Okay, you all should be happy! I have finals in a few days, but I decided to write this instead of studying :) Sorry for any mistakes, I didn't proof-read this one. Anyways, the secret's out! Enjoy!

As always, I don't own Harry Potter characters :(

"Hey, boys, knock it off!" Ron said to his twin boys, Cass and Will. He moved his attention back to the Daily Prophet and noticed a familiar face in one of the articles.

Quibbler Writer Leaves Wife and Children Behind

Directly under the headline was a picture of a woman holding a bundled up infant in one arm while her other hand clasped the hand of a miniature replica of herself. If Ron hadn't recognized her from her long blonde hair and dazed blue eyes, the radish earrings would have given it away.

Luna Lovegood.

Ron quickly read the article. Apparently her husband, Alexei Lancaster, was studying some strange creature for a story when it became hostile and attacked. Ron had heard Luna married someone from the Quibbler, but never gave it much thought. To see her with two little girls was a little strange. The article said the infant girl was only a couple weeks old.

Ron thought back to his school days. Luna was a year behind him, and Ron didn't meet her until his fifth year when he and his friends started up Dumbledore's Army. He actually thought she was cute when he first met her, even if the radish earrings were a little bit odd. But he thought differently after she opened her mouth spouting tales of nargles and the like. Since then, Ron always called her 'Loony Lovegood."

He wondered what she would do now. Surely she couldn't take care of two kids and work. He knew how hard it could be and he had his friends and family to help him. As far as he knew, Luna was an only child and both of her parents were gone. He wasn't sure what family Alexei had to help her either.

Ron's attention shifted to his children when he heard Emma's blood chilling screams and cries. "Cass!! Let go of your sister's hair!" Thoughts of Loony Lovegood faded as he sprang to his feet to reprimand his son. He never even had time to think through why he cared about the blond-haired witch so much.

"Hermione, wake up." Severus gently pulled her hair from her face as she stretched.

"What time is it?" she asked groggily.

"Barely after breakfast."

"What?" She sat up slowly. "Why didn't you wake me up?"

"You've been dead on your feet for the past few days. I decided to let you sleep."

Hermione sighed and smiled, "Why did you wake me up if you wanted me to get more sleep."

Severus smirked. Leave it to his know-it-all to pick out that small detail. "I have something for you."

Hermione's eyes opened and scanned his person. "A present?"

Severus smirked and held out his hands to show they were empty. "Yes, but you have to get up for it."

"Alright." He helped her to her feet and together they walked out to the sitting room. Hermione instantly noticed dark shimmery drapes hanging from the wall that weren't there before. "What's that?"

"Open it." He smiled as Hermione quickly made her way to the drapes and pulled them back.

Hermione gasped and gently touched the glass. Behind the drapes, Severus had enchanted the wall into a window to look out over the lake. "When did you do this?"

"During your nap." He moved behind her and eased his arms around her. "I noticed you've gone out to the lake as much as possible lately. I thought you'd enjoy looking out at it while in the dungeons."

"And it's nice to actually have a window in the dungeons," she smiled up at him. Her smile faded as she looked between Severus and the window. "What did you do?"

"What?"

"You did something and this is to lessen the blow." She moved from his arms and looked at him.

Severus scowled, "I don't know what you're talking about."

"I doubt that. Fine, you didn't do something, but you're still hiding something from me."

"It wasn't something I did. It was Hogwarts' famous Miss Landers. That day you overheard her she stayed after class and—attacked me."

"You mean she tried to seduce you."

"Well, yes."

"Why are you acting like it is your fault? Unless you let her."

"No! Do you think so low of me? I had to let you know before she tried to make it into something else. I have to find someone else to teach her potions," he added.

Hermione smiled, "I'll do it."

Severus' face hardened. "No, absolutely not. You're not supposed to be near potions."

"I won't. Think of it as more punishment. She is forced to be away from her beloved potions professor and she's not allowed to do any active potions making, only book work."

Severus pulled her into his arms, "Why weren't you in Slytherin again?"

When Ron entered the Longbottom quarters, he froze in the doorway as his kids ran past him to play with their cousins. At the kitchen table, Neville sat with little Danny trying to get her to eat her breakfast. Also at the table a little blond haired girl who looked oddly familiar.

