A/N: ... I don't know for sure if there'll be a romantic relationship between Minerva and Severus in this fic but they will be involved in some "weird/odd" scenes where things can be confusing... After all, the situation is pretty complicated...
As for me, I've become so fond of MM/SS that at this moment it's hard to me sometimes to write something where they both appear and not making them end up together, but I've began two fics where that's exactly what I am trying... If I am able or not to do it, we'll see :D
I hope you enjoy this part and the entire fic whatever its end is.
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** I apologize in advance for the grammar and spelling mistakes you will surely find...
Tea leaves - 4
It was Saturday and Minerva woke up late. She felt great because she had been able to sleep the entire night without nightmares haunting her. She definitely had to find a way to thank Severus for the sleeping potion he gave her the day before.
After getting dressed she left her bedroom and stepped into her office. On her desk there was a tray with some breakfast and a letter.
Minerva,
I asked the houselfs to take you some breakfast since you didn't come downstairs.
Meet me in front of the Defence Against Dark Arts classroom after the students are gone to Hogsmeade.
Severus.
Minerva looked at the old clock on the wall. It was passed nine on the morning! She ate fast and left her rooms like if she was in a hurry. She had no idea of why Severus wanted to meet her but she didn't wanted to make him wait.
When she climbed her last step down to the first floor, she met with professor Snape, who was coming up.
"Good morning," she said.
"As punctual as ever," Severus said as they took the corridor that would take them to the Defence Against the Dark Arts together. "It's nice to see you awake."
"Thanks to your potion, I must say it was very useful," Minerva confessed, "You'll have to tell me what I owe you because I am going to need at least a couple more bottles before the year finishes..."
"In the first place," Severus said as they reached their destination, "you owe me nothing. And secondly, I won't make you more potion because you won't need it..."
"What do you mean?" she asked confused as the potion master opened the door of the classroom to let her in.
"Minerva, a sleeping potion helps you sleep but it doesn't take the fear away... You have to fight it, you have to get over it."
"I already got over it, I escaped and I am free now... and by the way, what are we doing here?" she wondered as she watched Severus turning the lights on and closing every window and door in the room.
"You are not free, Minerva... and you won't be until you are able to look at his eyes and see nothing else than a man." he stood next to one of the closets and added, "That's why we are here," he made a long stop and then finished, "don't worry, I asked permission to the new teacher to use his classroom."
"Severus, I still not understand what you have in..." but before she could finish her sentence, Severus opened the closet in front of her and a man stepped out from the darkness inside the furniture. Minerva branded her wand against the stranger but as soon as she could have a better look of him, her hand trembled and the wooden stick felt to the ground. "Melvin?" she muttered confused and then looked at Severus, "What's he doing here?! Why would you bring him in the school?!" she panicked.
"Minerva calm down," Severus said from one side of the wardrobe were Melvin Fymber had come from, "grab your wand and defend yourself!" he ordered.
"No, no..." Minerva was making a big effort not to break down into tears in front of the very image of her husband and when he made a step forwards in her direction, she transfigured herself into her cat form and tried to run away by one of the windows, but they were all closed.
Seeing that, Severus took out his wand and with a simple movement drag the man back into the shadows of the closet. He then turned around to look at Minerva only to found the classroom door spread opened.
She found her outside, sitting in one of the stone benches in the corridor, drying her tears.
"This is yours," he said and Minerva turn around to see her wand on his hands.
"How could you...?" she asked taking the stick back, "How could you do this?"
"It was only a boggart, Minerva..." Severus said.
"Not to me..."
"Don't you see you never really escaped, Minerva? As long as you don't fight this irrational fear he inspired you, you will always belong to him..." he knelt in front of her so she would look at his eyes, "Let me help you."
"Why do you want to help me so much? It's not your problem, Severus... You don't understand..." after those words, she left.
TO BE CONTINUED...
