Not Where You Belong : 10tunes [PG-13: Luna Lovegood/Percy Weasley]
Title: Not Where You Belong
Character(s): Luna Lovegood, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley
Prompt: Headstrong - Trapt
Rating: PG-13; Language
Word Count: 734
Summary: Ginny goes to retrieve Percy, and Luna tags along
Author's Notes: N/A
“Gin!” Percy exclaimed. His not so little sister had slammed her hand down on the door and was currently trying to pry it open while he was pushing back to get it closed again. “Ginerva, leave me alone!”
“NO! You are coming home!” Ginny said, giving the door a vicious shove, sending it flying into the wall and Percy sprawling onto the ground. “Get your ass up and help me pack.”
Percy wasn’t paying a lick of attention to his younger sister, though. His eyes were pinned on the blond in the doorway. She didn’t seem to be in the same type of mood Ginny was, but rather radiated a distant, detached calm. She practically floated into the dingy apartment, glancing over the surroundings with a vague smile on her face.
“This place could use a little work...”
“It doesn’t matter, Luna. He’s leave it,” Ginny snapped as she waved her wand in front of the bookshelf, shrinking it’s contents before commanding them into a box she must have transfigured from something.
“Gin...you’re not seventeen yet,” Percy said, staring at his sister, slightly aghast.
“Like a give a flying fuck. This is registered as a magical dwelling, so they can’t peg it on me,” Ginny growled. “Besides, if you’d get up and HELP, I wouldn’t have to do this all myself.”
“I’m not going anywhere, Gin. But my things back, please,” Percy said as he pushed himself to his feet, straightening his horn-rimmed glasses. “Nobody wants me there, so I’m not going back. I learned my lesson over Christmas.”
“What?” Ginny turned, giving Percy an incredulous look. “You mean that whole act that the Minister made you pull so he could get at Harry?”
“That wasn’t an act...” Percy muttered. “Despite what you may think, Ginerva, I did want to be there. However, you lot clearly didn’t care for my presence. As for the Minister’s actions...he saw an opportunity and took it. Now, why are you so insistent that I return now when a few months ago you were happily lobbing food at me?”
“It’s complicated,” Ginny said, bowing her head to the box, grabbing a few fist fulls of paper out of the desk drawers and stuffing it down into the container.
“Bill’s hurt,” The blond said, eyeing Ginny. “I don’t see how that is very complicated.”
Ginny’s back tensed, “Luna, I wasn’t going to tell him until he’d agreed. I didn’t want him to think I was going to guilt him back.”
“Oh... Ok, that’s a little more complicated.”
“Who are you?” Percy asked, turning to the blond. “And why are you here?”
“Oh, come now, Percival. It’s not been that long,” Luna said, beaming at the redhead as she brushed a bit of blond hair out of her face. Her wand was tucked behind her ear.
“Little Luna?” Percy asked, laughing a bit. “The one that always tagged along with Penny?”
“Yup.”
“Wow... You’ve, well, you’ve grown. I see that lecture I gave you about tucking your wand behind your ear didn’t stick.”
“It was about as logical at Moody’s no wands in back pockets lecture during third...” Luna said as she stepped in towards Percy. “What are you doing?”
“I...doing... What do you mean?”
“You want to go back home, and yet you stay here, in this dank, miserable flat,” Luna whispered. “Are you really so stubborn, so headstrong, to put up with this place just to be right?”
Ginny stood agape as she glanced between her brother and her best friend. She had planned on barging in, not taking no for an answer, forcefully packing for him, and throwing everything out into the hall until he’d agreed. And Luna had him seemingly transfixed with just one simple, gently asked question.
“I’m sick of being a joke...”
“I know... But you don’t belong here.”
“I can’t face them.”
“You can do anything you put your mind to...” Luna said, reaching down and taking Percy’s hand, a gentle smile on her face. “Come on, Perc. Let’s get you packed.”
Several hours later, back at the Burrow, while Molly was sobbing awkwardly into Percy’s shoulder, and the boys were all exchanging annoyed looks, Ginny leaned over to Luna.
“I didn’t know you knew my brother... Is that why you wanted to come along?”
Luna just smiled back at Ginny, “That’s one of those things you’ll just have to wonder about, Gin.”