All in a Days work (An Auror Moody Story)
Title: All in a Days Work (An Auror Moody Story)
Series: An Aurors Day (Next Chapter is: All Work and Some play)
Characters:Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody,OC, appearance by Rufus Scrimgeour.
Rating:PG for mentions of Character Death
Warnings: Moody wearing makeup? Does that count as Cross Dressing? and mentions of character death
Summary: After a Death Eater attack, Moody has to baby sit a little girl until her mother gets home. A little Girl, A makeup kit and Moody. Cuteness ensues, while Moody looses his dignity.
Disclaimer: This all belongs to JK Rowling and associates.
Dedicated to : mad4moo who inspired this
All in a Days Work.
Moody walked through the house, that had just been the scene of a major duel mere minuets ago. 2 of his fellow Aurors had been sent to saint mungo's and he doubted that he was going to see them in the same condition before the duel ever again, he had some how managed to walk out of this unscathed. Which for him was definitely a first. Checking every room for possible death eaters, and other human occupants, it felt like a hollow victory to him. They were to late, the entire family dead. It never seemed to get any easier.
As he walked through the house, flashes of the duel he remembered seeing. Flashes of colourful light that had painted the walls for seconds like flashes of light, still vivid in his memory,every step he took seeming to echo through the now dead quiet house. The rooms still filled with the Aura of the duels, magic energy so strong he could taste it on his tongue...the bodies of the victims still in the position they were found, mouths hanging open or contorted in some or other form of shock or pain, clothing torn, eyes open and staring lifelessly back at the world they had recently parted and he could do nothing to help them.
After checking every room in the now silent house, he came across the only room he hadn't checked, and it looked like the main-bedroom, as per protocol he did a human revealing charm before entering and without thinking nearly walked into the room, when the charm went off faintly, moving him into instant action. His magic eye glancing through the door revealed no one in the room, but he wasn't about to take that chance, they could just be hiding...
Slowly entering the door, the sound of the door creaking making the hairs on his neck raise unpleasantly, checking the corner and behind the door before he stalked in wand raised and ready for just about anything, knees bend to duck any unfriendly curses coming his way..."This is Alastor Moody o the Department o Magical Law Enforcement! Ya have exactly te the count o 3 te show yerself or ya will regret it!" He looked around once more, his eye not seeing what he knew had to be there...not in the closet or under the bed and the window was too high up to escape through without a broom, and it was warded the instance they had arrived and anti apparation charms had been put in place the moment they had arrived to preserve the scene of the crime and stop anyone from using magic to escape. He stood in the corner next to the door. "One...." Nothing! "Two...* Still nothing...."Three!!! come out now or ..." wait...was that a whimper?
His eye darted to the dressing table next to him, and under it was a child...a girl with coppery brown hair, and beautiful bright hazel eyes with coppery flecks in it to match her eyes, curled in on her self, looking up at the Auror tears in her eyes, covering her mouth, he could see that she was berating herself for the noise "Hullo there....Nothins gonna hurt ya lass, I'm from the ministry o magic" The little girl stared up at him looking a little braver, but still wedged under the dresser "My names Alastor Moody, an I am an Auror lass, I'm here te help ya! " He offered, feeling like he was talking to a piece of furniture not a child, but her eyes lit up when he said Auror and she glared at him "Poof!" She demanded, not rudely but with a spark of hope in her voice...at first Moody didn't understand, "Poof? ...Oh!!! Proof! Clever lass " he dug in his pocket and pulled out a gold card and slid it to her, on it read his name, age and a moving picture of himself, and in big black etched letters, Auror with the M.O.M symbol under it.
After a moment she clutched it to her chest for dear life and came out from under the dresser, and before he knew what happened she had run up to him and jumped up, without thinking he caught her and pulled her up to sit on his arm, she couldn't have been more that 6 years old, and she had lost most of her family. Her mother was a medi-witch at St.Mungos and would no doubt have heard of this if the Acid Green Skull above the house was seen, not to mention the Aurors at St. Mungos. He sat down on the dressing table stool and sat her on his knee, just then,Rufus Scrimgeour, arrived with 2 other Aurors in tow, the lad was a brilliant Auror if not just a tad jaded...but then again you'd have to be to be in this job. "Alastor! Whats going on!" He put a finger to his lip and looked down at the girl who was now clinging to his coat and burying her face in his neck with fright, Scrimgeours face didn't lighten but he gave a short nod "Right then, you watch her until her mother returns to claim her" He said as if this was news to Moody, who glared at him, making him shrink back, reminding him who was in charge "Right an ya can go and move the bodies so I can take her downstairs please" Said moody as sarcastic request that had been an Order.
Once the Aurors had left and Moody was alone with the little girl, who was eying her mothers makeup and now toying with the mascara on the table, resting the back of her head on his chest, the card still tightly gripped in her hand, moody s arm wrapped loosely around her waist so she didn't fall. Putting down the mascara she she looked up at Moody, reflection after awhile, tears streaming from her eyes, making him bounce his knee and rock her and bring her around so she was leaning her side against him instead of both gangly little legs hanging over either side of his leg "Shh lass, it'll be all right, ya'll see, yer mummy will be here soon, don't want her te see ya crying now do ya?" She made a little sniffing noise and shook her head, tears and snot flying everywhere, he produced a hank and brought it to her nose making her blow it, deciding that they needed to detracts her, and eying the makeup in front of him "how about we make ya look pretty fir yer mummy?" he asked gesturing to the makeup, while whipping the tears from her face, and doing a small freshening charm on it, the little girl bit her lip looking at the makeup and then gave a small reluctant smile, picking up a tin of blush and screwing the tin cap off it carefully, before handing it to Moody as if it were a priceless artifact and lifting her chin to offer her cheeks for the blush. Which in Moody's opinion was the cutest thing he had ever seen...Merlin help him if anyone saw him doing this.
