Some Things Are More Important

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or much of anything

WARNINGS: HOMOSEXUALITY should not be a warning but there you have it. It's rated M for a reason. Flamers will be dealt with.

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"I haven't killed anyone." Ginny griped at Ron as he came to stand next to her. Her older brother nodded, looking around the shop.

"I know. Mione went to be with Luna. It's awkward up there for me so I came to find you." Ginny rolled her eyes, looking up at an owl. "You detest owls."

"Luna loves owls." Ginny informed him, "I'm going to get her an owl. She's a bloody angel you know." Ron snorted and nodded as she paid for the strangest looking one she could find and headed out into the alley. "She's not even mad at me. Not even a little. I quit her job for her, Ron, I'd be hacked."

"True, but you can also afford it." Ron pointed out. Ginny nodded, she'd stopped by the bank and was informed she had well over a thousand galleons dumped in it every two weeks due to some smart investments and a cetain blonde Seeker.

"I know, I just...I want her to be happy." Ginny sighed, "I can't buy that."

"You can try like hell apparently." Ron snorted, looking at the bags floating dutifully behind Ginny. The youngest Weasley laughed, looking back at them.

"I am trying, huh?" She sighed, "Luna is going to have my head."

"What was it Dad used to say all the time?" Ron frowned, "in for a sickle?"

"In for a sickle, in for a galleon." Ginny nodded, laughing. "and Charlie, what was it?"

"Go big or go home." Ron laughed, "so, what now?"

"Go big or go home it is." Ginny grinned, "but I've no idea where to buy her ground she can build a bloody zoo on."

"She wants...a zoo."

"Don't laugh, Ron." Ginny warned, "I mean that. It's not a zoo. It's... I forget what she called it. A sanctuary? She wants an orphanage for magical creatures that need her. A farm, with magical critters scurrying about."

"Sounds dangerous." Ron snickered, "but, you'd get to see Hagrid regularly."

"Hagrid!" Gnny gasped, "Hagrid would know!" She tucked through the crowd, headed for the Apparition point. Ron cried out,

"you're not serious?!" A startled passerby squeaked and he sighed, slumping, "she's bloody serious." Trying not to look guilty in any way, Ron apparated after she did, headed for Luna's. Hermione's eyes narrowed,

"where have you been?"

"Diagon Alley." Ron mumbled. Luna looked up, sipping her tea,

"did you find Ginny?" he nodded, "is she still there?" he shook his head. Luna sent an amused look at a suspicious Hermione, "are you going to tell us where she is?" He shook his head. "and why not?"

"I don't mean to offend," Ron sighed, "but I know Gin. I've known her near my whole life and not near as long for either of you. There's only so much your sort will do to me."

"What's our sort?" Hermione grinned, rapping her wand on the table.

"The sort with a conscience and no mind for torture," he paused, adding, "someone you know, in any case. Ginny's sort wouldn't lose a wink of sleep." At their grins, he balked, "you think I'm joking! I've seen it. She's barking. B-A-R-K-I-N-G. Mad." With that, he sat down and stubbornly crossed his arms to wait.

"Now listen," Ginny said, patting the air already as soon as she came through the door two hours later. She paused, eyeing Hermione and Luna and looked to Ron on the couch, "you snitch on me?" He shook his head, "good choice." Ron stared hard at their significant others as if to say see? "So, I bought some things." Ginny offered, "to try to make up for it. I know money can't buy happiness and all that rot, but...whatever." She shrugged, setting the owl on the table, "he's not got a name, I don't like him. He's rude and he's impatient. He's also yours, Luna."

"I can see all the bags." Luna sighed and Ginny shrugged, flicking her wand so they'd follow her in.

"In for a sickle, in for a galleon." she shrugged, "if I thought you'd like it... well, clearly."

"You were gone a lot longer than just this." Hermione called as Ginny made her way to sit next to Ron, now on the couch.

