After Blaise's news, Daphne had passed out and was placed in her own room until she woke up. Her mother had went with her and was sitting at her side waiting for her to wake up. Narcissa was moving between both rooms checking on both Luna and Daphne with her husband staying with her. That's where both she and Lucius had went, taking Sabrina with them so her other grandmother could draw some comfort from being with the baby.
Hermione and Ginny had went to get something to drink, taking Blaise with them so they weren't out walking alone. The former Slytherin had insisted on going because he had seen the picture on the floor in his bedroom. It had been another picture of Hermione, Ginny, and Luna with another cryptic message written on it as well as another one on the wall in the victim's blood. From what Blaise had told all of them, this one had been more chilling than the one that had been on the wall at Luna's home. This killer was becoming a serious danger and old school rivalries had to be put aside for the sake of everybody's safety.
Draco was sitting with Luna, who was waiting for the healer to come back and tell her that she could go home. She was going to stay with Harry and Ginny at their home in Godric's Hollow but was planning on going to Hogwarts the next day so they could each tell their sons about what had happened to Astoria and Rolf. She had calmed down and wasn't as weepy as before but for some reason lately, tears came quickly than they usually did for her. Luna had sinking feeling she knew what was wrong with her and was torn at how to feel. To take her mind off of the jumbled thoughts that were about to drive her more insane than she had ever been accused of at school, Luna turned to look at Draco. She had grown worried about him after seeing how quiet he had become after Daphne had told the both of them some more details into their spouse's affair.
"Draco, maybe you need to go and talk to Daphne, she has not only lost her sister but her husband today. She is going to need her family," Luna said, gently squeezing his hand in comfort.
"I know that you are trying to help, Luna and I appreciate it but I am not going to talk to her right now. At least until I calm down enough to not give into the urge to strangle her."
"I know that you are hurt because she didn't tell you what was going on but maybe you need to see this from her point of view. Daphne was trying to protect her baby sister and I have a feeling she regrets not telling you now. She is your children's aunt and your babies are going to need their entire family to get them through the death of their mum."
"How can you be so forgiving, Luna? You and your children are going to be suffering just as much my family will and all because of selfish behavior, which Daphne could have stopped by just telling one of us what was going on."
Draco was getting more angry and the old arrogance was starting to come back. He got up and started pacing the room, trying to shut the images out of his head of seeing the memory of his wife in another man's arms and then finding her dead body. Then to find out that two former classmates, one of them his ex girlfriend was enough to bring back the emotional turmoil he had went through during his sixth year. When Voldemort had threatened his parent lives if he didn't figure out how to kill Dumbledore and over the years, realizing that all of the blood purity crap his father had taught him was just that, a bunch of bullshit.
Luna watched him pace the room and her worry for him started to increase but she could also see that Draco had changed a bit from the arrogant bully he had been at Hogwarts. Oh he could still act like a superior jackass, she had seen him turn his nose up at her small home that morning before they had found the bodies. He also was never going to be friends with Harry and Ron, there was still a whole lot of resentment on both sides even though almost twenty years had passed since they were all in school together. But he was still putting aside the enmity because Harry was the best one to find who had killed Rolf, Astoria and now Pansy and Theodore. It scared Luna to think about who might be next and hoped that Harry was able to get the warnings out to their community in time. That Seamus' cousin would be able to help them find this person before anybody else lost their lives.
They were each pulled out of their thoughts by the door to the room opening and a short witch who looked to be in her early forties come walking in with a folder in her hands. She was a couple of inches shorter than Luna with long red gold hair pulled into a bun on, full figured, with a round but pretty face, and big brown eyes. She walked over to Luna's bed and sat down in the chair that was there, glancing over to where Draco had stopped pacing and had turned to face them.
"Mrs. Scamander, my name is Nancy Clovis, I am a healer here at St. Mungo's. I am sorry about what happened to your husband and I wish I didn't have to make things more difficult for you. But there is something that has come up in the tests that we ran on you and we need to discuss them. Do you want your friend to stay with you?"
"Yes, Draco can stay," Luna stated, smiling reassuringly at both of the people in the room with her.
"Mrs. Scamander, you're pregnant. Do you remember when your last monthly cycle ended?"
:Luna looked like she was in complete and total shock at what the healer had just told her. She finally got herself together and faced the older woman, who was starting to worry about her. Draco also looked shocked at the news and walked over to stand on the other side of her bed.
"Yes. It was on July 10th, I usually am pretty regular but I just thought it was the stress of getting my sons ready to go to Hogwarts and everything that is going on with my research and trips to Egypt."
"So you are ten weeks along and I want you to come back here in a week to make everything is okay with your pregnancy. You will also need to get plenty of rest." A kind and caring look came over Nancy's face, as she gently took Luna's hand in hers. "I know that you have suffered a terrible loss today and that you most and likely won't be able to go home. Is there anywhere else that you could go and stay where there would be somebody to take care of you and make sure you get the rest you need for yours and your baby's sake."
