Luna had left Draco's bedroom after he had asked for a couple more memories of around the time Lila had died. She complied and then left the room, eager to get away from the whole thing. If this turned out to be huge hoax, then it wouldn't hurt the way it would if she let herself give into hope.

The manor was quieter than it had been the night before and that is when she realized that the Weasley's must have gone back to their homes. That also meant, Rita Skeeter, who had been kept under guard in the other wing of the house where Lucius and Narcissa slept, had left too. Which made Luna happy, she didn't want that woman to be around hers or Draco's children, whom she had become very protective of in such a short period of time. Merlin help them if what Draco suspected about Lila was true, she would be a pain in the ass for all of them and the children, wouldn't have any peace from her.

Something from the window at the end of the hall caught her eye and Luna saw Scorpius sitting on the sill, reading a book. He reminded her a lot of how Draco looked when he was twelve years old, her first year at Hogwarts. The only difference was that Scorpius didn't have the sneer that had made most of their schoolmates either want to smack, throw a curse at or run scared from him.

She walked down the hall, sat down beside him and smiled when the little boy looked up at her. He returned hers with one of his own and then looked back down at book that he was reading.

"What are you reading?"

"My Charms text book. Professor Flitwick sent the assignments that Lorcan, Lysander and I will miss while we are out of school. So Grandmother told me to find somewhere quiet and work on them."

"Are my sons working on theirs too?"

"Lysander is still sleeping and Lorcan didn't want to leave his brother so he is working on his in my bedroom. He didn't have a very good night and my dad had to give him something to help him sleep." Scorpius paused, unsure how to say the next part. "He was screaming out for someone not to hurt you, Mrs. Scamander. It was scary to hear him yelling like that."

"I know it had to be, Scorpius." She reached over and gently touched the little boy on his shoulder in a comforting manner. "You and the others were very smart to get your father so he could help him."

"He's my friend and was there for me when I was in difficult situation only a week after school had started. While the others in my house still didn't quite trust me because I was a Malfoy; Lysander, Lorcan, Al, James and Rose were the only ones that were nice to me. They even hexed Byron Goyle when he tried to throw me off the top level of the Astronomy Tower for being a traitor."

"Does your father know about this?" Luna asked, worried about Draco's reaction if he had ever found out about what his son had just told her. It seems Scorpius had thought of the same thing she had, given his response to her question.

"No. He and Byron's father used to be friends when they were at Hogwarts and something happened to cause them to no longer have anything to do with each other. If father found out about what happened, he and Mr. Goyle would probably try to kill each other and I don't want that."

Luna was getting ready to respond to what Scorpius had just told her when she glanced down the hall and saw Draco standing close to them. Judging by the look of rage that was on his face, he had overheard the whole story about what Goyle's son had tried to do to Scorpius. He then turned and stalked down the hall, going towards the stairs and Luna knew she had to stop him. She turned to Scorpius, whose young face looked as scared as she felt and touched his hand gently before jumping up to run after him. She screamed out to the boy while in motion, hoping he would move quickly.

"Call Teensy! Tell her to get your grandfather! I'll try to prevent him from leaving until he can arrive in front of the fireplace to talk some sense into him."

As she got to the stairs, Luna moved quickly down them and got to the fireplace right before Draco grabbed the jar of floo powder. She ran over to him and threw her arms around his neck, hugging him tightly, knowing that if she had a hold of him, he wouldn't do something drastic.

"Let me go. I'm going to go and have a conversation with Greg about his son trying to throw mine off of the Astronomy tower!"

"No! You go over there and the two of you will end up in a duel in front of his wife and other children. You'll get in trouble with the Ministry and that is the last thing that any of us need right now. You have too many people that need you right now for you to go off and attack Greg Goyle."

"He encouraged his son to try to kill and mine, Luna! I can't let that go!"

"No, you shouldn't. Maybe you could talk to McGonagall or Neville about what happened and see if anything was done to discipline Byron for what he did. Besides I have a feeling when your father hears about this, he might have something say about his oldest grandchild almost being killed."

"Luna, where is all of this coming from. You never were the type to want to take revenge on someone who has hurt you. That would have meant everybody we went to school with would have been in serious trouble, myself included." He looked confused as to why the sweet and serene woman he had always known almost sounded like she wanted his father to go after Greg Goyle but in a way that wouldn't get them all in trouble for it.

