A penny for her thoughts – 5 / SEVERUS TIME

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Severus looked at the clock in the hospital wing wall. Dumbledore had been in Minerva's mind for almost an hour. That old wizard was supposed to be a genius, but he wasn't even able to look for one memory in someone's head. For sure he was having fun gossiping in his friend's past... He gazed the clock one more time. That was it, he was taking the old man out from there.

Severus walked into the private room and found Minerva laying down on the hospital bed and Albus sitting on a chair next to her, looking like he was sleeping. Severus cursed something under his nose and then approached the bed, looked at the unconscious witch and whispered Legilimens… .. .

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He concentrated on finding Dumbledore first… if he really was lost in her thoughts he should find the Headmaster before he wasn't able to find the way out from Minerva's mind. He should have imagined letting him do it wasn't a good idea… but he insisted on Minerva's privacy. All the school knew there was something more than a colleagues' relation going on between those two… specially Severus, who had seen them argue like husband and wife every time they put a subject on the table.

Lots of images past through his eyes very fast… a child with long black hair and a sweet smile, some tears and a funeral, the school many years ago and a teenage witch with a shiny penetrating green look, a first kiss and a first heartbreak… Severus could also notice Dumbledore in his younger years… there the sequence of images seemed to slow down…

"Minerva, I think you should know I'm gay" the Headmaster talked and Severus opened his eyes wildly.

So people weren't that wrong… there was actually something else between them… some feelings from the past, feelings that Albus didn't share…

For a while Severus felt pity for that stubborn which he argued with all the time. Everybody looked at her like the severe teacher who rarely smiles, but he'd seen her in private and she did have a nice smile, he knew she was a very caring person and she didn't deserve suffering for an unrequited love. Now he really felt bad for all those times he had made fun of her for not having a man in her sad and lonely life.

Let's concentrate in the job, Severus. He said to himself trying to feel Dumbledore.

"You're taking a Death Eater into the school!" he heard Minerva's voice yelling.

"He's not a Death Eater any longer" the headmaster replied.

"We have children in charge, Albus…" Severus was listening to that old conversation while he looked around in a deep darkness trying to find the origin of those voices "…whose parents trust on us to make sure they'll be safe from the war in this castle…"

"They'll be ok, Minerva… Trust me, there's nothing to worry about"

"There's a death eater to worry about"

"I already said he's not longer…"

"People doesn't change their minds that easy, Albus" she interrupted.

"I have my own reasons to trust on his loyalty, Minerva. But, since you have a very good sense to rumble people, you'll be able to see on your own that there is no darkness in his eyes"

After that the darkness that surrounded Severus was cleared and an image of himself suddenly appeared in front of him. It was weird… it was like looking at himself in a mirror, just that he was some years older now. He wondered why he was in Minerva's thoughts now… he wondered why he wasn't able to reach Albus when there was nobody as good as him in legilimens.

He looked deeply into his younger eyes and he realized Albus had been right… there was no darkness in them, thought they were actually very black, he could see more than just two onyx spheres on them… there was pain, and sadness… there was a hint of love… there was no doubt that those eyes had seen too much terrible things and a very few good ones. But Albus was right, there was no darkness on them.

"It's odd, isn't it, Severus?" the Headmaster's voice said, and this time he was sure it wasn't coming from any memory. Severus turned around and met Dumbledore.

"What?" he wondered turning back to realize the image of him had disappeared.

"To look at yourself through someone else's eyes"

"You mean that was actually what Minerva felt the first time she saw me after you hired me?"

"You are the expert in legilimens, Severus… and we are in her mind…" He hated when the Headmaster avoided his questions in that way, but he was right… they were in her mind, so that could have just been her remember.

"What are you doing here, by the way?" Dumbledore asked.

"Taking you back. Do you already know what happened to her?"

"No" Albus rolled his eyes and Severus sighted.

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TO BE CONTINUED…

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A/N: I'm sorry… I wanted to keep going but I got stuck and I thought here was a good moment to stop and decide what will exactly happen after this. I hope you liked this part. I know legilimens doesn't exactly work like this… but this is just a fanfic, so… what matters lol. I hope you liked it and if not, leave a comment and tell me something^.^