The door is opened by Queenie Goldstein. I smile at her warmly and ask her kindly in my thoughts if she can keep quiet for now about who is accompanying me. She is a Legilimens, there is no point in hiding anything from her. She nods and lets me in. I leave room for the others to enter, Queenie leaves the door open, time for the others to enter.
The first person I see is Newt in his blue suit with an orange bow tie.
Then Jacob next to him, his jacket in the chair, already at ease.
I greet everyone kindly.
"Good evening, thank you for welcoming us. Now I wanted to talk to you about a matter that concerns everyone in this room. But first let me introduce you to some people."
Percy removes the spell. I gesture to stay behind me. But my soulmates stand next to me, just behind me, as silent support.
"Percival Graves, Credence Barebone and although you know him by his fame, Gellert Grindelwald"
I don't finish speaking when I see Newt move.
"Newt lowers his wand, we are not here to hurt you." I say quickly as I see him take his wand in his hand.
"We are here to talk like civilized people. Let's have dinner and then talk like rational people"
"He's a murderer!" Newt explodes furiously
"Yes, I can't argue with you" I say patiently, but also hyper aware that he could attack at any moment.
"Newt. Let's have dinner and then talk. What he has to say is important" Queenie intervenes. I thank her mentally, she nods and smiles slightly.
Newt seems to listen to her. He takes off his coat and sits down. We do the same. Jacob stays in his, watching in silence. We all sit down. Newt and Gellert end up at opposite ends of the table.
I am on Gellert's right followed by Credence and then Percy. On Newt's right is Tina then Queenie and finally Jacob.
'Don't worry, he won't hurt Jacob. You have my word.' I think.
Queenie looks up, nodding that she understands.
With a few taps of her wand Queenie serves dinner. Chicken with a side of potatoes and peas.
I try to start a conversation with Jacob about his culinary interests, he seems withdrawn at first but gradually relaxes.
Tina and Queenie join in.
I have to tell the truth, I am still angry at Tina for attacking us. She could have hurt Creed or Percy. As I think about this I freeze in my conversation with the others.
I take a small breath. I put the cutlery on the plate and gently place a hand on Credence's knee.
He jumps slightly, he looks at me questioningly but realizing that I am having difficulty he takes my hand and squeezes it in his. With his other hand he touches Percy next to him who takes his hand and looks at us with concern.
I focus my attention back on the others at the table. The little conversation has stopped, everyone is looking at me.
I glance at Gellert trying to look calm, he seems to accept it for now, he will ask later.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt the conversation abruptly, forgive me." I say sorry.
"Don't worry honey. I think dinner is over anyway and it's time to clear things up," Queenie says joyfully but solemnly, the smile never leaving her lips.
Everyone becomes serious again. I nod. A wave of the wand and the table is cleared, first the plates and silverware that go into the sink then the tablecloth that also shakes in the sink before folding and returning to its place.
Tina clones the chair into four others.
Three are occupied, one by Tina, one by Newt and the penultimate one by Jacob with Queenie on the armrest. I occupy the last one. In the armrests, at my sides Creed and Percy. Gellert remains standing behind it.
I ask not to be interrupted.
"Queenie I ask you to confirm what I say. I know you are a natural Legilimens, I trust you." She nods
"I come from the future. From 2024. In the 2000s, soulmate marks began to appear, people began to be born with the name of their soulmate branded on their skin. They also began to appear to children, teenagers and the elderly. There are different types of soulmates: platonic, maternal and paternal, romantic etc… When I was born in 2004 I was the first to be born with two marks." I point to Percy and Creed.
I lift the sleeve of my left arm and show the marks.
"They didn't know why I had two souls. They didn't pay much attention because, my marks turned gray and then black declaring their death. I was a newborn at the time, when I grew up and could understand what the mark meant despite the sentence, I wanted to meet them. I had a good life all in all. Until a few days ago I didn't even know I was a witch. What unlocked the blocks of my memory was the murder of my husband and my son." I freeze and move my gaze to the side looking at the ground.
I tremble slightly, the images hit me. My uncle killing first my husband and then cutting my son's throat. My poor child. A sob stops me from breathing.
Credence and Percy each hold a hand, caressing them. Gellert puts a hand on her shoulder, squeezing it.
After a few minutes I look up and stop on Queenie whose face is pained.
"Don't look, it's not a nice scene" I tell him
Tears roll down her cheeks, she covers her mouth with her hand, heartbroken.
I take a deep breath and start again.
