Newt and Tina were escorted to a room similar to your own. Dimly lit, grey flakey walls, and old furniture. Graves was seated at the other side of a desk in the middle of the small room. His face was serious, but insincere. Newt reluctantly sat in the chair in front of Graves. His face still downcast from the loss of his beasts, and his mind racing with fear of what they've done to you. Silence filled the room for a few moments. Graves studied Newt, and Newt kept his eyes to the ground. Finally, Graves spoke up, "You're an interesting man Mr. Scamander."
"Mr.Graves-" Tina interjected, but Grave's silenced her by putting a finger over his lips in annoyance. He shook his head, and Tina backed off. "Thrown out of Hogwarts for endangering human life-"
"That was an accident." Newt said defensively.
"-With a beast," He continued, "Yet one of your teachers argued strongly against your expulsion." Graves' face twisted with confusion. "Now, what makes Albus Dumbledore so...fond of you?"
Newt turned his head to face him and shook it slowly. "I really couldn't say."
"So setting a pack of dangerous creatures lose was just another accident?" Graves put his hands up in disbelief. "is that right?"
"Why would I do it deliberately?" Newt says as he shifts in his chair, readjusting his bound hands.
"To expose wizardkind. To provoke war between the magical and non-magical worlds." Graves says with a facade of sorrow on his face, somehow sounding more insincere than before.
Still avoiding eye-contact with the interrogator, Newt speaks "Mass slaughter for the greater good, you mean?"
"Yes. Quite."
"I'm not one of Grindlewalds 'fanatics', Mr. Graves." Newt speaks with weight in his voice, finally looking his captor in the eye to show his seriousness.
A spark of malice shines in Graves eyes once Newt says this. "I wonder what you can tell me about these, Mr. Scamander?" Graves slowly raises his hand, reveling the Obscurus from Newts case. Then he gestures to a man by the door who begins pulling a thick chain, dragging you along with it into the room beside your captor. Newts eyes widen as he watches you struggle to sit up, thrashing in your binds desperately trying to free yourself. His eyes begin to tear up as he looks back up to meet Graves cold stare. Then he turns to see Tina, frozen in shock of the two creatures before her.
"It's an Obscurus...But its not what you think! I managed to separate it from the Sudanese girl as I tried to save her- I wanted to take it home, to study it.." He realized that wasn't convincing enough and didn't disprove the possibility of its hostile nature. "But it cannot survive outside that box, it could not hurt anyone, and (y/n) too! She's a half-beast, she was tortured and experimented on, she's done nothing to deserve this."
Graves cut in "So the Obscurus, its useless without the host?" This made Newts pleading demeanor change.
"Useless? Useless? That is a parasitical magical force that killed a child. What on earth would you use it for?" He said with accusation, anger welling up inside him.
You thrash in your chains gaining the attention of the room, letting out a long growl directed towards Graves as he stands up.
"You fool nobody, Mr. Scamander. You brought these creatures into the city of New York in hope of causing mass disruption, breaking the statute of secrecy and revealing the magical world."
"You know they can't hurt anyone, you know that!" Newt cried out as a last effort to stop what he knew was about to happen.
"You are therefore guilty of a treasonous betrayal of your fellow wizards and are sentenced to death. Miss Goldstein, who has aided and abetted you-"
"No she's done nothing of the kind-"
"-She receives the same sentence"
You scream and thrash as Newt and Tina are held at wand-point.
"Do it immediately, I will inform Presidant Picquery myself. And take that creature too." Graves gestures to you as he leaves the room and the two are escorted out.
"(Y/N)!" Newt yells back to you with tears falling. "(Y/N) I'm so sorry!"
Once again you are left alone.
All you hear is a dense ringing in your ears as a man walks in and grabs your chain, dragging you out the door to your inevitable death.
All you wanted was one more hug, a last goodbye, something. But Newt was gone, and you just hoped you'd see him in the next life.
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Fantastic Love and Where to Find it (Newt Scamander X Half Beast!reader)
FanficLights, noise, crowds, it was enough to make your head spin. You were alone in New York City, scared and hungry, would your hero find you before you got yourself hurt?