Dumbledore's Chamber of Secrets
Under the Beard
Albus glanced under his ever-growing beard in the mirror. His curly, white locks hung limply down his old muscular chest. Even though he tried to ignore it, he knew it was still there.
He could never remember how long it had been there, but it was his most prized body part.
Albus slowly made his way over to his wooden bed, threw back the covers, then inch by inch maneuvered himself into the cold bed. Bringing the coarse duvet over his shivering body, his thoughts drifted back to his questionable beard, and what lay beneath.
He had to suck up all his self conscious thoughts and confront Voldemort with his long kept secret, as the time was coming where he would have to explain himself. He couldn't keep it locked away any longer.
Tonight he would tell him.
Hopefully Voldemort wouldn't think he was a freak as it was something that he always had feared - would Voldemort reject him?
Suddenly he was forced out of his contemplative state as there was a violent and desperate-sounding knock at his aging door.
"Who is it?" he demanded.
"It's me sir, Harry. Please let me in, it's urgent!"
"Come in, my boy" Dumbledore exclaimed, even though he would rather be in bed waiting for his other half.
Harry pushed open the door forcefully and rushed to stand at an acceptable distance away from his headmaster's bed.
"This must be important to bother me at this time of night", Dumbledore mumbled in a tired voice.
Harry was about to answer when he noticed that Dumbledore's beard was pulled up with a thin red ribbon in a tight bun.
Realising that he had lost Harry's attention, he followed the dark haired boy's stare.
To his bundled up beard.
Dumbledore inwardly cursed , how could he have forgotten! He must have been so deep in thought that his biggest secret was on show! How was he supposed to get himself out of this mess. Harry wouldn't be swayed easily, he would have tell him the truth.
The bearded man shifted in his bed awkwardly, as the conversation came to a standstill and the room was thrust into a pregnant pause.
Plucking up some courage, Dumbledore decided to tell Harry everything.