Chapter 1
March 2002
Draco started a wonderful and trustful relationship with his scholar nemesis, Hermione had forgiven and forgotten all Draco’s behaviour in his teen years. Draco was so shy when he had admitted he had an intense crush on her since Fourth Year, more specifically since The Christmas Yule Ball, for the past years he had fought against the love he felt for her, Narcisa had teach him Occlumency to hide all his emotions, and having romantic feelings towards Hermione Granger was a huge problem due Voldemort could discover it and kill her. But when the Second Magic War ended, Draco didn’t seem necessary to continue to hide his emotions to Hermione.
Now both of them share a flat in Muggle London as a couple, Draco was first kind of skeptical to buy and live in in the Muggle World (all of this was Lucius fault, his son had pretty big prejudice against anything that comes from a muggle, except his girlfriend.), but Hermione insisted, and she won. Draco would lie if he said he don’t enjoy being around muggles and Hermione, she always tries to teach him how to do some things without using magic as muggles had been doing.
This morning was perfect, still cold but certainly warmer than January, Draco woke up lonely in the bed he shares with Hermione, maybe she was getting ahead on work as she always does on the weekends, if she continues like this, she could be the new Ministry of Magic by 2020.
Draco went to the kitchen, just to find Hermione looking with special attention at a little screen with some keyboard, Draco hadn’t seen a thing like that in his whole life on the Muggle World and he thinks he had seen more than enough about muggle electronic devices.
-What the hell it this?- Draco asked still looking in a pretty shock to the device, Hermione stopped typing on the keyboard to look at Draco, she gave him a little smile and tap the chair that was at her side, invited him to sit next to her, Draco obeys and Hermione started to talk.
-This is a laptop- said Hermione calmly, while she was pointing at her laptop. Draco raised one of his blonde eyebrows, he clearly didn’t understand what she was talking about. Hermione gave to him a little sigh to calm herself, sometimes she completely forgot that Draco sometimes didn’t have a clue about muggle things Hermione indeed grew up with. -Do you remember my desktop? The one I show you I used before Hogwarts? - Draco nodded but he still kept his confusion face, clearly he doesn’t know what she was talking about.
-See? This is like my computer but portable and lighter, I could bring it anywhere I want to and is still functional as my desktop, I bloody love this, it makes my work at the Ministry easier and simpler.
Draco had many questions about it and Hermione knew it.
-So it doesn’t use elec-quickly-ty.- said Draco while looking at her laptop- And what you are doing with it?
Hermione dropped a loud laugh, Draco blushes violently as he realizes he had said it wrong, as always, Hermione almost cried from laughter, she had to tell Harry about how Draco pronounces electricity, as Harry grew up with his muggle maternal family, obviously he would know about what Hermione was talking about.
-It’s electricity, Draco, and it does use it, but it has a battery inside it so I can use it, only when is low it needs to be charge, it doesn’t need to be completely connected to electricity as my computer does.
Draco made a little O with his mouth, Hermione couldn’t help but look at him, he looks like a her when she first entered the Wizarding World at the age of 11, when she discovered she was a witch.
-And, I do write some of the laws I want to propose to the Wizengamot, I can correct it and erase every time I think it’s wrong- said Hermione while one of her fingers press one key that says ‘backspace’ and part of the text she had wrote disappeared in a couple of seconds, Draco couldn’t believe it- And I don’t need to waste paper or tint, everything is here and save on here, but you already know it.
Draco nodded again, these muggles were fascinating, no wondering why his dad kept his whole childhood and adolescence more than away from muggle influence, probably Lucius didn’t even know about all the fascinating inventions muggles had done, they didn’t even need magic to live as wizards and witches does.
-Can I use it? Please- muttered Draco as he was a shy child, Hermione gave a little comfortable smile to him.
-Yes, but let me first save this important document, I don’t want you to delete it by error. It’s crucial to the DMLE and you know it.- said Hermione in the tone Draco hated, the know-it-all tone, the one she used and abused on Hogwarts.
Hermione use a little mouse and made some clicks in her laptop, completely focused in saving her work of weeks or even months, Draco knew how important was work to Hermione, it’s like when she was studying at Hogwarts, she always focuses on having perfect grades and ending her homework earlier, almost a week or two earlier.
-It’s done, you can now use it, darling.
Hermione left her laptop with Draco, and she stood aside, expecting he was going to do. Some minutes has passed, and Draco didn’t do anything important or memorable, so Hermione decided to leave him to continue drinking her now cold tea with milk and eating her toast with marmalade.
-Darling, what are you doing?- said Hermione thinking everything was so quiet and Draco didn’t yelled as he used to when he is into some new muggle thing.
-I don’t know Granger- exclaim Draco without giving to her a glance, Hermione rapidly was aside him, hoping he didn’t do anything irreparable to her laptop and she had lost all her work, she was almost sweating even though it’s still winter.
-Oh, Draco, you are playing chess online- screeched Hermione, all her fears left her body, her boyfriend wasn’t doing anything wrong, he is just playing chess on the internet with a random person.
-This is not a like as the Magical Chess, nothing can compare to it. - muttered Draco in completely focus on what chip move. Hermione rolled her eyes, he always compares all the muggles things he discovers to magical things, by obvious reasons there is not a comparation point.
-I lost, Granger. And what do you mean by online? And I was playing with a stranger? Was a stranger inside your laptop? - said Draco, by every word he had said, Hermione clearly can see how he is altering, almost having a panic attack, he might think she had kidnapped someone and put them inside her laptop, just to having a game with Draco
-Draco, I could explain you that maybe on another moment, now have breakfast.
Draco didn’t want to leave Hermione’s laptop, but he hungry as hell, Hermione put in front of him a plate full of sunny side up eggs, just like he likes to eat them, and some bacon.
-Granger, I want a laptop just like yours.
Hermione gave to him a little smile and nodded.