Ten Minutes in the T.A.R.D.I.S

Luna looked out across the Hogwarts grounds from the Astronomy Tower. Although it was pitch black in the dead of night she could still make out the shape of the large mass of water south of the Hogwarts castle and she could still see lights flickering through the windows of Hagrid's hut, as she looked blankly out into the blackness she let out a quiet sigh. Sometimes at night, when she'd wake up and find herself in the middle of the corridors due to her sleep walking, she'd go up to the astronomy tower and look up at the night sky with a strange feeling, she felt as though she'd been to all the stars before, as though she'd been to different planets and it was time to visit again and she was expecting someone to magically appear out of nowhere and take her.

You're being silly Luna,she'd laugh to herself, No one can apparate or disapparate in or out of Hogwarts grounds. How many times have you heard Hermione say that to Ron. Even though she knew that, she'd still wait up there for hours for someone, or something, to appear in the dead of night.

It was edging on 4:00am when Luna stifled a yawn and decided that she'd done enough waiting.

I should probably get back to bed, she thought and went to turn around, but when she took a quick glance back down at the edge of the black lake, she spotted a strange light with small illedgable writing that seemed to be floating in mid air.

She wanted to go check it out, she felt like it was the thing she'd been waiting for for the past few weeks. No, she didn't want to go explore hadto. It was nearly four in the morning, Filch had to sleep sometime surely and no other teachers would be awake at such an absurd hour, with her reasoning she seemed to have the perfect circumstances to see what was creating the light so she quickly ran to stairs that lead down to the hall way and tip toe ran in the direction of the exit to the grounds.

"Alohomora." She whispered as she got to the large front doors of the Hogwarts. She was surprised when she heard a clickthat echoed throughout the empty corridor, she thought Dumbledore would have at least enchanted the door so that a basic first year spell wouldn't work but apparently not.

Luna tried her best to open the heavy wooden doors slowly so they wouldn't wake anyone by creaking too much but when the silence was broken by the loud noise the doors made she quickly ran through them, not bothering to shut them behind her. When she was half way down the hill she looked at the spot where the light was to see if it was still there, it was but it seemed to be fading, making awhoosh, whoosh, whooshnoise every time.

She ran as fast as she could towards the whooshing and stopped only when she saw a big blue police box fading away then quickly reappearing. She practically ran up to the doors and began pounding as loud as she could when there was something to pound on.

"No wait, don't go!" she spoke loudly, not wanting to wake Hagrid who was no doubt snoring away in an oversized bed only a few dozen metres away, "Stop! I don't know what you are but I've been waiting for weeks for you to show up! Don't go, I'm here!"

After several more seconds of pounding on the door the police box stopped fading and remained a solid object. Luna stood there breathless not knowing what to expect, the more she thought about the big blue box standing silently in front of her, the more common sense was impairing her split second thoughts. She didn't know what it was, what was making it fade away, she didn't know if it was dangerous or whether it was perfectly harmless. But she did know that it felt completely right being there, completely vulnerable to what ever was in there.

A minute after her frantic knocking, the door opened and a man appeared before her. He was strange looking, which could've been considered odd coming from a witch and even stranger coming from Luna, he had messy hazel hair and was wearing a tweed jacket with suspenders and the thing that made her nearly laugh out loud was the bow tie around his neck.

He looked down at her cautiously and then as though he remembered her from a very long time ago, a wide smile spread across his face. "Luna!" He exclaimed and wrapped his arms around her. "It's good to see you again."

"Again?" She asked, suddenly realising she could have just let herself fall into a trap of some kind of baddie. "What do you mean again?"

"No time to explain Lovegood, in you pop, there are people I want you to meet." He said quickly as he grabbed her hand and pulled her into the box.