Abandoned (Newt Scamander/Reader)

Chapter 1

New York, 1926.

The year of your 21st birthday. You should have been excited about it. Finally, the time had come to officially step into the adult's life, to go to work, to earn money and plan a happy family. Every average person thought about the same, at least, you thought so.

Even if this was not your case.

You've grown up in the New Salem Philanthropic Society under Mary Lou Barebone hands. After your parents died in a fire at your age of 4, you got taken to this society. You got a loving family, should you say. Well, you wished you could have said it.... These passing 16 years were not easy on you at all. Especially that Mary Lou was sure during several years that you were the Satan itself. You never knew why, but this made your life into a living hell during that time. Punishments, that you didn't earn, they were in your almost daily routine. She didn't give you mercy even when you were lying in your own blood, crying and begging for her to stop.

But she just... didn't stop.

Then usually she locked you up into your room, not giving you food for a whole day to make you beg her and wanting to confess for your sins that you didn't commit. And when you did so, she let you go to help the society for some days before everything started again. You could have run away. But 2 reasons took you back:

Firstly if you had got out into the city, you probably would have starved to death sooner or later. For someone like you, it couldn't have provided you enough possibilities to live, to survive. You most likely would have just ended up straight dead.

And secondly, you didn't want to leave someone that meant so much to you... Credence Barebone. You looked at him like your best friend, your brother and your only supporter in this wicked world. Well, technically, he WAS your little brother, your stepbrother since you got adopted by Mary Lou as well. Not like it would have changed your opinion about him. He was there, when no one, to help you stand up again, even when you were at your lowest point of your life. You didn't know how he had so much self-esteem that could take this long under such circumstances, but you were grateful for his existence. That's why if you planned to escape, you planned to do it with him. You didn't let him trap here after all that the two of you went through.

And now that your birthday was in just a few days, the light was closer than ever. You saw your escape with your inner eye. It won't be easy, but you'll try your best. That was the least you could do to him. And to yourself.

The only problem with this was that Mary Lou didn't let the two of you communicate much. After your last time trying to get out when you had still thought that this was possible, he decided to keep the two of you away and paid attention not to let you plan something like this again. Thankfully, you didn't need words to understand him. The years and routine made the two of you read each other's mind, and right now both of you were thinking about the same idea.

The escape.
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You were handing out the leaflets of Salem on the street.

Covering yourself the best you could do, you tried to avoid the chilly feeling of the freezy morning day. The temperature must have been under 0C° according to the frozen puddles near to the road. Everyone was rushing to their workplace, passing you without a word as you tried to give them the paper advertisements about this shitty cult you've been forced to live in. You didn't have such a mood to do to this, but at least you could enjoy the fresh air that you couldn't for like an eternity.

Actually, this was surprising to you. The fact that Mary Lou let you out into the city. You guessed that she knew you wouldn't run away - basically, it would have been equal to committing suicide, especially in this weather. And since you couldn't get rid of her in any way, she might as well gave you a job to make yourself useful...