"The blocks broke. The world collapsed on me again. A memory from when I was 3 years old hits me so hard it feels like a punch in the stomach. My uncle had tried to strangle me immediately after coming in and seeing me play by making my toys and some bedside tables float. He failed in his attempt, my parents swooped in on the scene. They made him forget what he had seen but they also erased my memories. Not only the attack but also of being a witch. Life went on. When I was 15 I fell in love with a distant cousin of mine, he was also a wizard. Shortly after he realized that I was also a witch, some memories return. Only small things. My parents discovered the relationship and erased my mind again, and his too. Despite this we did not separate, we had a child, Levi, I was 18. About a year later my uncle saw my son, his nephew. I think the blocks broke because he went crazy and killed them."
I remain silent.
"I'm sorry for your loss but I don't see how this has anything to do with him" Newt says pointing to Gellert.
"After they were killed the blocks broke, the memories returned. I had visions, visions of you. Of what will happen here. I saw everything, what will happen here will set in motion another evil greater than him." I say anxiously
"I saw Percy and Creed interact first, I didn't know who they were, I understood later. The more the visions went on the more I discovered, and I understood. Gellert impersonating Percival, Credence looking for the Obuscurus but it is himself who searches and then loses control. Half the city destroyed. His supposed death. EVERYTHING" I am frustrated, but my souls are still here beside me, trying to calm me down.
"I… Look into my memories, you will understand everything. Even who we should defend ourselves from." I say destabilized.
Percy casts a spell, a blue cloud takes up most of the living room.
They see everything. The murder of my family, the visions of them.
What Albus does to raise a new dark lord, Tom, for power, to subjugate both worlds. Severus left to his own devices, then Harry mistreated; all the families he will break to do his bidding.
"It's not possible, Albus would never do this. He's not after power." Newt says frantically.
"He let Tom go back to the orphanage with a war going on. He was a boy with the knowledge that he could be blown up at any moment. He spent more than 10 years isolated, hated for being different, exorcised, burned. Severus was let go back to an abusive home where he was beaten by his father, when he returned to school he was bullied and those who bullied him were not punished; They tried to kill him, as a joke, and he did nothing, and he knew it. Harry was left by his uncles, hated, beaten and humiliated, just for having him subdued and eager to please. Not to mention all the families involved who followed Tom. He made Tom's intentions and made them dark and twisted them; he wanted more rights for the creatures called dark, he wanted to control and find magical children in the muggle world so he could make sure their families were safe for the children. He twisted everything. Don't take my word for it but at least believe what you saw."
The anger grows as I speak, I am losing control, dark smoke comes to me and moves agitated, whipping in the air.
"Breathe, easy. Calm down, we are here. Shh"
Percy turns my face towards him, rests his temple on mine, his hand drops from my cheek and settles in my neck.
I close my eyes and try to steady myself, not to give in to the anger, to the fear.
Slowly I regain control.
When I return to the other people in the room, I see everyone shocked, except Tina who saw me yesterday.
"You are a ..." Queenie begins
"An Obscurus" Newt finishes
I nod.
"I just want to save those three and everyone involved. I think they are comrades." I say thoughtfully, but overwhelmed and tired.
"I would like to break the law on the safety statute. This law condemned Credence, and it will condemn other children. It condemns love. Before we lived in peace with muggles, in peace and wanted to help and heal." I start slowly, I look at both Queenie and Jacob for the last statement.
"I don't want to do exactly like Gellert. They are many more than us, if they discovered us they would have weapons that they upgrade every year, they will kill us all. I want to tell only those in power, make a deal, or something. But I want some of us to be inside so we can control the situation in the muggle world, to safeguard us, see their progress and protect all the families with magical children."
They seem to think.
"We are not alone, we can find a solution" I continue
"You are right. Non-magical people are afraid of things I do not understand or cannot explain. I am not saying that they are all like this, but they are a good number. We wage war on everyone, we discriminate against ourselves. Even if they were not wizards we already go against those with different skin colors" says Jacob
No one answers, we all know it is true, and said by a Muggle and only another confirmation.
"How do we proceed then?" Tina asks
"We need to find a cure for the obscurus, but we need to learn magic, I do not want to be unprepared in case of attack" I give Tina a dirty look.
She blushes and apologizes for yesterday.
"I want to learn too, yesterday I had to watch you in the same situation as me and yet you stood in front of us to defend us"
Credence seems helpless as he speaks about it.
"We'll do this together. Percy will help us. We should get the wands. Luckily they're not specifically looking for Credence." Creed comforts.
I'm relieved that I made it in time and convinced everyone.
We won't have any problems.
"We should go to London for the wands. We won't have any problems getting there, as you said it's not wanted like in your visions." Newt says
I nod.
"I think it's time to go."
I get up from my seat and Percy and Creed follow.
We say goodnight and Tina walks us to the door, before leaving Gellert puts a disillusionment charm on the three of them.
We head home and when we get there we quickly change and go to sleep. Creed and I on the couches and the other two in their rooms.
