Chapter 3:

It was a simple design for a dagger but it was the most important piece of the Forge process. In order to make the Forge Lotus had spent two months creating HIS Forge, he had to smith a dagger and cut his hand open over the Forge, letting his blood hit the hot coals then stick the blade into the Forge and cauterize his wound with the heated edge, completing the ritual.

Lotus got to work, adding the steel and brass ore into the pit of the Forge and readying the mold for the dagger. His long hair was matted with sweat and his eyes were full of determination.

He heard the door to his smithy open and a pair of light footsteps walk to him. He raised his eyes to see Luna Lovegood there, who had a slightly perplexed look on her face. "You're smithing?"

"Yeah. I told you I would." He checked the metal ores and then looked at his girlfriend. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to visit you! Had to make sure a Whacking Wartsaur didn't eat you, after all." She kissed his cheek and ran her hand along his strong core, her fingers tracing lines down his abs. "You've grown so strong."

Lotus was flushing profusely from a different kind of heat as he felt her fingertips on his skin; he shook his head and gently pushed her back before kissing her and taking the smelted metal ores out of the Forge and pouring them into the casting mold.

Luna sat on a table near where he was working and watched as he slaved over the dagger for a good 4 hours until he finally had made the piece of metal.

Eliza walked in just as soon as he had slit his palm open and left his blood hit the coals of his Forge; she yelled as he placed the blade of the bloodied knife into the coals and then pressed the super-heated blade against his wound, "What are you doing?!"

"Completing the process." He sighed as he placed the blade into cooling liquid and wrapped his hand up in alcohol-soaked bandages, wincing at the burning of the alcohol.

She sighed. "You're an idiot."

"I know." He sat down and Luna sat on his lap, straddling him and laying her head on his broad chest, her pale blonde locks falling down her face as her slender pale arms reached around and hugged his neck. Her pale blue eyes looking up at him, she smiled. "You smell like a Farting Forcept has been hugging you."

"Maybe it is," Lotus replied, his rough hands gripping her waist. She gasped a bit at that, giggling like a little girl.

"Ahem." Eliza looked annoyed. "You need to get that looked at," she stated to Lotus, pointing at his bandaged hand.

Lotus shrugged. "You're probably right."

"Probably?"

"Fine. You ARE right. Happy?"

Eliza smirked. "You're so easy to tease."

"And I bet Malfoy loves teasing you."

Eliza's smile disappeared. "Get over yourself," she snorted; it was no secret her godbrother and her boyfriend despised each other.

"As soon as you leave him."

"I won't."

"Well, we're at an impasse then, aren't we?"

"I don't have to listen to this," Eliza spat, her face angry.

"Then leave. You know what he was born to. You know who his aunt is."

"Just because he's the nephew of Bellatrix Lestrange doesn't mean he's a bad person."

"Really?" Lotus yelled as Luna yelped when he stood up, muscles tensed. "After the shit he's pulled on me and not getting arrested because his asshole father works in the Ministry you're defending him?"

"It's not his fault!" Eliza shot right back, but Lotus wasn't hearing it. "He had his reasons!"

"I'm sure. Now get out of my shop."

"Ex-CUSE me?" Eliza exclaimed in rage as Lotus opened the front door.

"You heard me. If you're going to defend the nephew of the woman who killed my entire family for things that he's done to me then you can not be in my smithy pissing me off." He gestured for her to exit. "Go."

Eliza stormed out, only to stop and slap him. "Dad will be hearing about this," she said in a way similar to her boyfriend's. She slammed the door shut, leaving Lotus alone with Luna.

"She's right."

"Maybe. I should at least make a truce with him." He turned around and picked her up, sitting her onto a nearby table and kissing her. Looking into her pale blue eyes, he said, "I love you."

"I love you too."