And Then I Wrote Marvel

Salamander (Part 5) (Newt Era HP!Steve/Bucky/Peggy x Reader)

Hand in hand, you and Newt ran through the basement doors, Tina right next to you. A group of aurors suddenly blocked your path, and only just in time did you duck behind cement pillars to hide from their attacks. Once again, Newt pulled his reptilian creature from his coat. It zoomed around the pillars wreaking havoc on the aurors until it was safe to proceed again.

"Leave his brains, come on! Come on!" Newt scolded the creature as it used its proboscis to probe one of the auror's ears. It took flight once again, blocking curses and taking on more aurors.

"What is that thing?" Tina asked.

"Swooping Evil," Newt provided.

"Well, I love it!" she exclaimed.

"So do I," you agreed. "It's gorgeous." The Swooping Evil crowed loudly in response.

You dashed around a corner, only to nearly run into Jacob and a blonde woman that you didn't recognize. She was holding Newt's case, and Jacob seemed fine with her, so you decided to trust her for the time being.

"Get in!" the new woman said, gesturing to the case. One by one, everyone descended into the miraculous case, the blonde closing the case after Jacob was the last in.

You all sat quietly together for a few moments, none of you talking in fear that someone outside of the case would hear you. Tina especially needed a moment to gather herself as, after all it's not every day that someone faces certain death and lives to tell the tale.

"Do you think that Queenie can get us out of here?" Newt asked Tina. You assumed that Queenie was the blonde.

"Of course she can," Jacob answered confidently.

"My sister has gotten herself out of worse scrapes than walking around with a strange suitcase," Tina agreed.

Relaxing for the first time since Tina had walked in on MACUSA, you inquired, "So this is that suitcase you always wanted to make?"

"Yes," Newt responded, enthralled. "And it just keeps getting bigger. I'll give you the full tour when we have the time."

"I'm excited to see all of your creatures, too," you said.

"I bet that they'll love you," he said, enamored. "Pickett already does."

"Pickett?"

"The bowtruckle on your shoulder there. He doesn't like many people, so I think you've got a pretty good chance with the rest of the creatures."

"How long have you two known each other?" Tina asked.

You thought back all of those years to when you had first met Newt. Neither of you knew very many people, as you were a muggle-born and he had grown up pretty isolated. You had sat next to each other in Transfiguration one day and had been inseparable until Leta stepped in.

"Since first year at Hogwarts," Newt answered. "We were best friends up until about fourth or fifth year, wouldn't you say, (Y/N)?"

"That sounds about right, yes," you agreed. "And even until we got kicked out of school together, we were still friends, even if we weren't as close."

"I would have pegged you two as a couple," Jacob said.

"A couple?" you chuckled. "No, the most romantic thing we ever did was ditching Transfiguration together on the day that we got kicked out. What made you think that?"

"The way you two act around each other reminds me a little bit of my grandparents, is all," Jacob shrugged. "I didn't mean anything by it."

"It's alright," Newt said. "We might well have been a couple if I hadn't ruined it."