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Chapter Six, Saturday:
Since the next day was Saturday, and Albus didn't have to teach, he luxuriously slept in, knowing that Minerva wouldn't have the same ability. She had to be up and ready, to do some of the Headmaster duties. Plus she had to organize the Hogsmeade trip for tomorrow some time today.
Albus woke up early though, and he laid in Minerva's bed, his hands behind his head, thinking.
He and Minerva needed to talk. He'd go up to his office, sit her down, and tell her he was sorry. For what he didn't know, but he knew that was the only way to resolve this fight.
He tried to fall back asleep, but various thoughts kept him awake, and eventually he gave up and got dressed to go see Minerva.
He made his way up to his office and knocked on the door.
No answer.
"Minerva?" He called.
No answer.
He opened the door and stepped in. The office was silent except for the ticking of the clock on the wall above the door facing his desk. He closed the door behind him and looked around. Minerva was nowhere to be seen.
He quietly went into his bed chambers. There she was. Asleep on the bed, his mouth open slightly.
Albus smiled. So that was what he looked like when he was asleep. He looked at his watch. 7:45 Am. Minerva should be up by now. He sat down in the chair beside her. He gently shook his shoulder.
"Min," he said. "Min, wake up."
Minerva squished up his eyes and waved her arm in the air.
"Minerva," he said, smiling. "Wake up. We need to talk."
"MmmHmm," she mumbled, tucking her hand underneath of her cheek.
"Good grief, woman, you sleep sound."
Nothing.
Albus sighed and getting up went back into his office. He sat down at his desk and tapped his fingers, looking around the immaculate office. Then he noticed the two thick books on his desk that Minerva had brought from the library. One of them was the one she'd been holding when she started to feel weird, and the other was one he didn't recognize.
He picked up the first book and opening it, started to read. He frowned. He looked at the cover. He looked at the page. He looked at the cover. He took the cover off. A light lit his eyes. Ah! Here was something! He looked at the book of contents. His eyes widened. He flipped to page 453 and read. His eyes widened. He saw the powder. He grabbed the other book and opened it to page 120. He read. His eyes opened wide. HE AND MINERVA IN LOVE? He slammed the book shut and put it back. He took a deep breath and leaned back against the chair.
"It's not true. It can't be true."
He glanced at the seemingly harmless books that had just changed his life. Again. But he was. In love with Minerva that is. And he knew it. She was smart, kind, interesting, friendly, beautiful...Now that he thought about it, he'd never even looked at another woman besides Min.
"But does she really love me back?"
He was quiet for a moment, thinking of Minerva's actions, who he was, who she was. He thought about how wonderful Minerva was compared to him. There was no way Minerva could be in love with him. Absolutely no way.
Footsteps sounded behind him. "Albus?"
He turned around and nearly blushed. "Min!"
"What are you doing here?"
"I came to talk to you."
She sat down opposite him and sighed. "Every morning when I wake up I hope I'm back in my own body, but I never am."
Albus nodded. "I know how you feel."
Minerva looked at him. "Look Albus, I'm sorry for slapping you."
Albus nodded again. "It's ok. I deserved it."
Minerva smiled slightly. "Yeah you did. But I probably did too."
'No comment,' Albus thought.
"What did you want to talk about?" Minerva asked, looking from the floor to his face.
"We need to be more careful Minerva. If anybody were to find out, they would want us in the hospital."
She sighed. "I know."
"I forgot why we started fighting, but lets make a truce." He held out her hand.
She smiled. "Yeah, truce." She reached out and grabbed her hand. A shock ran through Albus, and he almost shivered. He gripped his hand and shook it.
He decided not to mention what he'd just read. Not yet.
"I really am sorry Minerva," he said. "I wasn't really going to cut your hair."
"Me too. And I know you weren't. I don't know what came over me."
"It's ok. I don't want to ruin our friendship, Minerva." He said softly.
She looked straight into his eyes. "Me either."
