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Also, sorry the chapter took so long!
DRACO POV
Luna Lovegood was, if it was even possible, turning weirder each day. For example, take the time he had seen her in the library with a blue tongue. But.. come to think of it, that actually seemed like normal Loony odd behavior.
The thing that he found rather weirder was that she would often:
A. Pat/put her arms around her slim stomach-area.
B. Run to the bathroom at random intervals (did she really have such a small bladder to have to go so many times during the day?).
C. Do A and B at the same time.
All of those things looked very queer on her. It seemed like a strange game in which the red-headed (blood traitor) Weasley girl and the stupid fat-assed Longbottom seemed to take part in. Seeing as, when Lovegood would run to the bathroom, they'd have a pitying look on their face. Or, when she would seem so tired, they would help her do simple things like carrying her books or something.
Overall, they were all crazy.
Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted as two cold hands placed themselves on top of his eyes, blocking Draco's view. A shrilly, yet tender-sounding, voice rang out, "Guess who?". It was obvious that his girlfriend (who just couldn't take the hint that he wanted the relationship over by now) was the one that had said this. "Pansy" he said in a bored tone, and the hands were released.
Pansy Parkinson had on a pouting face, and he was unaware of the reason behind this. "Draco-" she said, pausing dramatically after his name. "-Do you even love me anymore?".
The question did not surprise him. He had been ignoring her for awhile, because Draco didn't want to say what he was thinking all along about the relationship (something along the lines of: "I never loved you"). If he said that, she would go to a quiet place to cry her eyes out and then bully anyone in her way, pretending to be tough. But Draco knew that, through all her mean appearance and personality, she had a delicate and easily-breakable inside.
Everyone would think that he, Draco Malfoy the bully and Death-Eater, would never even hesitateto break a sensitive heart. They thought wrong. He thought about it, all the time. Well, not about Potter or his stupid mudblood/blood traitor friends (because they didn't matter) but about his own friends. For example, everyone thought that Crabbe and Goyle were just his goons. Yes, they were, but he also did care about them in a friend sort of way. He wasn't that evil.
"Dracooo!" the whiny voice sounded again. "You're drifting again." The concerned voice of Pansy stated. She looked at him with adoring eyes.
Girls were just too obsessed with Draco Malfoy. Was it because of his sexyness and dashing good looks, richness, or just because he was a pureblood? Perhaps it was because he was just plain awesome.
Or because of his smirk. After all, he only did it after learning (*cough* reading it up on Cool Purebloods magazine *cough*) that it was a 100% way of attracting girls.
Anyhow, Pansy really was quite annoying him now. Why had he liked her in the first place? I think it was because she said she was a pureblood and hated anything else. It had seemed, at the time, like the start of a beautiful (on his side, of course) relationship. Now, he just wanted to get away from her.
"Look, Pansy, I have to go" Draco Malfoy said, as he got up. She smugly offered him her hand (wanting to walk with him). "No, I mean I have to go.. to the loo" he lied.
Great. Now there wasn't anything to do but that, since she seemed to be watching his every step away from her. The blonde-haired boy sighed as he finally got to the boy's bathroom. And, once he did enter, he got the most surprising shock.
There was Moaning Myrtle, with a superior look on her face, roaming around in the boy's bathroom.
"Draco!" she squeaked. The female ghost slid through the air to put her arms around him. What was the word for this feeling of this sentiment, again? Oh, yes, a hug. Poor Draco never really received much of these.
"I thought Snape banned you from haunting the toilets..?" He raised his eyebrow. She dismissed this with a wave of her hand, showing him, with her actions rather than words, that she didn't care what the Headmaster thought. "So what have you been doing without.. Poor Moaning Myrtle?" The long-dead ghost's voice sounded like she was on the verge of crying. Or perhaps that was her normal voice now.
"Emm.. nothing". He decided not to talk about that embarrassing one night stand with Luna Lovegood. Myrtle looked pleased at his statement, obviously glad that he wasn't having fun without her. Oh, if she only knew..
"Really? Well, I know of a girl thats.. Pregnant!". Apparently she was exhilarated at having this piece of gossip, and couldn't wait too long to tell it to a living soul (literally).
But.. what? There weren't any pregnant girls in Hogwarts! Obviously, since it would be quite easy to see.
Myrtle seemed to notice his surprised look. "Yes, she always throws up in the girl's bathroom! And sometimes shes accompanied by a red-headed girl!"
"Who?" He asked.
"It's a secret" the ghost seemed intent on not saying the name. "But she has blonde hair and grey eyes, like you!"
Draco Malfoy's insides got cold. Blonde hair and grey eyes. Just like him. But, no! It couldn't possibly be Luna Lovegood! Because.. that would mean.. she was pregnant. By him. Impossible. She looks thin as ever. And its been months since.. that night. And, yet, he knew Moaning Myrtle; she wouldn't lie about a thing like that.
Everyone thought that Draco Malfoy couldn't get any more paler than he already was. He proved them wrong as he slowly, petrified, walked out of the bathroom.
He kept on walking, like a zombie, until he found Ginny Weasley by herself (who, obviously, must be the red-headed girl that Myrtle was referring to). He didn't want to go to Luna Lovegood and find her looking like a whale, finding out that perhaps he had been to blind to see her pregnant (and yet, he really knew she wasn't. She just couldn't be.).
"Weasley" He snarled out the name. She turned around with a mad look on her face and uttered, "You say one more thing about Harry being too ninny to not to go Hogwarts this year one more time, and I'll hex you!".
