Biophilia

16

As I entered with Hillary, I could see Newt, curled in a ball in the corner. He seemed so upset and it hurt me to see him without his creatures. As we reached the door, he looked up, care forming in his eyes. 

"Evangeline...." Newt whispered. 

"Hill?" Tina questioned, as we were pushed in. I tumbled but Newt caught me in his arms. Hillary walked to the back corner as Newt helped me stand, he dragged me to the corner he sat at and pulled me down. Tina looked to the two of us, forgetting about Hillary. 

"I'm so sorry about your creatures Mr Scamander, Miss Opera. I truly am." I stood, ignoring the pull from Newt and walked up to Tina, tears falling from my eyes. 

"You better be! If anything happens to Dash - " I sighed, covering my eyes with my hands. Tina reached her hand out to comfort me. 

"Don't, Tina..." I walked back to Newt. Silence fell, and wonder filled the mind of most likely Jacob who broke the silence. 

"Can someone please tell me what this Obscurial Obscurius thing is? Please?" Jacob begged. 

"There hasn't been one for centuries-" Tina started. 

"That's not true, I met one last year, wizards killed it before I could save it..." I said, shivering at the memory, Newt patted my shoulder. 

"I met one in Sudan three months ago. There used to be more of them but they still exist." Newt started, sadness in his voice, I turned to him. 

"Before wizards went underground, when we were still hunted by Muggles, young wizards and witches sometimes tired to suppress their magic to avoid persecution. Instead of learning to harness or to control their power, they developed what was called an Obscurus." Newt said, staring into nothing, stuck in thought. 

"It's an unstable, uncontrollable dark force that bursts out and – and attacks...and then it vanishes." Tina explained. 

"Withes and wizards, they tried to stop everything, but it didn't go that well, just like Tina has said." Hillary spoke from the corner. Tina walked to her cousin, placing her hand on her shoulder. I could see a tear fall down Hillary's cheek. 

"Obscurius can't survive long, can they?" Tina asked. 

"There's no documented case of any Obscurial surviving past the age of ten. The one I met in Africa was eight when she – she was eight when she died..." Newt said sadly looking at his fingers. I turned to Hillary, she had another tear down her cheek. 

"My brother – he was an Obscurus, he-he died when he was nine and-and-an. I didn't know why?" she cried on her cousin. I got up and walked to her, giving her a hug which she accepted gladly. 

"What are you telling me here – that Senator Shaw was killed by a – by a kid?" Jacob looked to Newt. He gave him a look saying, 'yes'.