Disclaimer: All things Harry Potter belong to JK Rowling. There's a reference to The Little Shop of Horrors, also not mine.
The Audresis was an odd quirk of nature looking like a strange cross between a Venus flytrap and a cabbage. The notoriously plant was known the world over for its magical properties and even more so for its vicious feeding habits. Draco, unable to resist such a rare opportunity, brought his hand mere inches away from the tiny sapling. Captivated, the Audresis eagerly bobbed and swayed with the motions of the Slytherin's hand like a snake mesmerized by its charmer.
"Feed me. Feed me Draco." The tiny voice implored.
"You have to catch me first." Malfoy taunted as his hand continued to dance just out of the Audresis's reach. It amused him to do it. He had to find something to entertain himself while stuck in detention with the crazy girl.
"Keep doing that and the little sapling will bite your finger clean off." Luna serenely remarked from her spot on the ground as she pulled a white oak athame from Professor Sprout's deep green supply bag.
The platinum blond pureblood let the soft warning roll off his back.
"What makes you think that I would listen to the likes of you about anything?" He sneered at the batty little Ravenclaw with her radish earrings and perpetually dazed expression.
"Since Professor Sprout is a fair distance away working in the Mandrake plot. I think you'll need help taking care of the wound." Luna replied in straightforward manner as she rose from ground and began walking to the Slytherin's side.
Draco momentarily shifted his attention from the Audresis to flash Luna an irritated glare. "Wound? What wound you--ow!"
"That one." The sandy blonde said eyeing the bloody gash now marring Draco's index finger.
"Someone should put it out of its misery. That thing's a bleeding thing's a menace! " Draco exclaimed angrily staring at his hand with something akin to disbelief.
The taste of blood and the scent of it in the air had the previously placid plant snarling and snapping for more. At the moment it was no longer difficult to believe that the small seemingly innocuous sapling, would one day mature into an eight foot tall man eating monster.
The dotty girl immediately jumped to the flora's defense with crystalline blue eyes blazing. "No she isn't. Audrey's just doing what nature intended."
"So nature intended for that thing to take a bite out of me?" The Slytherin challenged.
"Only if you insist on dangling your limbs in front of her," Luna replied with the utmost of solemnity.
Time came to a stand still as cold silver eyes assessed the temerity of Luna and her cerulean blue orbs. This wasn't like dealing with Pothead the scarred wonder and his merry band of bootlickers. Draco always knew exactly what to say to get under their skin. Looney, however, brushed off his insults with disturbing ease. It was one of the reasons why detention was incredibly dull.
So Luna and Draco just stood there, staring at each other until Draco broke the stubborn silence with a stupid question that had been niggling at the back of his mind. He glanced down at his bloody hand, shot a nasty look at the carnivorous plant, and then slid his cool gaze to the small blonde girl with animated frogs leaping across her robe.
"You named it Audrey?" Draco asked incredulously.
"Yes." Luna nodded, "What else could be more fitting?"
"Try Bloody Mary." He retorted.
