Luckily, the rest of the night was uneventful, but Sheila would surely have a few words to say to them, the next day.

But even that thought in mind, couldn't dampen Hermione's spirit. Which was one of the things Draco married her for.

*

As Hermione Malfoy walked into breakfast the next morning with her family, she ignored the glares Sheila and Madeline were giving her. This made them even more angry.

"Dear, your aunt isn't here this morning." Draco muttered to his wife.

"Yes!" She whisper-yelled, happily, "Now she will never know the truth about last night. I bet she is hungover!"

"What is 'hungover'?" Scorpius asked, curiously.

"That is a story for another day, mate!" Blaise laughed, happily.

While they were laughing, Hermione's grandma stood up at the end of the table.

"As most of you may have noticed, Aunt Elisa isn't here this morning. This is because she is feeling a tad bit ill. However, I will now tell you out plans for today instead which Aunt Elisa kindly arranged for us.

"Today we are going to watch the musical 'Wicked'. Aunt Elisa has already organised the tickets for the front row seating. In her own words, she 'had to pull a couple of strings to get them'. We will be leaving in 2 hours which gives you time to finish your breakfast and get ready. Luckily she bought a few extra tickets so, Hermione? You can bring your husband, son and brother. Now, everybody continue eating, we have a busy day ahead!"

"'Wicked?" Said Blaise once the chatter resumed at the table, "Isn't Theo starring in that?"

"And Luna." Added Hermione, spreading butter on her toast. "Once she found proof that 'Nargles' did exist, she went on to acting in Muggle theatres."

"Aunty Wuna!" Cried Scorpius, joyfully.

"How did they meet again?" Draco questioned, biting into an apple.

"When Loon- I mean Luna went searching for the 'Nargles', and her search brought her to one of the Nott's summer houses where Theo was staying at that time. She invited him to search with her after forgiving him for being on You-Know-... Fine. Voldemort's side during the war. Just like she forgave us. During the search, Theo developed a crush on her. Like, a big crush. When they eventually did find them, he asked her out. There and then. And she accepted. They were together for around six months and during that time they both fell more and more in love. In the sixth month he proposed. She said yes. They had a wedding (which we attended) and lived happily ever after." Blaise smirked, "Now, come on, Scorpius. Let's go get you some breakfast."

*

"Now that everybody is downstairs and ready to go, we shall all enter the coach." Hermione's grandma announced.

As they entered the coach, Sheila tried to trip Hermione up. But Hermione had practised during the war and did a forward flip before continuing to walk like nothing had happened whilst everyone was staring in shock. Excluding Scorpius, Draco and Blaise who had witnessed one of her gymnastic performances before.

Noticing that everyone had froze, Hermione turned around and said:

"Aren't you guys getting on?" Before smirking the famous Malfoy smirk at Sheila. "We wouldn't want to be late."

*

As they entered the theatre, they heard a:

"HERMIONE!"

Hermione abruptly turned to see who had screamed her name before recognising her friend who was starring in the musical they were going to watch.

"LUNA!" she screamed before they hugged each other.

"Aunty Wuna!" Scorpius screamed as Luna hugged him.

"Hey, Luna!" Draco smiled, "Do you know where Theo is?"

"Yes. He is just getting ready."

"Hi! I'm Sheila Granger! Your Number One fan! I love your work! Umm, how do you know Hermione?" Sheila interjected.

"Oh. Well we went to school together and I married her husband's and brother's best friend." Luna explained, obviously confused, "Which reminds me! Hermione, you and your husband, son and brother have been reserved a spot in the VIP section! This way! Um, where are you going?" Luna directed that last sentence towards Sheila who was following her to the VIP section.

"Um, coming with you?" Sheila rolled her eyes.

"Why? Do you not have tickets to see the show?" Luna asked, as Hermione tried to hold back her laughter.

"No just ... just," Sheila muttered her face bright red before regaining her posture, "I'm Sheila Granger."

"I know. You've told me. And? Goodbye." Luna turned around and starting to walk to the VIP seating section, motioning for Hermione to follow.

*

"How dare she!" Fumed Sheila to Madeline, angrily, "How dare she embarrass me."

"I know!" Madeline agreed, "We to get revenge on Beaver for her and her stupid friends stealing our future husbands from us. Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, and Theo Nott."

"Yes. But what we will do?" Cried Sheila in despair.

"Worry not, dear cousin. I have a plan...."

*

After the show, the Malfoy family and Blaise sought out Theo and Luna Nott to congratulate them on their magnificent performance and to make plans to meet up in the future. Also to congratulate Hannah Abott who was also in the musical, who was going out with Neville Longbottom.

