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A/N: Hello everybody!!! Have I already said I LOVE your reviews?!! 'Cause I really love each one of them!!!

Instead I'm sure you've discovered it, let me say that the italics fragments are flashbacks about Albus and Minerva… I just wanted you to have this clear, 'cause on this chapter Minerva's mind is going to fly at any moment to the past, so I didn't want you to get lost on the story… KISSES!!!

Chapter four: The dark side

Minerva opened her eyes and gazed the clock on the night table. It was late on the afternoon… she had fallen asleep on the sheets of the bed she'd shared as many times with Albus…

"Albus…" whispered her "Albus, honey, wake up, it's late…"

"Which time is it?" asked him facing her.

"It's eight o'clock, sweeter… we should be downstairs having breakfast since fifteen minutes ago…"

"Then, it doesn't matter if we stay fifteen more in here…" he made a quick movement and suddenly he was on top of her kissing her lips.

The little apartment above the Headmaster's office was really quiet… Minerva looked around, but Severus didn't seem to be there… By the way, the table was laid and it smelled really well. Right when she was going to sit down someone opened the door and she turned round.

"Who's there?" asked her.

"Is this the best way you have to receive me?"

"Albus!" exclaimed Minerva running towards him and jumping to his arms.

"What were you doing here?" asked him embracing her and raising one leg to close the door.

"I… was worried about you" said her among some tears she didn't let to fell "You've been out for weeks and I… I was beginning to think that…" no more words were needed… he understood her feelings perfectly… and knowing she was as sad was breaking his heart.

"Tabby…" whispered him on a sight, leaving her on the floor and caressing her soft hair.

"What…?!" exclaimed her suddenly grabbing his burned arm.

"This is nothing, Kitty… just another scare for my collection…" lied him smiling and removing his black hand from her eyes.

"It doesn't seem nothing to me…" said her grabbing his arm again.

"Have I ever lied you?" asked him kissing her forehead "Trust me… it's nothing…"

"I'm sorry, I hope I haven't wake you up…" said Severus coming in and closing the door behind him. But Minerva didn't listened to him… she'd stayed in the middle of the living room with her look lost somewhere behind the closed door "Minerva, are you alright?"

"He was lying to me right then…" said her "That bastard had lied me all these years, saying me all was fine when everything was wrong…"

"If you're talking about Albus, I'm sure every time he lied you was to protect you…"

"I knew that wasn't just nothing… I knew that black hand was the result of dangerous curse… but I didn't imagine at that right moment he was going to leave me…" some tears began to fill her eyes. Severus noticed that, walked towards her and holding her shoulders made her sit down.

"Madame Pomfrey advised me you should rest a lot, so I asked the elfs to take your lunch here…" said him sitting down next to her and serving the food.

"Haven't you eaten, yet?" asked her gazing his plate.

"Well… after the bombshell you've dropped this morning I'm trying to meet the less people I can by the castle…"

"I'm sorry…" said her suddenly "I… I guess I behave like a kid…"

"You did" said him harshly, but then added "But I understand…" The stayed a long while without saying nothing, just eating, until Snape noticed that green shinny crystal on her hand "Where have you taken the ring from?" asked him suddenly.

"Oh…!" she gazed it too, and laughed "I… transfigured a frog…"

"What?!"

"It was what I had closer… I couldn't appear there and tell that without a prove…" she continued laughing"

"Are you really saying me this wonderful jewel was a dirty frog this morning?"

"Yeah, I am… don't you believe me? I could take it to her original form if you wish…""No… no… it's not necessary… but… you're really good!"

"Of course I am!"

"I'm saying it seriously… I wouldn't have been able to keep it as a jewel for more than a few minutes…"

"That's because you aren't me…"

"Is it possible to keep a chat with you?" asked him a little upset.

"I'm sorry…" said her giggling "So… Poppy was here?"

"She was"

"Didn't she say anything else?"

"She took you something for the first week pains of the pregnancy… nothing else…"

"Are you sure?"

"What else should she say?"

"Nothing… nothing" whispered her, and after a long while she added "She knows"

"Who knows what?"

"Poppy knows all this is a lie…" cleared her.

"I guessed it"

"I didn't tell her" quickly said Minerva "She… she'd already supposed it… she's been my friend since… ever… she knows myself better than anyone…"

"Don't worry… I don't matter… it's fine that you have someone to talk with… I trust on her if you do…"

"Thanks" she said smiling, and he smiled too "Are you gonna eat that?" asked her pointing the dish in front of Severus, who'd been a long while without tasted it.

"It's all yours" said him "Minerva… there's something I have to ask you…"

"What is it?"

"Well… the suddenly love story will not work with Who-must-not-be-named and the rest of Death Eaters…" said him "I have a meeting tonight, and I guess the news about our wedding will have already arrived there… so…"

"Severus… haven't you anything to tell us?" asked the diabolic voice of Lord Voldemort while his red eyes gazed him.

"I don't think so, my lord…"

"What about your wedding plans with Mrs. McGonagall?"

"Oh… that… I was going to tell you about that when all was ready, my lord…"

"Do you mean you're really getting married with who's been the right hand of Albus Dumbledore during all these years?"

"I thought she would be useful if we wanted the rest of staff of the school to trust on me as their headmaster, my lord…"

"But she's always fight against us! I remember her as a really annoying student… she already was Dumbledore's favorite one when he was our teacher… I always thought they would ended together…" he laughed and the Death Eaters laughed too "I guess it wouldn't have been right for Albus to end in a relationship with one of his students…"

"She still as annoying as you remember her, my lord… but I've made a passion curse to her… now she's a puppet I can manage with my fingers…" said Severus smiling.

"You've cursed Professor McGonagall!?" exclaimed both Carrows at the same time.

"Doesn't this curse need to be said while…" began Malfoy.

"It does, Lucius" answered Snape "It needs to be said while both subjects are involved in a sex interaction…"

"So, you and Mrs. McGonagall…" said Lestrange.

"I raped her, Bella…" told Snape.

"This is getting interesting…" whispered Voldemort.

"If you really did… why don't you shows us that remember?!" exclaimed the Carrow brother.

"I don't think…" began Severus.

"Do it" ordered Lord Voldemort "Let us enjoy her pain…"

Without say anything else Severus raised her wand and took out of his mind a silver liquid that left on a little calyx that Pettigrew left on the table.

TO BE CONTINUED…