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D.D Ryohei S Court725 Kaylala : I'm glad you guys enjoyed his POV. It continues for a little more down below then I switch back to hers for some parallels. Hope you enjoy it, guys!
Demona Everknight/ AFangirlLife: Something like that C:
Guest 1: Theres now two of you and I'm not sure if you're the same but! I think you'll know this is for you if you're not the same. I enjoyed fulfilling your idea! Sometimes a reader will suggest something and it just doesn't flow with the story and other times it works perfectly.
As for the scatterbrained bits we see in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, I'm thinking of Ara not being entirely in the picture either before or for the Events in New York, coming around a little later. I won't give anything else away because I'm still thinking things up but it may happen!
Guest 2: That time would be right about now. As for a schedule, I don't have one that I could stick with religiously.
I swallowed with an inkling of fear resting in my bones. She was going to give us up, she didn't care for me like I'd thought she had. She didn't care at all. This was a terrible idea, I shouldn't have come here. What was I thinking?
I turned away, finally had my share of torment it seemed. I heard nothing else, I didn't want too. I bent lower to pick up the Niffler who seemed quite irritated with my doing so, trying to nip my fingers viciously. I frowned at him with frustration, how could he not understand what she was doing?
"Stupefy." It was a whisper that forced me to pop back up in a hurry for some odd reason. I watched as little fingers began to search this Mikey's belt loops and pockets with fury through the bars. What was this?
I watched a moment longer as she seemed to find whatever she'd been looking for and slowly unlocked the cage she was sitting in. She...hadn't betrayed me. My mouth didn't seemed to want to work as she couldn't get the door open despite it being unlocked and began to kick it. The man's stunned body had kept her door forced closed. Relief flooded through me, she wasn't going to use me as leverage for herself.
I moved from the trees quickly, allowing the Niffler to run freely to her. She jumped at the sight of me, looking panicked for a good 30 seconds until it seemed to registered who I was. I wondered if she would always have this immediate panic when she saw me or if maybe I needed to announce myself more. She'd obviously seen some kind of war and it'd left it's mark on her.
"Hey. Hey buddy. Can you do me a favour?" She immediately leaned down to the Niffler's level on the ground as she whispered to him.
"Lovely, can you find my wand and my purse? But be very quiet. Okay?" She seemed happy, happier than I was honestly expecting. I'd been expecting her to be angry with us, angry that we'd left her for this long.
It'd all happened so fast at dusk today, I'd only realised she was in trouble when I'd heard her whispering then everything snapped into motion. I had to get the Graphorn to safety and she'd paid the price. These men came out of no where and it felt as though there were a lot more than three at the time. I stunned them the best I could but she'd been snatched by the time I looked back for her.
"I-I'm sorry." I whispered to her as my body finally found it's speed. I began to move this man's stunned body out of the way, to give her her freedom. I gave her my hand in some attempt to touch her and know she was okay but she'd elected to get out on her own with a unabashed smile. Inexplicably, I felt a little upset that she hadn't taken my hand but I let it go in order to inspect her person for damages. Outside of her blisters getting dirty, she seemed unharmed. A positive for today.
"You have no idea how happy I am to see you and the little shit." She laughed breathlessly, still shaking. She seemed to not notice how much she was shaking but it was one of the only things I could notice. I had to do something about it. Without entirely thinking it through, I took off the scarf I'd worn and put it around her neck rather roughly. I felt I was still too awkward to be considered sociable in her area of the world.
"Oh..." She fingered it slowly, taking in the pieces of twig's I'd apparently gathered on my way here. I felt my lips go into a thin line again as I waited for a response, the blood seemed to be rushing in my cheeks more than usual in this cold. Had I been too forwards? Was I bothering her?
"You..um. You seemed to be cold." I finished lamely feeling like I had to explain myself as I looked away from her quickly.
"Right! Thanks." She smiled shyly this time and quickly turned to start looking around us. It dawned on me that we were currently in the middle of a mine field with one of their's already down. Idiot, focus on whats going on around you. This is how you got her into this in the first place.
I peered down at the Niffler who seemed proud to show her his ability to pull oddly shaped objects out of it's pouch with glee. He pulled out a dark wand but it was too long to be hers. Then another that was simply too light, it wasn't the larch wood I knew hers to be. Finally he pulled hers out and held it up to her, he'd known which was hers and which wasn't?
This little creature knew more about her than I'd given him credit for originally. I found myself a little annoyed by that and elected to brush it off to pay attention to what she was doing at the moment. She'd bent down in front of me, picking both the Niffler and all the wands up and slinging the purse over her shoulder while whispering praise to him. I heard a murmur coming from the men in their bags and a twitch out of the stunned man who seemed very much aware as to what she was doing.
I glared at him, and sighed hoping we wouldn't be too much longer simply because I didn't fancy another duel. I was more of the evade and escape type rather than Ara's preferred version of attack and destroy.
