Their Life

Fugitive Part 1

Tina and Newt jumped as someone started pounding on their door. They had been sitting in their living room, reading silently, when the banging started. They glanced at each other then Tina slowly pulled out her wand and made her way to the door.

"Open up!" the man on the other side of the door demanded.

Tina opened the door and seven of her co-workers flooded into the room.

Thomas Conrad, the most powerful Auror in the group, pointed his wand at her and declared, "Porpentina Scamander, you are under arrest for assisting in the escape of Gellert Grindelwald."

"What?" Tina and Newt exclaimed in unison.

"Please hand over your wand," Conrad commanded.

"You can't arrest her," Newt insisted. He had gotten to his feet and had his own wand raised. "She's innocent. She hasn't done anything."

Conrad kept his wand pointed at Tina's chest as he turned to face Newt. "That may be so but there is strong evidence pointing towards her, I'm sorry, Scamander, but she has to come with us."

Greer and McGee had their wands pointed at Newt and they kept their wands pointed at him as he crossed the room to his wife. He gently rested his free hand on her shoulder. She reached up and gave it a squeeze.

Tina kept her eyes on Conrad as she slowly began to turn towards Newt. When he didn't react, she faced her husband and threw her arms around his neck.

"Everything's going to be fine," she whispered, more to herself. "Everything'll be okay. We both know I'm innocent. MACUSA won't do anything without concrete evidence and there isn't any because I'm innocent."

"But, Tina," he whimpered. "That time -- that December -- they tried to kill you. You were innocent, you hadn't done anything wrong but they accused you of -- of working with me to -- to expose the wizarding world and tried to k-kill you without any proof."

"No, Newt, no. That wasn't MACUSA. MACUSA doesn't work like that. That was Grindelwald, remember? Graves ordered us to be executed and you revealed him to be Grindelwald." Tina took his face in both hands and brushed his tears away. "I love you," she murmured before pressing a kiss to his lips. "Everything'll be fine. I'll be fine."

Newt nodded slightly and she kissed him again before turning back to the Aurors. Without saying anything, she handed her wand to Conrad who slipped it into his pocket. Reed and Jackson grabbed her firmly by the arms and dragged her out of her house. They escorted her to an out of the way corner and Disapparated. 

Tina was shoved into a cell in the depths of MACUSA. She backed into a corner and, as soon as the Aurors had vanished, she sunk to the ground, pulled her knees up to her face, and let herself cry. She had tried to sound confident when telling Newt that everything would be alright but she wasn't so sure it would be. She had been in trouble with MACUSA before but that time she had only lost her job, she hadn't been put in jail. This time, she had been. On top of that, she hadn't even done anything this time.

What kind of 'evidence' could they have against me?

Newt tightened his grip on his wand as he watched the Aurors drag Tina out of the house. Conrad approached him.

"Scamander," he said cautiously. "Your wife will be fine. Many of us know she's innocent and we'll be doing everything we can to help her."

"Thank you," Newt said coldly.

"I understand how you must feel and I'd understand if you didn't want to go to work tomorrow but we're gonna need you to come. President Piquery needs to speak with you."