Chapter 2

Her parents offered for her to stay with them but she knew if she did she would end up smothered and never end up leaving. Being smothered is something that she never coped well with. After Hermione said goodbye, she was about to call up a local hotel and ask if she could stay for two nights, but she bumped into someone and her handbag spilled it's contents all over the ground.

"Granger-wait Weasley?" Came a familiar voice. "What are you doing here, isn't your family back in England?"

Hermione got up from the ground and turned to see Draco Malfoy standing behind her. The pair had been Head Boy and Head Girl in what should have been their 7th year at Hogwarts but instead was their 8th. At first they did not get along at all, Draco thought of Hermione as a spiteful bitch who thought she knew everything and Hermione thought of Draco as a stuck up prick who still thought blood mattered. But the two of them had been forced to get along with each other otherwise they would lose the positions that they had wanted for most of their academic life. Their hatred turned into mild dislike which then turned into actually liking each other, then they started to fancy each other and by the end of the year they were confessing their love to each other and were boyfriend and girlfriend. But then Draco fucked it up by sleeping with Pansy and as an act of revenge Hermione slept with Ron which caused her to fall pregnant with Rose and to marry Ronald as she didn't want to bring disrespect to her father's family. Draco and Hermione hadn't seen each other in eleven years.

"Oh, hello Malfoy." Hermione said as she bent back down to pick up her belongings from the ground, "As to why I'm in Australia-my parents live here and I was telling them how I left Ron and the children as I just couldn't do it anymore. And I'm going to be Granger again-soon I hope, I've signed the divorce papers and given him custody of the children."

"Oh," Malfoy muttered "Then our lives are kinda the same...in a way."

"How?"

"Well, shortly after we broke up, I slept with Astoria Greengrass and I got her pregnant." Draco sighed "My father forced me to marry her as he did not want me to bring disrespect to the Malfoy or the Greengrass name. I had a son and he is called Tiberius, he's a horrible child and I really really don't like Astoria so I decided to call it quits and so I divorced her. And now here I am, in Australia." At Hermione's inquisitive look "I run businesses over here and they are quite successful. If I do say so myself." Draco popped the collar of his shirt as he said that.

Hermione laughed, it was laugh that reminded Draco of all the good times that they had together and he was a fool to think that Pansy was better than her. A complete and utter fool.

"Do you need a place to stay?" Draco blurted out.

"What?" Hermione asked slightly confused "Say that again, but slower."

"I said, do you need a place to stay?"

"Oh, I was just going to call up a hotel and get a room for a few nights and then go exploring."

"You can stay with me if you want and I can show all the good places to go, seeing as I have lived here for almost six years."

"Well, okay then. Thanks Draco."

Ron walked up to his desk and shook his head, it was eight o'clock in the morning and already there was a huge pile of paperwork on his desk. As he walked closer he saw that it was not anything to do with the auror office but instead it was from the Department of Family Relations- it was the divorce paper work. He sighed, damn Hermione still worked fast. He skimmed through the paper. She was giving him full custody of the children, she clearly didn't want anything to do with the name Weasley. She was cutting all ties to them. Ron rubbed his temples before setting down to work, he had a lot of paper work to do.

It was some time later when Harry came into the office and saw Ron swamped with paper work, "I didn't assign you all that, did I?"

"No, you didn't." Ron sighed, pushing his hair back from his face, "It's the paperwork for the divorce. Hermione sent it, she's done her part now I just need to do mine."

"So she really went through with it?" Harry sighed "I didn't think that she would actually do it. I mean she has loved you since 6th year. Remember when you where dating Lavender Brown and she attacked you with birds and then I went after her." At Ron's nod he continued "Well, she spent the whole night, with her head on my shoulder, crying."

"That might of happened then, but remember when she went back for her eighth year and Ginny told us how close Hermione and Malfoy were getting and that everyone thought that they were dating, well until she slept with me. To be totally honest, I only think she married me because she didn't want to bring shame upon our families, well you know how much Mum and Ginny talk." Ron took a deep breath, " Also the only reason Hugo came about was because we were drunk as skunks on New Year's otherwise he wouldn't be around."

