Again, I want to thank all of you for your kind words of encouragement. I didn't know for sure if anyone would like this story or not. Here's the next chapter for you all and I will try to get one more in before tomorrow morning. Thanks again! I appreciate your feedback!

After dinner that night, the trio gathered old newspapers from the library and took them to the common room, which was filled to the brim with people. They found a corner where no one was and began leafing through the pages, trying to come up with some answers. Their search would be a long one.

Minerva made her way back to her chambers after checking on her Gryffindor's. They all were in the tower, making her night much easier than the one before. She found that Albus hadn't been in his chambers after dinner so she figured he was in hers. She was wrong again. No one was in her office when she entered and Albus was nowhere to be found. She decided to wait up, but exhaustion overtook her body as she fell into a deep sleep.

Albus managed to get back to his office around 9 o'clock that night, hoping to find Minerva there. He checked all of his chambers and found no sign of her. He walked briskly down to her chambers and found her, curled up in her favorite arm chair, sleeping like a baby. He knew she needed rest but they did need to talk. And, as an excuse, he told himself she couldn't stay in that chair all night so he would have to wake her up.

He walked over to her quietly and gently shook her awake. She looked up at him with tired, weary eyes. He took her hand and sat down across from her.

"I am sorry I had to awaken you my dear, but I feel it is time we talked about what happened last night."

"It is alright Albus. I hadn't meant to fall asleep. I must have drifted off waiting for you to come by." He smiled at her. He knew she would always try her best to wait up for him, no matter how late that may or may not be.

"Well, I must tell you that Miss Granger was in no way harmed last night." Minerva breathed a sigh of relief. "She said that whoever took her only threatened and scared her. He mentioned Harry Potter's name as well." Minerva straightened in her chair, despite the aching pain in her back.

"Why Harry?"

"Miss Granger said that this man told her he would be watching her and her friends, including Harry."

"Does she have any idea who this man was?"

"No, which brings me to my first question for you. Did you see anything, any sign of who it was Minerva?"

"No, by the time I got through the door, he was gone."

"I believe it was a Death Eater. One who has been here before and knows the school fairly well. I know for a fact it was not Lord Voldemort. He would not have come just to threaten a young girl."

Minerva mumbled under her breath, "If that was all he planned to do."

"What was that?"

"Nothing, just thinking. So she is going to be alright?"

"Yes, no permanent damage done."

"Good." Silence followed for a few minutes. Albus took in Minerva's appearance; she seemed tense, scared, and exhausted.

"Well, now, I need to know how you found her Minerva." Her eyes darted from a spot on the floor to make contact with his. She couldn't read what was in them, she had never seen it before. It was a mixture of concern and something else.

"I...I just had a feeling I knew where she had been taken. You can say it was my cat-like instincts, but after finding her not in her room, I just started searching everywhere."

"Miss Granger said that she had no clue where she had been taken, that the man dragged her along almost the entire time, looking for a specific, secluded room. She did not even know the whereabouts of the room, even after you found her. Where is this room?"

"It's in a corridor in one of the dungeons."

"How did you find it Minerva?"

"I told you...I searched for a long time, longer than any of the other teachers because I was the first to find her missing." Another moment of silence passed while Albus searched her eyes. He knew she was hiding something, not telling him the truth. She tried to hide a yawn, but Albus was studying her so closely, he noticed every move she made.

"Let's finish this discussion with you tucked in bed. You're exhausted my dear."

"I'm fine." In spite of what she said, he helped her up and led her into the bedroom. She had no strength to manually change clothes so she transfigured her daywear into a nightgown and slipped under the covers. She relaxed on to the pillows, easing the tension and pain in her back. Albus sat down beside her and took her hand before continuing with the questions.

"Well, since I do not know where the room is, nor do any of the other staff, I will just have to trust that you can show us sometime." Minerva nodded, though she had no idea why they would want to see it.

"On to the next order of business, the locking spell. How did you get through it?"

"I used the countercurse of course."

"Miss Granger said she had never seen such a powerful locking spell placed on anything. And she also added that she had never seen such a powerful countercurse. How did you know which one to use?"

"I figured that whoever took her knew what he was doing and used something powerful. I was right." She averted her eyes so that he could not look into them.

"Minerva...is there something else you want to tell me?"

"Of course not, Albus, that is all that happened. After I found her, I brought her to you. End of discussion." Albus racked his brain, trying to come up with some reason as to why she was not telling him everything. He knew there must have been a reason she knew which room it was. Had she known of the room prior to last night? Had she been there before? Had she....wait, that was it! She had been there before!

"Minerva, just one more thing....had you ever been to the room you found Miss Granger in before?" He noticed the change immediately. She stiffened to his touch and took her hand out of his to fix the bedsheets around her.

"Why would that matter anyway?"

"I would just like to know."

"Albus...the room was in a dark corridor. Now, I may have been to the corridor once but I cannot say for sure that it was the same room I have been in before."

"But you have been to the corridor before?"

"If it will stop you from questioning me, then yes, I have been. Are we finished now?" He took note of the annoyance in her voice and decided that he should stop soon. He didn't want to start an arguement with her, for her and the baby's sake. Stress was not good for either of them. He was still going over different questions and thoughts in his mind....when something came to him. Something from long ago that had always haunted him and still did, to this very day.

"I have one more question before I let you go to sleep." Minerva sighed.

"What is it?" He was silent for a moment, making sure he asked the question in the right way.

"Minerva...what happened eleven years ago?" Horror filled eyes looked up at him as he finished. "What exactly happened the night you were kidnapped?"