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In the Dark, A Zabini/ Grindelwald fanfic	By : blaisegellert Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 1326 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Just as they had yesterday, after breakfast their little group moved to the room of requirement for defense practice. Gellert asked Filius what he'd like to teach, and the charms professor suggested a bit of dueling.
"I'm quite aware that all of you know how to duel, but there are some nasty tricks I'd like to share. They may just save a life during the coming year. If you are dueling two people at once, this particular trick that I'd like to begin with can kill both. It involves two charms. The first pulls all the water from one opponent's body and the second charm puts it down the throat of your second opponent, drowning them. Perhaps a little gruesome, but they likely won't know counter curses for this particular attack. If they do have an idea for one, they'll be too busy suffering to implement it."
"Damn," Millicent said, impressed.
"Professor Flitwick is a savage! I love it!"
The little professor chuckled, looking a little embarrassed.
"Thank you, Miss Bulstrode."
He sighed.
"I know that for many the proper thing to do is simply to incapacitate, but with Voldemort's lot, that attempt may end up costing you your life. They will be trying to kill you, and that matters."
"Hell yeah," Millicent agreed enthusiastically.
Even Gellert was impressed at the little man's creative methods of killing. The brand of magic employed was unfamiliar and as such all the more intriguing. Flitwick demonstrated the wand movements for both charms, speaking words for each in Gaelic.
"I want all of you to face a wall and practice the wand motions and proper pronunciation of the charms," he instructed.
"Obviously these aren't the sort of charms we would wish to practice on one another."
Today the room had made itself even larger for their use and the only piece of furniture was a long table near the door for storing any personal items. Everyone fanned out and faced the far wall to practice. Once Flitwick was pleased with everyone's mastery of both charms, he sorted them into groups of two for general dueling practice.
"I would like to see everyone's overall speed, reflexes and style of fighting," he said.
Blaise and Gellert turned to face off against one another without waiting to be assigned a partner, but Filius moved to stand between them.
"I would very much like to work with Mr. Grindelwald," he said with a twinkle in his eyes.
"I'm curious to see how long I can last against the best."
Gellert chuckled.
"Alright then."
Though he'd looked forward to...crossing swords with Blaise in a more professional way, they had plenty of time for that and he was curious to see what other tricks Flitwick had up his sleeve.
"Brilliant," Flitwick enthused.
"Mr. Zabini, you can work with Miss Boxwood."
Blaise nodded and went to face off with Kereston, but both were distracted by watching Gellert and Filius. Their wands practically flew from one fluid movement to another, and both men leapt about with lightning speed avoiding the hexes and curses thrown by the other. In the end, it wasn't only Blaise and Kereston who paused to watch them. Everyone stood riveted as the duel played out. Eventually Gellert began to look a little strained around the edges, but Filius was slowing, his thick salt and pepper hair plastered to his head with sweat.
After a few more exchanges the little charms professor laid down his wand and held up his hands.
"I'd have to actually try to hurt you if I had a hope of winning, and I'm sure you could more than hold your own even then," he gasped, laughing.
"That was wonderful! Thank you, Mr. Grindelwald!"
"You've got some interesting moves," Gellert said.
"That was fun. Thank you."
"And now it's time for the rest of you to play now that we're not distracting you," Filius said cheerfully as he turned to everyone else. He and Gellert walked about, commenting and making helpful suggestions to each team. Flitwick had matched everyone up well so that each person worked with someone of their own general skill level. Blaise's parents made one team, Millicent and Mag another, Wolfgang and Severus a third, Kereston and Blaise a fourth. Severus and Wolfgang had exchanged and deflected a few curses when the potions master stepped out of the line, one hand moving to his other arm as a frown of trepidation crossed his face.
"Nightshade and I have to go," he said tightly.
"He calls."
No one had to ask who HE was. Practice was less light hearted and more subdued after Severus departed. Kereston suggested more practice with maintaining Protego Diabolica while a person was on the move.
"Don't worry, I brought the music again as it really seemed to help last time," she said.
Moving to the long table near the door where her shoulder bag sat, she extracted the music stick. Soon the rapid beat of Tiffany's I Think We're Alone Now filled the large room.
"I was thinking about the words to this song and that if you and Blaise could actually sort of enact them while keeping the shield in place, you'd be able to hold it up during anything," Kereston told Gellert excitedly.
