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Chapter Ten: Escape from MACUSA

I eventually came up with a plan. It took awhile for me to think of something that could convince the guards outside to let me out, but I finally thought of something. I got up from my bed and walked to the door then knocked on it gently. "Excuse me! I need to go to the bathroom!" After a moment of silence, I still didn't hear anything. "Hello! I need to go to the bathroom, badly!" I yelled.

"Are you serious? Or are you just tricking me, kid?" I heard a voice ask. Oh, so it was only one guard that was guarding me? This was gonna be easy.

"I'm being serious, sir. I would never joke about using the restroom." I replied.

"Forget it, kid. You're not tricking me."

I huffed a small bit before remembering a trick that I had seen a little girl do in England. She had pretend to cry into her hands until her mother finally let her have an ice cream cone. I had never bothered to try that with daddy, but I supposed now was a good time to test my theory and see if it worked for all kids. I took a deep breath and pretend to sob like a baby, stomping the floor. "Please, sir! You have to let me out! I need to go very badly!" I yelled, trying my best to let him out.

It took a few seconds of me pretending to cry and scream before I heard the locks start to unlock. "Alright, alright, calm down." I heard the guard mumble angrily.

The door then opened as I saw an older man who roughly grabbed my wrist and started to gently drag me out of my cell. "Come on, kid. Let's get you to the bathroom."

I sniffed and looked down at the ground. "Thank you, sir. But do you wanna know something?"

"Now what?" He asked in an annoyed voice.

I looked up at him for him to see my dried face and my evil grin. "I never had to use the bathroom at all." And with that, I kicked him in his very special place. He gasped and let go of my hand, falling to the ground and groaning in agony. I laughed at his agony and then ran off as fast as I could.

Little did I know that an alarm bell was sounding off. I guess that the other guards knew I had gotten out. But now wasn't the time; I had to find daddy, Miss Goldstein, Jacob, and my animal siblings. But the question was: Where the heck was I?!

"There she is!" I heard a guard yell before turning my head and seeing two guards running towards me with their wands in their hands.

I gasped and started to run as fast as I could. Great, not only did I not know where I was, but now I had to run away from these guys! What a coincidence. The guards kept firing spells at me, but thankfully I dodged them all before another guard came out of nowhere and grabbed my arm tightly. "Hey, let go of me!"

"End of the line, kid! There's nowhere for you to go!" The guard who held me back growled.

"EMMA!"

I looked up and found daddy and Miss Goldstein standing behind me. They were okay! They were out of their cells! "Daddy!" I exclaimed happily, thrashing harder against the guard that held me back. The two guards had both casted spells to daddy, but he was too quick and sent them back, causing them to fall to the ground. The guard started to run off while still grabbing my arm, dragging me along.

"Stupefy!" Daddy yelled, casting a spell on the guard, which caused him to let go of my arm and be knocked away until he hit the wall then fell to the ground unconscious.

I laughed and instantly ran into daddy's arms, both of us embracing each other tightly. "Daddy!"

"Oh, my dear! Thank heavens you're alright! I thought I lost you." Daddy exclaimed, repeatedly kissing my face in happiness as I laughed.

"Mr. Scamander, I hate to break up the sweet moment, but we have to leave now!" Miss Goldstein yelled, obviously freaked out.

"Oh right!" Daddy then picked me up then grabbed Miss Goldstein hand before we ran off. Suddenly, we ran into the Swooping Evil on a guard with a wicked look on his face. "Leave his brains, come on! Come on!"

We continued our running with the Swooping Evil behind us, blocking curses and knocking out other guards that tried to come after us. I laughed and clapped my hands at seeing this. I know it was wrong of me to laugh, but they kind of deserved it.

"What is that thing?" Miss Goldstein asked.

"Swooping Evil!" I replied.

"Well, I love it!" She replied with a laugh

I rose an eyebrow before smiling. I was starting to like Miss Goldstein, but then I remembered why we were here. But now wasn't the time to yell at her for what she did. I looked ahead and saw the stairs that lead us out of here, but suddenly, Queenie, who had daddy's case, and Jacob ran in front of us. We all stopped before we crashed into each other.

"Jacob, Queenie, you guys are okay! And you have the case!" I exclaimed happily, wanting to give them a hug.

"We're fine, sweetie. But we can talk later. Get in." Queenie said, holding out the case for us all to get inside.

One by one, all of us, expect Queenie, were safe inside of the case. Once all of us were safely inside, I looked up at Queenie. "Be careful, okay?"

