Expresso Tina

Katherine,Doona and Everything I Like

[shikshiin]

My space is a mixture of your space and your time.

I miss them.

[silvertonedwords]

Anything to do with Dougal being invisible 😍😍 She took a real shine to the thought of him being invisible on the rooftop scene I thought 🥰 I also personally think that’s when she felt herself falling for Newt so 🤗

Thank you for this one! Yes, I completely agree, I’m not sure how emotionally conscious that moment was, but it feels like one of the first times (other than in the heat of escape from MACUSA) that they’re very, very physically aware of each other’s presence.

“He’s always liked you, you know.”

“Dougal?” Tina asks, sinking onto the bench beside Newt.

Dougal chirps at them, wandering off into the case, and Tina takes up the task of bottling herbs alongside Newt, using her wand to send labels scrawling across the glass jars.

“Well it was certainly an interesting first meeting.”

Newt chuckles as he passes her cork stoppers. “Do you still think it’s an odd name, then?”

“Hey, I never said it was odd.”

Newt hums in mild disagreement as he sets the dried leaves to shredding themselves above the newly labeled jars.

“Just…I was meeting all these creatures I’d only ever read about in stories and then to find out you’d given them these…wonderful, ordinary names like Dougal and Alistair…”

“It’s a good name!”

“It’s perfect,” she agrees, dropping a kiss to his cheek as she stands to carry the first of the completed herbs to their places on Newt’s shelving.

Newt stares at his wife as she makes her way back to the table, not bothering to fight his grin as he thinks back to that exhilarating moment on the roof when she’d announced that they needed to find all of his creatures and prove MACUSA wrong.

“What?” she asks when she spots his gaze.

“That was—there wasn’t just one, of course, but that moment on the roof. When you’d changed your mind about the creatures, and we’d just escaped and we laughed together, and I looked at you and—“

Tina drops back onto the bench and settles a hand on his chest, her fingers tangling gently in his open shirt collar, her eyes searching out his.

“—That was when I started to fall for you.”

She nudges him closer with that grasping hand, pressing their lips together, their breath mingling until he pulls back with a sigh.

“And you know I like it when you’re all…determined and passionate and figuring out what to do.”

Tina chuckles as she strokes the bare skin where shirt meets his neck with a gentle thumb. She lifts her other hand to lightly touch beside his mouth, her fingertips gliding along his jaw. “Did you realize how close we were standing?”

“Now?” he asks distractedly, squeezing her waist where his hands have come to rest as though to convey his confusion.

“No,” she laughs. “On the roof.”

“Oh.” He smiles. “Merlin, Tina, I think every second of it is burned into my memory.”

She kisses his brow, pulling back to watch him tangle their hands together on his chest, his thumb sweeping back and forth across her hand.

“You didn’t realize?”

His incredulity makes her grin. “I definitely did. My arms suddenly felt even longer and more awkward than before, and I started to wonder why my heart was beating faster. But then I took a step closer without even realizing it and…”

“I definitely remember that.”

“Do you?” she teases, turning her hand as he begins to run his fingertips over her palm. “I thought for a second it would terrify me, or feel wrong or somethin’. And it didn’t.”

Newt skims his fingers across her inner wrist. “I had the strongest urge to…be close to you. Touch you? Do something. I’m always aware of where other people are, and you must be as an auror, but that was…a very, very different kind of aware.”

Tina hums in agreement. “Newt, how does Dougal’s ability work? Do you think he saw…this?”

“Something like it, I think. A possibility.” Newt brings her hand to his lips, pressing a soft kiss there. “Is that strange?”

She threads her hand into his hair, smiling when he leans into the touch. “Comforting. That we coulda got here in different ways.”

“It is, isn’t it?” Newt runs his hand up and down Tina’s forearm, delighting in the way she shiver at the touch.

“Is that why Dougal liked me?”

“I don’t think it’s so simple. Or maybe it’s simpler. Tina, he liked you because he saw you and you’re somebody to like. Love. And I saw you and thought the same.”

