Her sin – 8 – From love to hate

"How could you believe him? !" Albus exclaimed standing from the chair he was sitting.

"'Cause I was in love… and love makes people blind…" she answered "He had a house, an old mansion at the outskirts of London… I moved with him. At the beginning I didn't care about the usual visits from wizards that came to talk with him alone; but later I noticed all those men were dark wizards, undesirable people… they came on the evening and left late in the night, and when I asked Tom about them he avoided to answer me… They called him by that ridiculous nickname… Voldemort… but they scared me… The more I insisted Tom about what was going on with those characters, the more unpleasant became his answers"

"Why did you stay with him, then?" Aberforth suddenly interrupted.

"'Cause he was nice with me when everybody had left… He was caring, and sweet… I felt good on his embrace, I felt safe near him…"

"What changed?" Albus wondered.

"One night I decided to find out what kind of 'game' they played on their mysterious meetings… I followed them on my animagus form and… Oh Merlin! They were talking about cleaning the world and… so many other nonsense… but all that wizard seemed to believe on that… I got frightened… I run away, I… I closed myself into my room and began to pack my things not really sure of what I was going to do…"

"You left him…" Albus tried to help.

"I wanted to do it… but I couldn't…" she stopped, her look suddenly changed and her eyes filled with tears "I was so shocked that I didn't listen those men living the house… When Tom came back to the room found me with my luggage mid-done… He got crazy. I told him what I'd seen and…" Minerva grabbed the sleeve of her dress and pulled it down enough to show her right shoulder. There was a large scarf that continued down her back beginning under her ear…

"You shouldn't have done it! You shouldn't have listened anything! It had nothing to do with you!" he yelled crazily while Minerva curled between the bed and the wall, grabbing her hurt shoulder, crying of pain "Now it all will be different…" he told "I can't trust you anymore… You were gonna be my queen… I was gonna give you everything…" he said with a sweet voice, kneeling down next to her, caressing her cheek. She would swear he was crying "I thought you love me as much as I do…"

"I do…" she said sobbing "I do love you, Tom… but those men, what you were saying down there… you're all crazy…"

"We're not! We're gonna govern the world! I'll be the king, cause I'm Lord Voldemort, the most frightened wizard of history…"

"You're mad!" she exclaimed, and he slapped her.

"Don't talk like that to your future husband!" he advised.

"There won't be any wedding, Tom. I'm leaving… I can't stay with you while you have these crazy ideas in your mind…"

"Of course you are… You aren't going anywhere, Min… even if I have to keep you like my prisoner… you will become my wife, you can just choose between be my queen, or my slave… but anyway… you'll be always mine…"

"What a bastard!" Albus blamed.

"But you were able to escape, didn't you?" Aberforth wondered absolutely involved in the story.

"I was confused… I'd finally known the man I was being in love for so much time… for three days, or at least that was the time it seemed to me, he kept me closed in the dungeons of the old mansion without my wand, with just some water and nothing to eat… When he let me leave from there I hated him… He took me to a bedroom he said would be just mine, let me take a bath, healed my injuries, gave me new clothes he'd bought for me and gave me a delicious meal…"

"I'm sorry" he said leaving her wand on the table "You were right, I got mad for a while… Please, Minerva, forgive me… It won't happen again, if you promise me you'll marry me like we'd planned…"

He kissed her neck sweetly, and slide one hand under her clothes making her shiver. She took the wand on the table and charmed him… Tom felt on the chair petrified… she knew he was strong, so she hadn't too much time, she left the ring next to him and jumped from the opened window of the room.

"I had nothing… so I had to sell my grandmother's house and with the money I got I rent a flat in London, and I continued giving classes to young students until you hired me, last year…"

"Well… when we met in Diagon Alley you told me you were looking for a job, I'd just accepted the Headmaster's post, so I really needed some help with my classes…" Albus told "So… he never tried to contact you again?"

"He sends me owls usually, he always says he missed me, he waits for me… It's his way to make me feel unsafe… he always knew where I am, it doesn't matter where I go… The only place where I suddenly found away from him was here… Since I began teaching I knew nothing about him until…" she suddenly shut up.

"…until he came to the school on October…" Albus said downhearted.

"How do you…?" she wondered.

"He came applying for a job… I rejected him… I've never trust him since Myrtle's incident… So it was then when you… when you got pregnant… How…?"

"I was leaving the classroom when I saw him coming… I froze… I wasn't able to react… I couldn't believe he was in the school… I didn't understand… I thought he'd found me, that he was coming to take me with him… Suddenly I reacted; I came back into the class and waited until he'd passed through. When I thought it had passed enough time I looked one side and the other of the corridor… everybody must be into their classes, 'cause it was empty… I sighted on release and suddenly… I felt a hand caressing my back, going down my waist… I felt a breathing behind my neck and some lips kissing my ear… His hands pulled me back into the class, the door closed on its own and the light turned off…"

"Stop it…" she begged.

"You don't want me to stop…" he whispered.

"…please, Tom…" she insisted.

"I love the way you implores me…" he laughed "…and never do anything to stop me?" then he grabbed her wand and throw it away, pointed the teacher's desk and emptied it, and laid Minerva on it "Fight, my darling… fight against your will…"

"But it was impossible… my own body seemed to not respond to me… I really wanted to fight, to run away… but my legs didn't move… I even tried to transform myself into my animagus form, but I couldn't… I couldn't resist to his touch, to what his caresses made on my body... Before leave he said he was happy to know I still being his… I felt guilty, I felt like if I'd lied you… so I decided I couldn't tell it to you because it would hurt you…"

"Oh, Kitten…" Albus embraced her and caressed her forehead "You are guilty of nothing… he'd charmed you, this is why you couldn't resist… You should have told me all these a long time before… I would have never let him come into the school if I'd known…"

"…but there's something else… I met him in Hogsmeade yesterday… he knows about us… That's why I have to leave, Albus… if I stay he could try to come and…"

"No! You can't leave the school… less over now!" he exclaimed "If he knows about us he maybe knows about the baby too… He could want to take you back with him and I'm not going to let it happen…"

TO BE CONTINUED…