Title: Never Say Goodbye

Characters: Porpentina Goldstein Scamander and Queenie Goldstein.

Word Count: 561

Prompts: [Character] Porpentina Goldstein. Write about starting new. [Plot point] Changing name. Leaving home. [Dialogue] "You're never going to let that go, are you?".

AN: Written for The Insane House Challenge, the 365 Prompts Challenge and February Event – Library Lovers at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges and Assignments).

Porpentina, Tina, Goldstein had gotten to the point in her life when she doubted that she would ever get married. It wasn't a major goal of hers nor did she feel particularly upset during those moments when that realisation hit her. She had so much else going for her and marriage was one life event which she wouldn't grieve not experiencing. But then Newt appeared, literally out of the blue, and caused all kinds of trouble. Somewhere along the adventures, Tina saw a side of Newt which she suspected he had kept carefully hidden from the world and he got to see a side of her which only her sister knew existed.

"How does it feel to know that you're leaving all of this."

Tina tore her gaze from the window and smiled at her older sister. Even if the woman in question had just left bed, her blond hair fell exactly right and there was a clarity in her eyes which didn't appear in Tina's until she had two cups of coffee. She had been awake for hours, long enough to see the sun rise, and her brown hair still looked a mess. "It feels strange. But still not as strange as changing my name."

"Scamander is a good last name though," Queenie sat down on the opposite side of the table and leaned her head onto the palm of her hands while saying Porpentina Scamander multiple times with a smile on her face. "It's not as good as Goldstein obviously, but it's really close."

Tina couldn't help but laugh as she looked at her sister. They were closer than other sisters mostly because they had no one else to turn to. After their parents died, they only had each other. It had occurred to Tina, over the years, that Queenie would at some point leave her and marry someone. But it had never occurred to Tina that she would be the one to leave home, that she would change her name and start a new life somewhere else. She definitely didn't think that she would leave the country.

"I'm going to miss you Queenie."

"I'm going to miss you too, Teenie," her sister awed and put an arm around her. "I always knew that you would leave me one day but I didn't think that you would marry the man you once helped arrest and almost got killed."

Tina groaned loudly and pushed her sister away from her. "You're never going to let that go, are you?"

Queenie laughed and shook her head. "Never."

The two sisters have been young when they first realised that life wasn't eternal and that everything could be taken away from you in any moment. That was part of the reason why they had stuck together. They didn't believe that they could stop anything bad from happening to the other but at least this way they would have spent as much time as they possibly could with each other would something happen. Maybe it was the loss of their parents, maybe it was the bond between them, but for some reason neither of them was going to say goodbye. Because Queenie would keep some part of Tina in New York and Tina would take a part of Queenie with her to England. No matter what happened in life, the sisters would never say goodbye.

The end