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Author's Notes: Thank you to BlacKTea and 22Moons for the reviews! I apologize for the shortness of the last two, I tried my best to make this one a little longer for you all! Again any reviews would be helpful, please feel free to share any thoughts you have! -Letificus

"So then Miss Lovegood was rescued successfully then?"

Lucius passed back and forth across the study in Malfoy manor, passing in front of his son a fire roaring behind him. He nodded in agreement to this, still unable to reason for himself why a former member of Potter's inner circle was now supposed to be a guest in their home. Draco was quite shocked that there were instructions left for him to make Luna comfortable as her room was being prepared. At first he thought that there may have been some kind of clean up needed in the dungeon, but once he had been proved mistaken he had carried her off to his room, unsure of where else to put her. Draco was about to lay her in his bed when he noticed the ghastly awful, dirty clothes she was wearing. He had gave instructions with one of the house elves to have her cleaned up and he had sent out for, what was in his mind, tasteful negligee, a black, satin baby doll nightie, that regardless of simplicity he had liked very much from the picture. Draco almost blushed at the sight of Loony actually looking feminine, but he tried his best to ignore these thoughts as he slipped the covers over her and headed down to speak with his father.

"Father…" Draco started to ask.

"You still don't understand why we're keeping Miss Lovegood?" Lucius interrupted.

"I have my reasons, Draco I assure you. First and for most it was a business negotiation."

"A negotiation?" Draco was confused, what would Lovegood have that could possibly be of any use?

"Yes, for the Quibbler. We were to guarantee her safety in exchange for ownership"

"but….couldn't we have just killed them all? Wouldn't that have been much easier?"

"Of course it would be much easier, boy. I told you before that I had no intention of wasting pure blood and I would hardly see how Miss Lovegood would be in any kind of agreement to marry you if we had killed her father and all of his staff."

"Marry?"

"Yes, I had been meaning to discuss that with you."

Lucius pursed his lips as if he was a little reluctant to tell Draco his plans.

"I have intentions of you marrying Miss Lovegood, Draco."

Draco was unsure as to whether his father was being serious, but the initial look on his face, a look of distaste, or unease, he turned away from Draco momentarily. Draco knew regardless of his reaction his father was never one to joke and he felt a large lump in his throat and he swallowed. It was one thing to simply go along with his father's ridiculous plan to go and find the girl; at that point he at least thought the she knew something that would be of use to them, but now he was expecting him to throw his life away and to all of the people in the world it would be to Loony Luna Lovegood, the school nutter, his supposed enemy, former captive in his home, someone that before today he had barely had any contact with and now he was supposed to marry her?

"but, father I…." he began to protest.

"Draco, I know you're not trying to argue with me are you?"

Lucius had turned backed to Draco now, with no uncertainty left in his features.

He looked down at his feet "No, sir."

"Good, obviously your assignment then is to get her to consent."

"But how am I…"

"Draco, now is certainly not the time for us to have a discussion of the birds and the bees. I had hoped that you were familiar enough with females to convince one to marry you. It is not my concern as to how you do it, but simply that it gets done."

Draco was thoroughly embarrassed and decided a quick exit was best to save himself from any further ridicule. He excused himself from his father's study and walked back to his bedroom and his soon to be fiancé. Draco had a terrible queasy feeling as he began to think of having a wife and being married. The thought had never crossed his mind before; after all it was nothing that he thought would be happening anytime soon. He definitely had no intentions of arguing with his father though; all it would have resulted in is his agreement along with a few bruises to go along with it.

The more he thought about it the more it didn't seem like a completely atrocious idea; all things considered he decided it would be best to try to find the silver lining in the situation since he clearly didn't have a choice in the matter, but after all how much was he actually at home these days? He would hardly be able to spend time with her, being constantly on missions, gone for days at a time, and for the times that he was there would it really be so horrible? Loony was definitely a nutter but she was far from being unattractive, his mind raced to the image of her lying comfortably in his bed in the nightgown he had gotten for her, it certainly was a pleasant surprise to him that she was actually quite pretty and it definitely was not an image he would have a problem going home to at night. If she would lose some of that ridiculous jewelry and perhaps had a change of wardrobe, she could very easily pass for Malfoy material and as long as she made no mention of wurglesprats, or whatever bloody made up creatures she had the tendency to ramble on about, then no one would bother to question her on how they could have ended up together, she had potential to make them look like a legitimate couple. Certainly there would be some way to keep all conversation minimal at dinner parties and luncheons, as was customary in pureblood families, on such occasions no one would pay much attention to Luna if she didn't make a fuss, it would of course be expected of Luna to be quiet and subservient. So it was decided, if he had no further choice in the matter, then he would just have to make Luna the trophy wife he deserved.