I got off of work a little later than I had hoped to but here is the next chapter.

A/N: I don't own HP and i probably never will. (I don't think I've done one in a while)

I've never been Romeo who meets

a girl and falls for her immediately.

It's been a much slower process for

me each time I've gone into a relationship

-Leonardo DiCaprio

I couldn't help but think what an arse Theodore was. Granger was right; food poisoning could easily be cured by a simple healing spell. As for her nanny, she was in on the whole plan. Somewhere throughout the day, one of them had managed to talk to the other privately and concocted this little plan. I would have to get Theo back for this but for now, I was going to try and enjoy dinner with Granger.

I had to admit, she was pretty attractive, even though she was only dressed in casual jeans and a shirt, but the plum color of her shirt and her tan skin made it an exquisite color on her. I couldn't help but notice the small bit of make-up she was wearing. I wonder if she had done that for me or if she did that often. Some way or another I would get to know the truth.

She was taking this rather horribly, when I found it actually quite amusing. She was fuming mad at Elsa for her treachery and involving her son in this scheme. I had to calm her down, and I knew that a glass of wine would probably do the trick.

Or maybe the whole bottle.

I ordered another one and we sat and talked about what happened in the past to us, she was being very open with me despite the fact that she had just divorced Weasel not long ago. I told her of Astoria and how she had left me. The profane words that had slipped from her mouth I actually found quite cute. Usually, words like that coming from a woman would turn me off but coming from her. Innocent little Granger and Minister of Magic. I found it hilarious and most of all sexy.

I could tell she wasn't one to hold her liquor so to make things even I ordered myself a few shots to at least be close to her level of drunkenness. We stumbled out of the restaurant not long after and made our way to the beach hand in hand. I had no clue what would go down in the minutes to come but I was just playing it by ear.

I yearned to know why she was with me, on this beach, holding my hand, in a drunken stupor after having dinner with me. Just the two of us. So I let it out, hell, I was drunk enough to ask so I figured she would be drunk enough to answer.

"Can I ask you a question?" I took her hand in mine once more my shoes and socks in the other.

Though the moon was a small slit, I could tell she was blushing from me grabbing her hand.

"What made you change your mind about me?"

She stopped walking and cocked her head to the side confused at my question. "What do you mean?"

"The other day at Hogwarts, why did you allow me to talk to you, why did you invite me to dinner and why did you agree to come to dinner tonight?"

I waited for her to answer. She was so cute when she looked down at her feet.

"I knew the boy you were in school, lost, hurt and confused. Every time I would look at you I would see the pain in your eyes, the evil demon on the outside wasn't the person whom I believed was on the inside." She looked up at Draco was now looking down at her, his shadow hiding her face in the darkness. "When you disappeared for two years, I didn't think much of you. Until you came back with this huge company ad you took the world by surprise. I read the paper every day, your picture always in it. When I looked into the picture of you I didn't see the boy I once knew in school. I saw a man, a man who was finally happy for once."

She hit the nail right on the head. That was the boy I used to be in school and now that was the man I was now. But she was wrong about one thing, I wasn't happy.

I shook my head "I'm not happy."

"Why would you say that?"

"I'm alone. I have no one to share anything with; I have no one to get mad at when they leave the bathroom a mess, no one too to wake up to every morning and no one to have random arguments with when I find that things don't go exactly my way..."

"As I agree those are things to make someone happy, they will come to you eventually. Just stay positive, if you stay positive it means you're more likely to be approachable by people."

Merlin's Beard, she was smart which made her attractive as well; everything about this woman attracted me to her. The way she walked, talked and acted. Drunk or sober I just couldn't resist her. I couldn't resist the urge to tuck a strand of her hair behind her ear and pull her in for a kiss.

To my surprise she didn't pull away, so I pulled her closer, she moaned into my mouth and I took it as she wanted more. I then nibbled at her bottom lip for a bit as we stood there in full embrace, the waves washing onto the beach at our feet. I broke away from her mouth and trailed kisses down her jawbone to her neck. She leaned her head back allowing me to nibble and suck at her neck.

Her hands found their way under my shirt to his chiseled abs, feeling every crease I had on my stomach. I slowly brought her down to the sand and hovered over, my lips making their way back up to hers.

She pulled my shirt off over my head and with the hand that wasn't holding me up, found its way under her shirt. As my fingers crept up her stomach a light flashed down onto us and we looked up to see a cop car had caught us.

"Shit." I whispered. I stood up and then helped her up off the ground.

The cop made his way towards us carefully trying to walk in the sand.

"Hi officer." I smiled. I was a bit blinded from the man shining a flashlight in my face.

"May I ask what you two were doing out here?" He pointed his flashlight to Hermione and back to me.

"Sorry, we are on our honeymoon." I grinned.

Hermione stood next to me not saying a word.

"Take it back to your hotel room. This is a public beach. You're lucky I don't fine you for public indecency ."

"No problem officer. Sorry about that. Heat of the moment. You won't see us again." I took Hermione's hand and dragged her away from the cop.

I didn't know what had just happened between us but I couldn't stop it, and I yearned for more. I wondered how far she would let me go now that we were caught by the law. I really didn't want to take advantage of her in her drunken state but I wanted to test the waters a bit.

We walked our way back to the hotel which was only two miles away from the restaurant since neither of us had a phone to call a taxi and were too drunk to apparate safely. She was holding onto my arm now as we stumbled up the street the hotel. Hermione still clearly drunk from her almost three bottles of wine.

"Draco." She looked up at me with a smile on her face

"Yes?" I asked

She stopped walking which caused me to stop as well, I turned back to the beautiful woman and we were standing underneath a street light. I could now see her features and I wanted to kiss her some more.

"What just happened down on the beach?"

I took a step closer to her and took her in my arms. "I believe we were snogging."

"I know that but, why?"

"What do you mean why?"

"What does it mean?"

She was drunk as well as I, I couldn't really give her a straight answer. Who knew what I would say to her or if she would remember the night before.

"I'm not quite sure."

She took that answer and continued walking with me back to the hotel, I could tell she was tired, she was slowing down. Luckily we were just meters from the building when Hermione decided to take a break and lean against a wall. I waited for her to compose herself but it didn't happen she had her eyes closed, she was falling asleep.

I walked over to her and picked her up bridal style and trudged the last few feet to the hotel and up the lift to my room. I had no idea which room was hers so I was going to allow her to occupy my bed for the night while I did the right thing and slept on the floor.

So Let me know what you think!

KKB