"I will, sweetie!" She called back sweetly before closing and locking us inside the case. We were all safe. For now. I turned back to daddy before we both hugged each other again, both of us crying yet again.

"Daddy, I'm sorry I got out of the case! I just didn't want you to get hurt by those meanies." I apologized.

"No, no, sweetie. This isn't your fault. You're alright and that's what matters now." Daddy said and he kissed my forehead, "But thank heavens you're alright. If anything were to happen to you, I would never forgive myself."

"I'm alright, daddy. We're all alright." I comforted him, giving him a kiss on the forehead as well. I then spotted Jacob and smiled, "Jacob! You still remember me, right?"

"Hmm, let me see. Your name is Emma, you're as crazy as your dad, and you like my pastries. Of course I remember you, kiddo." Jacob replied with a laugh.

I smiled happily and ran to Jacob, giving him a big hug. He was sort of surprised but then he hugged me back. I then pulled away and looked up at Miss Goldstein, who was standing their awkwardly. "Miss Goldstein."

"Emma." She replied before sighing, "Emma, I would like to apologize for putting us all in that situation. It was a stupid mistake and I have only myself to blame. I am so sorry for that I have done and I hope you can forgive me."

I stayed quiet as I looked at the apologetic women in front of me. I was so angry at her that I wanted to send an Erumpent on her, but she looked as though she was truly sorry for what she had done. I sighed and held out my hand. "You're forgiven, Miss Goldstein. But please promise that you will never do this to us again."

Miss Goldstein smiled softly and shook my hand gently. "Thank you, Emma. Oh, and you can call me Tina, if you want to."

I blinked and smiled a little. "Okay, Tina."

Later, when Queenie finally got us all out of the MACUSA building safely, we all appeared on a random roof that had a pigeon coop inside a small wooden shed. Queenie and Jacob were talking inside the pigeon coop while daddy, Tina, and I were talking a few feet away from them. I was holding onto daddy and my stuffed owl, Harry, tightly, while daddy carried me in his arms. For some reason, I had grown very sleepy now..

"Graves always insisted the disturbances were caused by a beast. We need to catch all your creatures so he can't keep using them as a scapegoat." Tina explained.

"There's only one still missing. Dougal, my Demiguise." Daddy replied.

"Dougal?" Tina asked.

"One problem, daddy. He turns invisible." I commented before yawning.

"Yes, my dear, I was getting to that." Daddy said with a light laugh.

"Wait, invisible?" Tina asked, laughing a little, "How do you catch something like that?"

"With immense difficulty." Daddy replied.

"And sometimes candy." I added.

The three of us laughed. I looked up at daddy and Tina smiling at each other. Funny, they looked at each other the same way that Queenie and Jacob did. It was odd, but sort of cute as well.

"Gnarlak!" Tina unexpectedly exclaimed.

Daddy and I were take aback by the word that she had just said. "Huh?" I asked.

"Sorry, I know someone who might help. Is name is Gnarlak, he was an informant of mine when I was an Auror. He used to trade in magical creatures on the side." She explained to us.

"He wouldn't happen to have an interest in paw prints, would he?" Daddy asked.

"He's interested in anything he can sell." Tina replied with a smirk.

"I wanna come too!" I said in a tired voice, "I wanna help-" I was cut off by yawning once again. I suppose that all the excitement that's happened in the last few hours have made me tired. Not only that, but I did skip my bedtime and a few naps.

"Oh, my poor dear. I'm afraid you can't go on this adventure. You need to go to sleep. Tina, Jacob, Queenie, and I will find Gnarlak and then find Dougal." Daddy said to me, petting my hair gently.

"But I wanna help!" I whined before daddy laid his case on the ground, opening it up and walked down the stairs into the shack.

"I know that you do, sweetie. But you've already helped us so much. And you need your sleep. It isn't healthy for such a little girl like you to miss your bedtimes." He replied and laid me down on my bed, tucking me in.

"Okay. Promise you'll come back, right? With Dougal and everyone else?"

"Don't I always?" We laughed softly before daddy leaned down and kissed my forehead, "Sleep well, my little beast. I love you."

"I love you too, daddy." I yawned and close my eyes, giving in and falling asleep. I heard daddy leave the shack and heard the case close behind him. I still really wanted to go and help, but he was right. I did need my sleep.

But please, let everything be okay..

And that's it. See? I told you guys everything would work out in the end! This was hard to do because I'm mostly terrible at writing action, but I tried. Next chapter will hopefully come soon! Please leave a review!