She's the little girl from the Prophet! Luna's daughter. Ron quickly surveyed the room, but Luna wasn't in sight, neither was Ginny. "Hello Neville," Ron said as he sat in the chair across from the girl.

"Hello." Neville bounced the little girl on his knee, "Come on, Danny; please just eat?" The girl stuck her nose in the air and 'harrumphed.'

Ron smiled at the girl's antics and looked across the table at the blond haired one. He was slightly fazed when he realized she was staring intently at him. "Hello, I'm Ron Weasley. I went to school with your mum."

The girl sat silent as she watched him with those bright blue eyes.

"Erm, what's your name?" Ron asked.

Again the girl remained quiet, but her head slowly tilted to one side as she studied him.

Blimey, like mother like daughter! Ron thought as he shifted uncomfortable.

Neville grimaced as Danny through a handful of cereal at his face. He wiped it off and looked up to his two guests. "It's polite to answer, Lucretia. She's Luna's daughter," he explained to Ron.

Ron nodded and looked to Neville. "I know. I read the paper this morning. Is she here?" He mentally asked where the younger daughter was.

"Yes. As soon as Gin saw the article, she went to get Luna. They're back in our room if you want to see her. Her young one was getting fussy."

Ron nodded and looked to Lucretia again before standing up and moving towards the master bedroom. As he entered, he saw Luna sitting on the bed while Ginny cradled a squirming infant.

Ron froze in the doorway when he entered. He hadn't seen Luna since he had graduated. Her hair was much longer than what it was when they were longer. She had it pulled back in a ponytail, but it still reached her lower back. He noticed she wasn't wearing her radish earrings anymore, but he wasn't really focused on that. He couldn't believe how beautiful she was—

Did I just think Loony Lovegood was beautiful?! Something must be wrong with me, he though sadly.

"Ronald Weasley. I haven't seen you in years." Luna's soft dreamy voice floated across the room to him.

What's wrong with me?! he thought wildly. Dreamy voice?! This is LOONY LOVEGOOD we're talking about! "Loony—I mean Luna. Sorry," he felt his face flame. Stupid Weasley blush!

"Think nothing of it," she said softly, the dreaminess coming out of her voice slightly.

Ron saw what he thought were tears in her eyes, but he shrugged it off and looked at the wailing infant in Ginny's arms. "Who's this?" Ron smiled as he looked down at the baby girl. She had dazzling clear eyes with hints of gray at the edges with Luna's bright blond hair.

"Estrella. It means 'star' in Spanish." Luna stood to take her daughter.

Ron smiled. "Every moon needs a star."

Luna started before smiling up at him brightly. "Just what I thought."

"GINNY!!" All the occupants of the bedroom jumped—Estrella started screaming even louder—as they heard Neville's scream.

Ginny shook her head as. "Even after six years of raising them, he's still is insecure about raising his children."

"They're wonderful Children, Gin." He eased her large form into his arms.

"And you, even after all these years, are still the biggest brown-noser I've ever known." She pulled out of his hug and went to see what was going on with the rest of the household.

Ron didn't realize she had just left him alone with Luna until he turned around and saw her staring at him. Neither of them moved for a second before Luna shook herself free of their trance and sat down on the bed again to sooth her daughter. Ron stuffed his hands into his front pockets as he watched her. "I read about your husband. I'm sorry," he commented softly. He instantly saw her change, even he wasn't that thick. Her body stiffened and her eyes held a haunted look. "Luna," Ron removed his hands and knelt down in front of her, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up bad memories." He suddenly felt the impulse to reach out to her, to touch her, so he gave in and gently placed his large hand on her arm.

He almost instantly pulled back as if he were burned. As soon as his hand touched her skin, he felt something like an electrical spark, but there's no electricity in Hogwarts... He looked up into Luna's eyes and saw she held the same expression he did, indicating she had felt something too.

What is going on here? Ron thought. "Are you going to be staying at Hogwarts?" Say yes, please say yes! –Wait, why do I want her to stay here?

"No."

Ouch! Why does that hurt so much?

"Ginny and Neville have offered to let me stay here, but I don't want to be a burden," she said sadly. "I think I might look for a place in Hogsmeade, though. It would be nice to be near the castle."

