Scarlet had heard of him he was one of Voldemort's most treasured. Sometimes she would just watch him and wonder what hopes,dream,and wishes he had for himself . Because this couldn't be the only thing .
Tonight they met at the Riddle only reason Scarlet could think of why they met there was either it was an unusually cold night for fall or because Voldemort's becoming weaker.
Scarlet was sitting closest to the fire as she possibly can,trying to warm her bones.
But she is not only sitting by the fire, but also having a angry conversation with Voldermort,about one Barty Crouch.
"I cannot do that he is to far gone,he is to big of a case" Scarlet says looking at Barty who sits in the far corner,furthest away from everyone and stares off into space talking to himself.
"You said you can heal anyone right?" Voldermort said
"Yes but..."Scarlet said looking down at her hands in her lap,not exactly knowing what to say or do next.
"Yes but nothing,you will take him with you and spend as long as it takes to heal him"
"Do I make myself clear Scarlet"Voldermort said looking her dead in the eye,with a look on his face Scarlet knew not to cross.
"Yes you do,but why spend so much time on something that could never work my Lord"
"Because he is one of the great ones,loyal,and young,he can do the things the others cannot."
"We will not discuss this any further,you will do what I say or the punishment will be great."
"Now leave and take him with you"Voldermort said with a wave of his hand.
"Yes my lord"
Scarlet quickly got up and moved across the room to where Barty sits,he had knew long ago that the conversation was about him.
"Whats going on,why were you two talking about me?"Barty said in a low voice.
"You need to come with me"Scarlet said looking down at Barty and offering her hand to him.
"Why?"Barty said sharply,and swatting away her hand.
"I will tell you later"Scarlet said through gritted teeth.
She was now becoming angry and grabbed Barty roughly by the arm and pulling him to his feet.
"Where are we going?"He said now with a worried look and pulling his arm from her grasp.
"My home"
"Come on,hurry up"Scarlet said quickly looking back at the Dark Lord.
She grabs his arm once again and with a pop they are gone.
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With a pop,they enter into what Barty could make out to be a living room. Without the use on her wand Scarlet bends down to turn on a light,which sits on a small table next to a chair.
Scarlet removes her cloak. She soon began to feel the warm air creep up her cold body.
She turns around to look at Barty who has just lowering the hood on his cloak,his straw colored hair falling into his face.
He blankly looks around the room.
"Can I take your cloak" Scarlet says to him with a small,warm smile.
He removes it and hands it softly to her. Scartlet gives him a second soft smile as a way to say thank you. She then walks across the room to hang both cloaks on a coat rack in a dark corner.
"Why don't you have a seat and I will tell you why you are here" she says motioning to a chair
Barty carefully sits down,eyeing Scarlet up and down all the while making note of her low cut dress and the tip of her wand peaking out from the middle of her cleavage.
Scarlet soon follows,sitting down on the foot stool in front of it.
"You see Barty,you are here because the Dark Lord has the thought in his head that I can heal you,which I'm not sure if I can do that yet." Scarlet said brushing a strand of hair out of her face.
"How can you do that" he says while looking down at a spot on the floor that lays between his scuffed boots
"A few years back my friend was hit by the Imperius curse and I was heart broken. Minute by minute I spent trying make a potion that could heal her and after sometime I ..."
"So you can heal me?"
"I don't know yet,I may be able to heal you. It may take a few months and even a few years or it may not even work at all. I just don't know."Scarlet said with a soft cautious tone.
They both sat in silence for what seemed like hours. Scarlet watching Barty's wandering eyes and slow yet jerky movements. Barty taking in the surroundings of the dark living room and making head notes of many objects are the same, then counting them. Making notes of how many pictures there are, what color the lamp is on the side table and how many flowers are embroidered on it. Every now and then eyeing Scarlet from the corner of his eye. When Scarlet finally spoke up.
"You look tired" Scarlet said patting Barty's knee.
"We can talk more in the morning about 't move, you stay here" Scarlet said as if speaking to a dog
"I will go and get things ready for you up stairs."
Scarlet moves to leave,but stops when Barty slowly standing. He looks her dead in the eye as if trying to look into her soul. Barty noticies her dark turquoise eyes. They remind him of a dress that his mother once owned when he was small. They had nine buttons on it, the small color as her eyes.
Scarlet softly smiles and motions him to stay where he is. She leaves him, standing there staring at her with those wide empty eyes as. She begins her journey up the long wooden staircase.
She steps into the dark hallway and walks into the master bedroom and moves effortlessly in the dark towards her dresser. There she turns on a light that sits upon it and begins to dig through the many drawers. In hops to find some old clothes to transfigure into things for Barty to wear.
After sometime and some cursing she is able to transfigure some shirts,underwear which made Scarlet giggle and some pants,pajama bottoms and shirts to wear to bed.
"This will just have to do until I can go into town and buy him some clothes of his own"Scarlet says to herself out loud.
She had the feeling that there was someone watching her, she turned around to see Barty slowly walking from her doorway into the guest bedroom across the hallway.
She gathers the clothing into her arms,walks to the doorway of the guest bedroom where she stops and watches Barty as he looks around the room. The full,fall moon glows through the french windows, which floods the room with a soft,white light.
