missing you • newt scamander ls

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"Newt Scamander, and you guys are?"

Celeste gasped, covering her hand with her mouth.

No wonder why he looked so familiar, she thought.

"Ne--Newt Scamander?"

He looked at Celeste, confused.

"Uh, yes." 

A second later Celeste had her arms wrapped around his neck, and she buried my face in his chest.

"Celeste. Celeste Edgecombe. It's me. From Hogwarts, remember? In the same house as yo--" She rambled, looking up at the look of realization in his eyes.

"Yes, I do remember." He replied, wrapping his once stiff arms around her body tightly.

"You came back.." She muttered sentimentally, a tear falling from her eye.

"Excuse me, we're in the middle of a situation here! And how do you know him?" Tina cut in, and, pulling back from Newt, Celeste, rubbed frantically at her eyes and tried to appear normal, straightening her coat and standing up straight.

"Right, just friends from.. Old school." Celeste muttered.

"What's that thing in your case?" Tina asked a still-in-shock Newt.

"Uh, that's my niffler," He replied after hesitation. "sorry you've got something on your--" Newt pointed to Tina's upper lip, and she jerked away from him.

"Why in the name of Deliverance Dane did you let that thing loose?"

 "I didn't mean to, he's incorrigible you see anything shiny he's all over the place--"

"--You didn't mean to?" Tina asked incredulously. "You could not have chosen a worse time to let that creature loose!"

She sighed, her pants slowing.

"I'm taking you in."

"Wha--, wait! Nothing bad happened!" Celeste butt in.

"He let a magical creature loose! He could've exposed us!"

"W--Wait, taking me where?" Newt asked.

Tina held up her long ID, showing it to Newt.

"Magical Congress of  the United States of America."

"Tina--but you're not.." Celeste stopped, seeing the look on Tina's face.

"So you guys work for MACUSA? What are you, some kind of investigator?"

"Auror." Celeste corrected.

"At least tell me you took care of the no-maj?" Tina asked desperately.

Celeste scratched the back of my neck compulsively:

"Well.. Sort of.." She said sheepishly, watching Tina's face turn into a look of horror.

"Excuse me, the what?" Newt asked.

"....No-magic! The non-wizard!"

"Sorry we call them muggles." 

"Oh," She said, a look of disappointment masking her face as she looked back at Celeste. "It's a Section 3A, Celeste, Mr. Scamander."

"Wh--What I work there!"

"I'm sorry, you didn't Obliviate the man. I'm taking you guys in."

She looped her arm around Newt and Celeste as Apparated them away.

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Tina dragged Celeste and Newt into the MACUSA building, looking done with life.