"I am staying at with my friends, Harry and Ginny Potter at least until the person who is committing these crimes is found. I am planning on going to Hogwarts tomorrow with Draco to inform his son and both of mine about the death of his wife and my husband so they can hear it from us."
"I remember Madam Pomfrey from my years at school. I want you to have her in the room when you tell them just in case something happens and the stress of the situation starts to get to you. I know that you aren't going to be completely stress free during this time, Mrs. Scamander, but I want you to try to cut it down as much as possible. Because if you don't, there might be complications with your pregnancy."
"I understand."
"I will get your discharge information ready so when the arrangements are made to get you and Mrs. Potter home, you can leave." Nancy stood up and walked over to the door of the room, turning back to look at them before opening the door. "I am sorry for the loss the both of you have suffered today. I hope that everything turns out okay for all of you and they catch this psycho soon."
"Thank you, Healer Clovis," Draco stated, speaking for both he and Luna, who had her usual dreamy expression on her face as she touched her still flat stomach.
Nancy left the room as Draco went to sit back in the chair that she had vacated. He could see the happiness in his friend's eyes and it struck him as weird given the fact that they had barely talked in school, even when she was trapped down in his basement during the war that he could call her that. But with everything that had happened during this day between them, Draco could honestly say that Loony Luna Lovegood had become his friend.
"I can see that you are happy about the thought of having another baby, despite everything that has happened today, Luna." Draco's voice had an uncharacteristic kindness to it as he watched her.
"I am, this is making things a little easier to handle. It hopefully make it easier when it comes to telling my boys about Rolf, although Lysander worshiped his father, so I don't know how much I should tell them about his death. I am worried about my baby's reaction to his father's death."
"I know I should make a comment about the names you chosen to name your children but with the exception of Sabrina, I have no room to talk about what someone else names their child," Draco commented, with a hint of the smirk that he had used when they had went to school together.
"I was curious about that. Where did the name Sabrina come from?" Luna asked, grinning at him.
"That was all Scorpius' idea. I have made sure to raise my son to have a very different point of view, much to the horror of my father, in regards to muggles than I was taught growing up. I have even bought him one of those muggle televisions to have in his room and found a way to set up one of those satellites for him to watch various different shows, with restrictions for language and other content to be on the safe side. There is an old muggle television show about a teenage witch named Sabrina that he loves to watch and when he found out that the new baby was going to be a girl, Scorpius begged me and Tori to name her Sabrina. We both liked it and gave him his wish."
"How does he react to her?"
"He adores her and it was at Scorpius that Bree smiled for the first time. I am planning on taking her with me tomorrow so maybe the presence of his baby sister will help him deal with the news of his mother's death."
As he finished speaking, the events of the day had started to get to him and tears filled his grey eyes and Draco finally started to break down. He then felt her arms come around him and hold him as the tears started to fall from his eyes as the grief started to overwhelm him.
Unknown to the occupants of the room, Lucius, Narcissa, who was holding Sabrina, Ginny and Hermione were standing in the open doorway, a look of worry on all four of their faces. There was a fear that filled all of them that the events of this day could push Luna and Draco into something that would be too soon for either one of them.
The killer watched as the next two people he planned to make pay for their cheating actions, walk separately into an inn that was right outside of London. Anger filled him as he stepped into the building and followed the pair up to the room they usually met to carry on their affair, watching as they shared a vulgar and inappropriate kiss outside of the door. The man then struggled to open the door before he and woman he was with started to kiss again, pulling each other into their room, slamming the door behind them.
The killer stepped into the room next to theirs, one he had been renting out ever since he had discovered this couple and just who each of them were married to. He went to a tiny hole, that was in the wall right inside the door that the killer used to spy on them every week and felt rage fill him as the couple in the next room did things to each other that was only meant to be done with their spouses. The people that they had vowed to be with forever.
"I will make these people who treat their marriage vows like garbage pay, just like I did to my cheating excuse of a wife and her lover! So I can be worthy of her, the one I should have paid more attention to in school! The only woman who I know would never cheat on someone she loves." The man thought viciously to himself before stepping away from the wall and walking over to the stack of pictures that were sitting on the dresser, that was against the opposite wall. He lifted one of them up and the face of Luna, taken on one of her trips, standing beside a Hippogriff that she had just helped place in a safe home, watching her sweet smile come over her face as the picture moved. All of the rest of the pictures were of Luna in various different stages of he life over the years, some that had even been taken of her and Rolf.
AN: The killer is someone who went to Hogwarts with Luna, Draco and the others but who is he? Who was the couple he was watching and plotting their murder? What happened to him that has made him kill people who cheat on their spouses? How will he react to Luna, who he seems to be obsessed with, getting closer to Draco?
There won't be anything romantic happening between Draco and Luna for right now because of everything that has happened to them. They are just friends being there for the one person who understands what the other is going through. Although I am kinding of anticipating the thought of coming up with Harry, Ron and Lucius Malfoy's reactions to that growing closeness.
The next chapter, Draco will confront Daphne about her knowledge of Astoria's affair with Rolf and some of arrogance and cruelty that only he can pull off will be seen.