"No one is around, Luna," His lips kissed her temples as her blue eyes scanned the hallways suspiciously.

"I heard something," Luna said quietly. Draco's lips found her eyelids and kissed them. "We could be caught."

"No one is here, my love, just be quiet," He whispered into her ear. "I'm doing my best work here and you're too distracted to notice!"

"I'm worrying, Draco!" Luna hissed in reply.

"Don't, you're with me, anyone catches us, say I attacked you! No one would think twice if you were lying!" Draco insisted, kissing down from her eyes and across her cheeks.

"But I couldn't-" she began but he took her lips in his and kissed her hard, stopping any more words from coming out.

"Shut up." he whispered with a smile.

That was far away, they now stood infront of her dying father, his mouth opening and closing like a fish out of water.

"Daddy, remember your health." Luna said catiously.

"Luna, remember your brain!" He spat back like a child, Luna gave a sad sigh and looked to Draco.

"Sir, I love your daughter very much, and she loves me, we are bound together for eternity, in faithfulness and repect. I give you my word to uphold that promise I made." Draco said, puffing up his chest.

"What good is your word?" Luna's father raged, his pale and sickly face turning the color of a beetroot. "My Luna, what ever happened! You were such a good girl, why did you turn?"

"I haven't turned father, I merely fell in love!" Luna said loudly, her passion flaring.

"Its the same thing! I guess he took your casity, everything that made you pure and good." He spat at his daughter, she hung her head and nodded, she looked like a deflated balloon.

"Luna is pure and good, she is beautiful and wise, you have no right to belittle her," Draco defended.

"Shut up boy! You need to learn that when I am speaking you are not! Its a rule in my house." He roared, his sick and feeble voice straining.

"Its not your house anymore," Draco said bluntly, Luna's father faultered on the brink of another shout.

"W-What do you mean?" he asked.

"Well Father, I've asked Draco to move in with me, seeing as we're married now and are coming out to the public, its safer together – rather than apart." Luna said reasonably.

"Didn't you even wonder wonder how I'd feel about that?" He roared again. Draco grasped Luna's hand as she choked on a sob as she spoke her next sentance.

"You're not coming back home, its now oficially mine and Draco's." She said, desperatly trying to keep her tone level.

"I will be coming back," He cried defiantly. "This is all nonsence!"

"Its cancer, Father! Serious, serious stuff, you're not goigng to live to see Wednesday!" She yelled at him.

"What's happened to my little Luna," He said sadly with a slow shake of his head. "The true, good, Luna would have stuck by my side, agreed it was all nonsence!"

"Your little Luna has been doing just that for awhile now, but I've grown up Father!" Luna tried to insist. "I'm married, I'm someone's bride, and I'm graduating Hogwarts in June! That all equals to me being my own person, a person I chose to be! Not someone you chose!"

"Who could be better then small sweet innocent Luna Lovegood?" Her father asked from the bed.

"How about mature and loving Mrs. Luna Malfoy?" Draco offered and Luna's father openly flicnched.

"That digusts me!" He yelled and Luna gave a small cry, she took his words straight to heart and it broke into peices. Draco realised that it was probably useless trying to convince Mr. Lovegood that Luna and Draco being married wasn't a terrible tradgedy. Tears ran down Luna's cheeks and Draco wrapped his arms tightly around her as she let out a cry into his shirt.

"You know what disgusts me?" Draco said angrily to her father who still lay limp in the bed, unmoved by his own daughter's hurt. "A father whose selfish enough to want his daughter alone and miserable when he dies."

"Nonsence!" her dad yelled and Suddenly Luna was out of Draco's arms and the door was swinging open. He looked around with wide eyes and saw Luna had ran from the room. He cast her father one last venamous look before dashing out after her.

She was sitting in a crumpled heap down the corridor near the elevators. Her head was on her knees and he back heaved up and down with her cries. Draco squared his shoulders and wlaked over to her, she looked up at once and her blue eyes searched his face. She made mouth movements like she was being strangled by some unseen being. He swooped down and sat on the floor next to her, there he held her close as she said quiet words that were only for his ears.

"I really thought he'd take it well, I'm such a fool!" she said between her sobs, Draco held her tight and sheltered her from all the things that were changing, he wished he could shelter her from it all, but soon he would leave and there would be no sheltering her...

"You're not a fool Luna, you're beautiful, he's the fool, for not being able to see love when it is right infornt of him," Draco said angrily, his desire to stangle her dad flaring inside him.

"I guess he's only trying to protect me," began Luna. "When my mother died he was so hurt and lost..."

"Stop defendiing him! He doesn't deserve it, love," whispered Draco.

"I know, i know... But I can't help it, he is my Father!" she said in reply. "I'll always love him, you know..."

"Not really, Luna..." Draco pointed out, after all he hadn't hidden the fact from her that he and his father hated eachother with a passion. "My father never loved me."

"My father did love me, at one point..." She said and she broke into uncontrollable tears once more. He tried his best to soothe his love but he in the back of his mind a a timer was winding down. "I think we shoudl just go." she said fianlly.

"Of course, anything you say!" He said with a smile. He pulled her up off the floor and held her as he legs shook on buckling knees. Her father's nurse, John, watched unsurely as Draco and Luna stumbled into the elevator. He gave a small waveto Lune which she retuyrned before the doors slid closed on them.

"Do you want me to come back with you? " Draco asked, inside he knew he shouldn't be asking, he shoudl just leave hera t the station and go back to his home for the last time, but he loved Luna and needed to ask.

"No, you go get your things," She said.

"I don't wnat you to just say that, if you need me, I'll be at your side." Draco said.

"No, I want time on my own, get my head around it all." she said.

