Lunatix
But in the end, who can deny,
That all we do will count for nix,
That however we live and however we die,
We're all a bunch of raving lunatix?
"Crucio!" she shouted, "Crucio, Crucio, Crucio!" Bellatrix watched the girl writhe and laughed.
It was inexcusable, really.
Bellatrix was only down there because she was bored. And some other, stranger reasons, but not even she understood those.
The girl was some hostage, she didn't really care. All she knew was that she had nothing else to do, the Dark Lord was hogging the wand maker, and there was a pretty little blonde girl in the cellar all alone. She was a good one. Plenty of screaming, but she didn't whimper and sniffle between bouts. She just sat in her corner and took it. Not that there was anything else that she could do.
Luna rolled onto her back and looked up at her torturer.
Bellatrix cocked her head to the side, genuinely confused. She had planned on stopping when the girl started coughing up blood (potaytoe, potahtoe, extreme psychological trauma, "done"), but she didn't often get people looking at her like that after a decent torture. She wasn't sure she liked it. The job was clearly not done. She raised her wand. Luna opened her mouth. They both froze. Bella lowered her wand. Luna closed her mouth. They waited for the other to act. Luna went first, her words scraping against her raw throat as she spoke.
"They…" she swallowed "They told you to do this, didn't they?"
Bella stared.
Luna made as if to point, but her arm hurt far too much. She settled for looking at them instead.
"I—I've never seen them do that before…" she rasped, "the wrackspurts."
Bella let her arm drop. She stared some more, and said, nearly whispered,
"You can see them, too?"
Luna only blinked.
"Can't everyone?"
Sometimes the world's a messy place,
Some things get broke that we can't fix,
Just look it in its ugly face,
And know you've friends, we're all just lunatix.
AN: Well, that was odd. Please review, tell me what you thought. If enough people ask I might make this into a weird AU chapter fic, but I was only planning to have this be a one-shot. Points for originality, I think? I only wrote this because of all those cutesy pairing names, and, while pondering the strangest one I could possibly make, I happened first upon Luna/Cedric, then…this. Ah well, such is life. (Poem is mine. Read my profile for an explanation, I'm not kidding, I couldn't stop the things from coming if I tried)