Heey. Sorry about the really late update its just with my job i have very little spare time now. Hopefully you'll like this chapter so please review and I'll try to get the next one up for you as soon as possible.

Sitting in her office Luna was scribbling away on some parchment when the door to her office opened. Looking up from her notes her eyes widened in surprise as Ginny walked into the room. However, the look on Ginny's face told her that this wasn't going to be a pleasant surprise. Sitting up the blonde haired Healer gave the stormy red head her full attention.

Ginny looked at Luna and opened her mouth. But nothing came forth so she closed it while her frown deepened. She needed to know what Luna knew about Hermione's condition and for how long Luna had kept them all in the dark. She had already given Hermione a serious bollocking over the situation and she still had steam to blow off. So Luna, the only person she knew that had been in contact with Hermione all these years was her next target.

"Ginny is everything alright?" asked Luna as she stood up and approached the fuming Weasley, concern written across her face. Closing her eyes she released a sharp exhale before looking at Luna with a hardened look in her eyes.

"How long have you known that Hermione's dying Luna?" asked Ginny quietly. She could tell from the way Luna's jaw dropped and her eyes widened that she was right in her assumption that the blonde haired witch had known something.

"How did you…" Ginny scoffed, trying to ignore the tears that were forming in her eyes.

"Hermione told me. How could you not tell us Luna? You knew she was dying didn't you? And you sat there with us when we were going out of our minds with worry and you never said a word" The anger Ginny felt was blending with the hurt and slight betrayal she felt towards Luna, making her blind to Luna's guilt.

When Luna didn't respond to her accusations Ginny took the opportunity to rub her eyes with her fingers, hoping to hide her tears. She liked to consider herself a strong woman given all that had happened in her life what with the war and losing both friends and her older brother but this…it was simply asking too much of her.

"She asked me not to Ginny" pulling her hand away from face Ginny tried to rein in her temper but she was finding it difficult not to be angry with the former Ravenclaw.

"You should've told us Luna, how long has she been like this?"

"And what good would it have done Ginny? You don't understand anything that's been happening to her over the last few years" a groan of frustration escaped from the red head, she was getting so sick of people telling her she wouldn't understand.

"How could I possibly understand anything when no one tells me anything?!" she yelled.

An uncomfortable silence fell upon the room. The silence lasted for a few moments as both women collected themselves.

"I wanted to tell you" whispered Luna. Ginny remained silent.

"I just…I couldn't run the risk of telling all of you and Hermione finding out that I had told you. At the time she had pushed everyone away and I was afraid that if…if I told anyone then she would push me away from her…and she would end up dying much sooner than she was meant to without help" Swallowing the forming lump in throat Luna composed herself.

"She really didn't want us knowing" stated Ginny sullenly. It was a difficult thing to accept. That someone you had once been so close to, someone that you had pretty much idolized from a young age wanted to die without anyone knowing.

"I don't know why she pushed everyone away" whispered Luna. Ginny's thoughts immediately ran to the memory of Hermione's revelation of her and Fleur's relationship.

"Fleur" whispered Ginny. Noticing Luna's confused expression Ginny realized that she might have to elaborate.

"Hermione and Fleur were together during the war but something happened to them that caused Fleur to turn to Bill and well the rest you know…Fleur became pregnant and it broke Hermione's heart which led to her disappearing and pushing everyone away"

Realization dawned for Luna, the horrible sadness that always followed Hermione wherever she went, the tormented expression that flittered across her face whenever the Veela was mentioned in front of her and the horrible self-loathing she inflicted on herself. She was still, after all these years trying to fix her broken heart but she wasn't very good at it.

"Then she doesn't know that Fleur's little girl…" the red head shook her head as tears welled up in her bright blue eyes.

"I tried talking to her about it but she got so angry. I've never seen Hermione that angry before"

"She's been hurt by someone she cared for so in turn she has pushed everyone away to try and stop anyone else from hurting her" stated Luna thoughtfully. In all honesty it wasn't really that surprising when she thought about it that Hermione and Fleur had been together. She remembered quite distinctively how Fleur had broken down back in Shell Cottage all those years ago when Hermione had been rescued form Malfoy Manor but had sustained horrible injuries in the process.

Thinking hard on the memory she briefly remembered Fleur's mother mentioning something about Hermione being Fleur's mate. She had learnt a little about the tendencies of a Veela and she recalled something about them mating for life.

An epiphany hit her out of the blue; Hermione and Fleur were mates, life-long partners that had been separated due to unique circumstances. But to separate mates from one another…a lot was written about how when a creature's life-long mate perished the other would soon die of a broken heart.

That was what was happening to Hermione. The extended separation between herself and Fleur was badly affecting their health and that was why Hermione was….

"Ginny we need to go and see Fleur. Now" stated Luna as she turned and rushed towards her chair to get her jacket.

"Why? Luna what's going on?" asked the red head as the blonde rushed about her office, collecting her things.

"I'll explain it on the way, it's just a theory but if I can get more information from Fleur regarding the matter we might have a better chance at helping Hermione" stated Luna.

The blonde haired Healer could feel her stomach twisting as she continued to think on her theory. If she was right, that all Hermione needed was to be with Fleur again to become healthy once more then that would mean that any chance she had at being with the beautiful brunette would be dashed.

Shaking away her thoughts she knew her feeling were irrelevant now. If this was the only chance there was at making Hermione healthy again then she certainly wasn't going to stand in the way of that.

"Let's go" said Luna as she walked out of her office quickly followed by Ginny. They were not going to lose Hermione. Not if she could help it.