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Flora-Part 10:

They'd barely walked 10 steps when they heard a loud bang and hurried towards the direction of the noise. They were able to blend in and were surprised when they saw Flora emerging with someone that had clearly been trying to resist arrest. The youngest Goldstein nodded at Newt before heading off with the offender. She flashed a fake New York Police badge to an officer as she passed him. Tina just watched before she carried on walking.

"You know she can probably read your mind," he said.

"Good," Tina said and Newt realised that he was going to have to start working on Tina before the President realised he hadn't made a start on his side of the bargain.

Flora had arrived at MACUSA with the offender and was heading to the auror office to be processed. Flora knew the girl would be let off with a warning but she still had to be processed like everyone else. She was walking up the stairs when she spotted a heated discussion taking place between the Picquery sisters. She ignored them as she reached the top of the stars and led the offender away to be processed.

"Why were you selling illegal potions? Do you know the damage they can cause?" Flora asked.

"The man said they were perfectly legal and safe," the young woman said, "I had no idea that they weren't."

"Who was the man?" Flora asked. She knew the answer, of course, as she'd read the young woman's mind, "unfortunately you are the one I caught selling them which means you are the one in trouble," she said. She did feel bad though, the woman couldn't have been much older than her.

"Please no! My parents will be so disappointed in me."

"What's your name?" Flora asked.

"Nicole," the woman replied, "Nicole Davis." Flora went to the the cabinet of offenders and looked for a file but there wasn't one.

"Is this your first offence Nicole?" Flora questioned and Nicole nodded, "then it'll be a warning for you and we will catch the man responsible so he cannot do this again. But let me make this clear if I catch you doing anything like this for yourself or for other people you won't get away so lightly next time. Am I clear?"

"Crystal," Nicole said and Flora began to fill out the paperwork.

Eventually Flora completed the paperwork and she looked at Nicole,

"Now remember what I told you," she said, "any reports of trouble from you and you won't get away with it so lightly next time." Nicole nodded,

"Thank you Miss," she said.

"And if you need anything then send me a message. My name is Auror Flora Goldstein and I'll get back to you as soon as I can." She called someone to come and escort Nicole from the building before heading into the corridor to go back out on patrol when she heard heard raised voices and quickly found a place to hide as she realised it was the voices of the President and Lucianna.

"She's not happy there though!" Lucianna said, "why can't she come and stay with us?"

"Because Mr. Scamander is working on a way to bring the sisters back together. I'm not going to lose two of my best aurors over something that happened years ago," Seraphina said, "no way."

"There's something else isn't there?" the younger sister asked. Seraphina sighed,

"When their parents died an old, kind, powerful kind of magic appeared, one that I've only ever heard of happening once before. The three cannot be harmed as long as they are living in the apartment together. Only the President of MACUSA over the years since it happened knows that." Lucianna's eyes had widened as she listened,

"They don't know…?" Seraphina shook her head,

"Their parents sacrificed their lives to save Flora. That's what triggered the magic to appear. It's sort of like a protection spell, a powerful one. We've all been sworn to secrecy and to keep an eye on them. As long as they live together they are protected," she finished before carrying on to her office, Lucianna quickly following behind her. Flora was rooted to the spot in her hiding place stunned at what she'd heard.

Newt and Tina had found a café and were now sat in a corner having some lunch.

"Can I ask you something and please don't go off on one at me," he said. Tina noticed he was nervous and looked up at him,

"I might regret this but go ahead."

"How old were you when your parents died?" he asked before waiting for Tina to shout at him.

"I was just 10, Queenie 6 and she'd just turned 3," Tina said, "I don't even remember how or why Flora caught it. I think one of our cousins had it and Flora caught it from them."

Newt could tell that she was trying to fight the emotions so he held her hand and looked at her and Tina looked at him and carried on,

"Flora got extremely sick a couple of day after she visited our aunt and uncle's place, Ma followed a few days later. Pa got sick a few days after Ma and they went out and took Flora with them and then came back. Flora began to get better a few days later…Ma died shortly after and Pa died a few hours after mum. Flora was still getting better and Queenie took care of her and told her that our parents had died when she was fully recovered. I couldn't bare to look at her."

"So what happened when you started Ilvermony?" he asked.

"They stayed with a couple that lived locally and I stayed there durning the short holidays but Hanukkah and the summer we'd go back to New York," Tina replied, "when Queenie started the couple moved away and Lucianna took Flora in. I had no idea why until recently and then Queenie and I washed our hands of Flora. We weren't going to be responsible for her no more."

"Didn't you ever think about her?"

"She was a Thunderbird! I saw her everyday! I'd often escape to the Pukwudge common room to avoid her."

Silence fell between the two and Newt held her hand still as he watched her. Clearly it was upsetting her, even after all this time.

"I understand what you're going through but have you ever stopped to think how she is feeling?" Newt asked.

"Why should I care?"

"Because she also lost her parents and probably blames herself for it. You're suffering, still grieving, but she is too."

Tina sighed,

"I just can't forgive her for Queenie losing her parents. I'm not bothered about it anymore but Queenie did not deserve to lose her parents. I had to grow up fast. Looking after a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old wasn't easy. We had family that dropped in to help but gradually we all went to Ilvermorny they stopped worrying and left us alone." Newt nodded as he listened,

"OK now I understand things better but just think about what I have said." Tina nodded before going and paying for the meal and the two heads back out on patrol, Tina's words spinning around in Newt's mind. How could he help them now?