Moody chuckled and carefully dabbed the pink blush on her all to pale face, before handing it back to the girl who had yet to give him his card back "Whats yer name by the way lass?" He asked as she considered the blush, taking the puff in hand and bringing it to his face "My names Gabby Sheehan, and I am 5 and one half years old!* She said proudly lifting her head as he moved his head well away from the puff of blush, making her scowl and wag her finger still holding the blush making it rise into the air "If your doing my face then I can do yours! Ony faiw!!!" Moody raised an eyebrow, she did have him there, he could hear how she was trying to get rid of her childish accent, but it still came up every once in awhile "Alright Gabby, but go lightly, men aren't suppose te wear makeup ya know!" She grinned and coated the puff with a thick layer of blush before liberally applying it to his scarred and battered face, carefully avoiding his eyes, her tongue caught between her teeth as she concentrated on the task.
Once she was satisfied, she capped the blush and picked up the misty green eyeshadow, and handed it to moody,who at this point looked like a pink tattered doily. "Close yer eyes Gabby" he said as he carefully applied the eyeshadow to both eyes, Gabby laughing slightly as it tickled "keep still!"..."Sorry Uncle Alastor" well he rather liked the sound of that, but was stalling, because he already lost one eye, he didn't feel like loosing another to a little girl and a makeup brush, but eventually he had no choice but to stop and closed the colour before she could use it, and put it on the table. Only for her to choose an electric blue one to match his eye "Close pwease!" She said, and he didn't like the idea at all! but the Pwease didn't give him much of an option and he closed his eye, his magic one spinning, after what felt like hours for a man who motto in life is constant vigilance, he opened his eye to find himself staring at a pink rag doll with a blue eye, that looked like a black eye. The girl gently put the eyeshadow down looking seriously pleased with her work on his eye, before picking up the mascara...Moody felt his stomach clench.
Taking the mascara, he carefully held applied it, and even then it was a clumsy job, but in the end it looked fine, she took it from him, and he felt like he was on some sort of sacrificial block! He was NEVER going to baby sit again! She stood up on his lap, tongue between her teeth and held the side of his face, as she applied it, once jabbing him in the eye, but aside from that, it went off without a problem and the dreaded mascara was capped and put away, Only to be followed by the lipstick.
Opening the lipstick, it was revealed to be dark red, Moody carefully applied it to her lips, whipping away any smudges that went astray. The little girl picked up a tissue from the table and pressed the her lips together to remove the excess, before going to work on Moody's lips. Then capped the lipstick and examined herself in the mirror, looking very pleased with the job Moody had done on her, and looked up at Moody's reflection looking doubly pleased, you would never have guessed that her Uncle and 3 Death Eaters were lying dead in the house and her father and brothers been carted off to St. Mungos. The world still shone brightly in some little place in the world for her. Getting off his lap she went to her mothers cupboard and retrieved an white straw sun hat with an over large sunflower adorning it, and a big red and black silk scarf, carefully putting them on Moody, who in his opinion looked like he was on the wrong side of a vicious marauding gorilla attack. Now with Hat and Scarf, watching as she put on her mothers high heel shoes, and another scarf, draped around her, like a Roman toga, complete with pearl necklace for a belt. Merlin Help him if any of the others Saw him like this...
And just because Merlin seems to hate him, Scrimgeour walked in "the Girls mother is...." Scrimgeour bit his lip, Moody managed a manly scowl even with layer upon layer of blush on, and even that didn't hide the real blush working on Moody's face..."Here....erm...(Coughing and looking away, a blush working on his own cheeks, Scrimgeour felt like it was indecent to look at Moody in Such a state) The girls Mother is here /sir/!" His voice shaking with the effort to not laugh, if only he had a camera!...Moody Sneered and Stood up, as the woman entered, tears streaming down her face, but stopped dead at the sight of Moody in makeup and her daughter dancing around the room, a large gold card in her hand. Scrimgeour cleared his throat again "I'll be going home now sir, bumping into every single conceivable piece of furniture on his way out, a peel of laughter been heard on his way down, even if Rufus Scrimgeour had to admit that only Moody could make makeup look that manly.
The girl spotted her mommy and ran up giving her a huge hug, her mother had stopped crying, the tiniest smile on her face as she looked at Moody, holding her daughter close to her "Thank you for looking after her Mr. Moody" She said prying the card from her daughters hands and handing it back to him "All part o being an Auror Mrs. Sheehan" that made Gabby grin and Mrs. Sheehan the older duplicate of her daughter nearly breakdown laughing, Though she would never, after how well he looked after her daughter "Would you like some coffee before you leave?" She asked picking up Gabby and putting her on her hip "No thanks, If ya don't mind I'd like te get home before I have te obliviate another one o me aurors?" That did bring a grin to Mrs. Sheehans face "Would you like to use our floo then? Its just across the landing?" He could have kissed her just then. "If ya don't mind?"
She shook her head and walked out the door to check the coast was clear before leading him to the fireplace, Gabby wanting to be put down this instance, ran up to Moody and hugged him around the waist, smudging her own makeup. "Thank you Uncle Alastor!!!" Moody smiled and patted her head taking a good handful of floo "Welcome lass" she went to stand by her mother. as he disappeared into the green flames, hat and Scarf still on, but at this point he just wanted to get home...For all the things an Auror stood for, and for all those things he had to do in his duties...he could safely say that this was a first and most definitely! a Last!.
fin.