Content Warning: Strong Language and Violence

Draco Malfoy was working in his study that was located in the wing of Malfoy Manor that he shared with his wife and son, when his house elf Teensy popped into the room. He looked up, irritated at the interruption because he had told Teensy that unless it was something important, he wasn't to be bothered. He wondered why Astoria hadn't gotten back from her shopping trip yet and wished that she was here to deal with whatever issue that had come up before starting to speak to the very nervous elf standing in front of him.

"Teensy, I thought I said that I didn't want to be disturbed?"

"Master Draco, your mother has sent me up to get you. There is a woman with her in the parlor that is insisting that she sees you right away. That what she needs to tell you is very important."

Draco groaned in agitation before throwing his quill down onto the desk and leaving his chamber to go downstairs to see who it was that wanted to see him. He just hoped that it wasn't Pansy Zabini with her usual nonsense because it would take everything inside of him not to throw a hex at her, regardless of the fact that his mother was in the room.

When he got downstairs and into the parlor, the one person he never thought would have ever set foot in his home again was sitting on the couch, crying as if her heart was broken. His mother, Narcissa, had her arms around Luna Lovegood....Scamander he had to remind himself and wondered what the hell his former school mate was thinking by marrying someone with such a strange last name.

Draco stepped over to where the two women were sitting, taking in the pensieve that was sitting on the table and wondered just what the hell was going on. Why was Luna so upset and what was so bloody important that his mother had called him away from his work.

"What's going on, Luna? Why are you here?"

"I came back a day early from a trip to Egypt and found that sorry ass wanker I married shagging your wife in our bed," Luna snapped back at him.

Draco felt himself get very angry at what she had just told him and knew deep down that she wasn't lying to him. The Luna he remembered from school, wouldn't have let herself get this upset over nothing. He still needed proof to show his lawyers and realized that is why the pensieve was sitting there. His mother had thought of everything and by the look of anger on her face, Narcissa had already seen Luna's memory of Astoria shagging Luna's husband, Rolf. So he walked over to it and put his head into it, clenching his fists in anger as he watched his wife making love to another man. The memory ended with Luna apparating outside of his home, so Draco pulled his head up and then stalked over to the front door.

"If you are going to confront them, Draco, you are going to need my help to get there," Luna said, standing up and wiping tears from her eyes.

"Well then stop your bloody crying and come on. It's time to make our spouses wish to Merlin they had never started sleeping together. Astoria is going to wish she had never done this by the time my lawyers get through with her."

"So is Rolf."

The two of them walked out of Malfoy Manor, through the very lavish front yard and out of the gate so they could do a side along apparation. He took her hand in his and they apparated to the outside of her home and it was everything he could do not to show his disdain at how common it was and wished he didn't have to be here.

Draco followed her into the open front door, saw the trail of clothes leading up the stairs and recognized the robes Astoria had been wearing when she left their home earlier that day. It was everything he could do not to curse out loud at the sight of them. Even with seeing Luna's memory of what had happened, there had been a part of him that had been hoping she had been wrong about what she had seen.

As they made their way up the stairs and down the hall, Draco started to sense that something wasn't right here. Things were too quiet given the very loud moans and screams that were in Luna's memory and a familiar smell came across to him. One that took him back in time to Death Eater raids that he had been dragged to by his father, Aunt Bellatrix and Voldemort right before the final battle. A smell that haunted him in nightmares that would cause him to wake up screaming in the middle of the night. He stopped Luna from walking down the hall and stepped ahead of her to go down to the open door at the end of the hall. What he saw when he got there, made him have to fight not to vomit at the sight of his wife and Rolf Scamander covered in blood and very obviously dead. At the sight of the message written on the wall, Draco knew who he had to inform of what had happened here but first he had to get Luna out of the house before she saw the state her husband was in.

Before he could leave the room so he could take her back downstairs, Luna stepped in the doorway and started to scream at the sight of her husband's dead body. Draco moved quickly to lift the petite woman up into his arms and carried her out of the room. He came downstairs and sat her down on the couch, walking over to the fireplace so he could use the floo to contact the Ministry. He managed to get a hold of Harry's assistant, a very impolite older woman who didn't want to seem to let Draco talk to Harry. That is when Luna got up off of the couch and walked over to the fireplace, an uncharacteristic fire in her blue eyes that scared Draco to see it.

"Adele, this is Luna Scamander, tell Mr. Potter that he needs to come to my house right now and stop being a stuck up, pretentious little dimbo! Get Harry over to my house now, my husband and Astoria Malfoy have been murdered!"

Luna was to the point of screaming and Draco had to literally drag her from the floo, trying to calm her down. In fact, he was starting to worry about her because the Luna he remembered from school wouldn't have lost it like that. Although finding her husband in bed with another woman and then seeing that he had been killed not long after was enough to make a saint scream. It was looking like he was going to have to be the strong one for the two of them.

At that moment, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley stepped through the floo and into the living area with a team of Aurors behind them. The two of them stopped short when they saw Luna in Draco's arms and stepped forward, pulling their wands out, while the other Aurors started to search the house.

