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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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The next morning, they had to wake earlier than usual. For the next stage of the group portkey amulets, they needed to visit the building in Norway that Wolfgang had taken Geo to buy the previous day. The amulets had to be linked to the building to recognize the location to port everyone there. The entire family went including Bramble so that he could apparate them. Elves did far smoother apparations with long distance travel.
Blaise thought it may be more difficult to work with the three of them looking on, but once he and Gellert got started, he nearly forgot that anyone else was present. All of his focus went into the magic. It was, in its way baffling how rapidly he'd grown accustom to working with Gellert. It was as though their minds were connected once they were in the zone. And though it didn't mathematically add up when the two combined their efforts the power was nearly six times the strength it would have been were he to have combined efforts with anyone else. He and Gellert had spoken of that last night in bed as they were drifting off to sleep, and came to the mutual conclusion that it was a result of their magical styles being so compatible. Both knew how rare it was, and for Blaise it made their relationship all the more thrilling. To connect with someone so deeply on all levels when he rarely connected with anyone on any level was...a form of magic in itself.
After all the amulets were connected to the building, they apparated to the great Hall of Hogwarts.
"We need to furnish the place, and install a heating system," Sabra said, thinking aloud as they sat down to eat a quick breakfast.
"When Autumn hits it'll be freezing up there."
Geo nodded.
"We'll attend to that later while the boys are working on whatever project they've got going next."
As they were a bit late, everyone else was nearly finished with their breakfast.
"I have your pendants," Mag told Blaise and Gellert.
"My goblin jeweler is fast."
"Indeed," Blaise said, giving a pleased smile.
"Give me a total and I'll have the money to you by the end of the day."
The amount Mag quoted was quite reasonable and Blaise decided to use her jeweler again if they needed custom designed items for anything else.
Reaching across the table, Mag handed Blaise a soft black velvet pouch that clinked when it fell against his palm. It had a solid weight to it.
"Thank you," he told Mag.
"No worries. You both are doing a lot to help and we all pull our own weight where we can. I think we're all doing great...and we'll get through this."
Blaise opened the pouch eagerly to find two wonderfully crafted gleaming solid silver pendants. Just as he'd requested the hollows rested upon a spider web and it was one solid melded piece. Each pendant was around forty millimeters, not too large or too small. All in all a striking piece, and it was a grand symbol of he and Gellert combined. Gellert leaned over to look at the pendants in Blaise's hand, one elegant finger extending to run lightly across the shiny silver surface of one before picking it up.
"I like the design a lot," he said.
The parents gathered close to have a look and complimented Mag's jeweler as well.
"That's a sweet symbol of the two of you," Sabra said, giving Blaise and Gellert an oddly sappy smile
"It's our latest project, the one we shall be working on while you and Dad deal with making our new building livable."
Blaise hoped they wouldn't have to use their new hideout, but it was a comfort knowing it was there.

"Before we begin practice in the Room of Requirement today, we need to connect everyone to their amulet," Gellert told their little group.
"Ooh they're done already," Kereston asked excitedly, and Gellert nodded.
Today Kereston had the spider in her lap again and was feeding him toast on which he was happily crunching.
"Ah I was wondering where he was," Gellert said, looking with mild interest at the baby acromantula.
"He got bored at home and wanted to come along with me today...yes he did," Kereston crooned, cuddling the spider with the hand that wasn't feeding him.
"Did you ever have a pet," Kereston asked, looking at Gellert with sudden curiosity.
Gellert sighed, shrugging.
"I'm not so much of a pet person," he explained.
"They seem to be for people who need affection and entertainment. I give myself both of those in plenty so to my mind, a pet is just an extra burden to waste time caring for."
Blaise nodded eagerly, turning to give Gellert a warm smile.
"So true! I simply never understood the bloody point."
"If the pet can serve you, it can work for a bit," Gellert expounded, returning Blaise's smile companionably.
"I was gifted a Chupa Cabra once while I was briefly imprisoned and I was able to set it up to kill an enemy by utilizing its natural instincts. I had to set it free when it required too much coddling though. That sort of thing is so needlessly distracting."
"Set it free," Kereston asked.
"What ever did you do with it? How did you keep it from killing others once it was free?"
Gellert tilted his head thoughtfully.
"Hm...I never considered that possibility, honestly. In my defense I was very distracted with escaping at the time, though. I set it free out the window of a flying carriage...I wonder...are those still used?"
"Flying carriages? Yes for certain things, they are," Sabra replied, nodding.

"You...Out the carriage bloody window," Kereston nearly squawked.
"It doesn't have bloody wings, Gellert! You probably killed it!"
Gellert shrugged.
"Probably. But it was just a dumb beast, and I thought you were concerned about it killing other people...I suppose I made sure that didn't happen."

