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It really depends on how early he found out about them. For instance - if he found out about the twins before they were born? (And oh, that wouldn’t have taken much - a momentary attack of sentiment from a teenager who just wanted to see his boyfriend, just for a moment, just for a moment - only to find him round and huge and unmistakably pregnant - )
If Gellert found out about the twins before they were born, I think the entire plot could have been - well. Not derailed. But you bet he would have confronted Albus immediately; the yelling match would have been epic, but - but.
But Albus Dumbledore was in no place to care for a child, let alone two, and Gellert Grindelwald was even less suited to being a parent. Albus would have shared his plans with Gellert, and they would have both wished it could have been otherwise, they would both have thought if only…
And then Albus would have given the child away. And Grindelwald would have let him, in perhaps the last moment of genuine unselfishness he would have exhibited for years. Best that the child be raised by a loving family in a stable household. Best that they grow without - with the death of their aunt at the hands of their father looming above them. Best for all concerned.
Except Albus would have demanded one thing of Grindelwald. One single thing - an unbreakable vow. You will never knowingly hurt them. And Grindelwald - he would have sworn. Willingly.
And perhaps he would have kept tabs on the small Scamander family. Just - because.
Because they represent the last small spark of humanity that he has left. Because they are the one thing that he hangs on to, through fire and pain and Darkness - what would have took him fifty years in another world, another time, he has from the beginning.
And the instant that ‘Percival Graves’ stared a stammering Newt Scamander in the eye - he already knows he would never, could never, cause his boy harm.
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