A/N: my first Harry Potter fic, please review!

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.

Ginny Weasley is in pain and in love.

The war is over. Her brother is dead. Luna is beautiful.

Every night Ginny wakes up screaming and crying. Every night Luna wipes away her tears and whispers away her fears.

There are nightmares. There are daydreams.

The war has been won. Lives have been lost. Love has been found.

It is the battle and she is shooting every curse she can think of at her masked attacker but they are all deflected and she is tiring and her back is pressed against the wall and she is scared and her assailant is winning and she is going to die.

Green bursts of light flash past her and she is barely dodging them and she is going to die.

It happens in slow motion. She yells a hex at her opponent, but at the same moment they fire the death curse at her, and she sees it coming, a vivid green glow, and she is frozen somehow, and she does not even try to move and it is going to hit her and Ginny Weasley is going to die-

She wakes up with a scream.

"Shhhh... I've got you. I've got you, darling," Luna murmurs, her lips soft against Ginny's cheek. Luna's arms encircle her and she is safe. Her body shakes. Tears trickle down her face and onto Luna's, because did Fred feel that fear? She hopes he didn't. She hopes he didn't know it was coming. He was laughing, Ron said. Making a joke. She hopes he was happy.

" Shhh, darling... I'm here... Shhh," Luna soothes, one hand stroking Ginny's hair. Ginny curls into the embrace. They lie on the bed,in the darkness, arms and legs entangled, and slowly Ginny's sobs die away. Luna whispers comfort and presses her lips to Ginny's face, to her cheeks and forehead and eyelids and to her lips.

Neither of them drift back into sleep. They stay in a haze, limbs wrapped around one another, till the sun spills over the edge of Ginny's windowsill.

Ginny Weasley is in pain.

Ginny Weasley is in love.

The hurt will stay, but Luna makes it better.

Luna makes everything better.

There are nightmares but there are also daydreams.