at the very least im pretty sure you wont need that stool, because im one of the short ones. id apologize for being mean, but lying is bad or something.
newt stops being a shadow and starts being a tyrant. he rules with an iron fist and iron will, and anyone who gets in his way disappears. there was some concern he would start a war with the macusa over graves' death, but - well, newt knows the truth. he dreams of that moment often, of the determination in graves' posture before he fell, of the way the iridescent pool parted and then swallowed him whole, leaving nothing behind. graves was doomed the moment newt's empire began to crumble.
he lives and he reigns, and those last words rattle around inside him, echoing in his hollow chest every waking moment.
(he finds himself in new york some years later to deal with a traitor in his operation. caught early, so there was little damage, but some things cannot be allowed. they bring the culprits to him, and -
one is slight and nervous, hunched over. she knows who she's crossed and she doesn't regret it, but when it comes to it, she doesn't want to die. the other is plainly an auror, with her feet planted, chin up, keeping herself between newt and her informant, their fingers tangled together. she will die failing to save a traitor looking for redemption because she doesn't know how else to live.
"make certain i never see either of you again," he says instead of slaughtering them.
Gosh darn it, I think you broke me permanently now. Would you mind if I put all our comments into a separate chapter so other people could enjoy getting broken too?
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