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Chapter Four: Unexpected Guests

After a long walk, we finally arrived at our house. I was very excited to be going to find my old house tomorrow and then be able to go to Paris to find Credence. True, we might be facing dangers along the way, but it was nothing the Scamanders couldn't handle! I just wondered what sort of toys I would take with me.

As we walked up the steps of our large yellow bricked Victorian house, I looked up to see that the light in our living room was flashing on and off repeatedly. "Daddy, do you see that?"

"See what?" He asked and looked over to see the flashing lights that were still happening. He gripped tightly onto my hand while he fished out his wand from his coat pocket. "Stick tight to me, my dear."

"Yes, daddy." I held his hand tightly as my free hand gripped tightly onto the necklace Dumbledore gave to me. Maybe this could protect us.

Daddy opened the door cautiously with his wand still in his hand. To our relief, it was just one of the baby Nifflers that was swinging on the brass cord of the table lap that was beside daddy's sitting chair. The baby Niffler, which I had named Teddy, finally managed to steal the cord before spotting us. It then scampered away, knocking down some objects as it ran. "Teddy, come back here!" I yelled, letting go of daddy's hand.

"My dear, I found Taylor!" Daddy called, seeing Taylor sitting on a set of weighing scales, pinned down by gold-colored weights that he was trying to steal.

"Oh goodness, Taylor, no!" I called as Teddy made it his was the dining room table, but daddy quickly put a saucer pan on top of him, which continued to move across the table. Meanwhile, I grabbed an apple and tossed it into the opposite weighing scale, which sent Taylor flying into the air. Before they could fall, I caught Taylor while Daddy caught Teddy and we both stuck them into my pockets.

"Wait, there's only two. Oh gosh, where's Terra?" I asked worriedly as we both looked around.

"I think I found her, my dear." Daddy said and pointed to where Terra was. She was trying to climb onto a bottle of daddy's champagne on the counter. But as soon as she made it up and tried to get the top off, the top of the champagne bottle popped off, which sent it and Terra zooming past us and down the stairs into our basement.

"Terra, no!" I yelled and ran down the stairs.

"Emma, come back here! Bunty! Bunty, the baby Nifflers are loose again!" Daddy called as we ran down the stairs into our rather large animal hospital. Our animal hospital was rather big and contained much more animals than daddy's suitcase did. It was similar to the suitcase, but much more bigger and didn't have a small sleeping space for the two of us.

I picked up Terra from the floor, who was wearing the rider of the champagne cork as a necklace before seeing Bunty run up to me. Bunty was daddy's assistant; a plain girl, but she was just as crazy about the creatures as we were. And it was obvious to me that she was hopelessly in love with Newt. But I had already told her multiple times that his heart belonged to someone else; My mommy, Tina Goldstein. "Oh, Emma, I see you found them all!"

"Yes I did." I said rather seriously before handing her Terra, Teddy, and Taylor. She then took all three of them and tucked them all into their nest, which was full of sparkling objects.

"Well done, you two." Daddy said as he came into the room.

"I'm so sorry, you two. They must've picked the lock while I was cleaning out the Augureys and-"

"Don't worry, Bunty." Daddy cut her off.

"What's important is that they're safe." I said with a small sigh. These baby Nifflers meant a lot to me, no matter how troublesome they were. They were like having children. Expect I didn't think having children would be this complicated.

"W-well, I've fed nearly everyone. Pinky's had his nose drops-" Bunty explained.

"What about Elsie?" I asked.

"Elsie's droppings are normal again." She replied with a small smile. It was obvious she was uncomfortable around me. Why though? I'm a delight... Unless you try to take my daddy away from my mommy.

"Wonderful. You can clock off now-" Daddy looked down at her fingers, which were all bandaged up, "I thought I told you to leave the Kelpie to me and Emma."

"That wound needs more ointment and-" Bunty tried explaining.

"I don't want you losing fingers over it." Daddy said seriously.

I sighed and rolled my eyes at her. She put herself in dangerous situations just to get his attention. Mommy never did that. Daddy and I then walked toward a large patch of black water with Bunty trotting in our path.

"Seriously, you go home now, Bunty. You must be exhausted." Daddy commented, taking off his coat.

"You know the Kelpie's easier with two." Bunty explained.

"That's why I'm here. I'm a second person." I told her with a small glare.

"See? Emma and I have this under control." Daddy said with a small smile, not noticing my glare while he unhooked a bridle that was hanging by the pond.

"Perhaps you should take your shirt off, Newt." Bunty said in a hopeful tone.

Daddy blinked and laughed a little. "Don't worry, I'll dry off quickly enough." He said obliviously before diving into the water.

I smirked and took off my coat. "You should give up now, Bunty. His heart belongs to another. And her name is Tina." And with a wicked smirk on my face, I dived into the water to join daddy.

