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"In any plan here we need to be smart about this. We have no idea who is a follower of Grindelwald. One wrong move and we could expose our plan and put everyone, including ourselves in danger." Dumbledore says as he continues on explaining his plan to Newt and Tina.
Tina sits there finally understanding that executing the plan first is the smartest way to do so. She can't help but still feel guilty she didn't do more to stop her sister from joining Grindelwald, but she couldn't think like that. She has to remain cunning and alert in order to do this properly.
Newt looks over at Tina who is listening in closely to every word Dumbledore is say. With her not noticing he reaches for her hand to hold it tightly in support. She looks down and can't help but give a small smile and squeeze his hand back.
"Tina you are our strongest dueler right now. You will have to be the one to get close to Grindelwald and get his blood." Dumbledore says. Newt stiffens at his response and lets go of Tina's hand.
"No, no absolutely not." Newt says standing slightly in front of her. "Now Newt I know you don't like it but it is the only way I think we can do this. I can't fight him but you two can. I will be able to fight any wizards he has with him but that is it." Dumbledore continues.
"No, because if Queenie and Credence are there, he could easily convince them that fighting us is for the greater good and we won't hurt them." Newt adds on.
Tina puts her hand on his shoulder walking forward towards him. "Newt, I can do this. I want to do this." She says, as Newt hears those words, he begins to relax a bit but he is stil not totally convinced it is the best idea.
"Why don't you two take a walk for a moment and talk about it." Dumbledore says gesturing towards the door.
As they walk out of the room Newt pushes ahead of her to keep from making eye contact with her. "Newt, I can do this. You know I can." Tina says turning him around in the open hallway.
"I know you can Tina, but I can't stand the thought of loosing you. One wrong move and I could lose everything, we could lose any advantage of getting them back." Newt says looking outside. Tina directs his attention back at her.
"That is why I need your help. If something goes wrong, you are there. We can do this but only if we work together. I am a strong witch. Plus, I have dueled with him before." Tina adds on reminding him of back in New York when they were trying to save Credence.
"That is true, I guess you are quite right about that." Newt says with a slight smile. As they both look at each other an owl fly's to the hall with a letter in its beak addressed to Tina.
"That's Queenies handwriting." Tina says as she takes the letter. "What does it say Newt says trying to look over Tina's should as she turns away from him reading the contents.
"She umm wanted to tell me she is okay and that she does miss me. But that is all." Tina says lying to Newt. She doesn't want to lie; however, she doesn't want Newt to stop her from going after Queenie. So she quickly folds up the letter and puts it in her pocket.
"I am just going to take a quick walk to think about this and then I will come back and we can plan further." Tina says facing Newt. Newt nods but stands there watching her walk farther down the hall. When she turns the corner, he walks back into the classroom.
"Where is Tina?" Dumbledore asks. "Oh umm she had gotten a letter form Queenie saying she was alright and she wanted to take a quick walk to think about what we said. She will be back in just a minute." Newt says thinking really hard about that.
"Is that all that was in the letter Newt?" Dumbledore asks Newt. He nods but doesn't feel right about that. They both stare at each other thinking about why Tina would lie about what would be in the contents of the letter.
McGonagall runs in the room trying to catch her breath she looks at the two men and notices that Tina is not there. "We have a problem." She says.
"What it is professor?" Newt asks with concern in his voice. All McGonagall could do was point to the window. As they both look out they see at the end of the bridge stand Grindelwald, Queenie, Credence, and few other wizards.
"Are you sure what she told you was the truth?" Dumbledore asks Newt as they are both still looking out the window. Newt looks down the other side of the bridge and sees a figure with brown hair and blue coat come into view.
"No, Tina!" Newt says. He tries to apperate but realizes that apperating abilities have been blocked. "We have to get down there now." Newt says running out of the room.
Tina walks through the courtyard and sees all of them at the other end of the bridge. As soon as she reaches the brick, she stops noticing that she is out powered if she were to fight. She had also realized that it was a trap. Her sister had no intention of meeting with her alone.
"She looks confused." Queenie says. As she reads her mind, she notices that she had gotten a letter from her that she never sent. "Did you send her a letter saying it was from me?" Queenie asked Grindelwald.
"Yes I did. I did not think she would come otherwise. I mean no harm to your sister my dear. I only want peace for the greater good." He says. Queenie nods and walks forward a bit to be in front of all of them. She holds out her hand signaling Tina to walk in her direction. As she does so Grindelwald puts a barrier bubble around the bridge so that way Newt couldn't get through to her.
Tina notices the bubble and realizes that if something went wrong Newt wouldn't be able to get to her. She decided to discard that and continue to slowly walk forward bringing her wand out of her sleeve to be ready if her sister were to attack her.
Queenie notices that Tina stopped moving forward. "Tina!" Queenie yells.
