AN: I do not own the Harry Potter universe. I am simply borrowing it for a fic. Enjoy!

Chapter 9

It was break and Luna found herself being dragged to the Ravenclaw common room by her friends. Once there she was pulled up the stairs into the dormitories. "Why didn't you tell us?!" Demanded Ginny. Luna frowned, what was her friend talking about?

"What?" She asked.

"You and Draco! Don't play dumb!" Luna had to suppress a smile. Although Luna could tell Ginny was being serious about whatever she was talking about she couldn't help but be amused by how flustered her friend was.

"I'm not playing dumb," She said gently, "I asked Draco about why everyone was talking about the both of us and he said it was just rumours. I still don't know what everyone was talking about though."

"Rumours?!" Cho exclaimed. "I don't think they're rumours if he kissed you in the middle of class!"

"What are these rumours?" Luna asked.

Cho rolled her eyes as Ginny begun pacing, "The 'rumours' are that you and Draco are a couple. Or at least 'together' in some way." Luna laughed, that was all?!

"We're not." Luna said with a chuckle.

"Why did you say the other night that you 'did it' on the train?!"

"What?" Luna asked laughing, "Where did you get that from?"

"You said it when that girl Poppy asked."

"I said that we were together on the train, not that we were 'doing it'." Luna said mimicking her friend.

"Where did the rumours come from then?" Ginny asked, her eyebrows raised.

"There's no smoke without fire." Cho said agreeing with a sagely frown. Luna simply shrugged.

"I want to get some food before break ends."

"Let's go." Ginny frowned. "We're going to talk about this later."

It was time for the tutoring session. Luna was planning on asking Draco where the rumours had come from. Cho was probably right. There was no smoke without fire. Well unless it was a dragon that was struggling- "Lovegood." Came a hissed whisper from behind her. She turned around to find Draco in a shadowy corridor, illuminated a soft blue by the moonlight that came through the window. She tiptoed over seeing that this was meant to be a private discussion.

"What?" She whispered.

"I wanted to talk about today's Charms lesson." Luna wondered if her questions would be answered before she had to ask them. "Listen. I'm sorry if I caught you of guard or anything-"

"Well, you did but I didn't mind," She interrupted.


Draco frowned at her complacency with the situation and carried on, trying not to sound perturbed. "I want- need us to do that again." He saw Luna's eyes widen and hoped he hadn't scared her with his forwardness. But they were going to have to do it again if he was to keep up the act of them being together. Making Pansy jealous had given him a strange satisfaction. "Look we need to keep this up- well that's if you want to." He took a deep breath. He was going to deliver his final request. "From now on- if you agree with this- we are a 'couple'. Okay?" He said with finger speech marks. Luna looked like she wasn't paying attention but before Draco got too worried she nodded. Brilliant, he thought, everything's going to plan. "Let's go."

Pansy and Lucian hadn't arrived yet and Draco was glad. He didn't want to act like he was with Luna Lovegood for as long as was possible. But eventually they arrived and Draco quickly moved from his side of the table to Luna's side and put his arm around her waist. He avoided her surprised look and looked up to pretend he had just seen Pansy and Lucian. He saw Pansy's eyes flick to the arm he had draped around Luna's waist and tried not to laugh at her infuriated look. He jerked his arm away from Luna as if he was trying to keep what they were doing under wraps and looked down at his feet pretending to be embarrassed. This only seemed to further infuriate Pansy and Draco tried not to let his inner emotions show. After what seemed like a tense ten minutes but was actually a moment of two the silent exchange was over.

The tutoring session was nearly over and it had gone exactly the way he had wanted it to. Whilst making the potion he kept sneaking in little touches that were 'more than friendly' and he knew that Pansy had noticed them. They had just bottled up the potion and had put it on Professor Snape's desk. He walked out of the dungeons with Luna beside him and his ex and Bole behind him. When they made it to the end of the echoey corridor he whispered, "Bye Luna." He was just about to turn away when he felt a hand on his arm. Draco looked at Luna questioningly and was about to ask her what she wanted when she leant towards him and caught his lips with her own.


Luna saw that Draco was about to turn away when the idea struck her. If they were a couple now then she wanted to test their 'chemistry'. Ginny and Cho were always talking about a spark lovers had and she wanted to see if her and Draco had one. Leaning forwards she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. His lips were soft yet firm and became firmer still when he deepened the kiss. She stumbled a little as he pushed her backwards so she had her back against the wall. He had one hand deeply rooted in her hair and the other trapped between her back and the wall. Luna heard a gasp from Draco as she traced small circles on the back of his neck. She finally felt him pull away and panting, looked up at him. She saw a mixture of emotions in his eyes but the predominant one- well there was no predominant one. It was a mixture of what seemed like shock and smugness paired with desire and hunger. Well if she had to choose shock would be the predominant one.