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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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Romeo led them to a table in the back of the restaurant rather than waiting to be seated. It seemed here the diners were allowed to choose their own table, which meant less waiting about. The waiter arrived promptly with colorful menus. When he asked for their drink order, Blaise realized that he had no idea what drinks were common here. Romeo must have seen his perplexed expression because he grinned good naturedly.
"Have you guys ever had Horchata?"
When both shook their heads he asked, "Do you enjoy cinnamon?"
Blaise nodded.
"Sure," Gellert said with a casual shrug.
"Three Horchatas," Romeo told the waiter.
When the man hurried away, Romeo turned back to Blaise and Gellert.
"It's different. I think you'll enjoy it."
He opened his own menu then so Blaise and Gellert did the same. Soon the waiter was back with three tall frosted glasses.
Blaise was pleasantly surprised to find that the food served in Spain, if not precisely Greek, was still very Mediterranean in nature. He and Gellert decided upon several dishes to share including a form of sliced ham, a type of Mediterranean rice, and garlic prawns. Romeo ordered a cold soup. Once the waiter was gone with the menus, Blaise flicked his wand around the table, performing a privacy charm Wolfgang had taught he, Millicent and Kereston the first day they'd met him.
"We can talk now without being overheard," he said.
Romeo nodded.
"I see that! Nice spell."
The young man was a year older than Blaise. He had short dark hair and classically attractive Spanish features and eyes that many girls likely found pleasing. Like Gellert he was of average height but his build was a bit more muscular than Blaise or Gellert's lanky body type. He wore a white button down shirt and brown slacks. Though his clothes were neatly pressed and of good quality, he made more of a low key contrast to Blaise and Gellert in their black suits.
"So...Gellert Grindelwald," Romeo said with a grin.
"I must say I never thought I'd be sitting across the table from you, having lunch. Someone getting you out of prison to help out rather than allowing you to rot in there makes good sense, though. I swear the god damn law is stupid and cowardly. Were they worth the trouble it took to train them, Voldemort would never have gotten nearly as far as he did."
There came that hostile look in the young man's eyes that had Gellert so curious and intrigued. He nodded.
"Indeed. I once sought to change that, but...not enough others were willing to rise out of their own cesspool of fear."
Gellert didn't bother to keep the disgust and contempt from his voice. Though he'd learned to play nice in front of some people, he didn't think this young man would appreciate it, and of course with Blaise he could always be entirely himself.
"I always thought you had the right idea," Romeo said frankly.
"If you could accomplish those goals without harming any innocents, I'd help if you are ever of a mind to try it again."
Gellert had to struggle to keep the surprise from his face, only giving a brief thoughtful nod.
"At this point, the world has robbed me of any interest in doing so, but I will keep that in mind," he said honestly.
"I have a family now, and more to lose if anything didn't go as planned."
Romeo nodded.
"I get that. I'm getting married next year."
He gave Blaise an eager grin.
"Remember the girl I told you about?"
Blaise nodded, having some recollection of Romeo being wildly infatuated with some girl.
"Well she said yes!"
"That's great," Blaise said and Romeo laughed.
"He doesn't give two shits," he told Gellert firmly.
"I swear when I first met him, I thought he had to be faking...or posing to seem cooler. No one can give that little of a fuck, or so I thought. So I looked into his mind and to my surprise his indifferent act is entirely real and honest. He gives zero fucks about most things."
Romeo shook his head with an incredulous chuckle.
"That's one reason I was so shocked to see him involved with anyone, much less a man. I get it now. The two of you are a good match, though you do seem to give more of a fuck in general," he told Gellert with an amused smirk.
"He definitely gives a fuck about you, though. It's sort of in every crack and crevice of his mind."
Blaise and Gellert exchanged an amused grin.
"And I don't think he's even trying to sound dirty," Gellert observed lightly.
"Still, he's doing a good job of it," Blaise said.
"Ewe," Romeo protested, laughing.
Their food arrived then and for a moment they focused on that and nothing else. Blaise and Gellert sampled each dish they'd ordered, discussing it's flavors and their favorable impressions.
"So," Gellert said, turning to Romeo once their initial taste testing was over.
"What's your war story?"
Romeo put down his soup spoon, frowning broodingly down into the bowl in front of him.
"As it turned out several professors in Spain's magic school were followers of Voldemort," he said flatly.
"They planned to rise in his ranks with...what I call their extra credit project."
Gellert found himself leaning forward slightly in interest as he ate.
"It seems they found a dark twisted sick spell that allows a person to steal another's magic."
He gave a sudden sardonic smile.
"Now that I think of it, it works much the way that draft of life does that gave you your youth...Only the person doesn't die. Instead their spirit breaks until they willingly hand over their magic rather than their life. The magic goes into a glass orb then the wizard can put it into themselves or give it to someone else. Most of them were probably planning to give it to Voldemort."