After a few seconds, I saw daddy and swam over him as he casted a small spell on us to breathe better underwater. He then wrapped my arms around his neck as the Kelpie came into view. It was a gigantic, semi-spectral horse that swam rapidly around us. But daddy grabbed a told of its neck and managed to scramble us onto his back. Soon, it dived deeper into the water, taking daddy and I with him.

The two of us and the Kelpie swam around in the water for a long time until the Kelpie rose to the surface. Daddy and I both laughed before getting off the creature and grabbed the warm towels that were on the ground. I caught sight of Bunty staring at the sight of daddy in his wet shirt. I wanted to sass her, but I knew it would be no use.

"Someone just needed to let off some steam. Ointment, Bunty?" Daddy asked before Bunty handed him the ointment, applying it onto the wound on the Kelpie's neck. "Now, you bite Bunty again and there'll be trouble, mister."

"Daddy, he doesn't know any better." I commented before gently petting the Kelpie, which nuzzled itself against my small hand.

Before daddy could respond to my statement, there was a big crash from overhead. It sounded like it came from upstairs in the living room. "What was that?" I asked curiously.

"Yes, what was that?" Bunty repeated, but in a more scared tone. Seriously, she needed to be more braver.

"I don't know. But I want you to go home, Bunty. Emma, come with me. We'll go investigate." Daddy said as we took hands and began to run upstairs, the towels still around us and our hair and clothes still wet.

"Shall I call the ministry?" Bunty called.

"No, I want you to go home, please!" Daddy called before we walked to the door. He looked down at me before putting a finger on his lips, telling me to be quiet. I nodded and repeated the action. Daddy gave a smile before gently pushing open the door, wand in his free hand.

We both quietly sneaked into the living room, where we could hear voices. They seemed to be trying their hardest to keep their voices down. But they sounded so similar. "Count of three." Daddy whispered, "One.."

"Two..." I whispered.

"Three!" We both exclaimed before jumping into the open, daddy pointing his wand out before him before we suddenly saw who was in our home. To our surprise, it was Jacob Kowalski and Queenie Goldstein.

"Jacob? Queenie?" I asked in both shock and excitement.

"NEWT! EMMA!" Jacob exclaimed before he ran up to us and pulled us into one great big hug, "God, it is so good to see you two crazy rule-breakers!"

"Jacob!" I laughed and hugged him back, seeing that daddy was slightly confused as to what was going on.

"We hope you both don't mind, but we let ourselves in- It's raining out there- cats and dogs! London's very cold!" Queenie said with a light laugh, her hair now slightly shorter than before.

Jacob eventually pulled away before I ran over to Queenie and gave her a hug. "I'm so glad you both are here! I mean, I'm surprised, but very glad!"

Queenie laughed and twirled me around a little. "Oh, we couldn't wait any longer to see you both. Plus, we have some good news!"

"Wait, wait, Jacob, you were supposed to be Oblivated." Daddy commented.

"I know!" Jacob exclaimed.

"So then what happened?" I asked, looking up at our Muggle friend.

"It didn't work! I mean, as your dad said, the potion only erases bad memories. I didn't have any! I mean, don't get me wrong, I had some ones. But this angel.." He looked over at Queenie in a loving way, "This over over here, she filled me in on all the bad parts, and here we are, I guess, huh?" Jacob explained with a smile.

"That's wonderful!" Newt exclaimed, overjoyed, hugging Jacob again.

"It's more than wonderful, daddy! It's fantastic!" I said with a laugh before looking around. If Queenie and Jacob were here, then shouldn't that mean that mommy was here. "Wait, where's Tina?"

I saw daddy's eyes widen in delight and he pulled away. "Is she here? Tina? Tina!" He called and looked around the living room for her.

"Oh, it's just us, honey. Just Jacob and I." Queenie explained.

"Oh." Was all daddy said. It was obvious that he was upset that she wasn't here. Maybe something came up and she couldn't come?

"Well, how about I make us something to eat?" Queenie offered with a sweet smile.

"Yes, please! I haven't had anything since this afternoon." I explained and took her hand, leading her to the kitchen with Daddy and Jacob following behind us.

"Oh, I could tell." She said with a light laugh and pointed to her head, reminding me that she could read minds.

Around a few minutes later, we were now in the kitchen/dining room, as Queenie was preparing us some potato soup. It was obvious to everyone that daddy was upset that Tina wasn't here. And I was too, but we had guests over, which were our old friends from New York. We couldn't be sad now! "Tina and I aren't talking." She said out loud as she finished the soup and handed a bowl to me.

"Wait, why?" Daddy and I asked together as I began to eat the soup, which was as good as her strudel was.

"Oh, well, you know, she found out about Jacob and I seeing each other and she didn't like it cause of the "law." Not allowed to date No-Majs, not allowed to marry them. Blah, blah, blah. Well, she was all in a tizzy, anyway, cause of you, Newt." She said and handed everyone else their bowls of soup.

