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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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Blaise and Gellert stayed home for the rest of spring break, mainly to please the parents and keep out of trouble for the time being. They were in the home stretch of their Hogwarts enforced separation, after all. In a few months, it would be over, leaving the two free to travel and do as they liked so long as Gellert remained under the radar to avoid detection. When not researching various forms of complex enchantments, the two were helping Geo with last minute funeral plans or having alone time aka shagging.
When Blaise returned to Hogwarts, he was impatient to have the rest of the school year over with. As was his way, he didn't bother to study for his N.E.W.T.s because the prospect was too boring and tedious. He always passed with high marks without studying anyway. Studying would've likely allowed him to skip a grade or two during his earlier years at Hogwarts, and had he done that, he'd be free and with Gellert now. As that ship had sailed, though, studying was pointless. Instead he spent his spare time outlining new ideas for enchanted objects that he and Gellert could work on later or capping some ideas Gellert had put into practice, some even a century earlier.
Blaise called it capping an idea of Gellert's when he used something Gellert had come up with as a base and added dimension to it in some way. Thinking about Gellert's work made him feel closer to the other wizard when they couldn't be together. Silly he knew, and perhaps even weak, but there it was. Over both the Christmas and Spring breaks, he'd asked Gellert to write down the details of some of his earlier projects and those he hadn't ever gotten around to completing for one reason or other so that he'd have something to work on during down times at Hogwarts.
Blaise would've given Gellert some of his unfinished concepts to work on as well, but he knew his parents were keeping the blonde busy enough with funeral plans and poison lessons. There would be time for Gell to improve on Blaise's own unfinished ideas once they were together and traveling. When they met in Snape's office for their first work weekend after spring break, he detained them before Bramble could apparate them to their room in the staff wing beside Flitwick's.
"How is your work with Wolfgang progressing when it comes to tracking Death Eaters in Knockturn alley," Severus asked Gellert.
"We're nearly there," Gellert replied.
"Well I need you to get there faster, and when Wolfgang is able to locate Death Eaters, I need one kept alive so that I can use it for its dark mark."
"I'm intrigued," Gellert said, inclining his head.
"Go on."
Gellert spoke as though he were the one in charge, which Blaise found extremely hot. In truth, to a degree he was in charge as much as anyone. Snape depended on him for whatever he needed, and from the intense expression on the potion master's face, right now he needed it a lot.
Snape sighed.
"Mag has a talent for divining with runes. She is always incredibly accurate with her runes for good or ill. When it comes to my work as a double agent, she has done many rune castings over the past few years, continuously checking for the likelihood of my safety. All has been well except for recently. Her last few castings predict my death if I remain until the end of the battle that shall take place between Potter and Voldemort. She has even pinpointed the time I should depart, but if I am to do so without ruining Albus's plans, it should seem that I am still present. Borrowing Wolfgang's genius concept of replacing you in Nurmengard with a fake, I have had my own idea to do the same with myself. The dark mark will be required or Voldemort will know at once, so we need another of his followers to take my place."
"And you suppose they'll just agree to do that," Blaise asked skeptically.
"Of course I assume you have a plan, but Voldemort's lot don't seem particularly willing to play along for any reason, so I hope this plan is fool proof."
"It's at least very close, and should last long enough to serve my purpose," Severus replied."It involves duplicating my memories and planting them into this Death Eater's head. At least the memories Albus crafted to allow me to fool Voldemort all these years as well as the latest ones which I will program the Death Eater to release to Potter if he feels his life is being threatened. Of course we will transfigure him to look like me and he'll take my place midway through the battle. That's when Magritte says I need to leave."
"What memories of yours could Potter possibly need to succeed," Gellert asked curiously.
"Not my memories, but memories Albus crafted so that Potter would trust me. The little prat and I never managed to get along for a myriad of reasons, and Albus believes because of this, Potter will never trust me to have his best interests at heart when he most needs to."
Snape sighed, running a hand through his lank shoulder length black hair.
"I suppose he may be right. Though I've basically told Potter that we all need him to succeed so I will help him, he is a little shit, prone to...being himself at exactly the wrong times."
Blaise chuckled, unable to decide what was more amusing. Snape's true assessment of Potter or his use of the phrase little shit.
"The memories involve some life long love Albus crafted for me to feel for Potter's mother," Snape continued, making a face as though he'd just bitten down hard on a lemon and hated it.
"I hated Potter's father with a passion, so how I could love anyone who would marry him, I have no idea. Never mind the fact I hardly knew his mother and the single time we interacted, she made a show of defending me to annoy James so I put her in her place," Severus ranted.
