Sorry for being so mysterious but I don't want to give it away completely yet. I actually dreamed the idea; the dream was awesome so hopefully I can do it justice.
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Chapter 2
That night, Minerva did not sleep. She paced for hours in silence, tears streaming down her face. The ache in her heart became more pronounced as more time went by with the knowledge that she was so near. She longed for her touch, her love, her.
The texts had been no help. Never had the magics of such a deep spell been unwound. As much as she tried to fight the memories, she couldn't stop herself from stepping toward her pensieve.
Lifting her wand to the side of her head, she lifted forth the long since buried memory. The pool swirled before figures appeared before her.
Hermione was on her knees, her hand bound to the ground to prevent her from moving. Minerva was kneeling beside her. They were in a circle of red dust, scattered to evoke the ancient magics. Magics that manipulated time itself.
"No! No Min, please! I'll die! Let me die! I'd rather die than live without you!"
"But don't you see?" Minerva sobbed as she lifted her hand to cup Hermione's tear-stricken face, the face was little over twenty and Minerva was no older than thirty, "You have to let me do this! I won't endanger you any longer. When we're together, we're dangerous. We've already lost control!"
"I don't care!" Hermione shrieked to the heavens, rain began to pour down around them, "Even the thought of being without you is painful, and I need to feel you near me, against me, within me!"
Minerva let out a soul wrenching sob and pressed her lips powerfully to Hermione's which responded automatically and just as strongly, Moans pouring from both as their passions quickly rose.
Hermione's lips fell to her neck and she began to nibble and kiss at the soft flesh that was so familiar: well practiced motions that got the desired reactions. Minerva threw her head back, the rain splattering against her cheeks as she sobbed to the skies.
"How c-could you think that, we could stop?" Hermione sobbed, "You are a part of me and I am a part of you"
"Hermione!" Minerva whimpered.
"Don't leave me Min, please! Don't leave me in this world alone!"
"I have to" Minerva whispered and she brought their faces together their breaths mixing in the rain.
"NO!" Hermione cried and as her emotions flared a fiery force escaped Hermione and Minerva was thrown onto her back.
"Don't you see? We can't control it!" Minerva screamed and then she cried and the sounds were disturbing and magical at the same time, a phoenix lament woven into a human voice.
They clung to each other in the rain, Hermione occasionally whispering "Please".
As the sky turned blood red with the first hints of a sunrise, Minerva had known it was time and as she made to move away Hermione instinctively tightened her grip around her waist.
"Minerva, I don't want to live in this world without you, let me choose this. Kill me."
It was the steadiness of Hermione's voice that caused Minerva the most distress.
"I… I can't" Minerva whispered, "I need you safe"
Then she moved away, putting a metre between them, their left hands still bound to the ground.
"Don't" whispered Hermione, "Please don't do this to me"
"I love you Hermione, do you hear me? I love you so much that I would tear the world apart and everyone else with it just to be near you for another second, that's why we must stop. That's why I must do this."
"But I don't care about anyone else!"
A mix between a sob and a laugh left Minerva, "I know darling, tell me that you know. Tell me that you know that our love is more powerful than anything else in the world."
Hermione seemed to pause and a fear came across her face that made Minerva's heart ache even now.
"I know" Hermione whispered.
Minerva took her wand from her robes and her tears came anew, fresh sobs racking her very soul, as she whispered an incantation and red flames left the tip of her wand, igniting the red dust, in which patterns began to form in the flames, the women remained untouched by the fire, but intricate patterns wound their way around them,
Minerva put her wand back in her robes and placed her hands flat against the now aflame dust before lifting her eyes to Hermione's.
"Tell me that you know I love you" Minerva said with such, pain.
"Of course I know, of course I know! God I love you so much it hurts Min"
"I know!" Minerva sobbed and then she screamed to the heavens as the magics began their work, Hermione just stared helpless as her soul mate was probed and infected by ancient magics designed to destroy and bar.
The screaming ended and their eyes met again for the briefest of seconds before both of their hands felt clamped to the ground and a burning sensation began on the palm of their hands.
"Min I'm scared!" Hermione admitted, streams of tears running down her face.
"I know my love" Minerva said, quite calmly.
They just stared at each other as the burning intensified until an orange glow enveloped them and they were forced upright to gaze at each other through a thick orange fog which swirled around them.
Whispers filled the air and Hermione glanced frantically around her for the source of the sound. Then silence fell and the fog vanished in an instant leaving them amongst the red dust and the blood sunrise.
Minerva knew what was happening, the silence before the end, the moment designed for one purpose.
Final words, words you would never get the chance to say again.
"I love you" she said passionately and Hermione opened her mouth to reply as a blinding flash of light and then emptiness, as Hermione was taken from her forever and she was left in the dust.
Minerva lifted her head from the pensieve and found fresh tears on her cheeks.
Her legs gave way as the pain and longing in her chest consumed her, "Oh Hermione" she cried as unconsciousness claimed her.
AN: know it seems pretty complicated but I promise you I have a plan, if all goes as expected, the story will span the entire book series and perhaps after.
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