"Oh my god you are so..." Kereston sputtered.
"It's okay, Reynaldo," she said, suddenly clutching the acromantula to her chest.
"He won't hurt you, no he won't."
Gellert laughed.
"Why would I? Besides, at least he'll be able to talk some day so he's more useful. You were wise to choose such a pet," he said approvingly."Oh my gods there is something wrong with you," Kereston muttered in disgust.
"What? For approving of your pet," Gellert asked, feigning confusion that was only belied by the laughing smirk in his blue eyes.
"No. For killing yours," Kereston replied darkly.
"Oh gods, Kereston," Blaise said with an impatient roll of his eyes.
"Get over it, already. It wasn't that smart or anything."
"That's not the point," Kereston hissed then heaved a sigh.
"Never mind. Both of you are apparently soulless so you're not going to get it."
Gellert smiled cheerfully.
"Good, then, now can we move on?"
"Lets get everyone linked to their portkey pendants so we can get to practice, shall we," Sabra said, apparently unmoved by the conversation.
"We'll need a small knife and some bandages," Blaise said, looking toward Severus.
He assumed the potions master could get the items from the hospital wing.
"The bandages aren't necessary," Gellert said.
"I can heal the cuts with no problem."
"You can heal," Blaise asked, impressed.
Gellert shrugged modestly.
"A bit."
"Well that's one thing we finally don't have in common, because I don't think I have a propensity for the healing arts," Blaise said.
"It's all in how you look at it and what magic you apply. I bet I could show you a few tricks that you'd be able to manage easily," Gellert encouraged.
Blaise shrugged.
"Sure I could try. Never know when it'd come in useful these days."
Even as he spoke the words, Blaise tried hard not to picture any of his few friends or family bleeding out in some Death Eater attack.
Gellert nodded.
"For sure."
"There will be cuts," Mag asked looking vaguely ill at the thought.
"Tiny ones," Blaise assured.
"We need to link each person to their portkey with blood to make it more personal. We cant have anyone else using them, after all."
"I have a spell for that," Severus said.
"So there won't be a need for the knife either. I can show you the spell or work it for you while the two of you do the rest, whatever is easier," he said.
"The spell sounds interesting, so do show us," Gellert said and Blaise nodded eagerly.
"You can use it to make a small shallow cut or several all over a person's body,"Severus explained."You can use it to cause pain and discomfort or by deepening the cuts, to kill."
"Beautiful," Gellert said, approval heavy in his voice.
"It is called Sectumsempra," Severus said, then drew a large crystal quartz and black obsidian wand from his pocket and silently demonstrated the gesture without pointing it at anyone. The wand slashed through the air and white light emerged briefly.
"Sweet," Millicent breathed, looking at Snape in reluctant approval.
Gellert nodded in agreement. Never before was he surrounded by so many talented wizards. That was why they didn't really need a leader, he supposed. True talented minds may enjoy working together in groups but rarely did they require leading. Part of him found this disconcerting, but most of him found it gratifying and stimulating to have others around who could truly understand and appreciate him on a level at least in the vicinity of equality...Because truly Blaise was the only wizard seated at the table he could ever think of as an actual equal to his own greatness.
"We may as well stay here at the table to get this linking done, so everyone can be comfortable," Blaise said.
"Gellert and I will start by linking our own so we can practice the Sectumsempra spell on ourselves before using it on anyone else."
Both found the cutting spell easy to perform and the linking went quickly. A single drop of blood on each person's pendant combined with a linking charm connected it to the owner and thus to the new hideaway. Within an hour everyone's pendant was finished.
"Lets try them out," Blaise suggested.
"If one person activates them they should take all of us to the new hideaway.
"I'll do it," Albus Dumbledore offered.
"I'm excited to see the new place. Thank you once again for acquiring it for us," he said, nodding to Blaise's parents with an appreciative smile.
He touched his pendant and murmured the activation spell that Gellert had set it to respond to.
The headmaster vanished and then Blaise felt himself falling forward. The process took less than three seconds. When he looked around he stood in a high ceilinged stone room surrounded by everyone else in their little group with Gellert at his side.
"Very smooth work," Albus congratulated.
"Thank you both again for all your help. Mr. Grindelwald, you are doing much to repay your debt to society," he added approvingly.
Once more the German wizard found himself appreciating the fitting name Severus's owl had given the Hogwarts headmaster of Dumblefuck.
"Wonderful," Gellert replied, tone dripping with obvious sarcasm.
"Because that is always what I've set out to do...only society hasn't always been as helpful to me."
"Society is a little bastard," Geo told Gellert with a wink and a grin.
Gellert grinned back. Indeed the Zabinis were his type of family. Granted until now he'd never realized that he particularly wanted a family, but now it felt very right.
The group went their own separate ways then, deciding to consider Severus's Sectumsempra the defensive lesson for the day as so much had already gotten done. For his part, Blaise was glad to have more of the day free to work on he and Gellert's personal portkey pendants that would lead directly to one another. The concept would work much like the portkeys to the group hideaway, including the drops of blood to link them to their pendants, but these would link to a person rather than a place and it would require both of their blood on both pendants, though in a different order of layering from the other.
Once back home and upstairs in their room, the two sat side by side on the bed with their new pendants in their hands. It seemed the bed was their work space as they always gravitated there when making their enchanted items. That was logical, Blaise supposed. The bed was comfortable and one should be comfortable when working intense magic. Discovering the various ways to use enchantments for creating magical items had its own form of stimulation...and the bed made it easy to flow from one form of pleasure to the other.
The sight of the hollows on the spiderweb looked impressive and...just right, Blaise thought. The linking spell combined with a drop of each of their blood would transport one directly to the other when activated as well as ensuring it would not work for anyone else. Though the layering spells for this connection were intricate, it only took them a bit over an hour as they worked on both pendants together, effectively speeding up the process.
"It makes me feel a minuscule bit better about separating when the school term begins," Blaise said.
"At least now if anything goes South we can get to one another no matter what."
One hand still touching the new spiderweb and hollows pendant that now hung on the chain with his spider he drew Gellert close for a kiss. They still had a bit of time before lunch.
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