"Nah." Ginny shrugged, whispering something to her brother who scowled.

"I think I'm going to name him Harpie." Luna smiled, petting the ruffled owl, "he seems very sweet." Hermione, agreeing, nodded. She helped Luna look through the bags while Ginny and Ron whispered in the living room.

"Aren't you curious what they're up to?"

"Hm?" Luna looked to the Weasleys, "oh, no. She'll come around eventually."

"You've the patience of a thrice knighted saint." Hermione grinned, "oh, that's a pretty dress."

"Isn't it?" Luna beamed, twirling around. Ginny grinned, appearing in the doorway to watch, leaning on one side of the jamb and a tired looking Ron in the other. Hermione smiled, kissing his cheek and he took her home. Luna looked up from a startlingly bright green tea pot and smiled, "I love all of it, Ginny. You could make me spoiled and lazy."

"I look forward to it." Ginny grinned, "so, I thought maybe you'd like a vacation of sorts? Maybe go to muggle london and stay in my flat with me. It's private and we can go out and do whatever you like. Or, we can stay in and try all the different muggle foods and watch cinema."

"Oh could we?"

"Yes ma'am." Ginny grinned, watching Luna scurry off to throw things in a bag and then scurry back in to grab some of her new things including a few books on magical creatures. She practically bounced, clinging to Ginny's arm. Ginny laughed and side alonged both of them out.

The first thing Ginny did was walk around the flat making sure there weren't any photos out of any other women which just made Luna laugh.

"You're welcome to go wherever you like." Ginny said, flicking a light switch, "that's the loo, the kitchens, the bed. But, the couch has a bed within it, and I thought I'd move my mattress on it. We'll camp out sort of." Luna beamed, clearly excited,

"show me how everything works." She looked at the television, "and is this a portrait?"

"Sort of?" Ginny frowned, "that's the telly. Hermione showed me how to use them all and Harry showed me how to have fun." she winked at Luna, "alright, so, consider this round thing with the dash, a rune. It means 'to start'." Ginny moved about the flat, showing her various things before going and jerking out the mattress inside the couch. Luna was still inspecting and Ginny was alright with that, she'd done it for a week. Then, Ginny's heart clenched. Luna had pulled her odd, purple glasses from her bag and was looking around at everything. She smiled when she caught Ginn watching, pulling them down.

"Harry says those actually work." Ginny ventured, "but that only you seem to understand how."

"I think they're bits of magic." Luna said softly, frowning, "Harry said that?"

"You did find him in his invisibility cloak." Ginny considered, "wearing those. But isn't there a more logical explination?"

"Wouldn't that take the fun out of it?" Luna asked, countering. Ginny blinked at her. She was right. A lot of things had the fun ripped right out of them. "I think... I believe that children are the most powerful magical beings, Gin. Yet, we think we have so much more. Still, who laughs more? Who has more fun? Which is more important?"

"I'm thoroughly chastised." Ginny grinned.

"You know," Luna traced her hand across an expensive italian chair, "Hermione thinks that possibly, the soberup helped you. It was a shock to your brain. She's going to look into it but she won't find anything." she bit her lip and looked up, "I think Rose did it."

"Rose is a chi...go on." Ginny grinned, crossing her arms. Luna lifted her wand,

"wandless, nonverbal magic." she turned, levitating a teddy bear Rose had given Ginny. "you must invision it, you must want it. Children have the most powerful imaginations, the most want and their magic is uncontrolled, untamed. Perhaps she wanted her Aunt Ninny to be well so badly, wanted you to remember her so badly, that she cast a spell and none of you even realized." she set the bear down and Ginny blinked, "or, maybe, we can take the fun out of it- remove the real magic, and you just remembered at the right time." Luna frowned, thinking.

"I... that makes sense." Ginny grinned, nodding, "I'll tell Rose. You should meet her."

"I have, I gave her her first potions as a baby." Ginny frowned, thinking back to when Rose had been born, remembering the day more clearly when she brought it forward.

