a/n: Ok, I have decided against my better judgement to post my fic that I came up with around early January, early Feburary of this year. Since I rather enjoyed writing it (and the sequel which is yet to come), I hope all of you will enjoy reading it, so without further ado, here is my fic!
A Single Slip
Preface:--
A single slip
threatened us both
When one of us tripped
we both fell
For being together
hand in hand
Isn't as easy as it looks
Prologue:--
"A single slip had made us both fall," thought McGonagall miserably to herself. This was much more difficult than anything she had ever encountered in her entire life. Nothing made sense anymore and everything was spiraling into depths that she feared she would drown in. Turning back time was out of the question; what if she found her past self, and tried to prevent this from happening again? No, that wouldn't do. That would just mess everything up. Everything that she had worked tirelessly for. Everything that she ever wanted or needed. Everything she had longed for, would all be in vain as her life was now. How it had become this way was a mystery to an outsider. McGonagall wanted no one to know, so no one was told. No one knew about her sufferings, and that was the way it was meant to be. No one cared; not even the one she loved so dearly.
She pushed the dreaded thought out of her mind; the thought that was almost too much to bear; the thought that she had frequently tried to forget, but the thought that somehow had darkened her days. Everyday was one of grief that she tried to avoid. Avoiding the thing she longed for, to shun another heartbreak that was bound to occur once more. A horrible thing was between the two of them and McGonagall had no idea how to get through it. Nothing came to her mind as she had hoped; as it always had beforehand when she had wondered whether this thought of a relationship between her and him was insane. Yes, Minerva McGonagall was in love with Albus Dumbledore, and there was nothing she could do about it!