Nice (not quite stupid) mistake

HG//1//NB

It was early in the morning, when Hermione and Audrey entered one of the elevators of the ministry for magic... Audrey had been actually just Hermione's date from last night, after which had followed the most terrible sex, Hermione had been having since... ever. Not even that one or two times with Ron had been that bad, and now the woman was following her everywhere. Hermione had left Audrey's flat very early in the morning, went home, showered very long, and thought about obliviating herself, to forget the evening and the night. She wanted to leave her flat a few hours later, and almost got a heart attack, because Audrey was standing in front of her flat. She had of course asked her, what she was doing there, but the woman just smiled, and had told her: ,,Well, you have been gone this morning, and I'm still a bit upset about that, but I know we are working in the Ministry for Magic together, so I've wanted to pick you up."

,,Where are you working?" Hermione asked, and Audrey just pushed the button of the Department Hermione was working in, and said: ,,I will bring you to your office of course, so I'll know where I can pick you up for lunch."

,,Oh... erm... Audrey, I don't eat lunch." she lied, and the woman just smiled, and said: ,,You need to eat lunch, Hermione. That is important. Especially after I couldn't make us breakfast because you just left without a single word. That was very rude, you know?"

Hermione wanted to say something when Audrey suddenly grabbed her hand the moment Narcissa entered the elevator at the next level.

,,Good morning, Ms Granger. Ms-"

,,We were having an important conversation here, Mrs Malfoy." Audrey snapped at Narcissa, and Hermione looked in total shock at her, and wanted to melt... she wanted to sank into the floor... through the floor to be honest...

"Bludger... now... please..." she thought, and placed two fingers on the bridge of her nose, feeling something in her mind, and looked up at Narcissa. She didn't say something, but Hermione found something in that gaze, what remembered her on something... two things to be more specific... she held that gaze for a few seconds, and she realized that Audrey was talking to Narcissa, but she couldn't hear her voice.

Narcissa winked at Hermione and left the elevator two other levels later, and Hermione could hear Audrey saying: ,,That woman is impossible. Did you see how she had ignored me?!"

,,Well... you weren't really polite to her. I mean, would you talk to someone who's impolite or even... pushy?"

,,Oh I wasn't impolite. I had been just honesty." Audrey said, and left the elevator with Hermione, who told her twice, that she really don't had to come with her, but the moment Hermione entered her office, Audrey followed her, and looked around.

,,You really have a nice office... of course not as nice and big as mine, but it's okay... are these your private books?"

,,Yes..." Hermione said slowly and got more and more pissed.

,,I would never take my private books to work... what's this?" she took one of the books out of the shelf ,,Beauty and the Beast?! Never heard of it..."

,,It's a muggle story."

,,Why on earth are you reading something like that?!" Audrey asked, and threw the book on Hermione's table.

,,What's that...? "Shakespeare..." boring... "The Tails of-""

,,Don't you have to go back to your work?!" Hermione interrupted her and Audrey nodded, and just left the office with a bossy: ,,I will pick you up for lunch at 12!"

Hermione's jaw dropped and she was not sure, what she should even think about that right now... she shook her head, sat down on her chair, and took the book, Audrey had threw on her desk. She was lucky, that Audrey hadn't opened it... she opened the book, and stroke over the perfect handwriting on the first page, sighing because she'll never see that handwriting again. Happy... that she had not been there in Hermione's darkest hours...

"Happy Birthday. I love you.  

-Mom"

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,,You wanted to speak to me?" Kingsley looked up from his papers, and he nodded: ,,Yes, thank you for coming, Ms Black. Please sit down." she closed the door and sat down.

,,Ms Black, I asked you to come, because I would like to ask you something. I would like to give a week's holiday to two employees who normally don't have much to do with each other." she nodded, and said: ,,That sounds very good, but... what do I have to do with all that?"

,,I thought you might have an idea whom I could give that little gift."

,,Me?! Minister, with all due respect, but you know, what they are talking about me behind my back. Some of them don't even have the decency to talk behind my back."

,,Yes I know that. And I also know, that you don't care about all those people. And I also know that you have a good knowledge of human nature."

She smiled and nodded: ,,Alright... is there a list of people you have in mind?"

,,Yes." he said, and gave her a long list of names. She looked over the list, and stopped at one particular name... she smiled at a memory of something that... should not really had happened...

,,Her..." she said without thinking twice, pointing at the name...

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,,What have I done?" Hermione asked the Minister when she sat down, and he laughed, asking: ,,Why are people always asking, what they've done, when I'm asking to come to me?"

She shrugged her Shoulders, saying: ,,I don't know... perhaps it's some kind of a mixed feeling, when the Boss is calling an employee to his office."

,,Point taken..." he agreed, offered her a drink, and said: ,,I have talked to a few others about that either... I would like to give a week's holiday to two employees who normally don't have much to do with each other... so I wanted to ask you if you knew anyone you could imagine spending a week with..."

,,I'm one of those?!" he nodded: ,,Yes... and... I want to be honest with you. There's someone, who had already picked you out of the list."

,,Who?"

TBC...