Heya people.
Here is the next chapter for you all. It's late for reasons such as no internet during break because my house sucks! Break was so much fun!
Anyway, please enjoy!
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CHAPTER ELEVEN: PART ONE - A day in Vienna
The air swam through Kate's hair as she shot through the morning clouds. Her broom, on loan from Durmstrang, proving more reliable than she expected. It flew well, it kept its balance naturally, good air to speed differential. And do all of this as a very bright girl flew over the then Austro-Hungarian Empire with a screaming, flailing future dark wizard.
"For the love of Merlin Gellert! Just sit still!"
"Scheisse!" He screamed, wrapping himself around the broom like a koala, "Why are we doing this!"
Kate rolled her eyes at him. "Because, I've never been to Vienna. The city must be so beautiful! Can't you imagine it?"
"NO! I DON'T CARE IF IT'S FUCKING GORGEOUS! WHY COULDN'T WE WALK?!"
"You didn't have to come."
"It sounded fun until we started FLYING!"
Kate turned, glancing over her shoulder. Grindelwald was still holding tight to the broom with his eyes shut tight.
"You want me to go down?"
Gellert's eyes shot open in fear, but in the next blink, they glared menacingly at Kate.
"You wouldn't dare, Scheiss-Ami."
Kate shrugged, turning back to the front, and with both hands shoved the broom down into a nosedive towards the earth.
Gellert's scream was so high pitched it could have broken glass.
Down, and down, and down the plummeted. The earth getting closer and closer with each second.
"Stoppen Sie, verrückte Hexe zu ficken! IHR GEHEN, UM MICH ZU TÖTEN!"
As the forest grew closer, Kate leaned in close to the broom and increased its speed.
"FEIN! ES TUT MIR LEID! ES TUT MIR LEID!"
"What?!" Kate yelled over her shoulder, "I don't speak German!"
"I'M SORRY YOU TOCHTER VON SATAN UND EINE VERDAMMTE HELLION KÖNNEN SIE IM TIEFSTEN KREIS DER HADES ROT!"
As the broom continued to plummet, and Gellert prayed to go to a different place than his friend, Kate, at the last possible second, pulled the broom out of the dive and vaulted back up into the sky.
As the broom slowed, and the heart attack averted, Kate directed the broom down to land safely in the outskirts of the city below.
Vienna was the jewel of Austria. Her shining cathedrals and bustling streets were the perfect setting for a weekend vacation
While the Grindelwald of the future was the king of holding grudges, the Gellert of April 1899 understood that a joke was a joke.
But there would be consequences later.
"Which way is the wizarding shops?"
Kate stopped, a little confused. "Wizarding shops?"
"Yes, the places owned by wizards?"
"There aren't any. All the wizards who live here work alongside muggles and use very little magic."
Kate watched in amusement as Gellert's face fell and hardened. His dislike of muggles rivaled even Voldemort's. However, Kate had a plan.
"Come on GiGi, lighten up."
"I don't like muggle things."
"How do you know if you've never tried it?"
Grabbing his arm, Kate lead them into the fray.
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Ok, so maybe this isn't as easy as I thought it would be…
Gellert groaned for the umpteenth time. They had been walking around the city taking in the local sights, buildings, and culture. But no matter what Kate showed him, Gellert remained unimpressed. Well, honestly, he was being a pain.
As they rounded the corner, they came upon a line of shops, one right after the other. Their canopies shading the way down the street. Kate was just about to give up when a sign in a candy store caught her eye.
I WIN
"Come on, there's one last thing I want you to try"
She pulled him into the candy store, Cheshire cat grin plastered on her face.
Walking up to the counter she whispered to Gellert what to say to the cashier.
"Eins ... ich weiß nicht was das ist? Ok, ok, bitte eine "Eiscreme".
The cashier smiled and, after they paid, handed them their treats.
As they walked outside, Gellert eyed the substance suspiciously. Following Kate's lead, he casually took a single, tiny bight.
Kate watched as the 17-year-old jumped up in shock.
"IT'S COLD! IT'S COLD!"
"Ya, but do you like it?"
The boy stopped, considering the question for a moment. He looked at the treat still in his hand and took another bite. After a moment of thinking, he nodded to himself.
"I hate it."
Kate's heart plummeted. Who the fuck doesn't like ICE CREAM? The visions of failure crashed through her head like a bad dream she couldn't wake up from. The black abyss staring at her as the judgement of a generation who had been counting on her to…
"Kat? Kat?"
Kate looked up at him, eyes on the brink of tears.
"I lied."
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Most days the square of Vienna was a peaceful place. O sure, they had the bustle of any city, but the people didn't mind taking a little longer to get to their destinations. It was an easy, relaxed, tranquil kind of day.
That is…. until a young man was being chased through the square by a pissed alley cat.
Gellert raced across the cobblestones, an angry yowling close behind him. Seeing his chance, he shot through a line of trees to the city park. Once there he spun behind a tree and waited for the cat to run by.
The cat, Kate, ran right by the tree and in the next moment stopped and turned back towards him and returned to her human form.
With both the teens happily out of breath and grinning like a pair of thieves, they sat at the base of the tree, leaning against the other.
"Hey Kat?"
"Ya GiGi?"
"Why do you want me to like muggles so much?"
Neither spoke for a long time as Kate tried to think of a good answer without giving too much away.
"Because I'm a NoMaj. I was raised a NoMaj. The wizards in America…. they look down on anything different from themselves. They 'pull weeds' from their gardens. When we grow up, the world will be ours. Our responsibility. Magic is amazing, and I understand why we must keep our worlds apart, but we all live and die whether we have magic or not. We sit under the same sky, walk the same earth. We both have been in pain and alone. But if not for NoMaj's, I would have never been born. Would have never met you."
"You also wouldn't have been in pain."
"Yes, but that does not mean I hate all Purebloods and magic. So why do you hate NoMaj's?"
Gellert looked up at the leaves hanging from the branches, bright green with new life.
"I like ice cream."
Kate leaned her head against his shoulder, smiling.
"It's a start."
They sat under that tree for a long time in silence, thinking on what the other had said. The world around them kept turning, spinning on and on. People in the city going about their lives unaware of the change that had happened. For under the safe branches, history had shifted. The dark wizard the future feared was no more.
However, for Kate and Gellert, neither cared. To them, it was but a peaceful day in Vienna. It was as if time had stopped and held them in that moment.
Two friends in peace with the other's world.
TRANSLATIONS
Scheisse - Shit
Scheiss-Ami - It's a bad word for Americans (please do not use, come on guys)
Stoppen Sie, verrückte Hexe zu ficken! IHR GEHEN, UM MICH ZU TÖTEN - Stop fucking crazy witch! YOUR GOING TO GET ME KILLED!
FEIN! ES TUT MIR LEID! ES TUT MIR LEID! - Fine! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
TOCHTER VON SATAN UND EINE VERDAMMTE HELLION KÖNNEN SIE IM TIEFSTEN KREIS DER HADES ROT! - DAUGHTER OF SATAN AND A DAMNED HELLION YOU CAN BURN IN THE DEEPEST CIRCLE OF HADES!
Eins ... ich weiß nicht was das ist? Ok, ok, bitte eine "Eiscreme" - One...I do not know what that is? Ok, ok, please an "ice cream"
If you want pictures I used for reference for Vienna in 1899, please go here - /portfolio/vienna-in-1899/
Also, a side note: Grindelwald pronounces Kate's nickname 'Kat' by putting extra emphasis on the a. So instead of an 'a' sound, it is an 'ah' sound.
Thank you so much for reading! If you want, reviews are always welcome.