The quiet engulfed the ballroom. No one spoke, no one dared clap as the scowling Pansy Parkinson made her slow waltz up to the front of the room. Draco and Theo were practically out of their seats trying to see what she would do.

Expecting the worst, Draco scanned the room quickly for any sign of Lovegood, knowing that Pansy might just as well throw her under the bus in all her rage. When Draco had got her the wrong bracelet for Christmas fifth year, Pansy threw it into the fire, slapped him across the face, and then proceeded to yell at him in front of the whole common room. She had a tendency to be dramatic.

Luna, on the other hand, was nothing but normal. She practically skipped up to the front and smiled in that lofty way of hers. Her orange skirts engulfed her waist, her long blonde hair tied up in braids. She looked pretty in an odd sort of way as she stood waiting for Pansy.

The Wizengamot and Ministry members clapped despite their confusion again but no one in the crowd joined them. There was an eerie tension building and Hermione felt the hair on her neck stand up.

"What's going on?" Ginny whispered to no one in particular, her eyes fixed on the goblet and Wimberly and Luna standing there beaming. Harry made a grimace at the whole of it.

"I- I'm not sure what to think," Hermione managed, her voice equally as low. It seemed no one wanted to be the one to really break the quiet of the room.

"Called it," Theo said then, taking a sip. "Lovegood, that is. As for Pans, well…" he averts his eyes from Draco.

"Didn't you like, date her?" Ron asked Draco, his grin wide and mocking.

Draco rolled his eyes. "Yes, but back then she'd been quite satisfied with my cock, so this is news to me," and with that everyone at the table looked at him.

"Well, yours and several other Slytherins, one Ravenclaw, that keeper from the Banchory Bangers, that Durmstrang bloke too..." Theo listed before Draco slugged him in the shoulder. Theo smirked and rubbed his arm.

While Draco was glad to be done with her, he hated being reminded of the many times in that relationship when infidelity struck. Which for Pansy, was any time Draco was supposedly being a prat or she felt like taking a vacation and he wasn't with her.

"Crass," Hermione scolded with a look of disgust at Draco before looking away. Hermione knew it was kind of stupid to get upset over the past, but it was almost as if she couldn't help it.

Pansy always made her angry and then there was Draco's history with her. It made the magic in her veins angry. She watched as Pansy walked up to the front, slowly slinking and eying multiple people on her way up. She was eating up the attention.

Draco held up his hands in defense while Ron put a large hand over his mouth to cover his laughter. "It's not like I went into detail or anything-" Draco began, saying it mostly to Hermione. She wasn't listening. He could feel the surge of anger she was giving off.

"Oh shut it," Theo said, "Merlin knows I've heard all too much detail about your sex life and I've never asked." Draco scoffed, not seeing Hermione roll her eyes in his direction.

Hermione surely wasn't ready to think about sex with Malfoy, even if they were now man and wife.

Taking his seat, Draco turned to face the crowd and crossed his arms. He had no interest in hearing the rest of the conversation. It bugged him thinking Pansy had cheated on him with a bunch of other guys, but had she been into girls too? How could he be so foolish?

Alas, some part of him knew he had this coming, that this is what he got for being young, dumb, and having his first love a death eater's daughter. The ring on his finger felt suddenly hot and he glanced down at it annoyed and wondering why he was getting so worked up over Pansy of all people.

Daphne, who had a small smile on her face, couldn't stop a chuckle from escaping her lips at all of it. "What?" Ron asked her then, still laughing.

"Oh it's just," she laughed, "It's funny. Theo wasn't wrong, Pansy sure did get around to all the lads, but it appears he didn't have any idea about the ladies," she mentioned and all the boys' mouths dropped open. Draco blinked, disbelieving. That lying bitch, Draco thought to himself.

Ron looked interested, his face reddening. Cormac could read his mind and was about to stop Ron from asking, but it was too late. "So were you um-" he started but Daphne stopped him.

"Oh Merlin no! Not that there's anything wrong with that," she said quickly, hoping no one would take offense. She glanced at Theo, "but I did walk in on her once..."

Harry looked uncomfortable. Ginny watched Hermione who was trying not to appear irritated by the whole conversation. Theo and Ron were still interested, their eyebrows raised. "With who?" Theo asked eagerly, but at that moment, Pansy had finally made it to the front of the room.

Pansy had stepped up so she was right in front of Luna now. The whole room seemed to hold their breath. Pansy was taller than Luna by quite a few inches but the heels she wore made her tower over the blonde. She looked like she was about to devour her for dinner, but Luna's gentle smile remained. What if Pansy lost it right then and there?

Something shifted in Hermione's periphery and she saw several golden robed witches moving about. The tension in the room felt suddenly stronger. Something felt off.

It was Luna who spoke first. "I've always found you quite fascinating," she said in her usual light voice and to that Pansy let out a howl.

"I've always found you quite fucking strange," she spoke, her voice harsh, "but I guess I'll have to get used to strange."

Suddenly, the tension felt broken and it wasn't just the anticipation of the pairing in front of them. The wards and spells keeping them safe broke in, a shuttering wave of magic shifting through the room. The golden robed witches and wizards had moved about the room, placing themselves almost strategically blocking exits, their wands brandished.

Panicked voices broke out in the crowd of panic, while the rest of the golden robed witches and wizards started crowding around, keeping everyone in their places. Hermione grabbed her own wand from its holster and held it at the ready, hoping the wards breaking meant their ability to do magic was back.

Ginny grabbed Harry's free hand and Hermione felt someone grab hold of her own. When she realized it was Draco, she almost let go but the magic in her veins twisted and she somehow felt like it would be bad if she lost him amongst the chaos.

"Will you stop acting so surprised-" he had started to say to her as a window above them crashed open.

A black cloud of smoke went zooming through the room before landing on the balcony overlooking the ceremony, a witch materializing out of it. Hermione felt her heart drop, the color in her left. It reminded her horribly of Bellatrix.

Someone near them gasped, another person screamed. Several windows near the witch crashed open as two, three, four new individuals appeared beside her. Her black nails grabbed the banister in front of her as she let out a disgusted scream. "How the hell did this happen!" She screamed again in utter irritation. "We had a DEAL Minister!"

The crowd gaped. The woman didn't have her wand out but the man next to her did, who looked equally as angry. His black hair was combed neatly and he wore an expensive looking set of robes, a small, straight mustache across his lip twitching. The woman whipped her black hair off her shoulders revealing her pointed pug face that her daughter so obviously resembled.

"Of fucking course," was all Pansy managed to say as she yanked Luna's hand into her own and ran.