"Cause with your hand in my hand and a pocket full of soul, I can tell you there's no place we couldn't go."
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"Newt!" Beverly squealed bursting in his room at the crack of dawn. "It's Christmas!"
"Let me sleep. Christmas is later." He mumbled into his pillow causing Beverly to take it as a challenge.
"Okay..." she pretended to walk away, giggling quietly as soft snores came from his mouth.
And quickly, almost as fast as a Niffler she sprinted, jumping straight on Newt. He let out a 'oomph' as the wind was knocked from him.
"Come on!" She sat on his lower stomach pressing on his chest to get him awake. "Your mom has breakfast!"
"And it's very good if I say so myself." Arabella's voice scared the two as she leaned on doorway with a smirk. "He's ticklish by the way." And Ms.Scamander was gone, leaving Beverly grin at the terrified Newt.
Her legs were on each side of his waist leaving him perfectly defenseless. "Ticklish?"
"I'm not-" She prodded at his side just to test the theory and it proved correct as Newt squirmed underneath her, laughing.
"Are you sure about that?"
Newt laughed underneath her, trying desperately to get away from her assaulting fingers. "Alright! I'm up! I swear it!"
Once she stopped, they were left breathless and in smiles, "Alright, I'm in my snow pajamas and I'm excited for you to open your gifts and your mom said after breakfast so hurry up!"
She jumped off of Newt leaving him there with a stupid, breathless smile plastered on his face as he shook his head at the astounding girl.
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"Happy Christmas!" Theseus greeted as he walked down the stairs, sitting by his mother which happened to be the seat across from Beverly.
"Happy Christmas!" She returned with a sickly sweet smile, forcing herself to be civilized with him.
The breakfast was quite amazing, eggs, pancakes, casserole, biscuits, bacon, and sausage covering the table. The four mindlessly chatted about random things but somehow ended up on the Ministry.
"Have you heard of MACUSA?" Theseus asked looking around the table who nodded. "I'm thinking of working part time for them."
"I never really liked MACUSA." Beverly commented making the older boy look personally offended.
Ms.Scamander looked intrigued about the Slytherin girl. Ms.Scamander and Newt were never fond of MACUSA but didn't go against their families wishes. But the two wanted to hear her opinion on the matter.
"Why's that?" Theseus obviously wasn't used to people even in the slightest, disagreeing with him.
"Well some of their laws, personally, are complete rubbish. They're thinking about basically exterminating magical creatures, and we need them-"
"What ever for?"
This made Newt and his mother want to strangle him but they opted for shutting their mouths.
"Everything's created for a reason. For example the healing purpose's are extensive. Mandrake can be used for petrification, murtlap spit can be used for small cuts. Not to mention how we use magical animals for wands, Phoenix feathers, unicorn tail, dragon heartstring. And the segregation between muggles is strange."
"For a Slytherin you don't act like one, aren't pure blood families important in that house?" It was an innocent curious question so she didn't take it too offensively.
"Well, yes." Beverly admitted. "I'm from a pure blood family but I see no need to care about what other wizards and witches do. If you love a Muggle, you love a Muggle. I was raised to not marry a Muggle myself, but it's not that big of a deal."
"Interesting." The way he said it gave Beverly an uncomfortable shiver down her spine.
"Okay, that's enough about that. Help me with cleaning and we can get to the presents!" Ms.Scamander clapped her hands together. "No magic!"
This made the kids groan but did as she asked, getting it done quite easily with the four of them helping.
Soon they were sat around the tree and passing around gifts, Beverly sat with one big one, and a small one from Ms.Scamander making her feel guilty that she gave the Scamander mother nothing.
"It's alright dear, besides I made it last minute for you." She waved off easily.
Newt had about five presents sat in front of him along with Theseus, and their mother had around six.
Newt had gotten a homemade Hufflepuff scarf from his mother, along with a book with all of the creatures that were known of and blank pages so he could write down new ones. His brother gave him money and a new cloak and robes as they were a semi poor family. And Newt had been wearing the same cloak for the past two years.
Ms.Scamander had received lovely things from the boys. The most important, a locket of the family from Newt, and a family owl from Theseus. The other items were a variety of girly things. Lotions, perfumes, and charms.
And Beverly didn't care enough to see what Theseus had gotten. Only knowing that it was things he really needed. Potion ingredients, wizard gift cards, and more.
The gifts were vague, items that only he would know how to use. Shrugging off her paranoia at the eldest Scamander brother, Beverly opened the small present seeing a gray and green knitted beanie with a string puffball on the top making the girl smile at the hand made gift.
"I love it." She earnestly said. Though Slytherin was the reason she didn't have a family however, she wasn't ashamed of the house. It was hers. Who she was.
"I'm glad!" His mom nearly squealed as Beverly put the hat on top of her head, the green contrasting well with her ginger hair.
The last two gifts were Newt's and Beverly's. Theseus had to leave because of an urgent Ministry business. Which was understandable as he was a top auror.
"You first." Newt grinned and Beverly did not protest as she noticed the very faint but billions of holes perfectly in the wrapping.
She gently took a piece of the wrapping off, but the rest disintegrated leaving a brass cage filled with nothing. But despite nothing being seen, doesn't mean nothing was there especially seeing the numerous locks on the huge cage.
Curiously, Beverly reached her hand through the cage jumping when she felt a tiny hand meet her palm, and slowly the silver fur of a young Demiguise appeared.
"Oh my goodness." She breathed looking at the monkey like creature and back to Newt. It's amber eyes stared up at her in wonder and curiosity, matching Beverly's as well. "You didn't."
"I did, the little bugger was hard to catch too."
The Demiguise wrapped its hands around her fingers and Beverly had never been more grateful for anything in her life. "Newt, you are the greatest person I have ever met."
"What is it?" Ms.Scamander snapped Beverly from her trance on the creature as she beamed at her, practically bursting in happiness.
"This, is a Demiguise." She introduced her most favorite animal in the world. "And he is a fast, beautiful, part time invisible monkey that can see the initiate future."