"Oh please! Don't bloody well start that bullshit! His wife is lying dead upstairs, along with my husband and you two jackasses want to whip out your wands at him without even asking questions first!"

Luna's words made both wizards stop what they were doing and gaze at their normally calm and ethereal friend in shock. This was a Luna that they had never seen before: a woman that was as close to losing her mind as she could get.

"Malfoy, take her to St. Mungo's so they can give her something to calm her down and then come back here so you can explain just exactly what is going on here," Harry stated, putting his wand away and motioned for Ron to do the same thing.

Ron reluctantly did what his friend wanted while Draco took Luna out onto the porch and apparated her to St. Mungo's. He turned to his friend with a questioning look on his face, one that matched Harry's.

"Why would Astoria Malfoy be in this house with Luna's husband?"

"I honestly don't know and until Luna calms down and Malfoy gets back here, we will just have to be patient."

A young man, who was about the same height as Ron and in his mid twenties came downstairs and into the room as his fellow Aurors. There was a look of revulsion in his bright blue eyes and he was running his hands through his thick curly dark hair. It looked like he was trying to come up with the right words to say to his two superiors. Harry took sympathy on the young man and started to speak.

"What's wrong, Kyle?"

"Harry, you and Ron need to come upstairs and see this because it will explain why your friend was so upset."

Ron and Harry followed the younger man up the stairs and when they saw Rolf and Astoria's bodies both men, despite everything they had seen during the war, had to fight not to vomit at the sight. Harry turned pale at the message on the wall and then glanced down at the picture on the floor. He saw Brian, another Auror taking pictures of the scene and called over to him while pulling a pair of gloves out of his pocket and pulling them onto his hands.

"Brian, have you gotten a picture of the photo lying on the ground?" Harry asked, noticing Ron and Kyle pulling on their own gloves so they wouldn't compromise anything in the room. He was glad for the Ministry making them all go to New York City and take classes in Muggle Forensics because it looked like it was going to be needed for this crime scene.

"Not yet, Harry," Brian said, coming over to where the lead Auror was standing, quickly taking a picture of the photo lying on the ground. He then reached down and handed it to Harry, who went pale at the sight of Luna, Ginny and Hermione all meeting for lunch at Diagon Alley the day after their children had started Hogwarts. The words written on it made his blood run cold as he read them.

'It seems Astoria couldn't stay away from another woman's husband, make sure these three lovely ladies don't follow the same pattern as some of their schoolmates because I would sure hate to have to do to them what I just did to these two cheating pieces of shit!"

Harry handed the picture back to Brian before turning to Ron, who had come up to him with a worried look at how pale his best friend had become. He then read what was on the picture and it was everything Ron could do not to pass out in shock.

"We need to get Luna, Ginny, Hermione, Hugo and Lily under protection as soon as possible and if I know my wife at all, she is going to fight me to the bloody death on this."

"Ginny will be the same way," Harry said, before looking back at the two bodies lying on the bed. "We will also need to let Minerva know what is going on so the school can make sure James, Albus, Rose, Lysander, Lorcan and Scorpius Malfoy are all safe and away from any danger that might come up there at Hogwarts."

"We have never dealt with anything like this before Harry, I think we might have to get in touch with the crime lab in New York and have them send Seamus' cousin, Amber to help us solve this. This looks too much like what we would see on that Muggle show CSI."

"I know, Ron. I have a strong feeling this is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better."


At the same time, in a lavish manor outside of London, Pansy Zabini was in her bedroom, getting ready for her lover to come over when she all of sudden felt herself being hit with a jinx that made her fall to the floor. She felt herself being picked up and wondered if this was one of Theo's kinky little games he liked to play when Blaise was out of town on business and his wife, Daphne was shopping with her mother for the day. When Pansy felt herself being laid down on her bed, if she hadn't of been paralyzed by the hex that was thrown at her, when she saw the unfamiliar face of the man above her and the knife in his hand, terror filled her and she wanted to scream. She knew in that moment, there would be nobody to save her and that this man was going to kill her.

She would have screamed out in agonizing pain as the knife came down two times into her chest and felt herself start to pass out from the blood loss. The thought that her husband would find her like this was one of her last thoughts before she took her final breath.

The man smiled wickedly as he watched her die before writing a message in her blood on the wall. He cleaned himself, took another photograph out of his pocket, wrote on it and dropped it onto the ground beside the door. As he left the house, the man walked past the dead body of Theodore Nott and wondered why these witches and wizards here in England couldn't seem to stop sleeping with other people's spouses and to stay with the one they married. Life would be a whole lot simpler if they did.


AN: This killer's M.O seems to be killing cheating spouses but why the fascination with pictures of Luna, Ginny and Hermione. Who is doing this and what from his past makes him kill people who are cheating on their significant others. Who will be next?

Draco and Luna will become closer to each other as they learn to deal with their spouses deaths and help their children face what has happened. First as friends and maybe more as the story goes on.

How does Ron, Harry and the rest of the Aurors deal with a case like they have never seen before. We will also be introduced to Seamus' cousin, Amber, a Muggle CSI in New York, who will be sent to help find the killer and becomes a target when her innocent flirtation with a married man puts her in the killer's path.