"Well, come on. Sit." Said Queenie then she went out of the apartment with a joyous demeanor. Tina didn't notice her sister slipping away and Theseus was too distracted with the newspaper to know what was going on.
"So… Newt still hadn't told me how you two met." Said Theseus while laying down the Newspaper on the table.
"Well we met in a bank, Newt was…" Tina was interrupted by Newt who had stood up with a jump and headed to the door where Queenie had just arrived with Jacob in tow.
"Jacob!" before he could hug his friend the doubt made him stop. Maybe he didn't remember him at all, and Queenie and he began from zero again.
"Don't worry honey he remembers!" Said Queenie assuring him.
"Newt! It is so good to see you again pal." Greeted Jacob.
Before they could continue with their chat, Queenie guided them back to the table where she had already added a place for Jacob. Queenie set food on the table with fluid motion of her wand and gave him a look that indicated that he should introduce Jacob to Theseus.
"Oh, sorry. Theseus this is Jacob. Jacob this is Theseus my brother."
They began to eat while the conversation flowed between them.
"So, you are the war hero?" Asked Jacob interested in the older Scamander.
"Newt, told you about me!?" Said a surprised Theseus. This reaction made Tina laugh; she must remember from his letters the complicated relationship that the two of them have.
"Well, not exactly… you were mentioned when we were arrested." Said Jacob
"You got arrested?" Said Theseus in his mocking tone. Newt only nodded in response. "Finally! I want to know every detail, of how they finally catch you." Said an over exited Theseus.
"I arrested him for cause havoc in a Bank with a niffler. And leave without obliterating Jacob."
"You got arrested by her!" Asked Theseus looking at him, shocked. Newt gave him a glance that screamed to stop talking. "How?!" a perplexed Theseus asked to Tina. Tina looked very offended by the scepticism on Theseus voice.
"Well, his niffler was in the vault…" she was cut down by Theseus.
"I understand that, I had seen it happen, and I have even heard it happen more than once around the globe, what had never happened is that he got arrested. They never catch him; he is so proud of that, that he even made a bet with me." He turned to Newt. "By the way, ready to pay?" Said a mischievous Theseus.
"When we go back to England, you can humiliate me." Said Newt, before his brother could protest Tina asked what everyone in the table was wondering, well everyone but Queenie, she had already seen what happened from Theseus and Newts minds.
"How many times had he…" Before she could continue Thesues took out a small notebook and showed her a list of countries, next to each country there was either a cross a check or a line.
"This are the countries that he had visited in the last decade, if they had a cross, it means that the government there hates him, if it has a check then he is in good terms with them, the line means that he didn't cause trouble. But at the begging even in the countries with a check he was a wanted man." Explained Theseus. Newt peaked at the list.
"I am still welcome at India?" Asked Newt surprised by the news, after all he almost destroyed the Taj Mahal.
"It turned out that one of the creatures that you saved was the pet of the president son. So, they are still on good terms with you." Explained Theseus.
"That is good to hear" Said Jacob unconvinced of Newt being able to cause enough trouble for being forbidden the entrée of a country.
The talk about his adventures keep going for a while until they finished dinner and headed to the sitting room to keep talking. To his surprise, even Theseus looked to be enjoying himself without making fun of him in every sentence.
"I can't wait to tell cup about this." Said Theseus with a big smile, at seeing Tina and Newt sitting next to each other in the coach.
"Cup?" Asked Jacob.
"Yeah, that is his nickname, he lost an ear in the war, a pretty amazing story of him fighting a German" Explained Theseus, Newt began to laugh when he mentioned that it was an amazing story. "What? You don't think that it was amazing?" Asked Theseus.
"It is amazing. But it isn't true, he didn't lose his ear like that. I thought that you knew." Said Newt trying and falling to control his laughter, Tina was smiling down at him with a sweet smile that made his stomach curl.
"Then how did it happen?" Asked Theseus. Newt redirected his gaze from Tina to Jacob and Theseus that were sitting next to each other.
"Do you remember that the trenches were full of rats?" Jacob a Theseus nodded in confirmation; Queenie squealed in disgust. "Well cup had a bag full of sweets that he kept them next to his head, and well a rat ate his ear while it ate the sweets."
"That is gross. He didn't wake up screaming?" Asked Jacob.
"He drunk a potion for sleep like the dead. So, he didn't feel it."
"How did you know?" Asked Theseus still not believing his brother
"I was on watch duty. The next day I saw him freaking out for his lack of ear." Explained Newt.
"You slept on the trenches?" Asked a mortified Queenie, while Tina snorted in disbelieve by her sister naivety.
Before the men could say anything, a blue eagle landed on the couch next to Tina.