This is what happens when I decide to rewatch Sherlock lol
SherlockAU of Fantastic Beasts
Newt, of course, as Sherlock Holmes who specializes in animal cases (i.e. poachers, exotic pets, etc).
Theseus as Mycroft Homes. The brother with a high position in the British government, who worries about his brother constantly
Gellert is Moriarty. The genius who watches Newt’s every move and has a vast web of followers all over the world.
Jacob is John, Newt’s loyal best friend who teaches Newt how people interact. (His wife, Queenie ((Mary)) used to work for Gellert but thats behind her)
Percival Graves is Lestrade (Or maybe Tina?)
I don’t know how Albus fits into all this. He does, of course, I just don’t know how.
Maybe Jacob, after serving in the war, returned to the U.S. but couldn’t settle and went to London for something new. There he met Newt, and by extent everyone else.
((Seriously, any ideas on how Albus is in this AU?))
For @silverynight - Merry Christmas, sweetie! <3 I hope I did them justice, it’s my first time writing anything for Fantastic Beasts.
Five times when Gellert, Theseus, Albus, and Percival show just how besotted they are with the British magizoologist, no matter who the audience is, and once where Newt demonstrates his love for them.
1. Theseus
Newt comes to visit him at his office in the Ministry of Magic on the rare occasion he is in the area. It's been weeks too long since Newt has even set foot in England and Theseus has missed him dearly. Some of the Aurors under his jurisdiction are milling around, filing papers, finishing reports, and discussing active cases.
The opening door disrupts the calm din of the working area and in stumbles none other than his younger brother. Instantly, Theseus is up on his feet, strides over with a sense of urgency, and is hurriedly peppering kisses all over Newt’s charming youthful face, at which he giggles at the ticklish feeling. The other employees of the Ministry attempt to not stare at their boss showering affection on the shorter male. One of the new female Aurors squeaks when the elder Scamander lands a solid one right on Newt’s lips, but is immediately hushed by the others, who remind her that this kind of relationship is common amongst purebloods.
Theseus has no shame and drapes himself all over his curly-haired boyfriend, a content smile sweeping lazily across his features. “I’ve missed you so, so much, Artemis.”
Newt flushes underneath the other’s intense ogling and ducks his gaze out of pure habit. Regardless, his face shows nothing but happiness, his freckles seemingly dancing across his cheeks as his lips curl upwards.
2. Albus
Albus is mid-sentence, teaching a class when a knock on the wooden door reverberates throughout the room. He pauses his lecture, scratching his bearded chin, silently questioning who would interrupt him during class time as he walks over to greet whomever is standing outside. All the students, dressed in the Hogwarts’ robes with their respective house badges emblazoned on their left side, turn to peer at what their professor is doing, necks craning in an effort to see.
“Hullo, Professor Dumbledore.” The male’s tenor voice is soft, but it carries through the space. “I know I’m probably, um, interrupting your lecture, aren’t I? Terribly sorry for that…”
Beyond Dumbledore’s tall and muscular form, the teenagers aren’t able to see much of the mysterious man, but some of them catch glimpses of a mop of curly, reddish hair, a peacock blue peacoat, and a raggedy tan suitcase.
“Ah, Newt!” The sharper students swear their teacher’s eyes shine brighter (had they actually had line of sight of his face) at the other man’s presence. They can taste the sweetness and fondness imbued in the utterance of the younger’s name. He waves off the redhead's concerns and continues, “No trouble whatsoever, Newt. I always have time for you, love.”
That's when the whispering starts when they hear the term of endearment:
Professor Dumbledore has a significant other?
What kind of name is ‘Newt?’
… I would've thought he preferred the fairer sex…
“Oh, well, I could always come back in a bit, you know, once you're done.” Newt stammers out, flushing as if he knows the entire fourth year of Gryffindors and Ravenclaws are staring at him, and maybe he can tell.
“No, no, no, come in, take a seat, the class is almost finished anyway.”
“Well, if you- if you don’t mind then.”
A tall, lanky male with a boyishly charming face is ushered through the entrance and onto a Conjured plush armchair in the back. The adolescents rush to return to normal behaviour and positions, trying to not be obvious that they were eavesdropping on their professor’s conversation, but when Dumbledore’s eyes twinkle furiously, they know they’ve been caught red-handed. Some of their ears are glowing like Muggle Christmas lights at the tips.
The class continues as if nothing has happened, but the wizard lecturing seems to be standing straighter and speaking in a more grandiose manner, like he wants to impress someone. To his credit, there are no further interruptions from the younger blue-eyed man sitting behind the rows of students, a pleasant, albeit lazy, smile gracing his features, but the children themselves cannot stop gossiping. Dumbledore doesn't have it in his heart to dissuade their curiosity, especially in front of his beloved, who holds such a trait above most people. There is the faint buzzing of secrets being traded between individuals and most can't help but glance back to the curly-haired man.
