturbed by her tears. One last, vicious crack, laid perfectly across the center, joining the two sides of his horrific masterpiece.

Then, silence.

The whistling stopped. The brutal rhythm ended. The air was thick and heavy, vibrating with the ghost of the violence. The only sound in the cell was the soft, steady drip of her tears onto the stone and the ragged, choked, half-strangled sobs that were finally forcing their way past her paralyzed throat. He had finished. The lesson, for now, was over. She hung there, bent and broken, her arse a raw, weeping tapestry of red welts, sobbing uncontrollably into the darkness.

The last of her defiant screams had died in her throat, replaced by a ragged string of sobs that wracked her body. The body-bind curse held her fast, bent over the cold, unforgiving stone, a grotesque offering. She couldn’t move, couldn’t curl into herself to protect the savaged flesh of her arse. Each shuddering breath sent fresh waves of agony across her skin, a fire that licked at the crisscrossing network of welts he had methodically carved into her. The air was thick with the coppery scent of her own terror and the sharp, acrid smell of her sweat and tears. The silence that followed the final lash was a new kind of torture, amplifying the sound of her own broken, hitching gasps.

Then, a subtle shift in the oppressive atmosphere. The soft thud of the leather crop being set aside on the stone floor. The whisper of his trousers as he moved, his footsteps unnervingly silent. He knelt behind her. She couldn't see him, but she could feel him, a predator closing in. The heat of his body radiated towards her back, a stark contrast to the dungeon's chill. His breath, hot and moist, ghosted over the nape of her neck and then drifted lower, caressing the raw, smarting skin of her arse. A violent shiver traced a path down her spine, a response of pure, primal dread. The proximity was suffocating, intimate in the most monstrous way.

His fingers, long and cool, followed the path of his breath. They landed on her skin with a touch so light, so disturbingly gentle, it was a violation all its own. He traced the angry, raised lines of a welt, his fingertip a feather-light pressure on the screaming nerve endings. It wasn't a caress of comfort; it was the touch of an artist admiring his brutal handiwork, of a master assessing the subject of his complete and utter dominion. The gesture sent a fresh wave of nausea through her, a revulsion so profound it was almost as painful as the welts themselves. Her mind screamed for him to stop, to just leave her, but her cursed body remained a statue of humiliation.

Then, the gentleness vanished as quickly as it had appeared. His touch became callous, utilitarian. His hands clamped onto her hips, his thumbs pressing into the sensitive flesh at the top of her arse cheeks. With a single, rough movement, he spread her apart. The skin, already stretched taut and burning, protested with a fresh, sharp sting that made her cry out, a muffled sound against the stone slab. The cool air of the dungeon hit her most private, vulnerable flesh, a shocking sensation that made her clench uselessly against the curse. Her cunt, slick with the humiliating wetness of fear and agony, was completely exposed to his cold gaze.

He didn't hesitate. Without a word of warning, he pushed two fingers deep inside her.

A choked, broken gasp was torn from her lungs. It wasn't a scream of pain, not entirely. It was a sound of profound shock, of a boundary being shattered so completely it left her reeling. Her tight, wet channel clenched around his intrusion, a reflexive spasm of her violated muscles. The blunt pressure of his knuckles against her perineum, the stretching of her entrance, the slick, invasive slide of his fingers into her very core—it was a dizzying, sickening onslaught of sensation.

But beneath the agony of her skin and the horror of the violation, something else ignited. A dark, treacherous spark. The friction of his fingers against the sensitive walls of her pussy, the deep, full feeling of him inside her, sent a bolt of pure, unwanted physical pleasure through her. It was a shocking current that collided head-on with the searing pain radiating from her arse. Pain and pleasure, agony and arousal, crashed together within her, a cataclysm of sensation that short-circuited her brain. Her hips tried to buck, to either escape or press back into the debauched stimulus, but the curse held them immobile. Tears streamed from her eyes, no longer just from pain, but from a profound and devastating shame. Her body, her own treacherous flesh, was betraying her in the most absolute way imaginable, finding a flicker of ecstasy in the depths of its degradation. And he was there, kneeling behind her, feeling every twitch, every clench, every drop of her slick, traitorous wetness.

The stinging heat across her arse hadn't yet subsided into a dull throb. Each welt was a scorching brand against the cool stone slab, a testament to his anger and her defiance. Hermione lay face down, her cheek pressed into the unforgiving surface, trembling not from the dungeon's chill, but from the raw, humiliating aftermath of his punishment. Her breath hitched in ragged sobs she refused to let him hear, tears tracking silently through the grime on her face. The rhythmic drip of water somewhere in the darkness was the only sound, a maddening metronome counting down the seconds of her degradation.

