This drabble was requested by edoraslass for holiday 2005, specifying something with Mad-eye Moody, non-shippy, pre-Goblet of Fire, with the prompt "bunny rabbit."

Repose

Alastor Moody was irritable. Not that this was an unusual feeling for him; he had spent most of the last twenty years in a bad mood. It was part of what made him a good Auror. Every now and then, though, he needed to remind himself why it was important to track down the remaining Death Eaters and see them properly tried and gaoled in Azkaban. Today was such a day. He went out into the garden and knelt, painfully, next to the hutch where his bunny rabbit lived. "Time to play, Dandelion," he said, and stroked the soft pelt.