The bell chimes, echoing throughout the school, indicating that it is time to change classes. Newt rises from his seat and approaches the front of the room, stopping in front of the teacher's desk. A couple of students linger as long as possible, but they can feel weak compelling magic being cast, forcing them to leave. Before the doors shut completely, a small group see Albus pulling on the lapels of the vibrant blue coat and sliding his lips over the full ones of the other man, who reciprocates wholeheartedly.
“It really has been too long, since you've visited, Newt.” Even beyond the wooden slabs as barriers, light laughter can be heard down the hallways.
3. Gellert
Gellert has just finished occupying their new hideout in Paris, after excusing the Muggle family from their property (alive and well, thankfully, if Newt were around to say anything). He writes a concise and anonymous note with directions to here, sending it out with a nondescript owl to the magizoologist. His closest associates stare inquisitively at his actions, but don't dare ask. He is not known for using such mundane channels of communication.
Only a couple of hours have passed and to Grindelwald's surprise, there is a familiar pattern of knocking at the house's doors. It's a code that is exclusively shared between Newt and himself. The sound is hushed, just barely enough for the Dark Lord to hear, but the house is utterly silent, so it travels to the ears of his subordinates as well. Vinda appears near the front entrance; however, before she is able to check who is there, her Lord has already invited the person in. To her surprise, it's none other than Newt Scamander because she recognizes the man's face as the one that had been plastered all over the newspapers across North America and Europe.
“My Lord?” Her eyes are wide in disbelief. Grindelwald casually dismisses her with a glance, but she is rooted in her spot. He may have just rolled his eyes.
“Vinda, meet Newt, my beau if you must know.” His mismatched eyes narrow at her, challenging her to voice any undue thoughts she was harbouring. The magizoologist can't help but redden at his words; he can't get used to whenever any of his boyfriends publicly claim him as theirs. Without further ado, he leans down, tenderly cupping the other's heavily freckled cheek, and passionately kisses him. Newt doesn't fight, doesn't try to bite off the platinum blonde's wicked tongue, but instead kisses back.
The French woman cannot excuse herself fast enough.
4. Percival
Percival is in the middle of working a particularly tough case, dealing with some vile witch who enjoys torturing rich, obnoxious No-Maj men and then stringing their bodies up in public places. He can feel a migraine coming on as he analyzes the details presented in the papers strewed across his desk. A memo paper scurries across the oak surface in the form of an origami mouse and he plucks it up to read. The handwriting belongs to MACUSA’s President, Seraphina Picquery, who has requested a meeting for updates on the current investigation with whomever is assigned to it. The team consists of Percival himself, the older Goldstein sister, and another Senior Auror, Fontaine. So as he makes his way to Madam Picquery’s office, Graves takes a short detour to the area where the rest of his department is located to grab the other two.
The Director barges through doors, shocking the workers bustling and chatting around the department space. To his own surprise, he sees a very familiar visage attached to a lean body situated on the couch next to Tina’s desk. Percival needs a moment to compose himself and school his face back to neutral; he doesn’t remember Newt mentioning in any of their correspondences that he would be visiting New York any time soon.
“Mr. Scamander, I didn’t know you were in town.” Graves drawls, a dark eyebrow hinging upwards. The magizoologist shoots up from his seat, clearly not expecting the appearance of his dark-haired lover.
“Oh, um, Mr. G-Graves!” Newt exclaims in a higher pitched voice than his regular tone. It’s obvious the other man is nervous for a reason he cannot fathom. He dismisses the thought because he is required at Picquery’s immediately.
“Goldstein, Fontaine, come. We’ve been summoned.”
“Oh, Mr. Graves, sir, Newt was just here to-” Tina begins, but Percival cuts her off with a glare. The brunette flounders a bit before hurrying to gather her notes about the case and follow after him. “Sorry, Newt, do you mind just waiting here for a bit? I’m sure the meeting won’t take too long.”
They only have Picquery’s attention for a few scant minutes because she is an extremely busy woman, but it’s a series of high profile incidents and she needs to make a strong public presence known. Just as the President is excusing them, she begins speaking again, “Oh, and Percival. I forgot to mention that MACUSA has just extended an offer to Newt Scamander for a consulting position here.”
Percival almost whips around to stare at her declaration, instead he turns around slowly because he is known for nothing if not his complete self-control, “I’m sorry, what?”
“Mr. Scamander will be joining you and your team on all cases involving magical beasts in any form. I expect you to make him feel welcomed, am I understood? We require not only his expertise on this subject matter, but it will also alleviate some of the political tension between England and America, following last year’s fiasco with Grindelwald.” Picquery’s tone is stern and leaves no room for arguments, not that Percival really has any complaints about seeing the British man more.
