AFTER THE STORM

Tina watched Scamander brothers' hug with tears forming her eyes. Grindelwald brought two brothers together while ripping sisters apart.

It was like she couldn't recognize her sister anymore. This wasn't the Queenie she knew. How could Queenie, who saved them from Macusa's death penalty, run away with the man who tried to kill her sister, Jacob and Newt? How could she walk through the fire for that two-faced criminal?

Was she feeling that desperate and alone?

Was Tina blamed for that?

Newt and Theseus were so different from each other just like Queenie and her. Theseus shared the same faith with Tina about Ministry of Magic. Even though they found some of its rules extreme, they abided by them.

Newt and Queenie were much freer spirits which was one of the reasons she loved Newt. He had a true spirit of Thunderbird.

Yet tonight, Scamander brothers put their differences aside and had each other's back. Queenie on the other hand, left her where deadly blue blazes surrounded everyone.

Tina blamed Queenie in her mind but eventually she blamed herself.

Queenie's mental health and shields were always weak she thought. Her sister wasn't stupid yet hearing everyone's thoughts, her legilimency was sometimes a curse rather than blessing. When she was at Ilvermony, boys would found her odd or they would just like her for her pretty face. Either way, every time Queenie found herself reading other's thoughts at school, she felt hurt.

Still her powers were quite intriguing for someone like Grindelwald. No one could perform legilimency naturally like Queenie could. Knowing his enemys' and followers' thoughts gonna be a great tool for the manipulative man. That was for sure.

There was someone else who was also alone Maledictus girl- Nagini- Tina believed her name was sitting away from everyone. After Credence left, she hadn't talk to someone. Maybe just maybe she could get some information from her. Some clue or loose end that Grindelwald left behind. She went towards to girl and sat beside her.

"Nagini, I am sorry about Credence."

"Why would you care about him, you are the ones who were hell bent on trying to kill him."

"No, I was trying to find him so Grindelwald couldn't get to him first. "

"An agent of MACUSA murdered an innocent woman just because she was linked to him."

Newt who had been apparently listening the whole conversation came near them and put his hand on Tina's shoulder, his eyes were saying You are not to blame.

"Tina isn't like that, she tried everything she could to help Credence."

When Newt first met Tina, he could have thought she was one of the strict-minded Aurors. But Tina had a compassion that Newt rarely saw in people. The fact that she went up against Grindelwald and tried to calm Credence down while other Aurors attacking him, really astonished Newt.

Theseus spoke, there were still tears in his eyes. He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down before talking.

"The person who attacked you probably worked as a double agent for Grindelwald. I gave specific orders not to kill anyone tonight. That silver-tongued devil fooled everyone."

For a couple of minutes no one talked. Jacob suddenly realized a small creature with a trinket on his hands.

"At least one of us isn't empty-handed" he said. Then Newt focused his eyes on his pet.

"Hey, what is it?"

He eyed the necklace carefully. It was a necklace with small bottle. Bottle had blood in it. Tina watched him with curiosity.

"What is it Newt?"

While looking at the bottle, the details of the conversation he had with Dumbledore came into his mind.

I can't move against Grindelwald.

His voice rang in his ears. Could it be…?

Yes! Yes, it could!

"It is a blood oath" said Newt with excitement over his pet's accomplishment.

"Whose blood oath" asked his brother oblivious to Newt's thoughts.

"Dumbledore and Grindelwald's."

Everyone looked at him then.

"That is why he had said he can't move against him" Newt continued.

The loose end. Tina looked at the Dumbledore was the only wizard whose power matched with Grindelwald's. If he could finally move against him, and take him on.. They could win before the war even started. They could get Queenie back.

"So, with it..?

"Yes" said Newt as if he knew what she was going to say.

The match wasn't over yet.