"Queenie you need to move towards me as well. This is as far as I will go for now unless you make a move as well." Tina yells back. Queenie looks back at Grindelwald who nods to let her move forward. They both slowly continue to keep moving until they are at arm's length. Queenie reaches out of a hug, but Tina backs up a bit to keep that embrace from happening in front of Grindelwald and his followers.
"Teenie, I won't hurt you and you know that." Queenie says reading her mind. "I know but I just can't right now. Look I know you think he is doing things for the right reason but Queenie this isn't the way." Tina says trying to convince Queenie.
"No you are wrong Tina. He is on my side. He wants what I want. All I want is to be able to love who I want to love." Queenie says backing up a little bit. Tina starts walking forward a bit to grab her hands.
"I know, our rules are stupid, but Queenie the world is changing and we both don't know what will happen in the future. But this as I have said already is not the way." Tina says. Queenies expression on her face changes.
"You know what, he was right. You would try and tell me this which is why you can't be involved." Queenie says as she turns and walks back towards Grindelwald. He steps forward a bit to make eye contact with Tina.
"You know Miss Goldstein, you have caused a lot of issues for me. Back in New York and now with this situation. You sister is right you shouldn't be involved because that could get you killed." Grindelwald says as his wand slides out of sleeve in firmly into his hand. "You see you did duel quite well with me, but that was with a different wand. Shall we see if you can hold your own now with this one?" Grindelwald asks.
"Tina! Get away from him!" Newt says yelling up to the barrier. As he hits it he sent flying back.
"Newt!" Tina yells as she turns and run towards him. As she reaches the barrier, she is also sent flying backwards. Newt becomes quite scared at the thought of not being able to get to Tina. "Newt! What do we do?" Tina asks getting up and standing right in front of the barrier.
"I don't know. But do not panic. We will get you out of this I promise." Newt says as he puts his hand up almost touching the barrier.
"Newt I'm so sorry." Tina says as tears start to roll down her cheeks, she can't help but start to cry knowing that she is outnumbered and that thought of her sister turned against her.
"Dumbledore, we have to do something." Newts says to him. "Okay heres what we do, Tina you need to try and hold your ground. Newt go get McGonagall I will need her power to help you remove the barrier." They both nod. Newt runs inside to get McGonagall and Tina turns back around to face the wizards at the end of the bridge. Tina walks forward away from the barrier to be close to Grindelwald. She thought that if she could execute their plan now then they could get them all back.
"You need to stop fighting against us. You know that in here you are outnumbered. Just give up my dear Tina and this can be over for now." Grindelwald says walking towards Tina.
"No, I have already lost too much thanks to you. This isn't right what you are doing." Tina spouts at him. He begins to become frustrated and raises his wand at her. She can't help but flinch at her quick motion but proceeds to raise her wand to.
Without a single thought Tina allows her want to start shooting out spell at him. Grindelwald is quick to deflect them. Just like in New York they both have magic that meet together.
As Newt rounds the corner with McGonagall, he sees Tina trying to hold her own against Grindelwald. "We need to act fast. I need to get to her." Newt says, both of them start using a few spells to try and weaken the barrier.
"Tina, you can't beat this." Grindelwald says. As they disconnect, he throws a hex at her that hits her in the stomach and sends her to the ground. She doesn't want to give the satisfaction of a scream but pushes her head into the ground trying really hard to keep from yelling out. Tina can hear Newt yelling out towards her, she finds the strength in herself to stand back up grabbing a small rock that feels sharp enough to cut him.
As Grindelwald approaches her, she braces the rock in her hand. As he grabs her arm pulling her up, she cuts his arm and throws the rock back towards Newt with a small amount of his blood on it.
"You stupid girl!" Grindelwald yells. "Crucio." He says pointing his wand at Tina. She immediately falls down to the ground squirming around squinting her eyes and mouth shut.
"No! Stop it!" Newt yells. His yells become louder as she thrusts his wand at the barrier.
Grindelwald bends down running his hand on Tina's face. Barley conscious she flinches away trying to find her wand. She feels sit underneath her and pulls it out sending a spell at him. "Reducto." She says, but Grindelwald sands it back at her and not at full strength she can't deflect it and rolls over on her stomach not able to move. Her wand rolls out of her hand. Grindelwald looks up at Newt and Dumbledore and smiles as he summons her wand and takes her are and disapperates.
The barrier goes down and Newt falls to his knees staring at the spot Tina last was at. As he looks, he sees the rock with red on it. Dumbledore sees it as well and goes to pick it up. "Newt, she gave us this. We will get them all back I promise you. Once I break this blood pack, we will defeat him and save her." Dumbledore says as he puts his hand on Newts shoulder.
So this one was a much longer chapter and there was really no good place to stop that would have made sense (to me anyway). But I hope you guys liked that chapter. It was full of information and heartbreak. Please let me know what you think. Do you have a prediction for what could happen next? Leave a comment and tell me what you think. I will be writing the next chapter this week so turn on the notification for this story to be able to read it as soon as it becomes available.