A.N: It has been awhile I know. But heres the next chapter. And you people know I don't own Harry Potter.
Together Chapter Nine
On the morning of October 31st, Luna wakes up to the rain splattering against the window and the wind wailing like an eerie spectral on a far off hillside somewhere. The clouds are angry looking, dark and spinning, like they are here to battle with the day. The usually bright and reverberant trees that have been changing into their fall colors are now cloaked in fog and are swaying in a chaotic dance: swaying, bending, and buckling with the wind. Luna can not help smiling to her self thinking that it couldn't be a more fitting day for All Hallow's Eve.
Luna lies in bed not wanting to abandon her warm cozy bed for the cold outside world. So instead she watches her breath move across the room swirling in the frosty air. It taking different shapes and changing into all kinds of neat things. She would love to lay in bed all day and not do anything. However, she knows if she doesn't get up soon she'll be late for work and that would not be good. Especially since its Halloween. The shop is going to be swamped with people wanting to get last minute things for all their tricks and treats.
Slowly Luna starts to remove her covers, trying to keep all the warmth that she possibly can. After failing at this she jumps out of bed and runs full speed into the bathroom barely missing her dresser. She quickly turns on the shower and gets in, the hot water making the window and mirror fog up. After showering she gets out and changes into a pair of jeans and an orange long sleeve shirt. She then puts on her butter beer necklace and her dirigible plum earrings and her red converse's. She uses her wand to dry her hair and then goes down stairs to eat a quick breakfast. When she is finished with breakfast she grabs her cloak and exits the house.
At the shop George turns on the lights and turns the closed sign to open. He stands in front of the window and frowns a little. 'Why does it have to rain?' He wonders before going into his office. Has he sits down he hears the shop door open and he knows that it is Luna. She is always on time which in his book is a good thing since he is rarely on time ever.
Luna skips into the shop and is glade to see that George has decorated the shop for the holiday. Above the shelves are jack a'lanterns and candles suspended in the air, much like what she was use to seeing at Hogwarts. Hanging from some of the shelves are spider webs with fake spiders moving around on them.
She giggles thinking that she can't wait to mess with Ron when he arrives. She skips into George's office and sits down across from of him. She shakes her head at him because George is sitting with his head on his desk.
"It seems that someone needs to get more sleep." She says with a cheeky grin. George sits up with a groan. Luna laughs at him.
"Errg.. How can you be so sunny in the morning?" He asks her as he rubs his eyes. She just shrugs and starts messing with a paper on his desk. "Doesn't the storm put a damper on your mood?"
"No. I like the rain, it makes everything feel different. It feels like the world is waiting for something to happen." She says still messing with the paper. George just shakes his head and groans again as he gets up from his chair.
"I think you are the only person that I know who likes the rain."
"So I'm the only sane one." She says getting up and skips out of the office. George laughs softly as he follows her out.
After a long day of helping rowdy shoppers Luna arrives home feeling drained and tired. She walks up the stairs to the sitting room and falls onto the coach face first with a groan.
She never imagined that working at the shop could make her so tired, now she understands what Neville was talking about. She doesn't even want to get up and get ready for the party, she's so beat. She wishes that she could just sleep for a hundred years and then go, but since she would be very old by then, she instead gets up and changes.
Like she told George all those weeks ago, she is going to the party as a butterfly. She found a cute black dress and made shiny blue wings and antennae. She is very happy about how well it came out, usually she dresses has one of the creatures that other people don't believe exists. However, this year she decided to go as something everyone would know, and finally she won't be looked at strangely.
She changes, brushes her hair, and puts on a pair of silver flats and her butterbeer necklace. She doesn't want to be infested with nargles. When she's done she makes sure she has her wand and then exits the house.
Back at the shop she sees that she is not the first person to arrive, the shop is already crowed with people. She enters and is amazed by how different the shop looks. The shelves have been moved and the counter has turned into a food table. The lights have dimmed and the candles and jack a'lanterns are ablaze and shinning down on everyone. There is music playing from some unknown source and there are people dancing and enjoying one another. She sees Neville and Hannah dancing, Ron is stuffing his face while Hermione gives him disapproving looks, she thinks she sees Harry and Ginny snogging in a corner. She doesn't see George anywhere and wonders where he could possible be. She hopes that he is not sitting in a corner in a depressed stouper.
A couple of weeks ago George informed her that the annual Halloween party was Fred's idea when they first opened the shop. He also told her that it doesn't feel the same without Fred, he has often considered stopping the tradition, but hasn't because Fred would want him to keep it going. Luna can not help feeling sad when she thinks about George having to live each day missing a part of him. That is why Luna intends to make George have has much fun as possible tonight.
Luna slowly makes her way through the crowd towards Ron and Hermione. She sees that they dressed up as what Luna believes to be Romeo and Juliet. She can't help thinking that it was Hemione's idea. As she approaches George walks out of the office dressed in his pirate costume. Luna smiles at him because he makes a pretty good pirate, he has everything down even a fake hook for a hand.
"Hey Luna!" George says happily. "Enjoying the party?" He asks.
"Yeah, I like what you have done with the place. But I can't help but notice that the population of nargles in here has increased." Luna says looking around.