"You know what mate, when you're finished with the papers go home. There's not much going on today and if we do need you I will floo call you. Is that alright?" Harry asked.

"Yeah yeah that's fine." Ron murmured distractedly as he went back to the paper work.

Harry shook his head solemnly and walked off to his office, wondering what a future without Hermione would bring as she had been the rock in their relationship, she was the voice of reason and now it look like she doesn't want anything to do with them anymore.

What Hermione did was so selfish. She just packed her bags and left to children and a loving husband, she didn't even leave any indication that she was about to leave. She left her family when her children needed her most.

Harry could never hate Hermione but he was disappointed in her as she could have thought of a smarter way to settle this as she is after all the smartest witch in their generation.

Two days had passed and Draco had shown Hermione all the best sites that he could think of in Australia. He showed her the places that where rich in culture like Ayers rock, the places that had an abundance of nature like the Great Barrier Reef; they spent hours scuba diving and snorkeling and when they came out of the water they looked like wrinkled prunes. Draco also showed Hermione, Sydney Opera House, the National Gallery of Victoria and many more places. And of course, Hermione took pictures of all these places and uploaded it to her Instagram account which was quickly growing in followers.

"Thank you so much Draco," Hermione gushed "This is amazing!"

"No worries Hermione." Draco chuckled.

Hermione looked around in awe, Draco had taken her to see the National Library of Australia in Canberra. Hermione was in heaven, the walls were stacked with books of many different genres, she picked out a book on Aboriginal culture as that was something she didn't know anything about and she wanted to learn more.

About an hour later, Hermione heard the snap of a camera, she looked up and saw Draco holding her phone. He had just taken a picture of her whilst she was engrossed in her reading, he was looking quite smug, obviously pleased with his photo taking skills. Hermione grabbed the phone to see what the picture looked like: the book she was reading was flat on the table and she had one arm propped up supporting her head as her chestnut coloured hair draped across her face. In the photo it looked like to Hermione only the book mattered. Nothing else.

After Hermione was finished they went around Canberra, just exploring.

"I didn't know you could use a phone Draco." came Hermione's incredulous voice.

"Well how else am I supposed to contact my business partners and communicate with muggles who live halfway around the world."

Hermione shrugged, "I just wouldn't have thought that you would use a phone. Rather stupid of me to think that actually as you do run a business that is mainly based in the muggle world. Another question, why are you mainly based in the muggle world? I thought that it would be the other way around."

"Well, I met a girl in my eighth year at Hogwarts, she showed me the wonders that the muggle world had to offer and gradually I fell for her and I've never regretted anything more in my life that what I did to hurt her. I was a stupid hormonal teenager who thought that it was cool to have a girlfriend but have sex with another girl, I didn't know what I had lost until it was too late."

"Oh," Hermione whispered, "I don't know what to say."

"Then don't say anything." Draco murmured as he turned to face Hermione, "Don't say a word." Draco moved to cup Hermione's face and as if there were a magnet attracting the two together, their lips touched and they didn't separate for a long time. As you know, opposites attract.

After a while they separated and Draco tugged Hermione into an alley way to apparated back to his condo in Melbourne where they did the frickle frackle. After that happened Draco asked Hermione whether she wanted to be his girlfriend once again. Her answer was a blissful yes, she had forgotten how good sex felt when you did it with a person you actually liked.

" You know that as my boyfriend you are required to go travelling with me so you can defend my honour if any sort of situation like that arises." Hermione muttered, her face buried in Draco's chest, both of them naked and wrapped in the quilt.

" Not that I think that you would need any help defending your honour but sure I'll go with you. When we get up in the morning I will tell my secretary that I am going on holiday and to only call me if the case is urgent."

Hermione laughed and gave a murmured thanks, gave Draco's chest a peck and snuggled in to go to sleep.

She knew that the next few weeks or even months would be filled with adventure. She could not wait!

A/N

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