(Beauty is in) The Eye of the Beholder

Recipient: donnaimmaculata
Author: ???
Title: No Charity
Rating: PG
Pairing: Aunt Marge/Rita Skeeter
Word Count: 3200
Warnings/Content: None
Summary: Rita sets out on a tough assignment – to interview Miss Marjorie Dursley.
Notes: This pairing took me by surprise, donnaimmaculata, I hope it works for you. I made up the currency conversion, because that's what the Daily Mail would do. (And then double it, probably.) I also may have stolen a Pratchett-ism, but I didn't think you would object too much. Thank you to S for checking this over.


( No Charity )

Recipient: miramiraficfic
Author/Artist: ???
Title: In the Shadow of a Black Hole
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Andromeda Tonks/Rita Skeeter
Word Count: ~1200
Medium: Fic
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *None*.
Summary: Why did she let Rita Skeeter into her home?
Author's/Artist's Notes: Thanks to M. for reading. Thank you to the mod for being so incredibly patient!

( In the Shadow of a Black Hole )

Recipient: woldy
Author/Artist: miramiraficfic
Title: Between Prospects
Rating: R
Pairings: Rita Skeeter/Mrs. Zabini; background mentions of Mrs. Zabini/Mr. Zabini and Rita/others
Word Count: 6,331
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *Sexual situations; non-graphic minor character deaths*.
Summary: Rita Skeeter and Thérèsa (Thea) Zabini are the sole constants in each others' lives. No matter how much Rita sometimes wishes things were otherwise.
Author's/Artist's Notes: woldy, you certainly know how to spoil a writer with plot bunnies. I started out wanting to write a serious Rita/Amelia fic. Then I tried a lighthearted take on Andromeda/Mrs. Zabini. Somehow, I ended up with this cross-product of the two. As a result, I'm afraid a touch of melodrama may have crept in along the way, despite my best efforts. Please, please forgive me. My intentions were good.

Please click here to read Mira's story!





( Between Prospects )

Recipient: featherxquill
Author/Artist: cranky__crocus
Title: The Madmen, the Scarecrow and the Milkmaid
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Rita Skeeter/Irma Pince; Aunt Muriel/Mr. Ollivander/Xenophilius Lovegood (mentioned)
Word Count: 2811
Warnings: The rating is the primary warning.
Summary: Irma spends a day of her holiday in one of her favourite bookshops. Irma had established that she was weary of other patrons.
Author's/Artist's Notes: I apologise for only offering a brief mention of one of your requested pairings; if I ever get the hang of the characters I will make haste in sending you another story! I hope you enjoy it.

( The Madmen, the Scarecrow and the Milkmaid )

Recipient: miramiraficfic
Author: injustice_worth
Title: Such is the Flare Through
Rating: PG
Pairings: Rufus Scrimgeour/Rita Skeeter. sort of?
Word Count: 2620
Warnings: Not much. Rufus does a bit of cursing but, well, that's Rufus, and it really isn't terribly excessive.
Summary: The press has been at it again, revealing Ministry secrets. Auror Rufus Scrimgeour has just about had it with the whole lot of them, particularly with the harpy known as Rita Skeeter. Unfortunately for Rufus, Or, in which Rufus has further issues with women.
Author's Notes: First war and all that, where Crouch is Barty Crouch Sr., Rufus and Moody are doing their Auror-ly duties, and so on. PROBABLY ought to say that no small part of the image of Rita held in mind comes from a mix of the Rita-ones o' skeeter_green, who portrays Rita far more aptly than I ever could, and featherxquill, who writes both Rita and Rufus far more skillfully than I've a prayer at chancing. Not to place any blame on them for the stilted/whatnot Rita produced here so much as to say that if anything about her is even vaguely Rita, they'd probably be why. Much of the gracias, then, to both of them. The title is from the same poem as the beginning bit, the line being as follows: "such / is the flare through memory or desire." At any rate. My apologies if this lacks in plot and such; the initial idea had a bit more of that, not to mention more characters and a McGonagall/Robards focus, bu-ut it kind of got out of control. So, er, hope this is acceptable annnnd je ne sais pas. LOVELY. DAY.

( Such is the Flare Through )

(Modly apologies to the author for 'asterisking' the title. I take responsibility for this wimpy "above the cut tag" change, which was made for the sake of people reading this community at work or the like.)

Recipient: featherxquill
Author: woldy
Title: The Backalley Annual C*cks*cking Contest
Rating: R
Pairings: Rita Skeeter/Erato Zabini (implied Erato/husbands)
Word Count: ~1600 words
Warnings: switching first person POV, strap-ons, more than a hint of crack
Summary: It wasn't anything as simple as sex appeal; if I had to put my finger on it I'd say they had charisma. And a talent for c*cks*cking, of course.
Author's Notes: This plotbunny ambushed me, but it's a gamble for an exchange fic so I hope you like it, featherxquill! If not, then I'm happy to write you another story in recompense. With thanks to my lovely beta, & to Shar Rednour for the inspiration.

( The Backalley Annual C*cks*cking Contest )

Recipient: ldymusyc
Author/Artist: featherxquill
Title: Apart
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Rita Skeeter
Word Count: 15,418
Summary: After the war, Draco doesn't know who he is apart from the mark on his arm. Rita is unlike anyone he's ever known and her difference aids him in discovery.
Author's Notes: Many thanks to my beta, and also to our wonderful Mod for her patience with my Epic Deadline Fail when this fic grew a mind of its own. Hope you like it, ldymusyc!

( Apart )

Recipient: xochiquetzl
Author: featherxquill
Title: To Earth, Like Ashes
Rating: R
Pairings: Rita Skeeter/Igor Karkaroff
Word Count: 5,000
Warnings: Er, politics? (and canon character death)
Summary: In the summer following Voldemort’s acknowledged return to power, the International Confederation of Wizards calls an emergency meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria. It’s Rita Skeeter’s first assignment in a year. It’s where Igor Karkaroff has gone to disappear.
Author's Notes: Xochiquetzl, I hope you like it! Many thanks to beta-of-fabulousness, K (bain_sidhe. Any mistakes in regard to Eastern European politics are my own.

( To Earth, Like Ashes )

Recipient: kaycee
Author: djinnj
Title: A Game of Fox and Hounds
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Snape/Skeeter
Word Count: 5450
Warnings: none
Summary: Her unauthorised biography of Harry Potter was at the top of Flourish and Blotts International's best seller list for eighteen weeks. There's only one story that could beat that, and she'll get it or her name isn't Rita Skeeter.
Author's Notes: This story takes place post-DH but pre-epilogue. Many thanks to my swift and brilliant beta. I hope this story pleases. :)

( A Game of Fox and Hounds )