A/N: First of all, sorry for the big delay, on this and any other of my stories you're following (I've not been in my best place lately). Secondly, It's almost 2am here, so I apologize in advance for my grammar and spelling mistakes. And finally, this is going to be short, but it has to be like this because it's a transition between where we were and the end... which will come soon, I hope.
The punishment - 11
I grabbed a parchment , a quill and some ink and wrote a few words down although I didn't knew for sure my "plan" - if it could be cold a plan - was going to work. I left my letter on tea table and waited on my animagus form behind the door.
I was determined to escape. Not that I really wanted to leave, because I was really having the time of my life with Severus, only the two of us in his private rooms of Hogwarts but, the fact that he could go out on the morning while I had to stay enclosed behind that door made me feel a prisoner. Alright, a prisoner in a fairy tales castle with a charming prince who always had the most beautiful words to say to me but, a prisoner anyway.
So about midday, I heard footsteps coming and the door opened. As fast as I could I passed through Severus legs, crossed the door frame and became free, again.
SEVERUS
I did feel something when I came inside but at that moment it didn't occur to me that Minerva would ran away. We hadn't talked about the locked door issue for days and I really thought she'd come into her senses. Obviously, she hadn't.
I looked for her in every room but she was clearly gone, which I couldn't understand until I found the perfectly folded parchment on the tea table addressed to me.
My dear Severus,
I am sorry, I have had to leave. Deeply inside I know that if I really succeed on my attempt to do it, I will already be missing you and wishing to be back as soon as I reach Hogsmeade. But this is an unhealthy situation for both of us. Being lover and captor at the same time must be for you as confusing as it is for me, loving you at night and hating you on the morning. I don't want to hate you.
Willingly yours,
Minerva.
Every time I reread those words during the following days I smiled at her last words, but at that moment, I let the letter on the table and ran down the halls ignoring all the looks around me, trying to see her, to stop her and tell her that I would let her free, that I would unlock the door, but that please, don't leave me...
I didn't get to say her that. When I reached the end of the stairs I realized she had left about half an hour before me, so there was no way I could find her in the school yet. At that point, I realized everybody was looking at me, the Headmaster who'd been crazily running through the corridors of the castle, so I hided in the hospital wing.
"Severus?" Poppy noticed me from her office and approached me, "Are you ok?"
"She's gone," I said, "Minerva is gone."
"I know," she answered.
TO BE CONTINUED...
A/N 2: Wow, I'm sorry, on the .doc file it didn't looks so short. I'll try to update soon.