After the first movie, Newt stays long enough to help find an extremely battered Graves, but is semi-forced to leave the country not too long afterwards. Mostly because Picquery is getting antsy about him still being around, especially when she's under severe political threat and has an old friend and colleague to put back together, and Newt knows better than to stick around an area when the alpha pack leader has wounded pack to protect and still sees him as a potential threat. So he says goodbye to Tina and hops on his boat to England.
Which would be fine, if Grindlewald didn't promptly and gleefully stick his oar not too long afterwards. The dark wizard takes the opportunity at his trial to gleefully hammer home how badly MACUSA, and Graves in particular, failed by allowing him to infiltrate them, how it took a foreign wizard to realise what was going on, and how it was that same foreign wizard who risked life and limb to reveal him, save MACUSA, and save Graves from torture and death. After which they promptly kicked him out of the country like a tramp that'd outstayed his welcome. Such a fine way to honour a life debt, no? How well MACUSA treats their allies. The world must be so proud to stand beside them.
Especially you, Percy. We both know just what he saved you from, don't we. We both know how close you were to betraying everything. Such a fine way to treat your savior, hmm?
At which point Tina stands up, because Graves has gone grey in the face and is shaking and no, fuck you very much, Grindlewald, Newt would NOT want that. She doesn't, and Newt wouldn't either. If anyone in this room knows what Newt wants and what Newt is owed, it's her, because normally trips to the execution chamber are one way and it's thanks to him hers wasn't. And he didn't ask anything of her. He didn't hold anything over her or against her, and he wouldn't do it to anyone else either. So you can shut up now, Mr Dark Wizard, and if Newt does want anything from her or Mr Graves, they can sort that out for themselves, the two of them together.
But Grindlewald got his point in first. And life debts between wizards CAN be measured. They're tied to a wizard's magic. They can be detected. And as it turns out, both Graves and Tina do owe Newt. Graves moreso, because Newt didn't even know him when he saved him, and Grindlewald had used Graves' face to sentence Newt to death first. Newt defeated Grindlewald and (more or less accidentally) upheld Graves' oaths on his behalf. As far as magic and congress are concerned, Graves owes Newt just about everything. And Grindlewald has just forced him and Picquery to publicly acknowledge that. Which means they now have to equally publicly do something about it.
So Picquery has to summon Newt back to New York, and Tina has to stand by her battered superior and try to convince him that she'll stand her debt beside his and that Newt won't take anything from them that they can't afford to give.
And Newt, when he arrives, has to deal with the fact that Grindlewald is essentially using him as a weapon to further bludgeon two people whose lives the dark wizard has already wrecked. -----------
As far as pairings go, any combination of Newt, Tina and Graves is a-okay by me, though the full trio would be awesome. Graves & Picquery as friends would also be awesome.
Also, I haven't seen the second movie yet, so everything in this prompt is based purely on the first one.
Newt, Graves, Tina, (Newt/Tina/Graves), Life Debts
Which would be fine, if Grindlewald didn't promptly and gleefully stick his oar not too long afterwards. The dark wizard takes the opportunity at his trial to gleefully hammer home how badly MACUSA, and Graves in particular, failed by allowing him to infiltrate them, how it took a foreign wizard to realise what was going on, and how it was that same foreign wizard who risked life and limb to reveal him, save MACUSA, and save Graves from torture and death. After which they promptly kicked him out of the country like a tramp that'd outstayed his welcome. Such a fine way to honour a life debt, no? How well MACUSA treats their allies. The world must be so proud to stand beside them.
Especially you, Percy. We both know just what he saved you from, don't we. We both know how close you were to betraying everything. Such a fine way to treat your savior, hmm?
At which point Tina stands up, because Graves has gone grey in the face and is shaking and no, fuck you very much, Grindlewald, Newt would NOT want that. She doesn't, and Newt wouldn't either. If anyone in this room knows what Newt wants and what Newt is owed, it's her, because normally trips to the execution chamber are one way and it's thanks to him hers wasn't. And he didn't ask anything of her. He didn't hold anything over her or against her, and he wouldn't do it to anyone else either. So you can shut up now, Mr Dark Wizard, and if Newt does want anything from her or Mr Graves, they can sort that out for themselves, the two of them together.
But Grindlewald got his point in first. And life debts between wizards CAN be measured. They're tied to a wizard's magic. They can be detected. And as it turns out, both Graves and Tina do owe Newt. Graves moreso, because Newt didn't even know him when he saved him, and Grindlewald had used Graves' face to sentence Newt to death first. Newt defeated Grindlewald and (more or less accidentally) upheld Graves' oaths on his behalf. As far as magic and congress are concerned, Graves owes Newt just about everything. And Grindlewald has just forced him and Picquery to publicly acknowledge that. Which means they now have to equally publicly do something about it.
So Picquery has to summon Newt back to New York, and Tina has to stand by her battered superior and try to convince him that she'll stand her debt beside his and that Newt won't take anything from them that they can't afford to give.
And Newt, when he arrives, has to deal with the fact that Grindlewald is essentially using him as a weapon to further bludgeon two people whose lives the dark wizard has already wrecked.
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As far as pairings go, any combination of Newt, Tina and Graves is a-okay by me, though the full trio would be awesome. Graves & Picquery as friends would also be awesome.
Also, I haven't seen the second movie yet, so everything in this prompt is based purely on the first one.