Stories by Mel88

Draco and Hermione are no closer to understanding the bond the Sun Disc created between them. Instead, nightmares plague their sleep and distrust erodes their fragile relationship. But when Draco's research assistant begins behaving strangely, they must set aside their differences and solve a centuries-old mystery. They already saved the world; how hard could saving one man be?

The birth of Bill and Fleur Weasley's first child is fast approaching, bringing both excitement and financial concerns. A creator at heart, Fleur decides to sell her crafts to generate additional income. Determined to succeed, she learns just how far she's willing to go to make a sale, and if the mental toll it takes is worth the money.

Harry gets arrested, Theo bails him out, and a bigot's life is ruined.

On their last night in Las Vegas, Hermione asks Draco an unexpected question. He gives her an equally surprising answer.

A collection of Dramione drabbles written for Last Drabble Writer Standing - Round 4. The theme for Round 4 was Tropes.

St. Mungo's doesn't play politics. They expect their Healers to deliver a high standard of care to every patient, regardless of past associations. But when Hermione discovers that Draco is her assigned Healer, she doubts that St. Mungo's had ever considered a past association as fraught as theirs.

A social outcast since his acquittal, Draco Malfoy offers the use of his mother's flower garden for a charity event. He fully expects the offer to be ignored until Hermione Granger arrives at Malfoy Manor, bringing with her a pair of pruning shears and a surprise lesson in plant biology.

Pansy Parkinson hadn't meant to laugh.

Struggling in his classes and unwillingly cut from his parents' purse strings, Zacharias Smith seeks solace in a dingy pub. He intends to assuage his sorrows with cheap ale and poor company, but Hannah Abbott refuses to let him languish. Student, barmaid, and social pariah, Hannah knows what it's to have her life upended. But if she can survive, then he can, too.

During a routine Ministry audit, Hermione Granger notices an inconsistency in one company's inventory list: a higher than normal number for the rare ingredient, fulgurite. Her investigation reconnects her with business owner Draco Malfoy, who is more interested in acquiring her skills than answering her questions.

Draco follows some well-intentioned advice regarding Muggle Christmas traditions.

To foster feelings of warmth and goodwill, overzealous Administrative Assistant Carol introduces the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to the newest Christmas craze: Elf on the Shelf. However, not everyone is equally enamored with their new office mate. A Dramione sequel to my 2016 Advent fic, Caroled.

A good administrative assistant is worth her weight in Galleons. A bad one, however…

Draco Malfoy needs an escort. Hermione Granger needs the money. One week in Italy could give them both far more than what they bargained for. A darker take on the classic film "Pretty Woman."

A series of Dramione drabbles written for Dramione Last Drabble Writer Standing - Round 2. The theme for Round 2 was Constellations.

Draco had always viewed her from afar. A tragic drabble inspired by artist Avendell.

Being a woman in a male-dominated profession is hard; being a woman and below average height is even harder. Fortunately, Hermione Granger has developed a strategy to counteract these unconscious biases. Unbeknownst to her, Draco Malfoy has noticed and formed his own opinions on the matter.

Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger aren't technically dating. They're just necking in empty conference rooms and enjoying a daily breakfast meeting with no strings attached. But as their first Valentine's Day as a semi-functional non-couple approaches, someone in their office upsets the status quo through a series of increasingly inappropriate gifts.

When a global pandemic emerges, Draco and Hermione are once again called upon to discover a vaccine.

The official epilogue to my "An Aversion to Change" series.

Brought together by the Ministry of Magic's Marriage Law, Draco and Hermione work together to undermine the edict and subvert their arranged marriage while most decidedly not falling in love in the process.

Falsely convicted of a triple homicide, Draco Malfoy swears vengeance on all responsible for his imprisonment. After escaping Azkaban, his first target is his advocate, Hermione Granger. Alone and lonely, her budding career destroyed by a concocted scandal, Hermione has equal cause for retribution. Moreover, she has the means to achieve it. Together, the pair will reap justice.

Orbital decay: The gradual decrease in distance between two orbiting bodies over time, which, when left unchecked, inevitably leads to collision.

One spring day, Potions Professor Draco Malfoy saved a precarious mouse from certain death. Little did he know that this small act of kindness would solve a ten-year mystery and change his life forever.

