A/N: Okay, so I know this took longer than I promised but when you read this chapter you will understand why. Back when I started someone asked me for some back story on how Newtina ended up together in this universe and now I'm here to deliver. I hope this is good and that you enjoy it. I promise I tried. Enjoy and as always I'd want to here what you think!

Tina stares at herself through the floor length mirror in her bridal suite, the same floor length mirror she stared at when she turned 17 for her coming of age party. She surveyed her person, admiring the wedding dress that her talented sister Queenie had designed for her months before today.

Tina admires the reflection she sees in the mirror one piece at a time. She starts at the hem of her dress, which was laced with beautiful, intricate floral designs that only her sister could think of. She travels up and admires how the dress hugs her hips perfectly and how it wraps around her petite waist to showcase her lithe frame. Her eyes travel further up, until she was staring at her own, deep brown eyes that were full of happiness, love, and certainty. Her cheeks were the perfect shade of pink, her lips painted with the faintest red that complimented her skin tone, and her eyes lined with the darkest shade of black, making her brown eyes more noticeable to anyone who catches a glimpse at her.

She raises a hand to her cheek, convincing herself that the person she was seeing in the mirror was indeed her and that this was all indeed happening. She lets out a deep sigh of relief and contentment before she whispers, "This is it. Today is the day I marry Newt Scamander."

"Come now Tina, stop making a fuss, it's hard enough understanding this map of our new estate without you throwing a tantrum," Mr. Goldstein exclaims in an annoyed tone at his four-year old daughter. "Come along."

A young Tina begrudgingly follows her father as he tries to decipher the map he was carrying, his wife trailing behind him with their other daughter who was almost a year old cradled in her arms.

"Damn! I think we might have gotten lost, my dear," Mr. Goldstein calls out to his wife behind him, still holding the hand of his four-year old firmly.

"Oh, John," Mrs. Goldstein lamented behind him. "I told you we should have asked for directions back at the harbor. There's no one here for miles and we've been walking for quite some time."

"I'm sorry, my dearest," he apologized, guilt all over his face as he let go of his three-year old daughter's hand and walks over to his wife to relieve her of the weight that she had been carrying. "here, let me take little Queenie off your hands. I'm sure Teenie would be okay with that, right sweetheart?"

Just as Mr. Goldstein turned around to check up on Tina, she was gone. The two parents panicked, calling out to their young daughter, hoping that she didn't wander off very far just to get lost in these meadows.

"Tina!" both parents exclaimed for the hundredth time, walking in opposite directions to cover more ground and yet still no reply.

"This is not happening," Mrs. Goldstein whimpered, panic engulfing her entire being. "we should have never moved here, John. I told you something like this was going to happen!"

"Calm down, Anne," Mr. Goldstein shushed his panicked wife, rubbing gentle strokes against her arm. "we'll find her. She might not have gotten far. You know our Tina, she just loves adventure."

"Tina!" Mr. Goldstein calls out again.

Silence.

"Excuse me, sir," calls a sweet voice across the meadow. The Goldsteins search for the source of the voice but couldn't find it, but they hear it again. "Up here, sir, madam."

Both parents turned to look up at the sky and right above them was a young boy riding what looked like an eagle that had a body of a horse.

"Are you lost?" the young boy calls out to them in inquiry.

"Yes," Mr. Goldstein replied. "and we seemed to have lost our daughter as well. Can you see her from up there?"

The young boy urges his flying pet forward, searching the meadows for a young girl just like the two strangers had asked. A few miles south he found a young girl wandering deeper into the meadow, fear absent from her eyes. She was chasing a winged creature, it occupied all of her attention that she didn't seem to notice that she had been separated from her parents. The young boy urged his pet towards the ground in haste, wanting to catch up to the girl before she wanders even deeper into the meadow that even he wouldn't be able to reunite her with her parents.

He landed only a few feet away from her and calls out, "Hello there!"

This startles a young Tina Goldstein that she forgets about the winged creature she was chasing. She turns around to see where the voice had come from and she was met by a tall, slender young boy.

"Your parents are looking for you," He pointed out calmly from where he was standing. "they're worried sick."

"Who are you?" Young Tina inquires, suspicious of the young boy who just came flying down from the sky with his flying pet. "How do I know you're telling the truth?"

"I'm Newt, Newt Scamander," Young Newt replies enthusiastically, grinning from ear-to-ear as he offers his hand in a gentlemanly fashion, the way his father taught him to.

Tina looks at him warily, unsure if she should trust this Newt person. He might be a dark wizard posing as a child.