Footsteps echoed, slow and deliberate. The sound of his polished dragonhide boots on stone sent a fresh wave of tremors through her. She didn't flinch when his shadow fell over her, but every muscle in her body went rigid. He was a predator circling his captured prey, savoring the moment. A cool weight settled on the slab beside her head, and the faint, sweet scent of something cloying and floral filled the air.

"Drink." His voice was a low command, devoid of any emotion save for a cold, clinical authority.

She didn't move, didn't even turn her head. A pathetic, final act of rebellion. Let him kill her. It would be a mercy.

A hand, surprisingly gentle, cupped her jaw. With effortless strength, he turned her head, forcing her to look up at him. His silver eyes were unreadable, his pale face a mask of aristocratic indifference. In his other hand, he held a silver goblet, intricately carved with writhing serpents. Its contents swirled with an ethereal, pearlescent light, shimmering like captured moonlight mixed with liquid opal. It was beautiful, and it terrified her more than his riding crop had.

"I said, drink," he repeated, his thumb pressing into the soft flesh under her chin, forcing her jaw to slacken.

Hermione shook her head, a tear finally escaping to trace a path toward her ear. "No," she managed to rasp, her throat raw.

A flicker of annoyance crossed his features. "Don't be a fool, Granger. This isn't a choice." He brought the cold rim of the goblet to her lips. She clamped them shut, tasting the bitter metal. With a sigh of impatience, his fingers tightened, digging into the hinges of her jaw until a sharp lance of pain made her gasp. In that instant, he tilted the goblet.

The potion, thick and syrupy, flooded her mouth. It tasted of honey and nightshade, of sweet poison and dark magic. She gagged, trying to spit it out, but he clamped a hand over her mouth and nose, tilting her head back further until she had no choice but to swallow or suffocate. The viscous liquid slid down her throat, a cold fire that immediately began to spread through her veins. He released her, and she coughed, sputtering, the last shimmering drops clinging to her bruised lips.

The effect was instantaneous and absolute. It was as if every nerve ending in her body had been stripped bare and set alight. The silk sheet he had tossed over her legs, meant as some perverse mockery of comfort, suddenly felt like it was woven from sandpaper and nettles, each thread scraping against the hypersensitive skin of her thighs and the fiery welts on her arse. The cool dungeon air, once a simple chill, transformed into a thousand tiny, ice-cold needles, pricking at every inch of her exposed flesh. The distant drip of water became a deafening crash, echoing inside her skull. The low flicker of the torches in their sconces burned with the intensity of the sun, searing her retinas. His scent—ozone, expensive cologne, and a clean, masculine musk—was so potent it made her stomach churn with a nauseating mix of fear and something else, something primal and unwanted that coiled deep in her belly. Her own heart hammered against her ribs like a war drum, a frantic, panicked rhythm that vibrated through the stone beneath her. A low moan tore itself from her throat as her entire world dissolved into a cacophony of unbearable sensation.

He watched her writhe for a long moment, his silver eyes tracking the shudders that wracked her body. The low, agonized sounds she was making seemed to please him. With a detached air, he reached down and gripped her shoulder, flipping her onto her back with a jarring lack of care. Her head hit the stone with a sickening thud that reverberated through her skull, another explosion of pain in a symphony of it. The silk sheet he’d thrown over her legs tangled around her ankles, doing nothing to cover the raw, stinging stripes on her arse, now pressed against the unforgiving cold of the slab.

Her eyes, wide with a mixture of terror and sensory overload, flew open. The flickering torchlight was blinding, dancing behind her retinas in painful, searing spots. She saw him standing over her, a dark silhouette against the blinding light. He drew his wand. The hawthorn wood looked impossibly dark, the unicorn hair core seeming to pulse with a malevolent energy only she could perceive. He didn't speak a word. A flick of his wrist, a muttered incantation she was too overwhelmed to decipher, and invisible forces seized her wrists.

She cried out as her arms were wrenched upwards, pulled taut above her head until her shoulders screamed in their sockets. The magical bonds were like manacles of ice and fire, cinching tight around her flesh. They slammed her wrists back against something hard and metallic—the cold, wrought-iron head of the slab, intricately shaped like more serpents. The frigid metal was a shock of pure agony against her skin, a searing cold that felt like a brand.

He wasn't finished. His hands, cool and firm, landed on her inner knees. She tried to clamp her legs together, a futile, instinctual gesture of self-preservation, but her muscles felt like water, weak and unresponsive. He pushed her thighs apart with contemptuous ease, spreading her legs wide, leaving her utterly exposed to the dungeon's chill and his predatory gaze. The cold air immediately kissed the most sensitive parts of her, a violation in itself. It slid over the wetness that was already beginning to slick her inner thighs, making her gasp at the shocking sensation.

