Luna sat across from Rolf talking animatedly as the magical pen in front of her wrote down everything she was dictating. He watched her as she waved her hands in front of her face at something she was saying. Luna talked with her whole body and Rolf found it entertaining.
Just as she was getting to the most interesting part, in her opinion at least, she felt eyes on her and halted what she was saying. When she looked up Rolf was watching her with a smirk.
"Was I talking with my hands again?" She blushed, but he just laughed it off.
"It's charming." He said, "besides I enjoy the show."
Luna blushed again, however, this time it was because of how flirty Rolf had sounded saying that.
At one point early in their journey together she would have taken it just as it sounded.
Luna remembered how bashful and flirtatious he had been the first few weeks they spent together in Romania while out searching for Crumple Horned Snorkacks.
She had never met a man who took that sort of interest in her, besides Nevil and he didn't count because he had a crush on every girl he came across back then.
It made her a bit uncomfortable, if she was being honest.
And Luna was always honest.
"Rolf, I can feel you watching me again." She was getting slightly irritated.
It was one thing to be watched, but lately it had been creating extra work for her because he was to distracted to do his own job.
"Sorry." He blushed looking back down at his own work quickly.
unfortunately not ten minutes later she felt his eyes on her again.
She sighed.
"Rolf," she snapped, he quickly shook himself and jumped back to work but she stepped over to him placing her hand on his.
This had to stop.
He glanced up at her, and he truly looked afraid of what was about to come.
"Rolf, we agreed to be partners, and I need you to be my partner. I understand what it's like to be enamored with someone, but if it is going to impair your workmanship I may need to give some thought into possibly furthering my research with someone else."
Rolf's face grew ten shades of red and he sputtered for a moment.
"I'm very sorry Luna, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable."
She shook her head.
"It's not that, I just feel that you aren't getting your work done. It also makes it very difficult to talk to you. Every time I bring up my friends you look like someone just stomped on your foot. If you hear the name Harry, Ron or Draco you grimace and it isn't fair. If I can't talk about my friends then I have nothing to talk about and this is going to be a rather boring and long trip."
Rolf lit up at what she had said and Luna was confused, did he not understand when he was being reprimanded?
"So you aren't uncomfortable with me then?" His head cocked to the side with his smile still in place.
"No!" This was exasperating.
All of the sudden a pair of lips crashed against hers and Luna lost her breath for a moment before pushing Rolf back.
A look of hurt crossed his face before he looked confused.
Luna wiped at her lips as she looked at him crossly.
"Just because you don't make me uncomfortable doesn't mean I'm interested in you Rolf!"
He looked so deflated.
"Luna, I'm so sorry, I completely misinterpreted the whole conversation."
She nodded in agreement at that.
"Rolf, you're a sweet man, it's just-"
Rolf held up his hand, "you don't have to explain, I was kind of a nerd in school, you're not the first girl to reject my affection."
At that Luna deflated herself a little.
"Oh Rolf, what you were in school isn't important here in the real world. People used to think I was crazy, my nickname was Loony Lovegood for heavens sake. Now I write novels about the things they called me loony for talking about. Regardless of you being a nerd or not I'm not interested because you just aren't my type." she finished off patting his hand.
She had a type?
Well she was a fan of blondes.
Luna shook her head getting rid of the thought. That was just silly, they were friends, nothing more.
"So you don't think I'm some scrawny weirdo with glasses to big for his face and crazy ideas?"
She smiled at him, "Rolf, you're a very handsome young man, and as far as the glasses go one of my best friends is married to a guy with glasses and she is one of the prettiest most brave witches I know."
Rolf's eyes got big at that, "What about the crazy ideas?" he asked bashfully.
"We're all a bit crazy, it's what makes life so fun." she winked at him and he smiled brightly.
"Sorry again about the kiss. From now on it will be strictly professional behavior."
Luna faux pouted a bit, "we can be friends Rolf, it doesn't always have to be professional."
He smiled and nodded, "I'd like that."
"Oh, and Rolf, I promise someday you're going to meet a woman that will make you realize why it's a good thing all those other girls shot you down."
Luna leaned in and hugged him, glad that all the tension had been resolved.
When she leaned back she was surprised he was chuckling.
"What's so funny?"
"Loony." He said still laughing.
Her eyes narrowed playfully at him.
"Can I call you Lun for short?" They both burst out laughing.
The rest of the night was playful banter and teasing.
To her own surprise, the next day Rolf was a new person, one that Luna was very proud to work with. She had made the perfect call in picking him as her partner.
Rolf laid his hand on Luna's to bring her back from her day dream.
"It was just a joke Lu, don't go all crazy lady on me." he joked.
She shook her head clearing the fog.
"I was just remembering something." She smiled and he returned it.
There was a knock at the door and they heard Xenophilious going to open it.
"Ah Miss. Greengrass, what a pleasant surprise!"
At that Rolf looked at the door and Luna looked to Rolf.
They heard soft mumbles then Mr. Lovegood's booming voice again.
"He's right through here dear, just follow me!"
Xenophilious walked through the door into the editing room and was followed by a petite young witch with brown hair pulled up into a bun on top of her head and bright green eyes.
She was in a green sundress that made her eyes glow and when Rolf looked at her his own eyes began to shine almost as brightly.
"Hi Astoria." He sounded breathy and excited.
Luna decided this was a perfect time to get a cup of tea and grab some lunch.
As she exited she pulled her father with her who was to wrapped up in watching the young couple to notice he was in the way.
During lunch, Luna sat across from her father talking about the article she had been working on when an owl came for her.
It was a letter from Draco, he had gone home with a bug from work and he was requesting a rescheduling of their dinner date. He also, knowing her so well, asked her not to come over in fear that she would catch the bug herself.
As if that would deter her.
