Delivery... From Hell?!

Bunker Library...

Hermione didn't know if she should be in awe or horrified by this book. She figured out which spell that was going to be used, and Dean was right, it is scary. Whoever is getting the dark mark removed may have to die for it to work. At least long enough to fool the dark magic coursing through the dark mark. 'I need to take a break', Hermione puts the book in the warded box, and locks it. Looks around the library to see who else was around. "Hello? Is anyone here?" Hermione calls out. "Yes, dear?" Molly answers from the kitchen. Hermione picks up the box, and walks into the kitchen to chat with Molly. "I thought I was all alone for a moment." Hermione sets the box down onto the table and takes a seat. "I was getting ready to start dinner. The Winchesters' are doing what they do best, and Rowena is keeping the Malfoy's company." Molly paced around the kitchen like it was her own.

"The Malfoy's?" Hermione asks nervously. "Yes, dear. Narcissa and Draco have agreed to help the Order in exchange for their safety. Draco was continuously being tortured for failing to search for you three." "It's not that I failed, I purposely didn't search." Said a still exhausted Draco, barely standing against the doorframe leading into the kitchen.

At this point, Molly stops what she is doing and goes over to Draco, "Do you need anything dear?" "I woke up in a strange bed, heard familiar voices, and found myself here. Where are we? Where is my mother?" Draco leaned against the doorframe to prevent from falling over, but you can see he is trembling. Must be the side effects of the Cruciatus Curse.

He makes eye contact with Hermione, "You're in the Bunker belonging to the Winchesters', it's warded, hidden, and safe. Your mother is here as well, we can take you to her." Hermione stands up and grabs the box. "Thank you. How did we get here anyways? And why are you carrying that box like you're guarding it with your life?" Draco asked staggering closer to Hermione. "Well, how you got here, it's not easy to explain." Hermione holds the box up to show Draco, "This box contains something that will help you and your mother, but it is very dark. Shall we go see your mother, I'm sure she will be happy to know you're awake." Hermione gestures to Molly for her to help Draco walk down to 7B.

Room 7B...

Rowena and Narcissa were sitting across from each other, drinking some tea, when they heard others coming into the room. "Here we are, dear. Your mother is right in here." Molly opens the door to 7B and walks in first, followed by Hermione, then Draco slowly walks in, seeing his mother across the room. Narcissa stands up, looks at her son and smiles. Draco suddenly gets a burst of energy, breaking away from the support of the wall and tries to run towards his mother. "NO! Stop!" Narcissa yells, while Molly grabs him by the waist stopping Draco mid-stride. "What? Why?" Draco is practically in tears.

"If you cross into this Devil's Trap, you can't walk back out." Narcissa explains while trying to cross the line and hitting an invisible wall. "It's the Mark, Draco. It's pure evil. I can't leave this room until it is removed." "What are you talking about? Removed? The Mark can't be removed." Draco states with a confused look on his face. Hermione then steps closer to Draco, still holding the box, "This box contains a book with a spell that can remove the Mark, but the consequence of the spell is something I'm not comfortable speaking about." "What is it, dear? I need to know if I am to perform the spell." Rowena is slowly walking over to Hermione.

As Rowena gets closer, Hermione brings the box to her chest and hugs it closely, not willing to let it go. "Dear, how long have you been translating this book?" Rowena asks. "About six or seven hours." Hermione says while looking down at the ground. "Did you touch it with your bare hands?" Rowena asked with concern in her voice. "Yes." Hermione looks up and her eyes have gone almost all black.

"Why don't you give me the book. You figured out the spell, I can take it from here." Rowena starts to grab the box while looking to Molly. "I'm fine. I was told to keep it away from you." Hermione angrily through her teeth. Molly whispers to Draco, "Head back upstairs. Wait for the Winchesters, they should be here soon."

Draco turned towards Hermione and saw her eyes have gone black, almost demonic. Draco is hesitant about leaving his mother, but does what Molly says. Leaving Rowena and Molly to try and calm Hermione down and pry that book from her clutches, Draco makes his way upstairs back into the kitchen.

