Drabble idea! “What’s our exit strategy?” “Our what?” “Oh my God we’re all going to die.” Haha found it on Pinterest and laughed ♥️😂
“What’s our exit strategy?”
You blink up at Newt. “Our what?”
He stares at you a moment, silent, before raising hiseyebrows and peering back over the stone statue’s base. “Our exit strategy. Youknow, the way we escape Theseus before he slaughters me.”
You press your lips together, looking everywhere but at Newt,your best friend, who is currently crouched beside you, fingers curled over theedge of the base of the statue the two of you ducked behind after charming afew pastries. They really weren’t supposed to actually smash themselves intoTheseus’s hair, honest. You’d just meant for them to pester him, follow himthrough the Hogwarts’ halls. Unfortunately, something had clearly gone wrong,and now Theseus wants to kill the both of you. Probably.
“Oh god,” Newt says, voice comically low, hardly even audiblethough he sits a mere inch or two away from you, “we’re going to die.”
You send an elbow into his gut, scowling, but don’t say athing as Theseus stalks past. You wait until his footsteps have faded beforedeigning him with a response. “We aren’t going to die. Have a little more faithin me than that, please.”
Newt doesn’t look away from the hallway. “Sorry, but Ithought you had no plan.”
“Newt,” you say, rolling onto the balls of your feet as youhear the familiar tap of Theseus’s shoes returning from where he’d disappeared,“I don’t. Not for the both of us.”
“What are you—“The answer to his unfinished question dawns on him a moment too late.
“Sorry, Newt. Good luck!” And, with a shove, you push himout into the hall, right at the feet of his furious brother. With a final, half-apologetic,half-wicked grin over you shoulder, you disappear around the corner, knowingfull well that you now have both Scamander brothers to avoid, but notregretting a single moment of it.