Albus/Gellert for evening12
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The Muggle books said that loving a man was a crime, but, then, when had Albus and Gellert ever been hindered by the bounds of criminality? If they were willing to let no Wizarding nor Muggle law of the world intrude upon their plans for revolution and reform, why should they let a petty and regional one dictate how they behaved in the privacy of their own home?
They spoke of their grand ideals - of the world they hoped to someday fashion, free of hatred and secrecy, and Albus wondered, at times, whether there would come a time when the veil he had cast over himself and his own life would be lifted, or whether, even if (no, when. Not if) the prejudices between Wizards and Muggles were dissolved, he and Gellert would still have to live in a state of secrecy, if not for their magic, then for their relations.
Gellert, for his part, rarely gave thought to such things. He approved of secrecy, when it was on his own terms, and did not find it troubling to have to restrain intimacy to moments when no one else could see them. Indeed, when he did take the time to reflect upon the matter, he believed that, even if there was no law, not even the faintest of unwritten rules to say that he could not be with Albus, he would still have kept his feelings for him quite thoroughly hidden.
After all, one could not expect to make such sweeping changes as they planned to without making enemies, and when those enemies were made, it would be best, Gellert thought, if they knew nothing whatsoever about who mattered to him.