Noticing the doorway on the other side into the library, he takes a seat opposite where Hermione was sitting, all her notes, and the codex still where she left them. "What happened in there? Her eyes were completely black?" Draco thinks out loud. "Ah, yes. The Book of the Damned. The name says it all. Can corrupt even the purest heart." Says a man leisurely leaning against the archway, dressed in an expensive black suit, with a Scottish accent.

"Who are you?" Draco asks. "The name's Crowley. And you are?" Crowley walks further into the library, over to the wet bar to pour himself a drink. "Draco Malfoy." Draco said watching this man for any sign of being a threat. "Well, Draco Malfoy. How is it that someone from my neck of the woods ends up in the Winchesters' Bunker?" Crowley pulls a chair away from the table, sits down and puts his feet up on the table.

Draco was getting ready to explain when the Bunker door opened. "I didn't think getting groceries would take so long. At least I got Molly to agree to make some apple pie." Dean strolls into the library, noticing Crowley. "Crowley, what are you doing here?" "Mother needed some things for a spell, so I'm here to deliver." Crowley finishes his glass of whiskey, sets it down, and pulls a vial of blood from his jacket's inner pocket. "Hellhound blood, and there's enough to perform the spell twice."

Suddenly, there was screaming from downstairs. "GIVE IT BACK YOU BITCH!!" Hermione screams while trying to claw her way out of Molly's arms to get the book back from Rowena. All the guys run in to see a very angry, black-eyed Hermione struggling to get loose.

Dean grabs Hermione from Molly, "I got her. Rowena go ahead and start the spell, we have everything now. Sam, help me put Hermione in that chair." Sam grabs Hermione's legs and they carry her into the Devil's Trap, past Narcissa and forcefully sit her down to strap her in.

All the while Rowena is combining the ingredients needed, "I need some hair, and blood from the both of you." Rowena looks to Narcissa and Draco. Rowena uses a knife to shear a small portion of hair from both Narcissa and Draco, as well as slicing into their palms for the blood.

Bleeding them onto the hair, adding in the blood from the Hellhound, Rowena begins the incantation. "Sanguis de condemn abitur. Custodi sanguis de magia. Custodi sanguis de inferos. Gratias ad hoc Mark Aquarius servulus monstra!" ("Blood of the Damned. Blood from guardian of magic. Blood from guardian of Hell. I give this Mark back to the caster!")

Once the incantation was spoken, the bowl started to glow a dark red, followed by a powerful knock-back wave, sending everyone to the floor. Draco and Narcissa started convulsing, then vomiting this thick, black substance, almost like blood but it was moving trying to get back to its host. Molly moves Narcissa away, and Sam picks up Draco, Dean pours holy oil over both these black mass abominations and sets them on fire. Two shrill screams can be heard coming from the small fires causing everyone but Hermione to cover their ears.

Sam helps Draco stand, and Narcissa is already on her feet running over to her son pulling his sleeve up where the Dark Mark was and seeing nothing but flawless skin. "It's gone. We're free." Narcissa smiles at her son with tears in her eyes, then looks at her own arm and sees there is in fact no mark.

Everyone is so relieved to be free of You-Know-Who they forget about Hermione until she starts talking, "Well, isn't that precious. Now, how about letting me go?" Dean splashes her with Holy Water causing her to smoke. Hermione threw her head back and screamed in pain, "Aaaahhhhh!" Dean puts the flask of holy water back into his jeans back pocket, "Not until you're back to normal. We got any syringes left." "Yeah, I'll go get them." Sam pats Dean on the shoulder and goes to retrieve the rest of the syringes used for when Dean was turned back.

"Why don't you head upstairs. You're not going to want to be here for this." Dean says. Molly and Narcissa walk up the stairs to leave the room, "Hungry?" Molly asks. "Starving." Narcissa looks back to Rowena and the Winchesters, "Thank you for everything."

"What's going to happen to her?" Draco is concerned about Hermione. He has never seen anything like this. I mean, he has seen evil, but this is different. This is Hermione, she can't be evil. She's an annoying, know-it-all bookworm, who's kind-hearted and gentle, not evil. "We're going to purify her." Dean states bluntly.