Gellert arched a brow.
"So...Dumbledore expects Potter to believe you loved her in spite of all that," he asked skeptically.
"You don't come across as the loving or forgiving or torch carrying sort," he said with a grin.
Severus nodded.
"You don't say," he drawled.
"If Mag chose to be with one of my enemies...well let us just say the fine line between love and hate would be crossed and I'd probably happily hand her over to Voldemort if he wanted her dead. Albus believes that because Potter doesn't...can't think like that, that he'll want to believe better of me no matter how illogical it is. If someone doesn't like you and doesn't like not liking you, they're happy to turn you into someone else in their mind, or so Albus believes. He believes that Harry's love for his mother, and longing for her in his life will make him cleave to me when he sees the memories Albus planted."
He sighed.
"Let us just hope he is correct because I'm betting my life on it, literally."
Blaise tried not to cringe. That was a heavy bet indeed mainly because it involved Harry bloody Potter doing what was required. It could just be Snape's luck if Harry didn't believe it at all.
"So you'll need Wolfgang to hold the Death Eater captive until you require his...services," Gellert asked.
"That could be problematic if he is called by Voldemort, could it not?"
"Exactly," Severus said, nodding.
"So we'll have to figure out a way to do both. To single out a Death Eater and know where he is at all times. I will need to craft a way to make him constantly accessible to me so I can bring him to me whenever I need him, but without Voldemort noticing. I will also need to transfer those memories into his head and transfigure him into myself in a short amount of time. That's complicated magic, and not something to be accomplished in an instant as you know."
Blaise felt a flash of sympathy at the open strain on Snape's face."It's Alright," he heard himself saying in a tone that one could almost call soothing.
"We'll help. With enough of us putting our heads together, we'll have it sorted. Have you considered working with elves, because they can perform a great deal of complicated magic in a very short amount of time which sounds like just what you need."
"No, I hadn't actually, but the thought is intriguing," Severus said slowly.
"Perhaps Kreacher would help."
"And Bramble," Gellert added.
"His spell crafting skills are rather amazing. He'd likely find this sort of thing overly simple, right, Bramble?"
Gellert turned expectantly to the elf in question, who hadn't said a word as he waited to apparate Gellert and Blaise to their room in the staff wing.
"How would you accomplish any of the things required in this situation?"
Bramble looked a bit startled and a bit annoyed to be dragged into this, but took a moment to consider before speaking.
"Bramble sees two ways to proceed. The first allows Severus Snape more time to work on his Death Eater's mind. This first method involves isolating the dark mark so that it can not be used, but not destroying it entirely. Then it can be activated at a later date when the Death Eater is posing as Severus Snape. Bramble would do this with a sort of freezing charm so that the mark is in a sort of stasis."
Gellert gave a smile of pleasure, blue eyes flashing with triumph as though he'd come up with the idea.
"I told you he was brilliant," he said smugly, then eagerly gestured the stoic Bramble to continue.
"Bramble's second method involves linking your Death Eater to you so that you can draw him to you at need, then having a group of people ready to transfigure him and transfer your thoughts into his mind as rapidly as possible," he told Severus.
"If Bramble and Kreacher help, this could be accomplished in perhaps three minutes."
"I told you he could solve it," Gellert crowed, clapping a frowning Bramble on the shoulder.
Bramble's expression clearly said that he wasn't at all moved by praise and would rather not be involved at all.
"Once this Death Eater is captured, if you use Bramble's second idea, Gellert and I could make a pendant for you that would draw him. It will work like a portkey that brings him to you rather than you to him. He won't need a pendant of his own as we can use his blood, linking him to yours and giving him no link to you," Blaise told Severus.
"Bramble was thinking Gellert and Master Blaise could make something like that to serve," the elf said, giving a satisfied nod.
"I like the first method best, as this Death Eater could take my place faster in the end, and if Voldemort believes him dead when his mark is inactive via being frozen, he will no longer be a consideration," Severus said thoughtfully.
The potion master's face was already more relaxed at the idea, and his dark eyes more hopeful.
"If I am missing for even three minutes in the end, the dark lo...Voldemort may question it, so if the switch could take place in a few seconds instead, I feel that would be safer. Are you quite certain you can freeze the dark mark to deactivate it then reactivate it later," Severus asked Bramble, but it was Gellert who replied.
"Of course he is! And your so called dark lord won't even think to look for elf magic."
Hell in his day Gellert knew he would never have considered such, flaw or not, and Voldemort certainly wasn't better than him.
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In the Dark, A Zabini/ Grindelwald fanfic