They made their way to the foyer of the hospital and out onto the street. Standing hand in hand infornt of the hospital, they spoke their parting words.

"You go now, I can get back on my own." She said as Draco wiped away a few fallen tears.

"I love you so much, Luna Malfoy," he said to her. "Promise me you won't forget it."

"I would never dare," she replied and they kissed once, softly. He would remember it forever. "Go on, before I change my mind and you're forced to endure my teary journy back to my house."

"Excuse me," Draco said firmly. "But its our house now."

"Oh," she said with a wide smiled. "Of course, I nearlly forget."

"Bye love," he whispered then apparated out of her arms.

He arrived in his house's front garden mere meters from the front door, he almost landed on one of his mother's beloved peacocks, she loved those things more then him and had no trouble telling him so. He resisted the urge to kick it as he walked towards the door. He pushed the balck marble door open with ease and entered into the balck grand foyer. He made a note that when he returned to Luna's arms he would make their home fileld with colors, that it would be a happy place where they would raise their children in a home built on the morals of love and honesty – nothing like what he had to grow up with.

Luscious Malfoy walked out of the shadows with his usual cocky grin and dominant swagger. Draco still felt the tremble of fear that he always had around his father as long as he coudl remember. But he suppressed it and puffed up his chest, staring boldly at his father.

"I knew you'd show up." His father said with a smile.

"You threatened Luna, I had to show up to prevent her being hurt." Draco said, taking out the letter hsi father had sent. He had received it two days after he and Luna had decided to move into together, it told him to show up the day he was moving out or Luscious would take Luna from Draco – premanently.

"Smart move my son, one of your few." His father said coldly, walking forward.

Draco immedietly stepped back, "Let's keep a safe distance, i don't need to see the face i abhore up close."

"You should respect your father." Luscious said, Draco didn't miss the threatening undertone.

"I would if you deserved my respect," Draco replied.

"What happened to you? You used to follow me blindly? What changed?" Luscious asked.

It had been a cold night and Draco stood at the drinks table, off in the distance he saw as his fellow class mates made utter fools of themselves in the face of teenage hormones. It was the Yule Ball and he hadn't really been bothered to learn how to dance, so now he stood and watched as Pansy Parnkinson, his date for the evening, happily danced with some guy from Ravenclaw. Off in the didstance Weasley and Grnager were fighting and Potter was staring sadly a some chinese ravenclaw girl who was with Cedric Diggory.

"I can't get to the punch," someone whispered at his side, Draco turned and saw a blond girl standing next to him. He had never really noticed her before but couldn't understand why not! She had long waist length blond hair that looked straggely but pretty as it was held up with a daisy tiara. Her dress was a light blue and it brought out the blue in her wide glossy eyes. Though she looked slightly lost and confused she seemed unfazed by the fact she was talking to Draco Malfoy, many people iin his year hated or feared him.

"Oh sorry," he said moving out of her way. She reached a glass into the deep red punch and filed it to the top. "Its good," he said, holding up his own glass. She blinked a few times as her eyes looked into his as if searching his eyes for something, her eyes focussed on him for a second and she opened her mouth to speak but Zabinni was at Draco's side suddenly and her eyes went back to being lackluster.

"Go Harry Potter," she said absently then she floated back into the dancing crowd.

"Stupid Loony Lovegood, supportign that cheating Harry Potter," Blaise said bitterly as he too filled his punch up.

"You know her?" Draco asked, trying his best to be non-chalnt but Blaise was quick on his feet.

"Yeah, she's Luna Lovegood, a ditzy Ravenclaw! Complete Harry Potter nut, but who isn't these days, the assholes." said Blaise.

"Forget your hate of Potter for five seconds," Draco demanded, still looking at Luna as she moved easily through the crowded dance hall and completly ignored the weird looks everyone gave her. He wasn't sure why but after only speaking a few words with her, she had managed to get under his skin and into his heart.

Draco didn't tell his father any of that, it was a private and happy moment to him. He just stared at his father calmly. Until a question popped up in his mind.

"Who told you about us?" he asked coldy and his father let out an even colder laugh.

"Luckily some boys still respect their father,s so when Blaise Zabinni was offered tea by his father and he accepted it happily, the thought that it was laced with truth sirum never crossed his mind." was Luscious' reply. Draco didn't feel a tinge of anger for the raven haired boy – he wondered if Blaise even remembered spilling the beans.

"So why do you want me back here? I'm not changing my mind, I've already married Luna and do not plan on leaving her," Draco said, he rolled up his sleeves and ripped off the gold wedding band form the wtine bracelet on his wrist. He put it on his left ring finger then showed the hand to his father. "My heart belongs to her."

"I wanted you hear to tell you something..." Luscious said clamly, his voice was dark and it gave Draco omnious shivers. "There's been a change in the plans."

He clicked his fingers and suddenly two sets of strong arms gripped Draco tightly, releaving him off his wand. He noticed the two men as Blaise's father and Yaxley. Draco struggled pointlessly against their strong holds as hsi father advanced on him.

"We agreed no tricks!" Draco seetheed at his father as he lashed around, Luscious stared calmly.

"Draco, I never stick to my word." Luscious said, Draco flet a foold for ever thinking his father would. "Now lets see if Luna lasts with out her new found husband."

"Damn you!" Draco roared and he spat in Luscious face. Luscious delivered a furious punch to Draco's abdomen that left Draco short of breath before his father restored hismelf.

"Lets go." Luscious said calmly as he took out a hankercheif and wiped his face. "Snape's waiting out back."

Draco was dragged kicking and screaming through the house. He could now only wish that Luscious wouldn't touch Luna, it was the only hope left in the desperate situation that was getting more desperate by the minute.