"I do remember that!"

"I remember you hoarding her." Luna giggled.

Ginny wandered into the bedroom, thinking about everything Luna had said. She made sense and was possibly far wiser that anyone Ginny had ever met, just very misunderstood. Ginny had always suspected she was a bit of a Seer and while that might still be true, it was also true that Luna just thought things through differently than everyone else, taking her own path. She grinned, flicking her wand and raising the matress. It was a huge, expensive affair and difficult to levitate because of it's awkward shape and size, quickly sending the nightstand to the ground.

"I'm alright!" she called, laughing as she turned it to fit through the door and laid it atop the couch's matress. "banged it in to the nightstand."

"I'll help you pick it up." Luna nodded, following her back into the bedroom. Everything that had been in the nightstand drawer had scattered across the floor. Luna knelt to pick that up while Ginny righted the furniture and took the drawer out, it had been knocked from its track and she slid it back in. She'd no sooner closed it than she heard Luna gasp. She turned, frowning. Luna held a stack of various parchments and photos in one hand and a photo in the other.

"I'm sure whoever that is, I've long forgotten whatever we're doing." Ginny scowled, standing and walking over. She grinned, head tilting to the side, "perhaps not."

"I should hope so." Luna snorted, "I'm still in the room for Merlin's sake." She stood, holding out the photo of herself. In it, Luna was laughing and beautiful. "where did you get that, Ginny? What is it and why was it here?" Ginny frowned, thinking.

"Harry." She said slowly, "Harry gave it to me because I asked him for it. He said..." Ginny scowled, picturing Harry's face and gasped.

Ginny frowned gently, reaching her hand out to trace the photos in Harry's album. Harry Potter was widely known as the Boy Who Lived Twice but only those closest to him knew he was a hoarder of photos. He had albums on top of albums and Ginny sat on his couch, glass of Ogden's Best in one hand, photo album in her lap while Harry drank his own, arguing about what a great prat Draco Malfoy was.

"Luna." Ginny said softly and her heart shattered. She remembered flirting with the blonde at the hospital, how Luna's laugh tinkled and she loved the sound. They'd had lunch in the shotty cafeteria a hundred times and Ginny had even become more fearless at work just for an excuse to come see the Healer, even if it made Luna think she was careless or wonder how she'd become a Harpie in the first place.

But Luna was gone and she'd never come back. Ginny had taken it too far. She'd fought the urge to sleep with her friend and fought it powerfully. Then she had and that was it. Watching Luna scream her name and then watching her sleep peacefully had been the nail in the coffin for Ginny and she'd finally fallen hard and fast. Ginny loved Luna and they were so different. Ginny was a Harpie, a travelling always gone position, and Luna was a Healer, needed here. Ginny had women for ages, daft ones. She did that on purpose, so she wouldn't fall in love, wouldn't get smashed like a Bludger.

But she had. She had panicked, pretending not to remember so Luna wouldn't have to get hurt. Luna was all too perfect for Ginny, by far. When she didn't slap Ginny, didn't try to tell her what had happened, that had only proven it and Ginny had shoved her away to keep her safe. Ginny was keeping Luna safe from, well, Ginny.

"Harry said I could have it. I asked him for it." Ginny replied, tucking the photo at the top of the pile where she could grab it and look at it. That's where it had been in the first place. "he took it, a long time ago."

"Oh." Luna frowned, "you're upset. I don't mind it, Gin, really." she paused, "no, that's not it. What's the matter, Gin?"

"Nothing at all." Ginny lied, not wanting Luna to know how stupid she'd been or that Luna was right and she did remember.

"Liar." Luna teased, "but, alright. Let's get something to eat. Can we?"

"Whatever you'd like, love." Ginny paused, Luna frowning. "we'll get a lot of things, I can afford it and you can try it all." Luna beamed brightly and that eased Ginny's headache. She smiled, going to the phone and ordering from several places.

