A/N: This is the (finally, hurray, yippee!) beta'd version of the chapter. Thanks to my beta IWillGoWithYouHarry. Let the fun begin!

Hermione walked into her third floor flat. It was seven in the morning and she had just finished her shift at St. Mungo's as a healer, after working long hours at the hospital. She turned on the light and walked over to her espresso machine flicking the 'Brew' button to the on position and taking the milk from the refrigerator and pouring it into a carafe to steam it. Pulling a tall mug down from the cabinet she poured the steamed milk and two shots of espresso into the mug.

Muggles dream up the best coffee drinks, she thought as she walked over to the table with her Starbucks mug.

It was a few minutes later when Hermione heard a knock on the door. Sighing to herself, she got up tiredly to open the door, finding a young, blonde-haired wizard standing in front of her, with a smile plastered on his face. His tall, well-built physique and his shimmering silver eyes were something she'd come to appreciate and desire.

"Oh Draco it's you!" Hermione exclaimed. "What are you doing here so early? I just got back from work." Opening the door she invited him into the cozy kitchen she was sitting in.

"Yeah me too." Draco said tiredly. "I thought I'd drop by. I saw you at work but you seemed pretty busy with a nasty stinging jinx."

"Oh my god! That was a nightmare!" the brunette moaned, palming her forehead. "Anyway, would you like to have a latte?" she asked.

"I'd love one." Draco replied, as he took a seat on the kitchen island. "My shift was twelve hours long today." He further said with a small yawn.

Hermione turned to look at him and found him almost dozing off as his yawns grew bigger. Draco looked like he had just finished a twelve-hour shift and was clearly tired.

"Wow! That's a long day." Hermione commented, walking over to the espresso machine. She poured some milk into a carafe and steamed it. Transferring the beverage into a mug and added two shots of espresso and placed it down in front of Draco.

"So are you working tomorrow?" Draco picked up the Daily Prophet and began to leaf through it.

"I have tomorrow and the next day off," Hermione replied. "Those are my only two days off for two weeks." She frowned, feeling or rather knowing that work consumed her whole life and she hardly ever got time to go out for a date or to the movies with Harry, Ginny and Ron.

"Oh well tomorrow night, after you've gotten some rest would you like to go to go to the Leaky Cauldron for a few drinks?"

Hermione thought to herself…Why would Draco ask me out for drinks? I mean I know the war changed everyone but this is rare. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to say yes after all we are co-workers and why should a girl say no to free drinks?

"Sure that sounds good. What time do you want to come pick me up?"

"How's 7:30 sound?"

"Good. I'll be looking forward to it. Now since you saw me working and you know I spent half the day trying to fix that poor bloke up with the stinging jinx." She chuckled. "Anyway, what did you do around the hospital today?"

"Oh it's really the same thing, different day. Lots of screaming babies, sick kids and broken bones but most of it isn't too serious. We can have most kids out of there in an hour." Draco said, sipping his beverage. Draco was the head of the Pediatrics Emergency Department at St. Mungo's and he loved his job.

"That's nice. I've always thought working with children would be very challenging but it sounds like you enjoy it."

"Yeah it's not a bad job."

Smiling, Hermione began to wonder why Draco had asked her out on a date. What could it hurt to ask why? "Draco, is tomorrow night going to be like a date?"

Draco smirked he wanted it to be a date. He looked into Hermione's eyes and said, "It is if you want it to be…"

Hermione smiled and took a sip of her latte. She thought that this was a very different side to the boy she had known at school. He had definitely matured after the war. Draco had turned spy for The Order at the beginning of the war and he had proved a valuable asset for the light side. Hermione wondered if Draco deserved of a date with her after all the teasing and name calling he had done during their school years. She thought that it could be an interesting experience so why not?

"Sure Draco, it can be a date. It'll be interesting that's for sure." She smirked and saw Draco roll his eyes and smile. Maybe he wasn't so bad….