x Well hullo, this is chapter two. Hope you like it. Worked hard on it, blah, blah... PS- the rating just upped to R because of things that will come in later chapters, and what not. So anyway, onward.
x Simon- my dear, I understand what you are saying and where you are coming from, but I am still truly perplexed... Aren't canon-ish? I don't know, but if you do come back, please explain. Thanks!
Draco licked his lips thinking of how to "fake rob" someone. It wasn't an easy task now that he was put up to it, but he ventured a guess. He smiled evilly thinking that maybe he could do something to the Loon in the process and get some sort of reaction out of her. Yes that would be terrific, humiliate the ugly duckling. Oh, he was going to have fun with this.
He slowly began to walk toward her as she held the Hutta Baha in her hand. Maybe he should tackle her to the ground and make her scream uncle. No that was dumb, she'd probably yell it in another language. Or he could try to steal her bag for real and run away with it. That would work.
Draco smirked evilly and bolted towards her. He ripped the bag off her shoulder and heard her yell behind him as he charged toward the lake.
"Oh no..." She had no feeling in her voice what-so-ever. It was almost like she was speaking in monotone. "Someone please help me, my bag has been stolen. Please save me." Draco continued as she stared after him, a knowing look plastered on her face.
Malfoy turned around to laugh at her but what he saw wasn't what he expected. There, right on his heels was the little leopard, running at full speed in all four legs. Malfoy's eyes grew wide as he turned around and increased his speed. It seemed as though the tables had turned, and he was quite humiliated.
He looked behind him again and almost screamed out in fright. He would never be able to outrun this thing, it didn't even look tired, but Draco's heart was practically tearing through his chest. He quickly glanced at Luna who was on the ground she was laughing so hard. For once in her life she showed emotion, too bad it was when he was running away from a deadly monster.
Draco realized in horror that his feet were beginning to slow down and the Hutta Baha was getting closer. He shut his eyes tightly and he could feel it inching toward him, his mind willing him to go faster but his body telling him that it was impossible. He turned around one last time and saw the Hutta Baha leap toward him, and then it all went black.
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Malfoy woke up from a groggy sleep and moaned slightly. His head ached. It sort of felt like someone had slammed his head in a filing cabinet about a million times and then used it as a bludger, with a metal bat.
He turned over on the bed which he knew was in the hospital wing and opened his eyes blinking a few times. When he adjusted to the light he jumped so high he almost fell out of his bed. There sitting in the chair next to his bed was the Loon. She sat Indian style (crossed legs like in yoga), wand behind her ear, Hott Wizard the magazine in hand. He didn't think Luna to be one to read Hott Wizard, but whatever. Then suddenly in horror he realized that it was his magazine.
"What in God's name are you doing here Loon!?" He shouted, ripping the magazine from her hands.
"You know, I never thought you'd be one to read Hott Wizard. Very... immature." She smiled half-heartedly and began rubbing her temples and closing her eyes.
"I don't read Hott Wizard, I just enjoy looking at the pictures." He shot back defensively.
Luna stayed in the same position making small circles on the sides of her forehead. "Exactly 83 percent of that magazine is filed with men. 62 percent of those are half-naked." She looked up. "Still enjoy the pictures?"
"The majority of issues are filed with beautiful women in bikinis, okay? You of course had to look at the Male Summer version." In honesty it was the truth. She had found the only issue of the magazine he had planned to throw out. Too bad Crabbe and Goyle had brought it down.
Luna smirked (almost the same way he did, very creepy) and returned to rubbing her temples.
"What day is it?" He asked her in an edgy tone.
"Same day as it was yesterday." She answered beginning to hum a tune.
"That makes no sense."
Luna did not respond, she only made her tune a touch louder. Each time the song repeated she would increase the volume. Finally she began to sing it.
"This is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends. Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was. But they'll continue singing it forever, just because this is the song that never ends. It goes on and on, my friends. Some people-"
"Will you shut up!?" Draco shouted, his head pounding worse than ever. Luna merely looked at him in the middle of her song her eyes lightly glazed over. Ignoring him she returned to her song.
