12 Months in a Year
Summary: 12 one-shots for each month of the year. Draco/Luna
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.
January
It was a cold January morning. He shivered a little internally at the breeze, his ears beginning to burn. He hated the winter months mostly because he hated to shiver. Even in the castle it was cold and it annoyed Draco Malfoy to no end. He disliked cold weather in general but the months of December through March were the worst of all. He disliked everything about them. Fall was more of his style, not too hot, not too cold.
So as the world continued to enjoy the cold blanket of snow, Draco was internally cursing the annoying weather and strode in silence across the Hogwarts lawns. He was looking for his favorite tree to sit under so he could pout about the annoying weather and his mission would wait for no one.
When his spot was in sight he picked up speed, the crunching of the fresh snow under his feet piercing the silence of the early morning. The sun was brightly shining and the tracks that Draco left were only one set of two. He hadn't noticed the other set at all, he was focused solely on the tree ahead. He stopped in front of it, examined it to see if there was a good place to sit and finally took out his wand and melted the snow away so he could have a dry patch of grass to sit on.
Silence fell over Hogwarts again as the sun continued to peek over the mountains, casting endless light onto the aging castle and providing a bit of warmth for Draco. He leaned back against the tree and thought to himself about what his day was going to look like. When almost as if something was calling to him, he opened his eyes and looked right into a pair of large blue ones. Luna was hanging upside down by the grace of a low branch and her long blonde hair had managed to stay tied in a loose knot around her shoulder. Draco suddenly stood up, almost falling over in surprise. She had appeared so suddenly that he didn't know what to do. She smiled at him and managed to hoist herself back up to her original sitting position.
"Good morning, Draco!" she greeted as he looked her over, now noticing the tracks that had been there before, showing a straight line right to the tree. He shoved his hands in his pockets, regaining his usual sneering composure.
"What are you doing here Lovegood?" he demanded, but it seemed rather obvious that she was simply sitting a tree. She tilted her head to the side and smiled her usual strange smile.
"Just enjoying the summer sun," she said simply, and flipped back upside down, nearly making Draco jump.
"Summer? It's winter, you loon," he said, walking back under the tree to look back up at her.
"It is?" she asked, almost surprised to have learned such an interesting fact. Draco made a face that made her smile even brighter and sat down once again under the tree in his special spot.
"You are so weird, woman," he said, pulling out his wand and trying to balance on his forefinger for some entertainment. Luna said nothing but began to swing back and forth on the branch. One swing too many, however, made her slip. The fall was quick and neither could react in enough time. Luckily Draco broke her fall… or unluckily for Draco that is. He groaned as she was sitting on his lap, having hit his little Draco rather hard and making him wince in pain. She looked at him, a mixture of surprise and delight on her face.
"Oh my! Draco! I seem to have fallen!" she said, and Draco growled at her in annoyance.
"Y-You think?!" he yelled, pushing her off of him and she sat in the cold snow. After a moment of getting over the pain, he noticed that she wasn't wearing any shoes or anything else against the cold for that matter. She looked more like she was dressed for summer than anything else.
"Where are your shoes? Where is your scarf for that matter?"
"I seem to have lost my shoes again and I do not have a scarf," Luna said plainly, and Draco sneered at her again.
"You're so weird… Here," he said, grabbing her wrist and pulling her closer to him. She sat on her legs silently as he made a place for her sit next to him. He grabbed at his hat and scarf and pulled her closer. Throwing the scarf around her neck, he made a tight knot, in case she would try to take it off. He then put the hat over her crazy hair and made sure it went around her ears. It looked kind of funny, her regular blue colors covered in green.
"You should really start paying attention to what you're wearing woman, or someone might think you're trying to get a cold on purpose."
Draco wasn't entirely certain why he was doing any of this, but he did. Luna smiled slightly at him and without warning, she hugging him around the waste. He threw up his arms as she buried her head in his chest, enjoying the warmth of his body.
"Thank you, Draco," she said, not letting him go. He finally put his arms down, one around her and the other to put her disregarded wand back behind her ear.
Draco didn't know how long they stayed there together, but by the time the bell rang, he felt her move. She stood up and stretched, smiling at him.
"I'll see you later, Draco! Thanks for telling me it is winter. I seemed to have been quite confused!"
With this, she suddenly started to skip off, refusing to take off his hat or scarf. He sighed a little and stood up himself, getting rid of any excess snow that managed to get on his clothes. He stretched and began to head into the main entrance, felling like maybe he didn't hate the winter as much as he had originally thought.
- I have been having terrible writer's block for my Hey Arnold! fic, so I just started this to get my creative mind a goin'. I had this idea for a while, doing oneshots for the seasons but not the motivation to try it out, so now I do! Hurray for me! Thanks for reading!
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