Draco ran and ran and ran. He came to a low hanging branch, and pulled himself up into a tree. He didn't stop to think. He just grabbed another branch and climbed. Higher and higher and higher. Once, he stopped to look down, and found that the creature that didn't look like Crookshanks had jumped into the tree, and was climbing as fast a Draco.
"Help!" Draco called. "Please!"
There was another tree beside the one he was in. The branches were getting to weak to hold him. Draco broke one off and hit the creature over the head, and jumped to the next tree.
"Help!"
"Draco!"
Draco looked at the ground. Luna was running along beneath the trees as Draco jumped from tree to tree.
"Catch!"
She threw something. It was small and square. Draco caught it. A box of matches.
Draco climbed some more, until he was sure he had time.
*Swipe* The match went out. Draco dropped it. *Swipe* It didn't light. *Swipe* The flame caught. He lit the dead leaves on the tip of the dead branch, and watched as they burned.
He was snapped out of the trance when he heard a snarl.
The creature was just under him now, and was raising a paw to swipe at Draco. Draco swung the branch around in front of the creature's face. It backed off. Draco accidentally singed its whiskers, and it vaulted back and jumped out of the tree.
Draco dropped the branch, and Luna stomped out the flame. Draco climbed down from the tree. He hadn't realized how high he'd climbed.
He jumped to the ground next to Luna.
"How'd you find me?" Draco asked as Luna handed him his backpack.
"I followed your girlish shrieks," Luna replied. She giggled. "Actually, I had been looking for you for a while. The fire eventually went out, so I decided to come and find you. It shouldn't take three hours to find water. And now, we're lost."
"Lost?" Draco asked sheepishly.
"Yeah," Luna replied. Looking around. "It's only about 10:30 right now...but we need to find the town before it gets dark."
"It can't be that hard, can it?" Draco asked.
"We can't see the sky," Luna replied. "So, yes, it can be that hard. Thankfully, we're on a mountain. Unthankfully, the mountain leads in two directions-town, or a huge cliff that falls into a ravine. And also unthankfully, the mountain is filled with hills, and I have no idea which way we're facing."
"Oh," Draco said. "That's lovely."
"Come on, then," she said happily. She threw Draco's backpack, which he had dropped, into his arms, and they started out on the most Epic adventure of all time.
They walked for another hour. They were in the middle of two large hills.
"Draco, which way do you think leads to town?" Luna asked after a while, peering on either side of her to take in the giant rocks blocking their vision.
Draco shrugged.
"Moss always points to civilization," she said, crouching down to examine the pebbles and slightly larger stones.
Draco rolled his eyes. "You want me to take directions from a plant used in a forgetful potion?"
Luna shrugged. "Sure."
"I'm not going to."
"Alright," Luna said, looking around. "Then we'll have to do it the hard way."
Draco gulped, but he never went back on his word. He decided to be a man, and said, "Er...What's the hard way?"
"You climb up that hill, and I climb up this one, and we see which way points which," Luna said, dropping her bag and rushing to the rock. She kicked off her shoes, removed her socks, and slipped her foot into a crevice. She began to climb.
Draco watched her a few moments, watched as her beautiful body pulled itself, up and up and up and up...
Wait...did I just think beautiful? Luna's not beautiful. She's gorgeo-no. She's weird. Who likes Loony freaking Lovegoof?
"Are you going, Draco?" She asked, looking over her shoulder and down at him.
He shook his head quickly and spun, climbing up the hill. He lost his footing several times, but managed to reach the top. He looked around. He could see everything from up here. His mother and father, the surrounding treetops, the darkening sky, the beginnings of a tornado...tornado?
"Luna!" Draco yelled. He slipped and began to skid down the side of the hill. He grasped several times, bloodying his fingers, until he caught a rock and quickly climbed down. "LUNA!"
"What, Draco?" she asked. She appeared suddenly behind him. "Oh, Merlin, are you okay?"
"Do I look bloody okay?" He snapped angrily. She wasn't fazed. "Luna. I think I saw a tornado."
"Don't worry. I saw it too."
"Don't worry?"
"There's a cave right there," she said as rain began to fall. Draco heard a crack of thunder.
"What about my parents?" Draco asked worriedly as he climbed into the small cave.
"They'll be fine if they hide behind the waterfall," Luna assured. "Here."
She began struggling with a heavy looking stone, and so Draco got up and helped her. They pushed it towards the entrance, and soon, they were enveloped in darkness only broken by a small stream of light coming from a crack in the top of the stone. Draco could hear the wind whistling outside. It came through the crack, cooling the already cold and damp cave.
