Luna realised for the second time that year she was waking up in a place other than her own bed. Although in fact, this felt an awful lot like her bed. But the colours were all wrong. Where the curtains should have been blue, they were green, as were the duvet and pillow. In fact they were the exact green of...

Luna's eyes flew wide open and she sat up in shock. She was in one of the Slytherin dorms and it was with a sinking feeling she realised it was probably not the girls one. Luna was not often phased when she found herself in a difficult position but she was really quite stumped with this one. On the positive side, the curtains were closed around the bed and it would seem that none of the other inhabitants of the room were aware of the fact that she was there. On the negative side, there was no sign of Draco and she had no way of knowing what was going on outside of the curtains. Come to think of it, she had very little idea of anything apart from the fact that she had spent the night sleeping in Draco Malfoy's bed instead of her own and he was nowhere to be found.

She could hear voices outside the curtain and shadows moving around as they got ready to go to breakfast. She could make out snatches of their conversation and it was with some effort that she managed to connect some of the voices to their owners. She recognised Crabbe, Goyle and one that she presumed from his more eloquent speech belonged to Blaise Zabini but no Draco. It seemed they were no wiser to his location either as the discussion flowed towards how they were going to wake him up. Eventually it was Goyle who was nominated to attempt to wake Draco and Luna gulped, praying to no-one in particular that Draco would appear before she was discovered.

'Draco, are you coming to breakfast?'

As the voices drew nearer, Luna shrank back towards the headboard, making herself as small as she could and praying that they wouldn't open the curtains far enough to see her.

A hand appeared through the crack gripping the curtain as it prepared to reveal all.

Luna closed her eyes and wished for a miracle.

'I'm skipping breakfast today. Some of us think of things other than filling our stomachs, Goyle.'

The hand disappeared but Luna found herself unable to exhale until after much complaint and shuffling, she heard the door slam and silence filled the air.

She still leapt high into the air when Draco pulled back the curtain. She shielded her eyes, a dazed look in them from lack of oxygen resulting in her voice sounding even more with the fairies.

'Draco, you're glowing.'

Where he once would have rolled his eyes, he didn't react.

'Did you sleep well?'

Luna nodded and after a quick assessment of Draco's bloodshot eyes and pale face she raised her eyebrows. 'I don't think you did though.'

Draco sat down on his bed, leaning down to tie the laces on his shoes as he replied. 'I had more important things to do.'

Luna looked around the room, an expression on her face of an explorer observing a new world for the first time.

'They're quite untidy aren't they?'

Draco followed her eyes around the pigsty of a dorm the other side of the room seemed to be. In fact the only tidy space was around Draco's bed.

'Organisation is not their strong point.'

Luna nodded in agreement.

'You could have left me you know, I could have just said I'd been sleep walking.'

Draco shook his head, his fingers fiddling clumsily with the buttons on his shirt.

He'd been in the prefects bathroom when Pansy had told him that 'the cowards in his dorm thought he was still asleep and were too scared to try and wake him', resulting in him only being half dressed when he reached the dorm to stop them revealing Luna.

'Someone saw us up there. If you'd been found, gossip would spread and they would have put two and two together.' Draco stood up, picking up the dark jacket he'd left on the end of his bed and throwing it on.

Luna, tactless as always, continued to think aloud.

'But you could have just left me somewhere else, you didn't have to bring me in here.'

Draco threw down the tie he was trying to force around his neck.

'Can't you just be grateful? Why do you Ravenclaws always have to question everything?'

Luna stood up, her gait hesitant as she walked towards him.

'I'm sorry, Draco. I am grateful. I'm just...'

'You need to leave. Before the you get me into more trouble than your worth.'

Before Luna had a moment to think Draco had taken her hand and started to drag her down the stairs and into the Slytherin common room. With all the students eating breakfast, the room was deserted but still Draco did not slow down until they reached the entrance to the passage.

As he opened the door, he paused, as though something had suddenly struck him. His eyes went from the open passage way, to Luna and then to his hand. It was still clasping Luna's tightly. Luna read his eyes like a book, rising on her tiptoes, she planted a kiss gently on his pale cheek, whispering a quite thank you and skipped down the passage, her expression not matching the carefree manner in which she moved.
She had seen it in his face. It was beginning. Draco had realised in that momentary pause that the meetings would have to stop. He could push the mission aside no longer.

And Just as she knew would happen. Luna saw nothing of Draco Malfoy until that eventful day.

The day she realised that tears did not make your vision clearer.

They only clouded it.

I know, it's been too long but in my defence I am just about buried under college work and UCAS forms and EPQs and about a million other things I should be doing but am not.
So to make up for my failure, I'm uploading the next chapter straight away as soon as it is proof read. I hope you enjoy it!