He tore her eyes away, and slowly extracted his hand. "Why don't we go out for a walk this afternoon. Just you and me. Around the grounds."
She smiled. "Yeah, I'd like that."
"Good."
Later, at breakfast, when they both walked in and sat down, the entire Great Hall shushed. Minerva hadn't been at dinner last night, so this was the first time everyone had seen the two together since the big fight at lunch yesterday.
Minerva, deciding for once to play her role, had left Albus' hair down, and when they got to their chairs, she held Albus' chair out and winked at him.
Albus had worn plain robes and tied Minerva's hair up for the first time that week.
Severus glanced at Poppy and back at the Headmaster and Mistress.
The students gazed at them, wondering frankly, what the deal was.
Minerva stood up and held out her hands. "Let breakfast begin!"
The golden plates were filled and Minerva sat back down in her chair.
Albus ate with his left hand, and ate foods Minerva loved, and Minerva ate lemon drops and no beans.
Harry nudged Hermione. "Look, they're like normal today. Do you think they've changed back?"
Hermione frowned. "Strange. It's a possibility of course, but I don't know..." She studied them both from head to toe then stifled a giggle.
Ron looked at her. "What?" He asked.
She pointed at Albus. "Look at McGonagall's socks!"
Ron looked. They were covered with little glowing fairies. Definitely not Minerva-like socks. He looked at Hermione. She shook her head.
"If they switched bodies, they sure haven't switched back yet."
Harry shoved a bite of pancake in his mouth. "This is confusing."
"I'm going to look stuff up in the library some more after breakfast," Hermione declared.
"Well, Ron and I can't join you," said Harry. "We've got quidditch practice."
Ron looked disappointed.
After breakfast, Minerva went back up to Albus' office and grabbed the two books to take back to the library. She wouldn't need to show them to Albus, she'd already memorized the information. She marched to the library and dropped them off, turning and leaving. She had to find SOME way to tell Albus.
Hermione, who'd been a table or two away, saw her drop off the books. When Minerva had left the library, she jumped up and ran to the books; grabbing them, and taking them back to her table. She looked them over carefully, but didn't notice anything unusual about them. She opened the Transfiguration book and flipped through it's pages. She thought she saw a potion recipe. She flipped back to the front of the book and saw the title page. "Wow," she whispered. She looked in the table of contents. BODY-SWITCHING POWDER? She quickly flipped to that page and read quickly. Her eyes widened, and she slowed down and read it again.
"So this is how it happened!" She said thoughtfully. "Wow. I have to go show Ron and Harry!"
She bounced out of her chair and ran for the Gryffindor common room, very, very excited. She stopped. harry and Ron were at Quidditch practice. Oh well. She'd go and wait for them. She squealed. This was great!
After dropping the books off at the library, Minerva headed to her office, thinking hard. She was so glad that she and Albus had made up. She couldn't stand fighting with him. And she had felt really bad about slapping him. She winced. And she HAD slapped him pretty hard.
When she got to Albus' office, she wearily let herself in and gasped. There was Albus, sitting in his chair. She put her hand to her heart. "Oh, Albus, you scared me to death!"
"Sorry."
She flopped down. "Why are you here?"
"To take you for a walk."
"But I thought we agreed to do that later," Minerva said.
Albus shrugged. "Why not now?"
Minerva opened her mouth, then stopped. "I don't know."
"Then good. Come on."
They walked downstairs and out the front door of the castle into the fresh late summer air.
They were quiet, but extremely aware of each other. Both wishing they back in their own bodies.
"You know," said Minerva. "This past week has really changed me." She laughed. "And not just my body either."
Albus nodded. "I know." He glanced at her. "Why don't we sit down for a while?"
So they did. Right in Hagrid's pumpkin patch.
"You know Albus, I really am very sorry for hitting you."
Albus shrugged. "Don't worry about it. You were only hitting yourself anyways."
Minerva laughed. "That's very true."
"Being in your body, well I've learned a lot of things about you," Albus said.
