Leta had a free period after lunch. For a long time, she hated free periods, while the rest of her classmate would group together and play some games or head out around the lake, she would mossy her way to the library or her room. Always alone, no one bothering to even ask her to join.

However, this year was different. This year her free period match up with Newt's. It had been a breath of fresh air the day the two had gotten their schedules, for one year she wouldn't have to hid away from everyone pretend it didn't bother what was whispered about her.

As the students trickled out from the great hall and the teachers with them Leta watched Newt. His burnt brown hair was unkempt and his lips in a line he had been quite all lunch and would make several glances to the door then back to the teachers table. She had asked him if something was wrong but he brushed it off and continued to eat but a pit was forming.

Finally when the last teacher, Professor Dumbledore got up from the head table and started encouraging the stragglers to move on Newt got up. Leta stumbled after him struggling to get all of her books back into her bag.

"Newt wait! Where are you going?" They normal headed to the owlery or one of them many places he had an animal hidden in.

"I have something to do." He said.

"What? I can help."

"No, it's not necessary." She stopped by the door the pit turning to a rock that just slammed into her chest.

"You don't want me to come?"

"No, its best if you just stay here." He was out the door without another word.

There was a burst of laughter from behind her. "My I think we just saw the hermit break up with the disappointment." Hot in the face Leta saw three of the worst people she could have think of seeing such a moment between her and Newt.

"Bug off Meredith." Meredith just gave a twisted smirk and her two yes girls flanked her side, noses in the air and hands on hips.

"It must be something, not even Newt Scamander wants to be around you. Your ability to repel they should bottled it up and sell it as a potion." Leta moved fast, her wand out, Meredith and her friends moved to get theirs.

"Expelliarmus!" Leta's hand was wandless and the three other girls' eyes went wide their hands stopped, Professor Dumbledore stood just a few meters away catching the wand. "Ladies there is a rule, no magic in the halls." He walked up to the four of them all looking very guilt. A spike of anger mixed with fear of course the Gryffindor head teacher would catch her a Slytherin student about to curse a trio of Gryffindor's.

"It wasn't us sir, she pulled out her wand first." Meredith defended her friends agreeing.

"I'll talk to Leta you three need to get to class." He waved them off and Leta rolled her eyes ready for the lecture.

"Miss Lastrange,"

"They started it," She interrupted.

"I understand Miss Lastrange but magic used in the heat of the moment can cause damage that may not be irreversible." He handed her wand.

"So, I'm just supposed to sit and take it. Allow them to taunt me and bully me."

"You can always ask for help from your teachers." She scuffed at the statement; she wasn't a child.

"Are you going to give me a detention?" She asked.

"No but remember they were only trying to get a reaction out of you."

She picked up her bag. "Well it worked; words can hurt."

"Of course, they can hurt, what do you think a spell is?"

Leta headed down towards the Slytherins common room but detoured, not wanting to see any of her fellow students. Newt had abandoned her, and she had gotten lectured. Nothing had changed. She was still the blemish of her family, the talk of the school, it was no secret that her Father sent her to a school in another country to keep her away from the wizard families of France.

She found the room and used the enchantment Newt had taught her to get into the old storage room. It was dark, musty and small and in every corner was an animal. She took a seat and several snidgets surrounded. There plump yellow bodies darting back and forth and one taking rest on her shoulder.

Newt would steal them from the quidditch supply room every time a new one was sent. The teams were getting mad that they couldn't play properly but Newt didn't care. The birds were endangered and using them like a thing to be caught for sport was wrong.

Opening her hand to let on sit into it she stroked its wings until she fell asleep.

Newt made it back to the school grounds with just minutes to spare. Kicking off the dirt and tree needles he ran to his next class. He kept to himself and did his work the worry that a teacher or staff member would call him to the headmaster's office any minute.

His next class his nerves were better, if he had been caught, they would have called him by now but when he got into potions and didn't see Leta coming in with the rest of the Slytherins he was worried. Had she gotten in another fight? Had someone sent a jinx her way and she was at the nurse office? He chewed on his lips rolling the quill between his fingers building up the courage to lean over to one of the other Slytherin students and ask.

"Do you know where Leta is?" He asked once there was a break in the lecture. The student gave him a look of surprise.

"No, she wasn't in our last class." Newt sat back in his chair; something must have happened. When the class was dismissed, he head to the nurse office, but she wasn't there then he ran into another Slytherin girl and asked if she could see if Leta was in her room. The girl seemed annoyed and he waited fifteen minutes before he realized she wasn't come back out to tell him. Finally, he asked the portrait if Leta had come through and the man shook his head no.

Becoming more nervous he went to the owlery, but she wasn't there and then he tried the library. She had skipped two classes there were only so many places she could hid. Stopping in his tracks he remembered showing her where he hid all the sindgle's he stole. It had been a big secret of his that he did this, but he trusted Leta in keeping it and keeping them safe.

Running back down towards the dungeons past the Slytherin common rooms he came to the tucked away door. Using the spell, he entered the dark room.

"Langlock!" He dove to the ground as Leta's jinx hit the door behind him.

"Leta it's me!"

"I know it's you."

"Why are you trying to jinx's me?" He moved to get up as the birds darted wild and fast between the too of them.

"Because you embarrassed me today. Completely abandoning me like that, Meredith saw. So just get out of here, if you don't want to hang out with me, I don't want to hang out with you." Newt's face twisted, He liked hanging out with Leta she was one of his closes friend.

"I didn't hang out with you because don't want to I had something to take care of."

"What?"

"I well…"

"You won't even tell me. I thought we were friends."

"We are! It just it required me to break a big rule." She turned to him eyes big with intrigue.

"What rule?"

Chewing on his inner cheek he sat up. "I had to go into the forbidden forest."

"What? Newt the forbidden forest is…is well your not suppose to go in there, you could be expelled."

"I know but I had to go. A few days ago a couple of fifth years had cornered a javery, they were casting jinxs and trying to stun in. Javery's are bigger then ferrets but still a stunning spell is enough to kill it. I tried to stop them, but they kept me back and the one of them hit it with an inferno curse. The poor thing just lit on fire I was able to put it out, but it ran into the forest. I went after it and found it just lying there very badly injured. I didn't want to risk moving him and damaging his skin anymore the it already was so I casted several notice me not charms. I've been caring for him since."

"Wait you've been going into the forest regularly?"

"Yea."

"But this is the first day you went during break."

"Professor Dumbledore caught me two nights ago, I passed it off that I was going to the kitchen, but he's been watching me since. I needed to go today, restock his food and reapply the cream."

"Why didn't you take me I could have helped." She took the seat next to him one of the snidgets came zooming past hitting her in her face. They both busted out laughing the snidget shacking it off and flying high above them.

"Leta I'm already taking a risk going out there if were both caught that's it, no questions asked. What would your father say if you got expelled?"

"It doesn't matter what he'd say. You've been going this long without being caught please take me with you next time, I don't like being left in this place by myself."

"I don't need to go for another day or two."

"Well the next time you do go I want to go too, Please?"

"Okay, we'll go Saturday when most of the schools at Hogsmeade."

*** So the whole sniget being used as the first golden snich actually ended much earlier before Newt was born but I liked the idea that if it hadn't he would steal them and keep them safe somewhere in the castle. I was inspired the other day to write the scene of Newt being expelled, this will probably be a short series but let me know what you thing, also check out my tumblr sskinner155 and Youtube channel IDK What I'm Doing***