✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 31 ✨
Once they were both frozen mid-step by one of Narcissa’s hexes, the matriarch marched over, wand still raised, and gave them a thorough piece of her mind — only to break off halfway through, voice cracking, before dissolving into tears.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 30 ✨
For once, they were the ones receiving.
Hermione still couldn’t quite believe how the past two months had rearranged her entire life — quietly, irrevocably — and she found herself smiling at nothing while standing barefoot in her own kitchen.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 29 ✨
They woke tangled in each other’s arms, wearing nothing but their rings and matching, stupidly blissful grins. Draco seemed determined to say /my wife/ as often as physically possible, testing the words like a spell he’d only just learned.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 28 ✨
The morning after, Hermione woke with her heart already racing — a strange mix of nerves and giddy excitement buzzing through her veins.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 27 ✨
“Love?” Draco called one morning from the kitchen.
“What is it— Scorpius, no, you need to dry yourself before going—” she sighed as the toddler wriggled free of her grasp, bare feet slapping against the floor, “—to the kitchen /again/.”
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 25 ✨
At some point, the living room devolved into a full-blown slumber party.
Mattresses were conjured and scattered everywhere, blankets and pillows stolen from every bedroom in the manor until the floor disappeared entirely.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 24 ✨
After dinner, Narcissa declared she needed her beauty sleep and swept off to her quarters, leaving the rest of them to their own devices.
Which, unsurprisingly, meant more drinks, louder laughter, and dancing that gradually devolved into chaos.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 23 ✨
To her surprise, they actually arrived on time — only to be greeted by a very impatient Narcissa pacing in front of the fireplace.
Scorpius didn’t even slow down before launching himself at her legs.
“Mamie! Mamie! When do we open the /pwesents/?”
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 22 ✨
Christmas morning started far too early for Hermione’s liking.
She was jolted awake before the sun had even begun rising.
And it wasn’t a toddler jumping on her — it was a /fully grown man/, mind you.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 21 ✨
Since Hermione lost her parents, she’d also lost any real sense of what it meant to have a mother. To be cared for, loved in that quiet, unconditional way her parents had given her so effortlessly.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 20 ✨
Christmas was getting dangerously close, and she still hadn’t bought gifts for most of her friends.
She was the worst friend alive.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 19 ✨
TW: NSFW
As they stumbled out of the Floo, still a little tipsy, Hermione barely had time to catch her breath before Draco pressed her back against the wall, kissing her like he’d been holding it in all night.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 18 ✨
TW: Implied NSFW
Hermione was nervous.
Like, /really/ nervous.
Like currently-locked-in-the-bathroom nervous.
Because the dress looked good.
And that hair potion Pansy had sent her was… /magical/.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 17 ✨
TW: Slight NSFW at the end
At exactly eight the next morning, it wasn’t Scorpius who came to wake them, but Pansy Parkinson — closely followed by Ginny Weasley — barging into the flat.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 16 ✨
The next morning, Hermione woke up wedged between Draco and Scorpius — and slightly hungover.
She chose to blame Harry and Theo for that.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 15 ✨
On Wednesday afternoon, they decided to invite their friends over for tea and Christmas cookies.
The tea very quickly turned into wine when Theo declared,
“Your Muggle god would be jealous, Hermione, at how easy I make it look!”
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 14 ✨
TW: Brief mention of pregnancy struggles
Days slipped by between the bookshop and Draco’s place.
Christmas shoppers kept her so busy that she was grateful to come home each night to cuddles and home-cooked meals.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 13 ✨
TW: Mention of grief and loss of parent
She lay in bed tangled with Draco as the sun began to creep through the window, when she heard the door creak open and tiny footsteps follow.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 12 ✨
She knew, as she curled beside him, that his mind was on overdrive.
Watched him open and close his mouth at least five times.
Still, she couldn’t bring herself to start this conversation.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 11 ✨
(This picture made me laugh, so I had to share it !)
She saw Pansy handing Theo a few galleons after he declared, “Pay up, witch. Told you they wouldn’t tell each other!”
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 10 ✨
For the second time this month, time passed too slowly—
and her mind far, far too fast
She’d left the shop at five. It was now… who even knew. She’d been pacing around her bedroom, changing her outfit three times, and redoing her eyeliner twice.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 9 ✨
She’d ended up spending the entire weekend with the Malfoy boys, only slipping back home long enough to feed her cat and—at Scorpius’s insistence—bring him along for introductions.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 8 ✨
She felt it before she heard it—the faint tug of wards shifting, announcing someone had arrived. A second later, Draco’s arms tightened around her waist, his breath warm against her neck as he stirred.
“Fuck,” he muttered. “Mother.”
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 7 ✨
TW: Slight NSFW
They stumbled into Draco’s home with a pop, and Hermione blinked in surprise. The place was warm. Lived in. A riot of Christmas décor, children’s toys scattered across the floor, a couple of forgotten tea mugs on the coffee table.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 6 ✨
Her heart had never felt so full, her smile so wide.
She had pulled Draco out of the bar, snogged him breathless in a shadowed corner of the street, and then run with him — fingers laced tightly with his — toward the nearest Christmas market.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 5 ✨
Hermione was smiling like a schoolgirl when she returned to her flat that night.
He had invited her out.
Was it a date?
Surely it was.
Or… maybe not. Maybe he had someone.
They hadn’t exactly talked about it.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 4 ✨
She had spent an unhealthy amount of time getting ready this morning.
Not because Draco was coming. Absolutely not.
Just because—well, for her, okay? She was doing this for herself.
(And maybe for him too. A little. Barely.)
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 3 ✨
She tried to focus on the multiple orders she got over the next few days — organised people had already started their Christmas shopping — really, she did.
But her mind wouldn’t leave her alone.
He had been here.
Right in front of the counter.
✨ #dramione - #aseasonforsecondchances day 2 ✨
She was in the back when she heard the bell, followed by tiny, hurried footsteps and then a small, hopeful, “Hullo?”
She stepped out to the front and found—no one.
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