Gellert blinked, looking mildly perplexed.
"What?"
"It's simple," Kereston insisted, waving the stick at him and causing the sound of the song to move about with her motions.
"Stop that, Boxwood," Blaise complained.
It's annoying! Put the stick down on the table so that it can play the bloody song in peace."
Kereston nodded, continuing to speak to Gellert as she moved back to the table.
"It's talking about holding hands and running as fast as you can to get away from everyone else and be alone together. Then you tumble to the ground and put your arms around one another and say that you think you're alone now. I know it sounds daft, but work with me! If you can run, and fall to the ground holding one another and keep the shield in place during all those different types of movement in various directions, you've got it locked down no matter what could be happening!"
"The concept isn't entirely stupid," Gellert said cautiously and Kereston threw him a dirty look.
"You're an odd little girl, aren't you," Gellert asked with an amused laugh at getting a rise out of her.
She rolled her blue gray eyes at him.
"And you're a bratty little boy!"
"Why thank you," Gellert said, inclining his head as though she'd just given him his proper due.
"Alright then, lets go. I'll start the song over and the two of you enact the words while trying to keep the shield up," Kereston instructed.
"Go there to the far end of the room so you've plenty of room to run and fall together."
Blaise and Gellert exchanged a bemused look, but clasped hands and ran to the far end of the room as the song started up anew. They ran and tumbled to the ground and held one another close. Only when they kissed did the shield slip.
"Gods," Millicent complained strenuously.
"No one wants to see that."
"I thought it was about doing something difficult while maintaining focus," Blaise snarked.
They tried it again and again. On the third attempt, the shield remained during most of the kiss.
"Okay then. It looks like you've got it down perfectly so long as you don't snog," Kereston said.
"So in times of great danger or when parents are present,, do not snog," Geo said firmly.
Everyone else practiced Protego Diabolica, and when they were about to break for lunch, Severus returned.
"How'd it go,"Mag asked, rushing to embrace him. Blaise looked away in discomfort at the odd way the potions master's face softened as he hugged her back. Gods was that how odd he and Gellert seemed to others when they looked at one another? At least he and Gellert were way hotter, but how odd they must look if their expressions held that strange softness or sappiness or whatever the hell it was.
"He's planning something big," Severus said tightly.
"Several something's. One involves the Ministry directly, but he only shared that with those specifically involved. He had another interest where I am concerned. He expects me to install some of his followers as professors for the upcoming school year so that he might...improve the standards of education at Hogwarts. Obviously I have no choice."
"And you're still going to bloody insist that I continue to attend," Blaise practically shouted at his parents.
To his great satisfaction, both looked shocked and a little ill. The color had drained from Geo's face and Sabra clutched at her husband's muscular arm with both hands.
"I'm afraid they will have no choice in the matter," Severus said.
"For he has decided that attendance is mandatory."
"But how is he going to enforce that," Millicent demanded.
She looked horrified, and practically hid behind Wolfgang.
"I have a theory that he will be in control of the Ministry itself by the time term begins if he isn't already," Severus said flatly.
"MOTHER...FUCKER," Millicent practically screamed.
"The Ministry sucks," Kereston groaned into her hands.
"I'm so glad to have graduated, but...Blaise...Millie...I'm so sorry you have to deal. If the Minister had moved on this way earlier...we'd not be living in fear right now!"
"Don't call me Millie," Millicent said, but only half heartedly as her focus was obviously on other more horrifying matters.
"But if I get married, I won't have to go, and we planned to get married this summer anyway," Millicent said, words poring out rapidly as her dark brown eyes grew more desperate and panicked.
"Sounds reasonable," Severus said.
"Marital status should change the expectations of the board of education concerning school requirements so you can try."
"What if I get his attention by trying to avoid it, though," she wondered.
"Fuck, that puts me right between fucked and fucked!"
"You're beginning to sound like my parents, minus the swearing," Blaise drawled.
"Get married. It'll be fine. It sounds as if Voldemort will be plenty occupied without wondering why you're having a life."
Blaise's mind had yet to fully process his feelings on the situation. He knew that soon it would feel a bit like a nightmare coming true and he wasn't at all looking forward to that. The feeling of Gellert's hand closing around his was more of a comfort than he could've expected.
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In the Dark, A Zabini/ Grindelwald fanfic