A/N - I'm sorry it's been a while since I updated this story. I got bad AS level results so I was feeling down about it but your lovely reviews cheered me up! Please do review/follow/favourite this story because it keeps me going. I'm going to try and get out lots of shorter chapters rather than long ones. Please enjoy, I want to keep the romance realistic but things will be hotting up soon!

Hermione was tired out and it was only 10 am. With the help of Harry, Neville and Dean she had moved every last box of her things into her new apartment. Ginny insisted on helping her, but Hermione had to refuse because Ginny was next to bursting with only 2 weeks of pregnancy left. The last thing she wanted was Ginny giving birth on the floor of her new apartment. Everyone else was working or taking care of children, and Draco hadn't called since their date, but that was only just over 24 hours ago. She insisted on making the boys brunch to thank them, she could have been at this for hours without them.

After brunch had finished, Neville and Dean departed, leaving Harry and Hermione alone together for the first time in years. Throughout the course of the day, Harry had noticed her checking her phone, so when she did it for the hundredth time, he spoke up.

"He is going to call you, you know that right?" He gave her an amused look.

"Maybe I don't want him to call me." She said sternly, meeting his eyes. She felt a fool that she had been caught out being hung up on a guy. "It was only one date, it's not like we did anything either."

"I'm not stupid Hermione." He chuckled, "I can see the way you look at him, I can see the way he looks at you."

Hermione blushed in response.

"You feel it, don't you?" He continued, "What I felt with Ginny. There's this person who has been staring you in the face for so long, and one day, you look at them and you just feel it. I'd never had a proper conversation with her when I first felt it, I must have been 12."

"It so confusing Harry." Hermione started to cry. Her head was buried in her hands as she sat down on the sofa which was pressed up against the wall. He sat down next to her and started the rub her back soothingly.

"I know, Hermione." He calmed her down.

"I look at him and I don't see him as a child, he's a completely different man. Then I remember the names he used to call me and what he did with the other side and it makes me want to not want to be around him but I still do." She spoke without thinking, without pausing because she needed to talk to someone. "When I close my eyes, I'm still on the floor of the manor screaming in pain. He had to watch that. If he sees my scars, it will bring back horrible memories for him. I can deal with myself but I don't want to put him through that."

"Hermione, I know for a fact that he has completely changed. If he wants to have you, he has to have everything that comes with you. If he can't handle it, we will sort it out. Just let yourself be happy, you deserve it." Hermione trusted everything Harry said.

There was a long silence that followed, it wasn't uncomfortable. It was just silence. Hermione always thought you could tell who you were truly comfortable with when a silence wasn't awkward between you. Hermione put her head on Harry's lap while he lightly rubbed her back.

"Sometimes, I wish we were just camping again. When it was just me and you, without Ronald. We didn't know what was going on in the outside world and we were at peace even with everything happening around us." Hermione broke the silence after her tears had stopped. "How did you do it, Harry? How did you move past the war? I can't do it."

"Hermione, if the war taught me anything, it was that you have to hold on to the things most precious to you. Nothing can beat love and friendship. I've managed to surround myself with people I love and I remember that we risked our lives and sanity for them, and it just seems worth it." Harry smiled at her. "I think you should sleep this off, get a nap and I'll bring Teddy round for tea?"

"Sounds great. Thankyou so much Harry." Hermione stood and pulled him into a hug.

"You are my best friend, Hermione. I'm here for anything." He pulled away from her hug and apparated out of the room.

Hermione strolled through the boxes scattered round her new apartment until she reached her bedroom. With a flick of her wand, the king size bed was perfectly made. She changed into some suitable bed clothes and crawled into bed. She set her alarm clock for 3 so she'd have enough time to make tea and unpack some boxes. In a few short minutes, she drifted into a sound sleep.

