The First Time She Missed Him...
It confused her at first, this new feeling that she was experiencing (the one she was afraid to give a name to).
He hadn't even been gone a week when she noticed it for the first time; a sort of tug in the pit of her stomach that somehow made her increasingly aware of her own solitude, spurring a longing for the affection, excitement and quiet companionship that she hadn't ever been truly privy to before.
Before the awkward smiles and stolen glances.
Before the case full of amazing fantastic beasts and the almost destruction of the city that she called home.
Before a not quite tearful goodbye amidst the smoky hustle and bustle of the New York docklands.
Before soft parting touches, touches that made her whole body buzz with a sort of dreamy satisfaction.
Before earnest promises of a reunion sometime in the future.
Before him...
On rare occasions where she knew that she was far enough from Queenie for her thoughts to remain her own, Tina found herself replaying the last moments that she had spent with Newt at the docks before his return to England.
The warmth of his lingering touch against her cheek as he gently tucked her hair behind her ear.
'How would you feel if I delivered your copy in person'.
Right before she found herself completely consumed (in the best and most indulgent way possible) by her reverie, Tina always managed to catch herself at the last moment, almost as though she were chasing her own self downhill in a never ending game of tag
A game where she would, right at the nick of time, catch a hold of her runaway thoughts, barely succeeding in stopping herself from stumbling and falling at the last possible second.
It wasn't like her to be act like this, to think or behave in this way...at least not about a man she had known in person for less than a week.
Mercy Lewis, She barely knew Newt Scamander!
Tina was supposed to be the level headed Goldstein, the career girl, the breadwinner, the auror. It was who she was, who she always had been ever since her parents died.
Daydreaming had always been Queenie's department, not hers!
But somehow she still found herself glancing hopefully at her bedroom window as the first light of day burst through the blinds, bringing with it not only a busy but rewarding day working at her beloved profession, but also the promise of receiving an owl
An owl that had carried it's letters all the way across the Atlantic from a certain copper haired magizoologist.
The same letters that kept her up to date with his life and with his fantastic beasts in such beautiful, wonderful and almost poetic detail that Tina often found herself nearly forgetting that he was writing an informative guide on magical creatures and not the next great adventure novel.
Sometimes they were letters that asked about her daily life with Queenie and whatever case she had mentioned she had been working on in the auror office.
It gave her a warm tingling feeling inside (One she would be teased mercilessly about by her younger sister should the second Goldstein ever find out) when he asked with such genuine care and interest, so different from the handful of MACUSA employees that she had reluctantly gone out with in the past.
All of her correspondence with him over the past few weeks finished in the same fashion, with a small doddle of whatever creature he had mentioned in the main body of the letter and signed at the bottom with teal coloured ink in his very characteristic, slightly messy cursive;
'Fondly yours, Newt.'
Words that Tina, more often than she would ever admit to anyone (including herself), traced over absentmindedly as she imagined, half disapprovingly/half affectionately, all of the insanely illegal creature related predicaments he was undoubtedly getting himself into back in England.
(He had said he wouldn't need investigating for a while-but she wasn't buying that!)
...
And so, despite all her logic and reasoning, Tina found herself missing him...her crazy, wonderful magizoologist.
Her Newt.
A/N: Hey there, if you're reading this. I just want to say a big thanks to LumosAsphodel31 for their lovely review on the first chapter of this story. It was awesome motivation! I'm so sorry that it still isn't displayed with this story, I had some technical issues with the first version of 'Follow You, Follow Me' and had to delete the whole story and repost.
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