Welcome to my account everyone! Thank you for coming to read my story! Before I start I just want to say I am fully aware of Dumbledore's sexual orientation, but I've always really loved this ship and I decided to put my twist on it so this isn't really a romantic fanfic more of a fantasy being allowed to play out. Dumbledore will still be gay in this fic but he and McGonagall will share an experience. I'm also going to make McGonagall younger than she was in the books/movies (Dumbledore would obviously have to be younger but I won't mention his age in the story) because as you saw in the summary a Malbus baby is imminent! I'm also going to be introducing some characters of my own and writing little bits and pieces about them. I really hope you enjoy my story and a review would be so greatly appreciated

"Come in Albus!" she called as she put down the summer exam papers she was marking and gracefully rose from her desk. She knew exactly why he was here but she couldn't help hoping that maybe she was wrong. "Good evening Minerva," he said cheerfully. How he could be so cheerful was beyond her but she smiled and returned his greeting. She conjured some tea and they took their customary places by the fire. They had had many a late-night meeting over their years of friendship, be it to talk Quidditch, exams, spells, or, as of the past few years, the various antics of Potter and his group. But none, she felt, were to ever be like the one to come. "Beautiful sunset isn't it?" he remarked, calmly as ever. She put her cup on top of its saucer placed it on the table beside her. "Yes, quite beautiful" she answered. Then she took a deep breath. He was avoiding getting to the point of his visit and they both knew it. She couldn't stand it any longer. She new the painful news to come, she didn't need its confirmation dragged out. She got up from her chair by the fire and returned to her desk and started sorting through her remaining papers. Maybe not looking at him would make it easier. "But you didn't come here to talk about the sunset did you?" she said, eyes still on her papers. There it was out in the open, now he would have to get to the point. He too placed his cup on the saucer beside him and rose from his chair, leaning against the mantlepiece and staring into the empty firepit below. "I will take Potter to the cave tomorrow," he said blankly "I need not remind you of what shall happen on my return". It was true, he need not repeat the haunting news he had already broken to her.

He had come to her office one evening harboring his black hand and relayed the news it had been cursed. It had devastated her when he also broke that it would, eventually, be his demise. But what he told her next had left her fighting tears until he left her alone to shed them. Severus was to kill him before then. He had been very gentle in his explanation of how upon his return from retrieving the Horcrux he believed to be in the cave he was to go to, Malfoy would come to end him. But Albus, in his strange way, had felt it best to spare the boy and have Snape do it instead. It would also clear up any doubt The Dark Lord and his Death Eaters may have about his loyalty. He had promised her he would give her fair warning when the time came to put his plan into action and he hadn't come to her quarters until now.

"I see" she replied, still refusing to look at him. She heard him leave the mantlepiece and come up behind her and he said softly "I"m sorry Minerva". "It has to be done Albus, you said so your-". But he cut her off "I know", Then he kissed her gently on the side of the neck. She closed her eyes taking in the sensation and letting her hand dropped to her side, the papers in it fluttering to the ground. "What is he doing!" some part of her screamed. They were always open and honest with each other and she knew quite a bit about his past and who it involved. But then it dawned on her, "I know". He wasn't doing this for himself, it was for her, to leave her with the memory she'd always desired. She had loved him for quite some time, it was one of the very few things she never shared with him. Never in her wildest dreams had she thought he'd ever know. But this was Albus Dumbledore she was referring to. He knew he could never return her love so this was his parting gift to her. Letting a tear roll down her cheek she let the part of her screaming at her to end it here fade away as she spun around and kissed him passionately.

Well, there's the first chapter! I really hope you enjoyed it and I'll have chapter 2 up as soon as I can. Once again, thank you for reading and a review would be so greatly appreciated.