A Day At MACUSA
The next day I was up early. I checked where everyone was and to my surprise everyone but Queenie were gone.
According to the woman they all went beast hunting in the middle of the night. It made me feel a little disappointed as to why they didn't invite me.
At least I was well rested now. It wasn't long before I was sitting into a giant hall with a bunch of other wizards. Madame President was mostly doing the talking. We were all analyzing what my brother's next move would be.
There also seemed to be the topic of an Obscurus - a parasite that develops inside magically gifted children if they suppress their magical abilities -this surprised me.
I thought those were long gone.
Something else that peeked my interest is that something killed Senator Henry Shaw, the Jr. Director of Magical Security. Was it something orchestrated by my brother?I was deep in thought when a loud bang took me out of it.
In surprise, I watched as Tina walked into the hall carrying the suitcase.
With a determined face she put it on the ground.
"Madam President, I'm so sorry to interrupt, but this is critical." Tina's eyes found mine and for a second we locked eyes before she quickly looked away. What was she up to?
"You'd better have an excellent excuse for this intrusion, Miss Goldstein" Everyone could hear that Madam President sounded annoyed at the girl. I watched in anticipation.
"Yes, I do." Tina quickly nodded before continuing "Ma'am. Yesterday a wizardentered New York with a case. This case full of magical creatures, and unfortunately, some have escaped."I rolled my eyes annoyed. She actually was doing this? I thought she had been joking. She can't just give Newt up like that.
"He arrived yesterday?" Madam President asked for confirmation. Tina just nodded she looked a bit uncomfortable.
"You have known for twenty-four hours that an unregistered wizard set magical beasts loose in New York and you see fit to tell us only when a man has been killed?" The tension was rising now. I thought Tina would have a come back ready but to my surprise her eyes filled with water.
"Who has been killed?" You could hear the shock in her voice, it made me want to hug her. I hadn't expected her to be so empathetic.
"Where is this man?" Madame President asked ignoring Tina completely. Tine opened the suitcase that was now placed on the ground. Once it was open she took a few steps back. We all watched as the suitcase slowly opened and Newt's head stuck out. He looked around confused before getting out of the case completely.
"Scamander?" A random man next to me said. How did he know Newt?
"-Theseus Scamander? The war hero?"Ah they thought he was Theseus.
"No, this is his little brother." Another voice confirmed. I shared a worried look with Newt who looked very observant.
"What are you doing in New York?" Madam President asked. Newt shrugged awkwardly
"I came to buy an Appaloosa Puffskein, madam"
"Right." the minister close-by the president stated before saying."What are you really doing here?"Before Newt could answer Jacob stuck his head out the case. There was a loud ggaspfrom all over the public.
"Goldstein, and who is this?" Madam President asked a little confused. I looked at Tina who looked like she was about to have a panic attack.
"This is Jacob Kowalski, Madam President, hes a No-Maj who got bitten by one of Mr. Scamanders creatures."the crowd reacted to this, there were a few mumbles and slants against non-majsThe President seemed to have enough, she swung her wand in the air and a holographic thing appeared. It was a man floating with very mysterious wounds. I frowned, I had never seen those kind of wounds before.
"You know which of your creatures was responsible, Mr. Scamander?"My eyes shot up to the president, Newt's animals had not done this.
"No creature did this. Dont pretend! You must know what that was, look at the marks...That was an Obscurus." Newt quickly said defending himself and his animals.
"You go too far, Mr. Scamander. There is no Obscurial in America. Impound that case, Graves!" The president concluded. Suddenly everything went quickly. A couple of wizards grabbed Newt, Jacob and even Tina. An other one grabbed the suitcase. I watched as Newt desperate tried to get out screaming for the safety of his animals. Jacob looked a little offended and Tina was on the verge of a panic attack now.
"Percival Graves" Madam President said, a man at the opposite of me looked up at her.
"Make sure the situation is handled" The man nodded before leaving the room. I knew that man, this would not end well if I didn't intervene.
