Believe in Heaven
Chapter 8

Luna woke up in the next morning with a loud scream. She opened her eyes and found herself wrapped in Draco's arms. She looked to the door quickly, expecting something bad to happen. And sometimes Luna wished she could just be wrong.

Pansy was standing on the door pointing to them with an anger expression on her face.

"You!!" she shouted.

"Oh, no! It's not what you think!!" Luna quickly jumped of bed and looked toward Draco for some support. "I was... I..."

"So what if she was sleeping in my arms?" Draco questioned.

"WHAT?!" Luna exclaimed.

"Hah! I knew it! You two are dating, right? That's so very... GROSS!!" Pansy yelled, turning her back and leaving quickly faking some sobbing.

Luna looked to Draco and put her arms on her waist.

"You could've at least lied to her! You're good at that!" Luna complained, having the feeling tears were starting to form in her eyes. She turned her back quickly and ran.

Everyone was going to find out about Draco and she knew they would start saying bad things about her. Not that they already didn't, but it would even get worse!

Luna went back to the Ravenclaw. Wishing, more than ever, that she was wrong.

* * *

Later on that morning Luna found out her intuition was correct again.

"See? That's the one."



"That's the girl? DISGUSTING!"



"How could Draco ever go out with her?"



"Her hair!"



"Her eyes! Look! They're... EW!"

"What a bitch!"

"I heard they were caught together in bed!"

"They already did that? How vulgar!"

Luna walked past a huge group of girls from all houses. She tried to hide her face behind her hair, but it didn't work. She felt like falling on the floor and crying, but she could never give them what they wanted. Though, the tears kept coming until she couldn't hold them back. A tear rolled down her face. Luna didn't care whipping them away.

She looked down to her feet and sobbed. Luna felt her body slowly get heavier until her legs could barely hold the weight. She was ready to start running when someone put a hand on one side of her face and whipped her tears.

Luna looked up with her eyes widened. And she wasn't surprised to see the light blue eyes of the person she had fallen in love with. Draco smiled to her, for the first time since they had met.

"You're making things worse." Luna muttered, avoiding the glares of all the other students around them.

"I've made up my mind..." he rolled his eyes. "I don't care anymore. Heh. As if I had ever cared."

Draco lowered his head and started getting closer to her until their lips met. Luna started shaking uncontrollably. Had he just kissed her? Was she dreaming? No, that feeling couldn't be a dream. It was as if she was a part of him. All his feelings were also hers and their thoughts were the same: nothing. They couldn't think of anything, just each other. Even if just for a moment they were perfectly connected in a perfect bond.

When they parted from the kiss gasps could be heard everywhere. Of course it was a surprise! People like to spread rumors without really believing on them. But when a rumor is proved, even the one who started it is surprised.

Luna looked up to Draco, blushing. She tried to say something but she couldn't. She just closed her eyes and felt more tears rolling down her face. Luna hugged Draco tightly and cried on his chest. He hugged her as well, a little shocked with her action.

But it was all perfect. They were together, and everything else could go to hell.

* * *

Draco knew things weren't that easy, though. He received a letter from his father that afternoon and he didn't really expect good news.

Draco,

It's the perfect time. Everything is settled.

Come over for Christmas, and bring the girl with you.

The event will happen in the night before Christmas, when everything is prepared.

Lucius

He finished reading and, before he could put the letter into his pocket, Luna took it from his hands and read it herself.

"Well, well... they at least picked a nice date, right? The night before Christmas... I like it." Luna commented, sarcastically. "I can't wait to go!"

"We're not going." Draco said.

"I wish I could cheer and say 'Yeah! We're not going! Let's rebel!' but..." Luna handed back the letter to Draco.
"I think we must go."

"Why?"

"We're going to be together anyway, right? So, why making a mess with something so simple as 'being connected forever'. It was a problem before, but not now." Luna sighed, sitting beside Draco, resting her head on his shoulder.

"But then I'll be a Death Eater." he muttered so no one besides themselves could listen. "And that could put a lot of people in risk, especially you."

"So?" Luna asked.

"Could you stand being the wife of a... murderer?" Draco asked. Luna stared at him in disbelief.

"You mean you're really going to kill mudbloods, right?" she questioned.

"Not killing would be worse. I think that the Dark Lord would rather not have any servants instead of having servants that don't kill for him." he said, with a laugh.

"What do you mean? You're going to fight against him, is that it?" Luna asked, surprised.

