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Chapter 3 – Big mistake

10 years later

A 28 year old Hermione Granger walked into a crowded bar at exactly 10:58pm. The bar was busier than it usually was since she hardly ever worked Saturday nights and it was a Saturday night. Hermione walked round the bar and took off her denim jacket and hat placing them with her hand bag under the bar, she quickly filled in a time sheet to say what time she started and then descended upon the pile of glasses that needed drying before they could be used again.

"Hi Mia, what you doin' here?" asked a fellow worker and friend of Hermione's

"I'm covering for Alexis, she wanted the night off to see Adam, since he just flew in from Italy for her birthday" Hermione laughed "Its not until next week"

"I know, but you know Alexis, girl has a higher sex drive than a rabbit" she laughed too

"Hey Sal, what time you in till tonight?" Hermione asked as she placed the last of the glasses on the shelf above the bar

"2am, you?"

"Lock up"

"Dratt, your on by your self"

"I know, I hate locking up…anyway what can I get you?" Hermione said diverting her attention to a customer who was waving her money in Hermione's face.

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It was 5 minutes to 4am and Hermione made her way with some glasses to the back of the bar. She hated lock up, it was at 4am and she was alone, she knew no one would come in after 3am since it was the time usually that everyone wanted to go home and in the last hour she had only served 3 people who all left at the same time.

She looked at the clock as she made her way into the kitchen with the dirty glasses. It wasn't until she came back out she saw that some one was sat at the bar waiting to be served so she looked at the clock again and sighed, one minute to go. She debated in her head weather she should serve the man or just get rid of him but she decided that she would serve him and get rid of his as quickly as possible.

"We close in a minute, but what can I get you?" she asked

"Just a whiskey" he said rather rudely

"You got 30 seconds" she shot back as she poured the man a drink. He threw her some money on the counter and she placed his drink in front of him, still not paying the man the slightest bit of attention since his head was slumped over and he was looking to the floor from his bar stool. "Rough night?" she asked as she went back to collect more glasses from around the bar

"Try a bad life"

"Tell me about it…. my life has been so busy and complicated" she thought back to her school days and since she left school.

"You have no idea how complicated things get from where I'm from"

"Wanna bet" she added. She walked to the man and stood in front of him "I'm sorry but I want to go home and that means I have to lock up the bar. …so you need to leave" the man slammed his empty glass on the counter and stood, he turned his back on her and walked to the door

"Not as good as the old firewhiskey anyway" he mumbled, but Hermione heard him

"Firewhiskey?….did you say firewhiskey?" she asked again

"Yeah….a local drink from where I'm from originally"

"You're a wizard aren't you?" she asked. The man looked at her strangely for a moment

"Your insane, if I didn't know any better I would have said you had been on the drink all night not me"

"But you are aren't you….did you go to Hogwarts?"

"Might have"

"I did too…I'm a witch see" she had no idea why she was telling him all this but it had been a long night for her.

"Don't look much like one"

"Well that's the whole point isn't it been in the muggle world and all…besides I'm a muggle born" the man grunted with a laugh "Let me guess you're a pure blood aren't you?"

"Filthy mudblood" he said under his breath. Hermione stopped his as he made his way out of the door

"What was that?" she asked "say it again?"

"Mudblood?" he looked at her for the first time properly, Hermione's mouth fell open

"Malfoy?" she screeched and dropped a wine glass she was holding

"AGG…Granger…" The man asked

"What are you doing here Malfoy?" she asked letting her question answer his as to who she was

"Say the same for you, Granger, didn't you have many job offers lined up after school, yet your alone in the muggle world working into the early hours of the morning in the middle of a run down back street bar"

"Like I said before, it's been a long and difficult time for me"

"Yer' well your not the only one Granger…not the only one" he said and walked out into the street. She half closed the door behind him but he shoved his foot in the door making her jump "don't have any firewhiskey do you?"

"Might have. Good night Malfoy" she closed the door on him, but before she locked it she looked up to see him still stood there. His once perfect features were now gray and his eyes that was once as blue as she sky on a bright summers day were heavy and dark. Just seeing him made her remember the speech Dumbledore gave over 10 years ago on graduation, he talked about forgivness and putting the past behind you. So she opened the door again and he walked in "Come in" she said sarcastically after he had already walked into the bar and took his stool at the bar.

