Chapter 17
Life went on as it was, as summer came Albus approached Headmaster Dippet to ask if a position had opened recently and there had been. Halfway through the year his old defense against the dark arts professor had retired, leaving the position open to be filled and Albus had spent the rest of the summer earning his qualifications.
Gellert had been out of the castle on some secret with Theseus the last couple of weeks and Albus was starting to get worried about not being able to contact them and no letters being sent. He didn’t know what Gellert was doing but knew he wouldn’t do anything dangerous with Theseus since Albus would have his head. Newt had started to crawl around but tended to stay near a wall in his room, Albus had found out a week into him doing this that there was a family of mice living in the wall and he sits with him, helping him rip some veggies and cheese up to give to the mice. Albus told everyone not to kill any mice if they see them or kill any pests around Newt since it would cause the baby so much distress that he once exploded a wall when one of the house elves killed a spider in his room.
They were doing just this when the door opens to Newts room quietly in case the two were napping, but instead Gellert sees his youngest son and his lover facing a wall “Oh, que se passe-t-il ici mon amour, avez-vous tous les deux été mis en temps mort?” he walks over and sees small pieces of food on the floor, confused. Albus jumps and looks up, smiling “Gel! Did you just get back?” Albus sets Newt on the ground and gets up, going over.
Albus kisses him and wraps his arms around him, “Newt found a family of mice and likes to feed them.” He looks over at Newt who was making small noises and letting the small animals climb on him, the boy himself smiling. Gellert wraps his arms around Albus and hums “some say an animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. I wonder what they say to him, he’s still yet to look directly at us but has no problem looking at them” Gellert kisses his head then goes over to Newt and kneels down “Newton” he says softly, waiting for the boy to acknowledge he’s there. He smiles a bit as Newt grabs his thumb and he goes to gently pick him up.
Newt makes a noise and holds a mouse that stayed on him as Gellert picked him up. He lays his head down and pets the mouse gently, smiling. Albus goes back over and kisses Newts’ head “looks like he likes you Newt.” Newt makes a noise as the mouse goes to get down and he tries to get down too. Gellert lets him down and kisses his head “I guess that's enough touching for today” Gellert pulls Albus close “Theseus is asleep in bed right now, he’s had an exciting couple of weeks with the surprise we are making for you.” Gellert kisses him and looks at Newt, surprised at the boy crawling around.
“When did that start?” Gellert turns back to Albus and then kneels down to Newt and hums “are you crawling newt, yes you're very good at that.” he gently picks him up. Albus smiles “he started last week, he’s been rocking a bit since you left though.” Albus sits down with him and leans on Gellert, “it seems like we both missed you, Newt is very touchy” he smiles at said baby trying to get Gellerts jacket around him. Newt starts crying as he couldn’t get wrapped up in the jacket and starts shaking his head, his small curls coming in bouncing with the movement.
Gellert quickly takes his Jacket off and bundles the baby up into it “shh. rendben van, kisbabám. It's ok my little baby” he says softly and rocks him. Albus smiles a bit then gasps “Gellert there's something in your jacket..”
Gellert looks at what he was talking about and hums “it's just a baby bowtruckle I rescued from the heat, actually a gift for Newt since I think he would take good care of the creature.” Albus calms down and leans on him again. Listening to him hum a song. “My hummingbird” he says softly and smiles at gellerts scowl, “you don’t hate me, you love me to the point that you couldn’t function without me” Albus smiles.
“Get out of my head” Gellert says but kisses Albus’ head and looks at Newt, humming when he sees Newt has fallen asleep. “I will show you your surprise later, how are your lesson plans going?” Gellert gently gets up and puts Newt in his crib with his jacket. He gently picks up the baby Bowtruckle and looks at it “I trust you to watch over him”
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Albus was walking with his eyes covered by Gellert, they had apparated somewhere and went into a building. They had stopped a little ways from the top of a flight of stairs “ok,” Gellert whispers in his ear and uncovers his eyes. He opens his eyes to a simple brown, wooden door.
“A door?”