"-it goes on and on my friends. Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was. But they'll continue singing it forever, just because this is the song that never ends. It goes on and on my friends." Luna bounced up and down as she went in circles with the tune.
After about 15 excruciatingly painful minutes of "The Song That Never Ends" she finally shut up.
"Thank you."
"I'm a leader not a follower." She informed him once again.
"Thank you for telling me that, like you did earlier."
"I was going to stop when I wanted to, not when you told me." She took her wand out from behind her ear and began twirling it like a baton. For some bizarre reason it looked very familiar to Draco. He brushed it off.
"You mean if I hadn't said anything you probably would have shut up ten minutes ago?" She nodded as he dropped his face in his hands groaning. He fell backwards onto the bed and a moan of pleasure escaped his lips at the pillows morphed to body.
"Did I just hear you moan?" Asked Luna, still pretending to be a majorette in a marching band concert.
"No." He responded shortly.
"Oh Draco, do the sexy men in Hott Wizard turn you on?" She asked in her normal dreamy tone.
"Like a light switch." He responded in no mood to argue or scream at her.
Silence fell between the two for a few minutes as Draco finally felt at peace. Then he remembered something.
"Why the hell are you here?" Before she could answer (even though she hadn't planned on it) Dumbledore and Hagrid entered the infirmary and walked (more like ran) to Draco's bed. Hagrid looked very nervous. Luna returned the wand she had been using as a baton to behind her ear.
"Before you go on and yell at Hagrid sir I'd like to say," Draco felt a wave of happiness pass over him, Luna was going to take the blame, "it's all Draco's fault." He felt like a crash test dummy that hadn't been strapped in tight enough.
"Is not! Your the one who didn't do anything once the stupid thing was chasing me!" He shouted in defense.
She didn't respond.
"I know dear." Dumbledore stated looking at her with kind eyes. Draco rolled his own.
"Now for you Mister Malfoy, you should understand the consequences of your actions." Draco retaliated.
"What consequences? We tried something for class, and we wanted it to work, it didn't, end of story. Why the hell should I be punished?!"
"Language Mr. Malfoy." Dumbledore scolded through his half-moon glasses.
"Sorry, sir." Draco mumbled not really meaning it.
"Now, for your punishment." He opened his mouth to protest but Dumbledore only waved his hand for silence. " A weeks worth a detentions, with different teachers, but I assure you, none of them will be easy. And Ms. Lovegood," he turned to Luna, "You will join him in those detentions." Draco thought he saw a flash shock cross her face but it might have been the light.
"You both start tonight."
"But Professor sir!" Draco retaliated, remembering he was in the hospital wing, "I'm injured, how do you expect me to work?"
"Draco, Madam Pomfrey will give you a potion as soon as I tell her, and you will be as good as new. The scars will go away with time." Dumbledore smiled, the knowing twinkle in his eyes.
"But I-"
"No more of this, you will serve your detention with Luna tonight, nothing more about it." He nodded to Hagrid and both of them left the infirmary leaving Luna and Draco alone.
"This is all your fault you know." He stated, shooting her a cold look and falling back down onto the bed, careful not to moan again.
"I know." She responded lightly looking out the window.
"Why are you still here?" Draco questioned after a few minutes of silence.
"I'd like to ask you the same thing."
"I have to be here, you on the other hand should stay the hell away from me." He stared at the ceiling, a hatred swelling in his body.
"I never did ask you, you know." Luna eyes were still looking out the window, watching the sunset.
"Loon, shut the hell up, your pissing me off beyond words and if you don't leave I will curse you." His voice was icy and he was getting extremely angry.
"You have no wand."
"What?" He asked, finally looking at her.
"You have no wand." She repeated pulling a wand out from behind her ear.
"You little bitch!" He shouted, resentment covering his tone as he finally recognized the wand as his own.
"Language, Doctor." She waved the wand and mumbled a spell under her breath. An ice cube flew across the room and hit Draco square in the forehead.
"OW!" He shouted, rubbing the spot on his head, "That hurt! What in bloody hell was that for?"
She did it again.
"Language Dr. Banana Hammock." She put the wand behind her ear, and pointed toward the side table. On it sat a pile of what looked like wood chippings.
