Chapter 127 - Rita's torture

He threw a cup of water on Rita's face and she woke up with a gasp.

She looked frantically as soon as she woke up but the dark and damp atmosphere of the cell would hardly bring her any solace. He wondered if she had ever been in a prison cell before.

He would not be surprised if she had infiltrated a prison cell on her own violation. She was a bad writer but he would admit that it took a lot of courage to become a small insect and infiltrate other people's homes, hoping that they would not see you and crush you.

Upon realizing where she was, she tried to move but the cold iron chair held her to the chair no matter what she did.

Then she closed her eyes and tried to do something and he chuckled.

"Don't try Rita." He said while giving her an amused glance "You won't be able to transform in this cell. It's heavily warded against such things. In fact, I would go so far to say that I made this place specially for people like you who could turn into their small animagus form and escape."

She stopped struggling and looked in his direction, squinting her eyes to get a better view of him and he came out from the dark corner of the room, her eyes narrowing as she gazed at her form.

"Harry Potter. What is the meaning of this? To apprehend a person like this in a private prison cell. Do you know how much trouble you can get in by doing this? Release me at once." She ordered and he started chuckling once again.

This woman had balls.

"You think this is funny do you. You have no idea how much trouble you're in. Release me at once or…" A wave of his hand and her lips were sealed together at once, stopping her from speaking any further regardless of how much she tried.

"Now that's better. Silent and willing to listen. Just the type of person I like." With a wave, a comfortable chair was transfigured from the ground in front of her and he sat cross legged on it.

"Rita, Rita. I don't think you understand the severity of this situation. Of your position. Now what am I to do with you." He said "Oh wait… I know just the curse for you."

"Crucio"

A red light hit her square in the ċhėst and she recoiled in horror for a moment, closing her eyes for the immense pain that was supposed to hit her. A pain that never came.

She opened her eyes and he sighed.

"I could never really muster the anger and hate required to perform this curse. Too bothersome for me." He said with a smile.

He had never really planned to cast that curse on anyone because of it's negative side effects the caster's mind. It was just something he did to scare her.

In response to his words, Rita glared hatefully at him and he chuckled once again, having a bit too much fun with this situation.

"Oh don't be like that. There's no need for you to stare at me so hatefully. After all, we would be spending so much time together from now on. It's imperative that we have a good relationship as a test subject and a doctor you know. Because we won't get the best results without your support."

"But before that. We need to break you a little bit." He said before turning to Selena.

"Selena. She was the one who called me a Dark Lord in training when my Parselmouth abilities came out. What do you think we should do with her."

Rita's face paled at the use of Parseltongue and he grinned. She seemed to have a great amount of fear for this ability of his. Good for him. The more his enemies fear his abilities, the better.

Selena came out from under his sleeves and looked at the woman with scorn before she turned to him "Tickle her."

"Tickle her?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yep. The last time you did that with Hermione, she seemed to have felt some stomach ache from the intense laughing. So yes… tickle her."

He gave her a weird expression and said "You know. I'm glad that I'm not your enemy."

Because regardless of her venomous tongue, she was a beautiful woman with a great figure.

She looked horrified at the lack of her clothes and looked at him fearfully for the first time and he chuckled in his mind at that.

"Don't worry. I will not **** you, if that what you're thinking." He said "You're not the first woman to be my prisoner. Though I would admit that the first one was far less beautiful than you."

"But that does not change the fact that you'll still get punished for slandering me in the Daily Prophet, breaking into my mall and for threatening me a few minutes ago." With that, he waved his hands and conjured a few dozen feathers before charming them to tickle her.

At first she laughed.

Then she cried out in despair at the huge amount of discomfort coming from the overload of sensations.

Then she screamed.

After she looked like she was about to pass out, he removed the feathers and she took a deep breath and slumped down on her chair, sobbing softly to herself because of the torture and he frowned.

Regardless of the amount of test subject he had experimented upon, this was the first person that he ever tortured. And he found no fun in doing so.

It seemed like he would to have a hire a professional torturer the next time he captures an enemy.

He wondered if Bellatrix would be willing to listen to his orders and then chuckled at that thought before shaking his head and focusing on the situation at hand.

"Now I have a few questions for you Rita." He said and she looked at him with hateful eyes "It would be best if you answer them correctly. Because if you don't then the feathers will return."

The hate in her eyes changed to fear in an instant and she gave him a weak nod through all the sobs.

"My first question. Why did you infiltrate the mall?" he asked the rather obvious question and the interrogation started.

Author's Note:- Any ideas what will happen next to Rita Skeeter???

By now, you guys already know that our MC can show cruel tendencies when it is necessary so can you guess what he'll do with Rita next.

Will he kill her, will he let her go or will he subdue her and use her animagus talents for his own use? Please tell me in the comments section.

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