He knelt between her parted legs, resting his weight on his heels. He didn't touch her further. He just watched, his face a mask of clinical curiosity, like a potioneer observing a complex brew reaching its critical stage. And her body, that traitorous vessel, was performing for him exactly as he’d intended. The potion had taken complete hold, hijacking every cell, every nerve, every involuntary response.

A deep, scorching blush began to bloom across her skin, a tide of heat that started in her chest and spread like wildfire. She could feel it, a prickling inferno beneath the surface, turning her pale flesh a dark, mortified rose. The color crept up her neck, flooded her cheeks, and painted her breasts, a stark contrast to the angry red welts on her thighs and buttocks. It was the flush of shame, of fever, of an arousal so profound it felt like a sickness.

Her nipples, already aching from the cold, puckered into tight, hard points. They strained against the air, pebbles of pure sensation, so exquisitely sensitive that every slight shift in the air current was a jolt of electricity that shot straight to her core. She could feel the blood rushing to them, making them swell and darken, begging for a touch she would rather die than receive. A whimper escaped her lips, a sound of pure, helpless misery.

And between her legs, the ultimate betrayal. A slow, inexorable heat was building in her womb, a liquid fire that melted into a slick, copious wetness. She could feel the first dewy drops bead on her swollen folds, then the slow, humiliating trickle as her body wept its need for him. The slickness pooled at the apex of her thighs, a warm, sticky testament to her body’s surrender. It felt obscene, this wet heat against the cold stone, this undeniable physical proof that some dark, broken part of her was responding to his cruelty. Her own scent, musky and aroused, rose to mingle with the dungeon's dampness, and the smell of her own submission was the most devastating sensation of all. She squeezed her eyes shut, but all she could see behind her eyelids was his face, his silver eyes dark with intent, watching her come undone.

His silence was a weapon in itself. He moved without a word, a slow, deliberate unfolding of his body as he leaned over her. The faint rustle of his robes was like a landslide in the cavern of her mind. His shadow fell across her face, blotting out the blinding torchlight, and for a blessed second, there was only darkness. Then, she felt the ghost of his breath against her cheek, hot and smelling of the potion he’d forced down her throat. A tear, fat with misery and fear, escaped the corner of her eye and tracked a slow, cold path toward her temple.

His tongue flicked out, a shocking stripe of wet heat against her chilled skin. It lapped at the tear, and the taste of her own salt and sorrow exploded on her palate, a phantom sensation mirrored from his own mouth. He didn't just taste it; he savored it, a slow, deliberate drag of his tongue that made her flinch violently against her bonds. He was drinking her despair. The intimacy of the act was a deeper violation than the welts on her arse, a desecration of her very grief. Another sob hitched in her throat, strangled and raw.

He seemed pleased by the sound. His head lowered, his pale hair brushing against her chin like spider silk, each strand a separate, agonizing filament of sensation. His mouth continued its torturous pilgrimage. He licked a deliberate, wet path from her jaw down the sensitive column of her throat. Every muscle there contracted, her whole body straining against the unyielding iron at her wrists. The potion turned the simple touch into a brand of fire, a searing trail of liquid heat that sent jolts of corrupted pleasure straight to the pit of her stomach. She could feel the slick trail he left behind begin to cool in the dungeon air, the contrast a fresh wave of torment.

He reached her collarbone, and his tongue traced the sharp, delicate ridge of it with an artist’s precision. He licked from one side to the other, then back again, the rough, wet texture scraping over bone and hypersensitive skin until she thought she would go mad from it. A low, guttural moan was torn from her, the sound of an animal caught in a trap. Her hips bucked, a pathetic, involuntary attempt to escape the inescapable.

His mouth moved lower, over the frantic rise and fall of her chest, until he was poised directly over one aching, swollen nipple. She held her breath, her heart hammering a frantic rhythm that felt loud enough to shake the stone slab. He blew a soft stream of air over the peak, and the combination of hot breath and cold air made it feel as if he’d touched her with a live coal. She cried out, a short, sharp sound of shock and unwilling pleasure. Then his mouth descended.

