Those Days [Newtina]

Chapter 19: Levicorpus

Water churned all around him as Newt fell into the Kelpie's enclosure. It tumbled him over and over underwater like a piece of cloth in a washing machine.

He shook his head and looked around for Tina.

She had somehow managed to turn herself upside down and gave him an apologetic look, her dark hair hovering around her like a veil.

Newt burst out laughing underwater and offered a smile in return, his own fringe floating in front of his eyes.He turned and kicked to the surface.

Newt greedily gulped down air for a few moments and blinked several times, trying to clear his eyesight.

"Tina?" He gasped, treading water.

He looked around frantically, searching for her. She emerged behind him a second later, sputtering and coughing.

"Tina!"

They swam there for a moment, trying to recover. He jerked his head to the side, flicking all the water off and plastering his sopping wet hair across half his face.

Newt broke into a grin. So did Tina.

Right before she splashed him with a wave of water.

Newt flinched, but the water hit him regardless. Tina laughed at him wiping his face, then shrieked as he splashed her back.

"Oi!" She screeched as he flicked more water at her.

"Cheater! That was twice in a row!" She called, swimming for the edge of the platform.

Newt splashed her again just for the sake of it. Tina scowled and carefully climbed onto the wooden deck before offering him her hand. Newt grabbed it and scrambled up next to her just as she dropped his hand and smiled slyly.

Before he could thank her, Tina brought her hands up to his shoulders and pushed Newt back into the lake, watching him shriek and flail like a salmon as the water swallowed him once again.

"Alright! Fair enough!" Newt called once he'd resurfaced again.

Tina beamed as he gingerly stepped onto the platform.

"Where is that tiny thief?" Mumbled Newt, searching for the Niffler.

"Found him," said Tina, spying the baby hiding behind a barrel and picking him up.

She stroked him before handing him to Newt, who, to her surprise, walked over placed him straight into the Niffler burrow without looking for her necklace.

"Why-"

Tina stopped talking as Newt pulled her necklace out of his vest pocket and dangled it in between them. She reached for it, her hand closing around the pendant. He released the chain and gave her a lopsided grin.

"How did you manage to get that so easily?"

Newt ran a hand through his drenched hair, exasperated.

"I've had an awful lot of practice," he replied, pulling out his wand.

"And if you push me into the water again, I'm going to drag you in too," he said cheekily, casting a charm to dry them both.

Still beaming, Tina collected her things and climbed up the ladder again, Newt at her side.

They found Jacob leaning against the door to his room, arms crossed.

"Well? How did it go?"

Newt and Tina looked at each other for a moment that was one guilty second over innocent.

"I heard splashing," tried Jacob, who was now incredibly curious.

The Niffler stole my necklace," piped up Tina eventually.

"And we got wet," she added.

"Technically, that was your fault," Newt chimed in, giving her an incredulous look.

Tina smacked him on the shoulder.

"Quiet, Newton," she muttered.

"Nose down, Porpentina," he countered, simpering.

They scowled at each other then dissolved into grins.

"Okay," announced Jacob, turning from the doorway.

Newt shooed Tina out of hissuitcase so he could get some peace and quiet, and she left the room, notebookand quill in her arm, smirking over her shoulder at him.

Have a beautiful floofy chapter <33

I know I changed Newt's personality a bit >~< I'm sowwy, please don't come after me with your wands and butter knives lol. He'll go back to being perfect, oblivious-to-his-own-feelings-"Why-would-Bunty-ask-me-to-take-off-my-shirt-I-don't-understand"-adorable-beautiful-I-could-go-on-but-I-think-I'd-destroy-the-hyphen-key Newt. That was my most favourite sentence ever.

This chapter is called 'Levicorpus', because it's a spell used to dangle something in the air by it's ankle. In the story, Tina had "...somehow managed to turn herself upside down and gave him an apologetic look...", so I thought it fit... and I'm running out of spells XD TwT

Vote, comment and- hey guys, are you doing anything special for Newt's birthday?

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