After the war, Tina Goldstein was mourning the loss of her and Newt's friend Jacob after his abduction from his home in New York City. She was also grieving over her own
sister's sentence of death for her crimes committed on American soil. She was also convicted of killing two wizards with one of them being a MACUSA employee. Tina had
received a letter from one of the Aurors who were investigating Grindelwald's own followers that had contained surprising news.
Tina,
One of Grindelwald's followers is claiming that your sister Queenie had a baby that she had put in an English orphanage before her own capture. I don't know if this is true or
not, but I'm sure that you would want to investigate this claim and also to get the child out of the orphanage, if it haven't been already adopted. If she's telling the truth
about such a child then you will need to decide if you want to keep the child or not. She is also telling some wild story about one of the older children at the orphanage that
he's a wizard who has done some horrible things such as killing a fellow student at Hogwarts and eating her heart. This makes me wonder if she is telling the truth about a
child or if she is being delusional. She is also claiming that the child's father is Jacob Kowalski and that she did marry him after they left America together. It's rumored that
she had a child with Gellert Grindelwald and she may be claiming a different father in order to keep the child safe and out of the public's eye. Though no matter who the
father is, if there is a child than that child would still be related to you no matter what. I know that you would be interested to know that you could still have a family member
still living even after Queenie's death. The child is said to be at Wool's Orphanage.
John
Tina looked at the letter and decided to pay a visit to the orphanage to check out Queenie's claim of her and Jacob's child. She resolved that if Queenie did have a son and if
he was still at the orphanage than she would take him home with her to raise and resign her position as an Auror, taking a job that would allow her to be home more. She
only needed to have a job until her and Newt got married since with, he traveled extensively with his work it would be impossible for her to hold down a job, since she wanted
to travel with him as well. She only hoped that he would be open to raising Queenie's child with her, if such a child existed since if he didn't want to help her raise her nephew
than she would have to break things off with him. When she got to the orphanage, she was immediately ushered into the head of the orphanage's office after introducing
herself and stating her business.
"You must be Tina, young Jacob Kowalski's aunt your sister told us about you. Young Jacob has been a joy to have here at the orphanage and we will be sad to see him go.
We will be happy, however, to see him go with his aunt as I understand it, the only family that he has at this time."
"I am now his only relative that will be able to care for him. I plan on switching to a desk job where I could be at home more in order to be there for him, since my job as a
detective takes me away from home for weeks at a time. Jacob will need to have an adult that is in his life constantly, since he has already spent the first year of his life in an
orphanage, abandoned by his birth mother. I am also looking to marry my boyfriend within the year which would give him two parents and he is a naturalist. After we get
married, I do plan on quitting my job and spending more time with him at home."
"I am glad to hear that he will be going with his aunt and that he soon would have both a mother and a father. Also, his birth mother gave me an envelope with your name on
it that I was to give to you if you ever came by, whether or not you decided to take Jacob with you or not."
Just then a young woman came into the room with a blonde headed toddler in her arms that she had immediately put down.
"This is your nephew, Jacob, Miss Goldstein, I will give you a few minutes to get to know him while I go and get that envelope." The matron had told her. Tina held out her
arms for Jacob as he looked at the matron quizzically before toddling over to his aunt.
"I'm your Aunt Tina and I want to know you a little bit better."
Jacob seemed to study her and then gave her a hug. Tina also took a look at Jacob and saw that he resembled Queenie at that age which made her miss her sister. She knew
for certain that she wanted to take him home with her and raise him, though convincing Newt to help her raise him would be a different thing. She knew that Newt wasn't too
happy about her sister using her Legilimens ability to see how he had felt about her. She knew that Queenie had used her own ability to see a guy's intentions who was
interested in her. She didn't know if he did inherit his mother's Legilimens ability or not, which would be something that Newt would not be too excited about. She played with
Jacob for a while in order to get him used to her, since she would be taking him home with her no matter what kind of toddler stuff that she would need to buy immediately,
he would be the only family that she had left. It was curious though that Queenie would choose to leave her own son in an orphanage since the two of them grew up in an
orphanage after the death of their parents at a young age. A little while later the matron reentered the room with the documents pertaining to Jacob's birth and an envelope that Queenie had left for her.
"I've decided to let him come and live with me, though I would need to pick up some things first since I have never had a baby and I don't have any baby things at home."
"That would be fine and he will be here when you do get back and things situated at home."
Tina was given an envelope by the matron of the orphanage that she immediately put in her pocket to read later.
"This was given to us by your sister when she left Jacob here and she wanted you to have it whether you took him or not. It's a shame that his parents died in the war but at
least you would have Jacob to remind you of them."