"And you know that I'm telling the truth because I have no reason to lie to you," Newt adds bluntly, one of his hands still extended for her to take while the other was on his back. "I did see your parents a few miles from here, and they've been calling for you for a good while now. You're Tina, right?"

"How do you know that?" Tina asks defensively as she inches away from Newt who was now walking towards her, hand still outstretched.

"It's what those folks out there have been calling out for the past minute and a half," Newt answers, his eyebrows knitted together in concentration, trying to explain to the little girl in front of him that he meant no harm.

Tina considers Newt for a moment, still not willing to trust this stranger in this strange land.

"Their names are John and Anne," he adds, hoping that this information would make this cautious young lady trust him implicitly so that he could finally take her back to her worried parents.

Tina stops inching away from Newt as he approaches her slowly, his trusted flying pet following behind him. He reaches her a few steps later and offers out his hand one last time and says, "It's nice to meet you, Miss Tina – "

"Goldstein," she interjects, starting to reach for his hand. "Porpentina Goldstein."

Newt takes her hand in his and places a light kiss on it, just like his father taught him. This startled Tina, she wasn't used to being greeted like a lady, let alone by someone as young as this Newt boy.

"I like your name," Newt admits as he releases her hand, his own rejoining the other one on his lower back.

"I like it too," she replies with a smile, her distrust of the strange boy finally disappearing.

"Now, may I escort you back to your parents, milady," Newt inquires playfully in a very adorable gentlemanly manner. "they must be so worried about you."

"Yes, you may, kind sir," Tina replies in the most ladylike tone she could muster while fake bowing, playing along with her newfound friend.

"Very well, then."

Newt approaches Tina and takes her hand lightly. He pulls he towards his flying pet and introduces Tina to him. "Tina, this is Phineas. He's a hippogriff." Newt then turned to the hippogriff and said, "Phineas, this is Tina, my new friend."

Newt's last statement made Tina smile. She never actually had the chance to make friends back in America. And now all of sudden, just when she had arrived in a new place, a new place that would become her home, she met a young boy who willingly wanted to be her friend even though he knew nothing about her.

"What's a hippogriff?"

"Uhm, uh," Newt stammers, his face screwed up in concentration as he wracked his little brain for a way to explain to his new friend what a hippogriff is. "it's a magical creature. He has an upper body of an eagle and the lower body of a horse."

Newt then runs to the side of Phineas and points excitedly at his wings. "And it's because he's half eagle that he can fly!"

Tina jogs on after Newt and looks at the hippogriff's huge wings in awe. "Wow!"

"You wanna fly, Tina?" Newt asked excitedly, an invitation already out of him before he could think about it.

"Yes! Yes! YES!" she replied excitedly clapping her hands together and running towards the back of the hippogriff, ready to mount it.

"No, no, no, wait," Newt warns as his new friend got closer to Phineas. "he doesn't know you yet. You must make him trust you first before you can ride him."

"How?"

"Come here," Newt motions for Tina to follow his lead. He positions himself in front of his friend Phineas and looks deeply into the hippogriff's eye, never loosing eye contact. The young boy then made a slight bow without breaking the eye contact he had with the flying beast, waiting for it to bow back. A few minutes passed until Phineas finally returned the bow and allowed Newt to pet him. It was then that Newt turned to Tina and waved her over.

"C'mon, it's your turn!"

Tina nervously stepped up to the creature, starting to make eye contact with it. It screeched for a split second and scared Tina a little, but Newt's reassuring hand was there to lead his new friend back to the creature. This gave Tina more courage to get this beast's trust. She kept eye contact and bowed slowly, hoping that Phineas would consider her a friend as well and bow in return.

It didn't take long for the creature to bow and before they knew it, Newt and Tina were up in the air, their gleeful screams being drowned by the wind. Newt spots the Goldsteins a little farther north, right where he left them, so he urged Phineas forward. He heard the screech of another hippogriff beside him and he turned to find his mother and father riding their own hippogriffs. Tina startled when she saw the two new additions but trusted that Newt won't lead her into any trouble.

Newt landed his hippogriff a few moments later, only a few feet away from the Goldsteins while his parents landed theirs a few feet from him. He gets off Phineas and helps Tina off the magnificent beast.

Tina immediately runs to her parents and hugs both of them as tightly as she can. The Scamanders approached their son, their respective hippogriffs in tow. Mr. Scamander placed a proud hand on his son's shoulder while Mrs. Scamander showered him with kisses.

