Luna walked in through the front door and was surprised to see that Professor Snape was standing in the entrance hall. There was a severe look on his face as he stared at her. She looked over at him and wondered why he was waiting for her to arrive. She wondered why he was staring at her and soon found that he was clutching a letter in his hand. "Perhaps it won't be necessary for me to accompany you to the wedding. It seems that your father will be able to come and take you home this afternoon," he said as he looked over at her.
"I'm going home?" Luna asked as she looked at him. She was shocked that she was going home. She wasn't at all prepared to go home.
"It appears so. You should perhaps go up and start packing. Sky has done all your laundry and Honey will be taking up all your laundry for you to pack it," Snape said as he looked over at her. Luna continued to stand where she was and was vaguely aware of what he was saying. She was too busy thinking about everything that she'd been told by Lucius to really think about what he was saying. She was wondering how she'd be able to treat her father the same way with knowing that he had a dark secret that caused her mother her life.
Luna walked past Professor Snape and unconsciously made her way up the stairs. She was lost and confused and she was unsure of how she was going to handle everything. She wondered how she was going to confront her father and how she would react when she found out about what really happened to her mother. She ran a hand through her hair as she made her way into her room and started to pack her things. She was unaware of the fact that Professor Snape had followed her up the stairs. She soon had her entire trunk packed and ready.
Luna slowly turned around to look at Professor Snape. He was simply standing in the doorway with the same severe look on his face as he stared at her. Luna stared at him and jumped when she heard a very loud doorbell ring. "He's here," she said as she looked over at Professor Snape. He merely nodded in response at that moment a house elf popped in. It was Chocolate.
"Mr. Lovegood has arrived," he announced.
"Thank you. Please take Miss Lovegood's trunk downstairs," Snape said as he looked down at the small elf. It nodded and at that moment the trunk floated into the air and disappeared out the door after Chocolate. Luna looked over at Snape and looked at him in a thoughtful way and thought about the book that was still safely hidden beneath her mattress. She stared up at Professor Snape and she felt pity that she was leaving him alone in his manor. She turned away from him and walked over to the bed and she bent over and took out the leather bound book.
"This is yours Professor," she said as she walked over to him. His eyes were fixed onto the leather bound book and his eyes sparkled with horror. However, his face remained neutral and his eyes did not show a trace of anger. She walked over to him so that she was close and placed the small leather book in his hands. "I've only read an entry or two, I'm very sorry. I understand your reason for trying to create an anti-truelove potion, but it wouldn't be worth it Professor Snape."
"How long have you known?" he found himself asking, his voice was shaking, but not in anger. He was very pale.
"For a while. Please take care of yourself Professor Snape," she said as she looked up into his eyes. She reached up and placed a kiss on his cheek, before walking past him and making her way down the stairs. She soon found that her father was standing at the bottom of the staircase.
"Pudding! It's so nice to see you! I've missed you. How have you been? I trust that Professor Snape has been taking good care of you," he said as she reached the bottom of the staircase. She found that her trunk was no longer at the bottom of the staircase and figured that it had been sent home ahead. She walked over to her father, which was about Professor Snape's height and felt his arms around her. Her father had wavy, crimpled hair. Very much like her, except his hair was a darker shade of blonde. His eyes were the same shade of blue as hers and her mother. "Well are you ready?"
"Yes," she said as she looked into his blue eyes. At that moment she turned around and found that Professor Snape was standing at the top of the staircase and all the House elves were lined up in front of her. Luna kneeled down on he floor and said goodbye to all the elves, but she hugged Turtle, and Honey, however Ebony did not allow herself to be hugged. She wasn't the type to give into affectionate things. Snape however did not move from the top of the staircase, he merely nodded down at them.
Luna turned around to her father and allowed him to lead her towards the door. She thought about her home and turned around on the spot and soon popped out of Snape's home. She opened her eyes and found herself standing next to her father. They were standing in their living room, which was a somewhat large room with a couple of couches and a large desk with magazines strewn all over the table.
"Dad I went to see Lucius today," Luna said as she turned to look at her father. His brows immediately furrowed and the smile on his face faded from his face. "I need to know why mom killed herself. I need to know what rumor she found out was true. I need you to tell me because Lucius would not tell me everything because he thought that it should be you to tell me."
