The next morning, when Luna woke up -She had finally fallen asleep around 6 am in the morning, the sun was rising over the horizon -, she felt numb, sad and in pain, for she fell from her bed in her sleep and slept on the hard floor. She walked, still sleepy, in the bathroom, and took a shower, praying for the timing not to move again during this peaceful moment. She wasn't really in the mood for discovering cavemen and dinosaurs. When she got out of the bathroom, drying her long hair with a blue towel, she began to wonder why she was all alone in the dormitories again. A quick look at the pink alarm clock on Carie's bed table told her why : It's was 3 pm. She suddenly felt really really stupid -even a Ravenclaw can feel stupid sometimes, right ?- for not noticing the bright sunlight coming from the window. The day she found the sand-timer in Snape's classroom, the sun was shining in a similar way, and she closed her eyes the way she did. Or, she thought, the way she will do. She sighted loudly. She just couldn't get the fact that she was now in ... 1974. Another sight came out of her mouth, she sat on her bed, taking her head in her hands.
"What am I gonna do ..." She shook her head, and her memories of the past three days came back. The little sound that the glassy sand-timer produced on the floor, the way she felt when she ... went back in time, the girls, the clothes, the loud screams and giggles coming from all around, Dumbledore, his sand-timer, her cries, tears and loneliness, the coldness of the floor and walls in the astronomy tower, and then ... this boy from slytherin. Someone was in her dreams, tonight, but she just couldn't see his face, or even remember him. Someone was in her dreams, and she prayed for this boy to have been him. He had barely said a word to her, he hadn't smile, but she remembered him as being sympathetic, kind, at least he didn't take her for a freak. She wasn't Loony Lovegood here. She was ... Luna. A girl from Beauxbatons. Yes. That's it.
She got up, went back to the bathroom, and looked at her reflection in the mirror.
"Get dressed !!" It said. She couldn't care less. She looked in the depths of her light blue eyes, and told herself to be strong, to be as smart as a Ravenclaw like her should be, and to do what she was told to. Dumbledore said that he was going to make everything back to normal, and she believed him. She just should do as he said. Lie. Be a girl from Beauxbatons. Be a french. Be someone else. That wasn't really such a bad thing, she momentarily thought. No one here knew her. No one here has ever called her Loony, or called her names. She was the new girl and every one was nice with her. For the moment, at least. She smiled at her reflection, still ignoring the mirror who was commenting on her near-nakedness. When she got out of her shower, she had taken her wand and magicaly cleaned her clothes, but she was just wearing panties at the moment, and as Mary said, she looked thin ... Too thin. And her skin was too white. And ... and Luna was a smart girl who shouldn't bother to think about such stupid things. She put on her skirt and shirt, tied a ribon around her neck, and stormed off the bathroom. She took the sand-timer -her only 'belonging' here and now- from her bed table, and close the door behind her. Students were still in classes, and she met no one in the hallways. Where was she heading ? She didn't even know herself. She just had to get out of here. Quickly. She walked to the Black Lake, and near the Forbidden Forest, surprised to see Hagrid's shed. It was the only normal thing, or so it seemed. The crazy idea of knocking on the door stroke her, but she shook her head and realized how a bad stupid it was : What would she say ? "Hello Hagrid, it's me, Luna, you're not supposed to know me yet, I'll appear in your future but don't worry, it's just that I magicaly time-traveled." Oh great.
Felling even more depressed than she was before, forgetting about all of her positive thoughts, she came back to the castle some minutes later. she entered the Great Hall and wandered around for maybe thirty seconds, before she heard a ... kind of familiar voice coming from behind her.
"No. No no no. No. I won't."
"Oh pleeease ..." another voice begged.It was obviously a boy who was talking, but the pleading was made in such a high voice that it almost sound girly. When Luna turned around, she actually thought it was a girl, kneeling in front of the boy who rescued her the past night. Long, long dark red silky hair, skimming the back of his shoulder, some part of his Slytherin uniform, it was all she could see. But then he rose to his feet, and turned so that Luna could see his face. Before she could make any new comment or chat any longuer with her inner self, a third boy joined them : a long-haired (again !) Slytherin, blond, with dazzing grey eyes and a fair white skin, and the same satisfied-of-himself smile that Draco Malfoy usually wore. In fact, he reminded Luna a LOT of him. Even more when he started talking.