Luna shivered. She had on only her camisole and shorts after all. Draco told himself that what he did next was only because he couldn't survive in the wilderness without her. He wrapped his arms around her.
"I'm okay," she assured.
"No, it's really cold in here," Draco said, settling her on his lap. "And damp. You'll catch a cold."
Luna nodded, curling up, her hair tickling his nose.
"When do you think it will end?" Draco asked awkwardly after several minutes of silence.
"No way of knowing," Luna replied. "But I suppose when the wind stops it will be safe to come out."
They were startled by a large crash. A few tree leaves danced through the air as they fell through the crack. A sea of green could now be seen.
"This could be trouble," Luna mumbled. "But don't worry. We'll get out of this."
"This COULD be trouble?" Draco exclaimed, jumping up, leaving Luna on the ground. "DON'T worry? Luna, a tree just fell over the rock. We're going to die in here!"
"No we won't." She sounded close to tears.
Draco breathed deeply, glaring down at her. "This is all my fathers fault."
"How?"
"He couldn't deal with just a little bit of pain, and we had to go get him a doctor," Draco said angrily. "No, wait, scratch that. It's mum's fault. A no magic camping trip. Please. Honestly. We're wizards. We can't live without magic; we've had it all our lives. When it's just taken from us, we're as pathetic as...as..."
"As what?" Luna asked, staring up at him with her big, silvery eyes.
"YOU!" Draco roared. He had to get it out, take it out on someone. He couldn't fancy Luna. He would realize that when he crushed her feelings and found pleasure in her sadness. But he couldn't. When a look of pure sadness crept across her face, it tugged at Draco's heart, and he felt like crying.
Luna blinked, the sadness leaving her face, then stood, also angry. This was a side of Luna Draco didn't no existed. "You know what? I'd like to know just how exactly I'M pathetic. Because it seems to me that if we're searching for pathetic, you're the poster child. You knew right from wrong, but you followed in your fathers footsteps anyways because you were AFRAID of him. You did the dark lords bidding because you gave in to his tricks of torment. I was subject to the things he did! I was tortured and locked in a closet, while you paraded around just a floor above me, not even bothering to help, not bothering to think that maybe if you broke away from all of the badness of what was going on at the time, that if you just joined Harry Potter, you'd be serving a great cause, ridding the world of the bad caused by YOUR Lord! So I think you're the pathetic one. You're fear is pathetic! You and your father are PATHETIC!"
Draco couldn't contain himself. He slapped Luna across the face. Her head snapped to the side, and her eyes closed.
"Luna," Draco said, eyes widening. "Luna, I'm sorry." He took a step towards her, but she stepped back. "Luna, I'm-"
"Get away from me!" She shrieked. "I hate you!"
"Luna!"
He reached for her wrists, but she pulled back her fist and punched Draco in the nose. Draco heard a crack, but Luna didn't even apologize.
She walked to the other side of the cave and sat down in a corner, her hand holding her face. A few moments later, Draco heard her crying.
Draco punched the wall, angry with himself. The rough wall bit into his fist, and blood trickled down his hand. He didn't care. He punched over and over; throw after throw, until his hand was numb. As he pulled back to throw it forward again, something stopped him.
"Stop it," Luna said. "I'll fix your hand and your nose."
Draco had forgotten about his nose. It was most probably broken.
He sighed and nodded, then dropped to the ground.
"Do you still have those matches?" Luna asked. Draco cringed. There was absolutely no emotion whatsoever in her voice.
He nodded and handed them to her. Luna lit one and set fire to a small pile of branches she'd managed to scrounge up from what had fallen. She rummaged through her bag and pulled out a first aid kit and a towel. She cleaned the fresh blood on his hand first, then his nose. She pulled out a familiar bottle.
"Oh, crap," Draco said, his breath picking up.
Luna was desperately trying to hold in her smile. "Hold out your hand."
"No, that's okay, I'm fine," Draco said, hiding his hand behind his back.
Luna rolled her eyes and nodded at the wall. "Look at that. It's disgusting. Your fist will get infected."
"How about we fix my nose first?" Draco nearly whined.
"Your nose is fine. It's not broken," Luna said. "Come on, now, hold out your hand."
Draco held out his hands and squeezed his eyes shut.
His yell caused a pebble to move. This caused a clump of dirt to give under the weight of the tree. The tree tumbled down; letting in all of the wind and rain they couldn't hear before.
Luna rolled her eyes. "Wimp."
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