Content Warning: Has sexual content.

Ginny Potter walked down the upstairs hallway of her home and glanced into Lily's open doorway to the sight of Luna reading a story to the sleeping nine year old. The little girl, who had been told about Rolf's death but not about how he died and who he was with when it happened, had stuck to her Godmother's side ever since Luna had been brought back to their home. It warmed her heart to see Luna close the book, lay it on the bedside table, lean down to kiss the little girl on the forehead before turning on the lamp and leaving the room.

Luna smiled softly at her friend as she stepped out of the room and closed the door behind her. Ginny returned it before speaking softly so she wouldn't wake up Lily.

"I have some tea brewed downstairs, would you like some?"

"That would be lovely," Luna said, softly to her friend. "Where's Harry? I thought he would be here getting some rest before he had to be back at the Ministry."

The two women made their way downstairs and where about to sit down at the table before Ginny answered her friend's question.

"He received a message from Draco Malfoy," Ginny watched Luna's face closely when she mentioned their former schoolmate's name, watching for a reaction. "Harry told me that he had some more information about Rolf and Astoria's affair that he got out of Daphne before he left St. Mungo's."

Luna's face went pale at what Ginny had just said and it started to worry the red head that she might have to take her friend back to the hospital to get checked out again. She breathed a sigh of relief when Luna seemed to compose herself and started to speak.

"I hope to Merlin, he didn't scream at Daphne too badly, Gin. He was so angry at her for not telling him about the affair and I have a feeling he might have said something to her that will cause even more pain to that poor woman with what she is going through already."

"How can you be so forgiving, Luna? That little bint knew all about the fact that your husband was sleeping with Astoria and didn't say a bloody thing to you or Malfoy who, for once, I feel sorry for. I wouldn't blame him if he tore a strip off of her hide and refused to let Daphne see her niece and nephew. Did you think that maybe if Daphne would have said something, Rolf and Astoria might be alive right now? Either they would have ended their affair or you and Draco would have divorced them and they would have been together as a couple and would not have been in this killer's path."

"Ginny, I am very angry with her too but I think she is suffering enough with her guilt and add the death of her husband to it. Daphne Nott is paying for her actions without any of us passing judgment on her. That is all I am trying to say."

Ginny nodded her head in understanding, remembering that her longtime friend had never been the type to hold the things people had done in their past against them. She had never said a harsh word against Draco and his family after she had been held captive at their house during the war. In fact, she had joined Harry in testifying on the Malfoy's behalf in front of the Wizenmagot and told of how Draco in particular had checked on her and Mr. Ollivander, making sure that they were okay after Bellatrix had tortured them. Ginny had been a little suspicious over the years that something had happened between Luna and Draco during her time at the Malfoy's. It was only after their subsequent marriages to Rolf and Astoria, that she had pushed them to the back of her mind. Although now seeing Draco's reaction to Luna's pregnancy and how high risk it was, the old suspicions had started to creep back into her subconscious. Especially after seeing Lucius and Narcissa's reactions to the embrace the three of them and Hermione had walked in on.

"Luna, did something happen with you and Draco nineteen years ago?"

"No, nothing happened. At least not anything romantic, he would sneak downstairs and talk to me a lot of nights and I could see how scared he was. I think he had realized by then just how evil Voldemort really was and that he was in way over his head. A lot of times, I was comforting him more than anything else even after that I don't even think we were friends."

"What happened after the final battle and you had testified on his behalf?" Ginny asked, genuinely curious as to what had happened between Luna and Draco.

"Nothing. He shut himself off from everybody for a long time afterward, ashamed of everything he had done and every time I tried to see him, I was told that he didn't want to see me. I could see how bad Mrs. Malfoy felt when she had to tell me that so after a year of that, I had decided to leave him alone. I went on a trip to China to learn and help out with Muggle Panda Bears and that is where I met Rolf. I wasn't physically attracted to him but he was so smart and cared about helping out different creatures, magical and muggle, just like I did. We started out as friends and that lasted for about three years before we started to even date. We were together for about two years when Rolf proposed and I said yes, knowing that even though there wasn't any spark between us that we had so much in common, that everything would be okay." Tears filled Luna's eyes as she continued speaking. "I guess after Lila's death, he just got tired of being with someone who cringed every time he touched her and found somebody else who wanted him in that way. It's pretty ironic that it was the wife of the man who was against everything I believed in but on the one occasion he had touched me, I felt more of a physical attraction to him than I ever had with my own husband."