"I guess we are all going to be a little absentminded tonight." George says with a smile. At that moment George's mom comes over to them.
Mrs. Weasley is dressed as Little Bo Peep. Wearing a light blue dress with a white apron and bonnet. "Hello George." She says giving him a hug and then noticing Luna. "Oh! Hello dear! How have you been?" She asks hugging Luna.
"Hi, I've been good." Luna tells her recovering from the unexpected hug.
"That's good dear. I hope you haven't been working to hard?" She says looking over at George.
Luna smiles,"Not really, I get a couple of hours of sleep. Enough too get me through the day. And I only throw my back out every other day." Luna says. Mrs. Weasley glares at George and begins to yell at him. Luna sneaks away laughing.
She somehow finds her self by Harry and Ginny, who have stopped snogging and are now just talking. They are dressed has Cinderella and Prince Charming. Ginny is wearing a beautiful grown and Harry is dressed in a dashing suit. They greet her with smiles and the begin to talk about Ginny's wedding planning.
"Luna a wanted to ask you if you would be my maid of honor?" Ginny asks. Luna lights up like a candle.
"Of course I would." She says hugging Ginny. They begin to talk excitedly about flowers and dresses and things. A little while later Luna is standing by herself on the wall watching the dancers when George comes up to her.
"Thanks. Now my Mother thinks I'm a slave driver." George says with a groan. Luna begins to laugh. "I didn't see why your laughing, because now you have to do something with me." Luna stops laughing and gets a little scared. 'What is he going to make me do?' "Its nothing that much just go up to Ron and put this in his hair." He says holding up a fake spider that is charmed to move.
"I don't know about that. It seems kinda mean."
"Oh, don't give me that. I know you have been wanting to do it all day." George says with a grin as he watches Luna's face change.
"Fine. Give me the spider." She says thinking to herself, 'I think he's a bad influence on me.' She takes out her wand and uses it to float the spider across the room and onto Ron's head. "There. I've done it." George smiles. They stand there waiting for Ron to notice the spider.
After about fifteen minutes Ron finally starts to jump around screaming. George and Luna begin to laugh as well as a bunch of other people. Soon Ron stops and turns and glares at George he then turns and smacks Harry in the head who is still laughing.
"Well if it isn't George Weasley?" Says a girl walking up to them. The girl is dark skinned and tall, she's dressed as a nurse and looks very pretty. Luna can't help feeling a little inferior.
"Is that? No it can't be. Angelina Johnson in the flesh! Long time no see." George says hugging the girl happily.
"I know. It has been too long. How have you been?" Angelina asks.
"I've been good. You? Where have you been?" George asks.
"You know, here and there. I have been around, I'm back because I got a spot on the Holy Harpies. Thanks to your sister."
"That's great! Congrats." George says with a smile. They begin to talk and Luna begins to feel like she doesn't belong in the conversation and decides to find a new place to stand.
Some time later the party is winding down and Luna is very sleepy, almost falling asleep where she is sitting. She has enjoyed the party very much but is ready to go home. She is just about to leave when Ginny comes over holding up a drunken George.
"Luna!" George yells drunkenly and Ginny rolls her eyes. She brings him over and sits him down.
"What happened to him?" Luna asks concerned.
"Him and Ron got into a drinking game and George here won." Ginny says once again rolling her eyes.
"I beat the pants off of him!" George says and then he starts laughing uncontrollably.
"The sad thing is, he really did beat the pants off Ron. Hermione is still looking for them." Ginny says shaking her head. Now its Luna turn to start laughing.
"How did I miss that?" Luna asks and Ginny shrugs.
"Luna I was wondering if you could take care of George tonight. I would do it, but I have an early practice in the morning. All you have to do is make sure he gets to sleep okay and then you can go." Ginny says hoping Luna won't get mad.
Luna sighs and agrees not wanting her friend to be to tired for her practice. "Oh, thank you so much! I'll make it up to you I promise." Ginny say happily giving Luna a hug.
"It's no problem, I owe him one anyway." Luna tells her. Ginny then tells her she has to go and leaves George in Luna's care. Luna looks over at George and sees that he is pretending to battle some imaginary foe. "Come on its time for bed." She says pulling him up and up to his flat.
Upstairs she takes off his hook and eye patch and then turns around to put them on the table. When she turns back around to George she sees that he has started to undress himself. Luna quickly covers her eyes and asks him what he is doing.
"I am getting undressed, I can't sleep as a pirate. Then my evil foe Deep Sea Joe is going to find out where I put my treasure." He explains to her in a drunken slur.
"I'm sure he won't find it." Luna tells him.
"Well, I'm not taking any chances." George says finally finishing undressing. When Luna opens her eyes she sees George is standing in his boxers. She blushes bright red and leads him to his bed. She makes him lay down and puts the covers over him. He then tries to make her lay next to him and somehow in their struggle she ends up on top of the covers next to him with Georges arm over her stomach. She trying to get up but George, even in a drunken state, is still stronger then her. So she lays still hoping that when he falls asleep she can get up. As she's laying there she can feel sleep pulling at her and she is trying her best to resist it. However, she soon finds that she can't stay awake any longer and closes her eyes falling into a deep sleep
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