"Like what?"
The pair failed to see Poppy, Severus and Hagrid peeping out of Hagrid's window and watching.
Albus leaned back on his elbows and thought. "Like how different you are from me. I see your room on a regular basis, I know how you use your belongings, I see the way everyone treats you, especially in the classroom." He frowned. "I see how Professor Vector looks you over everytime he sees you."
Minerva buried her face. "Oh gosh."
"I've learned that you are left-handed, don't like broccoli, and walk with a swagger."
She looked at him. "I don't walk with a swagger!"
He grinned at her. "That was a joke."
She narrowed her eyes. "Well, there's one thing you don't know about me," she said.
"What?"
"I'm very, very ticklish!" she leeapt at him and started tickling her ribs.
He yelped. "Ah! Oh, ho ho, please stop, please, please! HAHAHAHAH!"
Minerva grinned. "Beg for it! Beg for mercy!"
"Ne-hahaha-ver!"
"Say it..." she reached one hand up and tickled his neck.
He scrunched his shoulders up and made a gurgling sound.
Hagrid grinned from inside his hut.
"Look at that!" Poppy said. "They're flirting!"
Severus and Hagrid looked at her. They hadn't thought of it that way.
"Pleeeease," Albus whined.
"Please what?"
"AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! You know what!"
"Do I?" She wiggled her fingers and he gasped.
"I'll get you back for this! Hohahaha!"
"Oh yeah?"
"If only I was in my own bo-hehehe-dy right now!"
Minerva grinned. "Keep wishing." She lowered her face to his. "I'm bigger and stronger, and I'm NOT going to stop!"
Albus flailed his arms around and gasped. "Ohhhhhh, please stop! HAHAHA!"
"What's that? Harder? Ok!" She moved both hands to his ribs and tickled.
"Nooooooooo!" Albus tried to grab her hands. "Please, it's torture!"
"Say 'Minerva McGonagall is the most beautiful Transfiguration teacher.'"
"Hahahaa! Minerva ahahaha McGonagall is theeeeeAH! most beautiful Transfiguration teacher! AHAha!" He said truthfully.
"You're such a good learner!" She tickled him harder.
"Just you wait till we switch back!" Albus threatened.
Minerva just smiled. She had him pinned and could tickle him with practically no resistance, since she had his arms pinned.
He wriggled around. "Pleeeeeease?"
"Please what?"
"Awwwww pleease?"
"Please what?" she asked again.
"You know what I'm talking about!"
"I do?"
"Please stop tickling me! Ahahaha!"
Minerva stopped. "Well, ok, if you insist." She sat up, and let a red-faced Albus sit up beside her.
"That was very bad." He waggled a finger a her.
She waggled all of her fingers at him, and he yelped.
"Where are YOU ticklish?" she asked him.
He shrugged. "I'm not ticklish."
"Oh, come on, everyone's ticklish somewhere. You just gotta find where."
"Well, you're not going to try," he stuck her tongue out at her.
She laughed. "You're such a child!"
He shrugged. "Takes one to know one!"
Poppy sat down in Hagrid's huge chair. "Something very pecuiar is going on between those two."
"Obviously," Severus said dryly.
Poppy glared at him. "I wonder if we should sit them down and talk to them."
"Well they were better today," Severus said as Hagrid poured some tea. "Perhaps we should wait until we have another reason to."
"I suppose." Poppy stirred her tea, shooting a glance at Severus. "I think they're in love." She took a sip of tea.
Hagrid nearly dropped his tea kettle, and Severus stared at her.
"What?" Severus asked.
Poppy set her tea down. "Oh come on! Don't tell me you didn't see them out there flirting just now!"
"Yeah, but," Severus said, not wanting to admit that he'd never seen that coming.
"Yeah but nothing!" said Poppy. "Don't you know anything?"
"Of course I do, except what YOU'RE talking about!"
Hagrid looked back and forth between them.
"You're so blind, Severus! You can't even see what's right in front of your nose!"
