I'm sorry for the delay with this chapter, I have had trouble with migraines and my allergies driving me crazy for the past few days. All I have wanted to do was sleep. I did manage to get a chapter typed out but I didn't like how it turned out so I deleted it and started over again. I know how I am going to proceed with this next part of the story and it will start at Malfoy Manor directly after the funerals where the families of the victims will all gather together. That's where even more drama will start as certain people don't like the fact that Luna and her children are now living with Draco, even if they are in separate bedrooms.

My writing of this story has also gave me inspiration to finish the final three to five chapters of my own novel that I have been working on since June of 2008. Hopefully it will be good enough to be published and I will feel like I am actually good at this.

Three days later, after the funerals were over, the friends and loved ones of people who had lost their lives in Dennis Creevy's rampage, were all gathered at Malfoy Manor. It was an informal reception to gather and remember the ones who had died.

Lila had instantly wrapped everyone who had met the little girl around her little finger. She was just like Luna had been at Hogwarts, a faith in the unknown and an ability to see things that other people had tried to hide. She adored the Weasley's and Potters, especially Ron and Hermione, who were originally going to be her Godparents. So the both of them and their children had quickly grown attached to her. For some reason, she didn't care for Daphne too much. She was polite to Scorpius and Bree's aunt but wouldn't let the woman hold or touch her.

The only problem that had come up was the horrible nightmares she was having about the abuse she had endured at Millie Richards hands. She had woke up the whole house on her first night back with Luna after a particularly horrible one. She had cowered in Luna's arms for the rest of the night, only falling asleep at around dawn, and that was only because of the same potion Draco had given to Lysander the night before, only in a smaller dose. Luna had fallen asleep beside her with Draco sitting on the love seat that was in Lila's room, watching over them both. It was everything he could do not to hunt Millie down and hex her until she begged him for mercy.

The little girl in question was in the parlor on Hermione's lap, who was sitting on the chaise talking to Ginny and Lavender, who had her daughter Caylee in her arms. They were discussing what the latter was going to do, now that Seamus was gone. Lavender was heartbroken at her husband's affair and didn't know whether to hate him or to sob like her heart was broken over his death. So she talked about something that would take her mind off of her own troubles.

"Hermione, what's going on with Luna and Malfoy?" she asked quietly. "Are they just friends or a couple?

"They are just friends, well for now anyway." Ginny responded, trying to answer Lavender's question and having a bad feeling as to why she was asking them. Her fears were confirmed when Lavender started to explain the reason for her curiosity.

"Daphne and her mother are spreading horrible and hateful rumors saying that they are shagging and that she is trying to be Scorpius' mother and to make him forget about Astoria. They are talking like she was just this wonderful wife and mother who didn't deserve how disrespectful Draco is being to her memory."

"Those stupid, bloody bints!" Ginny muttered fiercely to the other two women. "Don't they realize that if Draco hears about these rumors, he'll take away their rights to see his children?"

"I have heard that Daphne is considering filing for custody of them. I think the dimbo actually thinks she can honestly win and take them away from their father," Lavender told her shocked former classmates.

"What's a dimbo, Aunt Hermione?" Lila asked, making all three witches instantly stop speaking, each one horrified at the little girl overhearing their conversation and hoping she didn't repeat what was said to her mother.

There was no need because Narcissa Malfoy, who had been walking by, had overheard the conversation and was furious at Daphne and her mother. She sat down beside Lavender, quietly whispering in her ear.

"Mrs. Finnegan, will you come with me to my husband's study and tell me exactly what Daphne and her mother are saying? I'm not angry with you because I know you are worried about Luna but I really do need to know exactly what you have been hearing about Daphne Nott trying to take my grandchildren from Draco."