"Drew"I froze when the president called out my name, I slowly looked up at the woman.
"You know mr Scamander personally right?"
"We went to Hogwarts together" I shrugged, all eyes were on me.
"Do you believe one of his creatures could've done this?"
"No, these wounds came from something way bigger and more powerful than any of Newt's creatures" I concluded defending my best friend. The president just nodded before continuing the convention.
Within an hour the meeting was over. I was walking through the hallways. Once I was at Percival's office I didn't bother to knock and just walked in.
"Hey! You can't just walk in like that" The man said behind his desk, he looked disturbed. I walked up towards his desk and slammed my fist down onto it. The man didn't seem effected by this at all.
"Percival Graves? Really? Percival? I'm not stupid" from all the names he had to take the one from my childhood friend. The man just stared at me blankly.
"Where are they?" I asked glaring at the man. He just stared at me.
"Where are who?"I rolled my eyes, he was playing dumb.
"Gellert I don't have time for your mind games. Tell me where Newt, Tina and Jacob are" I called out. The man in front of me froze. He was probably in shock about me knowing his real identity."Drew, you won't sa-"
"Where are they or I WILL tell everyone about you" I interrupted my brother. I was fuming now. Gellert glared at me.
"Jacob's mind is getting obliviated and Newt and Tina got the death sentence"When he said that I felt chills going down my spine. This was not happening. Before saying anything else I stormed out the office leaving him behind. I ran through the hallways ignoring all the weird looks I got.
Once at the door where behind my friends were already dead or about to die I stopped. What if I was about to find their dead bodies? I quickly shook my head getting rid of the thought before entering the room. Two wizards were laying on the grounds passed out. A terrified scream caught my attention though. Tina stood on a chair that was floating just above this toxic magic that could kill everyone. Newt was standing on shore trying to reach for her. There also was one of Newt's creatures flying around.
"Tina trust me, i'll catch you!" Newt promised. The toxic magic slowly started to creep up towards Tina who looked absolutely terrified.
"Are you crazy?" I called out storming in.
"There is no other option" Newt called back in hurry, we didn't have any time for this."Please help" Tina begged me. I noticed there were tears flowing down her cheeks. I hated to see her so scared and sad. I quickly pulled out my wand and whispered a spell I knew would work. The toxic magic slowly started to go down again.
The chair moved towards me. Once above ground, I held out my hand towards the girl. She grabbed it. I felt her hand shaking. She got off the chair, safe and sound.
"Thank you" She stuttered quickly wiping away the tears. I just nodded.
"I'm sorry he gave you both the death sentence" I apologized on behalf of my brother, not that they knew who he was.
"I don't trust him" Newt concluded. I nodded.
"We should get out of here"We all walked back towards the hallway, fortunately, nobody had noticed what happened yet. I turned towards the two,
"Go to the basement and take the underground tunnels out alright?" I suggested. Both wizards nodded."Where are you going?" Tina asked surprised when I wanted to walk away.
"They don't know I'm involved, better keep it that way," I explained, the woman nodded. I turned towards Newt who was looking worried
"I'll make sure you case it safe"
Newt nodded, "thank you"They both started to walk into the direction of the basement. I gave them one last look before I walked away.Technically I had finished what I came for, help MACUSA find Grindelwald, they just didn't know Gellert was Percival Graves.
Madame Piquery certainly wasn't expecting me today anymore.
I ran to the room in which I knew they'd keep Newt's case and Tina's wands. Once I finally got there I discovered it was empty, here's to hoping someone like Queenie got the items and definitely not my brother or something from the ministry.
I decided to get out the building first. On my way out many guards ran past me yelling about people who had escaped. I quickly got out the building, once out on the streets I felt like I could breath again.
MACUSA tried doing good things but they didn't realize how many corrupted people were in it. Poor Madam President, she was just trying her best.
I knew Dougal the demiguise was still missing from the suitcase, it was about time I found my old friend.