Newt is a sweet, shy and slightly odd heir who is happily engaged to his beloved, Percival Graves, a stoic and noble solider, the model of discipline and devotion to king, country and his love. While Newt could have had his pick of suitors he has only ever had eyes for Percival, and on announcing their engagement, life could not get better.
Until Gellert Grindlewald appears, an old army friend of Percival's. Wealthy, charming, eccentric and the life of the party, Percival and Gellert could not be more different but Graves seems to trust him. Gellert only intends to pay a passing visit, until he meets Newt, and he *wants* him, more than he’s wanted any man before, it’s of no matter of what Newt wants or that he’s in love and promised to another. A secret, long held resentment towards the ever noble Graves has festered in Gellert, and with money, charm and charisma, Percival is tiring, and crucially in his way of gaining Newt. For a man of Gellert’s power, it’s nothing, and doesn’t think twice when he frames Graves, stripes him of his fortune, his fiance and his hope.
But Grindlewald overconfidence has always been his undoing. He has taken everything from Graves, and that would be enough to break most men, but Graves is not that man. He is no longer the man Grindlewald betrayed, there is a new dark fire in his beaten body. For, the day his was imprisoned he swore two oaths – vengeance and returning for Newt, and Graves is a man who honours his debts. Even in this darkest prison, he hears whispers, Grindlewald has earned many enemies, some powerful ones who seem rather eager to enable Graves's quest for vengence.
As the years pass, Gellert forgets about his betrayed, broken and imprisoned friend, enjoying his broken little husband and ill gotten fortune to the hilt.
But he should be wary of the broken man, because once a man has nothing left to loose, he’s at his most dangerous.
Newt/Graves, Grindle/Newt Count of Monte Cristo...the drama!
Newt is a sweet, shy and slightly odd heir who is happily engaged to his beloved, Percival Graves, a stoic and noble solider, the model of discipline and devotion to king, country and his love. While Newt could have had his pick of suitors he has only ever had eyes for Percival, and on announcing their engagement, life could not get better.
Until Gellert Grindlewald appears, an old army friend of Percival's. Wealthy, charming, eccentric and the life of the party, Percival and Gellert could not be more different but Graves seems to trust him. Gellert only intends to pay a passing visit, until he meets Newt, and he *wants* him, more than he’s wanted any man before, it’s of no matter of what Newt wants or that he’s in love and promised to another. A secret, long held resentment towards the ever noble Graves has festered in Gellert, and with money, charm and charisma, Percival is tiring, and crucially in his way of gaining Newt. For a man of Gellert’s power, it’s nothing, and doesn’t think twice when he frames Graves, stripes him of his fortune, his fiance and his hope.
But Grindlewald overconfidence has always been his undoing. He has taken everything from Graves, and that would be enough to break most men, but Graves is not that man. He is no longer the man Grindlewald betrayed, there is a new dark fire in his beaten body. For, the day his was imprisoned he swore two oaths – vengeance and returning for Newt, and Graves is a man who honours his debts. Even in this darkest prison, he hears whispers, Grindlewald has earned many enemies, some powerful ones who seem rather eager to enable Graves's quest for vengence.
As the years pass, Gellert forgets about his betrayed, broken and imprisoned friend, enjoying his broken little husband and ill gotten fortune to the hilt.
But he should be wary of the broken man, because once a man has nothing left to loose, he’s at his most dangerous.
Magic can be included if wished