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Her sin – 4 – Being his
Minerva was teaching her second year transfiguration class when a white owl came into the room through the window and left a letter on her desk. The appearance of the bird disordered the young students, which were now talking loud, not paying attention to their teacher asking for silence.
"Quiet, please!" she yelled for the third time before everybody had shut up "Go to page forty-seven… these exercise will be your homework for the weekend, but you can begin to do them now"
She sat down and enjoying that peace she took the letter on her desk and opened it.
Meet me in Hog's Head at six o'clock.
When her last class finished, Minerva went quickly to her rooms to pick her cloak before leave. It was dark and very cold, and nobody was in the street when she reached the town. She quickly went into the pub. There were two men drinking on the table of the corner with their faces hidden under their capes' hoods, and a woman sitting close to the door. Minerva took off her cloak and sat on the bar. The blonde-haired waiter approached to her and served her a lemon sorbet.
"I've not asked anything, yet…" she said, confused.
"I know… but you always ask the same as my brother…" he said winking at her.
"You're Albus'?"
"Unfortunately" he interrupted joking, and handed her a hand "I'm Aberforth"
"Nice to meet you" she said smiling.
"So… are you coming alone, today?" he asked.
"I'm not. Albus asked me to meet him here, but I guess he's being late…" they both giggled and then another man came in and Aberforth had to leave.
Minerva waited more than an hour, but Albus wasn't coming, so she decided to come back to the school. It was late and everybody had left the pub, so Aberforth walked with her until the end of the town.
"It's been nice to finally put a name to the green-eyed girlfriend of my brother…" told him "I hope to see you more often in the pub without Albus, Minerva… it's been lovely to talk with someone who doesn't cover her face to come in"
"I've also enjoyed your company, Aberforth. And I'll talk severely to Albus about not telling me about you; and about standing me up…"
"Well… that's something I'll have to thank him, because if he had come on time I wouldn't have been able to spend a so wonderful time with you…" he said and she blushed. Then they said goodbye to each other, Aberforth came back to town and Minerva continued the way to Hogwarts.
She was thinking on what could have made Albus forget their meeting when a howl made her shiver. Suddenly it seemed to be colder, and darker… she looked around her… there was nothing… she continued walking, faster, and then she listened some steps behind hers, or she thought she had listened to them.
"You can't run away from me…" a voice whispered.
"Who's there?" she asked.
"Don't you recognize my voice?"
"Get away from me!" she yelled taking out her wand.
"I won't to hurt you…" he said "…you won't need this…" and then she noticed her wand sliding out her fingers and when she looked at her hand, it had disappeared.
"What are you doing here? What do you want?" she quizzed turning around but seeing nobody.
"You know the answers to those questions…" the whisper said coldly "… you!"
"NO!" she shouted to the void "Why can't you understand it? You hurt me and I left… it's over!" she broke down and began to cry; she lost the strength of her legs and felt on the ground.
"It's not until I say it is. You're mine!"
Suddenly she noticed a presence standing close to her, she rose her face and met a hand offering her some help to stand up. She rejected it and stood up on her own. Then the man in front of her knelt down.
"Minerva McGonagall, will you marry me?" he asked offering her a silver ring with a black stone.
"What do you want, Tom?" she asked while he stood up laughing.
"Did he purpose you like this?" asked him letting the ring felt on the ground. When it touched the sand of the path it became a black spider that run away quickly.
"Is this why you've come back? 'Cause you know about my wedding?"
"There isn't any wedding because you're not going to marry that old man…" he said harshly and walking around her while his large fingers caressed her neck "…you're mine…"
"Stop it, Tom. Albus is a gentleman, not like you. He loves me and I love him…"
"I don't care about your feelings, my dear…" he said taking his hand further down on her back until she shivered and had to stop a moan.
"Stop it" she begged on a whisper mixed with another moan she couldn't keep.
Forteen years ago… 1943… Hogsmeade…
"Are you sure nobody has followed us?" a young dark-haired girl asked to his boyfriend when they entered into the Shrieking Shack.
"I'm sure… Come on…" said the boy.
"I don't like this place…" she whispered.
"Why not?" he wondered.
"It's… gloomy"
"It's not. I think it's cool…" he held her hand and took her to the second floor where there was a bed covered with red roses' petals. The window was closed, but a low green light was flying above the bed.
"Oh, Tom! Have you done it?" she asked turning round to the boy.
"I listened you talking with Hooch about how you'd like your first time to be… We would break a lot of rules if we travel to Scotland in the middle of the year; but they are just a few if we do it in here…"
"Tom, this is lovely, but I'm not sure if this is right…"
"It is if you wish it as much as I do…" he said embracing her waist and kissing the skin under her ear "The year ends in a couple of weeks, you'll not come back after the summer and I'll not be able to look for you until my seventeenth birthday…" he held her shoulder, turned her around and stared at her green eyes "You can leave if you wish... or stay and promise me you'll be mine forever…"
How romantic and innocent sounded those words when they were just a couple of teenagers discovering love…
Minerva reached the school after dining time, so she went directly to her rooms where a man was waiting for her.
"I didn't saw you in the Great Hall…" said Dumbledore "I was worried…"
"I was out…" she said.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
"I am" she said looking for something on her desk nervously and suddenly stopping "No, I'm not" she turned round and faced him "Albus…"
"What's the matter?" he interrupted approaching to her.
"We can't… I can't marry you…" she said on a sight.
"Why not? I don't understand… Have I done anything wrong? What's happened?" he quizzed.
"Please, Albus… don't make any more questions… It's my fault… it was a crazy idea, I shouldn't have accepted…" she walked to the door and opened it "Leave me alone, now, please"
"Minerva… you know you can tell me anything…"
"I know" she took her look down avoiding his blue eyes while he stepped out "That's why I'm telling you before someone get hurt"
"What do you mean? Who can get hurt?" he wondered already being in the corridor.
"Nobody, if you leave and stop asking" she said.
"…but… What about the baby?"
"You needn't worry about that, Albus… Goodnight" she closed the door and Albus left to his rooms not understanding anything and not noticing there was someone else in the corridor, behind a column.
"So… tell me… Has she done it?" asked a strong voice in the dark room of an old house in the middle of the forest.
"She has, my Lord…" answered the trembling voice of a young man "…and there's something else…"
"What?"
"They talked about a baby…"
"A baby… Do you mean she's pregnant?"
TO BE CONTINUED…