*Hermione's POV*

I could feel the pain course through my body as Bellatrix pointed her wand at me yelling, 'CRUCIO!' She laughed hysterically as she watched me writhing around on the cold stone floor of Malfoy Manor. It felt like a thousand white-hot knives were piercing through every inch of my skin causing me excruciating pain. I couldn't hold it in any more so I began to scream as Bellatrix cast the Cruciatus Curse at me again. It felt like my head was going to burst due to the intense pain she was inflicting on me. At least it was me and not Harry or Ron, who were like my brothers... I'd rather be in this pain for the rest of my life than let them go through this. I opened my eyes as Bellatrix lifted the spell as smiled wickedly at me as I glared up at her.

"It's time for you to get what you deserve, you filthy little MUDBLOOD!" Bellatrix screeched as she grabbed a handful of my hair and pulled at it making me wince.

"Do what you want to me! I won't tell you anything!" I yelled.

"Are you sure about that?" She asked as she pointed to the door that opened revealing Greyback who dragged a man and a women in behind him before dropping them on the floor. No!

"MUM?! DAD?!" I screamed as I saw who the people were. "LET THEM GO!"

"No. I think we can have some fun here." Said Bellatrix as she pointed her wand at my mother. "AVADA KADAVRA!"

"MUM!!" I screamed as I shot up in my bed. I was shaking violently from the nightmare and I was gasping for air. I could feel my pajamas sticking to my skin as I was covered in sweat. I shakily pulled back my covers and walked over to my bathroom before showering. After I was clean, I wrapped my green fluffy towel around myself before I left the bathroom. I dried myself quickly and got changed into a clean green bra and matching pants before I began to rummage around in my wardrobe for something decent to wear for school. I pulled out a pair of black leggings, a purple checkered button-up shirt and my purple converses and got changed. I dried my hair with a flick of my wand and kept it down in its natural curls before pocketing my wand.

I grabbed my red rucksack and put all my books inside along with my jacket. I also grabbed my sports kit for Gym before I walked downstairs and into the kitchen where Kreacher was cleaning up.

"Good morning, Mistress!" He greeted.

"Good morning, Kreacher!" I replied.

"What would you like for breakfast, Mistress?" Asked Kreacher.

"I'll just have and apple and a glass of water please, Kreacher." I said.

"Of course, Mistress." He said as he scurried off to the kitchen. A few moment later he came back into the dining room carrying an apple and a glass of water. I quickly ate the apple before drinking the water. I ran upstairs and quickly brushed my teeth before running back downstairs and grabbing my bags.

"I'll see you this evening, Kreacher!" I said before I walked out of the house and towards my car. I dumped my bags on the back seat before I started up the engine and drove out of my driveway and began the journey to Chloe's house.

After ten minutes I pulled up in front of Chloe's house where I saw her stood waiting for me. I beeped the car horn and waved to her. She smiled at me and walked over to the car before climbing into the passenger side.

"Hey Hermione!" She said.

"Hi Chloe! You okay?" I asked as I started up the engine and set off for school.

"Yeah I'm good, you?" I replied.

"I'm great! I hope you don't mind but I told my dad about you being a witch and a Wolf-blood, I can't lie to my dad." She said.

"That's fine." I said. "I told Kreacher about you anyway."

"Who's Kreacher?" She asked confused.

"Oh! He's my House Elf." I said. "A House Elf is a magical creature which is immensely devoted and loyal to the one designated as their master. They serve wizards and witches, mainly in old wizarding families. My House Elf is called Kreacher. I thought I should tell him about you in case you came round to my house and he thought you were a Death Eater or something and used his Elf magic on you."

"Ah okay." She said. "Who're Death Eaters?"

The rest of the journey I was explaining to Chloe all about Voldemort, Death Eaters, my best friend Harry Potter, the war, my parents' deaths, me being tortured and everything else.

By the time I had finished explaining everything to Chloe we had finally arrived at school. I parked in an empty parking space and stopped the car.

"Wow, you and your friends have been through a lot." She replied.

"Tell me about it." I replied as we climbed out of the car and grabbed our bags.

"What do you have for your first lesson?" Asked Chloe.

"Um, I have Physics, what about you?" I replied.

"Physics as well." She said.

"Great, we'll sit together." I said smiling as we walked into the school building together.

After we put our sports kits into our lockers we walked straight to the Physics classroom for our first lesson.

