Herm and Newt, "You wrote me a letter?"
Originally this was nightmares au, BUT I’m sliding it into ‘newt gets kidnapped by otachi and kept by the precursors for a while so they can figure out what the heck is up with him and then realize ‘whoops! humans are sentient! our bad!’ and eventually they get newt back’. au. which definitely is going to get a better name than that eventually. and kaiju bros, bc I haven’t written them NEARLY enough lately and I’ve been craving their dynamic
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Newton is still in the hospital bed. If it were anyone else, Hermann would be glad of it. But Newton... doesn’t stay in hospital beds. He’s too fidgety. Too full of energy. Too manic. Once, he was found back in the lab, still hooked up to his IV bag, working and dancing around to his awful music.
Someone’s given him a tablet, so that might be helping. He lazily flicks and pokes at it.
Hermann watches for a moment, then clears his throat. Newton looks up.
“Oh, hey, man.”
“Good evening, Newton.”
“Is it evening?” Newton rubs his face and sighs softly. He looks exhausted. “Who needs a sense of time, right? Hey, uh-”
“Yes?”
“Did you...Write me a letter?”
The back of Hermann’s neck goes hot, and he straightens as best he can.
“You checked your email?” Since when does Newton check his emails? Is this 2017?
“Dude, I’ve been sitting here for weeks. I’ve literally got nothing better to do.” There’s a spark of mockery in Newton’s face that makes Hermann long for the exhaustion to win out again. Hermann immediately braces himself for the worst, for the most vicious of Newton’s jokes. Surely he’s had time to store them up.