Sam returns with the syringes, "There's only five, but it should be enough." "Ok, you get started, I'm going to see if anybody needs anything." Dean tells Sam.

"You coming?" Dean asks Draco, who can't seem to break eye contact with Hermione. "Hey, listen. It's not really her right now. It is Hermione, but that book corrupted her and we're going to do our best to bring her back." Dean re-assures Draco before walking out.

"If the book corrupts, how come you're ok?" Draco asks Rowena while she is putting the book back in the warded box. "My heart and soul is already corrupt. I'm a natural witch, but I did some very dark things to prolong my life as well as gain more power. When I finally do die, Hell won't even want me." Which is hard to believe considering she just removed the Dark Mark from himself and his mother without really asking for anything in return. "Come on, let the Winchesters' handle this. They have done this before, so they know it will work, and she will be fine within a few short hours." Rowena puts her arm through Draco's and leads him upstairs closing the door behind them.

Five Hours Later...

After injecting every last drop of purified blood into Hermione, she finally snaps out of it. "I never want to touch that book again." From the stress of the whole ordeal Sam and Dean couldn't help but double-over laughing to the point of tears. "I think it's safe to let you out of that chair now. You missed the main event. The spell worked." Sam told Hermione while unbuckling the restraints. "What a relief." Hermione sighs while rubbing her wrist, "I'm starving." Hermione gets up and almost falls over from sitting too long. "Molly has finished cooking dinner." Sam helps Hermione to the kitchen to get some food.

"Hello dear, how do you feel?" Molly asked. "Tired, and hungry. And I feel like I got into a fight with 'Moony'." Answers Hermione. "I'll make you a plate. You go sit in the library where everyone else is eating." Molly says ushering Sam and Hermione out of the kitchen.

Hermione stops a few paces from the library, "I don't know if I can face everyone. I remember some of what happened and I said some cruel things." "It's ok. While Dean and I were purifying you, we explained how you were affected by the book. No harm done." Sam tells her. Hermione nods her head and follows Sam into the library.

Hermione walks over to the furthest seat and sits by herself, putting her head down on the table. "You all right?" Ask Draco which shocks her. "No, I made a fool out of myself, said some nasty things, and almost became a demon over a bloody book." Slowly lifting her head from the table, Hermione asks Draco, "How are you feeling?" "Better now that the mark is gone. And.. Um.. About what happened at the Manor. I'm truly sorry."

Hermione holds up her hand, "Stop. If you tried to help me, things would have been made worse. I know you had no choice in any of it." Draco let's out the breath he was holding and nods his head.

"Here you go dear. Tomorrow we'll discuss how to get you back to the boys so you finish what you started." Molly sets down a plate of food. "What is she talking about?" Asked Draco. "We are going to break into Gringotts and into your aunt's vault. She has a horcrux stashed there." Hermione said before taking a bite of mashed potatoes. "If she does it's more likely on a shelf towards the back. Her vault probably looks like my mother's private vault. Once you grab it, she'll know, and so will he." Draco says leaning back in his chair watching Hermione.

"I see everything went well." Crowley enters the library holding the warded box with the Book of the Damned. "Missing something?" The people sitting at the tables look up at Crowley, "Got to hand it to Rowena, she's slick." Dean says wiping his mouth from his last bite, getting up to grab the box and lock it away.

"Care to join us?" Narcissa asked Crowley. "Love to, but got to head back. Hell doesn't run itself. It was a pleasure meeting you lot, hope you never darken my doorstep." A saddened Crowley vanishes.

"He didn't mean actual Hell, did he?" Draco asks. "He did. Crowley is the king of Hell." Sam states. "Why did he seem so sad?" Hermione asks. "He's alone. Crowley is surrounded by demons and henchmen, but they're just 'yes men'. Dean and I are his only friends, if he considers us that. Rowena is his mother, and she hates him." Sam explains.

"So Hermione, should I call Cas and see if he can take you back tomorrow?" "I think that would be best." Hermione looks to Draco, "Thank you for the information about the vault. It will make searching for the horcrux a little easier." "You're welcome. Only wish I could do more." Draco says looking down at the table and then making eye contact with Hermione. "One day at a time." Hermione says.