Sweep Me Off My Feet

Part 3/?,

Disclaimer: Don't own em…though we all wish we did.

Notes: Well…not much.

Summary: Rina is an ever-famous writer for the Daily Prophet: Head in charge in fact. Her most recent target: Oliver Wood. Can Oliver 'keep his cool' with the Quidditch World Cup so close? And can Angie and Percy find a way to sort out all the mishaps that are doomed to happen during their new assignment? Add a little bit of Bartemius Crouch's meddlesome matchmaking into all of this and you're sure to have a fanfic to boot! So go on and read on I DARE YA!

"Angie! Angie over here! Pssssssttttt Angie!"

Angie's right eye twitched as she looked around trying to find where the annoying voice was coming from, the answer came to her a second later, when she was drenched in butterbeer. Yelping she turned sharply coming face to face with a bush. "how dare you...you….shrubbery?" Angie blinked and tilted her head in a confused manner scratching the side of her head lightly.

Slowly Rina's head peaked out and a small grumble came from her lips. "Took you long enough. Sheesh I thought you were purposely ignoring me."

Angie blushed in embarrassment but got over it, "Umm…Rina…dear…you have a leaf ..." Giggling she reached over and took the leaf out of Rina's hair, "Why are you hiding in a bush? Come out and have fun!" She motioned around having to raise her voice slightly over the noise of the party.

Rina waved her arms frantically and ducked back in the bush, "what're you doing? Trying to get me spotted?! You really are blond aren't you?!"

Adjusting her glasses Angie coughed and discretely leaned beside the bush against the wall giving a shaky smile to a frizzy haired teenager that walked by looking at her suspiciously, pausing in her step, before mumbling something and going back to her search for 'a book to read'.

After a small pause Rina murmured to her sarcastically, "Could you be even more obvious?"

Angie ran her fingers threw her bangs and coughed, whispering out of the corner of her lips, "I don't know what you're talking about."

"…I really am ashamed to call you my friend."

Across the room Oliver winked and whispered something in the ear of his dark haired vixen of a date, which everyone doubted even he knew her name. Oliver was adorned in a gray button up dress shirt and a pair of black slacks. He had obviously put thought into readying for the party as he looked about as suave…as well a Scottish guy could look.

Percy on the other hand, wasn't doing so well.  His palms were sweating, he was paler than normal, and he looked about ready to pass out any second. Pausing in his attention to his date Oliver looked over at his best friend.

"Hey Perc', relax a little would you? Go have some butterbeer, Penelope is around here somewhere, go see how she's doing." Elisa, Oliver's said date, giggled madly and nodded eagerly.

"Yeah, like, maybe you two could hook up again!"

Percy decided rather then arguing to just turn and walk away. After all that's what his mother had always told him…when someone's embarrassing themselves; don't laugh, go for a walk.

"Ok...I think I get it now." Angie paused humming under her breath as she thought a second more, "Your boss told you to cover the story on the hit party of the year; this one. BUT, He told you to steer clear of Oliver Wood, who just happens to be here…. And why are you hiding in a bush again?"

Rina slapped her forehead in agony. If Angie wasn't her friend Rina would've put a hex on her by now. "Look, listen carefully now ok." Rina paused waiting for Angie's energetic nod, "I'm supposed to stay away from Oliver, but at the same time cover this story. On my way in I bumped into Oliver's date and" She held a hand out of the bush to cover Angie's mouth as she opened it to talk, "And she dumped a cup of blueberry splurch on me." She slowly and cautiously took her hand off Angie's mouth.

After a long pregnant pause Angie's forehead scrunched up in a frown, "Oh that's horrible…want to borrow my robes? You could go mingle if it was covered.

Almost paranoid like Rina looked around, "..I can't take the chance."

"ah chug chug chug chug chug!!"

Laughter followed by cheers echoed in the entire house from the bar area, where two red heads had collapsed making crude noises bottles upon bottles of who knows what laying around them.

Lily cringed as she saw a bottle tip over and spill on her white, new, expensive carpet. She opened her mouth to insist they clean it that instant but burst into a fit of giggles as she heard a call come from the staircase that would make the mighty Tarzan grin in pride. Her, as well as everyone else in the room's, attention shifted over just in time to see Cory go sailing threw the air, Quidditch boxers on his head.