"Oh, thank you!" Mrs. Goldstein exclaimed in gratitude, looking from Newt to his parents, fussing over her three-year old daughter and showering her with hugs and kisses. "Thank you for bringing her back to us safe."

"You're welcome, madam," Newt replies a little unsure of himself, an innocent look on his face, his eyes blinking furiously as he observed the little girl he just "saved".

"Hello there, I'm John," Mr. Goldstein supplies as he approached Mr. Scamander with his arm outstretched. The two men shake hands before Mr. Goldstein turns back to his wife and adds, "this is my wife, Anne, and our two daughters, Tina and Queenie."

Tina smiles at the two adults beside Newt and gives them a tiny wave at the mention of her name.

"It's nice to meet all of you," Mr. Scamander replies. "I am Perseus, but you can call me Percy, and this is my wife, Diana."

Mrs. Scamander simply nods at the Goldsteins, calmly petting her hippogriff who was always adamant to meet new people.

"And who might this heroic young boy be?" Mrs. Goldstein asks immediately when neither parent introduced their son to them.

"That's Newt, mama," Tina blurts out from where she was standing, her eyes fixed on Newt's. "and he brought me back to you. Safe."

"That he did, Teenie," Mr. Scamander confirmed, his voice laced with so much gratitude. "thank you for bringing her back to me safe, young man."

Mr. Goldstein extended a hand for Newt to shake as a sign of his gratitude. The young boy wasn't sure what to do so he looked to his parents for help.

"Come on, Newton," Mr. Scamander nodded encouragingly at his son. "just like a taught you."

Young Newt walked timidly to Mr. Goldstein and grasped the older man's hand as firmly as he could and gave it a light shake. He looked up at the older man unafraid and gave him a charming smile that brought a smile to the older man's face. "You're welcome, sir."

Newt peers at Tina, who was smiling so brightly at him before he walks back over to his parents, waiting for them to tell him they were heading back home.

"Did you lot get lost?" Mrs. Scamander inquires when she notices the haggard expressions that were all over both older Goldstein's faces.

"Yes, sadly, we have," Mrs. Goldstein confirm, taking a fussy Queenie from her husband. "we recently decided to move here for our children but for the life of me, we couldn't understand how to get to our new home."

"Then you must be our new neighbors. The Goldsteins, I presume?"

"Yes, that's us," both adults nodded in unison.

"We were told of your arrival a few days ago," Mr. Scamander pointed out, petting his restless hippogriff now too. "that's why we've been flying these hippogriffs every afternoon in case our new neighbors would get lost."

"It's a lucky thing we did," Mrs. Scamander chimed in gleefully. "or you would've gotten more lost than you already are."

"And we are eternally grateful," Mr. Goldstein admits.

"Well, come on then," Mrs. Scamander commanded, waving the Goldsteins over towards them. "the estate isn't that far from here by foot. The only way you could get lost out here is if you took the wrong turn. And mind you, that's so easy to do with such a wide, open field like this."

"I agree," Mrs. Goldstein murmured in agreement. "thank you so much for offering to help us."

"Of course," Mrs. Scamander remarks as she waves at them to follow her, her husband in tow. "what are neighbors for after all?"

The adults start to walk southwest from where they were standing, wives leading the way, with the husbands right behind them, starting up a conversation. The adults were busy talking about the neighborhood and the two estates that were located in the meadow that they've failed to notice that neither of their children were following them.

Newt and Tina were having a quiet conversation with their eyes, both rooted in the spot they've stood ever since the landed. A silent agreement seemed to have formed between the two when Tina calls out to her mother.

"Mama," Tina calls out as Newt faces the adults whose heads were turning back to acknowledge the voice of the little girl who just spoke. "is it okay if Newt and I rode Phineas back to our new home?"

"Phineas?" Mr. Goldstein asks in confusion. "Who is Phineas?"

"He's my hippogriff, sir," Newt replies proudly. "I've taken care of him since he was a fledgling. He's never gotten me lost, not once."

The amount of conviction Newt's eyes endeared the young boy to both Tina's parents, that they couldn't say no.

"Just promise you'll keep her safe," Mr. Goldstein pleads firmly with Newt.

"I promise to always bring her back to you safe, sir," Newt promises with all the conviction he had at such a young age.

"Very well," Mr. Goldstein replies with a smile as he hears squeals of excitement come from both children. "we'll see you both soon, okay?"

"Okay, daddy!"

"Newton, young Miss Tina here is your responsibility now," Mr. Scamander impresses on his son, his eyes burrowing into Newt's soul. "remember what I taught you, son."

"Always protect what you're responsible for." Newt recites as if his father's words were his own mantra.

