A/N: Written for the Valentine Drabble Challenge/Competition. I'm in for the hard level, so 20 pairings. This one's Kingsley/Minerva, with the prompt: hourglass.

Valentines in a Snow Globe
1. Kingsley/Minerva

Her stern frown had almost forgotten to smile. His genial smile had almost forgotten to quail under her severe glare, but he remembers and she remembers too.

He is late and well deserving of the frown. She is happy to see him and content to smile. The sand in the little hourglass of their lives slips away, but they have a moment together to enjoy.

'You're late.' Her glare quickly evaporated; their time was too precious to waste. But their lives were so entangled with other matters, there was little else they could do save salvage for scraps.

'Work,' he said quickly, as if casting it off like a cloak, for the same reasons. Their time…they had a plethora of other things they wished to talk about, to do.

She banishes her work away from their eyes and takes him in arm. He casts his own cloak away and accepts her. The hourglass still drains away; soon, there'll be a firecall, or an Owl, or a Patronus, and they'd go their separate ways again – but, for now, they had a moment wherein they could feel each other's embrace and think that time has stopped a breath for them.