Author: Svelte Rose
LJ Community: 100situations
Note: Just in case you were wondering…this is totally AU.
Title: To Her Disparage- Part 2
Date: June 15th, 2006
Theme: 050- Traffic
Rapping the door twice with her knuckles, Hermione dropped her hand and reached for the knob. With a twist, she pushed the door open just as Blaise Zabini reached for his tie. "Need help?" She offered with a characteristic arch of her eye.
Blaise shook his head, "Nah, I've done this so many times, it's practically instinct now." Making the last knot, he then turned around and held out his arms, posing for his one-member audience. "Wala! What do you think?" He smirked.
Hermione shook her head, "You and Draco are practically carbon copies of each other." Setting down her bag, she walked across the room and untied the messy piece of silk before quickly retying it into something that resembled more of a tie than a knot. Smoothing the tie as best as she could, Hermione fussed over Blaise's collar knowing all-too-well how much he hated it.
"So who is it this time?" Blaise asked impatiently, trying to step away.
"Oh some girl or another. I thought it was Melanie…" Grabbing him by the shoulders, she faced him towards the full-length mirror and adjusted his collar to fit over the tie.
"The brunette?"
Hermione did a double-take, "Wait…wasn't Melanie a blonde?"
"No no," Blaise chastised gently, as he pulled a jacket off the hanger and pulled it over his broad shoulders. "She's the brunette one. One of them…" He added as an afterthought.
"How do you keep them straight?" Hermione cried exasperated.
Blaise waggled his eyebrows, "We share a few, here and there,"
"Oh that's horrible." She gagged, shoving his briefcase at him.
He laughed out loud, "I'm just jerking your chain, Granger! Relax!"
Hermione could only push past him in annoyance. They made their way to the elevator which then took them down to the main lobby. Striding out the glass doors, she headed towards the edge of the sidewalk and whistled at the heavy city traffic. "Taxi!" She hollered.
"A bit anxious aren't we?" Blaise smirked just as the yellow vehicle came swerving around the corner.
"The both of you are going to drive me CRAZY." She grumbled to herself as she yanked the door open. "Get in!" Came the barked order of one annoyed secretary.
Blaise jumped as his eyebrows rose, "Yes ma'am." He saluted before diving into the seat.
Hermione counted silently to ten before climbing in after the vice president of Malfoy International.
