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Title: The Battle and the War
Author: Evandar
Fandom: Fantastic Beasts
Rating: PG
Warning: Unreliable narrator, one-sided (?) relationship
Pairing: Gellert Grindelwald/Newt Scamander
Disclaimer: I do not own Fantastic Beaststhank god and I am making no profit from this story.
Summary: It’s a dangerous game, to toy with the future, especially when he’s so close to achieving his goals.
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hogwarts365 Prompt 301 - wild and giving up
There should be nothing appealing about him, this magizoologist; he’s too wild, too scattered. He is chaos bundled into a shabby blue coat; disruptiveness woven through his magic, his very nature. His future is a tangled snarl of hopes and dreams and tragic accidents; something unpredictable that slips through Gellert’s fingers like smoke. But, despite this, Albus chose his agent well. He knows that Gellert has a fondness for red hair and freckles and plummy English accents. He knows that Gellert values perseverance and loyalty - both of which Newton has in spades.
To his credit, Newton doesn’t seem to realise exactly what kind of sacrifice he’s been offered up as. He’s not trying to intrigue Gellert as much as he does; in fact, he seems oblivious to Gellert’s growing affections. All the same, he finds himself looking forward to their next encounters. Worse, he enables them. He steals fragments of them from his visions and hoards them closely, pulls strings and twists truths until they come to pass. It’s a dangerous game, to toy with the future, especially when he’s so close to achieving his goals, but he can’t help but do it – can’t help but force encounter after encounter just to see Newt Scamander and his pretty freckles and his wry, lop-sided smile.
He’s won one or two of those smiles for himself, recently. Kindness to magical beasts is Scamander’s most obvious weakness, and one that Gellert is more than willing to manipulate. It’s easy enough: a dead poacher here, a tip-off there, and he’s starting to look like more than the Dark Lord the media paints him as. So little effort for such a desirable result – Gellert would be a fool to pass up the chance to win him to his side, make him doubt his connection to Albus, make him his.
Gellert knows exactly what Albus was doing, choosing Newt Scamander to send up against him again and again. He knows, and yet it’s a battle he finds himself eager to fight. His dear Newt is beginning to give in. He’s giving up. Soon, he won’t be able to keep resisting, and when he does, his future will be drastically changed.
Author: Evandar
Fandom: Fantastic Beasts
Rating: PG
Warning: Unreliable narrator, one-sided (?) relationship
Pairing: Gellert Grindelwald/Newt Scamander
Disclaimer: I do not own Fantastic Beasts
Summary: It’s a dangerous game, to toy with the future, especially when he’s so close to achieving his goals.
AN: Help me, I tripped over GrindelNewt and still can't get up. Written for
hogwarts365 Prompt 301 - wild and giving upThere should be nothing appealing about him, this magizoologist; he’s too wild, too scattered. He is chaos bundled into a shabby blue coat; disruptiveness woven through his magic, his very nature. His future is a tangled snarl of hopes and dreams and tragic accidents; something unpredictable that slips through Gellert’s fingers like smoke. But, despite this, Albus chose his agent well. He knows that Gellert has a fondness for red hair and freckles and plummy English accents. He knows that Gellert values perseverance and loyalty - both of which Newton has in spades.
To his credit, Newton doesn’t seem to realise exactly what kind of sacrifice he’s been offered up as. He’s not trying to intrigue Gellert as much as he does; in fact, he seems oblivious to Gellert’s growing affections. All the same, he finds himself looking forward to their next encounters. Worse, he enables them. He steals fragments of them from his visions and hoards them closely, pulls strings and twists truths until they come to pass. It’s a dangerous game, to toy with the future, especially when he’s so close to achieving his goals, but he can’t help but do it – can’t help but force encounter after encounter just to see Newt Scamander and his pretty freckles and his wry, lop-sided smile.
He’s won one or two of those smiles for himself, recently. Kindness to magical beasts is Scamander’s most obvious weakness, and one that Gellert is more than willing to manipulate. It’s easy enough: a dead poacher here, a tip-off there, and he’s starting to look like more than the Dark Lord the media paints him as. So little effort for such a desirable result – Gellert would be a fool to pass up the chance to win him to his side, make him doubt his connection to Albus, make him his.
Gellert knows exactly what Albus was doing, choosing Newt Scamander to send up against him again and again. He knows, and yet it’s a battle he finds himself eager to fight. His dear Newt is beginning to give in. He’s giving up. Soon, he won’t be able to keep resisting, and when he does, his future will be drastically changed.