The day went quite quickly and before we knew it lunch time had arrived. Chloe and I decided that we were going to sit outside and eat today because the cafeteria is quite cramped but Chloe and I had just had a different lesson so I stood outside waiting for her to meet me. I suddenly felt someone bump me from behind. I growled to myself slightly and turned around to glare at the person when I came face to face with the vampire that tried to read my mind yesterday.

"Sorry about that." He said. "I'm Edward Cullen."

"I'm Hermione Granger." I said as I shook his offered hand. As soon as I touched his hand I could tell he could feel my magic as his eyes went wide and his mouth hung open slightly in astonishment. I smirked and said, "Yeah I know you know that I'm a witch and I know that you and your family are vampires so we both know each others secret. But I'm warning you. If you so much as breath a word of this to anyone except your family I will hunt you down paralize you with my magic, remove your organs and force you to eat them before I feed the rest of your body to a pack of angry wolves! Are we clear?" I asked. I didn't mean to sound so scary it just comes natural to me when I was angry.

"Uh yeah sure." He said but suddenly instead of looking slightly mortified he looked confused. "Why do you smell like those Quileute wolves?"

"I'm a Wolf-blood. I can't be bothered to explain it to you so go and look up what it means." I replied.

"No. I know what a Wolf-blood is but how did you become one?" He asked.

"I was bitten by one in the great Wizarding war late last year when I was fighting beside my best friend who happened to be on the enemies number one kill list so naturally I was automatically a target." I said.

"Wow." He said. "I have a question."

"What?" I said.

"How did you stop me from reading your mind yesterday?" He asked.

"I've been taught to block people out of my mind. It's one of my many magical skills." I replied.

"Yeah if you want to know more about it I'd gladly tell you but right now I need to be finding my friend." I said.

"Okay well I look forward to hearing all about it. It was nice to meet you, Hermione." He said.

"Yeah you too. I'm sorry about threatening you I tend to get a little angry." I said.

"No problem. I'll see you around." He said.

"Bye." I said.

I turned around and nearly screamed when I saw Paul stood directly behind me. "Blimey Paul! Don't scare me like that!" I said laughing.

"Sorry, Hermione." He said.

"How are you?" I asked.

"I'm great! I actually wanted to ask you if you wanted to hang out this Friday after school or something?" He asked.

"Yeah that'd be great!" I said.

"Awesome! I'll text you the details later!" He replied.

"I look forward to it." I said.

"Me too. See you later." He said.

"Yeah see ya later. And Paul?" I said.

"Yeah?"

"If you see Chloe could you tell her that I'm looking for her. I can't find her anywhere." I said.

"Yeah sure. Bye." He said grinning at me.

"See ya." I said.

I waited for another five minutes when Chloe finally turned up.

"Hey. You took your time." I said teasingly.

"Yeah well, Mr Parker kept the whole class behind. I'm sorry I kept you waiting though." She said.

"No it's alright I met another vampire called Edward Cullen, he seems okay. And I also talked to Paul and we've arranged to meet up Friday after school." I said.

"Nice. Well it's pretty much the end of lunch now so do you want to head over to the sports block for Gym?" She asked.

"Yeah okay. I just need to get my sports kit from my locker." I said.

"Okay let's go." Replied Chloe as we walked inside towards my locker.

After we'd collected our sports kits we walked over to the sports block and followed the other girls into the girls changing room. Chloe and I walked over to one of the far benches and began to change into our sports stuff. I wore a pair of black P.E shorts, a short sleeved navy blue shirt with the school logo on it, a pair of black trainer socks and a pair of my white running shoes. All the other girls wore the same.

"So you're the new girls?" Said a voice from behind me. Chloe and I turned around and came face to face with another girl who could only be described as a 'slag'. She had straight bleach blonde hair and her face was covered in make-up. She had a thick coating of make-up which made her look incredibly fake. She had most of the buttons on her shirt undone so she showed way too much cleavage and I could see that she was wearing fake tan.

"Yeah. And you are?" Said Chloe.

"I'm Jade Brown and this is my group of friends; Chelsea, Brittany, Melanie and Natalie." Replied Jade as she pointed to the group of 'girly girls' behind her who resembled her quite a lot with the hair, make-up and clothing.

"I'm Hermione Granger." I said. I don't like Jade very much she seems to give off a bad vibe.

"And I'm Chloe Carter." Said Chloe who was also looking at Jade with a look similar to mine.

