Chapter Five!

Chasing after the rabbit.

There wasn't many things that made Luna Lovegood mad, but if you did insult her mother she would get ticked off. Though not too many people knew exactly what happened, quite frankly they didn't care. Luna was glad, it would only draw attention to her if they did. Another thing, that made her mad was rumours. Of course she would never let people see that made her mad though. But a certain one sure did.

After running into Draco, she made her way to the great hall. Luna had to go eat something. She noticed that more people then usual looked at Luna and laughed while some glared. Luna ignored it and went to the Ravenclaw table when Ginny sat next to her, looking shocked.

"Luna did you sleep with him!"

"Who?" Luna asked, still eating.

"Michael Corner. Did you!"

"No, I've only ever been awake with him. Why would you say that Ginny?" Luna was a little hurt.

"Because the whole school know's about it.. or, a rumour has been spread about it."

Luna dropped her fork, she didn't realise that if Ginny thought so, everyone else would. She looked around shocked, as she did a couple of Slytherin's walked past her table and whispered something along the lines of "I bet she forced him too, no one would like to do .. that." Then they laughed and went to their table.

Luna looked at Ginny as if saying 'What do I do?' Ginny just sat there. Luna sighed and bit her lip. She got up and off the table, she didn't know where she was going to go but she didn't want to be around the others. Suddenly someone from her house called out.

"Loony Luna, I wouldn't think to see the day when your the school's biggest sluuut." She dragged out the word slut when Luna turned around.

"I didn't sleep with anybody!" She cried out.

"I heard, you slept with three other boys, and they took you all at the same time." A couple of the girls went "eeeew" and some of the guys laughed.

"I didn't! I swear it's not true!" Luna was trying her hardest not to cry, she didn't want that to be seen in front of everyone. Ginny had got up and was trying to tell others it wasn't true, but Luna didn't get to hear anymore because she ran out of the great hall. She heard a couple of comments from other people as she ran out.

Once she started running through a hallway, she almost straight away got stopped by Hermione, a look of disbelief on her face. "You didn't, did you?" Luna shook her head and then said an excuse under her breathe and kept running. Hermione and Luna weren't exactly the closest people in the world, but they were still friendly towards each other.

Suddenly Blaise Zabini stepped around a corner, and looked at Luna and smirked. "Hey Loony, just wondering if you'd fancy a quick shag?"

"No thankyou."

"Aww but you done it with the other guys."

"No I didn't, I've never had sex. "

Blaise fell into step with Luna as she tried to walk off, he winked at her. "I won't tell anyone, I swear."

"I don't want sex with you Blaise, now please just leave me alone. I didn't sleep with anyone!"

Luna ended up running away from him, she hated the new attention she was getting. She felt slightly violated. He called out to her after she ran "Well let me know when your up for one!"

She got puffed out, and realised she was near the forbidden forest. Thinking it was a smart idea at the time, she walked toward it. Luna figured she wouldn't find anyone else here, and she didn't want to just sit and cry in the girls bathroom toilets. Myrtle would probably bug her.

Luna was furious as well as upset. She couldn't believe someone would say that about her. She pondered weather it was Michael himself or if it was someone that saw her. Draco, it might of been him. He might of been acting that way just to know what was happening. Luna shook her head while walking, she shouldn't accuse anyone when she didn't know.

Luna felt tears streaming down her face, and her eyes where clouded. It was getting to the point where it was hard to see, so Luna sat down on the ground and tried to wipe the tears away. She didn't like to cry, but she couldn't help it. She knew this rumour would haunt her for the rest of school.

Luna let out a shaky breathe and looked around her. She realised she was a little lost, but she didn't care at that moment. Suddenly Luna heard a twig snap near her and she jumped up. She realised soon that it was a student.

"Please .. just go away." Luna managed to get out, before a few tears rolled down her face again. Luna done her best to try and stop them.

"So you like it rough Lovegood? That's why you had the hit mark?" Draco started to laugh a harsh laugh.

"Go. Away."

"Ooh, yes wouldn't want to disturb you, this is probably where you done it yes? I heard your asking for money."

"Shut up Draco and leave me alone! I don't want your crap right now."

He gasped, "So you do swear?"

Luna got up, her eyes still red from crying before. She slapped him, hard, across the face. He looked totally shocked, Luna took a couple of steps back. "Oh.. Draco.. I'm so sorry.. I never meant to-"

He pulled out his wand and glared. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't hex you right now."

"What's with you Draco one moment your nice then your.. like this."

"That's your reason?"

"No, I'm just saying.."

Draco shrugged and started to wave his wand, but he couldn't help but feel a small pang of guilt. He couldn't bring himself to hurt her. Luna stood there for a moment before talking again, in a low voice she said, "I never slept with anyone. It's just a rumour."

"Then what did happen?"

"Nothing did. Well, apart from the Nar-"

"I don't want to hear about the Nargles, I know that your making it up. Now tell me, because I know your wandless while I'm not." He pointed his wand against her neck, with no real intension of doing anything. Luna knew he wouldn't, but she still told him.

"It's just going to make things worse, your probably the one who started the rumours but fine.. Michael tricked me into going into an empty classroom with him, so i went in and then he tried to.. tried.." Luna sighed and looked down. "You get the picture."

