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            DISBELIEF took over as Tina witnessed Newt arriving in the cell to RESCUE her. He was the last person she thought she would see, especially after finding out about the ENGAGEMENT. Not that being engaged made him LESS likely to help another person but … well, why would he run to find her when he had a FUTURE wife by his side? Still, no matter what the reasons for him being there, Tina was only slightly annoyed by the appearance. 

“Do you have any idea what you’re interfering with by being here, Newt?” She was now a fully pledged Auror again, no more criminal convictions against her for involving herself with no-maj business. Her only reason for being in Paris was to follow some leads and find out MORE about Credence, someone who was STILL alive and seemingly on the run. She wanted to find him, NEEDED to help him before the WRONG person found him first. “ – s’not that I don’t appreciate you being here, I just don’t know WHY you came. I had things under control, I am highly trained with what I do. Just like you are with your creatures.” Perhaps an element of her engagement envy was shining through but this was MOSTLY in relation to her investigations being interrupted. 

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Newt’s dumbfounded when she begins to tear into him. Truthfully, he wasn’t entirely sure he knew what to expect when he’d finally found the woman in Paris. He knew her sister had said she was “all up in a tizzy,” and surely that explained the sudden lack of letters some months back. Tina had to be upset, but it’s all very unsettling. Since everything in the magazine was a lie and all she had to do was ask– And, well, he’s not entirely certain what he meant to accomplish by coming here. He’d simply wanted to find her– to correct the situation– but now he finds his words trapped in the back of her throat.

Tell her what you feel, Jacob had said. Tell her you came to Paris to find her, she’ll love that one. That she keeps you awake at night… But no salamanders. Now, though, he’s rather certain that Jacob had it wrong and following Tina out of Flamel’s house was perhaps the worst thing he could have done. Not for the first time she’s taking him half the length of a city and tearing his ear off along the way. He’s spent the better part of three days having people tell him what to do and it’s Tina so some part of him is soothed by trying to do the right thing– But the other, well.

“So sorry, but from where I was standing your interrogation wasn’t going all that well He managed between his teeth, “if interfering got you out of a sewer filled with poisonous parasites then, I’m afraid, Tina, that I rather don’t feel that bad for it.” He knows it sounds curter then he means, but Newt had always been a brutally honest kind of person– He didn’t say anything out of malice but he’d never managed to cut words exactly the way he wanted to (and least of all when frustrated.

Newt shakes his head just slightly, fringe falling over his eyes. Tell her that you think you make a good team, some backwards part of his mind suggest– A voice that sounds suspiciously like Jacob. He decides against it immediately, reasoning she’d take it as him thinking she was incapable when his opinion was furthest from that. She was an Auror and every fiber of his being naturally distrusted those witches and wizards, but Tina was different. She was– Well, lovely, he supposed. Honest and earnest. An Auror trying to protect when so many others tried to kill. He knew she was a force to be reckoned with, but the words he finds don’t come easily and next to the fierce aggression of her words seem misplaced.

“I have no doubts in your training, Tina,” he insisted earnestly, cerulean eyes glancing at her from beneath his curls. Mouth something of a twist grimace as he tries to piece together what else he wants to say. “And you’re– Jacob was there and I knew you were here for Credence. I couldn’t–
 He couldn’t let Jacob go to France alone, but it’s more than that. The man ducks his head just so, sussing the words out that he wants to say.

“–If you were here, alone, and in trouble or searching for him I couldn’t stay behind. You had promised him, Credence, that we’d protect him.”

And he knows that it’s a promise she didn’t take lightly, that Tina didn’t say things she didn’t mean. They were much the same that way. He remembered the letter where she spoke of her worries of him. He knew that if Credence was out and Tina was anywhere knowledgeable she’d be looking for him. But it wasn’t that.

 “Besides. I wanted to find you– You’re. My friend. So, forgive me, but I will not apologize for coming here.”

He says it with a simple sort of fiercity– Trying his best to leave no room for argument as his hand tighted around the case at his side. Eyes turning at first to her and then away as he settled them on the pavement before them as his feet continued to hit the stone.