"Well, how about you two sit at our table at lunch tomorrow?" Said Jade as she flicked her hair over her shoulder.

"It is the popular table." Said the girl with black backcombed hair who I think was called Chelsea. I shared a look with Chloe and we silently agreed what to say.

"No thanks. We're fine on our own." I said.

"No?" Asked Jade. "What do you mean no?"

"Anyone in this school would give anything to be offered a seat at our table!" Said Melanie.

"Well, we're not anyone and besides you lot aren't the type of group of friends that I'm comfortable with hanging out with." Said Chloe.

"Fine then. You don't deserve the place at our table anyway!" Said Jade before she walked out of the changing room with her group following behind her.

"Wow." I said. "She seems like a bitch."

"Yep. We should be heading out to the sports hall now." Said Chloe.

"Okay." I said as she grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the changing room and into the sports hall where most of the class were waiting. It was a mix class of boys and girls.

We walked over to the class and stood with Paul, Seth, Jared, Jacob, Embry, Quil, Colin and Brady who all greeted us. They were all being a lot nicer to Chloe now, I guess that they know that she's not a threat. After a minute the rest of the class were ready so Mr Wilson started the lesson.

"Right for the next couple of weeks we're going to be doing athletics and cross country." He said. I smiled when he mentioned cross country I love running! "But today we'll be doing relay and sprinting on the athletics track so let's go."

We all followed Mr Wilson out on to the athletics track and stood waiting for him to give us instructions.

"Okay firstly I want you all to get into groups of five." He said. I immediately grabbed Chloe before we were pulled over to Paul, Jared and Seth.

"You wanna be with us?" Asked Seth.

"Sure." Replied Chloe.

Everyone got into groups. Group 1; Paul, Jared, Seth, Chloe and myself. Group 2; Jacob, Quil, Colin, Brady and Embry. Group 3; Jade, Chelsea, Melanie, Natalie and Brittany. Group 4 were made up of  a group of guys I didn't know and Group 5 were made up of a group of girls that I didn't know.

"Okay! These are the teams you are going to be in for the sprint relay! Group 1 in lane 1, group 2 in lane 2 etc." Said Mr Wilson. "Organise your team and pick who will start the relay who will then pass the baton to the next person and so on."

"Right!" Said Jared clapping his hands as he turned to our team. "Who wants to go first?"

"I will." Said Seth excitedly.

"I'll go second." Said Chloe.

"I'll go third." Said Jared.

"Do you wanna go fourth or last?" Paul asked me.

"I prefer being last." I said.

"Okay that's sorted. Let's go to our positions on the track." Said Paul.

Once all the teams were positioned the first team member was passed a baton and then readied themselves to run when they were told. I had to run the last 100 metres for my team so I had to be fast. I looked to my right and saw Jade in lane 3 glaring at me.

"What?" I asked annoyed.

"I'm so going to beat you!" She said.

"I wouldn't be so sure." I said smiling.

The horn sounded and Seth and the others started to sprint. Seth was pretty fast to be honest he was in the lead but only by a little. He passed the baton to Chloe who sprinted towards Jared, she was quite fast, but then again she is a vampire. She passed to Jared and he ran and passed it to Paul. I readied myself and Paul passed me the baton just as Brittany passed her baton to Jade. I immediately sprinted as Jade did the same. I pushed my legs to go faster and easily over-took Jade and ran about 3 metres in the lead. I could hear Paul, Chloe, Seth and Jared cheering as I sprinted across the finish line. I smirked at Jade when she crossed the line in third place behind Jacob who had come in second place. Jacob high-fived me and congratulated me and the rest of my team ran over.

"Wow you're fast!" Said Paul.

"Thanks. I run in my free time, it's a hobby of mine." I said as I tried to catch my breath. "You lot were pretty fast as well."

"Well thank you, you're not so bad yourself." Said Jared cockily.

"We'll have to go running together at some point." Said Chloe.

"Yeah definitely." I said.

"Okay! First place is Team Jared! Second place is Team Jacob! Third place is Team Jade! Well done to the other two teams who came as runners up." Said Mr Wilson. "It's the end of the lesson so off you go!"

"Race you!" Said Chloe as she ran towards the changing rooms.

"See you guys later!" I said to the guys before I began to sprint after Chloe.

Chloe and I got changed and as soon as we were ready we grabbed our bags and headed towards the car park.

