Word Count: 168
Challenge/Competition: 100 Different Pairings Competition
Prompts: Pause.
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: I don't claim to own Harry Potter, it's all JKR's.
Luna/Theodore - With or Without
With Luna, days are seconds, weeks are days, months are weeks and years are mere months. Time holds no meaning – it slips through his fingers with her in his arms.
But without her, days are weeks, weeks are months, months are years. Time is his worst enemy, goading him with harsh thoughts, drowning him in self-pity, slowing down the beautiful transformation of Luna Lovegood.
Of course, he will love her forever; nothing is going to change that. But she is jumpy, she always loves easily but Luna is not fond of relationships. Relationships are easily breakable, she thinks, and she cannot face being anything but strong.
When he is with her, things fly by so quickly that they need a pause, a rewind, a slow-motion switch.
When he is without, things move in such painful slow-motion, he needs a play, a fast-forward, a speed up switch.
Forever stuck in two extremes, but he cannot quite bring himself to care. He has love, the most important thing of all.