Background:

Hermione/Draco relationship; Harry/Hermione/Luna Friendship

Hermione and Luna own a bookstore in Diagon Alley that sells both muggle and magic books.

Post-Hogwarts

Summary: Hermione and Draco dated in their seventh year and graduated with their relationship open-ended. A year after that, Draco meets up with her to tell her that he married Pansy Parkinson. Two years later, Draco's back with something to tell her, but she doesn't take it like he expected her to.

Quote from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Hermione thanked the cashier and took her coffee. A flash of blond hair stopped her in her tracks on her way back to the table she, Harry, and Luna were occupying. When she saw the face in the window, she quickly made her way to the table and sat down next to Harry.

"What are you doing, Mione?" Harry laughed as Hermione attempted to hide her face.

"Draco's here." Hermione whispered.

Harry and Luna immediately began looking around and spotted him quickly. Harry narrowed his eyes, but Hermione grabbed his arm before he could stand up.

"If you go over there, he'll know that I'm here and I really don't want to see him." Hermione replied to the unspoken question.

"But Mione—" Harry whined, giving her a pleading look.

"No buts, Harry. Can we just go?"

"Fine."

The trio stood up and left their coffee shop.

"I'll stop by the store when I get off." Harry said before kissing Hermione's cheek and huggin Luna before heading back to the Ministry.

Once he left, Hermione and Luna continued on their way back to their rare book store in silence.

An hour later, the bell above the door ran, signaling that someone had entered the store. Hermione looked up from her spot behind the check-out counter and her features became hard.

"What are you doing her, Draco?" she demanded.

"I need to talk to you." Draco replied, his voice pleading her to listen to him.

"Hermione, why don't you take this to the office so you two can have some privacy." Luna suggested, coming out of said office and taking Hermione's spot behind the register.

Hermione grudgingly lead him to the office. Once the door was closed, she turned on him.

"Why are you here? To let me know how happy you and Pansy are?" Hermione spat out, causing Draco to flinch subtly.

"Mia, I came to tell you that I'm not married to Pansy; I got the permission to annul the marriage." Draco replied softly, hope filling his eyes.

"Why?"

"Because I married her because I had to. When we found that she couldn't have children, I had a reason to file for divorce, so I did."

"Well, you're about two years too late."

"Mia, I know you're not with anyone."

"That's not the point, Malfoy!"

"Oh, it Malfoy now?"

"When you pick money and power over me? Yeah!"

"Mia—"

"NO! You hurt me, Draco. I can't just forget that!" Hermione's voice cracked as she blinked back the tears that were forming.

"I never stopped loving you, Hermione. I married Pansy because I had to."

"You didn't have to. I talked to your mother last year, she said that it was because your father said that he would be happy if you married Pansy. She made sure that you knew it was a choice. But you picked her. I loved you, Draco, and I still do, but I can't just forget the pain you caused." She cursed herself as the tears that had been welling up in her eyes began to overflow.

"Hermione—"

"I need some time, Draco. I'll meet you for dinner on Friday night. We'll take then, not a minute earlier."

Realizing that her couldn't make her change her mind, he sighed before opening the door, causing Luna and Harry to fall into the office. He took one last glance at her, seeing that she wasn't even trying to hide the tears any longer, he swallowed and left the store.

Once he was gone, Harry and Luna crowded around her, Luna sitting in the spare chair and Harry on the desk.

"So..?" Luna prompted.

Hermione told them everything, from her conversation with Malfoy to all the reasons why she shouldn't take him back, and that she had never stopped loving him.

"And my head is saying that I'm stupid for feeling this way about the guy who made me cry more than I ever cried in my entire life." She finally finished her rant, crying again.

"Okay, so, Malfoy isn't married anymore. Why can't you stop thinking about it and follow your heart?" Luna asked.

"Because… he broke my heart! He broke my heart into a million tiny pieces and I still haven't found all of them yet."

"I think, you need to give this some serious thought. Maybe start a tentative friendship and work your way back up to a relationship; you know, start from the bottom and work your way up." Harry suggested.

"Yeah, I should probably do that." Hermione nodded, "Build the trust back up."

"And, when you start to rush things, we'll be there you slow you back down."

"Thanks, guys." Hermione laughed, hugging the two of them.

"So," Harry began after a moment, "when can I beat him up?"