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Flora-Part 35:

New York City:

Tina was now at the 'it's all my fault' stage with Flora and was blaming herself to the point where she couldn't think clearly. Luckily Queenie was able to think better so she was helping the Auror team as well. Secretly she was hoping they'd keep her full time once the nightmare was over and Flora was back with them.

"I just cannot believe Abernathy has defected," Queenie said to Lucianna, "I did not see that one coming," she said, "he was the last one I expected to defect."

"So am I. He barely had any contact with Grindelwald. We are still trying to figure out if Flora went of her own free will," Lucianna replied, "or whether he managed to convince her to join him."

"She wouldn't have gone of her own free will. She was raised by you and the President and we were all getting along," Queenie said, "there is no way that she would have gone of her own free will. She isn't powerful enough to cause that type of explosion. I need to go and find Tina and talk to her. I have an idea where she'll be." She then excused herself and left.

Queenie apparated herself back to the apartment and headed straight for Newt's Case and sure enough she spotted the figure of her sister sat on the rock overlooking the old Thunderbird enclosure.

"We will find her Teenie. Credence too. They are all probably in the same area of the world. Europe seems the most obvious place to me. He wouldn't stay in America and keep Flora hidden from sight knowing that she'd know where she was," Queenie said as she sat down by Tina.

"This is all my fault," Tina said, "if I hadn't pushed her away as much as I did or pulled her out sooner then she might not have been so drawn to him. I promised Ma and Pa that I would look after you both but my anger and grief took over and now it's just us again and Flora is out there…"

"Grindelwald will not hurt her. He took her for a reason and we will find her Teenie. She will be found and brought home somehow," Queenie said, "stop thinking like that."

"Stop reading my mind then," she said before they fell silent and listened to the sounds of the Creatures in the Case.

Back at MACUSA and Seraphina and Lucianna were sat in the Auror Office alone for a change both wondering how they were going to deal with this.

"Well The Ghost has said the truth but left Flora's name out of it," Lucianna said, "the last thing we need is accusations flying around because they will play into his hands and then Flora will be gone for good."

"All world publications have been ordered to leave Flora's name out of it," Seraphina said, "after all we need to establish what Grindelwald is up to and why he took Flora. Once we can figure that out we can then figure out whether Flora has been captured or whether she agreed to go with him. We know she was trying to save his life…"

"Because she can see the good in everyone no matter how evil they are. It was her mother's gift. They all got one when their parents died," Lucianna said, "but I fear Flora may be lost forever because Grindelwald will not let her go without a fight. We all know what he's like," she said before sighing softly, "I think I'm going to go home and try and get some rest," she said before excusing herself and leaving.

However Lucianna did not rest at all. Something was bugging her about the whole situation and she was determined to try and figure out what it was. She shut herself away and made sure that her room was protected by spells so her younger sister would have no idea what she was up to. She poured through the books and eventually there was only one conclusion she could draw and it was possibly the worst one that she could possibly come to a solid conclusion on.

The next day and Seraphina was in her office talking to Graves, the British Minister of Magic and a representative of the ICW. Only they knew that top MACUSA Auror Flora Goldstein had been taken in the chaos of Grindelwald's escape and Abernathy defecting.

"Is the no indication of where he has taken her?" British Minister Hector Fawley asked, "not even in Flora's notebook?"

"No nothing that is of any use. No clue about where they are or why she was taken…"

"I think I know!" Lucianna said as she interrupted her sister walking into the office, "we've all been led into a trap. I was up all night and the only reason I can think of is he heard what we were talking about with Abernathy… outside his cell. He must have been listening to us."

Seraphina's eyes widened as Lucianna laid down on the desk in front of her sister and watched as her younger sister began to read the research.

"You really think there is some truth in it? Flora and Grindelwald being soulmates?" she finally managed to ask after concluding her look into the findings of her sister's research.

"Yes I think there is because he never responded until she came and then she shut us all out of her mind," Lucianna said, "I think he started to lure her in and that awoke the connection and she shut herself off so we wouldn't pull her off the case. Whether she now knows about this or not is a question but I do not believe she'd have known because Grindelwald would not have known that it was her because we didn't say who other than the name Flora…"

"Which means he had his suspicions and took her," Minister Fawley said, "because if she was his soulmate then he would have needed her with him…"

"Flora is WHAT?!" Tina said suddenly from the doorway to the office.

"We think she may have been taken because she may be Grindelwald's soulmate," Graves explained, "but we can neither confirm or deny that and we fear that maybe Grindelwald now knows the answers."

Tina looked before she stormed off and Queenie turned and looked and could feel everyone blocking her out. She grew angry when they did that. She knew how Graves and the Picquery sisters felt about Flora.

"Just stop blocking me out. Flora is our sister and right now she is in the hands of the most evil wizard of our time," she said before sighing and watching Lucianna, "she's like a daughter to you and then I know you care about Tina."

"We do believe that Grindelwald and Flora could be soulmates and that's why he wouldn't respond but he didn't know that it was this Flora possibly until the connection started to pull on them both. We fell into the trap and are now paying with it really," Seraphina said finally giving into what Queenie was saying before watching as the blonde haired witch went after her sister.

"Teenie!" Queenie said and Tina stopped.

"We fell into a trap Queenie and our baby sister is now the one missing," Tina said before sighing.

"We'll find her Teenie. We will find her just you wait and see."