“Okay,” she whispers, pressing her forehead into his. “Good tears,” she adds, because he worries sometimes, even when he’s just said something so exceptionally beautiful.

“Okay,” he whispers back.

She touches his ear, his jaw, his neck, settling against his skin beneath his collar. “I liked you too, y’know. A lot.”

“Did you?” She feels his smile against her touch and hears it in his voice. “Well, that’s reassuring.”

“You’re impossible,” she says without a trace of bite.

“Good thing you married me then.”

“Very, very good,” she agrees.

They kiss again, this time with their hands tangled up and their bodies pressed nearly as close as their lips. Tina hums happily as Newt shifts to skim his lips along her cheekbone.

They both startle at the sound of metal clattering to the ground. They turn to find an empty tin rolling where it had fallen, its path halted after a couple of feet at an invisible stopping point.

Tina grins. “Dougal?”

The demiguise reappears, looking only slightly sheepish. Newt raises his eyebrows. “You knew you’d knock that over if you came back in here, didn’t you.”

Dougal paces over to them, shaking off his fur.

Tina laughs, squeezing Newt’s hand before resuming her seat on the bench rather than halfway into Newt’s lap. She clears her throat and gestures to the half-finished herbs. “Shall we?”

“I s’pose so.”

She smiles to find him a still dazed and turns to kiss his temple.

Then she reaches for his hand, anchoring them both as they settle back to work.

[hokorii]

Just brining this one back for a hot second since this alternate version was sitting in my drafts. 

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[shikshiin]

Suddenly missing NewTina

Wtffff 🥹🥹🥹

[bartagnanz-deactivated20231202]

netflix: fantastic beasts edition

[shipping-is-life-forreal]

I miss them.

[shipping-is-life-forreal]

She’s goofy and she’s classy…. Perfect women….

[shikshiin]

Help theyre so hot

[shipping-is-life-forreal]

ADA’s and their problems:

They don’t wanna look like idiots

[shipping-is-life-forreal]

I will ship them till the day I die….

[quinnfebrey]

9x03 ‘impulsive’ | 19x19 ‘sunk cost fallacy’

[alexcabotgifs]

[shikshiin]

If this were any other people (cough* “i guess i suck” incident) Casey would chew tf out of them.

[storiesofsvu]

Calex Couple’s HC’s

Casey Novak x Alex Cabot

Gives nose/forehead kisses Casey, without a doubt. She purposely does it when Alex is frustrated, her brow furrowed and annoyed, Casey likes to kiss away the frustration, it helps bring Alex back to earth, remind her to think straight.

Gets jealous the most Alex. Casey gets hit on a lot, I mean, just look at her. Alex knows she’ll never do anything, but it annoys her and she’s very quick to remind Casey who she belongs to….and why…

Picks the other up from the bar when they’re too drunk

Alex. It’s usually after a department baseball game where Casey’s been out in the sun all afternoon and they go out for beers after, Alex is called soon after to come get her girl before she passes out at the table.

Takes care of on sick days

Casey. Alex usually refuses to get sick, or admit it, she’ll power through (or at least try to) but Casey’s the one who insists she stays home, wraps her up in blankets and feeds her small spoonfuls of chicken noodle soup.

Drags the other person into the water on a beach day

Casey, without a doubt, she’s out there swimming splashing and surfing. Alex refuses to get her hair wet and just wants to lie under the umbrella and enjoy the warmth but Casey won’t have any of that (also LBR, Casey ends up with a horrific sunburn that Alex will gently rub aloe Vera on, but chastises her on her lack of sunscreen use, insisting that she wears it from now on, esp on her face)

Gives unprompted massages

Alex. Though it’s secretly her way of inspiring Casey to return the favour cause her neck is also a damn mess.

Who drives? Who rides shotgun?

Casey. In my brain Alex doesn’t drive (canologically we never see her behind the wheel I’m 99% sure and we do see Casey once driving lol). Alex grew up in the city (maybe not Upper East Side, but she may as well have) there was always a car service, and she’s not against taking the subway. Thus, she either never bothered to get her license, or simply doesn’t like driving, leaving Casey to take the wheel on the longer road trips.

