Title: Upon the Park Bench
Prompt: 027 - Parents
Word Count: 150
Rating: G
The park bench was nearly empty. Nearly, in that but one lonely being occupied it. One being out of the hundreds that must have been milling about the park. Hermione made toward this being, a man with long hair of a pale blonde.
She greeted him politely and prepared to turn away—after all, it wasn't rude to watch one's children, even if one's husband was already doing the same. Yet her eyes caught in the man's—a mixture of grey and blue.
"Malfoy!" she exclaimed, gasping in astonishment.
"Hermione," he acknowledged with a nod.
"Draco," she immediately amended. The name sounded foreign upon her tongue. "Fancy meeting you here."
He looked thoughtful for a moment, and Hermione followed his gaze. She was startled to find a blonde-haired girl immersed in the sand with her son; both were laughing. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Draco smile.