Perseus Scamander nods proudly at his youngest son before he and his new friend got onto his trusted hippogriff, Phineas.

"And don't forget you're feeding Phineas as soon as you get home!" Mrs. Scamander calls out after Newt as the two children take off for flight, soaring higher and higher into the air until they were only a tiny dot in the infinite sky.

"I feel like there's something there," Mrs. Scamander whispers as quietly as she could to Mrs. Goldstein.

"Oh dear," was all Mrs. Goldstein could say before she and her new friend and neighbor chuckled at the possibility of their two children ever falling in love.

Tina was broken out of her reminiscing by a light knock on the door. She turned to see who it was and found that it was her soon-to-be mother in-law, Diana Scamander.

"Oh, my dear, you look so beautiful," Diana gushed as she walked over to Tina to admire her in her wedding dress.

Tina chuckles nervously, moving away from the floor length mirror she was standing in front of, walking towards the woman she already considered a mother. The older woman pulls her in for a hug, one Tina returned eagerly.

"Thank you, Diana."

"Whatever for, dear?" Diana asked in surprise, pulling away from Tina to look into her soon-to-be daughter-in-law's eyes.

"For everything," Tina adds, smiling tearfully at the woman in front of her. "for rescuing us when we got lost the day we arrived here. For that really grandiose coming of age party you and Percy threw for me. For being a second mother to Queenie and me. You've always been there for us. You and Percy both."

Tina sniffles, a stray tear escaping and finding its way down her face. She was quick to catch the tear so that Diana wouldn't have to. "Especially when mama and daddy died."

A sob escapes Tina despite all her efforts to stay strong. She feels strong arms wrap around her and she sinks into them like a child did when it was hurting.

Diana holds her for a little while, not saying anything, allowing the bride to cry the tears she had kept in for years.

"Oh, look at me," Tina says a few moments later, realizing how much of a mess she was going to make if she continued on like this. "this is supposed to be the happiest day of my life, yet here I am crying over something that has long since passed."

"Tina, my dear, don't say that," Diana consoled, running her hands against Tina's back to sooth her. "the loss of a parent will never pass. Not in a million years. You're allowed to feel sad that they aren't here to celebrate important moments in your life. Especially momentous occasions like today."

Tina sniffs again, wiping her face dry of tears, realizing that what Diana was saying was absolutely true. She ducks her head, shielding herself from the only mother she had left and allows herself to cry silently at the feeling of loss that came creeping back in since a week ago.

"D'you wanna know what I think?" Diana says out of the blue after giving Tina a few minutes to herself. She then tucks her index finger against Tina's chin and lifts her head up so that their eyes met. "I think that your parents are extremely proud of the woman you have become."

Tina smiled and chuckled through her tears, thankful that Diana was trying to cheer her up in her own little way.

"And I know with all my heart that they'd want you to be happy," Diana continues, trying to find the right words to comfort Tina. "because you deserve to be happy more than anyone else I know."

"Thank you," was all Tina could muster herself to say.

Diana pulls her in for a final hug. It was brief, but very reassuring. "Welcome to the family, dear."

Tina lets out a laugh, the very first laugh she had let out since last week. She felt so much love and gratitude to Diana at that moment that she just blurts out, "Thank you for raising Newt to be the man I fell in love with."

Diana turns back around and stays rooted to the spot she was standing, unable to say a word.

"Despite all that I have lost over the years, I never lost him." Tina begins solemnly, looking at Diana and holding back all the emotions that were threatening to escape her through her eyes. "Not once. And thank Merlin for that."

Diana stood rooted on the spot, still dumbstruck by what Tina just revealed to her about how much her son meant to her.

"He makes me happy, Diana," Tina admits, so much truth and conviction in her otherwise shaky voice. "he makes me extremely happy."

She smiles and considers herself before she decides to continue, "and after the death of my parents, I never thought that possible. But somehow he managed to do it even from a million miles away."

"Thank you, dear," Diana says when she finally finds the right words to sum up what she was feeling at that moment. "what you've just said about Newt, it's all a mother would want to hear from the woman who is about to marry her son."

The two women hugged each other tightly, the love for the very same man pulling them together, bonding them, anchoring them in that moment.

"We really need to stop with all the tears," Diana interjects jokingly after a while. "If we continue at this rate I don't think there will be any magic left in this world that would conceal all the smudged makeup on both of us because of the crying."

Tina laughs heartily at her soon-to-be mother-in-law, wiping the tears from her face clumsily, not the least bit concerned that her sister would murder her for ruining her masterpiece.

