Believe in Heaven
Chapter 7

Luna woke up a long time later lying on a bed. She looked around and could quickly tell she was at the infirmary. She lifted her shirt and saw that her ribs were perfectly fine. Madam Pomfrey certainly took care of her.

"Oh, dear, you're awake already." Madam Pomfrey exclaimed, hurrying to the girl's bed. She touched her forehead and then smiled. "Your ok. The only way of telling what happened last night is this tiny cut on your chin."

"Great!" Luna said, smiling.

"Now... Mr. Malfoy, the one who brought you, is standing outside since yesterday. He wanted to stay here, but I didn't let him in. I wasn't sure if most students would like to be visited by him... you know what I mean. The boy doesn't have a very good reputation, eh?" Madam Pomfrey giggled a little.

"I would be glad to be visited by him, actually. He's my only visitor afterall, isn't he?" Luna asked, shaking her head.

"I'll send him in." Madam Pomfrey said, leaving the room.

So he stayed to whole night there? Now that was something weird to Luna. And moments later Draco was entering the room and sitting beside her on the bed. He didn't say anything, though.

"Hi..." Luna greeted him, smiling.

"Are you ok?" he asked quickly.

"Yes... I'm fine." she answered. "Hmm... do you have any idea how they found out?"

"Someone must have told them. But that's nothing to worry about. They've been taken care of." Draco said, shaking his head to take some blond hair of his eyes.

Both Draco and Luna remained in silence for a long time, until when Luna took a deep breath and smiled.

"Thank you." she said.

"What?"

"Thank you for helping me. I know that, by now, the whole school knows what happened... and they might be creating crazy stories of why you saved me. And you'll sure want to avoid me more than usual." Luna looked down to her lap. "And I wouldn't have the chance to thank you then. So I'm saying it right now."

"I'm not going to avoid you." Draco said and got to his feet.

"Huh?" Luna looked up to him.

"I said... I'm not going to avoid you. They would find out about this sooner or later. We just have to make this more real, so they won't think it was all arranged by my father." Draco turned to leave when a girly voice started repeating Luna's name many times. The door of the infirmary opened and Ginny entered running.

"Luna!!! They said you were attacked! And Malfoy saved you!!! And he was here with you and, and, and... that's not true..." she stopped beside Luna when she noticed Draco standing on the other side. He waved to her. "I-Is it?"

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That night Luna had already left the infirmary. She was walking fast to the Ravenclaw common room, still a little afraid of what she could meet on the corridors. When she was turning the left to the last corridor someone called her name. A female voice. Luna turned around and Pansy Parkinson was standing right behind her.

"Yes?" Luna asked politely.

"I want to talk to you." the slytherin said. Pansy pointed a finger to Luna. "It seems that nothing can make you see, Loony."

"See what?" Luna pretended not to know what she was talking about, but of course she knew. She knew very well that Pansy Parkinson was known as Draco's 'almost girlfriend'. Actually, Luna was quite surprised she hadn't come sooner talk to her.

"You think you're so great, don't you? You think you can steal my Draco-chan, don't you? DON'T YOU? But you know..." Pansy looked down, slightly laughed and looked up quickly with an evil grin on her face. "You can't. I won't let you!"

"I think you're not understanding, Pans-"

"Don't ever say my name! My name cannot be wasted like that. Especially not by someone like you." Pansy took her wand out of her pocket and pointed to Luna. "You know what they say..."

"Don't think of that!!" Luna took her own wand out of her pocket quickly.

"If you want something to be done right, do it yourself!!" Pansy grinned. "Ava-" (A/N: I'm not sure if Pansy would ever use that spell on anyone, but I just couldn't think of any other spell at the moment. And my books are so very far away... -.- Yes, I'm lazy.)

"Stupefy!" Luna shouted faster.

Pansy fell on the hard stone floor, unconscious. Luna took a deep breath and started running toward the Ravenclaw common room when someone held her arm. 'Damn!', Luna thought. 'How many more people have to stop me before I can get to the common room?'

Luna turned around and saw, as always, Draco. He always showed up on the worst moments.

"What are you doing here?" Luna asked.

"I came to see if you were ok and I found a /corpse/ on the corridors. I thought it might have something to do with you, so I just turned left and, surprise surprise!, I saw you." Draco let go of her arm and looked back at Pansy. "You stupefied her well. She might not wake up for a while."

"She tried to attack me." Luna said under her breath, as if she didn't want him to understand before asking a loud and surprised 'What?!?!'

