Hello everybody! This chapter is dedicated to Cindynetha Black (thanks for your Reviews btw), who requested me writing an alternate universe in which Ariana isn't dead and Gellert Grindelwald didn't leave Albus. I understand why J. K. Rowling wrote it that way and that them both being seperated is one of the reasons that Gellert regrets what he has done and thinks back. Because him leaving Albus was the main Thing that caused Dumbledore becoming the Person we know, who believes in the good in People.
xoxo Leviosa
All you had to was stay
Do not pity the dead, pity the living and those, who live without love. ~ Albus Dumbledore
"Albus... It was the wrong choice", he heard his little sister whisper to him. "Ariana... I know it was wrong. But sometimes... It is better to do something that is wrong and be happy than doing something right and dying inside", he told her back. Ariana looked him in the eye, the same blue eyes that looked back at him in the mirror. "You are lying to yourself if you say so. I know about it. It isn't as bad as you think, if you know that you did the right thing or that you had no other choice", Ariana didn't blink at him, she was the one of his siblings who could stare the longest. "What do you mean by that?", Albus asked her, even though he knew what she was going to say, he just suppressed that realization. "I know about it", she repeated, "I am dying inside. And not even your greater good can do something against that. No one can. You can't save me by enslaving muggles. Whatever you and Gellert are living in, it's an illusion" "A beautiful illusion"
"We can't just... We can't rule the world" "Who said that? I say we can. We can do anything we want. We are great together, Al. No one can stop us, don't say these things", Gellert told him. "Gellert... I love you" "I love you too" "Don't interrupt me now, please. We cannot keep on doing these things... I mean, yeah I want freedom, I want that no one has to be an obscurus anymore but... This is wrong" "Who knows what is wrong and what is right? Certainly not us. We just want freedom..." "We're both lying to be together" "What do you mean by that" "Your vision is cruel. We can't enslave half the population on the earth or kill them. It's impossible.", Albus told his lover. But Gellert Grindelwald was not like normal humans, he had this vision in his head with which he was obsessed with. And he totally believed that it was something good. Gellert smiled at him, as beautiful as always, but Albs knew that it was his manipulating smile. There was no way to make him leave his way. There never was. "You only fail if you stop trying", was his answer. Albus closed his eyes, trying to find a way out of this situation. He had always hoped that he would get Gellert on the good side, that he would be able to show him that there so many other things to fight for than the greater good. But he had given up. He would destroy his own world and with it he would lose the only two people he had loved the most. His sister and his soulmate. The whole world faded in front of his eyes and it was the first time in his life he had ever noticed that someone ever was happy to faint.
"Albus... Albus! Don't leave me. You can't. I don't want you to die, please! I need you for the... i don't care about the greater good. I need you because I love you. Nothings important, no one, not even me. I... I give up on the deathly hallows and the stupid greater good. I give up, as long as I have you", he heard Gellert say.
But as Albus opened his eyes, he was all alone in his room. That was the day he learned to not pity the dead and that changing the past doesn't make anything better.