"I agree," Tina replies in between sniffs, wiping stray tears from her face and waving her wand at herself to fix the smudges. "Newt might not want to marry me if I looked like a zombie walking down the aisle.

Diana laughs heartily at Tina's comment, springing a laugh from the bride herself. "He'll marry you even if you looked like the ugliest mountain troll on the planet."

Tina chuckled once again before waving her wand at Diana to eliminate the last few smudges on her face before the older woman said, "And you don't my dear."

Diana walks off towards the door, leaving Tina stunned at her words. She opens the door and turns back to the younger woman.

"Let's just hope Newt doesn't look the way he did after that Ironbelly incident at Hogwarts," Diana comments jokingly with a wink, before leaving Tina dreading the idea of Newt looking like that ever again.

"I sure hope not," Tina says to herself as she turns her back against the door and peers out the window, remembering the exact moment she realized she was in love with one Newt Scamander.

Tina was rushing through the familiar corridors of Hogwarts that led to the hospital wing. She had never been admitted herself but as a prefect she has escorted countless students there. She ran as fast as her feet would take her, up a couple of flights of stairs and past dozens of students and a few snogging teenagers. Her surroundings were a blur, she didn't care who she ran into as long as she got to the hospital wing immediately.

She arrived at the entrance of the room she intended to go to and was out of breath from running from greenhouses where her Herbology glass was assigned to the tower housing the hospital wing. Without knocking, Tina pushes the heavy doors with all the strength she could muster and searched the beds to look for the one person she needed to see, Newt.

News spread around the castle that a seventh-year student almost got burned alive by a dragon, a Ukranian Ironbelly, rumors said. Tina only knew of one foolhardy idiot that would even attempt to tame a dragon despite the lack of information on the species and she was going to murder that idiot as soon as she finds him.

Madam Pomfrey hurried over to her to ask her what was her emergency, what were her symptoms? The Mediwitch continued to fuss over her until Tina bellowed, "I'm not sick, okay? I'm here to see if Newt Scamander is alright."

"Right," Madam Pomfrey says, a little taken aback at the tone a student was taking with her, but she relented and led the teenager to a bed at the back of the hospital wing, concealed from prying eyes of gossip mongers. "right this way, Miss Goldstein."

Tina follows Madam Pomfrey through the doors at the far end of the room, surprised that there was a section to the wing that she had never been to. She always thought that Madam Pomfrey's office was what was past those doors and not more beds for students to stay in.

The room changed as soon as Tina stepped inside. There were hardly any beds in this room, she could only count four.

"We use this room for special cases," Madam Pomfrey informs a confused Tina.

"And being almost burned to death by a dragon is a special case," Tina mutters angrily under her breath.

"Pretty much," Madam Pomfrey replies before leading Tina to the bed that contained one Newt Scamander propped up against the hospital bed he was in. "I'll leave you two alone to talk."

Madam Pomfrey exits the room as quietly as she can as Tina glares at a half-bandaged Newt Scamander on the bed that she was standing in front of.

"What…the…hell…were YOU THINKING?!" Tina exclaims angrily, her whole body shaking with anger, her eyes burning with rage. "'Oh, look a dragon. He looks peaceful maybe I should poke it with a stick and see if it does indeed breathe fire.' ARE YOU INSANE?!"

"Tina, calm down, it's not as bad as it looks," Newt says as he attempts to calm down a furious Tina and to make her stop yelling at him.

"Not bad as it looks?!" Tina yells in disbelief. "Newt, half your body is bandaged to cover and heal the burns you sustained. How the hell is that 'not as bad as it looks?'"

"It really isn't," Newt admits, as he attempts albeit painfully to move. "See? I can still get my own glass of water."

"You think this is funny?" Tina snapped as she placed both her hands on either side of her waist. "You could have died, Newt. What would you have me do then, huh?"

"Why do you care so much if I lived or died," Newt barked back, trying to cross his arms across his chest but failing. "it's not like you've talked to me since term started. Hell, you've been ignoring me since summer and now all of a sudden you act all high and mighty pretending to care about my safety? Why Tina? After all that silence why now?"

"Because I'm in love with you, you moron!"

The world stopped for both Newt and Tina. They both could feel every single second tick by as their eyes were on each other, a silent fight ensuing between the two of them. Ragged breaths could be heard from the room as if they both ran a marathon and decided to stop for air.

"You what?" Newt asks in shock, wanting to hear the words come out from Tina's mouth again, just to be sure that he heard her right.

"You heard me," Tina replies, crossing her arms over her chest, pleading at Newt with her eyes. "please don't make me say it again."

