A/N – Alpha-Bites is a series of little snippets, each one corresponding to a letter of the alphabet. The shortest of the snippets are about 500 words, while the longest is just over 1,000. All the snippets take place in the same universe, but aren't in chronological order. Some take place before Draco and Hermione are a couple, some are before they get married, some are after they're married, some are before they have children and some are after they have children. I've already completed all the snippets, so updates will be fairly fast.
Anniversary.
In the vast ballroom at Malfoy Manor, Hermione looked around at all her friends and family. Everyone had come to celebrate her and Draco's twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Hermione still found it hard to believe they'd been married for twenty five years, more often than not when she was with her husband she felt like the same teenage girl who had first fallen in love with him. Sometimes it was hard to accept that they were both heading up towards fifty and had grown kids of their own.
"You look serious." Draco said, turning to his wife and wrapping an arm around her shoulder.
"I'm just thinking how quickly time passes." Hermione said, leaning into her husband. "It feels like only yesterday we were getting married."
"I know what you mean, every time I look at Scorpius and Lyra I wonder where my children went." Draco chuckled. "They've grown up so fast."
Hermione nodded as her eyes searched out her children. Her eyes first landed on her beautiful eighteen year old daughter, who was laughing with her best friend, Izzy Zabini. Lyra had just finished school a few weeks previously, and had applied to go into Healer training. Draco and Hermione's daughter favoured Hermione in looks, with her long brunette curls and warm smile. However her curls were much more manageable than Hermione's had ever been. Her pale skin and her silver-grey eyes had been inherited off Draco, meaning she was recognisable as a Malfoy even without the platinum blond hair.
Scorpius on the other hand was an almost perfect replica of his father, his brown eyes the only hint Hermione had played a part in creating him. Scorpius was now twenty three and a little over a year ago, he'd married his long term girlfriend, Lily Potter. Lily was a year younger than Scorpius and the pair had been together since school.
Draco liked to moan about his family now being related to the Potters, but Hermione knew he didn't mean it. Draco adored Lily and thought she was perfect for Scorpius, who like Draco needed a strong woman in his life. Plus these days he was really good friends with Lily's parents, Harry and Ginny. The past had long since been forgotten and on a whole Hermione's Gryffindor friends and Draco's Slytherin friends got along great.
"Come on, let's dance." Draco said, jolting Hermione from her thoughts. "This is supposed to be a celebration, not a time to be maudlin."
"You're right." Hermione said as she took hold of Draco's hand and let him pull her from her chair. "We should be celebrating that I've managed to go twenty five years without killing you."
"If you count the years before we were married, we're heading up to thirty years together." Draco pointed out. "That's even more impressive."
"So you're admitting, it's impressive I haven't killed you." Hermione laughed as she husband wrapped her in his arms and they began to move to the music together.
"It's impressive we haven't killed each other." Draco replied. "I don't think many people thought we would last half an hour, let alone nearly thirty years."
"I always did like to prove people wrong." Hermione smiled.
"How about we carry on proving people wrong." Draco suggested. "Do you think we can make it to our fiftieth wedding anniversary?"
Hermione stopped dancing and looked up at her husband. "Together, we can do anything."
Draco smiled back at Hermione as he leant down and connected their lips. Locked together in a passionate embrace, the pair drew whistles and cheers from their friends and family. They may have been together for a long time and were both middle aged, but their love for one another was still as strong as ever.
"Okay, you two break it up." Scorpius called over to his parents. "Honestly, you're like a couple of teenagers."
"I think it's cute." Lily giggled from beside her husband. "I hope we're still like that in twenty five years."
Despite the public display of affection his parents were indulging in Scorpius smiled and nodded his head in agreement with Lily. His parents were an inspiration, and if he and Lily were half as happy as them by their twenty fifth anniversary then they were going to be a lucky couple. His parents had been lucky enough to have a great life together, and he hoped that in another twenty five years they'd be celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. Although knowing them two they would still be indulging in their public displays of affection, his grandparents certainly still did, and he hoped in years to come he and Lily would be the same.
Across the room Draco and Hermione had finally separated and returned to their seats to enjoy the rest of the evening. Suddenly Hermione wasn't feeling as old, she and Draco still had plenty of good years in them and she was planning on enjoying every single one of them. Maybe a second honeymoon could be on the cards. Hermione grinned at the thought of a second honeymoon, she wouldn't mind spending a few weeks alone with her husband, especially if there was no clothes involved.
Leaning over to Draco, Hermione whispered her suggestion in his ear. Draco grinned at the prospect of a second honeymoon, and as the night wore on the couple made plans. By the end of the evening they'd already decided that a second honeymoon was a definite, they were going to celebrate their twenty fifth wedding anniversary in style. And what better way to celebrate their anniversary then reliving their honeymoon.