“Understood, Madam Picquery.” He gives her a brief nod and leaves with his subordinates.
When he arrives at Tina and Fontaine’s office space, he marched straight for the curly-haired male, who is awkwardly waiting around, fidgeting with his case. Percival quickly gathers the other in a powerful hug, as everyone in the immediate area resembles a fish out of water with gaping mouths and eyes.
He asks as he pulls back from the embrace, “You little bugger, you. Why didn’t you tell me you were going to be working here?”
Tina watches as those dark brown eyes soften and how the weight seemingly lifts off of his shoulders. She has never seen her boss behave this way, but at the same time, if it were anyone to influence it, it would be Newt.
“Er, well, surprise?” Green eyes glint with amusement and his mouth tilts upward in a half smirk.
To further the occupants of the room’s bewilderment, their previously thought unflappable superior swoops in to press his lips against their charming magizoologist’s.
Suddenly, everything makes sense to the elder Goldstein sister and a small smile creeps up onto her face.
5. In Private
It’s one of the rare times that the five of them can actually convene and they intend to make the most of their time together. A quiet weekend away in the isolated region of Grindelwald’s Nurmengard headquarters is exactly what they all needed after such stressful months of work. Gellert, Percival, Theseus, and Albus all arrive earlier than Newt and the latter can barely get his entire body through the front door, before he is being shoved up against the nearest wall and pampered with affection. His suitcase clatters against the ground as Newt's grip slackens.
Grindelwald, who hasn’t seen the youngest in the longest time of the four, immediately occupies his lips, tongue sweeping against Newt’s bottom lip, seeking permission. He is granted access without an ounce of hesitation, a happy moan emitting from their redheaded lover. Theseus is hovering nearby, raking his hand through those wild curls and presses gentle kisses to wherever he can get to. Albus and Percival stand off to the side, but still in close proximity, patiently waiting their turn. As soon as Grindelwald’s stockier build moves out of the way, the Hogwarts professor is carting him off to their bedroom in strong arms. Newt squeaks and lightly protests, but he knows he can’t win in this situation -- he doesn’t want to either, really.
They take turns stripping him of a piece of clothing at a time, slowly, graciously. It’s far from his first time spent with them, but Newt still shys away from their prying eyes and wandering hands. He is self-conscious of the numerous scars and deformities littering his freckled skin. His boyfriends take it in stride, used to this habit, and stretch his limbs out for more of his creamy skin. There are lips and delicate touches from many, many fingers along the ridges of raised skin, the sensation is ticklish and giggles escape his full lips, uncontrollably.
“Newt, you are so beautiful.” Albus mutters, pushing back from his position where he is kissing the other’s shoulder, and gazes lovingly into those expressive green eyes.
Percival follows up with, “We know you are insecure about your body, but rest assured, it makes you even more appealing to us.”
Newt couldn’t be happier as he pulls each of his lover’s down for a peck.
“I love you all.”
“And us, you, liebling.” Grindelwald fondly coos.
+1 Newt
Newt is not good with publicly showing affection, or even in private, if he is being wholly honest with himself. Even if he loves these four goofballs with all his heart, he has trouble expressing himself freely, but they adore him for his quirkiness and accept it with open arms. They’ve done so much for him and he doesn’t know how to begin to repay their kindness.
The five of them have never explicitly discussed family plans, but he remembers them mentioning adopting children in passing. Newt is curious and seeks something more special than a simple adoption -- he wants their first child to be a meaningful step in their relationship. So he conducts plenty of research and finally, he stumbles upon something in the recesses of Grindelwald’s expansive library.
He waits until Christmas, mere weeks away, when they are exchanging presents and gifts them each with an envelope containing a small piece of parchment. They look on in confusion at it, not able to make sense of anything written on it, but he breaks out in an affectionate grin, wide and unyielding.
“It’s a list of ingredients.” All of their gazes turn towards him and he holds their attention completely, eager to hear what he has to say, “It’s ingredients to a potion that will allow me to bear a child.”
The sight before him is comical, to say the least, and Newt lets his laughter rip out of him at these men who are usually perfectly composed.
“What I’m saying is, I want us to have a child or children of our own. The best part of this potion is that it allows us to combine all of our magical signatures to conceive a child. This way, he or she will truly be all of ours-” Before he can finish explaining, he finds himself at the bottom of a dog pile of heavy men. Gellert and Percival are staring at his belly longingly, imagining it swollen with a baby. Theseus can’t stop praising his genius and showering love over his face. Albus has a devious look on his face that says he wants to start trying conceiving as soon as possible and Newt is all too willing.
