Disclaimer: World of Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling. Part of "The If You Dare Challenge" and the "Pregnancy Challenge" by SnarkyAndProudHufflepuff.
A/n: Story deals with adultery, if you don't like, then I don't suggest you read. This story will be slight AU, at least where the birth of certain person's are concerned.
Prompt: Moonstruck (#3)
April Fools
Luna could feel the moment that he sat next to her on the sand. Feel the heat radiating form his body despite the air still being cool, despite being late April.
He was beautiful, scars and all. He'd always been beautiful and Luna had always known this. But even so, she couldn't draw her eyes away from the waves lapping at the sand of the beach, or the way that the full moon sparkled on it's surface.
"What's the matter, can't sleep?" Bill asked, knowing it was a stupid question. In time's like these, sleep was difficult, but for someone like Luna who had endured so many months of darkness in a cell in a basement, he was sure sleep should be impossible. But then, Luna was different. She always had been, for as long as he had known her.
Luna barely nodded in response, but she was sure he was watching. She could feel his gaze, like the warmth from the sun, on her skin. She shivered at the fact she held his attention so completely in this moment.
"You will catch your death out here," Bill stated, wrapping an arm around her shoulders with the ease and comfort of an old friend. As he'd only meant to come out and look for her and make sure she was safe, he hadn't bothered to bring anything out with him and didn't have anything warm to offer her but his own body. However, when he saw her sitting here so immobile and pensive, he hadn't had the heart to tell her she must come inside. Surely after so many months, she needed the fresh-air.
Luna shrugged but nonetheless sunk into his warmth in response to his statement.
Bill watched the girl, whose large, protuberant blue eyes didn't waver from the water for a moment. She was so different from the little girl that he recalled from his youth. Different from the girl that he'd seen dancing at his wedding with her father. Different even from the young woman he saw earlier smiling serenely as she helped his wife set the table.
As he stared down at her pale blonde hair, that seemed glow like the moonlight and like her skin, he found himself wondering how he had missed the beauty beneath his nose. Failed to notice this little moon-goddess.
And when she looked up into his eyes, catching his own with her ocean blue orbs, Bill felt moonstruck and he had the strangest feeling that some part of him had always and would always belong to Luna.
TBC...