"Why did you go see Lucius?" his father asked her as he turned away from her and walked over to his desk. He sat down on the desk and looked over at her.
"Because I thought that it would do me good. I can't go on living my entire life thinking that she killed herself because of me. I know that it is your fault now and I need to know why I was deprived of my mother. What horrible secret were you hiding from her?" Luna asked as she stared at him. His eyes were starting to look like crystals as he looked away from her. He couldn't bear her gaze.
"You need to understand Luna, that despite everything I did love your mother, but I just simply couldn't give her everything," he said as he turned his gaze to look at Luna. "I never intended for anything to happen and I never intended for your mother to get hurt."
"What happened?" Luna asked as she looked into his eyes.
"I did love her immensely. We married because we were young and foolish and she was a month pregnant with you and we wanted to become a family. We were blissfully married for a couple of years, but I was never completely happy because I was suppressing who I really was," he said as he looked at her. Luna stared at him and tried to think about what he was talking about. Luna stared at her father and thought hard about what he was talking about.
When she was younger she remembered that her father used to spend a lot of time at work. She especially seemed to remember that her mother would at times complain that he was spending far too much time at work and it seemed that he liked to spend his time with his Jr. Editor, Daniel, rather instead of being with his family. Luna then turned around to look at the ceiling, trying to remember the last months of her mother's life. She remembered that she could hear her mother and father arguing quite a bit in this very room. She also remembered that she heard the name Daniel a lot.
Daniel worked in The Quibbler as the Junior Editor for as long as she could remember. He was a pleasant person who was about her father's age, or perhaps a couple of years younger. He was very sweet and nice to her; he used to treat her like she was a little princess. In fact, when he came over that's what he called her. He was thin and tall, with black hair that was always neatly combed back. He was a very neat person and he was always wearing fine suits, though, now that she thought about it, she didn't know how he wore such fine looking clothing. After all Daniel wasn't paid enough. Daniel was very pale as well, had wide lips and eyes the same color of Honey the house elf.
Daniel was her father's best friend. In fact he came to the funeral and he seemed to be as distraught as her father was. He was there to console her father and he always told her father that it was not his fault and that things would work out just fine. After her mother's death, Daniel came around often. He took very good care of her and her father, especially her father for he seemed to be very sick for days afterward. Luna always thought that Daniel was a very good friend to her father for taking such good care of them.
It was than that something clicked in her head and she looked over at her father. "Daniel … Daniel was your… you're a homo… you're homosexual!" Luna said a she looked at her father in the eyes. She shuddered at the thought and turned away from her father and found herself throwing up. She truly had nothing against gays, but she was offended because her father never loved her mother. She was offended because Daniel was her father's lover and all that time she'd thought he was just being nice, but in fact he was doing it because he was in love with her father. She felt betrayed. She couldn't even begin to imagine how her mother felt. And it was then that it hit her. How did her mother know for sure? Unless she'd …
Luna started to throw up even more then she'd previously. "Luna, I'm so sorry that you had to find out this way, but I didn't want you to think of me any less because I love you," he said as he walked over to her and grabbed her hair. Luna straightened up and pulled away from her father and wiped her mouth off with her cloak and threw her cloak off. She looked over at her father, her eyes narrowed at him in anger.
"She caught you and Daniel, didn't she? That night we had the Christmas party and everyone from The Quibbler came. You and Daniel were missing for a long time from the party, but no one other than mum took any notice so she went looking for you and she found you and Daniel having intercourse. Didn't she? That's why she locked herself in the washroom all night long and refused to come out. That's why everyone left early and she was yelling at you while crying," Luna said as she looked into his eyes.
"Yes that's what happened but Luna, please try to understand my…"
"She was depressed for many months after that and she couldn't take it anymore so she finally killed herself. How could you dad?" Luna asked as she looked at him. He merely stood there, unable to say anything. Luna merely turned away and walked out the door. She turned right and made her way up the staircase and straight to her room. She didn't want to see him again. She slammed the door shut behind her and locked the door.
TBC…
A/N: Sorry for the short chapter, but please leave a review. Also I fully support gays and lesbians. I'm very open-minded, though, I wish I could say the same of my family. Oh well.