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Chapter 11

At five minutes ‘til four, Morty came downstairs and started picking up the register for her.

“Let me just, um…” Hermione grabbed a few volumes that she had pulled off the shelves for a gentleman earlier that morning.

“Ah-ah-ah—“ Morty clucked. He took the books from her. “I think I know where they go,” he said, raising a brow. “Besides. Do you really want to be late to tea with Narcissa Malfoy?”

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Chapter 10

Ginny spent the whole night on the bathroom floor with her, comforting her the best she could, but every time Hermione looked at her, she felt Draco’s breath against her face as he told her how much her best friend was worth to the Death Eaters. She wouldn’t let her brain focus for too long on that number, or else the number 35,000 would flicker across her eyelids.

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Chapter 9

By Tuesday morning, everyone on Level 4 knew not to look for a ring, ask her about her coming nuptials, or even glance her way. The rest of the day on Monday had been so tense after she had screamed at Aiden for filing a case file incorrectly, that Mathilda probably sent out some kind of a memo. Word must have traveled up to Level 2, because Harry appeared at her cubicle on Wednesday just before lunch.

“How’s the bride-to-be?” He smiled.

She glared at him, and continued throwing files around in an order only she knew.

“Come on. Let’s go down to the café.”

“I’m not hungry,” she bit out.

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Chapter 8 

Saturday morning found Hermione stumbling to her bathroom in search of Pepper-Up Potion. She'd never had a hangover, so she wasn't sure if this was one. She felt marginally better after drinking the potion before she remembered that she needed to leave for work in twenty minutes.

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Chapter 7

Hermione survived the rest of the week without running into Draco. Not in the lifts, not at the café, not in the Atrium on the way in. She didn’t let Ginny do her hair again. She’d told her “the wrong person noticed,” which had gotten Ginny into quite a tizzy trying to figure out what she meant by that.

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That following Monday was to be Draco’s first day in the Auror office. Hermione rationalized that she hardly even saw Harry at work, so it stood to reason that she would not be seeing Draco during the day either. Ginny disagreed.

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Chapter 5

Hermione had been crossing T's and dotting I's in the ledger book for the past hour. Literally. She was combing through the financials trying to keep busy and trying to have a good reason for not filing books. 

Because he came back.

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Chapter 4

A week had passed without another Daily Prophet picture of the Malfoy family. There were still articles hypothesizing on what Draco would do now, or if he would be visiting Lucius any time soon, but they were assigned to the middle pages of the prophet, probably not worth much without facts or a photo.