"Luna... you know how we've been dating since before Christmas?" Draco whispered against my neck as we sat at our bench. It was almost Easter and we would be apart for Spring Break and I really didn't want to be.
"Yeah." I nodded to him turning my face until we were looking at each other.
"And you know how we are going to be away for a week..." He stopped and waited for me to nod. "I don't think I can be away from you that long. You truly are a witch love. Cast a spell on me." He whispered leaning in and giving my a small peck. "You're father still won't want me around. I won't subject you the sneers my father might give you... but what about if we go to my mothers estate for a day? Just one." He said and I looked over his face and smiled wide.
"Just us?" I asked and he smiled.
"I wish. If I go Alana will want to come... which means Blaise will come." He said and I smiled wider. "And why do I get the feeling that you don't mind that one little bit." He laughed lightly and kissed my cheek.
"You're cousin, my best friend... she has to come." I declared and he nodded to me.
"Just have to get your father on board." He told me and I smiled.
"Well... maybe I can tweak the truth and say that I am going out with Alana." I suggested and he raised an eyebrow at me.
"I have corrupted you haven't I? I really am a bad influence." He chuckled when I blushed and turned my head away. "It's alright love... everyone loves a rebel." He kissed my cheek and when I giggled at him he moved down to my neck and nibbled making my squeal and pull away. He continued his tickling with his lips and kept a tight hold on me as I tried to get away.
"Now Draco... what have I told you about affairs in public." That voice was a different splash of cold water. Draco had tried to stand up right away at his fathers voice but caught me and helped me stand before I rolled off the bench. We turned back and saw Snape with Mr. Malfoy and I just took a deep breath.
"Ms. Lovegood, I suggest you head into the castle." Professor Snape nodded to me and I looked over to Draco who nodded as well. He didn't kiss me goodbye but I knew that doing anything in front of his father would just cause more stress for him.
I looked back when I got closer to the castle and saw his father shouting and Draco just standing there not saying anything. Professor Snape eventually stepped in and things seemed to calm down so I went back to the common room to wait. It was a Sunday so while Alana and Blaise were out Draco and I were having a lazy day.
I waited on the seat in the common room looking and waiting for the door to open. I was drifting off into a nap when I heard the door open and footsteps come closer. "Luna... come on. Lay with me." Draco was here. I opened my eyes slightly and smiled before moving to the big couch to lay with him. He rubbed up and down my beck as I started to fall back asleep.
I woke up to him playing with my hair, still wide awake. "How are you?" I asked knowing he hated it when he father came here.
"I am just fine." He lied and I ran my fingers up and over his nose before petting it slightly. I sat up and nudged him until he was laying in my lay and I was playing with his hair. Unlike mine, his was soft and silky. And I could run my fingers though it without trouble. He liked it when I did this.
"Do you think we can still have that day at your mum's estate?" I asked and he smiled up at me and nodded.
"Like I said. It's mums estate. My father doesn't rule over it." He was happy about that. No sadness leaked into his voice and I ran my fingers back through his hair over and over again letting his head rest and his eyes close.
"Draco?" I whispered when he took a deep breath before yawning.
"Yes love?"
"What do you want to be when you graduate?" I asked and he opened his eyes and seemed to think about it. Not looking at me he shrugged before sighing.
"Father wants me to join the family business. But it doesn't really appeal to me." He said and I wanted to ask what the family business was, but that would bring up his father... and he just had a lashing argument with him. So I just tilted my head.
"I think you would work wonders as a healer." I suggested and he smiled.
"Not an Auror?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"I've heard rumors that is what Harry Potter wants to do. I don't reckon that you two on the same team would get much done. You both would just try and make the other look bad. And I am not saying it would only be you. No, he would want you to fail at any means necessary too." I stopped his thought process when he seemed to narrow his eyes in accusation.
"True... plus that is just too much traveling. I hate having to find common ground in new places." He sighed and went back to closing his eyes and let me run my fingers through his hair. "A healer? Why?" He asked after a moment and his eyes popped out and watched me.
"You're terrific at potions. You're smart. You would be able to solve a counter jinx in minutes if need be." I said knowing how him and Blaise had been studying now that Snape was Defense Against The Dark Arts.
"I don't know... maybe I should be a potions teacher." He laughed and I smiled again and looked up as my fingers put him to sleep on my lap. Daydreaming about a life where Draco and I would teach here... but that wouldn't do.
I would rather be the one exploring the new animals. I would love to prove all the Ravenclaw wrong in my efforts to prove that I am not crazy, or Barmy, or loony. I want to show Hermione as well as all the others who ever teased me that things exist. I mean Hermione herself was a muggle born. She had no idea about magic before she was invited to attend Hogwarts, and she took this opportunity in stride. How can a person with her past and her history think that something doesn't exist when the first 10 or so years for her, didn't involve magic.
I didn't realize how long he had been napping and I had been daydreaming about my discoveries... and a life with Draco and our wedding and kids... but Pansy came in without making a noise and then yanked some of my hair and whispering an 'oops' before cackling her usual loud annoying laugh as she trotted up stairs.