"Is she pregnant?" Malfoy ignored her statement. The blood traitor had a quick alarmed look in her eyes, but hid it well. "Nobodys pregnant!" Ginny Weasley turned away from him and started to walk away.
But he was too quick for her. Draco stopped her mid-walk and peered into her eyes. "Legilimens" he whispered.
She was trying to resist his spell but, with him being trained by Aunt Bellatrix, Draco ruthlessly dwelved into her mind. He saw blankness for a second, but no human being could just think of nothing for so long (well, at least no-one that young). Suddenly a vision appeared in her mind, and he could see it.
It was very blurry. But Draco could almost spot a young blonde girl setting something small wrapped up in a black, long cloak on the sidewalk. She was running away from the thing she had put down on the ground. And suddenly, the vision was becoming more clearer. Draco could see the vision zooming in on the object. What was it? It took on the form of a... potato? A very pale potato. No, it was a baby! Yes, and that could only mean that young blonde girl was it's mother. Which -
Luna Lovegood is pregnant. A voice sounded throughout Weasley's head.
And, suddenly, Draco Malfoy was thrust out of Ginny Weasley's subconsciousness. He must have done the Legilimency too hard, and crudely, because she fainted from the sheer exhaustment.
He stood there, unwilling to concentrate on the matter. It's impossible! Just one big lie, a joke.. But the thought of it gave him shills (imagine that, something to get even a Death Eater worried about, besides the Dark Lord, must be terrifying!). But he had to be sure.
Where would she be? Looking out in the fields for her imaginary creatures? He had heard that she spent most of her time in the Ravenclaw common room nowadays.
Deciding that Lovegood would be there, Draco advanced to the Ravenclaw common room entrance as rapidly as he could. Once there, he encountered the bronze eagle-shaped knocker. He half-expected it to ask for the required password. Instead, it loudly announced something.
"I am the start of the Day and the end of the End. What am I?"
What? What is this? A riddle? That's what Ravenclaws had, instead of a password? A riddle? He supposed he had to answer it.
Alright. His mind started to immediately try to find the answer to the riddle.
"The start of the day". The sun? Morning? Birds chirping? How the heck would he know?
"The end of the end". Nothing? Everything?
Maybe this was harder than it seemed. Or perhaps it was a question of simple logic.
A few minutes seemed to go by as he pondered it. Draco even tried thinking outside of the box.
The end of the end could be.. death. Maybe it could happen at the start of the day, like a cycle? He said "Death", but the door didn't open and the knocker didn't respond.
Wait, who said it had to be a word? Maybe it could be.. a letter! The start of Day was the letter "D". And the end of the End could be the letter "D" as well!
"The letter D". He waited a few seconds, expecting the answer to have been wrong.
"That is correct", the Eagle-shaped knocker bellowed, and the door opened.
His heart pounding, Draco used the Disillusionment Charm on himself before entering the Ravenclaw Common Room. Nobody saw him as he walked past the students flipping through pages of thick books. Perhaps they wouldn't have noticed him even if he hadn't done the charm, since they were too immersed in their books.
He walked through, until he came to the girls' dormitories.
Draco suddenly stopped in his tracks. Because, at that moment, he remembered something important: The charms! There were charms to prevent boys from entering here! So how could he do this? Taking a bold step, he tried to open the door, and-
It succeeded! The door slowly opened, with a loud creaking noise.
Draco Malfoy saw tons of empty beds, and looked until he found one with closed curtains. He pushed aside the curtains. A mess of dirty blonde hair was scattered amongst the pillow. This, surely, was Luna. Her eyes were closed, and she looked very peaceful in sleep. Her sleeping position was on the side (her left, he supposed), and one of her hands was placed comfortably under the seemingly soft pillow. Lovegood's other hand seemed to be clutching the covers, which were thick and plentiful. Draco pulled back the royal purple-colored covers.
There he found Luna Lovegood with a huge bump where her flat stomach should have been.
She is pregnant.
No. It was impossible.
But the thought lingered in his head as he continued to stare blankly, in shock, at the girl whom he had slept with months ago. And he looked at her until she seemed to wake up suddenly.
Her grey eyes burned curiously into his.
And Draco Malfoy was sure of one thing: Luna Lovegood was pregnant with his child.
Oh my gosh. I completely made him look absolutely so OOC.. But it was super entertaining, yay (as well as bolding the text words!)! Sorry it took awhile, I had soo much schoolwork! Anyways, sometimes this'll take perhaps a week to update, sometimes a day. Don't worry, it'll get better when its summer-time again ;o
*Sugar rush is fading now*
BTW, the reason Myrtle can notice Luna's pregnancy, even though it's Secret-Keeper idea, is that ghosts apparently are sort of immune to it. See, they can see it, but they can't really tell the secret. They could say that just a girl was pregnant, or how she looked like, but never the name. Something like that, I just made it up ;). The only person that can actually reveal the secret is the secret-keeper themselves, which is Ginny in this case.
Also, Luna is sleeping because.. its more dramatic this way?! IDK, but lets just say that she was tired from her pregnancy or something. And she didn't really see him, with him blending in (literally, with the use of the charm). It just, again, seemed cooler this way xD.
The reason why Draco was able to get through the charms blocking boys from the girls' dormitories was that..... I'll reveal it in later chapters, if any of you really want to know ;).
Kudos to those who tried to get the riddle right before Draco actually answered it xD!