Within the hour, food was piling up along the sofa table and Luna was looking at all of it like a kid in a sweet shop. Ginny smiled, opening the door for the pizza man- her personal favorite. He grinned, having been there a hundred times.

"Haven't seen you in a while."

"I've been out of the country." Ginny nodded, feeling in her pockets, "blast, you take a card don't you?" The man nodded and Ginny retreated to the side table, unashamed to admit she had a card there specifically for take out. Her moving gave the man a perfect view of Luna, sitting atop the two mattresses with her strange glasses on her head and wearing the white dress Ginny loved so much.

"She's gorgeous." he grinned. Ginny beamed back,

"and taken. Mine. Here you go." She took the pizza and closed the door, going to sit it down. "That's all of it, love. What would you like to try first?" Luna had her head down, staring at the bed and she looked up, an accusation in her eyes. Oh yes, possibly some Seer in her afterall. Ginny flinched away, ducking her head.

"you remembered didn't you?" Luna snapped. Ginny's head shot up, glaring,

"if you bring up that Looney bit again, I'm going to lose it, Luna." she threatened, "and I'll probably yell and you'll cry because I yelled and I'll go buy more things. So, let's skip past all of that. I did not pretend to forget because of my reputation, or, because shite to do with some cruel kids in Hogwarts."

"But you did then?" Luna asked softly, "you pretended to forget on purpose?"

"You know what? I remember pretending and I was bloody good at it." Ginny said, "sometimes, I think you've a bit of a Seer in you." Luna's accusing stare held. "Alright. Yes, I pretended to forget but I did it for you."

"For me?" Luna snorted, "do you realize how absolutely mad that sounds? And they call me looney!" Her voice was shrill, she was about to scream. "I fell in love with you, Ginny! I never felt that way about another girl! I've never been with another girl! You broke my heart!" Ginny felt stung but she ignored it, heart pounding. "why are you looking at me like that?" Luna demanded.

Ginny crawled across the bed to her, kicking off her boots and nuzzled into Luna's neck, kissing along the floral scented skin there, nuzzling her.

"I fell in love with you too. That's why, Luna. I love you, I don't want to see you hurt. What I did was stupid, it was daft. I do stupid things, I'm a Weasley, afterall." she chuckled, nuzzling Luna's cheek to whisper in her ear, "I thought I was protecting you from me."

"Yes...well...I'm still mad." Luna snapped half heartedly. Ginny giggled, shaking her head and leaned back to grab a slice of pizza. Luna grabbed a fork and scampered around behind the couch to try everything. "that really was daft."

"I know." Ginny nodded, "I dated... air headed tarts, as Mione calls them and I was perfectly happy with that. I wanted sex and that is all you can get from women like that. But, in the long run, I want children. I want banter and cuddling and flying and a home. I want to be in love, head over heels, and grow old and cook and fight and bring someone home to the Burrow that my mum will cart off into the sunset with happiness. I...I saw all of that in-"

"If you say me, Ginny Weasley, and make me cry, I'll hex your nose off." Luna growled in warning and Ginny's eyebrows shot up. She believed she'd do it but she wasn't going to stop.

"In...er, this really lovely girl. So, I bollocksed it up on purpose because I saw what I wanted and I panicked. I'm a cad."

"What is this?" Luna asked, going for distraction.

"Thai. Do you want to?"

"What is this?"

"Chinese, would you like to meet my mum and ride off happily with her-"

"Pizza, yes?"

"yes- into the sunset?"

"Stop it!"

"Nope." Ginny grinned. Luna pouted and Ginny gaped at her, "are you doing that on purpose, Luna?"

"Is it working?"

"Alright, I'll stop just stop doing that!"

"Thank you. Now, Hermione has told me about cinema," to Ginny's surprise, Luna grabbed the spiciest curry and sat down with the takeaway in her lap, eating happily, "show me, please?"

"Yes, ma'am." Ginny grinned, summoning the remote.