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Fill: Because I Knew You (3/6)

[(Anonymous)]

3. Compassionate

The Niffler was in heaven.

He’d managed to squeeze his way into a wonderful place. Everything in here was shiny, sparkling, a feast for the eyes no matter where he looked. And sure, there were a good amount of wizards in the large room, but he’d avoided wizards before. He was fast, agile, despite his stocky build. He knew he could elude them.

He darted around feet, under displays filled with shining jewels on strings and metal bands, already picturing how the heaps of colorful stones would look when piled up in a nest. The thought was enough to make him rush up the side of a wooden counter and start grabbing jewels from the shelves, stuffing them into his pouch as quickly as he could.

He knew from experience that humans and wizards liked the shiny things too. They didn’t like the shiny things to be taken from them. And true, the Niffler wouldn’t like his shiny things taken from his nest, either.

But he wanted them more than the humans did. Deserved them more. He worked harder for them. The humans just handed them to each other, taken and given with no hassle. The Niffler took risks for the shiny things, so obviously he wanted them more and deserved them more. It was perfectly logical.

Besides, the humans never gave the Niffler shiny things. He wouldn’t have any at all if he didn’t take them. Humans were selfish, selfish things. They should learn to share.

All of this made perfect sense to the Niffler, and nothing could change his mind.

So it was without remorse that the Niffler shoved the ‘jewelry’ into his pouch. That was one thing humans had done right- cutting the jewels and hanging them on strings and bands so they were easier to grab and carry. So, humans could be useful sometimes. Occasionally.

Still weren’t as deserving as hard working Nifflers, though.

He’d almost finished the entire case when there was a shriek near him, and he knew he’d been spotted. He ran for it, leaping from case to case, and grabbing jewels as he went. He couldn’t help it. Some were just too shiny to pass up. He could picture them in a nest, the light shining on them, creating a kaleidoscope of colors-

-then something struck him, and he squeaked as he was thrown to the floor.

He had to keep moving. The humans would take his trinkets. He’d worked so hard for them!

A foot slammed onto the floor mere inches from him, and he crawled under a chair and went toward the window. Almost there. He could squeeze through the gap, and he would be free to go find a new nest, one near this place so he could come back-

A set of hands closed around him, and he flailed as a mean looking female human lifted him into the air. No matter how much he struggled, though, he couldn’t free himself.

“Give those back, you oversized rat!” the human practically screeched, shaking the Niffler. The Niffler knew what the human wanted- it wanted to steal away the trinkets, wanted to undo all that work-

No, no. The humans couldn’t have them. They didn’t deserve such shiny things.

“Just kill the thing,” another human said in a mutter, and the mean woman held onto the struggling Niffler with one hand, and raised her wand with the other.

“Wait!”

The voice was desperate enough to even catch the Niffler’s attention, and it squirmed to see the newcomer. A tall human, nothing shiny on him- but the coat was a nice blue. Bright.

Would have been better if it were shiny too, but it wouldn’t have fit in his pouch anyway.

“Don’t kill it. You do that, you’ll never get your jewelry back,” the human said, gesturing to the angry Niffler. “Here, let me try.”

The woman looked skeptical, but she held out the Niffler to the redheaded human. The Niffler struggled as he was passed to this new human, who immediately flipped him upside down.

No! He was going to steal away the trinkets!

“Come on, now. Those don’t belong to you, and you know it, “ the human said, his voice calm compared to the anger of the other humans. The Niffler whined and clutched at his pouch stubbornly, but the newcomer began to gently shake him, and the jewels started falling to the floor.

The Niffler struggled and whined, but it was no use. The human began to tickle him, and as he squeaked and twitched, the last of the trinkets fell to the pile on the ground.

“There. No need to kill the poor thing,” the human said, turning the angry Niffler upright- but upon seeing the furious looks on the other humans’ faces, the Niffler decided to just stay where he was for the moment. It seemed safer. This human wasn’t acting threatening or mad.

“Just get it out of here,” the woman snapped, and the wizard carried the Niffler out the door.

“Of all the places to ransack, you chose a jewelry store in the busiest wizard shopping center in England?” the wizard asked, but the Niffler only huffed irritably. He wanted his jewels back.

The human sighed, and then pulled something out of his pocket. “Here. This should entertain you until I get you somewhere safer,” he said, and when he opened his hand, there was a shiny coin in it- and as the Niffler watched, it changed colors and the shine went from solid to glittery.

The Niffler could have died happy. He had seen the face of the Niffler deity, and it was the shiniest thing in the world indeed. He grabbed at the shiny coin and clutched it close, and the human chuckled.

“Thought that might do it. Come on, you,” he said, setting down his brown suitcase and opening it up.

And well, when the human set the Niffler in a hollow tree trunk full of shiny things, the Niffler decided that maybe this wasn’t so bad a place to call home. And maybe not all humans were selfish and undeserving.

He still wasn’t giving the human any of his trinkets, though. He’d worked hard for them just by surviving that awful ordeal, after all.

Re: Fill: Because I Knew You (3/6)

[(Anonymous)]

BEST FILL EVAH. :D
I love how these chapters are from the menagerie's pov. :D