“No it's in the door” Gellert huffs and opens the door to a modest, but spacious living and office space. The walls and floors were a dark brown mahogany, on the right there was a brown leather sofa with gold detailing, that seemed to fit 3 people comfortably with two side tables and a coffee table made out of what looked like Oak wood, with the same golden accents, under the setup there was a dark red rug with white and yellow designs, parallel to the couch was one door, probably to a bedroom. On the left side of the room was a small study-like area with a large desk crowded on each side with two simple bookcases but you can tell they were also made of good quality Oak, parallel to that was another bedroom door. In the middle of all of it was an enclave that held a small kitchen and dining set, in all it was a small set up but big enough for their small family. Gellert leads him in and holds him close, “this is what I needed Theseus for, our room is behind the desk while the boys share a room for now on the other side of the apartment. Once they get older we can fix it to be two rooms”
Albus kisses him “It’s beautiful but where are we?”
Gellert sits on the couch “Hogsmeade, you can use it during term or just on weekends if you want and we can visit you.” Gellert smiles as he gets a lap full of his lover and kisses the older man. “I take it you like your surprise?” he laughs a bit as Albus kisses all over his face, his beard scratching his face.
“Obviously” he laughs “this is amazing” he kisses him again and lays his head on him smiling a bit, “how about we give this place a proper welcome.”
Gellert smirks and picks him up suddenly, bringing him to their room and laying him on the bed. It was smaller than at home but still plenty big enough for the both of them and two children if they climbed into their bed at night. Gellert kisses Albus deeply and pulls the others shirt off, he slowly kisses down his neck and body “Merlin when was the last time we had sex?” He pulls the rest of Albus’ clothes off and kisses further down his body. Gellert looks at Albus and takes his dick into his mouth, sucking gently, still waiting for an answer
Albus gasps and his hands go into Gellerts, holding onto his head “t-to long!” he gasps again and moans as Gellert slides his mouth further down his dick after getting the answer that the blond wanted. Albus closes his eyes and keeps moaning, somewhat quietly, as Gellert keeps sucking his dick.
Albus was too quiet in Gellerts opinion so he decided to fix that, he pulls Albus’ legs over his shoulders and kisses down his thigh “I have an inkling you are being quiet to vex me my love” he kisses down to his hole and pulls him closer, licking and kissing his hole to illicit more moans from his love. He smirks into his minstations and doubles them as Albus’ voice gets louder and higher, signaling to he was close to his orgasm. Gellert manages to slip two fingers into his hole at once, sending some shocks into his prostate, which was the final straw to push Albus over the edge with a loud shout.
Gellert sits up with a smirk, “I assume you liked that my love” he leans over him and kisses his neck gently. He keeps kissing his neck gently as Albus recovers from his orgasm smiling as he feels Albus calm down.
Albus opens his eyes again and wraps his arm Gellerts back “Obviously, but you’ve learned a few new tricks” Albus looks at him then gasps and his legs are tugged forward more and Gellert sits up.
Gellert smiles again as casts his lube spell and slowly pushes in “I have been invited to a few specialty clubs but I haven’t taken the invitation from anyone within” He thrusts gently watching Albus’ expression as he always does when they have sex, making sure he isn’t hurting him. Even after 2 years together he’s still worried about hurting him all the time. Gellert kisses Albus as he starts to speed up as Albus starts getting used to the slow pace. Gellert kisses Albus as he pulls him close “merlin I love you”
Albus moans loudly as Gellert speeds up more “f-fuck, faster Gel!” He moans and almost screams as Gellert goes even faster and closes his eyes. Albus' voice gets higher as he gets close again and digs his nails into Gellerts back. Gellert speeds up, reaching down to start stroking Albus’ dick, finally throwing the older wizard over the edge. Gelert keeps thrusting, keeping Albus in the high of his orgasm, almost pushing him into overstimulation before the Blond cums, slowing his thrusts until he was just grinding against Albus.
Albus groans “shit..gell too much…mmm!” He bites his lip as Gellert pulls out and lays down on the bed, Pulling Albus close. Albus closes his eyes and relaxes into him, smiling a bit “I think that was the best sex we’ve had.”
