Hermione hurried down to the end of her hall and pressed the elevator door button as she had done once before.  As if she had first class service, the doors to the elevator opened up after a couple of seconds in waiting. But in the elevator there was no bellhop, just a lady and her poodle.

            " You might be wondering where the bell boy went kid," the lady said looking over the top of her very shaded bifocals.

            " I was wondering where he went." Hermione replied

            " He's off duty kid…." She replied, " Who else is out at this time of night? Especially on a work night or school night as you might put it." The lady continued stroking her poodle that was nipping at the lady's leather glove.

            " Well where to?" Hermione interrupted

            " Second floor kid,"

With that the elevator doors closed as Hermione finally reached the lobby, picked up a handful of complementary mints at the front desk and walked out onto the sidewalk.

            The buildings were sparkling with the lights from the windows, which contained tired employees working at the night shift. Hermione just smiled and was happy she took off from work this week. While studding down the street she once again rummaged through her pocket book to powder her nose, and instead tripped, almost landing head first upon the sidewalk! Recovering from the abrupt fall, she just picked herself up and rushed down towards the subway that would supposedly take her to 42nd and 45th street.

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Hermione finally reached her destination at fifteen minutes after nine,

            " Hmm, that was awfully fast…" she mumbled while combing her fingers through her hair.

            " Indeed that was," replied a voice behind her.

Hermione quickly turned around and bumped into at figure, it was Draco.

            "Why, I suppose you accepted the invitation, and I totally agree with your decision," he continued with a small smirk on his face as if he had just won a bet.

            " I thought about it…and I didn't really have anything else to do this evening. As well as re-thinking the fact that it would be awfully rude of me if I turned down the decision after you had already went out of your way to buy this," Hermione flipped out her ticket from her purse and held it in front of Dracos face.

            "Well, I suppose you would still like to join us?" Draco replied

            " Where's Ron?"

            " Oh, he went to that store over there to buy some cough drops and bottled water, I find that the refreshments as well as food are much more expensive in the theatre."

            " And the cough drops?"

            " Oh, he- er came down with a cold yesterday of some sort…I personally think it was food poisoning from the reunion."  Draco informed as Ron quickly rushed up behind him.

            " Good-o, Hermione! Come to join us?" Ron cheerfully asked

            " Yes-yes of course." Hermione answered

            " Well, I knew you would come through. Why, you look stunning." Ron said taking a couple of steps back to observe her attire.

            " The complements are much appreciated Ron," Hermione blushed

            " Why don't we head down and take our seats before someone else does?" Draco interrupted.

            " Of course," Ron added as he popped a cough drop into his mouth.

            " May I escort you?" Draco said putting out his arm.

            " Indeed." Hermione said, laughing a bit as she interlocked her arm with his, leaving Ron a bit out of the picture.

            " Now, now…let ol' Ron in.," cried Ron after them interlocking his arm with Hermiones' spare one.

            Hermione felt somewhat happy in a way that this was a moment without Harry. For maybe Draco might be the one who could replace that empty space within her heart, maybe he could be the one to replace her faded love, Harry.