"What I mean is, he would kill the one who's not his servant in a more gentle way."

"If that's so... then I guess I'll have to be the wife of a murderer." Luna said, hugging Draco. "But I think that the mudblood women are going to beg you to kill them. I mean, who wouldn't like to be killed by someone as handsome as you?" Luna asked, winking.

"Shut up."

* * *

And so three days before Christmas Draco and Luna met up with Draco's father himself waiting for them the Platform 9¾.

"What are you doing here? Coming among muggles, I mean." Draco questioned.

"It's a very important moment. And you know how many people out there are willing to kill semi-Death Eaters." Lucius explained. Draco opened his mouth to speak but Lucius had already turned his attention to the girl beside Draco.

He examined her from head to toe and then shrugged.

"That'll make it." he said, and turned his come to them. "Come."

When they finally arrived to the Malfoy's "house" Luna was quite surprised. She thought she would se a quite larger house, but no a manor like that one. It was all made of dark stones and Victorian windows, doors and furniture. It was all very clean but the manor itself was really dark. Only a few lights were on.

"No lights fits the mood of the family, don't you think?" Draco murmured to Luna. She just chuckled and looked away.

When the three got to a bigger room, which seemed like the main living room, Draco's mother was sitting in a arm chair, drinking tea. She smiled.

"Oh, she's here!" Narcissa greeted. "Come, let's have some tea and talk for a moment."

Luna glared at Draco with the corner of her eye. But before she could get any information of whether she should join Draco's mother or not, Luciu put a hand on his son's shoulder.

"We must talk too. Let's go, Draco." Lucius said, and the two of them left.

Luna walked timidly into the room and sat on a couch near the armchair were Narcissa was.

"So, Luna... that's your name, correct?" Narcissa asked. Luna nodded. "Have some tea."

Luna was about to get some tea for herself when a small elf handed a cup of tea. Luna blinked quickly and accepted. The elf left as quickly as it had appeared.

"Don't you have elves at your house?" Narcissa asked.

"We do have one. But she usually only cleans the house and... stuff." Luna thought it was better avoiding any sort of discussion. Especially about elves' rights and such.

"Oh... right." Narcissa cleaned her throat. "Well, I wanted to talk to you about the coming up event."

"The initiation?" Luna asked quickly.

"You should not speak about it that openly." Narcissa interfered. "But yes, that's the one. Because there's a whole tradition behind it, and we would appreciate if you could follow it. It's the first time a daughter of someone else who's not from the group participates."

"Oh... okay. It's all right to me." Luna answered simply. "That's all?"

"No... not really." Narcissa put her cup on the table in front of them. "I want to you avoid any other relationship with my son beside the one of this event."

"Excuse me?" Luna put her untouched cup on the table in front of her as well. "Why?"

"I have plans for my son, and they do not involve someone like you. You might like him, but he doesn't like you. He's only trying to make things easier, pretending to really like you. He does what we tell him to, that's all." Narcissa explained. "You're nothing more than an object to him."

"How dare you say such a thing!" Luna exclaimed, getting up.

"What? You don't like to be called an object, do you? Well, you should know that you're not even an object you're just a-"

"It's not about me!" Luna shouted. "This is about Draco! How DARE you say he's stupid? How DARE you pretend like you know everything about him? HOW-DARE-YOU?"

"You..." Narcissa got up herself. "Listen, you foolish girl. You're the one who knows nothing about him! He only pretended to like you to bring you to us! He obeys us unconditionally!"

Luna walked out of the room without another word. She closed the door softly and started walking to nowhere. Draco wouldn't do that do her, would he?


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A/N: You might have noticed I didn't update for a while... *cough* Sorry for that. ^^; I've been really busy with school. Over here in my country it's almost the end of the school year, not the beginning. So it's been a little hard for me to write anything at all. But don't worry!

I'm writing the next chapter right now and I'm really reconsidering a tenth chapter. I added something I didn't before, so it might get a little bit longer... we'll see. Maybe not... I'll try to squeeze everything in a longer last chapter. XP

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Well, I'd just like to tell Mr. Flamer: Thanks! I'm glad to know that I'm not loved my everyone. That really makes me happy. But, about your flame, this is a fanfic! I can create crazy plots whenever I want for no reason. It's not up to you to tell me if I should keep it like that or not. Besides, I'm not telling you to read anything you don't like. Just don't read and that's it. ^.-

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11/08/2003