"CORY WATCH OUT FOR THAT...oohhhh" Groans of sympathy went throughout the whole room as the dark haired man hit the wall with a loud smack. Slowly he sunk to the ground whimpering in pain. However it only took him three seconds to pop right back up posing.
            "Fear not! I /am/ alright!"

Lily rolled her eyes at her husband's stupidity, but none-the-less hurried to his side in worry. Bumping hard into Percy as she passed sending him falling backwards, right into a bush.

"AHHHH!!" The scream coming from the bush silenced every single witch, Weasley, and well everyone.

Fred and George managed to snap out of their stupor and sat up tilting their head's in matching looks of confusion as they searched for the screaming and squeals of anger.

Oliver let go of his date looking over her shoulder raising an eyebrow and gaping at the sight he saw. There on the ground was a dirt covered Rina wearing a white blouse with a large blue stain on it, but that wasn't what caught his attention, it was the blush on her cheeks. He had never seen her flushed before..

The party giver's, Lily and Cory, gave each other small glances before hurrying through the crowd to where two people lay sprawled out on the ground.

Angie couldn't help but giggle at the sight of a blushing Percy as he apologized over and over to Rina who was trying to desperately get him to stand up and make people stop looking at her. 

Oliver took a step forward his fists balled in anger as he seethed down at her, "you…"  He was about to let all his anger out on the cowering Rina but shut his mouth blinking as a suddenly short girl stood in his way glaring up at him, somehow managing to look slightly intimidating.

"Look bub. I may not entirely understand Lovey there sometimes, but I AM her friend, and as her friend I am telling you to turn around and walk away." A tug on her sleeve caused Angie to stop in her heartfelt speech and glance at Rina who had managed to make her appearance decent, with exceptions of the leaf in her hair of course.

Oliver raised an eyebrow as Rina leaned over and whispered something to Angie who turned beet red and squeaked, jumping.
            "o-k then…I'll just be going…AHHH!" Turning she bolted away from the crowd of people, not noticing the concerned glance from three of the room's occupants.

"OK people there's nothing to see here! NOW scurry over to the Christmas tree the drawing for the prizes will be there in a few moments followed by the gift exchange!" Lily shooed the curious Witches and Wizards away, leaving only Rina, Oliver (and his date…who couldn't really be considered 'there'), Percy, Cory and herself. After seeing that everyone was gathered over there she instructed Bill and Charlie (the only sober one's she could find) on what to do before rushing back to the small group of people.

"ok….now I want the whole story…NOW." Lily glanced just in time to see a greasy haired man waltz by in a pink ballerina suit. "and why did Miss-"

"Angie left so suddenly cause she remembered she had to go meet someone.." Nodding almost proud with herself for the lame excuse Rina glanced at Oliver who didn't seem to have calmed down, "oh…and Wood. I'm not here to write a story...I'm here to...well write a story but it isn't on you, nor your hollow head."

"How many times have I heard that?" Oliver spat, earning a jar in the ribs by Lily.

"Alright then…come on Rina in the other room, we need to talk.." She ushered Rina out of the room and up the stairs to her study room silently not even giving a glance to the others.

            As Lily tried to comfort Rina and figure out what had happened to Angie, Cory sat with Oliver on the couch trying to calm him down.

"I'm…sorry man. I mean I know how much you were hoping to have a break from Rina."

"NO it's not that…I'm over that…I'm…Hmm. Ok look, next time I try to beat up a girl warn me alright?"  

~~~~~END

Notes: Ok I know this was a very confusing chapter, and very short. But basically it was just flashes of what happened at the party and a way to help get myself out of my writer's block.  And to explain everyone's confusion I know you're feeling…most of the people were drunk.

I am very very very ashamed of this chapter and if I get one review I will consider it a miracle. As I look back and read it it brings tears to my eyes at the sloppiness of the chapter and how much it reminds me of some newbie fanfiction writer's work. …gawd  ok I'll go wallow in shame now…

Thanks to…….

Lily for her reviews and I'm sorry I didn't update til now.