Newt and Tina seized Graves' arm and they Disapparated.

They Apparated into a quiet, dark room. The shutters were drawn lopsidedly over the windows, throwing odd, grotesque shadows on the creaky, wooden floor.

Tina and Newt jumped in surprise as Graves fell to the floor. "Wands out; Prince may be about to make his evening check on my little prison," croaked Graves.

He stumbled a little and Tina just managed to keep him from falling. Tina noticed a long purple gash in Graves' arm.

"You need to go back to the medical ward," said Newt. "You can barely stand."

Graves' haunted eyes tried to argue, but Tina said, "I can't duel someone while holding you up."

He gave a disgruntled look, then Disapparated, leaving Newt and Tina in the silent room.

"Lumos," said Newt, the tip of his wand becoming bright. His other hand reached into his sleeve and pulled the Swooping Evil out. It hung like a yo-yo from his index finger. Having the brain-eating beast in his hand was very comforting.

Newt walked over to the shaded window and pulled back the shutters. Far below was a road lit by flickering streetlights.

"We're still in New York," Newt noticed.

"Clever of him," murmured Tina as she examined a sheet of paper ripped from a potion book, "to hide in the very city where no one can be found. We should apprehend him before he realizes that Graves is free."

Tina and Newt checked the other room and found it to be empty save for a small cupboard with a tiny hole in the bottom.

There was no time to dwell on that, though, for they heard a muffled thump from downstairs.

"He's awake," whispered Tina.

Silent as wraiths, they crept down the staircase. Newt wished he knew a spell to stop the stairs from creaking as he moved his foot to the next step. Although his gait came off as slightly duck-footed, it helped him to move silently. He had developed the strange shambling gait to avoid spooking any of his beasts.

Newt and Tina extinguished their lights with a quick "nox" when they came to the landing. From then on, they felt their way to the bottom of the stair.

A door stood in their way, and somewhere behind it was a Dark wizard that was not afraid to use the Unforgivable Curses.

They locked eyes and Tina nodded. Newt moved to the left of the door and Tina to the right.

"Alohomora," she whispered.

As soon as the door creaked open, a brilliant red curse shot by and blasted a gaping hole in the stairs behind them.

"Merlin's beard!" said Newt before shooting a stunner back into the room. "He's powerful!"

Tina and Newt cast a barrage of spells into the other room, hoping that one would hit Prince.

Suddenly, the spells coming from inside the room stopped.

"Lumos maxima!" yelled Tina, charging into the room.

The room was flooded with light, and they saw at once that it was empty. The window had been broken and the shutters had been ripped off.

Newt dashed over to the window and threw the Swooping Evil down into the street, where it pummeled into Prince's body and knocked him clean over. He and Tina leapt after the Swooping Evil.

"Petrificus totalus," said Tina, her wand pointed on the winded form. "Let's Apparate back to headquarters before any No-Majs see us."

They Apparated directly into the Auror Office. Mr. Grimsditch and his senior staff were clustered around a table, all of them looking thoroughly stressed.

As soon as they appeared, Grimsditch stood up, his chair flying backward. He was absolutely livid, his lined face even more etched than ever.

"Goldstein, explain yourself!" he spat.

"Grimsditch, contain yourself," came Graves' warning voice. "Ms. Goldstein and her friend have just caught Paladin Prince, my captor. If she had waited any longer to storm the residence, as you would have had her do, he would have discovered that I was missing. He would have immediately Disapparated and we would have lost him. And if a whole team of aurors had charged in, he would've heard them."

Now Graves looked maddened as he watched Grimsditch scowl darkly at Tina. "Any personal disputes you might have with Ms. Goldstein should be put to rest. Or if that level of common courtesy is beyond you, just leave the corps."

Grimsditch opened his mouth to protest, but Graves put his finger to his mouth like a woman shushing a child.

Grimsditch bowed his head slightly in submission. It became very clear to everyone in the room that Mr. Graves, though injured, was back in charge.

Mr. Graves stared down at his temporary replacement with distaste before turning back to Newt and Tina.

"Take Mr. Prince down to the cells. We'll begin the interrogation immediately."

"Yes, sir," said Tina, using her wand to lift Prince into the air.

She and Newt rode the elevator down to the same questioning room that they had been kept when they had been interrogated by Grindelgraves.

"Enervate," said Tina, cuffing the prisoner's hands and pushing him roughly into the chair.

He stirred, his head lolling on his shoulders. Newt hadn't gotten a chance to take a good look at Prince yet, and he now took the time to study him.

He was scarred, black-haired, and dressed in dark clothing that stretched down to his feet. His face bore many scars, and his dark brown eyes looked almost black.

"What?" he said, looking around at the grim interrogation room. "What am I doing at MACUSA?"

"Then you deny any knowledge of the past events?" said Graves.

"What events?" he asked, realizing his hands were bound. "There must have been some sort of mistake."

Suddenly, Tina pulled Newt aside.

"The Swooping Evil… could it have erased his memories?" she asked.

"Erm, I don't think so. All he did was fly into him to knock him over. I made sure that he didn't try to eat Prince's brains."

"Then he's making this up," said Tina. "He's just pretending that he doesn't know to try and throw us off the trail."

She turned back around to face the prisoner. "Do you deny participation of any events relating to the sinking of the No-Maj ship and attempted murder of Newt Scamander?"

"I would never side with Grindelwald. Is that what this is all about?"

Tina was growing more infuriated by the minute. "How do you explain your resistance, then?"

"You broke into my home! Of course I was inclined to defend myself."

"Don't listen to him," said Graves gravely. "I know his face; this is the man who tortured me relentlessly. This is the man whose terrible fiendishness caused me the agony you see me in now. This is the man that sided with Grindelwald to wreak havoc and war upon the world."

All the aurors were silent as they looked down at the sneering prisoner.

"I'd like to see you prove it," snarled Prince.

Graves bent close to Prince and leered his disgust.

"Bring him to the cells and station a guard," he said, leaving the room. "Aurors, head back to your homes and get some sleep. I get the feeling we'll be needing much rest in the coming days."

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