“You say that after every time we have sex” Gellert laughs a bit “though it is nice not having to worry about one of the boys waking up and interrupting us”
Albus nods and yawns “Merlin you need to tell me who in their right minds is inviting you to sex clubs, you just turned 19 this past march”
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That night they decided to stay in the apartment, wanting some time away from the boys. Gellert was watching Albus sleep and tracing on his back. He smiles a bit as Albus mumbles in his sleep, seeming to have a petty argument in his dreams with Gellert. He had tried to sleep but couldn’t fall asleep.
Albus starts to wake up a bit “Mm, baby…it’s midnight or something..” he mumbles and sits up.
Gellert pulls him to lay back down and kisses his head “I can’t sleep my love, too many thoughts” he nuzzles his head.
Albus turns Gellerts head to look at him “what are you thinking about” he says softly and plays with his hair “you were just drawing lines on my back”
Gellert closes his eyes and leans into the touch, trying to find the words to speak. He had been waking up from the nightmares again, the nightmares of his past and of hurting the boys. “What if I hurt them..” he looks at Albus.
Albus puts his forehead on him “oh honey…I trust you won’t, you’re so good with them” Albus kisses him and lets Gellert hold him tightly “I know your father did horrible things to you but you aren’t him” Albus remembers one night around when they first were getting Newt settled when he wouldn’t stop crying. Albus was rocking him trying to get him to calm down and Gellert wouldn’t even come in the room…
~flashback~
Albus was singing softly as Newt kept crying in his arms, he knew it was going to be hard getting Newt adjusted but almost every night the baby had been screaming and crying. It was getting to Gellert, he could see it in the way he was distancing himself again, he didn’t want to hurt the boys but every instinct he was taught was telling him to shut them up the way he was shut up as a kid.
Albus gets Newt to calm down again and lays him in his crib, going back to their room, finding Gellert not in there. “Gellert?” he looks around their office and the bathroom not finding him so he goes outside “baby?” Albud goes over and notices his shoulders shaking “hey, are you crying?” he gently touches his back but pulls away when Gellert flinches.
Gellert looks at him through the corner of his eye “I couldn’t be in there…I just couldn’t..” he shakes his head and looks back at the snow “I’m sorry…” he jumps a bit as Albus traces the scars on his back, he had forgotten that he was in just his trousers having been too tired to change into sleep clothes.
“You don’t have to apologize for anything.” Albus kisses his shoulder, “I know sometimes it's hard for you to control your temper and it gets you terrified that you might crack and hurt one of us, but you going outside, separating yourself from what's upsetting you, it means you won’t. It means you know your limits and know when you have to leave something” Albus lays his head on Gellerts chest when he turns to hold him close.
Gellert pulls Albus close and lays his head on Albus’ “I don’t deserve you” he says quietly, “any of you.” He lets Albus bring him back inside and kisses him gently. Albus brings him back to bed and Gellert lays with him, pulling him close.
“You’re wrong..” Albus yawns…
~ end flashback~
Albus Kisses Gellert gently and lays his head on the youngers’ chest, “you’re kind, and strong, and smart. You’re an amazing father and partner. You aren’t evil or a mistake, and just think, if you hadn’t been expelled we wouldn’t have met. We wouldn’t have fallen in love, started this cause, and adopted two beautiful children.” he smiles a bit as he feels Gellert relax with each word he speaks. Albus pulls the covers up more and kisses his shoulder “I love you, our boys love you, and so many others do as well”
Gellert closes his eyes as Albus talks and relaxes a bit as his phoenix calms his worries. Yawning a bit and pulling Albus as close as he could “I think Newt loves his friend I gave him, he was smiling as the bowtruckle was climbing around him” Gellert starts to fall asleep as he hears Albus hum in acknowledgment.
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Gellert and Albus arrive back at the castle the next afternoon, greeting the few that were out in the courtyard doing this and that. As they go in they hear a small child scream “NO, PICKETT!”