** I apologize in advance for the grammar and spelling mistakes you will surely find...
The punishment - 6 - death revealings
Minerva's POV
"Slowly, please..." Rolanda said again as she insisted on helping me climb the stairs.
"Rolanda, I swear, if I hear you say slowly one more time I'll take out my wand," I threatened.
"On your first day out of the hospital wing you should be careful..." she insisted.
"Oh, please, it's not the first time I climb some stairs," I responded.
"Professor McGonagall!" the voice of Alecto Carrow said from the hall and we turned around to look at her, "It's good to see you're back on your feet, I hope your back is not sore anymore..." she teased and I had to stop Rolanda from reaching her wand.
"Not at all," I replied, "you can tell your brother that you need more than a few lashes to break me down..."
"I will," Alecto said before leaving and Rolanda and I continued our way upstairs.
"You should have let me stun her with a good spell," Hooch said.
"Don't you worry, Rolanda... we'll get back at them when the time comes..."
Severus' POV
"You stupid kid!" I heard Alecto's voice yelling and I changed my direction to meet her at the library hall. She was standing in front of a third, maybe fourth, year Hufflepuff girl who apparently had spilled the content of the potions she was carrying on Alecto's dress. There was a small laughing crowd around them, who shut up after Alecto took out her wand. "You'll get punished for this!" she yelled, but as soon as she raised her arm some spell disarmed her and sent her to the other side of the hall making her crash against the stone wall. Before she could questioned who had attacked her, the crowed move apart and Minerva walked closer. I took my hands to my head and silent a cry... That woman never learns.
"Get out," she asked to the children, "now, run, to your classes and common rooms!" she yelled and they obeyed.
"How you dare..." Alecto stood up and made her wand fly to her hand. I hided behind a column not to be noticed as I thought how to stop the fight without taking sides...
"I thought I made it clear no children would be unfairly punished as I am in the school..." Minerva said not taking her eyes away from Alecto's and branding her wand firmly.
"Maybe it's time to finally get rid of you, then..." and without giving me much time to react, Alecto yelled "Avedakadevra!" I felt my heart stop beating for a moment, like if all the air around me was gone... and during that brief moment my eyes blinked and all I saw was Minerva...
Minerva's POV
I read her intentions on her eyes so I was able to build a protection shield around me before she had finished the curse. I was pulled back a few steps but I was unharmed... I glared at her with rage and clenched my fist... I wouldn't kill her, but I would make her pay for trying to kill me...
I hadn't began to say my spell, when Severus came out from behind a column near her...
"You should go back to your duties before you get hurt..." he said not looking at any of us, but we didn't move an inch, "I mean it, if you don't want to be packing your trunks tonight you should really go back to your rooms..." again, he talked looking at the ceiling, but I knew his threatens were thrown to me... like if he would fire his dear Death Eater friend... I let go a dry laugh and left.
Severus' POV
"That was not necessary at all," Alecto said like a child.
"You tried to kill her..." I muttered.
"I would have done it if you hadn't appeared all of a sudden..."
I glowered at her and then I rushed out. I entered the old man's office closing the door with a big noise. I poured a large glass of scotch to myself and set the fire on.
What's wrong with you?, I asked to myself as I walked around the room with long steps... She's Minerva... she's a friend... it's not right, it's not good... it's not safe... I emptied the glass down my throat and threw the glass to the fire with anger. "It's crazy!" I yelled out loud to nobody...
It would be a lie if I said I had never thought of her in a different way but... back in the library hall, when I thought she was dead I felt I was dying too, I felt my life was over, I felt empty, miserable, I felt... the same way as the night Lilly died.
"No, no!" I insisted on blaming the air, "I can't be in..." no... I couldn't be...
But the thing was that recalling my memories I always found myself looking for her at the halls, spying her from the other side of the dinner table, gazing at her during the quidditch games... even last month, during the punishment, seeing her defenseless and abused produced me a mixture of anger and excitement... and later, at the hospital wing, having my hands on her naked skin was like being in heaven...
No, that couldn't be... She had to leave the school the sooner as possible.
TO BE CONTINUED...
A/N: Ok, I think I went a little too far with Severus so please tell me if you feel this way too... I am definitely unable to write a MM/SS only friendship story but I have the feeling this time I've totally forced it so please, if you feel that way while reading it tell me so I can rewrite this without any lovestory involved... at this point I've completely lost my objectivity with these characters and anything that involves them seems to sound good to me... u.u'
BTW, I don't think I'll be able to resist it anymore and I'm pretty sure there'll be a couple new stories of mine coming up soon...