A/N: Twilight haters rejoice! Sorry about this chapter being basically all dialogue...its late at night...and I think my brain died...but if you read this anyway...You rock and get a cookie (::)! I had a hard time creating a 'Caring Draco Malfoy' (Enjoy the refreshing change) But fell in love with Dward...I think I'm going to keep him around, he's like my way to get my thoughts into the story without A/Ns everywhere. I have a feeling you will like him to! I don't like Lucius...I won't write about him if I can help it.
I shut up now and let you enjoy!
Chapter 3
Yeh! Wha yur guana doh 'bout dat nastay tatur?"
Luna Lovegood squeezed the unfortunate goblin until it squealed on its own, "Gees Lady ge'off" he complained. He had a thick, deep voice that weighed every single word making him sound more like a troll than a goblin.
"Oh I' m sorry," said Luna letting go of the goblin, "I absolutely love magic creatures! What is your name?" she leaned in close to the goblin so that her nose was even with his.
"Nam is Dward," he said slurring is and Dward, andmaking as much distance between him and Luna as possible.
Luna heard him wrong, she heard Edward.
"As in 'Edward Cullen'?" she laughed, "You sure look alike! Well from what I can tell, I honestly don't know what those insane fan girls see in him..."
"Insane, yur oen ta tulk..." muttered the goblin.
"What was that?"
"I hate bing confursed wieth tat lout!" he said angrily covering up his insult, "An its Dward, D-W-A-R-D, Dawarard!" he lay down in the corner, "Gudnit!"
"Why won't you leave the Malfoy's?" she asked inching towards him.
"Becuze, tat's wy, nur sut yur trap!" he snapped at her.
"Well you're not very friendly." Luna set out her sleeping bag, and started to get into it.
As soon as her eyes closed, she was fast asleep, she had been flying for hours, and at 3:00 AM she couldn't get enough sleep.
She was in the memory again, she saw her father, the Dark Lord, and her mother, from the point of few she had last time.
"You bring what I ask?" said Voldemort.
"Y-y-yes my lord." Xenophilius stuttered.
"Don't stutter boy!" he snapped back. Luna had seen this she went to her mother.
"Mum?" she whispered thinking she couldn't hear her.
"Luna...I hear a voice? Is it you? You should be at Hogwarts!" she said looking for the source of the voice.
"Keep your wife quiet! Who is this Luna, she speaks of and why is she at Hogwarts?" demanded Voldemort.
"No one my lord." he said without stuttering.
At this time, Luna was only a first year, small and curious.
A snake slithered up from behind Xenophilius and up Voldemort's shoulder.
"He lies!" Nagini hissed, speaking in Parsouletongue.
"Lies!" hissed Voldemort accusingly at Xenophilius.
"My wife...she's mad my lord, your curse has driven her mad, she speaks nonsense." he pleaded, but Voldemort had made up his mind.
"Once I get my hands on that," Voldemort motioned to Xenophilius's arm that was obscured from Luna's vision, "your daughter Luna will be a Death Eater, just like your family!" Voldemort grabbed Luna's fathers arm and pressed his wand to the Dark Mark clearly displayed, binding him to the threat.
Her mother cringed, Dward popped up and slurred, "Intermizzion." and the scene changed.
Her father was standing in her living room sobbing into his hands; it was the day she had been kidnapped by the Death Eaters.
"My Luna! Trade for Harry Potter, and they won't touch my Luna," he ran his fingers down his tattoo. The tattoo that she never seemed to notice. "I must do it. My Luna must not suffer my fate!"
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Draco Malfoy woke up to a scream "HE LIED!"
He popped out of bed and ran straight to his parent's room to see if they were all right. Fast asleep, the scream had not even fazed them.
Had he dreamt it? No it was too real. That left only one person, the lunatic bunking with Dward. Their stubborn excuse for a house elf. Dward did nothing! He sat around and pretended to be sick just to get out of doing anything.
Reluctantly, Malfoy climbed the steps leading to the guest room. Opening the door, he found a sobbing Luna and a very annoyed Dward with his fingers in his pointed ears.
"Sut 'er up will ya!" shouted Dward.
"Well why don't you!" Malfoy shouted back, "Blimey how long has she been like this?" he asked slowly approaching Luna who was shaking violently.
"He lied!" she screamed!
"Bloody hell, she caen scriem!" said Dward pulling his pillow over his head.
Luna curled further into a ball rocking back and forth, "He said it was a dream, he lied..."
"Whor lied! Yu'v has been sein tat fer hurs!" said Dward, his lack of sleep slurring his words.
"Oi, you shut up!" Malfoy threw a pillow at Dward, the least he could do to the creature with the little strength he had at 5:00 in the morning. "Who lied?" asked Malfoy with fake concern.
"My father!" she whipped a tear from her wet face, "Can I tell you something?"
He had nothing better to do; "Sure!" he took a seat on the floor.
Luna took a deep breath and began on her story of the last day and her dream, "Yesterday, I snuck a look at some of my dad's memories, on accident. I saw him as a Death Eater!" Malfoy nodded like he actually cared, "He said it was a dream, I believed him, but I ran away. Tonight I had a dream of that memories, only there was another bit, when I was kidnapped they wanted Harry, in exchange, I wouldn't be a Death Eater," she stifled a sob, "Like I would be a good one?!" she told him about the memories, and by the end Draco Malfoy had a new sense of what the war had done to families like hers, it tore them apart!