I was sort of upset that mommy didn't like that Jacob and Queenie were seeing each other again. It shouldn't matter either they were of two different species; Love was love, after all. But then she brought up that she was mad because of daddy. "Why? What did he do?"

"Yes, what did I do?" Daddy added, rather confused of what he did this time.

"Oh! It was in Spellbound magazine. Here, I brought it for you both to read." She pointed her wand at the suitcase and the magazine flew towards us. On the cover, it read: "Beast Tamer Newt To Wed!" It also included a picture of daddy, Bunty, Leta, Uncle Theseus, and I all standing together at our book launch. Oh, Leta was there. And here I thought she was some random stranger at the book launch.

""Newt Scamander with fiancé, Leta Lestrange; along with his young daughter, Emma Scamander; brother, Theseus Scamander; and unknown woman."" Queenie read out loud.

"Oh, that's not good." I mumbled. The magazine was wrong! Uncle Theseus was the one that was going to marry Leta, not daddy! That's why Tina wasn't here and why she was upset at daddy. But was she upset at me? I didn't do anything wrong.

"No, no, Theseus is the one marrying Leta, not me." Daddy explained.

"Oh, oh dear. Well, see, Teen read that, and she started dating someone else. He's an Auror. His name's Achilles Tolliver." Queenie explained.

There was silence. Well, this was bad. My dream of having a mother in our small family was falling apart. I had to get Tina and daddy back together! There was no way that Bunty was ever gonna be my mommy! I then looked over and saw what Jacob was doing. He was eating in a rather sloppy way, humming to himself, and even tried to drink the salt. I couldn't tell if he was drunk or not.

Queenie took the salt shaker and put his glass in his hand. "Anyway, we're real exited to be here, you two. Well, this is a special trip for us. You see, Jacob and I are getting married!" She exclaimed and showed us the engagement ring on her finger. It was rather beautiful and it had a small Pearl in the middle of it.

"I'm marrying Jacob!" Jacob explained while pouring his drink all over his ear.

I blinked but smiled at the news, clapping my hands. Maybe Jacob was just very drunk and drank too much celebrate the fact that he was marrying Queenie before he came to see us. "Oh, that's amazing!"

"I know!" Queenie giggled before looking at daddy rather shocked. "What? I have not!"

"Wait, have not what?" I asked, looking back and forth at her and daddy confused.

"Will you stop reading my mind?" Daddy asked with a light growl in his voice, "Queenie, you've brought him here against his will. You've enchanted him!"

"Enchanted him? Wait, Queenie, did you-" I looked closely at Jacob and how he was behaving. It was obvious to me now that he wasn't drunk because I would be able to smell the alcohol on him. Queenie put a love spell on Jacob! That was why he was acting like this. "You put a love potion on him!"

"Oh, that is an outrageous accusation! Look at him! He's happy, he's so happy!" Queenie exclaimed.

"Oh, then you won't mind if I-" Daddy was got off as he drew his wand out again.

"No! Please don't!" Queenie yelled before jumping in front of Jacob and trying to shield him from us.

"Queenie, it's okay. Jacob really loves you and I can tell that he really wants to marry you. Daddy just wants to lift the enchantment off of him. He'll still love you, even without the enchantment." I told her sweetly.

Queenie looked at me for a moment before sighing and moved away from Jacob. "What you got there? Whatchu gonna do? Whatchu gonna do with that, Mr. Scamander?" Jacob asked with light giggles.

"Surgito!" Daddy exclaimed before waving his wand in of Jacob, which caused him to shake his head a couple of times. But after a few moments, Jacob was back to normal and was unenchanted now, looking around at his new surroundings.

"Hi Jacob! Congratulations on your engagement!" I exclaimed and hugged his arm.

"Emma? Wait what?" He looked at Queenie for a moment and she looked back at him rather hurt. With a sob, she grabbed her suitcase and ran out of our apartment. "Queenie, come back!" He gently pulled me off of his arm and ran after her.

"Well, that was a little anticlimactic." I commented.

"Very much so, yes." Daddy said and put his wand away.

To our surprise, Jacob came back. "It's very nice to see you two, by the way! Where am I right now?"

"Uh, London." Daddy replied.

"London, England." I added.

"Oh! Oh, great! I've always wanted to go here!" Jacob said in a frustrated tone before running after Queenie again, running out of the house.

Well, that didn't go very well at all.

Guess who's back? Back again! Hello everyone! It is I, your author of this story! I'm so sorry that I've been gone for so long and that I haven't updated in years. I've been very busy with school and being part of plays that I haven't had time. Thankfully, I'm on Christmas break so I can have all the free time in the world to write. Anyway, make sure that you all fav, commented, and follow if you guys wanna see more and I'll see you guys in the next chapter! I even have a surprise about Emma's real parents! See you soon!