Mistletoe
Challenge Sixteen: Holiday Drabbles & Drawbles
Author: gelsey
Wizard/Witch: Augusta Longbottom/Alastor Moody
Rating/Warnings: G/PG
Prompt: #35- mistletoe
Augusta smoothed down her robes, preoccupied.
Scrape-click. She knew who it was before he spoke. “You know where yer standin’, Gussy?” Alastor asked.
She didn’t, but she looked. Mistletoe hung above her, put there by house elves.
“Been here before, haven’t we?” His voice was crusted with abuse and nostalgia.
She looked at his piecemeal face, the patch over the missing magical eye. He hadn’t weathered the years well, but she felt more than fondness for the man who’d been her husband’s bestmate, and, after Herbert’s death, much more.
“Thank Merlin we’re here again,” she said, leaning into his embrace.