"But why not?" Newt asks again, his healthier hand reaching out for Tina, asking for her to approach his bed.

"Because…" Tina trails off as she walks over to Newt and takes the seat directly beside his bed, never taking her eyes off his.

She reaches him, her arms outstretched, her hands grasping lightly on the hand he held out for her to take. She squeezes lightly and sees him wince in discomfort, so she loosens her grip before taking a seat.

She couldn't find the right words to answer his question. All she knew in that moment that there was something magnetic that was pulling her towards the idiot on the bed who almost got himself killed. All she knew and felt was that uncharacteristic pull he had on her, pulling her closer and closer to him until she could feel his lips on hers. A current radiated throughout her entire body as her lips moved against Newt's. It was as if a world that was once chaotic finally made sense. It was like having a mythical wrong be turned right. She would have gladly stayed in this position forever, but the need for air was too great so she decided to break away.

A disappointment spread through Tina as she felt her lips disconnect from Newt's. Her eyes met his and she could see the same disappointment reflected in his green eyes mixed with delight and astonishment. Tina could feel her heart beating fast against her chest. She could feel and hear her pulse beating against her eardrums. She had a million questions racing through her mind and she was trying to find the answer in Newt's, whose eyes were laced with more questions of his own instead of the answers that Tina was searching for.

And then suddenly, in just a blink of an eye, everything fell into place. Tina understood now. All the questions she had racing through her mind right now were irrelevant. All that mattered right here, right now was him. Newt.

"I love you," she says again, this time surer of the words that were coming from her mouth, a hint of a smile on her lips. "I love you, Newt."

She laughs for the first time since she stepped into the room and stands from where she was sitting. She crushes her lips once again on his, more fiercely this time, but also very delicately so that she wasn't hurting him. She felt him slip his tongue into her mouth, their kiss becoming more fiery and passionate than the first. Their tongues danced against each other's for the first time. Their bodies moved together as if they were one. Arms roamed, trying to touch and feel every surface of the body the could get on. His lips on hers, her tongue battling his, their bodies so close to each other that space wasn't even a concept anymore. And it felt right.

The two lovers were broken apart when they heard someone behind them clear their throat softly. Newt and Tina turned to look at who interrupted their severely heated snogging session, both a little flustered. The both turned even redder if that was even possible when they saw Diana Scamander by the door, with the headmaster right behind her, embarrassment filling every part of their being.

Tina moves away from Newt, letting go of his hand and walks over to the opposite side of the bed to allow Newt's mother to the take the seat that she was previously occupying.

"Mu…mu…mum, hello," Newt stammered sitting up as he tries to look his mother in the eye after catching him and the girl who lived next door snogging like rabid animals.

"Newton Scamander," she began, her voice a very deadly tone that was rarely heard of in the Scamander home. "how many times have I told you not TO EXPERIMENT WITH MAGICAL CREATURES?!"

Diana goes on to grab the latest issue of the Daily Prophet lying by her son's bedside table and proceeds to hitting her 17-year old with it as if he was a little boy again.

"Mum, stop it!" Newt complains, trying and failing to avoid his mother's smacking with Tina snickering silently in the background. "that hurts!"

"Serves you right, young man!" Diana exclaims, finally putting down the battered copy of the Daily Prophet back on the bedside table. "You nearly gave your father and me a heart attack."

"Mum, I'm fine, really."

"Fine? FINE?!" Diana's rage started to rise again, her face turning red. "You could have been killed by that dragon, Newton."

"I know, mum, I know," Newt admits, ducking his head at time to prepare for a moment where he thought his mother would hit him again. "Tina has got all of that covered. She already yelled at me before you got here."

"Oh, did she now?" Diana questioned as she crossed her arms over her chest and shifted her death glare from Newt to Tina. Tina gulped and slowly started to shrink smaller and smaller into herself, trying to avoid having to discuss what had just transpired between Newt and herself with his own mother.

Growing up, Tina saw countless times how Diana Scamander got when she was angry, but despite that, she had never been on the receiving end of any of it. Right now, might be the first time she will be. Tina starts to prepare herself for whatever nasty little comment Mrs. Scamander was going to throw her way when she was met with, "Thank you, Tina. Finally, someone who can knock some sense into this idiot I have for a son."

Tina relaxes once she heard Diana's voice return to its regular register, relieved that she didn't decide to pull the 'you're-not-good-enough-for-my-son' card on her. She chuckles and places a hand on one of Newt's slightly burned shoulders before saying, "I'll make sure he stays in line, Mrs. Scamander."

