Chapter 10

Together Again.

With a yawn Minerva pulled her arms above her head and stretched. She felt oddly .. Light. Suddenly she became aware of her surroundings, she was still sitting in her plush red armchair in her office in front of the fire.

She glanced down to her feet .. But the tiny shards of glass phial had gone.

She jumped up and looked at herself in the mirror over the fireplace. Minerva looked different. She was fuller and more healthy looking. Her cheeks were round and rosy, her hair was shinning in the light and her eyes had their old sparkle back.

Something wad different … was she really … dead ?

Minerva ran to the window. Outside was not the Forbidden Forest. Or Hagrid's hut .. Albus' tomb.

Instead there was just mountains and mountains of clouds. As far as she could see.

Then .. She heard something. Her wedding song. Their wedding song.
"Albus..!"
She threw open the door and sprinted down that long familiar corridor. Down the moving staircases as she grew nearer and nearer to the music.

Finally she found herself at he huge heavy wooden doors to the great hall.

Music drifted in from underneath the wood and she was certain that behind those doors was what she was looking for … Albus ?

She touched her hand to the door and was ready to have it open but to her surprise they creaked open on the own accord … just like magic.

There was a huge rainbow on the ceiling and a startling sunshine that reached it beams into every corner of the huge room ..Also illuminating the grand chair at the end of the hall.

Minerva's breath caught in her throat.

"Albus!"

It was him. In ocean blue robes covered in tiny gold shooting stars. His eyes gleaming and shinning with tears and sunshine.

She broke into another run and threw herself toward him but as soon as her legs began to move her feet lifted from the floor. She began gliding as quickly as she could run and she laughed. A loud chest heaving laugh that echoed through the empty spaces of the hall.
She was happy again. She could feel.
His face became clearer and clearer as she floated down at his feet. He looked younger somehow. There were still lines etched on his face, but there was something different. He looked more noble, stronger than ever before and he was glowing. Like an angel.

"Hello my darling" He smiled as silent tears poured down his face.

"Oh Albus …" She wrapped her arms around him almost knocking the wind from him. She needed to feel that he was there with her.
"Shhhh …Minerva its all alright. I am here … and so are you apparently? Minerva .. What have you done?"
He pulled her face away from his chest and cupped her face with his hands and stroked her tears away with his thumbs. She held onto his waist with her fingers. Not daring to let go.
"I couldn't live … I couldn't live without you" She whispered.

"Oh Minerva … you sweet, sweet woman!" And he showered her face with kisses.

"I love you. I love you. I love you. ILOVE YOU!" he cried into the sunshine and she silenced him with another kiss.

Minerva felt her heart explode with love. This is where she belonged. Wrapped up in Albus' arms feeling his soft talented lips upon hers. In their heaven. Together.
They were one .. One couldn't live without the other. But all that didn't matter now.

None of it mattered.

Nothing apart from the moment that they were caught in.

They love that they shared.

She was home.