"I didn't know that Hannah Abott could fly that well!" Hermione whispered on the ride back, oblivious to Sheila and Madeline who were glaring daggers at her.

"I know! Nor that Luna or Theo could sing that well!" Draco continued, "I mean, I knew Hannah was an amazing singer, but Theo? He hated singing in school!"

"Aunty Wuna!" Yelled Scorpius.

"Uncle Theo!" Draco whisper-yelled back.

"No. Aunty Wuna!" Replied Scorpius stubbornly, as Hermione laughed.

*

"No, Sheila. You will be polite to my staff or you will have to be thrown out of the restaurant. Or even the hotel. They are people like you and you are not above them. They are not below you. So I suggest you start being nicer to the people who assist you in restaurants. They treat you nicely and you should treat them nicely. You have been horrible to this poor waitress on something she had no control over. Now if I recall, during the rude string of insults you were shouting at this poor woman, you said you were close friends of the manager and was going to get her fired? You wanted to speak to her manager? Well here I am now. What do you want to say? What happened that was so bad you had to say what you did to this poor girl? And I can assure you, we are not close friends." Hermione said, using her cold-anger voice towards Sheila.

"But...But...But they messed up my order!" Sheila wailed, taken completely by surprise. She was never treated this way, before! She was Sheila Granger!

"And is that a good reason to yell at someone? No. Especially what you said to her. So apologise to her or leave the premises. You were threatening to have her fired. For her to lose her job. For her to become jobless and moneyless. I can assure you, messing up an order that small is not enough for someone to end up on the streets just because a spoilt brat always gets what she wants. You also lied to her to get her frightened. You didn't even know I was the manager. You didn't know the manager. I have already let you get away with screaming at my staff once this week, when I shouldn't have. But I won't anymore. You yelled what you did at her over something she couldn't control. Now apologise. NOW!"

"Sorry." mumbled Sheila sheepishly, before storming out embarrassed and angry, Madeline close behind.

Hermione went over to the poor waitress who was the main victim of Sheila's anger and apologised for Sheila's behaviour. She also gave her the rest of the week off and allowed her to leave.

"If anyone else has anything rude to say to my staff, the people who work their very best to make sure your stay here is good, the people who give up their weekends and time with their family to make sure you enjoy your stay, then they can leave now." She continued before sitting down to eat her meal.

Everyone watched her in astonished silence, knowing very well what she was referring to when she mentioned the first time Sheila was rude to a waiter and feeling embarrassed that they didn't stop it. Some looked at Hermione with new found wonder and admiration, others looked at her with sustain clear in their eyes. But it didn't matter which group they belonged to, she just ignored them, trying to persuade Scorpius to eat all of his vegetables.

Which didn't happen. At all.

She may be Hermione Malfoy nee Zabini, brightest witch of her generation and brains of the Golden Trio, but no one can make a toddler eat broccoli.

*

Later, in their room, Draco and Blaise congratulated Hermione on the way she handled things downstairs whilst telling Scorpius to 'Be the person mummy was, not the person Sheila was'."

"Always be polite!" Exclaimed Scorpius.

"That's right! You been listening to me!" Draco said, happily.

"Not like Sheila. Sheila is mean." Scorpius continued.

Hermione started laughing at this, which caused Draco to start laughing, which caused Blaise to start laughing, which caused Scorpius to giggle happily, unaware of the joke.

This laughing session lasted a long time because as soon as they would calm down, they would see Scorpius' confused face and immediately burst out laughing again. This carried in for so long and was so loud, Pansy came up to laugh with them and mention that she had been receiving some complaints. Hermione apologised and allowed Pansy to go home early as she was in a particularly good mood at that moment in time

"Right, young man!" Hermione laughed, as Pansy left, "It's time you were in bed."

"No! Mumma!" Scorpius cried, unhappy the laughing session was finishing.

Hermione sighed as she cast a pleading look at Draco and Blaise who both immediately fled the room.

"I'll read you a bedtime story?" Hermione offered, "What about Peter Pan?"

"Yes! Yes!" Scorpius ran to get changed, then got the book and opened it in front of his mother.

"Once Upon A Time..."

*

Meanwhile, laughter unlike the one in the Malfoy's Suite rang through Sheila and Madeleine's private room as they came up with more ideas and ideas to add to their growing revenge plan against Hermione Malfoy who had stolen their 'husbands' from them.

They kept going throughout the entire night, disregarding the 'beauty sleep' they had once complained about missing, up until their plan was complete. It was the perfect revenge plan.

What could go wrong?

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