"So….firewhiskey?" he asked. She nodded and walked into the back room. Minutes later she came back out with a half full bottle and a butter beer bottle in her hands, she threw Malfoy a shooter glass and poured him a small firewhiskey, she opened the butter beer and took a long swig as Malfoy finished off his whiskey.

"What are you doing here Malfoy?"

"I live round the corner, have done for about 6 years now."

"I live across the block, I've lived here since I left school. I could not live with the Weasley's or my parents, I needed my own space and with that came living in the muggle world"

"And you got this job?"

"No, I worked in the ministry for a while, but I was obvious I only got the job because of my part in the defeat of Voldemort but it was fine"

"Until?"

"It was fine until Ginny left school and out of the blue she was given my job, she flatly refused but I told her not to since I hated working there due to the fact I was Harry's friend"

"How come she got your job?"

"Mrs. Harry Potter can have what ever job she wants" Hermione said "Ginny's a lovely girl, I love her to bits but she was Harry's girlfriend when she left school and I was just a friend."

"Married to Potter is she now?"

"Yeah, they were married a few years after school when Harry had just turned 21 and they live in the south of France with their three children-"

"They've been busy then" he laughed

"Yeah, but she gave birth to twins and then they had another child. The twins are called James and Sirius, they are four and little Lilly is about 10 months old. Ron's married too, he married lavender Brown-"

"Brown?…I thought he and she were over after whatever happened in sixth year"

"You didn't know they got back together, well I guess you were kind of busy, anyway well they live in India, Lavender and the Patel twins opened a shop there and she moved taking Ron and their kids with them, they have two a boy called David who's three a girl called Constance or Connie for short she's one year old"

Draco grunted

"How about you Malfoy, famous muggle hater living amongst them, I must be the only one of your kind you've seen in years living here"

"Yeah, and don't think I'm so happy about it." He took the bottle of whiskey and just decided to drink from the bottle avoiding the glass "my parents moved to Europe after I left school, you know because of my father, left me the house but I didn't want it….so I moved out here, fancied a nice quiet life to be honest" he took another drink as did Hermione "Not married I see?" he said looking at her hands

"No" she spat at him feeling this was a jib at her "Are you?"

"No and thank god"

"Got rid of Pansy Parkinson did you?"

"I did" he took anther drink

"I think you better get going Malfoy" Hermione said looking at the clock it was now after 4:15am and she really wanted to get home and go to bed

"Maybe I should"

"I think you should and I also think you have had enough" she added after he took another long swig of the powerful whiskey

"You know Granger, I always thought you were smart at school, but I actually got a higher grade than you in divination" he laughed when Hermione went bright red and looked away

"That was years ago and besides I should have give that stupid subject up before NEWT level"

"Whatever..i'm glad you didn't….what was it you got?" he seemed to look as if he was thinking but it was for effect. Hermione knew that Draco Malfoy, who came second best to her at everything at school would never forget the only time he beat her in exams "….you got a D…for Dreadful didn't you?"

"Yeah..Yeah…yeah. Come on Malfoy I think you better get going" she walked to him and grabbed his arm pulling him off the stool that he sat on and helped his walk to the door.

"You know Granger its after 4am" Hermione rolled her eyes

"Yes Malfoy I know, now come on I want to go home"

"Kinky Granger" he slurped and took another gulp of the whiskey he carried to the door. Hermione noticed this and snatched the bottle from him

"Give me that" she said as she took it from him. Draco fell to the floor when she let go of him and walked back to the bar with the whiskey. "You cant walk can you?" she said shaking her head and looking at the time, it was 4:45am and she wanted to get home, this was the last thing she wanted or needed. She bent down and helped him to his feet, propping him up against the door frame while she went back to get her things she walked to the bar and took a long swig of the whiskey that Draco was just drinking and muttered to herself about it been a long night and god better give her strength for what she was about to do because she would need it.