Brings the other lunch at work

Neither of them, but they do pop up into each other’s offices with the idea of getting out for lunch, taking a break from the paperwork and trial prep.

Has the better parental relationship

Casey. I think she’s got a better family history in general, whereas Alex’s parents kinda always see her as a child? Like, they obvi still love her, respect her and they all get along, but they’re…distant? Cold? This made better sense in my head LOL.

Tries to start roleplaying in the bedroom

Casey. The girls both switch, though Alex is normally the dom/top/whatever you want to call it. But Casey’s the one who wants to bring in more playful stuff for sure.

Embarrassingly drunk dancer

Okay my mind went STRAIGHT to Diane’s ep of 30 Rock so it’s definitely Casey. Also Alex is graceful as fuck

Still cries watching titanic

Alex. It’s one of her favourite movies, Casey only suffers through it for Alex’s enjoyment, she’s not the romantic movie type.

Firmly believes in couples costumes

Casey. Alex isn’t one for costumes, or for halloween at all, but she’ll do it as long as Casey looks adorable (spoiler alert…she always does…)

Breaks the expensive gift rule during Christmas

Alex. It annoys Casey to all hell, esp the first couple of years, but she learns to accept it eventually, it’s one of the ways Alex can show how much she loves her, so Casey lets it slide.

Makes the other eat breakfast

Casey. Alex isn’t much of an eater in the morning, so Casey usually makes her an extra smoothie, and stashes a granola bar into her bag for when she hits mid morning and realizes she’s fucking starving.

Remembers anniversary

Both of them. They alternate between planning them, and the first couple of years they surprise each other by planning something the other enjoys more. Alex ends up taking Casey out for a baseball game with box seats and unlimited popcorn and beer. Casey surprises Alex with a night out on Broadway followed by drinks at a rooftop lounge.

Brings up having kids

Alex. She doesn’t really want them, it’s not a deal breaker per-say, but she’d rather commit to work and be able to travel/pursue things without having the tie down of having a child. Casey’s relieved as fuck when it does come up cause she’s awkward as fuck around kids (I mean, seriously…just watch the show lol) and she really doesn’t know how she’d deal with raising a teenager without her eyes ending up permanently stuck at the back of her head from rolling them so much, so they very peacefully agree on no kids and joke about how glad they are they can’t end up with a whoopsie. ___________ @littlelemonkey @charabs @vivis-ghost-wife @thatesqcrush @natasha-danvers @altsvu @gay-ass-bitch @svushots @wannabe-fic-reader @oliviaswifey

[shikshiin]

I might be a decade late but damn, svu s13 was something else,especially the last episode and opening for s14.

Amaro became Stabler (no offense, and dont hate them) real fast. The whole setting up plot was amazing, i dont know how i feel about how the episode ended but it was alright. Kinda hard to believe that with all thats happened to the squad my fave ADAs (Yes, you Novak and Cabot 🥲) were no shows. It made me think of whats gonna be different if they were there. Especially my fiery red headed attorney 🥲

Looking forward to s14. Still missing Casey of course.

[daenerys-targaryen]

let’s talk about the early stages of hyperfixation where you can literally feel your brain getting doses of serotonin because of a show or a movie or a person or a character and mentally you’re like ‘ooooh no’ but it’s like a blackhole you can’t run or escape from so you just gotta ride it out knowing full well the next few months maybe even years are going to be spent mindlessly obsessing over this thing

[shikshiin]

Me about

[storiesofsvu]

Confirmed by Ms Neal herself…. Novak & Borin were both bi. #happypride

[shikshiin]

Ah,well fck ❤️

[justiiceserved]

casey novak + lip biting

[shikshiin]

I need to fckin sleep

[dailycaseynovak]

[shikshiin]

Shes making me feel things ….

[caseynovakislove]

Can you make gifs of Alex Cabot and Casey Novak asking if Olivia is gonna arrest them?

Hi, yes! The Casey one's from my archive and the Alex one I just made rn :)