When I wake up I'm alone, Gellert is a very early riser. I get up and go out of the room, at the same time Percy also comes out, and seeing me leave Gellert's room he looks at me strangely, resentfully and perhaps... jealous? He frowns and goes straight to the kitchen, he looks at Gellert furiously but doesn't reach him, he sits at the table.

We have breakfast in a silence saturated with tension. The morning passes slowly, Percy hasn't approached me or asked me, he talks to Credence and I suppose he tells him his suppositions about what he saw this morning. Credence gives me a disappointed and hurt look that devastates me.

After lunch I manage to stop them and talk to them. I think about whether it's the case to send Gellert away, but I shake my head inwardly. If I did that I would prove the opposite of what I told him last night.

"I want to explain, explain to you, what you saw this morning" I look first at Percy and then Creed.

"There's no need. You slept with him, it doesn't take a detective." Percy spits out an irritated look that falls on me, the inadequacy passes for a second on his face that he sweeps away by moving his gaze.

Creed has the same feeling, resentful, disappointed and betrayed.

"We didn't sleep, he's gay. We just slept. I went to talk to him. He needed someone." I try to explain without saying the details.

"And you had to talk to him in bed" he mocks

"It was something personal, when and if he wants he'll tell you himself. Even if something came out last night."

"And us? Yesterday you wanted comfort and where are you going to look for it, from him?" He asks, pointing angrily at Gellert.

"Yes, I wanted comfort, but that's not why I went to him. It wasn't for me." I say desperately.

Does he really think I would go looking for warmth from someone else? They are my soulmates I couldn't do it even if I wanted to.

"I would never do something like that" I am one step away from tears, my voice cracking.

"Tell them, tell them everything." Gellert's voice peeps out unexpectedly, I look at him for confirmation, he just nods.

"He was in turmoil, hurt. Albus betrayed him by not being there for him after he told him his intentions. But he didn't betray him just by leaving him alone, he betrayed him by not trying to reason with him, to make him change his mind or look for a different solution for the same result. I told him I won't abandon anyone, not even him."

Gellert hesitantly tries to explain.

"She helped me. All my ideals went out the window. I was stunned. She said that if he truly loved me he would have stayed by my side, that he could have made me change my mind or try to do things differently, but have what I wanted. It's true, if he truly loved me he would have tried. He tried with complex speeches. Instead she made me change my mind with a question, she threw in my face how crazy I was in a few simple words." He finishes.

"I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I didn't care or that I preferred him. You are my companions, I could never do something like that to you, I would rather die." The regret and the terror of having made a mistake, in his voice. I lower my gaze.

"I was jealous. You said you needed us, and you went to him. Put yourself in my shoes."

"Ours. We are companions, I thought you had given up on me, on us. In the end, everyone leaves." Credence speaks for the first time since the argument began, stopping Percy. He seems hurt and inadequate in his own skin, trying to shrink.

I think about their words. From Percival's point of view, who is a reserved man, I should have thought about the fact that he could be possessive or jealous at the very least. From Credence's point of view, he has never had anyone who truly cares about him, except for Gellert who impersonated Graves. Then I arrive and there is another person who cares, and after an attack like the one last night, instead of comforting him or even showing him that I am there, that I am fine, I go to another person. I am stupid.

I turn white as a sheet.

"I am stupid. I left you two alone in your time of need, I thought everything was going well. I am an idiot." I shake my head, my eyes lowered, ashamed that he did not understand that they needed me with them. I put my hands on my face. I sigh in despair.

Someone takes my hands off my face, it's Credence. .

I try to apologize again but he stops me.

"You're not stupid. You didn't think there was a problem. But when you realized something was wrong you tried to figure out what it was."

"I should have asked. I'm not a mind reader. I just assumed."

"Now you know what to do next." He looks peaceful and accepting as he speaks.

I kiss him on the forehead and he blushes a little.

I look at Percy still sitting on the couch, he watches us, I get up and sit next to him, Creed on the other free side.

"I'm sorry. I didn't want you to defend us, I didn't want you to hurt yourself again. But I made you worry about me, I didn't ask for help when I demanded it from you. And when I said I needed it, I went to console Gellert. I made you feel ignored, insecure and I didn't trust you. We just met, the bond is building but it's just beginning." I think of something that can make him understand that I really mean it.

An idea crosses my mind.

"I promise on my magic that from now on I will trust you as you do me. I promise to never leave you, my magic may be taken away if I deny this, so be it."

At my oath a white thread comes out of my chest, ties itself to Percy and Credence, vanishing into the air. My eyes like Credence's widen in amazement and excitement for the demonstration of magic, I didn't think Lady Magic would accept my oath.