He had been a Death Eater, for the little time, yet he didn't know about Luna being kidnapped or anything related. He actually...dare I say, cared...
"He...lied to me!" she said calming down a bit, "He said he would...never..."
Dward threw the pillow at her, "We kner heh lied...nur sut yur trap!"
Malfoy shot him a warning glance; "You shut it!" he shot.
"Yu!" Dward shot back.
"You!"
"Yu!"
"You!"
"Yu!"
"Enough!" said Draco finally, "Can't you see she's upset!"
He stopped himself from going further, did he just...no he couldn't have. If anyone knew...Draco Malfoy, with that reputation, O never! He reflected, nineteen years and he had never cared for anyone. He thought that he could be a good Death Eater, but he could never kill, but he wasn't all soft!
"Luna?" he said softly not believing his own words, "He may have lied...but I truly care!"
"Yeh, Draco Malfey, tha O so amsin Death Eata, carin.Tatil beh dah day!"
"Oi, didn't I tell you to shut it!" said Malfoy launching the pillow at his face.
"Oi, didn I tehl Yu?" mimicked Dward launching it back.
She laughed, "Is this the boy who hates all Muggle-born, the boy who nearly killed Albus Dumbledore, is this the same Draco Malfoy I know?"
He wasn't even sure! He still resented Harry Potter, but after he saved his life, it wasn't the fiery hate the years of Hogwarts had brought on them. He didn't answer the question.
"I'm sorry for bothering you!" Luna said getting her things packed and changing into a bright blue robe with the wave of her wand. "I only need a place where I could deal with myself, without my dad...I'll leave now!"
"No!" said Draco setting down her pillow. "I mean, wasn't it all just a dream? You have no proof that he lied to you! Have you ever actually seen his Dark Mark?"
"Nu, hers sum ohf dah carin stuff 'gain," mumbled Dward.
"Shut your trap! Or I swear-" said Draco his patience with Dward running thin.
"Swera wha? Yu sterted carin yu won hert meh!" Dward taunted testing the thin ice he was on.
Draco walked threatingly towards Dward, "Oh yeah! Trhy meh!" he imitated Dward's slurred language. Then pulled out his wand, Dward snapped his fingers and disappeared right before Draco could curse him.
"I saw him after I was kidnapped, don't you think that counts for something?" continued Luna, she sighed, "Can I ask you one more thing?"
He nodded, "I think I know where you're coming from."
"Your parents were Death Eaters, were you forced or..." Draco knew what she was asking, truth was, he didn't even know the answer himself, it all just sort of happened. Now that Voldemort died, being a Death Eater didn't entirely matter anymore, but for those loyal, for example, Bellatrix Black in the Dark Lords first disappearance, would search for him, Draco feared Luna may be caught in his old position.
Again, he didn't answer the question.
Luna didn't know if he wanted her here or not, neither did Draco.
After a few moments of silence, Luna gathered her things.
"I think I should leave now!" she summoned her broom, Draco did nothing to stop her, and just as last time, she jumped out the window!
Malfoy thought he should follow her, how would he explain to his parents the disappearance of both Luna, and their makeshift house elf. He found his hand fingering his tattoo, the stupid tattoo.
POP!
Draco jumped as the goblin appeared on his shoulders. "Yeh! Wha yur guana doh 'bout dat nastay tatur?" he slurred.
Draco smiled, now having the upper hand he grabbed the goblins feet and swung Dward off his shoulders, hitting his head on the ground with a thud.
"Wha yur dooz tat fur?" he groaned, appeantly he didn't hit his head hard enough!
"I have a job for you!" said Draco with a grimacing smile.
"Oi! Dward don lyke wer tis is goin!" Dward mumbled feeling the growing bump on his head.
"You will when you see what it entails!" Dward buried his face in his hands and groaned.
"Nut a' gain..." he muttered.
Draco headed for his room. He rifled through his bureau, looking for that one item...
"Ah!" he exclaimed holding it just below his chin.
"Maekup?" slurred Dward, "Wha yu whant whit dat?"
Draco wasn't listening, he was busy pushing though the next drawer and when he didn't find it there he moved to under his bed.
He pulled out a small plastic bag of...
"Nur I don wana evn ku wha dat is!" said Dward plugging his nose.
"No, you probably don't." said Draco scrunching his nose, amazed by what he was actually doing.
The light turned on in the hallway and Draco scrambled under the covers as Dward hid under his bed.
Draco hid the compact and plastic bag under his pillow and pretended to wake up.
He got dressed in a green travel coat, and strode outside to see his mother with breakfast ready.
"Lucius had some business to attend to and left early." she said smiling, "Look at you all ready!" Draco grabbed a piece of toast and walked to the door with it, "Where are you going?"
Draco opened the door, turned around and said, "I'm going out!" he said taking a bite of toast, "Oh and Dward left with Luna."
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Luna found herself going in a completely different direction, letting the wind take her she found herself in Godric's Hollow. The sun was barley shining over the hills, casting a red glow over many of the early joggers and mail carriers. She touched down after switching her blue robe into her sundress, unaware that though she appeared to be a Muggle on holiday, every movement she made was being watched.
A/N: Don' Yu luav a supenful endin? -In the words of Dward!
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