Professional curiosity often takes Draco Malfoy to far-flung and exotic locations, most of which happen to be of archaeological interest to and actively excavated by Ministry employee and former flame, Hermione Granger. When an Egyptian dig yields an artefact of immeasurable power, Draco and Hermione are forced to partner once more, facing danger, betrayal, and a force that neither

Seeing her one last time was worth any amount of pain.

In response to her disastrous Tinder date with Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger creates an app of her own. And once again, Harry Potter becomes far more involved than he wants to be. - The sequel to "Tinder and Kindling".

The last thing Harry Potter wants to hear about on a Monday morning is Hermione Granger's accidental Tinder date with Draco Malfoy. But guess what's first on his agenda?

Hermione Granger is called to Malfoy Manor in the middle of night, and it could only be for one reason: someone is dead.

At midnight on the winter solstice, the magic of Malfoy Manor requires a sacrifice. Draco, a Malfoy through birth, accepts this. Hermione, a Malfoy through unwilling marriage, may not.

Lucius lost his memories during the war. Hermione is tasked with recovering them. Draco isn't sure he wants her to.

While flying back home from a friend's baby shower, Hermione Granger gets caught in a storm and is forced to land. Eight months pregnant and desperate for shelter, she eventually finds refuge in the isolated cabin of Theodore Nott. She thinks she's safe, but soon realizes that quiet, unassuming Theo is more dangerous to her life - and the life of her unborn child - than any storm.

Life after death was no simpler than life before it. A sequel to "Life After Grief."

Under the thrall of a full moon, werewolf Hermione Granger slaughtered twenty-three innocent people. Fifteen years later, discontented Potions Master Draco Malfoy interrupts her exile with one objective: to free her from the beast within.

Someone is farting in Draco and Hermione's tiny, shared, unventilated office, and Draco knows it's not him.

He pressed his face hard against the ground to better feel the stone's gnawing bite, a hard reminder of how far his reality fell from his fantasy. This is a prequel to my story "Branded". A thank you to my beta, Renee/eilonwy, for her help. :)

Everybody calls him Squid, and he has but one mission: destroy the Malfoy family. No one can take it from him – not the MLE, not Granger, and certainly not the ferret himself. However, they are welcome to try.

Hermione knew she had to try harder, either to heal faster or hide her failing more effectively. She did not understand why the PsychoSocial Healing sessions hadn't worked for her as they had for Harry and Ron. She did not understand why she was still lost, still low, still struggling to breathe, and talk, and see, and live.

Hermione is determined to finish her holiday shopping early, but Draco is a tough nut to crack.

It was their first Yule together, and they were going to spend it apart.

It was just another reminder that what they were doing, the lives they were reclaiming, were the lives of people. Of the people each and every member of her group used to be. Hopeful. Determined. Human.

The Collier's Virus is highly contagious, magically virulent, and always fatal. Junior Healers Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger are called in to help find a cure before the virus claims another life. If they can.

Two years ago, the United Kingdom was overrun by parasitic insects, which turned most of the population into mindless Hosts. Those who survived eke out an existence wherever and however they can. Hermione Granger is one such Survivor, and she will do anything to protect the group she leads, including the unthinkable.

Theodore Nott is a man with an obsession. Hermione Granger is a woman with a vision. One has a secret that could end them both.

But saving a life? There was power in that. Power enough to redirect a meandering existence and change the course of a war.

Life's choices are unfair, difficult, and occasionally impossible. But to stand in inaction is to perish, and to perish is to fail. What determines survival, and ultimately success, is one's ability to adapt to the consequences of the action taken.

Stuck in the Manor and bored nearly out of his mind, Draco Malfoy hatches a plan of questionable legality to acquire some company.

Key events of "The Resilient" from Draco's point of view. Contains major spoilers for "The Resilient." YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! :

Sequel to "An Aversion to Change." Voldemort's world is one of corruption, greed and betrayal. But there must be those who stand up to totalitarianism, who say no when others submit, and who survive despite their conditions. There must be the resilient. Thank you to ArtofSilence1 for the beautiful cover!

For those of you who don't want to read the sequel. Enjoy! Thanks to ArtofSilence1 for the beautiful cover!

Sent back to Hogwarts with the suspicious title of Head Boy, Draco is forced to share a dormitory with none other than Hermione Granger. With a war looming on the horizon and another danger even closer to home, their final year is anything but ordinary. Thank you to ArtofSilence1 for the beautiful cover!

Seven years after The War, a man from Hermione's past shows up one fateful night, bringing with him an old terror in a new form. She just wanted to forget her past. But could one man make her want to remember?