for maisie
prompts used: draco/luna, (spell) Crucio, (word) forgotten
Luna could not remember a time when she wasn't in pain.
The Crucio she had been held under at Malfoy Manor had injured her nerve system, and tremors and seizures wracked her body at inopportune moments. Her fiancé, Draco Malfoy, had hired the best Healers in the Wizarding world — but to no avail. The damage was permanent.
He argued that he wasn't good enough for her — he had, after all, watched dispassionately while she was tortured and not done a thing to help. But she argued that he would have been killed if he had made a single movement to assist her. At best, he would have taken her place.
But now, many years later at age seventy two, Luna Malfoy (neé Lovegood) was happy. She was with her husband of over half a century, her adopted children (her womb had also been affected, making it impossible for her to ever bear children of her own), and their children's children. She even had a great-grandchild on the way.
The past was all but forgotten.
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