Draco Malfoy has been listening at closed doors, and he knows that Hermione Granger's life is in danger. How can he possibly keep her safe, while maintaining his pureblood persona?

8th Year Dramione - they get engaged in The Great Hall ...but is everything what it seems? No of course it's not, dipshit.

As part of his probationary period following the war, Draco is required to be a guinea pig for a new project with the Muggle Liaison office. Hermione is his supervisor, and urges him to take on working with a muggle Life Coach when his other assignments don't work out. He agrees, but begrudgingly. Suffice it to say, his Life Coach will have quite an interesting client on her hands.

The ten year anniversary of the fall of Voldemort finds Hermione Granger participating as a contestant in a muggle baking competition at Hogwarts.

Some years after the war, the gang meets up at the Leaky to play a silly game, with very real consequences.

Pansy Parkinson is hosting a Galentine's Day party filled with familiar faces from Hogwarts, far too much alcohol, and an advanced version of the classic "truth or dare" - Hermione's dare leads her to outcomes she never would have predicted in her wildest dreams... except that that was just a common turn of phrase... she'd actually been dreaming of such outcomes for quite some time

Hermione is in her 8th Year, attending a party in the Ravenclaw common room. It would be a lovely night of letting loose for once in her life, if not for the presence of a certain Slytherin for whom she has been harboring some very confused feelings.

Snapshots of significant interactions between Draco and Hermione starting at year 1 of Hogwarts, and going through to their 8th year.

Five years after the war, Draco and Hermione meet by chance as she wanders into a French vineyard and 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.