Hey everyone. This story was brought to you by Hogwarts Norther Winter Funfair's Build an Igloo, Hogwarts Eastern Winter Funfair's Yule Log Burning and Hogwarts Southern Winter Funfair's Mistletoe Madness on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry. For Build an Igloo I wrote for Layer 1 and my prompt that I used was the location of Borgin and Burke. For Mistletoe Madness I wrote for the pairing of Barty Crouch Jr./Rita Skeeter. For Yule Log Burning I wrote for D10 which was the plot point of forgetting someone's name. Warnings for mentions of character death. I hope you all enjoy It's Rita, Barty.
"What are you doing here, Rhonda?" Barty found himself asking trying his best to not make himself seem suspicious. He had seen this woman at the trial of Igor Kakoroff and he knew she knew he was taken to Azkaban.
"That doesn't matter," Rita Skeeter fired back at him anger lacing her voice. "The real question is what are you doing here?" She then glared at him fiddling with her purse. She knew she had her wand stashed in there somewhere. She just had to reach it and put this fool in the full body bind curse. "And the name is Rita."
"I'm sorry, Rhoda," Barty feigned sorrow in his voice but now that he knew his forgetting her name made her mad he'd use that for all it was worth. "But don't you think it looks suspicious that a reporter of your magnitude is found lurking around a place like this." He motioned around them at the interior of Borgin and Burke. "What are you doing here, Rachel?"
"It's Rita," she snapped rifling through her purse now to find her wand, "and it's none of your business, Barty." Barty had always sort of scared her during their time at Hogwarts. But he also kind of intrigued her too. "What are you doing here?"
"Watching out for you Riley," he smirked as he saw her angrily give up searching for her wand. "Again. What are you doing at Borgin and Burkes? This isn't your sort of place. So I don't buy the fact that you are shopping here."
"If you must know I was supposed to meet a source here," she sighed giving up in correcting him about her name. "Someone who can point me towards more Death Eaters for the Ministry. It seems he's either late or was only joking with me."
Smirking he looked over at where he'd hidden the form of the traitor he'd just killed. It was a cousin of Rudolphus and Rabastan so he should have known the man would be trouble. "Why don't we get a drink, Rosemary?"
She doesn't know why she agreed to get a drink with him. She chalked it up to her curiosity of how he escaped Azakban so easily. No one that she'd known of had ever escaped Azakban and yet here was Barty standing in front of her making her mad by forgetting her name. She raised an eyebrow as he stopped outside the doorway to the bar. Looking up she found a bit of mistletoe hanging right above Barty.
Sighing she reached up on tip toe and brushed a kiss on his lips walking past him into the bar. She headed straight to the bar and ordered herself a drink quickly. As she walked away she could have sworn she heard him mutter, "That was fine kiss, Rita."
I hope you all enjoyed It's Rita, Barty.