She caught onto the stirrings of the others and seemed to snap into motion, cradling the Niffler to her chest I watched as she grabbed my hand and pulled me quickly. Zips of electricity flooded my arm and heated my cheeks again but I didn't elect to pull away from her. I wasn't all that sure if I even could force myself too, though I felt like she didn't really mean anything by it. I kept finding myself overthinking these things with her around and I wasn't sure as to why. I wasn't sure of a lot of things anymore.
"Alright, so we have their wands but I have a feeling they'll know about that soon." She was pacing in our room, back and forth and back and forth. I was leaning against the wall closest to her bed, unsure if she'd be fine with me sitting on it like the Niffler was so comfortable doing.
"Do you think they'll know where we are? I mean these are American's, they've probably got muggle firearms or-or something." She seemed quite flustered as she spoke to me. I wasn't even sure if she wanted a response or if she was merely bouncing ideas off of me like she seemed to enjoy doing so far. I nodded just in case, still quiet.
"W-we should go look for the other Graphorn and get the hell out of here." She stopped pacing suddenly which made my scarf swing on her torso as she her hands on her looked between the Niffler and myself for some response I'd imagined. I looked up from the scarf to her eyes for a second, remembering just why she was waiting on me for an answer.
"That sounds like a good idea." I replied frankly, and began to feel a touch nervous just staring into her brown eyes for more than a minute. They reminded me of a doe's in some ways with the depth to them.
ARA P.O.V FROM AFTER THEY RETURN FROM CAMP.
I was nervously pacing. I couldn't stop. This was just a little terrifying and I'm pretty sure I was scaring Newt because he kept focusing on the scarf around my neck while he kept to a corner.
"Alright, so we have their wands but I have a feeling they'll know about that soon." I tried making conversation with the creature and man that were watching me but neither spoke. So I tried again.
"Do you think they'll know where we are? I mean these are American's, they've probably got muggle firearms or-or something." I huffed, glancing at Newt again. He nodded this time, okay so he was listening. At least I had that going for me?
"W-we should go look for the other Graphorn right now and get the hell out of here after we find it." I stopped pacing so I'd stop scaring my companions and stuck my hands on my hips as I waited for a response. He wasn't looking at me however, he was watching his scarf flop around and the thought passed through my head that maybe he wanted it back? I almost felt embarrassed that I'd possibly gotten it dirty or that I hadn't realised he'd wanted it back already. I was slacking on social cues.
"That sounds like a good idea." He replied finally, looking me in the eyes for a quick second before his darted off to the side again. I sighed quietly to myself and looked at the group of wand's I'd tossed onto my cot. The Niffler was sitting on the edge, with his little flippers swinging. He seemed giddy enough, happy to hang onto me when we'd ran.
It dawned on me that I'd held Newt's hand all the way from that stupid bloody campsite. I supposed the fact that I'd held Mr Scamander's hand threw him off. He was so awkward, why did I do that? Merlin's beard, Ara, what the hell were you thinking?
I wanted to smack myself in the face really really hard but couldn't with him standing there, possibly watching as I went totally silent for a good minute. Still staring. Bloody hell. Why am I so awkward? I wasn't always this awkward. Speak, Ara. Speak for goodness sakes!
"Right." I nodded with my voice hitting a higher pitch than I meant to. He watched me for another second and suddenly moved forwards, I stood still as he came around me warily. Probably should have just taken a step back and let him go past. I think his awkwardness has rubbed off on me. I watched him go and pick up the wands, stuffing them into his jacket pocket. I watched in silence as he opened his case and disappeared into it.
Looking back at the Niffler curiously, "Should I be following him down there?" I wondered out loud to the creature. He seemed to shrug at me, he had no idea of course.
I waited a moment and heard his shoes clicking on the ladder's stairs as he came up to where we were. He was carrying a blue coat that looked similar to his own. I watched silently with not a clue as to why he was holding his own jacket's copy until he came to stand in front of me. My eyes flickered back and forth between the jacket, Newt, and the Niffler for some hint as to what to say or do right now.
Uncomfortably he outstretched the jacket towards me which should have been my body's cue to actually move and take the jacket like it seemed he wanted but...the body wasn't rolling with that today. Of course not. I stood there and stared at him still. He was a pretty good sport about my body refusing to cooperate and just pulled the coat over my shoulders roughly.
After it'd stayed he elected to say nothing whatsoever and went towards the door, opening it and walking out. I stared confusedly after him and stood there still. I felt a weight climb on top of my boot and bent down to pick up the Niffler gently.
"Coming?" Newt's head popped back into the doorway with a quiet worry in his eyes. I nodded quickly, slipping the Niffler into a breast pocket I'd found in his jacket. The same I think Pickett hung around in.