"Queenie! It isn't working!" Said a distressed Tina the moment that she closed the door of her sister bedroom.
"He will eventually succumb, Teenie" Said Queenie calmly. She was applying some make up and fixing her hair in the little pocket mirror that she always had at her side.
"I have the feeling that it isn't his shyness that is preventing him from acting. There most be something else…" Said Tina looking for answers from her sister. She must know what is troubling their British host. She always knows what is going on with everyone.
"I can't tell you." Said Queenie looking down at her shoes. What could it be? After all Newt was more than interested. She can see that he appreciated her little shows very much. In the last one he even stared without shame directly at her. And if she was honest with herself, she enjoyed making them for him, the look that he gave her made her felt bold, sensual and sexy. It was other kind of magic that he performed in her with only one charged glance that leaved her lustful for the real thing.
"I made a promise with myself; I won't use my legilimency actively, it only has led me to trouble. Your thoughts are easy to deflect… But Newt isn't as quite as you or Jacob." Said Queenie.
"Tell me what is going on with him. Please…" Said Tina begging for her sister help. The younger Goldstein kept her sight on the floor. Insecure of breaking her promise with herself.
"if you tell me I will teach Newt occulumnecy." Said Tina
"Okay… but don't be mad with me." Tina nodded in response. "Do you remember that I told you how Jacob and I ended up in England?" She asked with her eyes fixed on the door.
"Yes, you used a love potion to make him come with you. You told Newt about the magazine, he broke the love enchantment you and Jacob fought, you chased me to Paris. They somehow found out and followed you."
"That is a good resume yes, but you are missing something." Tina closed her arms in front of her sister who was looking even more guilty.
"I told him that you thought that he was engaged and that…" she glimpsed up at her then back to the door. "that you began to date Mr. Tolliver." Finished Queenie in a frenzy.
"WHAT THE FUCKING HELL!" yelled an exasperated Tina as Queenie fled from the room. She must be aiming to exit the house and come back when she was calmer, but that won't happen. Tina was furious with her sister little plan to avoid telling her this.
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Newt and Theseus were drinking a cup of tea in the kitchen table, discussing a case of a band of nifflers that had sneaked in the Buckingham Palace last week. They were planning to put some repellent enchantments to other similar locations around the country to avoid another incident like that one.
"What the fucking hell!" the muffled yell was heard around the house, the brothers stopped completely their conversation to look in the direction of the stairs, to see a very guilty looking Queenie head downstairs with a furious Tina close behind.
"You are not running out of this one!" Said Tina enraged with her sister. Newt and Theseus looked from behind the table.
"I didn't tell him a lie." Queenie defended herself. Tina started to laugh at her sister statement.
"It was a lie; I didn't date him. I told you that, so you could stop looking at me like I was a fucking lost puppy." Stated a Tina.
Newt couldn't help but to feel a bit of hope emerging in his chest. That maybe she was talking about her supposed American boyfriend. Perhaps he still had a chance...
"But you went out…" said a confused Queenie, before she cut down by Tina
"I went for a walk, the moment that I exited the apartment I would change to my normal clothes."
"I am so sorry Teenie…" Tina was furious Newt can see it in her stance and the glare that she was giving her sister was even more charged than the one that she would give even Grindelwald.
"You even make me seduce him, to avoid telling me you little…" Newt's breath hitched hearing her confirm what his brother had been claiming the whole week.
"JA, Told you so!" Exclaimed Theseus, making the sisters aware of their presence on the kitchen.
"Shut up idiot" Said Newt trying to hide beneath the table with his irritating brother.
"Newt! Come out I know you are there" Said Tina more collected than a few second ago. Newt stood up with his brother who still had that devilish smile plastered in his face. "Just for the record, I am single" She said with a heavy look full of meaning directed at him, the same type of look that he had given him last night, when she had informed him that she borrowed one of his shirts. Theseus patted him in the back. "I will see you all of you later." She announced as she went out of the house. Leaving the three of them shocked, or at least Newt was shocked.
The living room stayed in silence until Theseus broke it with a fit of laughter. Newt gave him a hard look, to which he responded by laughing even harder.
"I WON!" Yelled Theseus.
"I didn't bet" Said Newt.
"Not you, Leta. It is my first time winning." Said a very excited Theseus while he to headed to the door. "See you later Fido." He said as farewell.