Complete Hermione has lost Ron in a chaotic mission with Harry Potter. He has been formally declared dead two months ago. Kingsley has tapped her as the Minister in Training. As such she has taken a larger role in the Ministry and spent these last couple of months diving into her work. Until Kingsley sends her on an around the world outreach mission for the British Ministry of Magic. Draco Malfoy's father was denied parole. Again. It isn't surprising after what all he did during the war. He and his wife just got divorced. It falls on the Malfoy heir to run the family business which he has decided to take an active role in. But on a mental health holiday, he travels to Rio on a short vacation before his #2 goes on paternity leave. When he stumbles upon a tearful Hermione, things go sideways. Or do they?

What if Fred Weasley's mischief wasn't quite managed yet?

Five years after the war, Draco and Hermione meet by chance as she wanders into a French vineyard just hoping to re-live a trip she took there with her parents during her school years. Instead, she finds a shirtless, barefoot Draco Malfoy hiding out unbeknownst to the wider wizarding world. He's ashamed of his past misdeeds, and she's been recently humiliated by her soon to be ex-husband. Neither are aware that their lives are about to be inexorably linked, forever.