"Hello, my fellow students. What are you arguing about ?"
"Luciiius, began the redhead,with the same girly voice as before, Sevy won't do it."
"Oh really Severus ? Why is that so ?"
Before the so-called Severus could answer, Luna had gasped loudly, her eyes and mouth wide opened. Now she knew why he seemed so familiar. She haven't seen the redhead before, but Lucius probably refered to Lucius Malfoy, Draco's father. Instinctively, she wanted to talk to them. Maybe it was ... simply because it's funny to know their futures and being able to look at them in their teens.
"Hum ... Hello ?"
Appearing behind the redhead's back, she startled him. He let out a girlish scream and turned round to see Luna.
"Oh dear, you surprised me !! Don't do that again, okay ?" He smiled widely at her, and his smile was kind of scary, or so she thought.
"What do you want ?" asked coldly Lucius. This is sooo Malfoy. Draco did that to the perfection, back to her present. Severus only looked at her, his face totally expressionless.
"Hu, I ... I wanted to thank you for yesterday. That was really kind of you."
She could see Severus' cheeks turning a bright shade of red, and she felt the redhead's smile even from behind her.
"Sevy, what did you do for this little mousie ?"
"My, my, can we finally do something with him, Rodolphus ?"
"I thiiink !! Little mousie, what did this freak do to you ?"
Who's the freak ... Rodolphus had grabbed her arm, and continued to smile brightly. Even Malfoy was grinning, and the more they smiled, the more Severus blushed. Luna's inner self was slapping herself. How could she have thought that Snape was handsome ? Okay, he was kind of cute, with this shy look of his, and his dark hair and dark eyes, and ... Okay, he was cute. But he was her teacher, and a smart girl like her shouldn't think of anything like that about her teacher. Okay, but right now, he wasn't her teacher. Oh, SHUT UP !!
The redhead's girly voice brought her back to reality. She really should stop having fights with her inner mind.
"Oh, by the way, Lucy, we forgot to present ourselves correctly to this little miss !!" His arm was still holding onto hers, and he turned his face to look at her straight in the eyes.
"Helloo, my name's Rodolphus Lestrange, and here is Lucius Malfoy. You should probably know our friend Severus Snape, so I don't have to present him. How did you too meet ? Was it looove at first sight ?"
"Rod', shut up." Severus' hand took Luna, and Rodolphus had to let go of her arm. Still holding her hand, he got out of the Great Hall, walking fast to escape his 'friends'. Luna just followed him silently to a desert hallway, and he finally let go of her hand, wich made her feel strangely disappointed. The blush was still on his cheeks, and her turned his back to her to prevent her from seeing it.
"I'm ... I'm sorry about that. They're just ..." He made a vague movement, Being with him made her feel way better than she felt 10 minutes ago. Her positive thoughts from in the bathroom suddenly came back, and she decided to play her role, until ... until she gets back to her present.
"That's okay." He turned again, facing her warm smile that made him feel as if he had butterflies in his belly. "I mean, I could have find maybe ... a better moment ? anyway, thanks again. I was ..." Her voice slowed down, as she didn't want to think or talk about what made her cry the past night. He nodded silently. They both took a moment to look at each other's face. Luna knew her teacher, his features were exactly the same but ... in a different way. He looked of course younger, but also healthier, maybe happier, he wasn't the dark scary potions master she knew. Severus detailed her soft skin, the little almost invisible freckles on her cheeks, her dreamy icy blue eyes, her long whiteous blond locks. This silent moment of observations, deep thoughts and reflexions addressed to their inner selves was broken by two gryffindors who walked into the hallway, giggling and talking loudly.
Severus left without a word, Luna went back to the Ravenclaws' common room, waiting for Mary and Carie's classes to finish. From now on, she will play her role.
Helllooooo my fellow readers xD
I so love Rodolphus Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy that I couldn't help by integrate them to my fic D I made Roddie look like Mad Carrot's drawings [ see http://madcarrot. he is just SO DAMN CUTE 3 And I am not totally satisfied with the ending of this chapter but ... It's 3 a.m. here and i'm getting tired xD I put some more Luna in underwear for my lovely perv', and I hope you liked it
Thanks again and again to all of my ... 6 reviewers, I love you all 3 You're the ones that makes me feel like writing, even if my bed is calling for me xD
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