Aaaahahaha, this is GREAT! :D All of your characters here are fabulous, including tell-it-like-it-is-matchmaker!Minerva. These are quite possibly the three most stubborn characters in history, but it's fortunate for Severus and Albus that Minerva just might be the most stubborn of the three. ;)
There are so many wonderful lines and little insights in this, but I think this is my favorite:
Severus was-he was still young but life had made him hard, coarse grained and as rough to the touch as his starched robes, and Albus wanted to scrape himself on every sharp edge, every raw need, rub away the shiny surface of Albus Dumbledore, respected Headmaster, and remember what it was like to just feel.
Just YES! And I was cackling at Minerva's determination to find out what had happened the next day. Hee!
I'd bet an arm I know who you are, "Mystery Author." Although I'm not actually so good at the whole guessing game, so we'll see whether I'm right in about a month!