"Can I hex her?" Draco muttered turning in to snuggle deeper into my lap. One arm snaked around my waist and held me closer. I smiled and went through the back of his hand and then leaned over to kiss his cheek.
"No." I smiled when he groaned and leaned back.
"What time is it?" He asked and I looked around before seeing the clock.
"Time to do some studying before dinner." I told him and he arched so he could see the clock before sighing.
"Okay, let's get our stuff and get it done. Alana and Blaise should be back soon. They better be anyways." Draco hissed under his breath and I smiled and rubbed his arm.
"She is allowed to have fun just like I am. If you keep saying what she isn't allowed to do, I will assume that I am not either. And then you won't do them." I tsked and he gave me a shocked look as I went up the to my room. I grabbed my bag and then trotted down stairs when I heard someone shouting at someone else to just leave them alone.
That someone was Alana, and she was shouting at Blaise. I stood at the base of the steps as she turned and pushed him from trying to get her to turn around and talk to him. She smacked him so loud I was sure the whole castle heard the crack.
"Alana please. She was lying!" He pleaded and she just turned, saw me, panicked and then rushed past me and up the stairs before I heard our thick door slam shut.
"What was that?" I asked moving closer and he sighed.
"Pansy! She had the nerve to tell Alana that I made a move on her while she was out, after Draco casted her aside. She told her that we had hooked up and that Alana was the prize for her. She lied! She said all of that and something else that Alana won't tell me! And she had the nerve to say it without me being there to shut her up! I had to chase Alana out of the bathroom and then to the castle!" He shouted, so loud that I knew Draco was hearing him. There was a small crowd now on both staircases, and Draco was pushing through the boys with his bag in hand.
"Where is my cousin?" Draco asked very slow, very scary, and I moved forward and rubbed his arm.
"She's in our room." I told him when he looked over his shoulder at me.
"And Pansy?" He asked looking back towards the stairs for the girls side.
She was right front and center looking mighty proud of herself. "Oh come on Draco... you know that if she can't take a little competition she shouldn't be playing the game. I mean just look at Luna. She's still scared you would tell her off if she told you anyone was picking on her... she won't even tell you what I've done." She sniggered loudly and leaned against the wall.
"You think..." Blaise laughed behind us making us all turn to him. "You think you are any ones competition? No one would like you if you weren't who you are Parkinson! You're laugh is the reason that most men talk to you once and then walk away. Do you realize you sound like a squawking baby hippogriff? Who would want to hear that every time you made them laugh. And you know what... if Alana really does believe, even for a second that I would ever be with you, then she thinks lower of me than anyone else has in my life. And Draco... you know that we are friends, allies, but your cousin isn't for me. If she believes that... then she isn't the person I thought she was." Blaise laughed sardonically, yet he sounded so hallow when he said he piece. He then walked past Draco, past the younger kids, his peers, and then up to his own room.
"I do not sound like a baby hippogriff." Pansy muttered before turning back and walking up the stairs like that was some huge point and she won the argument.
"Can I hex her now?" Draco asked just after she was out of sight.
"No... you are going to go and relax. Do not go after Blaise. He needs time. He is hurt just as much as Alana is. I can't believe she fell for Pansy's lie either." I told him with a sigh and he took a moment before nodding. "I will go talk to her." I told him when he looked up towards our room.
"Be quick. You told me on Thursday that you needed help on that charms paper." He told me and I nodded. I gave him a kiss and then went up, passing a few people on the stairs before opening my door.
Alana was on the far bed... sulking as she laid down and facing the windows.
"You know... if you wanted the window bed, you didn't have to cry on my pillows to get it." I whispered getting closer when I heard her sniffle.
"He went out with that hag." She muttered and I smiled at her and shook my head.
"You seriously believe Pansy? The girl who tried to make Draco feel bad for taking me out on the first date? The one who tried to tell me off in front of you? The one that tried to marry Draco before they are either of age?" I laughed lightly and she sniffled and closed her eyes before nodding.
"She told me what he did. How he made a move. How he gave her a good night kiss. And that was how he kissed me goodnight." She whimpered and I moved in and hugged her and let her cry into my hair. I would need a shower but she was going to be okay. Especially after I get to the bottom of it.
"Did it ever occur to you that maybe she was watching you guys after your first date?" I asked and she stopped but didn't say anything. "What did he do?" I asked and she rolled to her back, tilted her head up and snorted her stuffy nose back making me gag slightly and then she groaned.
"He held my hand all the way up the clock tower... told me to memorize the time. 7:14pm." She laughed helplessly and then closed her eyes. "I asked why I needed to remember it and he moved in, holding me from the back and whispered in my ear... so only I would hear, no matter who might have been spying... that it was the time that I had changed his life. The exact time he wanted it to be for the rest of our lives together." She then gave a laugh after a moment. "I am pretty pathetic if that worked." She sighed and I blinked. It was kind of hard to see where they were both coming from. Obviously, the way Blaise reacted he didn't go out with Pansy. Yet how Alana is telling me, she could not of heard him unless someone, meaning Blaise, told him those same words.
Obviously there was a whole other side of the story to hear. And maybe... just maybe Draco would be able to hex Pansy. Just once.