Whiskey Chocolate

1912, fall.

Newt was eventually kicked out of Hogwarts, much to Albus's frustration, despite his efforts to keep Newt's wand.

Everything is not going well recently, he just received a reply letter from Aberforth the day before yesterday, and Aberforth only replied two words for his care and greetings - get out!Albus could only console himself that at least Aberforth was starting to write back.

Despite his best efforts to get students from the four houses to coexist peacefully in his classroom, Gryffindor and Slytherin fought in the morning class because of yesterday's Quidditch match, and finally he had to pull out his wand Maintain classroom order.

Just now when he was looking through materials in the first section of the library, he was stunned accidentally, was bitten by the first bite, and passed out on the spot, and was able to walk out of the school doctor's room after being poured a large cup of extremely disgusting potion.

Albus doesn't know how he got here. This is a secret room in Hogwarts. In the empty room, there is only a very imposing mirror, which reaches the ceiling with a golden frame and two claw-shaped mirrors underneath. foot support.

Mirror of Erised.

During his second year at Hogwarts, Albus met it in the Room of Requirement. During that time, he was fascinated by everything he saw in the mirror, and every night he went to the Room of Requirement to report, indulging in vain illusions Inextricable.Later he simply moved the Mirror of Erised here, turning this empty room into his private sanctum.

He stared at his family sitting in front of the fireplace happily in the mirror. When he saw this scene for the first time, he couldn't help but shed tears. Even though he knew everything in the mirror was just an illusion, he still spent most of his spare time on here.

As soon as the scene changed, the family gradually disappeared and Grindelwald appeared in the mirror. Grindelwald in the mirror had already faded away from his youthful childishness. The spirit that once fascinated Albus has all been restrained. He looks more mature and more dangerous. , His influence over the past few years has been getting bigger and bigger, and he will appear in the newspapers every now and then, and Albus knows very well what Grindelwald looks like now.

Grindelwald stood in a shadow, and a light hit his side with normal pupil color. Against the light, Grindelwald looked like an angel at first glance with his golden hair.

Albus buried his head in his hands in pain, this is what Grindelwald meant to him, half angel and half devil, all his best and worst memories are related to Grindelwald, even after many years they He is no longer what he used to be, and he still can't escape the curse named Grindelwald.

Grindelwald in the mirror stretched out his hand to Albus in the mirror and stroked his shoulder. At the same time, Albus felt his shoulders sink. He shook his head with a wry smile. He had been deceived by such illusions many times over the years. I don't want to turn my head and see the empty side again to disappoint myself.

"do you miss me?"

A raving voice sounded in his ears, Albus turned his head in surprise, and a pair of different pupils broke into his sight.Grindelwald was so close to him, he even felt the temperature of Grindelwald's breath!

Grindelwald took Albus into his arms and let out a sigh of satisfaction, the moment he had waited so long for.

He kissed the stiff person in his arms lightly, "I miss you so much."

"You..." Albus coughed and tried to find his voice, "Why are you here?"

No one can pass through Hogwarts' strict defensive magic without anyone noticing, let alone Grindelwald suddenly appearing beside him.

"Who knows? Maybe Merlin will bless you." Grindelwald said jokingly. In fact, he didn't know what was going on. He had been able to see Albus occasionally through the mirror many years ago. At first he thought it was He became ill with longing, but with the passage of time, the Albus in the mirror was no longer young and young, and he realized that the Albus in the mirror was really his Albus.Just now he stretched out his hand to caress his Albus in the mirror as usual, who knew he would touch the real Albus.

They tacitly did not mention that rainy night in the midsummer of 1899, Grindelwald asked Albus whether the sweets he had given him for Christmas all these years were to his taste, and Albus expressed dissatisfaction with his poor craftsmanship And I hope he will stop sending him Bibi multi-flavored beans, the taste is terrible every time he eats.

Grindelwald didn't expect that Albus actually ate those sweets he sent half-jokingly, because despite all these years of persistent posting, he never received a gift from Albus, not even a word from Albus By mail, he judged that Albus still resented him.

Grindelwald wants to talk about something else, such as the weather, the British like to talk about this when they have nothing to talk about, don't they?But Albus closed it with a kiss, he didn't want to talk to Grindelwald about the weather at all, and then carefully tested each other, now he just wants to kiss Grindelwald madly, and then roll into a ball on the dusty ground to feel Each other's body temperature and heartbeat.

Albus thought he must be crazy, look, what was he doing holding Grindelwald who had ruined his house?He blamed all this on the side effects of the potion he had just taken. He saw their confused appearance in the Mirror of Erised. At this moment, it turned out to be just a mirror, faithfully reflecting his current terrible appearance.

"Don't say anything, just stay quietly and let me lean on for a while." Albus panted, he was afraid that Grindelwald would be bewitched by him again when he spoke at this time, he always told Grindelwald There is no resistance.

Grindelwald was rare and thoughtful and stopped talking and just stroked Albus's smooth hair. He still prefers the look of Albus's long hair, and next time he must ask Albus to grow long hair for him.

He knew that Albus couldn't forgive him so easily even after so many years, he knew very well what his family meant to Albus, that's why he left like a coward, because he couldn't bear Albus Si resented the look in his eyes, just thinking about it would make him lose control.Although he doesn't want to admit it, Grindelwald knows that even though he completely attracted Albus's attention at that time, he could not take Albus away from his family. Maybe Albus was already standing by his side by now to complete their great deed together.

He put his arms around Albus to make him lean more comfortably, bowed his head and kissed Albus's red hair.Anyway, now that they could meet again, and there would be many more opportunities to meet in the future, he was confident that he could win back Albus' heart.

Albus woke up in the secret room, still covered with Grindelwald's coat, and he slept so soundly that he didn't even know when Grindelwald left.

He hasn't slept very well these years, even he himself can't remember how many sleepless nights he has, he is always haunted by nightmares, the dream is always that rainy night, he loses Arianna time and time again, sometimes that Arianna Wada sent it from Grindelwald's wand and he couldn't stop it in time and could only watch as the spell flew towards Arianna and took the life of his beloved sister, but more often than not the Avada came from his own wand It was like Aberforth had yelled at him, that he'd killed Arianna himself and ruined everything, and it hurt him so much.

Albus felt guilty, he felt refreshed now, he was sleeping soundly next to the man who gave him these nightmares.The madness last night actually made him feel relieved for a moment. He shouldn't be relieved. He should bear a lifetime of guilt for Arianna and those who died in Grindelwald's crazy plan these years.

He confessed that he still had indecisive feelings for Grindelwald these years. He should decisively cut off everything between them, and then devote his life to atone for the mistakes he made when he was young.So he sealed the Mirror of Erised, closed the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, and planned to return Grindelwald's coat and the blood oath vial to Grindelwald when Christmas Fox came.

Albus caressed the exquisite vial in his hand. He could clearly see every detail of it with his eyes closed. He had always carried it with him all these years and never left it. He never thought of destroying it. There are no traces left, but he knows that as long as it is still there, he will not be able to forget Grindelwald, and he can only return it to its other owner.

He raised and lowered his hand holding the medicine bottle a few times, Fox tilted his head and looked at him puzzledly, it didn't understand what Albus was struggling with in a package.

Finally Albus packed the package, and he stroked the Fox, hoping it wouldn't have to work so hard to bring him Christmas presents next year.

Albus didn't know that his behavior completely extinguished the last trace of goodness in Grindelwald's humanity.