Tina immediately left the orphanage shocked that her sister would keep such a secret from her especially since the two of them grew up in an orphanage after their parent's
deaths. She immediately went to Gringotts Bank in Diagon Alley in order to make a withdrawal so she could purchase items that Jacob would need. She did see a baby store
on her way to the bank that she had made a note of to step in to see what they would have. After heading to the bank to get both wizarding and muggle money in order to
make the necessary purchases she went into the baby store to purchase a stroller as well as a crib for Jacob to sleep in and a playpen where he could play while her and Newt
worked. She didn't need to get a baby gate since they could place a spell on the areas where he wasn't allowed to wonder into by himself, especially since there were places
that were dangerous in Newt's apartment. After she had made her purchases and arranged for delivery of everything except for the stroller, which she took with her to the
orphanage in order to pick up Jacob to take him to his new home for the time being.
When she arrived at the orphanage she was led straight to the matron's office where she waited for Jacob to come out so that she could take him home. When he came out,
he seemed to recognize her and ran straight into her arms. Though she was tired from shopping for him all day she picked him up and waited for someone from the
orphanage to bring him his things.
"I've come back to take you home with me and later on I will introduce you to my boyfriend who I hope will become your uncle later on. He might even show you some of the
animals that he works with for his job."
Tina then left the orphanage with Jacob after filling out all of the necessary paperwork in order to bring him home with her. When she got home with Jacob, she immediately
put him in his playpen that she had just gotten for him while she used magic to put his crib together. Just when she had arrived at her flat an owl had come in with a letter for
with a strange seal on it that she didn't recognize and she had placed it aside along with the envelope that she had received from the orphanage to look at later.
While working in his nature preserve located in his own flat, Newt was surprised to hear a knock at the door and when he checked who was there, he was surprised to see his
parents there with a giant stuffed hippogriff in their hands. He let them in and wondered which one of his creatures they had bought the stuffed animal for. Dougal Jr. was
nurturing like his father looking out for the other creatures that he felt had needed looking out for. Newt was shocked to hear what his parents had to say about Tina.
"Newt we heard that your girlfriend was in town today buying a lot of baby things, did you know that she was expecting a baby? When are the two of you going to get married
though I don't know how much time you would have before the baby comes, but there is already gossip going around about her expecting so I would expect that you would
need to marry her soon in order to protect her reputation." Elizabeth,his mother had told him.
"Mom, I don't know why Tina was buying baby things but she is not pregnant at least by me and I don't think that she would be seeing another guy." Newt told her feeling
uneasy about who the baby's parents were if they were who he suspected it was, since his friend Jacob had mysteriously disappeared from New York City in January 1943,
though it was suspected that he was abducted by his ex-girlfriend Queenie. He reassured his parents that he would ask Tina about her being pregnant, though he knew that
she couldn't be. After his parents left his flat, he decided to visit Tina in order to find out what was going on. When he got to Tina's he was surprised to find her living room
filled with all sorts of baby things and he was shocked to find a blonde headed baby in a playpen watching her trying to put the things together with magic.
"Where did he come from?" Newt asked about the toddler that he saw on the floor.
"I just picked him up from the orphanage that Queenie left him at when he was a baby and I haven't had a chance to go through the information that I was given at the
orphanage to find out who his father is, but I can guess who it is."
"Tina went through the envelope that she had received from the orphanage first and saw Jacob's birth certificate with Jacob Kowalski listed as his father as well as a marriage
license for Queenie Goldstein and Jacob Kowalski which shocked her that he would even marry her. She did set aside a longer piece of parchment aside in order to look at
later since it appeared to be a family tree. She did see another birth certificate in the envelope for his father, which made Tina wonder why she would include it in there.
There was also a letter addressed to her from Queenie which Tina wondered if she would reveal the reasoning for her actions.
Tina,
If you are reading this than you know that something has happened to me. After I took Jacob Sr. from his home in New York City I immediately took him to the Ministry of
Magic in Austria where we immediately got married and from there we went to my quarters in Grindelwald's headquarters. However shortly after our marriage Grindelwald
killed him in front of my eyes because he thought that I was being disloyal to him. I didn't realize that I was pregnant with Jacob Jr. until after his death and I was scared that
if he did turn out to be a squib like his father than Grindelwald would kill him too. I dropped him off at an orphanage in England knowing that Grindelwald would never look in
England for him and also, I have a feeling that you would settle down in England one of these days with Newt. I know for a fact that he loves you and that you love him as
well and that he never two-timed you like you thought before you went on that last assignment right before I joined Grindelwald. I still miss Jacob so much even though he
hasn't been gone for a year when I write this. I was never involved with Grindelwald romantically even though there may be rumors to the contrary, but I'm not his type. I
have also enclosed in this envelope a copy of young Jaocb's birth certificate, his father's original birth certificate and copy of his father's family tree from his Polish magical
family. It's ironic that his father and stepmother had immigrated to America in order to save Jacob but it wound up causing his death.
