Soulmate AUs Day Nine
Prompt: the red string attached to your finger leads to your soulmate
Optional prompts:
1. (word) Wave
Revenge
Newt wasn't entirely certain how it had happened, but somehow, he'd ended up trapped in Nurmengard, and in cell with him was whom Newt presumed to be the real Percival Graves. It was, to be fair to the situation, a very pressing matter. But, there was something more pressing, more urgent than even that. Newt stared as the red thread he'd spent his life trying to unravel unspooled before him. At its other end; Percival Graves.
"Huh," Graves said, his gaze also focused on their soulthread. "Not exactly what I was expecting, upon becoming Grindelwald's prisoner."
Newt blinked. "What exactly were you expecting?"
Graves sighed. "I can see you're one of those sorts, then."
"What sort?"
"Literal," Graves said dryly. "Or perhaps just literally mad."
Newt winced, and shuffled awkwardly. "Yes, that sounds about right."
Graves chuckled, and pushed himself to his feet. As he grew closer, their thread shortened, until he'd taken Newt's soulhand in his own, despite the chain around his wrists. He brushed his lips over the wrap of thread around Newt's fourth finger.
"Now, my little soulmate, I'll first have your name, and then perhaps your plan to get us out of here, if you have one."
Newt blushed. "Newt Scamander," he stuttered. "And, uh…"
Pickett peered out of his pocket, and swayed gently at Graves in greeting.
"If you wave back, he might be willing to undo those manacles. It's how bowtruckles greet each other," Newt explained.
Graves, very solemnly, waved at Pickett. With a chirrup, Pickett scrambled forward, onto Graves' offered wrists, and moments later, the chains came undone.
Graves stretched, his eyes flashing with delight. "Now that feels better." A spark of magic ran along his palms, and Newt realised why Grindelwald had chained Graves' wrists together even while he was locked in a cell: Graves could use wandless magic.
"And now," Graves said, glee evident in his tone and in the twinkling of his eyes. "It's time for a little revenge."