"Yes ma'am"

Both women got up from the chaise and walked out into the foyer where Lucius' private study was located. They went into the room, where Draco and his father were sitting. When the door closed behind Narcissa and Lavender, it was only because of silencing charm that kept the guests in the Malfoy's home from hearing Draco cursing at what his former schoolmate was telling him. It took everything in his father's power to keep him son from leaving the office to try and confront Daphne and her mother. It didn't work because it wasn't long after that he went tearing out of the room, looking ready to kill somebody. Everybody who saw him stayed out of his way and Ginny got up from where she was sitting to run and find her husband and brother.

Luna was leaving her bedroom to go downstairs to check on her children and to see her friends when she was confronted by Daphne Nott and her mother. Daphne looked very different than the last time she had seen her, blond hair fixed in a fancy french twist and the finest silk robes of dark blue from Paris. Her mother was similarly dressed and both women looked like they were ready for a fight.

"I don't know what you are playing at, Loony but Draco was my sister's husband and Scorpius and Bree were her children. They will never be yours so back off and stay the hell out of Draco's bed, you stupid slag." Daphne's voice was full of venom and it was everything Luna could do not to knock her out. She was saved by Scorpius walking down the hall towards them, fury burning on his young face.

"Don't you talk to Mrs. Scamander like that, Aunt Daphne! She has been more of a mother to me and my baby sister these past few days than my own mother ever was. For your information, my father and Luna aren't shagging, like my mother was with Mr. Scamander."

"Scorpius, that's enough!" Draco harsh and stern voice carried over to where they were standing. He was standing down the hall, looking at his former in-laws like he could strangle them. He then glanced over at Luna and his son, who had thrown his arms around the former, his eyes filled with tears at being so harshly spoken to by his father. "Scorpius, go with downstairs with Luna while I deal with your Aunt and Grandmother."

Luna and Scorpius moved down the hall where Draco was standing and when the little boy got to where his father was at, he was pulled into his father's arm. Draco whispered in his son's ear something that made the little boy smile again before he took Luna's hand and they both went downstairs.

"What is this I hear about you wanting to take custody of my children away from me?" His voice was low but deadly, anybody who knew him or had any sense knew that he was very angry.

"I refuse to let you try to replace my sister in her children's lives with Loony..." Daphne started to speak, too stupid to realize just how furious Draco was.

"Don't you ever refer to her as that again! You know those visitation rights I was going to give you and your mother to see Scorpius and Bree, guess what, they are gone! I refuse to have you anywhere near my children. Try and take my children away from me and the two of you will see the spiteful, vindictive bully that I was at Hogwarts come back. Now get the hell out of my house! Now!"

Daphne and her mother went as quickly as they could down the stairs so they could use the floo to leave. When Draco turned around, he saw Harry and Ron standing there watching with serious but concerned looks on their faces.

"Hermione and Ginny told us about the rumors that those two have been spreading about you and Luna. Then Luna told us that you were up here confronting them after Scorpius defended Luna from their personal attacks. We thought we would come up here and prevent any hexs from being thrown," Harry said.

"I know those two bints deserved every bit of that but I think the whole manor overheard that, Malfoy."

"I don't rightly give a damn if the whole world overheard me yelling at them." He was clenching his fists in anger and punched the wall near where he was standing, leaving a dent in it. When Narcissa saw it, she was going to let him have it but at that moment, Draco didn't care, he was so bloody pissed off, it was not a good idea to be around him.

"Draco, stop it." Luna's voice quietly carried over to him as she slipped around Harry and Ron and went to where he was standing. She took his injured hand in hers and gazed up at him, her dreamy blue eyes full of concern for him.

She glanced over at Harry and Ron, who both went downstairs as Luna pulled Draco into his bedroom. As soon as the door was closed behind them and charms put on it to keep anybody from coming in on them or hearing what they were talking about, she tenderly kissed him.

AN: The next chapter will begin where this one left off with Draco's response to her kissing him. I was going to hold off their first kiss for a little while longer but my muses were telling me differently, so I went with it. I hope everybody likes this chapter.