Nice (not quite stupid) mistake

HG//3//NB

Hermione was sitting at home, and reading a book later this day, when someone knocked at her door. She stopped reading, and looked at her door... the knocking didn't stop, and Hermione grabbed her wand, ready to protect her self. She didn't know, who was knocking like mad at her door, and that was the reason, why she didn't open her door. Who would open his own door, when said person didn't expect someone?! Especially someone who was knocking like that...

Then the knocking stopped, Hermione stood up, and pointed her wand at the door, before someone said loud: ,,Hermione!"

She sighed in relief, but also in annoyance... she couldn't believe that Audrey was there... standing in front of her door right now. She lowered her wand, but didn't say anything.

,,Hermione Granger, I know you are in there! Why did you leave again?! Why haven't you been there at lunchtime?!"

Hermione's jaw dropped, and she asked herself, what that woman's problem was... she told herself over and over again, that it had been just a one night stand. One night stands don't stay for breakfast, expect they were asked to.

,,Hermione!!! Open that damn door!" Hermione threw some floopowder into her fireplace, packed a few things, and vanished...

,,FUCK!" Draco yelled, ran away, Hermione also cursed slightly, and turned around in embarrassment, and Harry covered himself, before he said: ,,You can turn around, Mione..."

,,God, I'm so sorry..." she said, turned around, and Draco's clothes flew in his direction.

,,It's alright... normally, we are in the bedroom in case of something like that happens." Harry said, but she quickly said: ,,No offense... but... no details, please." he grinned, and nodded at the chair next to the sofa.

,,You wouldn't come uninvited, if it wouldn't be unimportant." she nodded, asking: ,,Do you know Audrey?"

,,Do you mean Audrey Allison?" Draco asked, while stepping into the living room, only wearing his trousers. She nodded, and he said: ,,She's a crazy bitch. Everyone knows that."

,,Yes... me too, now." she said, and they asked her what happened.

,,Well... she had been in my office for some help a few days ago, and I helped her... she told me that she would like to pay me back, so I agreed to go to dinner with her. It wasn't even bad. We talked, we laughed, and we drank. Long story short... the sex was horrible. I left as early as possible, this morning and a few hours later, she stood in front of my door, telling me, we could go to work together. She accompanied me to my office, almost demanded I should go to lunch with her, and now she's standing in front of my door, knocking like mad. Harry, Draco... I'm really sorry for interrupting you, but I just didn't know where to go."

,,No, no,... it's okay." Harry said, and looked at Draco, who also nodded, assuring her: ,,Better you, than... someone else." he blushed hard at that, and she asked: ,,Who caught you?"

,,Narcissa..." Harry said, and she gasped through her hands in front of her mouth: ,,No..."

,,Well... she didn't see that much as you right now, but..."

,,It was my mother, so... yeah, it was damn embarrassing." Draco finished Harry's sentence, and Hermione pressed her lips together...

,,But about Audrey... I think my mother would be the perfect person, you should talk to for help." Draco suggested after a few minutes and Hermione blushed hard, saying: ,,No... No, I can't do that."

,,Why?" Draco asked, and she searched Harry's gaze, but to her personal relief, he shook his head... he didn't tell Draco, what had happened between her and Narcissa.

,,Because... I... well, I barely see your mother in the ministry."

,,So you are still not talking to each other..." Draco pointed out, and she really wanted to say something plausible, but she didn't even know by herself, why she hadn't talked to Narcissa about that... or at least after that... perhaps she was ashamed by herself, that a woman who had-

No... she couldn't finish that thought, because a part of her told her since the end of the war, that Narcissa and Draco just had been on the wrong side during that shitty war. She always told herself, that they are different people actually... especially after that, what Andromeda had told her about the younger Narcissa. She smirked at that thought, trying to imagine a laughingly and happy Narcissa... a young witch, who got drunk on her 16th Birthday, and who threw up in a bush of roses...

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She didn't know why, but the next day she went to Hermione's office, finding Audrey in front of it, knocking like there would be no tomorrow. She raised an eyebrow, and asked: ,,May I help you with something?!"

Audrey stopped knocking, and turned to Narcissa, before she said: ,,Yes, I demand to speak to Hermione Granger, and I know that she is in there."

,,Perhaps she just doesn't want to talk to you."

,,No, she will want to talk to me." Narcissa cleared her throat, and stepped closer: ,,Alright, normally I do not interfere in other peoples business, but you clearly don't get a message here, so I will tell you something now, you won't understand, out of a reason, I really don't get. Ms Granger don't want to have to do anything at all with you!"

,,How would you know, Malfoy?!" she asked, and the moment she wanted to add something, the door opened, and Hermione stepped out. She had a really tight grip around her wand, and Audrey smiled wide at her, saying: ,,Hermione... sweetheart, there you-"

,,Let me make something very clear here, because Narcissa is right, you seem to not want to understand something, so I will explain it now to you, and this is the last time, I will explain something so obvious! I've helped you, because that's something people do, when they are capable to help! I've agreed on a dinner with you, because I thought you are a nice person, and yes, we had fun, we laughed, we drunk, and we flirted. Yes we had have terrible sex, and the moment you woke up alone, must have been your personal hint, that it had just been a one night stand! That means, I have no reason to stay for breakfast, you have no right, to demand anything from me, and it must had accord to you, that I'm uncomfortable with your presence, when I had been dismissive during our conversation, while you were accompany me to my office, or when I didn't react to your knocking at my door, in the middle of the fucking night! Perhaps you should write this down... I am not your sweetheart! I am not your girlfriend, nor am I some sort of ownership of yours!"

Narcissa and Audrey were staring at her, and she added: ,,Oh, and for your information... it's Black since four years, not Malfoy."

Audrey didn't say anything for a while, and Hermione felt a few gazes on them, before Audrey cleared her throat, saying: ,,You... you dare to talk to me like that in the presence of a pureblood like Narcissa Black?!"

,,Oh please..." Narcissa said in annoyance. ,,If I want someone to crawl up my arse, to scratch my nose from the inside, I'm asking my secretary. And I think you should leave now."

,,You don't have to-"

,,Leave!" Hermione said louder, Audrey flinched, and left with tears in her eyes...

,,What a strange person..." Hermione muttered, looking at Narcissa, and sighed: ,,Thank you..."

,,It's alright..." Hermione nodded, and was about to turn around, when she faced Narcissa again, asking: ,,Should we talk about... well... that?"

,,Not if you don't want to." Hermione nodded, and said: ,,It was just..."

,,A mistake..." Narcissa suggested, and Hermione nodded: ,,Right. And mistakes happen."

The other witch also nodded, left and Hermione went back into her office, closed the door, and muttered...

TBC...