I had a thought I wanted to share with you!! It's about Baby Fox! Newt and Baby Wolf!Graves. Ok ok so even after Newt is back to normal, he still has a bit of a primal side. He likes to leave marks on Percival -- little pink and purple bruises on his neck and sometimes ((when he gets a bit too rough)) teeth marks. Percival, on the other hand, likes to mark Newt with his scent and sometimes even growls at people who get too close to his mate -- because that's exactly what Newt is to his wolf.
Newt doesn’t come back to them quite the same; not that it comes to affect the aurors. No, they don’t mind. To everyone, Newt is fine! He smiles, he jokes, he looks at your cheek oddly when he speaks to you. He gets excited about his creatures, passionate when they’re at stake. To most of the world, Newt is not different at all.
If it wasn’t for their boss, they’d honestly never know the difference.
But Newt is different. There’s a spark of wildness in his blood that doesn’t leave once he’s human again. A sharpness in his teeth that hasn’t softened, leaving little pinpricks of blood on Graves’ immaculate clothes. They don’t understand, at first, until the day the cool air dies in the building on during a classically scolding New York summer.
It’s not the first time they’ve seen their boss sans coat or with his sleeves rolled up - but it is the first time they’ve actually glimpsed Newt’s possessive bite marks. Crescent rows of indents along the flesh of his forearm, peeking out on his neck from the unbutton collar of his shirt. Sharp and bruised and angry looking. And without needing to see, they know there’s likely more. Livid rings of teeth marks on his thighs and his hips and his back and his ribs - covered in the animalistic signature unique to Newt’s pearly whites.
And when they hesitantly glance at Newt, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the man doesn’t regret a thing. There’s a hunger in his gaze that leaves them reeling - a predatory warning. Touch what’s mine and you’ll never touch anything again.
They never question it. They never bring it up. Mr. Graves is a strong man, and they trust in him to either handle himself or seek one of them for help, if he needs it.
No one considered that perhaps Graves had not come back quite the same either. Just because Newt isn’t covered in a mapwork of teeth imprints doesn’t mean nothing of the wolf still lingers beneath Graves’ skin.
No one even considered it until the day a foreign dignitary comes to visit, particularly keen on speaking to Newt. He’s sleazy and heavy handed in his advances, and the aurors all have the hackles up because oh hell no, you are not hitting on their boss’ man, when Graves suddenly appears.
“Mr. Moretti, such a pleasure to see you again,” and then, without missing a beat, he grabbed Newt by the shoulders and proceeded to rub the finely shaved line of his jaw against Newt’s cheek, Newt’s throat, Newt’s shoulder. Hips grinding against Newt’s side in a single lewd maneuver. The aurors are openmouthed and gawking. The dignitary is frozen, wide-eyed. “I trust your trip here went smoothly?”
And damn if Newt doesn’t look pleased as punch, just absolutely fucking preening at the stranger as Graves rubs his scent proprietarily across Newt’s skin. When finally he pulls away, he smiles with far more teeth than last the aurors could recall - and they can practically see the dignitary’s soul leave his body. He doesn’t so much as look Newt’s way again during the entire trip.
No, Graves doesn’t come back the same either. Everyone makes a note not to encroach on either of them under fear of pain of death. They don’t want to know what Graves or Newt would do if someone was fool enough not to take their signs of ownership seriously.