Heartbroken Christmas

Author: Leta McGotor

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Chapter 4 White Snow

Minerva sat nearly alone in the train. She knew at the end of it there were a few people and one old man sat opposite from her and read a newspaper – The Daily Something – Minerva was not interested. From start of her journey until now she only had sat there and looked out of the window. Every year when she made her way to her family she was fascinated by the snow outside, but not this year. First: This year there was simply too much snow to really enjoy it. You could sink in it already but the sky looked all but willing to stop the uninterrupted snow storm. The second point was definitely no other than Severus Snape.

She had enjoyed the kiss they had shared, the clumpsyness before it, because he was so nervous. For a few seconds she really had believed her prayers had been heard but then he had pushed her away and all her world had shattered around her. First she was only struck dump and couldn't move one single cell in her whole body and when she came out of her numbness, he was already gone. How could she have been that stupid? She had cursed herself for it and gone without dinner to her rooms. She hadn't slept very well because every time she had closed her eyes and her brain stated to relax she saw him and every time she drifted off to sleep she saw and really felt the kiss and every time when he pushed her away she woke up with tears in her eyes.

This morning she had decided to stay calm. She would ignore him the whole day. He should not be satisfied by seeing her as broken as she felt. So she had made her way down. She expected all and she had known that she could have handled with all but not with the photo. She had forgotten it already and by looking at it she felt her pain from the evening and the night rushing back to her. The best what she could have done was to go. So she had decided to go one day earlier to her family than planned. Surely they would accept it. And while she sat there and looked out of the window, she sighed. The man looked up but when she showed no other reaction he continued to read his newspaper. Those young people here.

Suddenly the train started to become slower and slowerd until it stoped completely. Minerva didn't notice the change but stared at the white mass outside. The man with the newspaper sat upright and listened. But although he had good ears he couldn't understand what was going on and why they had stopped in the middle of this great valley.

"Do you know why we have stopped?", he asked Minerva. Startled she looked up at him and only at that moment she noticed the stop.

"No. What happened?"

"I don't know but I will look for someone who can tell me." The man stood up and went into the corridor. Minerva remained in her seat, Albus' words ringing in her ears: "Don't forget that your magic can be blocked in a valley like that and with so much snow around."

Severus rushed through his rooms as if he was in a competion. He was looking for uncountable things: His keys, his cloak, his shoes, his wand and many more. He couldn't imagine why he should put this all at different places. But he had done it and so, everytime when he noticed that something was missing he rushed back in another room only to come back with a single sock or one shoe. To make it short: Severus was in a hurry and because all seemed to work against him, he became more and more aggravated over the time until nothing seemed to matter anymore. It didn't matter that he broke his cup and that the tea poured over his desk down to the floor, for example.

Finally Severus reached his door to go, when there was a fine knock on it. Angry with himself and all around him, that he was that late, he opened the door only to find Albus Dumbledore standing in front of it, in his hands something like a radio.

"Albus, what do you want? I'm in a hurry and what's that?" He looked at the radio skeptically.

"That's a radio."

"But it doesn't look like one. And even when it is one it won't work in Hogwarts. No radio whether for wizards or for muggles does work here. Have you forgotten this point?"

"I know. But this is my own." He answered and bent down over the radio a mishievous twinkle in his eyes. Severus only rolled his ones and looked at his watch, which remined him on Minerva and all the things he wanted to tell her.

"Albus, see. I'm really in a great hurry and I'm afraid I won't have the time for your radio. So please, excuse me."

"But it's very important, it's about Minerva." Severus turned around in a rush, his eyes widened.

"What's with her?"

"She took the train to go to her family and I warned her that she could get stuck in that great valley, you know. With those masses of snow it can also happen that her magic is blocked. If I'm not mistaken exactly that has happened. The train got stuck in the valley. I heard it in the news on my radion mere seconds ago."

"B-but we must help her. She could freeze to death outside. Do you know how cold it is here and can you imagine how cold it's there? We must do something?"

"Of course, but what? We can't sent people who look for them. They would have the same problem with their magic and… Severus, where are you going?"

"I go and rescue Minerva.", he said shortly before he vanished on the stairs. Albus only shook his head sadly. He had been afraid that something like that would happen and now it was reality.

Severus stormed out of the castle. He noticed nothing of the things around him, he heard nothing, he saw nothing. All his senses were with the things he planned. He couldn't let her freeze to death in that valley. He had to rescue her. With a few steps more he had arrived at Hagrid's, who had to free the brooms from the ice.

"I need a broom, immediately."

"But, you won' go out there, with this weather?", answered Hagrid.

"Don' ask. I need a fast one." Without futher questions he seized one of the brooms and went out, again. He prayed that he would be in time and not too late, because it was very, very cold.

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