Halloween Treat for L3petitemort
Gift for: l3petitemort
From: lore
Title: Understandings
Pairing: Ginny/Luna
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Summary: Luna is there first. Ginny follows.
Notes: Set during Deathly Hallows. Who knew I'd ever write that note?! Happy Halloween, l3petitemort!
Luna stared intensely at her face, and Ginny felt her stomach cramp. Since when did eyes other than green make her weak in the knees?
“What’re you looking at?”
“Your freckles. They’re telling me where we need to go.” Luna reached out and brushed Ginny’s hair away from her face. Ginny thought Luna’s hand felt surprisingly steady.
“This way,” Luna said, taking up Ginny’s hand as if it were only natural to pull her along. Only natural, but today, it didn’t feel natural. Nothing did.
Ron, Harry and Hermione were nowhere, and their classmates were in the castle, “celebrating” Halloween, as if anyone could eat to the cacophony of the Carrows grunting and gulping.
So, Ginny had understood when Luna moved them past the Great Hall and onto the grounds. She understood the pauses and bit-lip looks Luna kept throwing over her shoulder. If they were caught, they might not get detention with Hagrid.
What she didn’t understand was the way Luna pushed her into a dark recess behind the greenhouses, or why she peppered Ginny’s face with light, dry kisses that made her cheeks tingle and heart beat as if it were alive again.
Luna spoke to Ginny with her touch that first night, and, eventually, Ginny understood everything.