I'm imagining Grindelwald stumbling into Graves' house in a daze after a looooong day of paperwork at MACUSA and dragging poor Graves out of his imprisonment in a closet or something. Graves is expecting another round of torture, but Grindelwald is just like "I will heal you and feed you and let you sleep in a bed and not torture you for a whole 24 hours if you will just tell me what this Merlin-damned form is for!"
And Graves senses an opportunity and agrees, and so his imprisonment turns out to be not that bad because Grindelwald is terrible at paperwork and needs Graves to do all of it for him. And Graves might not be able to escape (he tried that and it did. not. end. well.) but at least he can keep on top of his department and make sure criminals keep getting caught and that Grindelwald doesn't screw with his people (because Grindelwald wouldn't care that Auror Jameson needs Form X3-217 filled out to get his paternity leave, but Graves definitely does care).
And Graves takes every opportunity he can to leave subtle hints in the paperwork that he's being held prisoner and Grindelwald is impersonating him and someone should do something about it! But of course no-one is as anal-retentive as him about paperwork, so no-one actually notices.
Graves is not pleased about this when he is finally rescued and gets his revenge by putting his staff through a grueling week of remedial administrative training.
(... Well, that was meant to be a comment and turned into a mini-fill. I may have to expand this into a real fic now...)
Re: Humor. GrindelGraves VS Paperwork
And Graves senses an opportunity and agrees, and so his imprisonment turns out to be not that bad because Grindelwald is terrible at paperwork and needs Graves to do all of it for him. And Graves might not be able to escape (he tried that and it did. not. end. well.) but at least he can keep on top of his department and make sure criminals keep getting caught and that Grindelwald doesn't screw with his people (because Grindelwald wouldn't care that Auror Jameson needs Form X3-217 filled out to get his paternity leave, but Graves definitely does care).
And Graves takes every opportunity he can to leave subtle hints in the paperwork that he's being held prisoner and Grindelwald is impersonating him and someone should do something about it! But of course no-one is as anal-retentive as him about paperwork, so no-one actually notices.
Graves is not pleased about this when he is finally rescued and gets his revenge by putting his staff through a grueling week of remedial administrative training.
(... Well, that was meant to be a comment and turned into a mini-fill. I may have to expand this into a real fic now...)