"Well that was fun." I said.

"Yeah! Did you see Jade's face when you over-took her by like ten metres?" Asked Chloe.

"No I was too busy over-taking her." I said smiling as we climbed into my car.

"Well she looked a mixture of shocked, angry, and exhausted." Said Chloe laughing.

"I wish I could've seen her face." I said as I started up the car and began to drive Chloe home. After the usual drive to Chloe's house with the music full blast, I pulled up outside of her house and allowed her to get out.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Hermione!" She said smiling at me.

"Yeah, see you tomorrow, Chloe!" I said waving as she walked towards her house. I pulled out on to the road and drove the rest of the way towards my house. I parked my car and climbed out before walking into my house.

"Good afternoon, Mistress!" Said Kreacher as he took my bag and jacket from me.

"Hi Kreacher. I'm just going to go and get changed then I'm going to go for a run." I said as I walked past him.

"Okay Mistress. Will you be wanting some food when you get back?" He asked.

"Just make me a sandwich and put it in the fridge and I'll get it when I get back." I replied.

"Okay Mistress." Said Kreacher before he disappeared with a 'crack'.

I went upstairs and got changed into a pair of grey joggy bottoms, a vest top with a navy blue hoodie on top of it before I put my trainers on. I grabbed my phone and put it in my pocket before zipping it up and then I grabbed my wand and pocketed it before I walked back downstairs and walked straight out of the door. I slowly started to jog down the road until I came to a small path that led into the forest. I started to run down the path and after twenty minutes of running I stopped to catch my breath. I looked around and realised that I wasn't on the path anymore, I don't know where I am... Oh crap! I jumped when I heard a twig snap behind me which caused me to turn around and search my surroundings for what made the sound. I looked ahead and saw a cloaked figure emerge from the thicket of trees.

"Who are you?!" I asked as I discreetly pulled out my wand.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Hermione Granger, best friend to the-boy-who-lived. You thought you could escape the country and get away from us?" Said the figure as he removed his hood revealing his face. It was Antonin Dolohov! One of Voldemort's Death Eaters. "Well, you thought wrong!"

"You're mistaken if you think that I ran away from you! I can easily take you on." I said.

"Oh yeah? Well can you take us all on?" Asked Dolohov. My eyes widened as I saw three more Death Eaters emerge from the trees. There was Avery, Rabastan and Macnair.

"Stupify!" I yelled as I pointed my wand at Macnair sending him backwards into a tree stunning him.

"Incendio!" Shouted Avery as he aimed at me.

"Protego!" I yelled as I blocked the spell. "Incarcerous!" Ropes burst out of my wand and bound Avery with the ropes making him fall to the ground struggling against the ropes.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Yelled Rabastan aiming at me.

"Finite Incantartem!" I yelled stopping the hex before it could reach me.

"Confringo!" Yelled Rabastan I dived out of the way as the spell hit the tree behind me causing it to explode.

I jumped to my feet and yelled, "Impedimenta!" I aimed at Rabastan but he dived out of the way and dodged it. I looked to my left when I heard running and I saw Paul, Jared, Seth, Jacob, Quil, Colin, Embry and another guy who I didn't recognise. They were all stood watching the scene with wide eyes.

"Well, Granger! I didn't expect you to be one to hang out with wolves! Oh wait! I remember you are a wolf! Well, I'll kill you first and then your new friends! Defindo!" Dolohov yelled at me casting the severing charm. I was about to block it but I was too late the spell hit me across my stomach causing me to yell in pain and for Dolohov and Rabastan to laugh. Paul and the others were yelling out to me but they looked too shocked to do anything else. I gripped my stomach as the gash started to bleed but I just stood up straighter and glared at Dolohov.

"Sectumsempra!" I yelled hitting Rabastan causing him to fly backwards and slowly start to bleed to death.

"Expulso!" Shouted Dolohov.

"Protego!" I casted the shielding charm blocking his spell before I aimed at Dolohov, "Confingo!"

My spell hit Dolohov straight in his chest causing him to burst into flames and scream before he apparated away. I suddenly felt a great wave of pain from my gash on my stomach causing me to wince and slowly sit on the floor as I held my stomach.

"Hermione?!" Yelled the guys as they ran over to me. I saw Paul first as he knelt down beside me and pulled me into his arms. The last thing I saw was Paul's worried face crying out to me before everything went black.