Severus stood up. "Oh yeah? Well tell me, please, what IS in front of my nose!"
Hagrid raised his eyebrows. He got the feeling they weren't talking about Albus and Minerva anymore.
"Well?" Severus asked. "What am I not seeing that's so important?"
"Everything!" Poppy shrieked.
"Like what?"
"Everything going on with Albus and Minerva for one thing!"
"What goes on between the Headmaster and Mistress is none of our business!"
"Well you sure have been paying an awful lot of attention to them lately! And would you please use their real names for once, SNAPE!"
He stared at her. "Don't call me that."
She folded her arms smugly. "And why not? It sounds like snake, and that's exactly what YOU are!" She poked him sharply in the chest and he stepped back, hurt flitting across his eyes.
"Ahem," said Hagrid. "I'll just step outside for a bit, don't mind me." They didn't. He didn't even think that they noticed him period.
"I can't believe you just said that." Severus said.
"Well, believe it."
"What is your problem anyways? What did I do to you?"
"You came into my life, that's what!"
Another barb. Severus turned around, not wanting to talk to her anymore, for two reasons. One, he was hurt, and two, he didn't want to unleash his temper on her.
Poppy was immediately sorry. "I'm sorry, Severus. I didn't mean it."
"Whatever." Severus said stoicly, standing tall, and refusing to look at her.
She touched his arm. "Honestly."
He turned and glared at her. "If you hate me so much, why don't you just leave me alone, Poppy?" He swished past her and out the door, forgetting all about Albus and Minerva.
Poppy rubbed her forehead and sighed. The day definitely wasn't going as planned.
"Let me get this straight," Ron opened his chessboard. "McGonagall and Dumbledore made a powder that switched their bodies and now they can't switch back for a week?"
Hermione nodded. "Yes."
"Why would they want to switch though?" Harry asked, setting up his chess pieces.
"That's what I thought too," said Hermione. "And that's why I think it was an accident." She opened the book. "There's some powder in here. I bet they both touched it."
"Really? Let me see!" Ron reached for the book.
"No way!" Hermione held the book away. "No way. I already touched the powder, and I definitely don't want to switch bodies with you, Ron."
Ron yanked his hand back.
"White moves first," Harry reminded him. He looked at Hermione. "How long do you think they've been switched?"
Hermione shrugged. "I don't know. They've been acting weird ever since school started."
Ron moved a pawn. "Imagine living in a girl's body!"
Harry grinned.
"You'd get to see a lot of things you don't see normally," Ron continued.
"Ron!" Hermione exclaimed.
Ron shielded his head. "What? It's true!"
"You're not supposed to be excited about it!"
Ron shrugged. "You don't have to worry. If we ever get switched I'll be a gentleman."
Hermione turned bright red. "Ron!"
"What? That's what you wanted to hear, wasn't it?"
"Ugh!" Hermione grabbed her bag and stormed upstairs.
"What?" Ron looked at Harry. "What'd I do?"
Harry just shook his head. "I am staying out of this one. Way out. I just hope Dumbledore isn't having the problem of seeing McGonagall's body."
They were both quiet for a moment.
"Ewww!" They both exclaimed at the same time.
Special Author's note:
OH MY GOSH! I have been gone for so long, and I have a feeling that you all are going to start coming after me if I don't finish this! But guess what? I have finished it!
I believe I mentioned somewhere something about me staying at my Grandmother's. Well, I'm LIVING at my Grandma's. And She doesn't have the net. (Winces.) I know, I know! So I have absolutely no way of uploading anything! Sooo…I have the story, and it's on my computer at my Grandma's. (I'm at home now.) I do have a CD burner, and I would have burned a CD with my documents on it…except my stupid computer crashed before I came home. The stuff is still safe, but I can't burn a CD. So I'm really, really, really sorry that I can't update. I have it finished, I really do. I just simply cannot upload it. I hope you guys will forgive me, and put me on your Author Alert list so that when I DO update it, you'll know.
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