Chapter One: Emily and Nessie
I am running away. The instant Voldemort is destroyed, I apparate home to find Dad sitting calmly on the sofa.
"Luna, why are you leaving?" Dad asks me. I steer around his legs and sit down beside him.
"Because, Dad, the war changed me. I cannot be Luna Lovegood with all the horrible memories in my mind. I hope that if I travel far away, I will escape the sadness. It's a cowardly thing to do, Dad, but I just can't handle it." I sniff.
"I understand, my moon. It's not the right thing to do but it will take guts. Good luck, Luna. Be careful and avoid Nargles." Dad kisses my forehead and I shut my eyes for a moment before opening them and flicking my wand.
"Accio bag."
My bag came flying from my room.
The second the strap is in my hand, I am gone and in the muggle airport.
I had had this planned since Harry had come back. I had gone by plane many times with Mum and Dad for vacation so I was trained in the arts of navigating an airport.
I stare at the muggles walking by, some leisurely walking, other rushing with bags on wheels bumping along behind them.
Then, I glance at my boarding pass and stride toward gate A13.
"This is the last call for those boarding the flight to Washington, D.C." A robotic voice calls and I jump.
I am the only one left so I sprint toward the lady and toss her my pass. She rips it and I continue running toward the plane through the tunnel, the largest piece in hand.
"Can I see your boarding pass?" The lady on the plane asks politely and I give it to her.
"It's D3. There. Look." She points. I read her name tag and it says Helena.
"Thank you, Helena." I giggle and get the boarding pass back. Slowly, I look at the ceiling for the numbers. D3 is aisle and there is already a girl who looks about twelve sitting on the window seat. I shove my bag under the seat in front of me and buckle my seatbelt . Ignoring the woman who was giving directions, I look at the girl. She has dark eyes and long dark hair.
"Hi, i'm Luna." I smile.
"Emily. Why are you alone?" Emily asks.
"Curious, aren't you? What is this?" I ask and lift up my wand. The girl's eyes widen then she curls up.
"You don't go to Hogwarts. Where do you go?" I clap softly. I had made the girl semi-admit that she was a witch. I had had my doubts when she was staring at every nook and cranny of the plane with such interest.
"I go to Beaxbatons. When Voldy threatened us in France, we, for some stupid reason, flew to England to try help Hogwarts. Some of us fought them off in the forests and others were helping muggle-borns and others escape. They only took fifth years and up and I was too young." Emily huffs, in a slight french accent.
"One, how old are you and two, why don't you look french?" I ask. When it had been the Tri-Wizard tournament, all the girls had been blonde with blue eyes. There had been no exceptions.
"My mom originally wanted me to go to Durmstrang but then when the Headmaster ended up being a death-eater, so I went to Beaxbatons, instead." Emily explains. Then, she remembers something. "I finished my third year."
"Have you seen any Nargles around?" I change the subject, eager to see if there might be some in the airport. I didn't try pay attention when I was speeding through.
"Nargles?" Emily looks really confused so I launch into an explanation of Nargles.
"Wow. That's really cool." Emily gushes.
"Is this your first time on the plane?" I ask, observing her staring at the TV screen on the seat in front.
Emily nods and I grin. "Well then, let's watch a movie. How do you feel about…Karate Kid?"
"We were going to learn kong fu in Physical Education but then it was the war and we never got the chance." Emily admits.
"Why are you going to Washington DC anyway? Did your school move there?" I ask and Emily snorts.
"No. My mom died because of Fenrir Greyback. He killed her." Emily says softly.
"Do you want to stay with me? Where I go, you go and vice versa." I smile at her. I felt very protective of her.
"I'd really like that." Emily reaches over and hugs me.
"Okay. Let's just watch this movie." I click some buttons and we share the headset.
"Come on, we have a long drive to Forks." I say just as we got out of the airport. Emily yawns and follows me to a car that I rented inside. It was rather large and silver.
"Good thing that Muggle Studies was learning to drive a car. I don't know how to park though." I say thoughtfully and Emily's eyes widen.
"I'll drive. I learned in England. I can park too." Emily says quickly and I chuckle.
"Trying not to get killed?" I joke.
"How did you know?" Emily asks sarcastically and I laugh. I never had such a smooth exchange in my life.
Emily settled in the front seat and I lay down at the back.
"Time for my nap. If you have any problem, do not hesitate to wake me up." I pressure and Emily waves her hand.
"Got it."
I smile and fall asleep, watching Emily drive carefully toward our new home.
I woke up to Emily telling me we arrived.
I blink drowsily and sit up slowly.
"Where are we?" I ask, glancing at the forest on one side.
"Honestly, i don't really know. I just saw a house and stopped." Emily admits. I get out and lean against the car with Emily beside me.
The house is big. It is white on the inside with a wrap-around porch and many windows. I noticed movement inside so I told Emily to wait for me.
I made sure my wand was in my pocket of my sweatpants and step onto the porch. There were surprisingly no Nargles or Wackspurts in sight so I knocked on the door.
Immediately, the door opened to reveal a young girl, about eight, smiling at me.
"Hey, my name is Luna and that is Emily," I point at Emily who waves and the girl continues smiling, "can i speak to your mum or dad?"
The girl stops smiling and stares quizzically at me. "They aren't in, my whole family went hunting an I came back early with Jacob."
Immediately, a boy in his late teens appears behind the girl. I gesture to Emily to come next to me and she rushes to my side.
Jacob inhales deeply and then extends his hand.
"Jacob Black."
I shake his hand for a second and grip Emily's hand tightly. He wasn't any ordinary muggle. Neither was the girl. I didn't know what they were though.
"I just wanted to ask if-" I begin
"Who are you?" a voice demands.
I spin around to see a woman with brown hair like the girl and deep red eyes unlike the girl who had brown eyes.
"Jacob. What happened?" The woman stares at Jacob who shrugs and she walks stiffly toward Emily and I.
I look over her shoulder to see a woman with a pixie cut and another with long blonde hair standing next to a man with short dark hair. They had amber eyes but one thing was the same.
I look back at the woman and am about to introduce myself when I hear a familiar voice.
"Luna!"
Welcome to this story of mine. Last night, I was watching White Collar (iluvNC) with my mother and sister and then the idea came to my while I was playing on my phone. I ran out of the room and wrote what was going to happen down. This may actually be the first story of mine that is semi-organized. At first, Emily wasn't going to be in the story but she grew on me in the first three minutes I was writing her. Now, Emily's pretty vital in where everything goes. Emily actually is one of my friend's that moved to Seattle last year. Guess what her name is. Emily. I know that Luna seems... un-Luna-ish but think about this. The war changed her. She can't always be the dreamy girl she always was. She was shook into reality by the stupid Carrows so she had to act more mature at some points. Again. Note the 'at some points'. I just want to add that I sometimes skip years between chapters and that I don't own all the characters. JK and Stephanie own most. I only own the idea of Emily in my story. Emily's mom and dad own the real Emily.
XO November Hailey
