Remember How We Were

Newt and Thomas have known each other pratically since they were born.

Despite the numerous and insistent attempts of Thomas to be his friend, Newt always wanted to be alone with a sketchbook in his hands and his mind elsewhere.

Eventually, the brunet managed to become his best friend but, at the age of eight, he had to leave London with his family due to his parents' work.

Newt felt like the whole world was collapsing around him: his only friend was leaving him.

But Thomas made him promise to wreck his bubble of solitude and to get some real friends.

Nine years later, Newt found himself staring a pair of amber eyes and wondering what was familiar in all that sparkling gold, because he knew he must have seen this guy before.

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« It's been so long, I know, but I didn't think you'd forgotten me. » [...]

And, finally, he understood. « Tommy... »