"What?!?!" now Luna was ready to explain.

"She said I couldn't take you away from her and that sort of stuff." Luna said, shaking her head. "The usual."

Luna thought Draco would get mad and kick Pansy's 'corpse' for saying that 'Loony' was stealing him. But no, he laughed.

"You should get used to that from now on." he said.

"W-What?" Luna blinked quickly, trying to understand what he had just said. "You're saying to accept the fact that I'm your official fiancée..."

"Yes..."

"That will go with you to the initiation?"

"Yes..."

"That will be connected to your for the rest of your life?"

"Yes..."

"That will live close to you? that will grow old with you?"

"Yes..."

"That will die with you?"

"Yes..."

"That will have children with you?"

"No..."

"Ah,well. Life's not perfect." Luna sighed.

Luna heard footsteps coming from one of the corridors. She walked forward and hugged something soft and warm. What would happen if someone saw Pansy and... something soft and warm? Luna looked up and found herself hugging Draco.

"What? Are you afraid someone see the 'corpse'?" he asked, as if hugging someone who is the fiancé your father got for you when you're scared was the most natural thing in the world. "It's ok. I'll get us out of here."

Draco put his arm around Luna's waist and pressed her against the stone wall. The wall moved and they were thrown in a bottomless passage. They started falling very fast and, this time, Luna didn't even think of letting go of the Draco. He was the one who kept her from falling even faster.

Luna looked down and saw some light in the end of the 'abysm'. Draco noticed the same thing and pointed down his wand. A mini-tornado (A/N: I have no idea what do call this. Mmm... circular... wind... er... forget it.) surrounded both of them so they could 'land' safely.

"Enjoyed the ride?" he asked. Luna hit Draco's head with her wand.

"Moron!" Luna shouted. "Where are we anyway?"

"Ah, in the Slytherin common room." he said casually, opening a door on the left. "And this is my dorm. I used to share it with Crabbe and Goyle."

"Used to...?"

"Yeah. I kicked them out. They took their mattresses and went to someone else's." Draco walked into the dorm and stretched his arms.

"You're... mean." Luna laughed and followed him.

His dorm was a lot different from hers. It was like a normal room, but larger than usual. It was almost empty, with extra closets and beds. And that told Luna that Crabbe and Goyle moving to another room wasn't something very 'legal'

"Er... I think it's ok now to come back to my own dorm. Just show me where the exit is and I'll go." Luna said, faking a smile. In fact, she was feeling very uncomfortable there. The Slytherin's dungeons looked like cold, but they were quite warm. But they were definitely dark, and that bothered Luna. She didn't like dark places. They made her feel as if she was doing something wrong.

"Are you feeling uncomfortable or something?" Draco asked. Luna shook her head. "I know you are. Everyone that is not used to these rooms will feel this way. And especially you, that lost a lot of blood."

"No, I'm ok. Really." Luna answered, weakly. Her head slightly hurt. She wasn't fully recovered, and she hated to admit he was right.

But that's not all about your loss of blood." Draco said, walking toward her. He closed the door behind Luna. "It's about one of the mistakes of human kind. They associated dark with evil things, and light with good things. When, actually, nothing changes when the lights are turned off. It'll only change if you want them to change."

"A-Are you feeling philosophic or something?" Luna asked. Before Draco could answer she fainted. Draco held her in his arms.

"Ah... you should have just stayed with Madam Pomfrey."

Draco carried her to his bed and tried to lay her down but she was holding his robes with her hands. Draco sat on his bed and let her sleep in his arms. It was a very good feeling and he couldn't pretend it didn't.

She looked so peaceful and sweet when she slept. 'If someone saw her like that they would never guess how annoying she can be', he thought.

Draco lowered his head until he was close enough to her own face. He lowered a little bit more until their lips met. Her lips were sweet, like honey. He wondered if she ate something with honey or if she just tasted like that. Draco looked up quickly when she moved a little.

"Draco..." she murmured, still asleep, with a little smile.

"You annoy me so much..."
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A/N: Weekly updates! Hurrah!! \o/ Fluff! Hurrah!! \o/ Longer chapters! Hurrah!! \o/

Well, Believe in Heaven is almost over. Just two more chapters to go... I think. O.o;

The last one will be more like a prologue, but that's ok. ^.^

Soooo.... hold on just a little bit more!!! We're almost theeeeeere!!!!! \o\ \o/ /o/


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10/22/2003