"Now, now, you don't have to call me, Mrs. Scamander all of a sudden just because you're my son's girlfriend," Diana points out, a mischievous smile on her face.

Both Newt and Tina blushed so hard again it looked like they both had allergic reactions to something. Tina hides her face behind her hands while Newt ducks his head in embarrassment and stammers, "Oh, mum, c'mon, she's not my… I mean we haven't talked about it yet…this is really none of your business."

"Oh, hush," Diana retorts with finality. "I know a snog when I see one son. No need to be ashamed both of you. It's about time, really. I was beginning to think you both would die before either of you admitted you had feelings for each other."

This revelation caught them both off guard. Apparently, Mrs. Scamander knew about their hidden feelings for each other but they both weren't sure of it until that moment.

"Don't worry, dears," Diana adds as she sees the surprised expression on the two teenagers' face. "I won't tell your father," she nods at Newt, "or either of your parents," she nods at Tina, "I'll leave that responsibility entirely up to you young lovers."

A mischievous glint could be seen from Mrs. Scamander's eye as she bid her farewells to the young couple, leaving a few reminders for her son to stay out of trouble.

As soon as they were alone, both teenagers groaned while Tina slumped down onto the seat beside Newt and blurted out, "Well that was the most humiliating experience of my life."

"And mine," Newt chimes in agreement. "but I don't care."

With much difficulty, he brings one of his hands to Tina's cheeks and caresses it for the very first time. "I've gotten you to admit you loved me. Turns out almost getting killed by a dragon has its perks after all."

Newt smiled smugly at Tina, their faces only mere inches apart.

"So that's what all this was about?" Tina inquires in disbelief, her 'you're-an-idiot' face plastered on. "You tried to get yourself killed so that I'll tell you I love you?"

"Well, not exactly," Newt replies, slumping back to the comforts of the hospital bed. "I really did want to learn new things about the Ukrainian Ironbelly – "

"Oh, so the rumors were true, it was a Ukrainian Ironbelly," Tina interjects, her eyebrows raised at Newt as if she was judging him more.

"Yes, it was," Newt confirms with a grunt. "and god bless that devilish bastard. Because of it I got the best gift I could ever ask for, an I love you from you."

"You're a moron, you know that," Tina states matter-of-factly, shaking her head at Newt.

"A moron you love?" Newt states more than he asks, feigning innocence.

"A moron I love," Tina confirms with a nod and an eyeroll before Newt plants a chaste kiss on her lips.

"Well aren't you at least going to say it back?" Tina asks in anticipation as they broke apart, her arms crossed over her chest, waiting for him to confirm her suspicions even though she felt desperate for asking him to say it back.

Newt smiles a little too smugly for Tina's tastes before he finally utters softly and tenderly, "I love you too."

Tina smiles at herself as she ducks her head, a giddy feeling spreading throughout her entire body just like the feeling she got when she first kissed Newt.

"Well, that's a sight to behold," says a voice coming from the opposite side of the room that it startled Tina.

"Queenie, you almost gave me a heart attack."

"I'm sorry," Queenie apologizes as she walks towards her big sister. "I'm just admiring your smile. It's been a while since I've seen it."

"Well, there hasn't been much to smile about," Tina replies a little bitterly, her smile completely fading.

Queenie frowns before she takes her sister in for a warm hug. Tina leans into Queenie and takes in the familiar sent of the only blood-related family she had left.

"I know," Queenie admits as she lets go of her sister and steadies the both of them. "but today is one of the few reasons to smile. You're finally marrying Newt, everything is right in the world."

Tina rolls her eyes at Queenie an at how sappy her sister gets when it comes to her and Newt.

"You know I wasn't really a fan of Newt traveling so much after mama and daddy's death," Queenie continues, taking her sister's arm and tucking her own against them. "but he really was one of the few people who could make you genuinely smile. I couldn't even do that."

"Queenie, I…"

"You don't need to apologize, Teenie," Queenie interjected, reassuring her sister that she understood why Tina was the way she was. "I understand more than anyone else, more than you know. It was hard for me to smile after we lost our parents, but I had you and I'm just so thankful that you had Newt to be the one who made you smile and take care of you. Because you were so worried about me, you forgot about yourself. But Newt never forgot about you and he never forgot to take care of you. Even though he wasn't here half the time."

Tina smiles thankfully at her sister, a genuine smile. She takes Queenie's hands in her own and squeezes them as a single tear escaped her eye, thankful that someone noticed how much Newt had done for her. People kept telling her how Newt was lucky to have her in his life but truthfully it was the other way around. She was lucky to have him in her life. And she was so happy that someone finally understood that.

