A/N-This is the chapter you have been waiting for! All righty...Then let's get this one started! It might not make some sense, if not then you can always message me so I can change it. Thanks to my reader's, and please review! lol, even though I think that only two people read this, it still means a lot to me.
"Why hello Albus! I was just grabbing some detention slips, and look who comes in for a visit? It's the great, and supposed to be dead Dumbledore! I knew it, I told Scrimgeour that Albus couldn't be dead, but he didn't believe me!" she said, with a very ferocious smile. He just stared at her calmly.
"Good afternoon Miss Umbridge. I'm quite flattered. You were the only person who believed that I was alive. Why, even Miss McGonagall didn't believe that I was still living. So, let me guess you're going to report me to the minister of magic?" he said, taking a seat in one of the student desks. She looked quite mad.
"Resistance if futile Dumbledore! Don't use any magic on me! You won't take this great chance of luck away from me! I'll be promoted, and be famous!" she said, pointing her wand at Albus.
"I'm surprised that you don't know already. I'm completely helpess, because I can not use any magic. All with the dark arts from Lord Voldermont. But you won't be able to catch me that easily," he said, with a grim smile. Albus looked behind Dolores, and saw a office door appear, and slightly open.
"Really? Why not?"
"Because of me!" Minerva yelled. She sent a charm at Umbridge, and she wasn't able to move or speak. But certainly able to hear, that's the beauty of Petrificus Totales.
"Yes, now who's the helpess one Dolores?" she said, and used a memory modification charm. Dolores fell asleep, and in thirty minutes she would be waking up, only remembering that she had to grab detention sheets. Minerva, grabbed Albus' arm and led him into her office. The door faded away. He looked around and nodded. Dumbledore knew that this was definitely her style. She sat on one couch, and he sat on another.
"Albus, you certainly acted calmly back there. Much calmer than you were before," she said, trying to avoid his gaze. She didn't realize that he was trying to do the same thing.
"Seeing Dolores calmed me down actually. I just came back to reality. Minerva, I'm sorry. What happened before is something an old man regret's," he said, now trying to look at her eyes. Professor McGonagall still hid her hazel eyes from him though.
"It's my fault. I betrayed you Albus. Just because you left for a little while...I went and tried to be with another man," she said, sensing her eyes watering. But right now, was not the time to cry.
"Minerva, I know that you've liked him for a while. It's okay, it's not like you belong to me. You belong to yourself, and anybody you want too," he said passioinatly. Albus finally accepted the fact that she loved another man, that was not him. But he had it all wrong.
"Don't you remember what I said before? That I didn't say I loved him. No, my heart and soul belongs to somebody else. But I betrayed it. I betrayed there trust," she said, feeling the tears finally dropping. He moved over to her couch, and wrapped his arms around her waist. She gave a small gasp, but let him hold her none the less.
"You didn't betray my trust. No, my heart and soul also belongs to you. We're like life long friends...At least, that's what we used to be," he said. She let out a loud sob. They used to be life long friends.
"Then...Then what are we now Albus?" she asked, trying to hold it all back. He held her tighter.
"I want to say lover's Minerva. But I sincerely don't know, and it makes me feel helpless. Even with magic, I would still feel helpless. I don't know anything anymore, even when we were at school I didn't understand. But there was one thing I knew. I knew that I wanted to be around you," he said softly. She finally gazed into his frosty blue eyes. It cut the ice. Minerva kissed his lips passionatley, and they slowly parted. He looked at her with worry.
"Minerva, I'm a true hypocrite but do you love me? Please, I must know now...Before I feel disappointed with this passionate moment," he said. Her breathing went faster, and she feel her heart beating harder and harder.
"Yes, I do care about you Albus," she said blushing. Loophole's were always nice.
"No, don't do what I do Minerva, please do you truly love me?" he asked her with a hard stare. Cold sweat was rolling down her back.
"I...I...No Albus. I truly don't love you," she said, and could feel herself trembling. The tears stopped, but she couldn't stop shaking. She said No. A big fat lie, with a "no". He let go of her, and put his hand on her shoulder.
"Why are you shaking? Minerva, it's all right I'm not mad. I'm just...Well, I guess it's what I deserve," he said, staring at the fire. He felt soft lips touch his, and he looked at her with surprise.
"Please don't, you'll make me expect our relationship to go further. Minerva, I still love you. Passionatley and truly. Enough to love you until I die, and enough to regret what I've done to you. I've put you in so much danger. And I think I've done enough," he said, getting up ready to leave. When he was at the door though, she ran over and pushed him away from it.
"You can't leave me Albus! The reason I was trembling, was because I lied to you. I love you also Albus, please. The danger we've been through is hardly anything. I loved being part of the order, and protecting the world from You-Know-Who. And I love you so much, I would die for you Dumbledore. What we have...Is something special. And this time, I'm certain that no one is going to ruin our love," she said. The trembling stopped, and Minerva was feeling bolder.
"I...I am certainly flattered Minerva. You can give your love to anyone in the world, and you give it to this poor old man. But I have put you in a danger that you have no idea about. And now is the time to tell you about it. You see, at one of our dinner's when I used to be headmaster, I slipped a very small fragment of something special of Lord Voldermont's into your fish fillet. He would never have suspected it, and I would have always been able to protect it since I'm always around you. It's a special scale from his snake Nagina, and it disolved into your blood stream. He needs it to be in true power, and to be truly invincible. You see, the day he realised about the scale, was the day I got it from the snake. Minerva, I've put you in moral danger, and we might be able to get a potion to take it out of your blood stream. Then I can put it in mine, and go run off somewhere. Please understand this Minerva, we can't let him get power or else no one will be able to love like we do. And you can't be in danger, just because I abused your body like this. With this scale, he want need Horcruxes. So, please follow me down to the dungeons so we'll find an antidote," he said, holding her hand and bringing her to her bar.
"Wow...A lot of information in such a short amount of time. But that means you lied to me! You said a long time ago, that you had two treasure's! Oh wait...Hey I get it! The fragments are the treasure, and I am also. That's quite weird. But I can not allow you to give me an antidote Albus. That would mean you would get into danger, and that means that you'll run away. We can't have that happening, now can we?" she said, making two lemonade's appear. It seemed like the moment for a sweet drink. He didn't touch it though.
"Your life is worth much more than mine, please I want you to live as long as you are capable of," he said in a mournful tone.
"Then let me live! Let me make this adrenaling decision, and let me still love you! It's not living without letting me spread my wings! Or paws to be in fact," she said slyly. He smiled.
"It's your decision I suppose," he said twirling a strand of stray hair, that escaped her tight black bun.
"I knew that you would understand. But you do realize that if we're both in danger right now, that we should do everything and anything before time is up," she said with a wink.
A/N-Okay, so they've admitted there love, and there's not going to be any tricks with this one. But what happens to Minerva in the next chapter, when she gets kicked out of Hogwart's? Oops, let something slip there. (Sarcastic tone)