He didn't suck, not at first. He circled the dark, puckered areola with the tip of his tongue, a slow, meticulous torture. Each circling pass sent a fresh wave of fire through her veins, a bolt of lightning that struck deep between her legs, coaxing another gush of slick heat from her core. She could feel the wetness soaking into the silk sheet tangled at her ankles, a humiliating testament to her body’s utter betrayal. When she thought she could bear it no more, he finally took the hardened peak into the heat of his mouth. He laved it, rolling his tongue around the exquisitely sensitive nub, pulling it gently with his lips. A sob of pure, unadulterated sensation ripped from her throat. It was too much. It was agony. It was the most exquisite thing she had ever felt. He gave the same devastating attention to her other breast, licking and teasing until she was writhing on the slab, her mind a screaming vortex of shame and a pleasure so intense it bordered on pain.

His descent continued, his tongue leaving a glistening trail down the center of her torso. He swirled his tongue inside the hollow of her navel, and her entire body convulsed in a violent shiver that rattled her from head to toe. The sensation was centered there for a moment, a knot of pure electricity, before it shot downwards, a direct line to her throbbing, weeping sex. Dread and a wild, desperate anticipation warred within her. She knew where he was going. She knew what he intended. The knowledge was a fresh horror, a new peak of humiliation, yet her hips tilted upward instinctively, a silent, traitorous plea. His breath was a hot promise against the skin of her lower belly, and she could feel the heat of his face hovering just above the damp, dark curls at the apex of her thighs. Her world narrowed to that single point of unbearable focus: the space between his mouth and her most vulnerable, aching flesh.

His face was a pale blur in her tear-slicked vision, his silver hair a halo of torment as he settled more firmly between her thighs. The heat radiating from him was a tangible force, a suffocating blanket that intensified the molten core of her own arousal. He didn't touch her immediately. He simply breathed, his warm exhalations ghosting over the damp curls covering her mound, and each puff of air was a separate, agonizing caress. The scent of her own slick, musky need rose to meet him, a shameless perfume of surrender that made a fresh wave of humiliation wash over her. A strangled sob caught in her throat, her head thrashing against the cold iron serpents holding her wrists.

Then, his hands were on her. Not with the bruising force he’d used before, but with a horrifying, clinical gentleness. His long, cool fingers settled on the insides of her thighs, his thumbs finding the crease where her legs met her torso. She flinched violently, a full-body convulsion, trying to squeeze her legs shut in a last, desperate act of defiance. It was useless. The magical bindings held her splayed open, an obscene offering on a stone altar. His thumbs pressed down, sliding slowly through the slickness that coated her skin, moving inexorably toward the heart of her shame.

He reached the apex of her thighs, and with a slow, deliberate pressure, his thumbs parted her. The swollen, slick folds of her labia gave way easily, peeling back to expose the glistening, tender flesh within. The dungeon's cool air, now a torment of icy needles, kissed the hypersensitive skin he had just revealed. A choked gasp tore from her lips as he exposed her completely, his thumbs resting on either side of the engorged, throbbing nub of her clit. It was pearl-pink and weeping, a jewel of pure, unbearable sensation that pulsed with a frantic rhythm in time with her heart. It ached with a need so profound it felt like a physical wound. She had never felt so naked, so violated, so utterly seen.

"Please," she whispered, the word a ragged, broken thing. "Don't."

His only answer was to lower his head. The first touch of his tongue was a jolt of pure lightning. He didn't just lick her; he painted her, a single, slow, deliberate stripe of wet heat dragged directly over that exquisitely sensitive peak. Her back arched, her hips lifting off the slab in a spastic, involuntary jerk. A scream, high and thin, pierced the damp air. The potion amplified the sensation a thousandfold. It wasn't just a touch; it was an explosion of sensory data, a cataclysm of pleasure and pain that overloaded every circuit in her brain. Before she could even process the first shock, he did it again, and again, tracing the length of her slit with the broad, flat muscle of his tongue, bathing her in his saliva.

The wet, lapping sounds echoed in the cavernous space, a pornographic soundtrack to her degradation. Her mind spun, a vortex of white-hot sensation and black shame. She tried to think, to hold onto her anger, her defiance, anything but the devastating feelings coursing through her. But his mouth was an instrument of exquisite torture, and he was a virtuoso. He laved her swollen folds, his tongue darting and swirling, mapping every secret contour. He nipped gently at her inner lips with his teeth, the sharp little pinpricks of pain sending fresh jolts of corrupted pleasure straight to her womb.

He abandoned the slow torment for a more direct assault. He centered his attention on her clit, sucking the hard, aching nub into the hot vacuum of his mouth. The suction was a deep, pulling ache that resonated through her entire pelvis. Her hips began to move, a slow, desperate grind against his face that she couldn't control. She was chasing the feeling, her body betraying her mind in the most fundamental way. He rolled his tongue around her, a rough, wet friction that was building a pressure inside her so intense she thought she would shatter. Low, guttural moans were being torn from her throat now, the sounds of a creature driven purely by sensation, stripped of all reason. Her mind was fracturing, the word "no" a distant, fading echo lost in a roaring tide of "yes, yes, more." He was relentless, his mouth working her with a devastating precision that was systematically dismantling her, nerve by agonizing nerve, pushing her closer and closer to an edge she was terrified to fall over.

