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A/N: Written for LovingYouAtFirstSight's Jigsaw Challenge. My Piece for this one shot has the prompts; Emotions: Scared, Character: Minerva McGonagall, Song: Skyfall - Adele. Written for the Scrabble challenge, my prompt is undone. Written for the One Million Words Comp. Written for the character diversity challenge using the prompt Tears.
This Is The End
Minerva closed her eyes for a second to ride herself of the images of her own students and fellow staff members fighting and falling to the ground. She needed to get those images out of her mind before they drove her insane. Behind her stood several scared first year students, all looking to her for guidance and protection. Outside of the castle the battle raged on as it came to its peak, how Minerva was going to get the first years behind her to safety and as far away from the battle field she did not know.
'Of all the wards to chose to keep up after going to all that work of undo all of them they just had to keep the appericition ward up' Minerva thought angrily as she tried her best to ignore the fear inside of her 'I hope this battle finishes soon or I fear it will mean the end for us all."
Taking a deep breath to collect herself Minerva reached undone her long robe's buttons and allowed her beautiful robe to fall to the floor showing her elegant but much more practical dress for the battle field. As the sound of scared tears and sobs came to her ears Minerva felt her heart soften slightly as she shot the scared first years a grandmotherly smile.
"Do not worry, I promise you that we will get to the edge of the wards," Minerva promised while mentally hoping that there would be no Snatchers waiting for them, "Remember that no matter what happens from this point on you have each other and me, along with every light wizard fighting on that battle field outside. Today we stand together no matter what happens, even if the sky falls and crumbles today we stand as one together."
Getting watery nods of the head from the first years Minerva took a deep breath and turned her attention towards the door that separated them from the battle field. She wished badly that she could take a different route, use one of the hidden passage ways of Hogwarts but she knew that Voldemort would have them guarded, this was the only way.
"Put your hand in my hand or grab hold of my clothes, we do not want to get separated out there," Minerva said as she felt the scared first years do as she said, "If we get separated out there then pick yourself up and continue running in the same direction as we were moving. Whatever you do don't stop and stay still alright?"
With various nods and yes in reply Minerva turned her attention back to the doors and pulled herself together. She knew that there were high chances of her dying while doing this but she did not care, as long as she could protect her students and get them to safety then Minerva did not mind dying.
To Be Continued.