Harry arrived with a pop into the middle of the living room, where to his surprise the TV was off and there was no Teddy or Ginny to be found. After a small clatter sounded from upstairs, Harry wandered up until he was outside his Godson's room. When he entered he found a completely content Teddy playing with small dragon toys among other things, Teddy looked up with immense pleasure that Harry had just walked in.

"Harry! I'm glad your home now, I am bored." Teddy grinned as Harry sat down next to him. "Ginny told me to come to my room because her and Uncle Draco needed an adult talk." Teddy rolled his eyes and his hair turned red, an obvious sign he was jealous of Draco for taking Ginny's attention.

"Do you know where they are Teddy?" Harry asked him, while ruffling his hair until it went back to it's natural colour.

"They are outside, probably so I can't hear them." Teddy spoke in a matter of fact tone, his attention had returned to his dragons.

"I'm just going to speak to them, then we can watch any movie you want, and Aunt Hermione wants us to go round for tea." Harry said the last part with over excitement.

"Really? Can Uncle Draco come too?" Teddy squealed.

"We will have to see." Harry said with caution before leaving Teddy to his dragons.

Harry made his way through the house until he reached the back door. Through the window he could see his very pregnant wife and Draco occupying two patio chairs. Draco's hands were running through his hair as Ginny was speaking, he was probably in the same panic Hermione was in earlier.

"This was probably last on my list of expectations as something I would come home too." Harry joked as opened the back door, "I've often imagined if you two were left alone together, it would end in someone being hexed." He walked over and bent to give his wife a kiss.

"Draco and I are better friends than you think obviously." Ginny sarcastically remarked.

"Hermione has invited us for dinner tonight and Teddy wants you to come." Harry directed at Draco. At this Draco hid his face in his palms and groaned.

After noticing the confused look on her husbands face Ginny spoke up, "He thinks he embarrassed himself because he kissed her when he was drunk." She wiggled her eyebrows at Harry.

"I didn't just kiss her Ginny, I basically pounced on her face and I wasn't thinking straight." Draco groaned out from his hiding place. "She probably thinks I am an idiot."

"Considering she's been checking her phone every minute, all this morning, I'd say she doesn't think you are an idiot?" Harry grinned as Draco's head lifted from his hands, he looked hopefully at the pair of them.

"Should I call her then?" Draco asked, as if it wasn't made clear.

"Yes!" Ginny near screamed. "And ask her if you can come tonight." With that he stood up from his seat, and rushed into the house leaving behind the grinning couple. "Oh I do love it when a plan comes together." Ginny beamed to her husband.

Hermione was woken from her peaceful sleep, not by her alarm clock but by the buzzing of her phone. Her heart skipped a beat as she reached for it off the bed side table. Staring into the glass screen, she saw what she had hoped, it was him. Clearing her throat, she answered the phone.

"Hello?" She answered.

"It's Draco." His smooth voice replied, making her stomach flip.

"Yes, I was wondering if you would call." She tried to seem as collected as possible.

"I'm sorry about that, I was just a little embarrassed about what happened on our date." His voice broke out a tone of nerves that she hadn't been expecting.

"What do you mean?" Hermione was confused, he had nothing to be embarrassed about in her memory.

"I... uh." He swallowed as the lump in his throat grew larger, "I'm sorry about kissing you, especially against the door like that, I was a bit drunk."

"I actually quite enjoyed it" She blushed, "I wanted it to happen."

He breathed a silent sigh of relief, "I was going to ask you out again on a proper date but it seems Teddy wants me to come to your dinner tonight, so is that okay?" he asked nervously, he didn't want to push her, but Teddy was hard to say no too.

"Of course." Hermione tried to silence the small panic in her mind, she hadn't prepared anything to make it an impressive dinner, and she hadn't even unpacked anything yet. "Tell them to come round at 6."

"I'll see you then." He grinned like a Cheshire cat, and their brief phone call was over.

Hermione knew she would have to rush and use more magic than planned to get everything ready on time, so she might as well begin now.