Draco nodded, but didn't say anything. She suddenly wrapped her arms around him and buried her head into his chest, surprising them both. He stepped back and pushed her away. He then stormed out of the forest, looking once over his shoulder to call out "I don't know who started it, but I didn't." then he looked back around and vanished into the trees.

She knew it was a stupid thing to do, but she thought for a moment that he would put his arms around her and tell her everything would be alright. "I need to stop daydreaming." Luna told herself.

Luna started to walk further into the forest, with nothing else to do. She felt like she never wanted to go back, she wished she could stay here forever. Luna saw she heard a twig snap near her again, but she turned around and no one was there.

Suddenly she had the eerie feeling she was being followed, so she quickened her pace while walking. It was dark now, the trees had blocked out almost all of the light. It would never get pitch black, but it was almost hard to see.

She kept walking around, suddenly running because she felt like whatever was following her was getting closer. She ran for a couple of minutes, then thought of how silly it was.

While she walked around Luna swear she saw a unicorn fowl, but it quickly disappeared. She also saw a couple of other creatures, but they never stuck around.

Luna made a silly bet to herself that the next creature she saw, she would try to catch it, or befriend it. After a couple of moments she saw a white rabbit, Luna started to run after it laughing to herself.

It reminded her of a muggle story she once read, Alice in Wonderland. It was Luna's favourite book to read, no matter how old it now was.

She was starting to catch up with the rabbit now, which was surprising Luna. Normally rabbit's where very fast. She held out her arms and was so close now, she almost felt it's fur.

Suddenly she heard a yell, like someone was in trouble. They we're close to Luna so she stopped and the rabbit hopped off. There was no chance of catching it now. "Damn." She whispered to herself.

Luna heard the yell again, it was obviously a boys, and she ran towards it. Luna found a student on the ground, he must have been following her. She couldn't see him well though, he had a couple of cuts and a Centaur just about to stamp his hoof on them."STOP!" Luna screamed out.

The Centaur turned to Luna, and that was all the time she needed. Luna pulled out her wand and stupefied the Centaur all in one swift motion. It now stood immobile. Luna walked up to the person on the ground and saw Draco. Luna sighed and waved her wand again, causing the cuts and bruises to vanish.

Draco started to stand, "Thank-""Were you following me?"

"No.."Luna gave him a look of disbelief.

"Look thanks for healing me, I wasn't following you, and I need to get going now.""Wait!" "What?""I.. I'm lost.."

Draco started to laugh. He considered just leaving her here, but she would be furious later. He sighed and looked serious again."Fine, follow me."

Luna smiled then started to walk with him. Luna stayed silent for a while, looking around them. She saw a tree with two people's names in it, with a heard around them. Luna found it cute. After a while of walking around, Luna spotted the same tree, she looked at Draco who didn't seem to realise that they were walking in circles."Draco, we're walking in circles."

"No were not."

"Yes, we are. I saw that tree before.""There are lots of trees like the one you just saw."

"Yes, but it had the same thing carved on it."

Draco stopped walking and ran a hand through his hair. "Crap." He muttered.

"Lets just keep walking?" Luna suggested, and Draco nodded.

They past more trees, only to be getting further into the forest. Luna heard a couple of noises coming from near them and started walking a little closer to Draco without realising.

Suddenly Luna saw a massive tree, with thick branches sprouting out of it. She badly wanted to climb up it, she loved climbing up trees. Though she doubted that Draco would wait for her to come down, so she didn't say anything. Luna tried to remember the tree for later on if she came to this part of the forest again.

Luna hoped they were getting close to the castle, she was starting to get tired. She didn't know how long she had been in the forest now.

She felt something hit her foot, or her foot hit something, and then she fell over. Luna tried to get up but she whimpered a little when she felt pain in her calf muscle.

Draco turned around and looked at her. "What's wrong?"

"I think I've got a cramp in my leg.""Where?"

"Calf."

Luna sat up and held her leg out, while Draco leant down. She let out a small gasp when he started to touch her leg. Draco put two hands over her calf, and started to dig his thumbs into her skin, rubbing roughly. It hurt, but Luna knew that this was the only way to help it.

Soon, the pain stopped and Luna's cramp was gone. She hesitated telling him though, because she liked the way it felt.

"I-it doesn't hurt anymore." She whispered quietly, she wasn't even sure if he heard.

Draco released some of the pressure he was placing in her leg, but kept his hands moving. Slowly rubbing up and down her leg, though never past her knee. She tried to steady her breathing, and not show any signs that she was enjoying it more then she should.

Slowly he moved both hands past her knee, still gently rubbing up and down her leg. Luna let out a long unsteady breathe and she could of sworn she saw Draco smirk a little. He moved them up a little higher, and heard her gasp when he was almost at her panties.

Draco took his hands away and offered her his hand to help her up. Luna took his hand In hers, a little dizzy and stood up. There was another small rock though, and she fell slightly, right into him. Luna took a step back and tried not to look at him. "Sorry." She said.

Draco started to walk again, Luna following. Soon they walked past a clearing, and could see the Hogwarts castle. They didn't say anything to each other as they went their separate ways.