Chapter 24: Lonely Luna
Luna was watching the television set with Dean, they were watching a show called "Voyager" it was rather interesting.
"So B'Elanna is rather short tempered because she's a bit different from the others?" asked Luna.
"Yer she's a half Klingon, there a lot more aggressive than humans by nature" answered Dean.
"Oh I thought it might have been because everyone making fun of those ridges on her forehead, I know I not be happy if people made fun of them and people would you know" Luna pointed out while practising a levitation charm on a cushion.
"..I never though about it that way, probably both reasons working on at same time." Said dean thoughtfully
The program was at that point interrupted by what Luna had since learned was the news. It was very bad news too.
"Breaking news, a London based shopping centre today was attacked by terrorists, through some unreliable eyewitness claim it was covered in ice before falling part.." the television set showed a shopping centre, the local one, the one Harry had gone too a hour before…
"Luna, you ok…?" asked Dean, Luna was shaking; Luna was shaking bad, very bad indeed. Her wonderful caring and kind songbird had been in that building. The one who loved her, the one who protected her, helped her, trusted her and made her happy and he was in that building of dead people.
"Oh god… Harry was in there!" Said Dean as he rushed off.
Time seem to pass so slowly for Luna as she sat in the living room, every second was a memory of his smile, his touch, his silly tendency to lose his temper when people called her loony and the way he held her so tightly…
"Luna, keep here ok, we alerted the aururs and Tonks is going to get him…" It was Hermione's voice.
That day was the longest in Luna's life and one of the most painful to endure. Nothing but waiting and crying filled it and her so very busy head would not stop thinking so very painful thoughts..
It was a new day, but Luna had not slept that night, her bed was missing a vital component and that was her love Harry and without him close by, Luna dreams would not come. Luna eventually heard a knocking at the door.
"Luna, he's in St Mungos, he's alive, if a badly hurt." Said Hermione in a soft voice that reminded her of Harry's caring tones, it was no wonder they acted like siblings around each other. "Were going there now"
Luna jumped out the bed with a start and threw on her muggle cloths, those nice ones her songbird Harry had helped her pick and with that thought ,the tears started to flow once again.
They got to the hospital with little hassle, Hermione had taken over and Ronald was there too. Luna walked as fast as she could to the private room which held her Harry with trepidation. He was laying there on the bed, fast asleep. So very fast asleep, with no chance of waking up soon and possibly no chance at waking at all.
Luna ran over to him and fell to her knees, her head dropping onto his chest to hear a most important sound to her, the beat of his heart.
Beat... beat… beat.
It was slower, but steady, Luna let herself smile slightly. He wasn't going to see his parents any time soon.
"Going to stay here till your ok again my phoenix prince, oh I love you always by the way" She said, trying to sound as normal as possible for his sake, while she held his hand softly.
Luna sat at a chair by his side, Hermione and Ron popped by now and again, sometimes talking in his ear, sometimes talking with Luna about DA matters.
Luna really wished Harry do something other than lay there; she even like him to do something silly and brave rather than just lay there and as the days went by it only got worse.
It was nearly as bad as the day mum died, she thought as she reminisced
"Luna, my sweetie" Said her mum as she placed a strange black box with a key hole on the table. "I need you to keep far back, because this could be very dangerous" Luna did as she was told, mum always knew best.
Her mum then poked the black boxes keyhole with her wand and then simply fell over.
"Mum?" Luna asked as she walked over and taped her mums arm. She kept tapping "mum wake up please"
"Daddy!" Luna shouted at the top of her small voice "Mum poked a box and fell over asleep!" her dad quickly ran down the stairs.
"Diana!" he put her head to her chest, then cried her name again and again, quieter each time over the dead body of Diana Lovegood.
A terrible screaming started and Luna woke up, grabbing her wand from behind her ear, it was shimmered slightly silver which was rather odd, but otherwise seemed itself, which was good because screaming was never a good sign and a wand was very useful when things were dangerous.
Cho then ran into the room with a rather panicky expression, like she just seen a crumple-horned snorkack lose its temper, they were rather large and horned after all.
"Luna!" shouted Cho rather loudly, briefly glancing at Luna's wand "Do the whole bringer thing like Harry, because I'm pretty sure Victors not human!"
"Oh me?" Luna spoke calmly.
"No the other Bringer running around St Mungos!" shouted Cho "Because I'm sure there's someone else in the building who can deal with magic immunes demons men who's kissing every girl in the building and turning them into wailing maidens!"
Interesting thought Luna, war or death must be about too, through the song had suggested they were not very plesent.
"So is it war or death do you think?" Luna asked politely, Cho's jaw dropped.
"There not here, there only you Loony and Harry is well out of it, you have to call the cane Serenity I guess from how Harry does his thing and what that Torgongig said" her voice was scared and serious, she was looking at Luna like her life was in Luna's hands now…
It was up to her. Luna Lovegood, the angel of mercy to save everyone. She bit her lip and the slight touch of panic touched her, it was up to her and her alone and there was no Harry. She ran out the door and down the corridor, she found Viktor Krum surrounded by several screaming girls in an otherwise deserted corridor.
"Ahh miss Lovegood I assume?" said Viktor in a voice without his normal accent, come to think of it sounded like she understood what he was saying without knowing what he was speaking, which was rather odd.
"And angel of mercy too" she said with a serous tone. Viktor looked at her with surprise then laughted.
"I have heard of the Bringer of peace and your not her" he started with a smirk "she has both beauty and authority... you have none. She can see things before they happen… you can hardly see what's going off in front of you. She is a creature that can break minds and mend hearts… and you are a girl with a broken mind and who's heart will soon be as broken when your lover dies..."
Luna felt a feeling fill her, a feeling that she had last felt when her songbird had been threatened by a dementor.
Not a rage exactly, not a fury, more a feeling that enough was very much enough.
"Serenity, come to me please" she said in a controlled and icy tone but nothing happened, Viktor laughed strangely.
"Like I said, your no Bringer , in fact I think its time you joined my little group of singers, for I am Hawkustra and you are mine now.." he said just before rushing her and locking his lips with hers.
Harry's kisses never brought her pain; Hawkustra's set every nerve in her body to agony.
Luna screamed as her vision went to red.