"Draco, what males fail to understand is that the most dangerous creature of any species is a mother protecting their young. In fact, that is the one thing Voldemort and your aunt Bellatrix, who wasn't a mother, failed to realize and underestimated. That a mother will for example, die like Lily Potter did to protect her son, or tell a lie like your mother did to Voldemort about Harry being dead or kill someone who is threatening her child like Molly Weasley when Bellatrix threw that killing curse at Ginny. Mothers will do anything if it meant that your child was no longer in danger or if somebody is trying to hurt their child. Most women, when they are carrying that precious little life inside them for nine months, bond with that baby in a way that you will never understand."

"I understand protecting your children, Luna and wanting to do anything to keep them safe."

"Not in the way a mother does, Draco. It is very different for a mother."

"She's right, son," Narcissa stated, as she walked over to where they were at, with Lucius following closely behind her. Both of them looked furious at what they had overheard them talking about what had almost happened to Scorpius. "A mother carries that tiny baby inside of her, feels every movement and bonds with that child before they ever see each other face to face. Well at least most mothers." She finished with a slight dark tone of voice, thinking about her late daughter-in-law and how horrible of a mother she had been.

"Draco, Luna is right, going over there and confronting Greg isn't the smartest thing you can do. Talk to the Headmistress, Scorpius' Head of House and the other children who stopped Byron from doing it, to find out what exactly happened. Then once you know it was a deliberate attempt to attack Scorpius, I'll help you go after him." Lucius stated.

Draco listened to everything the three of them were telling him before realizing that he was outnumbered and that he wasn't going to get away from them. He also thought about it and decided that his parents and Luna were right. The four of them moved over to the chaise and chairs that were in the parlor, sitting down to discuss what Draco had seen in her memories.

"I suspect he gave you a potion of some sort that made the baby stop moving and mimicked death. Then somehow found a way to make it look like there was a knot in the umbilical cord. My question is why your husband would do this to you?"

"I have a feeling I know why but with him being dead, I guess we'll never know if it is what I suspect. How sure is Harry that Lila is alive, Draco?" Luna asked him, quietly.

"He is pretty sure. He had Amber call her boss to have a background check done on the family that supposedly have her."

"We should know something by today and hopefully soon Lila will be back with you and her brothers, where she should have been all along." His voice carried a determination to it that she had never heard before, it was as if getting her little girl back to her was a personal mission that he had taken on. She reached over and gently squeezed his hand and felt her heart beat faster when he returned it back to her. They had completely forgotten that Narcissa and Lucius were even in the room.

Harry had left for his office at the Ministry as soon as he and his family had left Malfoy Manor that morning. He wanted to get to work on finding Luna's daughter and hopefully have some answers to give his friend, who Draco had most and likely told what was going on already. He had remembered the pain Luna had went through when her baby had died and hated the thought of putting her through needless pain if this turned out badly but Colin had sounded so sure.

The door to his office opened and Amber and Kyle walked in with smiles on their faces. Harry returned their smile and took the file that was handed over the desk to him. As soon as he saw the picture of Lila, Harry knew that this was Luna's little girl. He was getting ready to get up from his desk and start the process on getting Lila back, when the voice of his assistant came through the box on his desk. It was a muggle intercom charmed to work so Adele wouldn't have to use her wand and announce his private business to the others who worked there. She could be a bit snobbish about who she let see or talked to him and had been snapped at by Ginny, Hermione and yesterday, Luna for that behavior, but the witch knew her job. That was the only reason he kept her on and hadn't fired her for her attitude.

"Mr. Potter, there is man out here who is insisting that he sees you, he has a little girl with him and that his name is Trevor Richards."

Harry looked up at Amber and Kyle in shock before pushing the button on the intercom to respond to Adele.

"Send him right in, Adele. I then want you to contact Malfoy Manor and give Luna Scamander and Draco Malfoy a message that I need to see them right away."

"Yes sir."

All three people in the office stood there quietly and waited as Trevor Richards walked into the room, with a little blond haired girl in his arms, wrapped in a blanket and clutching a doll.

AN: Here in the next chapter or two Luna will see her little girl and find out about the abuse her baby has suffered. Her little speech to Draco in this chapter about mothers will make perfect sense because her reaction to the pain Lila has suffered will not be pretty.

There will be more Draco and Luna in this story than there was in Killer On The Loose, along with each of their children. Harry and the others will make appearances throughout but at the heart, this is about Draco, Luna and their children finding their way towards becoming a family.

Although if anybody has any advice how I could go about Draco confronting Goyle about what his son tried to do to Scorpius, I would greatly appreciate it.