It’s easy to forget Newt is a slave, easy to just see his opulent surroundings, the presents Gellert showers on him for his...services, but a gilded cage is still a cage, Newt knows that only too well. Newt knows he can never leave Gellert, his master. No one leaves Gellert Grindlewald, only in a body bag - and no authority will do nothing about because Gellert owns them and they know it, so even if Newt ran, he has nowhere to go, how do you escape an insane dark wizard who owns virtually the whole country? Newt has given up even thinking of escape because there is none, it’s as simple as that. Staying with Grindlewald keeps his family, creatures and few friends safe, and keeps more innocent potential victims safe while Grindlewald is ‘occupied’ with him. Even his beloved brother Theseus who had the guts – or foolishness to stand up to Gellert, who Grindlewald despises and would gladly kill, is relatively safe, as long as Newt stays as Gellert’s pet. It’s a sacrifice true, but the stakes are simply too high to gamble with, so the answer is simple – he’s a slave and escape was never an option.
Percival dreams of escape, but he answer is far from simple for Percival but one that keeps him awake at night. To the world he’s simply Grindlewald’s ‘Right Hand’ who kills for his boss without blinking an eye, spent years working into Grindlewald’s ‘inner circle, - has a tattoo for ever sin, scars that tell stories and can strike terror into the hearts of men with a look, but to a select few he’s still Percival Graves, undercover MACUSA wizard, still loyal and trying desperately to stay a ‘good guy’. He, along with a small group of MACUSA wizards still remember their duty and loyalty to each other and their fellow wizard citizens, and are determined to end Grindlewald’s reign of terror and corruption.
He’s seen terrible things, done worse but out of everything he knows it’ll be Grindlewald’s poor ‘pet’ (God he hates that term) Newt, that Grindlewald parades round, who will prove Percival’s downfall, he knows it, because from the second he met Newt, he fell in love with him and wanted nothing more than to take him away as he’s watched Newt slowly disappear into a shell he desperately wants to protect the sweet young man, and hates himself and Grindlewald, but knows that’ll sign Newt’s death warrant quicker than anything...so what do they do?
All Percival knows is that something will change, someone will break, that it will come soon, and life will never be the same for anyone...
Newt/Graves, Newt/Grindlewald (non-con) Newt is Grindle's unwilling pet
Percival dreams of escape, but he answer is far from simple for Percival but one that keeps him awake at night. To the world he’s simply Grindlewald’s ‘Right Hand’ who kills for his boss without blinking an eye, spent years working into Grindlewald’s ‘inner circle, - has a tattoo for ever sin, scars that tell stories and can strike terror into the hearts of men with a look, but to a select few he’s still Percival Graves, undercover MACUSA wizard, still loyal and trying desperately to stay a ‘good guy’. He, along with a small group of MACUSA wizards still remember their duty and loyalty to each other and their fellow wizard citizens, and are determined to end Grindlewald’s reign of terror and corruption.
He’s seen terrible things, done worse but out of everything he knows it’ll be Grindlewald’s poor ‘pet’ (God he hates that term) Newt, that Grindlewald parades round, who will prove Percival’s downfall, he knows it, because from the second he met Newt, he fell in love with him and wanted nothing more than to take him away as he’s watched Newt slowly disappear into a shell he desperately wants to protect the sweet young man, and hates himself and Grindlewald, but knows that’ll sign Newt’s death warrant quicker than anything...so what do they do?
All Percival knows is that something will change, someone will break, that it will come soon, and life will never be the same for anyone...