Conspiracies and Delusions

Luna clenched her teeth, despite the fact that airstream gnawed at her from every position. Luna draped her arms across her chest even firmer as the rapidity increased. Closing her eyes, she waited for the last part.

Solid ground vibrated through her body. Luna shuddered in disapproval. She would never learn to benefit from the likes of Floo Powder.

Luna wandered out of the aged hearth and glanced at the backdrop, which bounded her in a world of murky, drab colors.

"Where are we?" Hermione's voice questioned. Luna revolved to the hearth and sighted Hermione ascended out of it.

"I have absolutely no idea." Luna answered. Joining her friend, the two women could only gaze in speculation until the thuds of two more pairs of feet united with them.

"Ladies," Lupin said pompously, "Welcome to Romania."

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Scarlet scowled at the suspended, jade-colored bubble in which she watched intently into.

"No, it isn't viable," she growled. "They cannot unearth our position here in Romania. We must relieve the world of them."

Whirling to a cluster of fellow deatheaters, Scarlet directed her arm in their route.

"You are to kill Mrs.'s Potter and Malfoy and their two escorts," she authorized. "Carry out whatsoever you desire, as long as they are deceased."

"Scarlet."

Scarlet grimaced. Her mistress was summoning her and she must comply.

"Yes, my lady?"

Cho exploded into the room. Seizing Scarlet's shoulders, she shook the woman until both were winded of their breaths.

"Do not...." Cho hissed. "Do not instruct your fellow cohorts. I will do the instructing. Besides, they are not to be eliminated of as we need of them for the plot."

"I do not see why we require them." Scarlet quarreled. "When we have Harry Potter."

"Don't you see?" Cho jeered. "He is the lure. We need him to haul his oh-so-delicate-spouse. Once she is with us, we will kill the others. And once the child is endured, we will exonerate ourselves of the lovestruck hubby and wife. We need the child and you KNOW why. Do I make myself clear?"

Scarlet dipped her head in conformity.

"But my lady," inquired another deatheater, this time a male. "Why must we execute Mrs. Hermione Malfoy, when we could do oh such more GRATIFYING things?"

Cho glowered at the deatheater for reasons anonymous to the other deatheaters.

"When I say we kill her, we will kill her!" Cho barked. "Now get back to work!"

Cho caved into her chair as the other deatheaters scuttled out of the area. Only Scarlet lingered.

"Are you sure about this my lady?" she asked tentatively. "You know so many things could go erroneous."

"Do I look like a fraud?" Cho sneered. "Don't you fret. I know what I am doing."

"But my lady –"

"Be silent! I know what I talk of and I know of what I do. So be silent!" Cho roared, then soothing her voice to a minimum undertone, she asked, "So, how is Harry coping with his new residence?"

Scarlet shook her head.

"I am afraid not so well my lady." She answered meekly. "Just this morning, he harmed himself trying to break out. He ruptured two ribs and cracked his wrist. The deatheaters that have qualified to be Healers are working on him as I speak."

"Then may that be a caution to him." Cho whispered. "Or next time it will be horrid, so horrid that one can not envision such a thing."

Scarlet and Cho ogled at each other. Then they cackled, cackling so hard that tears of delight smudged their faces.

"Oh yes," Cho said as she mopped the tears from her face. "Harry and Luna don't know what they are opposed to and won't know until it is too late, yes, too late indeed."

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"Would someone choose to tell us WHERE we are going?" Hermione solicited once more.

Lupin, who was in advance of the set, looked back at Hermione infuriatingly.

"Well if you were listening, I said we are departing for the hectic city of Trioŭs." He snapped.

"Well I am sorry but it really is complicated to hear someone speak when they are practically a half a mile away!" Hermione retorted.

Luna obscured Hermione's and Lupin's dispute. This was the fourth one that they had had since they had arrived in Romania.

"This is becoming so dense." Tonks said, nudging her head in the quarrelers direction.

"Yeah I know." Luna agreed.

"I will be so glad when we get to Trioŭs," Tonks declared. "Then we will get to listen to people who can actually talk without having a row stuck between."

Luna silently agreed as she listened to Tonks converse. On a daily basis her belly would bulge just a little farther than it did the prior day. Now that she was well into her third trimester she needed to be more vigilant, alert for any signs of jeopardy that could impair her firstborn.

"Tonks?" Luna glanced around her. "Lupin? Hermione? Where are you guys?"

There was no sign that any of the three had perceived Luna's remarks.

Luna's heart pained with alarm as she walked further into the forest. She didn't understand. Tonks had just been right next to her and now she had vanished along with Lupin and Hermione!

"I'm lost." The words seemed so vague to her. Yet they were born from her, individual mouth.

"Luna."

Luna spun around. But no one stood nearby.

Luna was beyond the point of spooked out now. Starting to run, Luna sprinted past trees and thickets, not stopping, even for a instant's breather.

"Luna!"

There it was again! Luna took note of the sound of loping footsteps behind her, sounding off the person's attendance like the beat of a drum.

Luna didn't distinguish the tree root until it was too late. Losing her footing, Luna screamed as a dark silhouette overwhelmed her.

"Luuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!"

Luna screamed and screamed her throat raw, but that didn't stop the ominous outsider from grasping at her throat.

"Lunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!"

"No! Stay away, leave me alone!" Luna hollered. Tears gushed out of her eyes.

"Luna are you OK?"

"Remus, we better get her to a sanatorium. She may be nauseous."

"Luna, please wake up!"

Luna stared at her colleagues. Pulling into a sitting position, tears were exposed as Luna told them what happened.

"Lupin, do you think she saw a forewarning?" Hermione asked upsettingly.

"I don't know." Lupin answered gradually. "But we need to get her to a house, fast."

With Lupin's cloak and two, extensive tree limbs, they were able to carry Luna out of the woods.

As the time passed, Luna could not help but speculate. What had the occurrence been about? It was plainly a dream as Lupin, Hermione, and Tonks had had to wake her up, but Luna knew it served some intent. But what could it be? What was the purpose that the dream so plainly illustrated?

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"Did she receive the vision Scarlet?"

"Yes my lady. You may glimpse into the looking glass if you fancy."

Cho chuckled as she watched Luna thrash about on the ground. It wouldn't be too long now. Not very long at all.

A/N: Ok now it is my favorite time: Reviewing Time!!! So please, please, PLEASE review!!!! Oh and while you are at it, I can't think of any good baby names to call Luna and Harry's baby. So when you review, please put in your favorite boy and girl names. Thanks!!! :)