The echoes of her own scream faded, leaving only the sound of her ragged, panting breaths and the slow, steady drip of water somewhere in the darkness. Her body was a quivering, useless mess, slick with sweat and her own come. The aftershocks of the climax were still rolling through her, each pulse a fresh wave of agonizing sensitivity amplified by the potion. The silk felt like it was scraping her skin raw, and the cool air was a physical weight on her overheated flesh. He was still there, his face buried between her thighs, and she could feel the hot lap of his tongue as he cleaned her, leisurely tasting the evidence of her complete undoing.

He licked her clean with a proprietary thoroughness, his tongue tracing the swollen, throbbing lips of her cunt before flicking against her clit one last time, sending a jolt of white-hot sensation through her that made her gasp. He finally lifted his head, that infuriating, triumphant smirk still carved onto his face. He licked his own lips, a deliberate, obscene gesture.

"Delicious," he murmured, his voice a low rumble that vibrated through the stone slab and up into her bones. "All that righteous indignation, and you still taste so sweet for me. Your body doesn't lie, Granger. It screams my name."

Shame, hot and acidic, burned in her throat. He was right. Her body was a traitor, a mindless vessel of sensation that had craved his touch even as her mind recoiled in horror. The magical bindings on her wrists bit into her skin as she uselessly strained against them, the movement only serving to make her more aware of her own nudity and vulnerability.

Draco rose to his feet, a predator surveying his prize. With a flick of his wand, the bonds on her wrists vanished. For a fleeting second, she thought he might be done, but the hope died as soon as it was born. His hands clamped onto her hips, strong and unforgiving, and he roughly flipped her over onto her stomach. Her cheek scraped against the cold, unforgiving stone, and the welts on her arse screamed in protest as the silk sheet dragged across them. He pulled her hips up, forcing her into a degrading arch, her face pressed into the slab and her arse presented to him like an offering.

She squeezed her eyes shut, her knuckles white as she gripped the edges of the stone. She heard the pop of a cork, then the slick, wet sound of oil being poured. The scent of sandalwood and something musky filled the air. A moment later, she felt a cold, viscous liquid pooling at the base of her spine. She flinched violently as he spread the oil with his hand, his fingers sliding down the crack of her arse, smearing the slick fluid over the tender, welted skin. His touch was clinical, yet possessive. He was preparing her.

"No," she choked out, the word muffled by the stone. "Please, Draco, not there."

Her plea was met with a low chuckle. "Oh, but I think so," he said, his voice directly behind her. "I want every part of you. I want to fill every hole and hear you beg for more."

His finger, slick with oil, pressed against her tightly clenched sphincter. She tried to resist, to keep him out, but it was useless. He pushed, a slow, insistent pressure, and the muscle gave way with a small, pained gasp from her lips. He worked his finger inside her, stretching the tight passage with a brutal lack of sentiment. He ignored her whimpers, hooking his finger and pulling slightly, making her gasp. Then came a second finger, forcing its way in beside the first, stretching her wider, making her feel impossibly full and invaded. He worked them in and out, a slow, torturous rhythm that was pure violation, yet the damn potion made her treacherous body begin to weep a slick wetness between her legs, her cunt leaking want even as her arse was being so cruelly prepared.

Satisfied with his preparation, he withdrew his fingers, leaving her feeling empty and achingly stretched open. She heard the rustle of his trousers, the soft thud of them hitting the floor. She didn't have to see him to know he was hard; she could feel the oppressive heat of his body as he positioned himself behind her. The thick, blunt head of his cock pressed against her oiled entrance. It was huge, far thicker than his fingers had been. A tear of pure terror and despair slipped from her eye, tracing a path through the grime on her cheek.

"This is how it's going to be from now on, Granger," he whispered, his breath hot against her ear. "You are mine."

And then he pushed. The entry was a searing, tearing pain that ripped a strangled cry from her throat. He didn't hesitate, driving forward with one long, powerful, unforgiving thrust. He buried himself to the hilt inside her, filling her completely, stretching her to her absolute limit. The pressure was immense, a brutal invasion that stole her breath and lit every nerve in her body on fire. He stopped there, fully seated deep inside her arse, letting her feel the sheer, unyielding size of him, pinning her to the slab with the force of his cock. He was still, a monolith of flesh planted deep within her, a conqueror claiming his new territory.