Ron felt a fluttering in his chest, but forced himself to ignore it. She could live across the world, and he wouldn't care, or so he told himself. "You wouldn't be a burden. I'm sure Ginny would love to have you and your girls around. Plus I'm sure Lucretia would like to play with Alice, Lucy, and Mary."

"I'll have to think on it," she said slowly. Her usual dazed demeanor was nowhere in sight and it phased Ron a little bit.

What happened to cause her to change so dramatically? Motherhood? For some reason I doubt that.

Ron decided to make it a priority to find out what caused loony Luna Lovegood to this lonesome Luna Lancaster.

"Are you hungry, Rella? Is that your problem?" Luna whispered softly to her daughter.

"Oh, do you want me to get her a bottle—" Ron looked up to her and froze. Luna was beginning to unbutton her shirt to feed Estrella. "Luna!"

Luna looked up startled while Estrella nuzzled her chest as she knew it was breakfast time, in doing so, giving Ron quite a view. "What?"

"Y-You're undressing!"

"I'm feeding Estrella."

"Couldn't you wait until I was gone?" Ron felt his face heat painfully.

"I didn't think it mattered," she commented as she undid another button.

"Luna!" Despite being uncomfortable, he couldn't tear his eyes away from her.

Luna stopped again, "Ronald, let me put it this way: I'm feeding Estrella whether you're here or not." She undid one more button and started to move her shirt to the side.

Ron turned around quickly. "I'll be back to see you." He said to her as he left. Maybe she isn't as changed as I thought. Ron knew his face was deep red when he went into the family room, but he couldn't stay there with Luna anymore. He glared at Neville when he heard him laughing.

"Is she feeding Estrella? Yeah, she tried to do that out here earlier, but Gin made her go into the bedroom. So did you like what you saw?"

"Neville Longbottom!" Ron gasped. "Since when are you so blunt?"

"Since I got married," Neville looked to his wife and the horde of redheaded children, plus one blond. "You know, Luna just needs a good wizard to swoop in and save her."

"So?"

Neville smirked. "Aren't you a good wizard?"

"Not funny, Neville. Did you not realize its Loony Lovegood in there?"

Neville frowned and Ron remembered he and Luna were close friends. "Its Loony Lancaster—I mean, Luna Lancaster. People change; aren't I proof of that?"

Ron nodded. "So what changed Luna?"

Neville frowned again. "I'm not sure; she hasn't said anything yet. But I don't think it's anything good."

"Me either." They watched Ginny and the children for a few seconds before Ron said, "Well I better be off. I promised Hermione I'd visit her before classes." He moved towards the children, "Hey Weasleys, Dad's got to go!" He hunkered down as his three kids hurled themselves at him. "Cass, Will, be good."

"We always are, Dad." They chorused and ran back to the other girls.

Emma still clung to Ron's leg. "Daddy?"

Ron clucked her under the chin, "What's wrong, love?"

"I don't want you to go."

Ron could never deal with her sadness. He lifted her onto his lap and hugged her tightly. "I don't want to go either. What do you say I make it a short day?" She nodded her head enthusiastically. "Well if my lady wishes it, I'll have to grant." He gave her a noisy kiss on her cheek. She squealed and squirmed her way out of his arms and to her cousins.

"You spoil her," Ginny said.

"You were too, but you turned out perfect. I'll be back to get them after lunch." He dropped a kiss to her cheek and made his way out of their rooms. He was lost in his own thoughts and before he knew it he was at Severus and Hermione's rooms. He knocked and waited for Hermione to answer. To his surprise it was Severus who answered, and he didn't look happy.

He had his traditional scowl in place, but it looked a lot meaner and he held Essie Ann in his arms. "Tell me, Weasley, how many more suitors for Hermione should I expect?"

Ron's mouth gaped. "Who's here now?"

Hermione's voice echoed through the Snape quarters, "I told you once, you're going to have to keep your hands to yourself."

"But Her-my-ninny!" a male voice pleaded.

"You've got to be joking," Ron sighed.

I'm pretty sure you all know who I'm talking about. Don't worry though, he doesn't play a big role :)

Hope all is well! :)