Ginny didn't say anything and continued to watch Luna as she quietly sipped her tea. She then thought about the Ministry party where Luna and Rolf had announced their engagement and a brief moment where Draco Malfoy, who was making his first public appearance since the war, looked devastated at the news. That is before he slipped a mask of cold disdain back into his silver eyes that had made her think she might have been seeing things. Although it did seem awfully suspicious that it wasn't long after that, Draco and Astoria had started to date and were announcing their own engagement.

"Luna, this is going to sound insane but is it possible that Draco might have only married Astoria because he had pushed you away and had lost you for good. I saw his face when you announced your engagement and for a brief second, he looked like his whole world was about to end."

"I know it is. I'm going to tell you something I haven't ever told anybody else, Ginny."

"What?"

"The night of that party, I came very close to calling off my engagement and telling Rolf that I wasn't in love with him, that I wanted somebody else."

"What happened, Luna?"

Flashback

13 years earlier,

Ministry of Magic

Reception Hall

Not long after she and Rolf had announced their engagement, Luna had went to use the ladies room. She was on her way back down the hall going towards the room where the party was being held when somebody had pulled her into a room. When she had gotten her bearing back, Luna was stunned to see a furious Draco Malfoy standing in front of her. He was blocking the door and had placed a spell on it to keep anybody from coming in or hearing what was said.

"You gave up too soon, Luna. It wasn't long after you left the last time that father laid into me and told me to get off my ass. That I was an idiot if I let you get away. So I kept sending you letters to get you to come and see but you never responded. Why didn't you write me back?"

"I never received any letters, Draco. Who did you send them to?"

"Your father's house."

Luna then realized just what had happened, her father had destroyed the letters all in an effort to keep his daughter away from Draco Malfoy. She then thought about how much Xenophilius had been pushing her towards Rolf, no matter how many times his daughter had told her fther that she didn't love him.

"My father made sure I never got them. That doesn't change anything. I made a promise to marry Rolf and I intend to go through with it. I'm sorry, any chance we had together is over."

She had then felt herself pulled against his lean and hard body, being kissed with a fierce and passionate desperation. Luna hadn't been able to help herself, she had wrapped her fingers into his sliver blond hair and returned kiss with an equal intensity.

A few moments passed and the moans of pleasure they were unable to hold in were the only thing heard throughout the room. He had laid her over the top of the desk, both of them bare to the waist, and was running scorching kisses across her upper body, paying special attention to her breasts, causing her to almost scream his name in ecstasy. It was only when his hand had touched her intimately on her upper thighs and in between that she pushed him away and stopped what was happening.

"Stop. I won't do this to Rolf. I am marrying him and there isn't anything you can do about it," She stated while pulling her dress back up to where it belonged and putting her robes back on.

Draco didn't say anything, he just dropped the spells that had been placed on the door, silently watching her walk out of the room and of his life. It was only when she was in the hall and getting ready to run down the hall, that the sound of him crying came across to her. Her first instinct had been to run back into the room and tell him that she had changed her mind but then she had seen Rolf walking down the hall towards her. His dark blonde hair and soft brown eyes, alight with love for her. She couldn't bear the thought of hurting him, so at that moment, Luna Lovegood had turned her back on Draco Malfoy and focused on a life with Rolf.

"So if you want to be technical, Ginny, I caused all of this that night when I decided to give into my father's manipulations and made the easy choice instead of the right one."

"Did you ever confront your father about him interfering with Draco's letters?"

"Yes, I did." Luna's eyes took on an uncharacteristic edge to them as she thought about her father's role in the way her life had turned out. "For a long time, except for when he gave me away at my wedding, I didn't talk to him or let him into my life. It was only after I had Lorcan and Lysander that I even let him back into my life again but it was never the same as when I was a little girl. I felt a deep resentment towards my father for interfering in my life and keeping me from being with the person that might have been the one I was meant to be with. My babies are the only thing that got me through this whole situation, nothing else.

Ginny was interrupted from making a comment on what her friend had just stated by the sound of her husband coming into the front door. She got up and greeted him with a tender kiss before going into the kitchen to get him the meal that she had put aside for him.

