#anonprompt

 “Stop!” Albus Dumbledorehowled at Gellert over the screams of Aberforth who writhed under the cruciatuscurse, wailing in agony. He was desperate to stop the torture and rose his wandat Gellert. He had no spell in mind but instead burst a bolt of mindless magicalenergy at his target. Gellert cried out in shock and there was a blinding flashof magical energy as the spell struck followed by a very abrupt silence brokenonly by the sobs of Ariana. The quiet was almost more terrifying then thescreaming had been and Albus blinked desperately to try and clear the spotsfrom his vision.

               “Albus,”Gellert coughed in hushed surprised, “what did you do?” He slowly pickedhimself up off the moist grass. Mismatched eyes fixated on Aberforth who wasstill twisted in the throws of the torture spell but frozen in place. His eyesstared up at the tree canopy but they were dull and sightless. His mouth wasopen in a silent scream. Slowly Gellert leaned forward to check for a pulse. “Albus.You killed him.”

               “YOUkilled him,” Albus staggered a few feet away as he stared at the corpse of hisbrother in horror refusing to accept what he knew was true. Ariana backed awayhastily from the scene, sliding across the grass backward on her rear until sheran into a tree and could go no farther. She curled upon herself there sobbinguncontrollably.

               “No. Noyou did it,” Gellert got to his feet slowly, his wand held defensively and hiseyes cautious. “You tried to curse me and it – it bounced off or something,”his hand rose to clutch the blood pact pendant which hung around his neck. Theyhad sworn never to fight each other, never to do harm to one another. In theheat of the moment Dumbledore had attempted to break the unbreakable and attackbut the powerful magic had deflected the blow. Gellert had still been knockedoff his feet but the full force of the strike hit Aberforth again. Albusretched as anguish, terror and disgust welled up inside him all at once. Seizingonto the fact that Albus hadn’t continued to try and attack and blame Gellertspoke again, “if we find the resurrection stone… we can bring him back.”

               “Areyou SERIOUS right now?” Albus choked out as he wiped vomit away from his lips. “TheDeathly Hallows and your… your GREATER GOOD is what got us into this in thefirst place and you have the NERVE to bring it up again?” He bull rushed theyounger wizard, so furious he didn’t even think to use his wand or magic. Theair was knocked from Gellert and he struggled beneath the red haired Dumbledoreas hands groped and reached and tried to wrap around his throat.

               “No,”Gellert gasped desperately. “It was Aberforth who started it all for notagreeing with the cause. He was trying to stop us. I couldn’t let him stop usAlbus. We WILL find the Hallows and make the world a better place for wizardseverywh—“ His last words choked off as Dumbledore managed to wrap fingersaround Gellerts throat and cut off oxygen. The blood pact began glowing softlyand seeing it seemed to take the strength from Albus and he suddenly releasedGellert who coughed and hacked to try and get his breath back.

               “You’reright,” tears were streaming down Albus’ face. “I didn’t mean. I didn’t meanfor this.”

               “No. Ofcourse not mein liebling,” Gellert propped himself up rubbing cautiously at hisneck. The veins throbbed as they excitedly pumped blood back through to hisbrain.  He carefully reached out to pullAlbus into an embrace when there was no answer. “It’s okay mein schatz. We willmake this okay.”

               “How,”Dumbledores tone was strangled and he dared another glance at the body, “I’vejust killed my own brother.”

               “Theonly choice now is forward,” cooed Gellert. “You’ve killed someone now. Whenthe Ministry comes they will take you to Azkaban and what will happen toAriana? We must run from here Albus. We will take her  and find the Hallows; with the resurrection stonewe can bring back Aberforth and in the meantime we will keep Ariana safe. Wewill make the world a better place and show your brother when we return him tothis world. Yes?”