A/N: I am sorry, I know I do this more often than you'd like me to... I've been in very bad point of my life, but that's another story. The thing is I was blocked and had no clue of how to continue... Now, I will be rush things to get to the end, but I'll try not to do it very badly.
I hope the story hasn't lost that many readers during these five months...
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It's complicated - 9
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Right after Severus left her bedroom, the doors were opened again.
"Where have you been?" the strong voice of Lord Voldemort asked.
"Here," she said. Since they made the unbreakable vow she had to be careful with anything she said, so she had began to give him short answers.
"I told you I wanted you to come to the meeting, this time," he approached her and caressed her cheek tenderly, "that I wanted everybody to know who my Dark Queen was."
"I..." she muttered, "I got distracted."
"By whom?" he asked, suddenly pressing his fingers strongly on her cheek.
Minerva through on how to reply to that question without lying nor saying Severus' name, but there was no way.
"One of your Death Eaters," she finally said, trying to sound factual.
"One of my Death Eaters was here, in your chambers without my permission?"
"That's right," she didn't know how to save Severus and keep her promise to him at the same time.
"I want to know his name! I want to know who dared to do such thing!" he yelled, pushing Minerva onto the bed, and just when she thought he was going to heck her, he was gone. Tom had bended down to pick something from the floor, it looked like a paper, but then Minerva saw her handwriting and knew exactly what he had on his hands: it was the photography that Severus had taken out from the box earlier.
"Who is this baby?" Tom asked as she sat up on the bed. Minerva felt her heart breaking into pieces, he wasn't meant to see that, and there was no point in lying because his name, their son's name, was written on the back.
"It's our son," she said as tears filled her eyes and she felt her cheek burn when he slapped her.
"Traitor!" he yelled, "You told me he was dead," he said, "you told me you had miscarried him," anger filling his mouth, "Where is him? I want to know the whereabouts of my heir."
That was it, there was no way of escaping from this other than lying... What a stupid death hers would be, dying because of a picture that had fallen under the bed.
"He is in," she began bravely, but Tom silenced her with his hand, he knew what she was doing.
"I won't let you lie to me, Minerva," he said, "now that I know my son is alive, I will find him on my own," he stood up and grabbed Minerva's arm taking her with him, "in the meantime, you will spent some time thinking about your lies in the dungeons."
Instead of going to his new office, as soon as he arrived to the Castle, Severus went down the dungeons, to his old potions lab, and took out those vials Minerva had given to him and the piece of parchment with the recipe. He would find the antidote no matter what, because that was what Minerva had asked him to do, and because it would distract him from the fact that there was nothing he could do to help her escape the Dark Lord's side.
He hadn't even had enough time to prepare everything, when he felt his arm burning. It was the dark mark, and he wondered why would Lord Voldemort summoned him so soon.
"My loyal servers," he had began to say when everybody was in their seat, "I have a very important mission to ask you, this time," Severus looked around, wondering why they were more than ever in the room, and why the Dark Lord hadn't told them about this so important mission in their previous meeting, just a few hours ago, "many years ago, I had a son," everybody looked at each other in confusion and Severus wondered why his Lord was talking about Minerva's son now, "I was told he died, but I've just learnt that's not true," at this point, several thoughts passed through the Headmaster of Hogwarts of how Lord Voldemort had obtained that information, "the mother of my son revealed to me he's alive somewhere, I want all of you to stop your current missions and take my heir to me."
Once the meeting was dismissed Severus walked to his master determined to know if Minerva was fine.
"What is it, Severus?"
"My Lord, this woman you talked about, is she still alive?"
"She is," he answered, "in fact, she is someone you might know very well, my boy."
"Really?" he tried to sound surprised.
"Minerva McGonagall, if she told me the truth, she has been working for Dumbledore in the school, like you," he explained.
"Oh, yes, professor McGonagall," Severus was making the hardest of his efforts to sound like if he didn't knew nothing about the matter in discuss, "quite a stubborn woman, my Lord."
"Indeed," he said showing what seemed a smile on his face, "She's done nothing but lying to me all along..."
"Maybe, My Lord," and Severus knew she was risking it at this point, "I could use legilimency on her."
"She has always been very good at occlumency, but I don't see why you can't try," Lord Voldemort replied at Severus surprise, "You will find her in the dungeons, Pettigrew will show you the way."
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TO BE CONTINUED...