Gellert's eyes widened slightly. That one, he'd never heard of. Having the combined magic of enough wizards could potentially give one the power of an obscurial without the lack of control. He wouldn't ever be willing to do what it sounded like it took to make such a thing come to be, though. The look on Romeo's face as he spoke of what happened to him made Gellert feel wrong. The boy's obvious feeling of being tainted was nearly tangible and he didn't ever want to be a part of anything like that no matter what people said of him.
Romeo drew in a deep breath, then continued.
"They went after several students before they were caught. Each of their targets was treated differently because...well each person's individuality means that it takes different things to make each one break. One girl was forced physically...by a professor who she'd once had a giant crush on. Another boy in my dorm was made to break himself with a cursed book that drove him mad. I...I was forced, under the Imperius curse, to torture a baby." He closed his eyes and drew in a shuddering breath.
"My own baby brother to be specific...My parents were tearing the country apart looking for their missing two month old and he was in the private chambers of the most evil cunt bitch of a professor in the world."
His dark eyes suddenly flashed with satisfaction.
"She's dead now, though. When the Aurors busted the school up one of them let me kill her."
"Really!"
Gellert didn't bother to hide his surprise on that one.
"He saw what it did to me...how much I needed to know she wasn't ever coming back," Romeo said.
"Gods I thought my brother would be afraid of me, but it was as if he knew I didn't want to hurt him...I was so afraid his first fucking word would be crucio."
Romeo swallowed hard.
"That's why I was never impressed even with Voldemort's level of depravity. He is small. Pathetic, twisted and small. No flair or true depth of imagination," Gellert said, giving a slight dismissive shake of his head.
"It took them too long to discover that something was happening at that school," Romeo said through gritted teeth.
"That's why I decided to become an Auror...a better Auror. Like those who actually came in and rescued us, because they gave a shit. One of them, the girl I'm going to marry, actually, took it upon herself to investigate something that she felt was strange while stealing books from our library."
"Wait," Gellert said with an incredulous laugh.
"An Auror was stealing books?"
Romeo grinned.
"She's actually more of a...hired consultant than an actual Auror, but yeah, she's got her own set of rules."
His eyes shone as he spoke of her, the only time his face truly lit up.
"I won't ever allow things to happen on my watch like what was done in my school. I'll kill any sick bastard before I put them away simply because they don't deserve air."
Gellert nodded. From Romeo's earlier reaction to him, he understood that the young man's problem wasn't with dark wizards or revolutionaries, but with twisted evil sick human beings, a class he also sought to avoid or rid the world of when necessary.
Romeo's story was certainly worth hearing.
"I do agree that your war story is worse," he told him with a fleeting smile.
"Mine was longer but yours was most definitely more traumatic."
Romeo returned his smile with a sad one of his own.
"Not an award I was exactly aiming for, but I guess as I did win it, I'll claim the bastard."
"Did anyone end up losing their magic before you were all rescued," Gellert asked and Romeo shook his head.
"The girl I mentioned was literally about to have hers taken when they found her and the bastard professor who hurt her. She's still not alright. She pretends to be but you can see it in her eyes. She's just not holding onto reality very tightly."
Obviously feeling the strain of such a dark topic, he forced a smile for Blaise and Gellert.
"So...what about the two of you? What are your plans for the future other than far too much shagging for the comfort of the world?"
Gellert chuckled.
"There is never too much of that," he said, shifting his leg slightly so that his thigh touched Blaise's under the table.
Blaise dropped a hand to the thigh in question, sensually caressing his way upward. The touch had Gellert eager to return to their hotel room even if they would not end up doing so for hours yet.
"We've been traveling," Blaise answered Romeo.
"Just exploring the world together and enjoying it while slowly getting ready to open our shop. You know I make enchanted items."
When Romeo nodded, he continued.
"Gell is just as good at such forms of constructive charms, and together we work far faster on anything. We're going to open a shop eventually that sells the items we make as well as any odd and ancient items we acquire on our travels."
"You steal them," Romeo asked, expression mildly disapproving.
"No. We leave that to your girlfriend," Blaise said dryly and Romeo was quick to blush.
"I keep her from doing that now. If I didn't, she'd end up stealing from the wrong person and get herself killed otherwise. Plus it isn't right to take other people's things. What sorts of things are the two of you making?"
Blaise told Romeo of the magical dispersing amulets and the Medusa eye burglar catchers.
"That one is our newest idea, but they're all awesome and there shall only be a few of each sold. We're having a grand opening when we're ready, and you'll definitely be one of those we invite to have first go at our first batch of inventory."
Gellert smiled, giving a nod of approval.
"Yes. And we can show you around London unless you've already been there."
"Only once and only briefly," Romeo said.
"So I'd like that. I'll totally come to your grand opening. And I really want one of those Medusa eye burglar catchers" he said eagerly.
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