Thief For Hire || Newt Scamander x Reader

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Newt was trying to do the math in his head once he got to Manhattan. Assuming that Draculous didn't have access to a portkey, the fastest way for him to get to America was on a boat, which bought Newt and Tina a few days. He hated the idea of ______ being alone with Draculous on a boat for a few days, but he believed in her. He wanted to believe she was going to be okay.

Tina took days of work off to develop a careful plan with Newt and an unexpected ally: Roy. After Newt and _______ were safely out of the country, Tina found him and arrested as soon as possible. That's when Draculous lost the upper hand and stopped trusting private detectives entirely, preferring to do his own dirty work. Newt hated seeing him around at first, but eventually, he realized that Roy was more helpful than Newt expected him to be. Since he had dealt with Draculous face-to-face multiple times, he had insight that Tina and Newt didn't. On the day before Newt assumed ______ and Draculous would be back in New York, Tina brought him in to see if there were any holes in their plan.

"Whatever you do, you should keep ______ in the same room," Roy advised before he even glanced through the plan. "Draculous has a huge blind spot when it comes to her. He really does believe, deep down, that ______ loves him and would never betray him. Even when he found out that Newt and _______ were starting a romantic relationship, he convinced himself it was because Newt was tricking her."

"How could he really believe that?" Tina asked, shaking her head. Ever since the beginning, she hated Draculous without ever having to meet him. The way that he spoke about _______ was reprehensible, claiming her as if she was a possession and not a real person with her own feelings and freedom.

"He's obsessed with her," Roy said simply. "It blinds him, she makes him weak. If he's worrying about keeping her safe, he's not going to do anything overtly stupid. He's a brilliant wizard, but there's a hole in his heart. He thinks she can fill it, whether she wants to or not."

"He's horrible," Newt shook his head. He had no idea how he got into _______'s life in the first place, but from what he could tell, nothing good had ever come from it. "How can he say he loves her and then treat her the way he does?"

"He doesn't understand love, he mistakes it for obsession. He'll do anything to keep her," Roy stated, opening the book Tina and Newt made for their plans. "Bold to assume that Draculous is going to take her right back to his personal home."

"He kept repeating that before he kidnapped her. He was demanding that she 'come home,' so I assumed that's where he'd be taking her."

"Makes sense. He kept a room there for her, when I was assigned to look for her, that's where he provided me something to track her with. It wasn't so much a matter of finding her at to get her to come home without too much force. Looks like he abandoned that idea. I see you two are also using a personal item of hers to track her in case he doesn't bring her there, clever. Tina, I assume that you want to arrest him?"

Tina nodded, speaking up for the first time in a while. "Of course I'm going to arrest him, he's the one who murdered all of those wizards we found. Private detectives who failed him. That was almost you, Roy. Don't tell me you think it's a bad move."

"Trust me, I want him put away too, Tina. However, your case is weak, and the kidnapping charge will probably prove to be a jurisdiction issue with the Ministry. I'm going to suggest something that may seem... uncouth. Something he can't snake his way out of."

Tina raised an eyebrow. She knew her murder case was flimsy, but if Roy knew a way to put Draculous away for good, she was going to take it. "What's the idea?"

Roy looked back over at Newt. "Draculous despises Newt, and I won't be surprised if he plans to kill him. It would make logical sense in Draculous' situation: get rid of Newt, and there's no one in the way to love ______. If we get Newt to go in alone and Draculous incriminates himself by trying to murder Mister Scamander..."