As Harry ate, he told Ginny and Luna everything Draco had told him that night. After his story was over, Luna had went upstairs to the guest room and cried herself to sleep as the days events and the ones from years ago all caught up to her.

Luna wasn't the only one thinking about the past that night as Draco sat in the sitting room of the manor, with a glass of firewhiskey in his hands. The death of his wife and her lover had thrown him and made him very angry at his sister-in-law for her part in Astoria's lies. But he also thought about how all of this could have been prevented if he would have interrupted Luna's wedding and told everyone just what Xeno Lovegood had done to keep him and Luna apart. But if he would have done that, Scorpius and Bree would not be here and they were the best things that had ever happened to him and he was pretty sure that Luna felt the same way about Lorcan, Lysander, her little girl that had been stillborn and the baby she was carrying now.

He should have never gave into his grief in front of her, knowing that Luna's first instinct would have been to comfort him. It had made him realize just how much he had missed her and had been lying to himself for the past thirteen years.

Draco was pulled out his thoughts by the sound of his father walking into the room. He glanced up at the older man and watched as Lucius got his own glass of firewhiskey before he sat down in the chair that was parallel to the chaise that Draco was sitting on.

"Son, do I have to warn you to be careful and not do something with Luna that will be highly inappropriate and too soon for either one of you?"

"No, father you don't."

"I know that Xeno Lovegood did something to stop Luna from getting the letters that you had sent to her and I'm sorry that it happened this way for the two of you. I wish to Merlin I would have been able to step in and prevent that wedding from ever happening and expose what had been done to keep you and Luna apart." Lucius took a deep breath before continuing to speak again. "But the best thing for the both of you, at least for right now is if you try to stay friends and nothing else. At least until this killer is found and she has her baby. Because it won't be just you and Luna who will have to hear the gossip from other witches and wizards, both of your children will also suffer for this. Let's just hope the truth about Rolf and Astoria's affair doesn't hit the Prophet before the two of you can talk to your children or it will make this situation ten times worse."

At the same moment, Rita Skeeter was getting ready to leave her office when she was stopped by a man in his mid thirties, who was short in height with blond hair and blue eyes. He gave her a look that scared the reporter to the very depths of her soul as he sat down in front of her and started to speak.

"My name is Dennis Creevey and I am offering you an exclusive into the killings of six witches and wizards that have taken place in the past twelve hours."

"Six, I thought there were only four deaths so far," Rita stated, starting to fear this man and had a sinking feeling she was about to regret her own reputation for making stories up just to sell newspapers. She was in trouble and had a feeling this man would want her very soul and nothing else.

The look of malicious delight that came into Dennis' eyes before he started to speak again to the terrified woman in front of him.

"Well I just killed the last two a couple of hours ago and they won't be the last, unless of course Luna Scamander does exactly what I want her to. You, my darling Rita will get to tell things from my side and if you ever reveal just who I am to Harry fucking Potter, I will do to you exactly what I have done to my previous victims."

"What do you want me to do?" Rita's voice trembled in fear as she watched the twisted and evil young man in front of her.

"I want your first story to be about how the first two victims, Rolf Scamander and Astoria Malfoy had been carrying on a five year affair. I also want you to give Luna Scamander a private message from me. She is to stay away from Draco Malfoy or I will kill him, his two children and his Death Eater parents. I also want her to sign custody of her sons to their great grandfather and abort the baby that she is carrying. She will belong only to me or I will keep killing until she gives into me. She will not be like that conniving, slut, bitch I married!"

'This guy is out of his bloody mind!' Rita thought to herself as she wrote down everything he had told her, scared for her but not so sure that she wanted to write this story this psychopath across from her wanted her to do. But if she didn't, Dennis Creevey looked like he would do exactly what he had threatened and not feel an ounce of remorse for his crimes.

AN: The killer has been revealed and it seems his brother, Colin's death and his own wife's, who we will find out more about later in the story, deception have warped the sweet and kind young boy that the others went to school with.

I have added a past for Draco and Luna as another explanation as to why he is so protective of her besides their spouses affair and murder. I hope I did the steamy part in the flashback sequence justice because I am still not quite comfortable in writing stuff like that.