Hi, guys! Here's the final chapter of Nightmares and Moonlight. It's a Luna POV. Hope you like it! Now I'm free to attend to my other writing, so I'm hopeful that I can be more active than I was over the summer!

Thanks,

Lady of the Green Kirtle

Luna knows that Theo feels betrayed. She saw it in his eyes when he looked at Blaise pleadingly and got no response. She also knows that Theo leaving is best for all of them. Blaise can't heal with Theo around. Hell, she can't heal with Theo around. She knows it's wrong to just cast Theo aside because he's broken, but some things are too broken to fix.

Theo is too broken for anyone to fix.

And if he can't help her fix Blaise then he needs to stop doing more damage at least. She sees how Blaise gets when Theo has an episode. He becomes moody and withdrawn and gets drunk.

He never cries though. He would cry if Theo was fixable. They have all three given up on Theo.

Luna can still hear Theo's voice in her head, telling her he's trying. She knows that he is. He just isn't trying hard enough. He isn't building himself up fast enough. Theo's therapist says that he could be better faster. That he doesn't feel the need to hurry. So Luna will wait until he's better to let him come home. She's going to make him feel that pressure.

She goes to the living room. Blaise is sitting by the window, looking out. His phone is on the table. She can see the screen light up, with another text from Theo. She picks it up and reads a few words. Theo's pleading even now, the text reads I LOVE YOU, WHY ARE YOU PUNISHING ME?. Luna frowns and blocks Theo. She comes up behind Blaise and puts a hand on his shoulder. He pulls her into his lap and she smiles. He presses his face into her neck and whispers something. She asks him to repeat himself. He says it again "I do love him. This is killing me." She sighs. "Don't you love me?" she asks, curious and testing. "I love both of you." He replies. "I need both of you." She shakes her head. She doesn't know much, but she knows that isn't how love works. She says as much. He frowns at her. Then he puts her on the couch and scoots away from her to face her. She knows that they're gearing up for a fight.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"You can't love two people the same. You have to love one of us more."

"I don't. If you really loved me, you wouldn't make me choose."

"It's wrong. No one else does that because it's wrong."

"Does what, exactly?"

"Loves two people romantically."

"So I'm no one? Theo understood."

Luna gasps like Blaise just slapped her. Bringing Theo into this was out of line. Luna isn't ready to question how she feels. She knows that she isn't supposed to love Blaise and be attracted to Theo. She thought that maybe if Theo left it would fix things inside her. It hasn't.

The next day, Luna goes to see Theo at Nott Manor. He opens the door, pale and messy haired. When he sees it's her, he doesn't know what to say. She asks to come in.

Inside she kisses him and tells him that Blaise missed him. That she was wrong. That she pushed him away because she was afraid of what she felt. He asks if the therapist actually said that. She tells him that she did, but that Luna and Blaise don't believe it. She asks him to come home.

He does. Blaise cries when he sees him. Doesn't let go of Theo for three hours. Tells him he loves him. Tells Luna he loves her.

And Luna kisses Blaise's mouth and turns to Theo, and for once, she says the right thing.

Luna looks him in the eye and says "I love you."