A/N: Wow!! Thank you to EVERYBODY for your reviews, I never though so many people would read my fic!!! And also thanks for the spelling note... I'll try and other (y) slides on Riddle's name ;P

Her sin – 7 – Moon promise

"We met during my last year" Minerva began to tell trying to calm herself.

"He was on the sixth year, then…" Albus declared.

"Sure. Professor Slughorn introduced Tom to me in one of his 'perfect-students dinners'. He seemed nice, he was clever and… why not? He was very good-looking…"

"So… you began to date…" Albus said trying to speed up the telling.

"Not so easily" she remarked "There was something on him, on his eyes, something I didn't like… there was also that stupid nickname he invented…"

"Lord Voldemort…" Albus murmured.

"Yeah, that one… So, though I did like him, I felt somehow uncomfortable being alone with him…" she stopped a while, like looking on her remembers the right version of the facts "We began studying together, I helped him with Transfiguration (something he was really bad on) and he helped me on potions (God, she was a master on that!)… He was a Slytherin, as sixth year Slytherin… while I was a seventh year Gryffindor… I knew he was flirting with me, and I tried to resist because there was that something on him, and nobody would have understood that, but he insisted so much… and he was so cute, and so mysterious, so intelligent, so good-looking… and, oh god!, he was able to speak so well… like a poet… It was difficult to resist…"

"What happened?" Albus really felt uncomfortable listening to his love speaking in such away about another man.

"…we began to date during Christmas… We both spent those holidays in the school… My Grandmother was ill, so I couldn't stay with her; and there was some kind of problem with the nurses of his orphanage, so he had to stay too… There are never too much students staying for Christmas, so it was easy to meet each other away from the library without being seen… I was one year older, but I have to confess I was absolutely at his mercy… He knew exactly what he wanted, and I was so innocent on love ways…" she sighted and then continued …and the year reached its end…"

"What happened after Hogwarts?" Albus hurried her.

"When I left the school I went back to Glasgow with my grandmother… She still being very ill so I looked after her like she'd done with me until she dead… that was the second of August, 1945… we buried her the next day, and Tom appeared in the cemetery"

"Did him?!" Albus exclaimed not believing what he was listening.

"He did. I thought maybe I'd never see him again, but he came back, he looked for me… It was a very nice day, it was sunny, just I and a few friends of my grandma were there, all of us dressed on white… and there was Tom, wearing his black clothes, gazing me from the other side of the tomb. I said nothing, he said nothing… we just went into the lonely house and… well… you know…"

"Did he stay?"

"No… he was working in Borgin & Burkes, there was where he'd known about my grandmother's death… He stayed a couple days, but then he left back to London… He came back when he knew I was selling things from the house… I couldn't afford the bills and I didn't wanted to sell the mansion… I'd grown up in it…" her voice wasn't as dreamy as it had been talking about Hogwarts "He paid me a lot of money for a lot of things I'd never gave so much value… I think it was his way to make sure there was a place where he could ever find me… 'cause that was what he did for the next years… He came whenever he wanted, stayed a few days, and then left without say a word… I could stay months without knowing anything about him… but I didn't care, I spent my time waiting for him to come back…"

"But you did something else during those years, didn't you?" Albus wondered, like if the answer to that question would determine something important about her.

"Sure… I'd never been sure of what I would do with my life after school… Grandma wanted me to study medicine… but for women, that just meant being a nurse, and that wasn't made for me… I spent those years teaching the young wizards from the city that couldn't effort an school… but obviously that didn't gave me a lot of money, that was why I also gave piano classes to muggles… And meanwhile I did my study about Transfiguration…" it seemed the answer had given a very good satisfaction to Albus, 'cause he was now smiling and looking at her with dreamy eyes.

"Did Tom knew about what you were doing?"

"Oh, sure he did know about the muggles… and he hated that… but I didn't care… until the day he came back saying I could stop selling myself to 'those people' and with a ring for me…"

"Did he ask you to marry him?!"

"It had happened about five years since the day he came to Glasgow for the first time. We spent the night together, on the morning it was raining, he opened the window and with a spell he draw a rainbow from the garden to the bed and made the ring slide down it until I could get it… I was amazed… He said…"

"I will give whatever you ask me… I'll order to build a palace if you want a lovely home; I'll dry all the rivers of the island if you want a lake in your garden; I'll turn the world on black and white if you want your flowers to always be on color; I'll take down the moon if you want some light on our room… and I'm just asking you something back, put this ring on your hand and promise me your heart…"

Minerva hesitated; she took the jewel on her hand and looked at it… She was twenty-five… She was young, but she couldn't say she didn't love that man…"

"I won't ask you the moon, I like to see flowers losing their colors on autumn and getting them back on spring, I don't need any loch on my garden, and any palace, house or shack will be a lovely home if you promise to always be with me…" she said.

"I do" he declared.

"No more trips, no more breakouts on your own… just you and me…"

"…you and me…" he repeated kissing her lips while his hand slide the ring on her slim finger.

TO BE CONTINUED…