She told her father what was going on then excused herself from their conversation to go and fix some chicken soup.
Once finished she packed it into her bag and bid her father goodbye as she stepped outside before apparating to Draco's walkway.
As she stepped up to the door there was another note with her name on it.
On the inside, in quickly scribbled handwriting, was Draco's second plea asking her to please return home, he was capable of sleeping it off on his own and it really was silly for her to risk getting it on his behalf.
Luna rolled her eyes at this.
Since when was he a seer.
Wadding up the note, she let herself into his house and sat her bag down on the counter.
When the door closed behind her she heard a groan.
"Go home Luna."
She made her way around to the living room finding Draco sprawled across the couch with a wet hand towel over his eyes and a warm blanket pulled up to his chin.
She sat on her knees beside him laying her hand on his chest.
"How are you feeling?"
He groaned again and Luna pouted a little at his misery.
She hated seeing him like this.
After seeing how terrible he looked she knew her soup wasn't quiet enough.
She scribbled down a note then used Draco's owl to send it off to it's recipient.
An hour passed with her fussing over Draco as he slept off his illness before a knock came to the door.
When she opened it, Ginny enveloped her in a hug.
"How is the big baby?" She asked looking over at him asleep on the couch.
"Oh he really doesn't seem to be doing very well." She tisked looking down at him.
Ginny snickered and Luna smacked her in the arm playfully.
"Don't make me cough on you Potty." He teased her, cracking open an eye.
Luna rolled her eyes at the nickname, but she saw Ginny smiling at the setup.
"Even a ferret wouldn't get a pregnant lady sick on purpose." She stuck out her tongue at him.
Luna smiled brightly at her friend remembering the news she and Harry had shared at their last dinner together.
"Don't overestimate me when I'm sick." At that he rolled over away from them turning his face towards the back of the couch.
Luna knew he wouldn't really want to get Ginny sick in her situation and he was trying to keep his germs away from her.
"Men are such babies when they get sick." She rolled her eyes. "You should see Harry with a cold. I have a feeling childbirth will be easier than listening to that whining." They both laughed at that and Draco flipped them off from his position with his back to them.
they walked into his kitchen and Ginny pulled a tiny bag out of her purse. After casting a spell it grew to the size of a normal grocery bag and she began to pull out two bowls.
"Mom said broth for now, and chicken soup later when he can handle solids." She handed the two bowls to her indicating which was which before setting them down on the counter.
They stayed in the kitchen gossiping and catching up, as they always did when they were together.
An hour or so passed and Luna decided it was time to try and get Draco to eat something.
After seeing Ginny off she fixed a bowl of the broth and stepped back into the living room sitting down on the floor beside the couch. Draco peeked over his shoulder then turned his back to her again. "I'm not hungry Luna." He grumbled.
"Stop being a baby, you need to keep your strength up. Now here eat this."
She pulled on his shoulder trying to get him to roll towards her but he was refusing.
"Draco, stop being difficult." She groaned.
"I'm. Not. Hungry." He snapped.
Luna withdrew her hand and huffed.
He was just grumpy because he didn't feel well.
She took his towel he had over his eyes, and when he reached up in protest she patted his hand away. "I'm just going to freshen it up." She snapped.
"This illness has you infested with wrackspurts. They love sick people, makes them to weak to fight off the infestation."
Draco rolled over to face her this time looking up at the woman he cared about more than anyone else and he began to chuckle. "Those damn wrackspurts." He teased, all tension gone from the situation.
Luna smiled. She knew he didn't believe in her creatures, but he always went along with the things she said anyways. It's one of the many reasons she liked him so much.
While she was refreshing his towel with some cool water he sat up drinking a little of the both she had brought him to appease her.
It was actually really wonderful.
One thing about the weasels mom, she could cook circles around anyone else.
When Luna returned she took the empty bowl and set it aside laying Draco back and putting the cool towel over his forehead.
He sat watching her make herself busy around his house cleaning and rearranging until he fell asleep.
Much later that night he woke up with a hard body pressed back into his. At some point Luna had laid down beside him on the couch and fallen asleep. He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her into his chest.
How did he deserve someone like this.
She took her entire day away from her writing to take care of him while he was ill.
She had cleaned his house, gotten him soup, taken care of his needs.
Draco inhaled deeply as he buried his face into her neck.
She was so sweet even her skin smelled like candy.
He placed small kissed on the back of her neck as he continued thinking about the attributes of the woman in his arms.
He really should tell her how much he...
the thought left him as his eyes got big.
Oh Merlin. Did he really just think that?
Wait, wait. Calm down.
Every time he had had a thought thus far in their relationship that scared him Luna had ended up having to draw it out of him.
He wasn't going to let her get the upper hand this time.
He knew how he felt and there was no reason that it should scare him.
They were in a committed relationship. She was a wonderful witch with amazing attributes.
It's only natural that someone would fall in love with someone like that.
Hell how hadn't someone already?
Well technically he had, he just needed to tell her.
He was going to tell her dammit!
He looked down to her sleeping form and paused.
Tomorrow.
He would tell her tomorrow.
He wasn't stalling he reassured himself. He just didn't want to still be sick.
He wanted to be able to hold her and kiss her and not give her a stomach bug as he did so.
Tomorrow it was.
Tomorrow he would tell Luna Lovegood that he lo-
His thoughts were interrupted when Luna rolled over in her sleep nuzzling into his chest. She inhaled his scent then smiled lazily.
"I love you." She mummered still happily unconscious.
Well fuck.
-A/N- Lol poor Draco just can't beat Luna to anything. *shruggs* Don't worry he will get there eventually. Anyhow! Like and review if you wanna :) Will edit in a few hours sorry if there are any mistakes at the moment. As always, with lots of love, -Laken