"I told you to stay down stairs while I got things ready for you.I haven't even gotten a chance to make the bed yet."
She moves towards the dresser and lays down his clothes. Scarlet pulls her wand from her cleavage and says a small charm to quickly make the bed.
He turned his head to look at her with a surprised look in his eyes.
"Is is this my bedroom"he says with a stutter
"Yes it is"
"I left your clothes over here"she says patting the piles of neutral colored clothing.
"The potion you have to take is on the night stand" she says walking over and grabbing it.
"I would like for you to take this now, if you don't mind.I want to know that you actually did take it and so I know that I am not wasting my time."
"Okay"
"Here take it,drink up" she says to him, handing him the small bottle.
He lightly takes it from her hand and eyes it, sighs a heavy sigh and drinks it down in one sip. He hands it back to Scarlet with a nasty look on his face.
"I only have to take this once a day?"Barty asked wiping his mouth.
"No three times a day,morning,noon,and night."
"It must taste horrible,I am very sorry for that."Scarlet said with a sympathetic look on her face.
"It is quickly getting very late.I should be getting to bed and so should you."
"You should try to get some sleep, you look like you haven't truly had a good night sleep in sometime"Scarlet said with a type of smile a mother would give her child. She softly cupped his pale,freckled cheek
"I haven't" stuttered Barty,slowly gives Scarlet a very forced smile.
"Well I will leave you to get ready for bed and I will see you in the morning,I make breakfast by 8:00"
"Where is the bathroom?"Barty said not looking at her,but at the comfortably made bed.
"Its two doors down,on the right."Scarlet said pointing.
"I left a clean glass on your night stand,just in case if you need a glass of water.
Barty looked up at Scarlet and nodded his head with understanding.
"Okay,well goodnight,get some sleep"
"Night"
Scarlet walked into the hallway and closed the door just so there was a small line of light showing. She walks to her bedroom door and stops to look over her shoulders. Theres something uneasy in the air that Scarlet can't she quickly pushes that feeling away. She steps into her room and closes her door behind her with a click.
Barty heard her door close and he can still smell her lingering perfume,he could make out very ingredient he could smell a sweet jasmine,a strong but soft sandalwood,a comforting french vanilla, something acidic like a ripe fruit, and maybe a hint of cinnamon made a note in his mind of how well it fit with her bodies natural smell.
Barty quickly pulled himself out of his thoughts and finally took his eyes off the large bed. Finally takes in the rest of the room He notices how boring it was,other then the medium blue,chocolate brown,and pure white bedding there was no other type of color. The walls were white,the wood furniture was all a dark brown color,as well as the wood a few photographs hanging on the wall above the dresser,but they held no color as to they were in black and white.
His eyes fell from the photos on to the neatly folded stacks of clothes. Barty wasn't to impressed by anything,but knew that was all he had and would have to make making a decision and picks out a gray shirt and a pair of blue plaid pajama bottoms. He tiredly takes off his dirty clothes and puts on his new,clean made him feel safe and comfortable. Everything he hadn't felt in a very long time.
Barty quickly slides into the soft,clean sheets. Lays on his back and looks up at the ceiling with a small,yet happy smile. He slowly lets himself fall into the arms of the sandman,who has been nagging him for so long. In no time his breathing evened out and with in seconds he entered a deep,but nightmare filled sleep.
While Barty sleeps,Scarlet is still getting ready for bed. It is taking her much longer to do so,she can't seem to let the events of what happened tonight go. She does not know what to do,but Scarlet does know that she has to get some rest, so she will be able to think straight again.
Scarlet walked into her private bathroom,she quickly looks at herself in the mirror, only to quickly look away. With a soft hand she slips off her heavy black dress and unties her long hair from the many ribbons that hold it in place. Scarlet is finally able to untangle the last ribbon from her hair,which then lets her long strawberry blondie hair fall into her face.
She pulls her wand from between her breasts,then effortlessly unclasps her bra. She moves to grab the white button down night shirt off of the back of the door,and pulls it over her head. Which comes to fall to the middle of her thighs, showing off her nicely shaped,cream colored legs. Scarlet quickly brushes her teeth and washes her gathers up her dirty clothes and places them in the hamper next to the bedroom door.
Scarlet flips off the bathroom light,tiptoes back into her bedroom and over to the bed, which is every color of the rainbow. She slides between her sheets and snuggles down. Scarlet holds her wand up to her window to insepect it out of habit, then she tucks it under her pillow. She soon then falls into a deep sleep
Author Notes- Here we go again editing the story. "eye roll"
On the relationship between Scarlet and Barty- Scarlet wants to think of Barty as being a project, trying to fix what is broken. But her internal mother comes out and she can't help but to treat him as if he were her child.
Barty is just a intelligant,insane,ocd, mess. Mess with a capital M. He has a photographic memory-side note- this would be so cool to have. He also has ocd-like myself, so it's pretty easy to write about. With ocd he has to number very thing, put things into catagories. Barty also remembers the really small detailes about his childhood. He aslo will have the habit of telling Scarlet odd facts about things that he has learned over the years.
Please comment it does help a crazy ocd person. lol
I will go over the story again and check on the wording. So some words may change abit. Nothing major.