As soon as she took a drink of the very intoxicating whiskey she knew she shouldn't have done because it was the only wizarding drink she knew she couldn't handle and she had been drinking all night when she was bought a drink by some men who chattered her up, Hermione drank all the muggle alcohol she wanted because one simple sobering charm and she was as right as rain, but with the whiskey she knew she made a big mistake because one swig and she was nearly as drunk as Malfoy was. She needed to get herself home and cast the sobering charm, quickly.

"Come on then, show me where you live-" hiccup "Malfoy, Malfoy" she yelled in his ear as she walked him out the door so she could lock up. He walked with his eyes closed half way down the street before he opened them and announced unceremoniously that they were going the wrong way and they had to turn back on themselves and they passed the bar which Hermione gave a quick glance in as they passed to make sure all the lights were off, which they were.

On the way home Malfoy seemed to sober up a little and was no longer half singing a old wizard song that men sang and trying not to be sick in the process. Hermione just half carried him home following his direction, neither said much on they way back to Draco's place.

"So Malfoy, where do you live?"

"Bank street, flat 34" he sulred. Hermione turned the corner and saw they were in the middle of Bank street and were looking up at a tall block of flats that were lavishly decorated with flowers on each window sill, the bottom of the flats had many posh cars parked around and there were a unusual silence to the area for London anyway

"This is more like the Malfoy I know, couldn't give up the good life could you?" she laughed and walked to the door of the flats, she inserted his key and helped him into the building. They made their way to the lift, Draco feeling better since he was walking on his own but still not been able to complete a sentence and hold in his bodily waste that was caused by the large amount of whiskey he had been drinking (sick). Hermione pressed the button for the lift and when they entered it they didn't stop until it approached the 34th floor.

"Well Malfoy, I hope you have a good hangover in the morning" she joked

"You know Granger. I think your pretty" he said and dropped to the floor against his door.

"Yeah right Malfoy, come on, lets get you inside." She picked him up and lead him inside and plopped him on the sofa. She sighed and looked out of the window across town she could see her little run down flat, the one next to the bill-board advertising shampoo, a cheep shampoo by the way. She turned back to Draco to see he had moved and was now standing, the best he could behind her with a few bottles of butter beer in his hands. She smiled but shook her head. "I better be going home"

"W-wait Granger-" hiccup "why don't you have a-another drink with me-" hiccup

"I think we have both had enough Malfoy" she said knowing that one more might send her over the edge all the way there she was felt her self getting more light headed by the minute, it didn't help her missing her meal before she came to work which meant that from about the fifth drink she had been bought she was probably drunk

"Ah come on Granger-" hiccup "get over it and have a drink" he passed her a few bottles and moved back on to the sofa. Hermione looked over a the cheep shampoo advert next to her little flat and then looked over at Draco who patted the space next to him on the sofa. She sighed once more and went to sit next to him taking a big sip of her drink.

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The next morning Hermione woke up at midday. She looked around her bedroom and tried to recall what happened last night. As she looked around she realized that it wasn't her bedroom at all. The usual light pink curtains covering the window, the ones with a little hole in the corner were no longer there but there was a bamboo blind covering the window and the walls were not the off white color they were in her room but a nice rich white color that went well with the light, airy feel to the room from the furniture that was in the room. Suddenly there was a grunt at the side of her and she jumped out of bed grabbing the light sheet that was half on the floor and wrapped it around her. There beside where she was laid was a platinum blonde hair man….Draco Malfoy was naked in bed next to her.

She looked down at her self, it didn't take her long to tell she wasn't wearing any clothes, since they were carelessly thrown around the bedroom.

Quickly she pulled on her jeans and grabbed her little back shirt. She took her bra from the door handle as she walked out into the living room, been as quiet as possible. She saw her bag, hat and jacket on the counter top and jammed her bra into her bag along with her hat and jacket. She made her way to the door but then changed her mind and walked back to the bedroom door and looked in…she couldn't believe it Draco Malfoy was naked in bed and she had been in the same state as him. She walked into the room tutting when she saw what he was laid on, next to his head was her knickers, she grabbed them harshly and ran out of the apartment all the way back to her pokey little flat on the opposite side of town.

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This chapter was based more on the film even though this chapter in the film was different, I wanted to add a little bit of dialogue since Alex and Isabella didn't know each other in the film, but these two know each other so I had to have a bit of dialogue.

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