Percy looks at me in disbelief and then softens his features.

"There was no need to turn a corner. I believe you." His hand cups my cheek and I melt at the touch.

"I had to. I don't want to hurt you, even without meaning to. I did it and I'm beyond angry with myself. I should have thought more."

Gellert joins the conversation with a huff.

"You were hurt, you were thrown into a wall and you were cut before, you were in pain."

"That's not an excuse," I say impatiently.

"You're right. I bet it was the first time you've had spells cast on you, right?" Percy asks.

"Yes. But.."

"It was your first time and you got up quickly despite being thrown into the wall, you took more spells and you didn't say anything. You could have fainted and no one would blame you," Percival says in a serious voice, probably the one he uses with Aurors in training.

"Don't …"

"Stop it."

I look down at the ground again.

"I was scared." I whisper.

"Of what?" Credence asks softly

"To crowd you. To scare you. I don't want to force you, to rush you. I thought I'd put my own needs aside and think of someone else who I thought needed help" I say softly looking at Gellert.

"Like you said, we are human. If you need comfort, to talk, to be held we are here. If we never get close how can we expect us to suddenly do it?" He means Credence, who nods understanding the point.

"I know you wouldn't hurt me" Credence confirms.

Creed's hands go to my hips, I don't move, and they tighten lightly on my stomach, hugging me from behind, he leans into me. His chin on my shoulder, his chest brushing my shoulders.

I relax and sigh blissfully. Percy comes in front of me, rests his chin on the other shoulder and approaches. One arm snakes over my back, caressing it, the other goes to Credence's side.

The heat that their bodies give off makes me melt and feel at peace. We stay like this for a while, but a light cough makes us untangle ourselves.

"Enough of this mussiness." Gellert says all disheveled and envious.

"Jealous" I say playfully.

"I rely a lot on physical contact, it roots me. I can't understand and make my emotions understood so I show them with contact."

I look at my soulmates, asking if it's okay, and they nod. I go to Gellert, he's sitting in the armchair.

"We don't exclude you, we're together for better or for worse." I say, kneeling between his open legs and hugging him. He snorts in response.

I walk away after a few seconds.

"Speaking of good and evil. When we talk to the others there might be problems with Newt. It will be difficult to talk to him. He loves Albus to the core. I fear that there might be something underneath. If his way of operating is the same as the future he might have taken him under his 'wing' " I put quotation marks around the words under his wing.

The message sinks in because Graves' eyes widen like Creed and Gellert.

"I am certain of what I say."

Gellert looks at me from a distance and gets lost in his thoughts.

I ask the time and Percy throws a Tempus. It is 6:30 PM.

"Let's go get ready. Please Percy tell me you have any bottles of expensive alcohol."

I turn to him hopefully.

"I don't know. When he kidnapped me I had an already opened bottle of whiskey" he says thoughtfully.

"It's gone" Gellert intervenes.

"You drank it, right?" I ask skeptically, but then incredulously at his shy behavior.

"In a week and a half, really, Gellert?" I ask in surprise.

"I didn't have much to do except wait for some news from Credence."

I roll my eyes.

"Good. At least tell me you have some in your castle."

"I don't think so, but we can buy some wine on the way to their place."

I accept his option and we all go to change.

Gellert is wearing a rust-colored suit, black tie, and white shirt.

Percy is wearing a smoky gray suit with a light blue tie, white shirt.

Credence is wearing a light gray suit with a black tie. My soulmates are gorgeous. I am amazed by their beauty.

I am wearing a resized vest of Percy. It is a beautiful blue with gold buttons. To match the pants, also of my soulmate, gray black, so as to make the blue stand out.

I freeze to look at them, but their eyes remain fixed on me too.

Percy finally recovers and comes towards me, he gently takes my hand and kisses it on the back.

"You are beautiful " he says to me enchanted, I blush.

Credence seems to recover and comes closer, slowly approaches his hand, he withdraws for a moment insecure but then takes the last step taking it. He kisses her too.

"You are beautiful, my lady " he says softly averting his gaze at the last.

"Sara. Call me Sara." I turn to both of them. They nod. I turn to Gellert.

"You too, Gellert," I say to him.

We leave the house and head down the street, as soon as we have the chance we buy a bottle of wine and head straight to the Goldstein house.

Before going up I have him cast a disillusionment charm so the lady of the house doesn't see him.

"Hello, I'm here to meet Miss Tina Goldstein."

I smile at her, the woman smiles back and shows me the way. We go up the stairs and I knock. I don't have the charm removed, I don't want a revisitation of yesterday.