Newt woke suddenly, he ripped his own mind from the dark abyss he had been sent to.
"How you feeling?" Jacob asked. He was sat next to Newt, who was still up against the alleyway wall.
"Better." Newt did indeed feel better, but his head still pounded and his muscles burned. Jacob suddenly placed two fingers on Newts neck, Newt went to pull away, unconfutable with the contact. But their eyes met, and Jacob pulled away.
"Not as strong as I would like, but you're on the mend." Jacob thought back to earlier when he held Newts life in his hands. Newt using the wall got to his feet, grunting and groaning with with each muscle movement. Jacob jumped up, attempting to aid his friend.
"How are we going to find Grindelwald?" Jacob finally asked what he had wanted to, ever since he spotted Newts eyelids flickering. Newt who had his back turned to Jacob stayed quite, he used his left hand to balance himself against the cracked bricked wall. Watching people and cars pass by in the distance. "Can't you track him like he tracked us?" Newt slowly turned, he couldn't escape what he was going to have to do.
"He made the mental link with me, I would have to do the same in return to be able to track him." Newt explained, a few breaths now and then where laboured from the pain his ribs where irradiating.
"Do it then, make the link. We need to find the girls." Jacob insisted, wondering why Newt was delaying.
"I would need his blood, he found my blood at the warehouse." Newt as usual refused eye contact. It felt strange for him, not to have one of his hands occupied with his suitcase. Jacob sighed, his hand brushing his dirty hair back. Newts eyes locked on immediately. the red tint on Jacobs knuckle was like a beacon in the night sky. There was no avoiding it.
"Jacob." Newt began. Jacob looked up at him, surprised he found himself making eye contact. Even if one of Newts eyes was concealed by his own dirty hair. "Your knuckles, you punched Grindelwald didn't you?" Newt asked, even though he knew the answer he would receive moments later.
"Yes! I did and his lip split. He was bleeding!" Jacob held out his hand to Newt, the spark in his eyes showed hope had been restored. With his other hand Jacob presented Newts wand. "Do you need this?" Jacob asked. Newt slowly took the wand, his fingers wrapped around the magical weapon one by one. He knew what he was about to do, and he would have done anything, anything at all if it meant he didn't have to. But there was no choice, and he knew this. He pointed the wand at the faded slither of blood on Jacobs knuckles.
"Legilimens." Newt cast the spell, he felt his mind suddenly torn away. He was now in the mind of another, the darkness he felt was corrupting him slowly. His own thoughts where twisting merging with the monster he was now connected to.
"How?" A calm voice rang thought his mind, Newt fell back onto the cold ground. His mind seemed to be boiling in his skull. "You should be dead Mr Scamander, I felt you die." Grindelwald told him.
"And I did die." Newt replied, his voice was calm compared to his body, which gripped his head in pain.
"How did you complete the link."
"You shouldn't be so carless with you blood." The pain in Newts mind was starting to ease, however the strain on the connection was slowly draining him.
"You've made a mistake, you know what you have done, right?" Grindelwald laughed.
"You may be able to track me, but I can bend your mind to my will now, make you see things. Make your doubt your every thought." Newt pulled himself back up against the cold wall, Jacob was at his side. His lips where moving but not a word came out. He was being drowned up by Grindelwald.
"You forget I can do the same to you."
"Your weak, you have hardly any magic left. It was a miracle you where able to complete the link." Newts eyes where suddenly blinded, and he found himself somewhere else. Looking through the eyes of a tormented monster. "Come find me Mr Scamander, and don't keep me waiting. I may get bored." Newt watched as Grindelwald opened and stepped down into Newts case.
Authors notes
Hello all, hope you all have a merry christmas. This chapter was really fun to write, and i can't wait for you guys to see what happens next. I'm sure your going to love it. Anyway, hope to have a new chapter up soon, and can't wait to see the reviews. (btw the reviews are amazing and I'm glad your all loving the story so much.)
