Minerva was sitting at the kitchen table and was slowly eating the hot soup. Severus was gone again and had told her(again) not to leave the house. Not that she really wanted to. She missed Hogwarts and her friends of course, but Severus treated her well and had tried to make her stay as pleasant as possible.
She smiled while she looked around. The room really looked like a small Scottish house. She looked at the clock that was hanging on the chimney cap. Ten O'clock… Severus was really late today. Would something have happened with him? She really was concerned now.
At the same moment Severus Apparated in the middle of the room and fell to the ground.
"God, Severus!" Minerva helped him up. He really looked terrible. "What happened? Come, have a seat. You have some serious injuries." While she took care of his wounds he started talking.
The Lord attacked Hogwarts, but he didn't know, nobody did, that the whole OotP would be there. A great battle started and Potter killed him. As soon as almost all the Deatheaters were death or captured I Disapparated back to here.
He moaned as Minerva put some Desinfection-potion on the open wounds on his leg. "Who did this to you? Alastor?" She took his wand and let bandages appear on his wounds. She walked into the kitchen to get him a cup of soup.
"No."He took the cup thankfully and took a nip. "Granger. That little girl. She was quite pissed off at me."
"Why? Did you kill someone?"
"Yes…"Minerva stared at him in shock. "I wanted to hit her with the A.K… Please don't look like that Minerva! But then that stupid cat of her jumped into it. So I killed that cat."
There was a silence and then Minerva said: "It was her best friend. Of course she was quite pissed off at you. Was someone else killed?" She pushed a chair next to him and carefully lay his leg on it. He moaned and said: "Not by me. Lucius killed some new teacher and Bellatrix some students. I was to busy preventing Granger to kill me."He laughed softly and looked at her. "What about you? Killed someone?"
"No. Nobody comes to visit me. So I don't have many people to kill." She smiled. "You need professional care. I'm not good enough at healing spells and your potions are coming to an end."
He grimly smiled at her and said: "You want to walk with me to Hogwarts? After all I've done?" "No, but they will help me."
She rose up and walked to the chimney. "You have forgotten to hide the Flow-powder." She took some of it, walked nearer to the chimney and threw it in. The flames wend green.
"I'll go and convince them to help you. You stay here and rest. I'll be back soon." Before he could answer, she stepped into the fire and said: "Hogwarts!"
She was gone and Severus signed.