Queenie
While Tina was reading the letter, Newt was looking over the family tree from the Piekarz wizarding family.
"Tina, there is something that you need to see, Queenie had another child that is listed here, a girl."
"I don't think that she had another child, since the lady at the orphanage would have told me if Jacob
had a sister."
"She may not have been at the orphanage with Jacob since she was born in September, 1927 just seven months after she joined Grindelwald. I never even knew that she was pregnant when she visited me, but she must not have been showing then."
Tina then opened up the letter with the strange seal on it and read it.
Ms. Goldstein,
I am writing this to inform you that you currently have a niece attending Durmstrang Academy and you are the only family that has been deemed appropriate for her to stay
with. She calls herself Ruby Baker, even though her last name is Goldstein and she is currently in her sixth year here at Durmstrang, which means that next year would be
her last year. Before the school year ends, we need to know if you would be willing to take her for the summer.
Natasha Petrov
Headmistress of Durmstrang Academy of Magic
After reading the letter, Tina immediately replied to it by letting her know that she would be glad to have her niece Ruby stay with her for the summer, even though she had
just found out about her existence just a few minutes ago.
"You seriously can't let a virtual stranger come and stay with you, especially one who had grown up in Grindelwald's inner circle with your sister."
"Yes, I can since she is family and Jacob is her brother, this will give her a chance to get to know us. It wasn't her fault that her brother was put in an orphanage shortly after
birth and that her mother was in Grindelwald's inner circle. Besides both her and Jacob will soon be the only family that I will have left. The only reason that Queenie hasn't
been executed yet is at Dumbledore's request because it will give her one last chance to meet with me and according to Dumbledore, she has information pertaining to
another dark wizard coming up."
Newt accepted her answer grudgingly.
"I do plan on returning to America to see Queenie one last time and it would give her a chance to see Jacob before she dies, since she hasn't seen him since he was a baby. It
would also give her one last chance to see her own daughter and I don't care what you think. Besides if it was Theseus dying, I'm sure, that you would want to see him one
last time."
"That's different, he wasn't on Grindelwald's side during the war like your sister was and he didn't go around killing a bunch of people in order to get his way. Jacob Sr.
actually worked with an American writer to change the muggle culture over there, even giving him the idea of writing a book where a witch marries a muggle and they even
made a movie based on the book."
"Newt you know that if either the law had changed allowing wizards and no maj's to marry or if your friend Jacob was willing to live abroad then Queenie wouldn't have felt
like she had to make the choice that she did. When it came up in MACUSA to allow wizards and no maj's to have relationships with each other a few years ago it failed, no
matter that the no maj's had a book and a movie about a witch marrying a no maj."
"It doesn't matter, the fact is that your sister was in Grindelwald's inner circle and her daughter, your niece was raised in that atmosphere. You don't know what attitudes or
beliefs that she might have picked up from them, even if she was told that her father was a muggle and met him right before his death. Jacob on the other hand was placed
in an orphanage shortly after his birth so he wasn't exposed to those people, plus he is just a baby. Though according to that family tree that Queenie left for you she did
discover the truth about Jacob Sr.'s parentage and that he was a squib and not a no maj. Besides, Ruby could also be a legilimens and use it against us for ammunition that
any remaining Grindelwald followers can use against us."
"Newt, I don't think that she would want to be reunited with Grindelwald's followers, do I need to remind you that he killed her father. She didn't get to see him until she was
older and even though I do disapprove of the method that Queenie used to introduce Jacob to his own daughter the fact is that she did get to meet him and find out the truth
about her father. I don't know what she thinks about her father and must I remind you that you are trained in occlumency now ever since Queenie joined Grindelwald's side,
so you can protect yourself against Ruby if she is a legilimens like her mother, if you feel threatened by her."
Newt still didn't believe her, since he always felt that Queenie seemed to be interested in reading his mind for some reason and her daughter might have the same interest in
him.
"I really need to take some time to think about this, since this is a lot to take in. I never even knew that Queenie was pregnant when she visited me in 1927. At least I can
tell my parents that you are not pregnant so there is no need for us to rush to get married. I guess you can keep the soft toy that my parents got for him, even if he isn't
mine."
"That's nice but you do realize that when we do get married you will have a hand in raising him and telling him the truth about his parents when he is ready, Jacob Sr.
never knew that his own father had a first wife who was a witch that had given birth to him right before she died. His own father had married a muggle when he was still
young who gave birth to a son before they had immigrated to America. I am sure that Queenie had revealed the truth about his birth mother after she had taken
him back to Grindelwald's headquarters."
Newt then returned to his flat where he retreated to his menagerie of magical creatures so that he could think about Tina's revelation and her determination to raise her
nephew and to host her niece during her school vacation.