Two Meddling witches and two hopeless lovers

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"Where to?" Hermione asked

"I know a place, come on" Draco said, extending his hand, Hermione took it without a second thought and Draco aparated them into a alleyway

"This certainly is a place" Hermione said, looking around "homey" she added

"Leave the sarcasm to me Granger" Draco said, he noticed that Hermione hadn't pulled away yet and smiled

Her hand felt perfect in his

He led them to a muggle cafe, he motioned them to a table and helped Hermione sit down

"A muggle cafe? Who are you and what have you done with Draco Malfoy?" Hermione asked

Draco rolled his eyes at her

"Seriously, how did you find this place?" She asked

"Blaise, his wife showed him after she-Potter showed her" Draco explained

"Do you have to do that?" Hermione asked

"Do what?" Draco asked, giving her a look of confusion

"Call my friends names, you don't call me names anymore, why do you still call my friends names?" Hermione asked

Easy, I'm hopelessly in love with you, I just tolerate your friends

"Habit" Draco answered

They continued talking, if anyone saw them they would think these two were on a date, he would say something funny and Hermione would laugh, they would say something flirty to one another

"Where are you planning on staying when we get to New York?" Draco asked

Hermione shrugged "a hotel I could afford" she answered

"I'll pay for your room, stay at the Noble Nimbus Hotel" Draco said

Hermione started coughing

"The Noble Nimbus Hotel? You do understand I can't afford it, I'm not a Malfoy" Hermione said

Yet...hopefully

"I'll pay for your room, we're going to be there for a while, it's only fair you'll be comfortable, and also in case of emergency I'll be able to find you" Draco said, hoping he wasn't making her uncomfortable

"Malfoy...it'll take me forever to pay you back" Hermione sighed

"We'll figure out another form of payment, just stay at the hotel?" Draco said

"If you think I'll be having sex with you jus-"

"N-no! No! That's not what I meant, I meant by another form of payment, like I don't know" he began rambling, turning redder than Weasley's hair

"Draco, breath" Hermione said, placing a hand over his "we'll figure out another form of payment, thank you" she said, she was rubbing his knuckles with her thumb

"So you'll stay at the hotel?" Draco asked, hoping that he wasn't hearing her wrong

"Yeah, as long as you let me pay you back, I'm still feeling guilty for letting you pay for my room" Hermione said

"I could afford every single room in that hotel, I'm a Malfoy, it's fine Granger, I want to do this" Draco said, turning his hand and held hers

"But stil-"

"It's fine Hermione" Draco said, he normally doesn't use her name, only when he needs to assure her or it slips out, she blushed when she heard him say her name, she liked hearing her name come out of his mouth

It felt...perfect

"Thank you Draco" she whispered

They continued to look at one another, no words were spoken out loud but a thousand words were said

Words that they were scared to say

A older couple came and saw them

"Look Harold...such a lovely couple" the woman said, looking at her husband

"They look madly in love dear, just like I love you" the older man said

"Uh...we're not together" Hermione said, looking away from Draco

"Dear...that boy is madly in love with you" Harold said

Draco blushed

"And don't think you're off the hook young lady, you look at him like he's the only thing in the world" the older lady said, Draco turned to Hermione who was as red as he was

"Um...we're just friends" Draco said, trying to change the course of this conversation

"That's how we started young man, now we're sixty years married and I still love my dear Esmeralda as I did when I first saw her"

"No dear, we started by loathing one another, you were a self centred boy who relied on his family's fortunes to much"

"And you were always in the library, learning new things and making me look bad"

"But somewhere along the way, our hatred turned to love" Esmeralda said, gazing into her husband's eyes

"What we're trying to say, don't try to reason with your feelings" Harold said

"Thank you" Hermione whispered, Draco furrowed his eyebrows at her response

Could she...no she couldn't

The older couple left, leaving Hermione and Draco with new thoughts in their minds, hoping that the couple was right and maybe...just maybe they could be something more