For a moment, Albus gets scared when his daughter, Ariana, runs away from Gellert and him. But then she stops a few feet from them, right in front of the "merpeople's tank".
Suddenly, two more children get closer to it to see what Ariana is looking at. Honestly, Albus is glad they have decided to take their girl to the amusement park, he's never seen her so happy before.
"What are you doing, Credence?" Percival quickly sends Seraphina a text message, reminding her he'll be back to work tomorrow. She insists he shouldn't worry about it.
"Look, Papa!" Theseus gets startled by the way his son, Apollo, calls out for him and in a second he's right next to him in front of the tank.
"What is it?"
"A mermaid!"
"That's a merman..." Theseus corrects his son with a grin on his face, but his jaw drops as soon as he glances through the glass again.
The man is breathtaking. The other three men close to it notice too and none of them move for a whole second.
The redhead waves and smiles at the men gathered around as he did for the children and Percival almost drops his phone at the sight.
Gellert gets flustered and Albus turns red before they both look at each other with the same thought in mind.
Is he single?
The man moves away from view and Theseus wonders how he can swim freely with that "fin" over him. It's a beautiful tail though... Although Theseus suspects that everything he wears makes him look great.
He comes back quickly, and keeps smiling at the kids who can't seem to get enough of him; to be fair, the parents are kind of mesmerized at this point too.
They wait for him; they tell the others they're doing that for their kids, but the truth is that they want to meet the man themselves.
None of them realize there could be a problem with that until Credence looks at the redhead walking towards them.
"What happened to your tail?" He asks, worried, moving away from his father to get closer to the man.
"My fin? Well, I'm half merman so I can transform whenever I want," he explains patiently and without hesitation, which tells the other men he has been asked about that before.
The children accept his words as an absolute truth and start asking more questions.
"What's your name?" Ariana finally asks and not only her Dads, but the other two men standing close feel relieved that someone finally asked what they wanted to know since they saw the man.
"I'm Newt," he says and after hearing the children's names and watching as they introduce their fathers, he adds: "It's a pleasure."
"Would like to be my Mommy?" Credence blurts out then and Percival feels proud of his son because that's a very good idea indeed.
"Your Mummy?" Newt blushes to the tip of his ears.
But even though it's a good idea, Percival can't say nothing... The other parents are glaring at him for some reason.
"Credence, you can't ask things like that, perhaps–"
"Would you like to have dinner with us?" Theseus cuts him off, staring at Newt while grabbing his son Apollo's hand.
Gellert almost growls at him and even though Albus puts a hand on his shoulder to calm him down, he laments not asking the man out first.
Ariana needs a Mummy as well.
"I think we all should have dinner together," Newt finally says, still slightly pink. His freckles have disappeared under the lovely blush.
The four men accept, realizing that they'd do anything Newt asked them to.
Even though he's done this a couple of times, Newt is always a little bit nervous before walking down the runway; Queenie has told him he looked beautiful with that light blue lingerie, but he feels insecure every single time.
The other models are strutting beyond the curtains and directly to the people watching and the cameras; Newt has no idea how they do it, but he has to imagine he's alone in order to walk out there.
He also thinks about the beautiful shelter he's going to build with the money he earns and all the animals he's going to save.
Queenie pats him on the shoulder kindly and whispers to him it's time to go, Newt closes his eyes for a brief moment before moving towards the crowd and the lights.
It's not that hard, however, it's a shame he doesn't notice the way the people's eyes seem to be glued to his figure or how truly mesmerizing he is as he walks down the runway. He also doesn't notice the four men in suits, four powerful and rich men that fall in love almost as soon as they see him.
They want him and even though they don't think about sharing at first, their destiny is sealed already.
When the show ends and Newt changes his clothes for trousers, a shirt and a blueish coat, he finally says goodbye to his friends, ready to go home and walks outside to London's cold winter.
He knows he looks attractive in lingerie, but it has never occurred to him that he also looks cute with that coat until a handsome man with dark eyes and strong jaw tells him.
"My name's Percival Graves, but please, call me Percival," he introduces himself.
But before Percival can say anything else, another one appears. His name's Theseus and Newt has no time to introduce himself to them both until Gellert and Albus arrive.
The way they look at each other is not that friendly, besides, it seems like they all want to get Newt's attention at the same time.
The model has never liked conflict.
"Let's have dinner, just you, me and Albus," says Gellert as Theseus and Percival start glaring at him.
"But Newt, I think you'd enjoy the place I have to show you better because–"
"I can cook for you if you–"
"What if we all dine together... the five of us?"
If someone else had suggested that, the four men would have started arguing with each other immediately, but it's Newt... And he looks really excited about the idea of all of them getting along that no one can say 'No' to him.
They realize, perhaps a little bit too late, that they're so weak when it comes to Newt.
