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George had been sitting in his room for five minutes now, and having had the chance to calm himself down, he couldn't believe what he had done. In fact he couldn't think of a time when he ever felt so much regret in his entire life.
He couldn't blink, everytime he closed his eyes he saw her face. She had almost looked scared in that last moment before he had apparated: she had looked at him in a way she never had done before; as if he was a stranger, and George hoped he would never give her a reason to look at him that way again.
George moved to stand by his bedroom window. As he replayed the last few minutes over in his head, a slight movement in the window's reflection caused him to turn around and see the girl who was occupying his every thought.
''I thought I'd give you a few minutes by yourself.'' Luna's voice was cautious and her expression looked worried, ''I'm sorry, I'm guessing I interrupted your personal thoughts.''
''It's okay Luna.'' George said, his voice soft and calm. ''I was thinking about you anyway.''
''Really?'' Luna wasn't sure whether that was a good or bad thing.
George's smile gave her an answer. ''Yeah really, you have that affect on me.''
Luna returned a huge smile to George as a reward for his answer. However, the smile quickly dropped when she saw that George's face had taken on a very serious look, he walked over and sat on the edge of his bed and Luna moved to sit in the spot besides him, admiring the various scorch marks on the walls and carpet as she did so.
''I'm really sorry Luna. For what I did, for what I said to you.'' The sorrow was so deep in George's eyes that when he looked up at Luna, she could have cried.
''George, no one could ever blame you for reacting the way you did, you felt a loss that no one could imagine, that no one should ever have to feel''
''I don't know how I got so angry. To yell at you...'' George trailed off, replaying the moment outside the castle for the millionth time in his head.
''George, when my dad died, there were times when I was so sad that I wanted to die..''
''Luna..'' George interrupted, horrified by what she had just said.
''Let me finish.'' She gripped his hand tightly and when he nodded she continued. ''and there were other times when I was so angry I would want to hurt anything I could see, I had to repair my room in the Leaky Cauldron several times. My point is George; we all go through points when one emotion will take over all the others, and when it happens we become blind to everything and everyone else, but it is no one's fault, especially not yours.''
She finished with a squeeze of George's hand.
George used their linked hands to pull her towards him, and she suddenly found herself with her arms around his neck and her face buried in his shoulder, he himself had one arm behind her back while the other was in her long blonde hair.
''Thanks Lovegood.'' George whispered into her ear, perfectly happy to keep a hold of her for the foreseeable future.
''Your extremely welcome.'' Luna replied, also incredibly happy with where she was.
''GEORGE! LUNA!'' Molly's shouts came from downstairs, and George reluctantly released Luna.
''Always someone to ruin the moment.'' George said, desperately trying to hide just how annoyed he was with his mum at that very moment. Luna giggled softly and took his hand leading him downstairs.
''Oh George, are you alright dear.'' Molly began fussing over her son as soon as he had reached the ground floor of the Burrow. Only she and Arthur walked towards the pair at the bottom of the stairs, as the others apparated home, they walked into the kitchen.
''I'm fine mum. Sorry about what happened.''
''George Weasley don't you dare apologise to me!'' Molly's voice was stern and very serious. ''The fact that you went back there and attempted to face your troubles shows how much you have grown up.'' As she finished, she gave George a beaming smile and a kiss on the cheek.
''Thanks mum.'' George mumbled, wiping his cheek, and trying to hide his embarrassed red cheeks from Luna, who Molly had now turned to.
''Luna dear, thank you so much. Your such a sweet girl, it's nice to know that we can now repay you.''
''Thank you Mrs Weasley.'' Luna replied awkwardly, feeling very humble at that moment. The awkward vanished in favour of confused and slightly worried, as Luna thought over the last part of what Molly had said.
''What do you mean 'repay the favour'?'' Luna looked from a smiling Molly, to George who looked as confused as she felt, to Arthur who was stood behind his wife obviously avoiding her gaze by staring at an interesting spot on the ceiling.
''You see Luna, Ginny mentioned something to us the other day and we could hardly say no.'' At that moment Ginny and Harry apparated at the front door of the Burrow; in their arms were very familiar looking suitcases and books.
''I told you, I'm not taking no for an answer.'' Ginny stated defiantly, staring straight into Luna's eyes. Behind her, Harry gave Luna an apologetic smile, put down her bags and joined the others in the kitchen.
''I don't want to be any trouble.'' Luna knew it was pointless, but she would try. ''I'm happy where I am.''
''Exactly, your happy where you are, and you are here, so I'll take your things upstairs, your staying in my room.'' Ginny picked up Luna's things and moved so fast Luna didn't have a chance to block the staircase and start up the first argument she could come up with. Molly and Arthur quickly turned and walked into the kitchen giving Luna no chance to object to them either.
She turned to George for help. He was leaning against the staircase, looking straight at her with a smile so big his eyes seemed to be lit up; clearly he was going to be no help at all.
''It's not that bad here.'' He moved to stand beside her, putting his arm across her shoulders as he did so. ''and I can promise you now that when it comes to having visitors, mum acts like the bloody Minister of Magic is staying with us''
''Your mum has enough people to look after.''
''The only person she can blame that on is dad.'' George replied with a smirk. ''Besides, I don't think mum was just thinking of you when she let you stay.''
Luna looked up at him, seeing that big Weasley grin on his face for the first time in two years made Luna's insides do cartwheels.
''Who else was she thinking of then?'' Luna questioned, shooting a suspecting look up at George, hoping his answer would be the one she wanted
''Ginny. Obviously.'' He replied in a matter-of-fact way, his face showing apparent seriousness, and Luna felt disappointment reign over her, that wasn't the answer she wanted. George took his arm away from her shoulders and began to walk towards the kitchen, as he got to the doorway, he turned back to where she was stood; the grin was back on his face and with a cheeky wink, he disappeared into the kitchen.
Realising that George had not been serious when he had said Ginny's name, Luna's insides did a repeat performance of their earlier cartwheels.
Suddenly, the idea of living at the Burrow did not seem like such a problem after all.
Next chapter; Luna's first week with the Weasley's