"You can use mine until I find a replacement." Luna looked out the window to watch the sunset again.
"Hell no!" He responded, picking up the pieces of the broken wand. "Give me my wand back, now!"
"No, Draco. I have no wand, because of you and your intelligent plan set off a Hutta Baha." She answered airily.
"Why is it my fault?" He shot back.
"Because if it wasn't for you stealing my entire bag," she stared at him, getting heated, "I'd still have it!" Draco was shocked, Luna had just shown emotion, but that didn't faze him.
"How in God's name am I supposed to know that your wand was in the god damn bag!?" He was sitting up now, screaming at her.
"Well if you were such an ignorant prat who wanted to humiliate me by stealing my stuff then we wouldn't be in this mess!" Luna shouted.
"What mess!? All I know is that you have my wand and if you don't give it back I'll... I'll..." He couldn't think of what he would do to her, without a wand, there was very little.
"You'll what Draco?"
"For godsakes give me my god damn wand back!" He yelled.
"Fix mine and I will most surly give it back to the most annoying, ugliest person I have the awful pleasure of knowing!" She was standing now and he could see the terrible anger in her eyes.
"It's not my fault!"
"Like hell it isn't! You stole my bag when I told you to steal my f-ing mirror and got my wand broken into millions of little pieces by the Hutta Baha!" He looked shocked. "If you didn't have the urge to make fun of me every awful chance you get you could have your wand back, but no, Mr. Draco Malfoy can't let an f-ing day go by without making fun of someone! Go screw yourself you ignorant ferret."
She stood up and walked out of the infirmary, but she didn't miss the chance to pelt him with another ice cube right before she walked out the door.
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"Damn him!" She shouted, heavily trudging towards the Ravenclaw tower. She hadn't intended on getting that heated, hell she never got that heated, even the past summer when....
"DAMN HIM!!!" Her cries echoed the corridor and her stomping only followed. "Why did he make me do that? I mean I never over react, I know at times I can get angry but god only knows why today I voiced it, or even showed it for that matter. Aw god damn it!" Luna had tripped on the floor and landed on the ground skidding to a halt right before the wall. She looked down and saw her knee was bloody from the rough floor. "Shizer!" Luna wiped away the majority of the blood, but it continued to flow freely and rather quickly. She would, in most occasion, have gone down to the hospital wing to get it fixed, but since the Doctor was there she wasn't going to risk it.
She stood up and almost fell over again, her ankle was twisted. Angrily she limped back to the common room, mumbling evil curses under her breath.
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Draco swallowed the potion Madam Pomfrey gave him (which tasted horrid because, in his opinion, she hated him) and sat in the bed, as she returned to her office.
He stared at the ceiling, lost in thought. He was quite proud of himself, because she had finally gotten the Loon heated. She had finally spazed out and Draco had finally gotten a reaction. It was like sweet victory.
It had been a big goal of his, to piss her off, because she had always come up with witty comments to shoot back at him and, frankly, he hated her for them. It seemed as though he had (for once in his life) met someone who matched him in wits. Even if she couldn't think of a comeback, she would act as though nothing fazed her. It puzzled him greatly. She was one of the very few who he had found to be extremely annoying, maybe even more than the Golden Trio, and rubbing her the wrong way was just what he wanted (don't even think of it... get your mind out of the gutter). He felt a certain, happiness you could call it, erupt inside of him (keep it out...) when she got angry, which was once in a blue moon. A conquering feeling, one that was like landing on the moon or doing something extremely great, it was like he got over a huge hurtle, and he couldn't wait for more.
In a way it was a bizarre sort of ecstasy he got from annoying people, and it was the strongest when he annoyed the Loon. He was very aware he was getting addicted to this ecstasy, it wasn't as though it was harming anyone, besides Luna. Well, for now it wasn't.
x So that was it, chapter 2. Hoped you liked it, and you better review. PLEASE! I need some sort of feed back, heck if you hate it tell me, but be nice.
x Thanks, and p.s. - I did steal the Dr. Banana Hammock thing from Friends... I know... and I'm sorry... don't hurt me or go on ranting.
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