"He is really awesome, isn't he?" Tina asks playfully, trying to lighten the mood between them so that no more tears get shed at the expense of this wedding.

Queenie nods in excitement, so much delight in her eyes. The younger Goldstein begins to blabber on about the amazing things Newt had done for Tina over the years of their relationship. She started with the late night walks the two young lovebirds had at Hogwarts the year they started dating. Then she went on excitedly talking about how the wedding feels so much like the 17th birthday party the Scamanders threw for Tina because Newt had insisted that they do simply because he wanted to show Tina how much she meant to her. She then started squealing about how Newt was the perfect boyfriend after he graduated Hogwarts but never failed to visit Tina when he can while she was still in school. Tina nodded away happily as her sister went on to quote every single letter Newt had sent her since he started traveling for his book, shaking her head at herself and regretting that she even allowed Queenie to read all of Newt's letters.

"But you know what, Queenie?" Tina says after Queenie quoted the last letter Newt every sent Tina that told her about the last days of his travels and how excited he was to get home. "Of all the things you had just listed, you didn't mention the best thing I ever got from Newt."

"I'm pretty sure I just narrated your entire love story, Teenie," Queenie quipped. "What else could there possibly be?"

"You forgot to mention our first date, Queenie."

"But you never told me about it, Teenie," Queenie replies a little taken aback that there was one secret in the Goldstein-Scamander relationship that she didn't know about.

"Oh, but I did Queenie," Tina says smugly, obviously knowing more about what happened than her sister did. "I just took away the memories of me telling you after I told you about it."

"Oh my god, why would you do that?" Queenie asks in shock, now a little hurt that her sister would unknowingly obliviate her.

"I don't know," Tina answers, her mind slowly drifting towards the loveliest date that Newt had ever set up for her. "I guess I just wanted to keep that one between the two of us."

Tina jogs quietly past the little garden that their family had in their small estate. She turns to look back at the house, making sure that no one was following her and that everyone was asleep, she wouldn't want to get caught by either of her parents sneaking out at this late hour.

When she realized that the coast was clear, Tina walked over to the picket fence that was separating the Goldstein and the Scamander Estate. She carefully tries to walk over the fence without injuring herself or ripping the fancy dress that she had put on for this stupid thing that Newt had planned for them

"What could he possibly have planned for us that it had to happen in the middle of the night?" Tina mumbles to herself as she started to job quietly past the back garden of the Scamander Estate.

Meet me by the Hippogriff nests at midnight. Wear something nice. – N

That was all that Newt had written on the note that he had delivered secretly to her room earlier that day.

"I swear to god, if I get grounded for this I'm breaking up with him."

Tina continues to jog silently past the familiar path towards where the Scamanders kept their hippogriffs.

"Newt!" Tina hisses silently as she got to the nests, looking for the man she was meeting. "Newt are you here?"

Silence.

"Newt!" she hisses again, hoping that the bastard would show up so that they can go and evade discovery. "Newt, I'm serious. This isn't funny. If we get caught – !"

Suddenly a hand covers Tina's mouth while the other wraps around her waist, holding her firmly in place. A panic started to rise over Tina as a million kidnapping scenarios start to flood her mind. She struggles and tries to free herself from the hold of whoever it was that had taken a hold of her, but he was too strong. She continues to whimper through the callused hands of the man that held her captive when she felt herself turn in the darkness, her captor turning her around to face him.

"Sssshhh," Newt says as he and Tina were face to face, his hands still on her mouth and on her waist. "you'll get us caught!"

Tina finally finds the strength to pull Newt's hand away from her mouth. "Are you mad?! You don't sneak up on a girl like that in the middle of the night!"

Newt loosens his hold on his girlfriend, finally giving her some space to move. "I'm sorry but you were too loud, my mother would have caught us, yet again."

Tina fixes a glare at her boyfriend, a glare she was unable to hold because he was giving her his best puppy dog face because he knew that softens her up real easy. Her anger towards him easily subsides and she simply smacks him playfully in face muttering, "Dork," before crossing her arms and asking, "So why did you summon me here, at this late hour?"

"I just wanted to see you," Newt answers, pulling her in by the waist and planting a kiss on her lips.

Tina smiles as her lips moved against Newt's, that giddy feeling she got every time she kissed him spreading throughout her entire body. She wraps her arms around Newt's neck and pulls him closer to her, deepening their kiss, feeling Newt's tongue slip into her mouth.

"You look beautiful in the dress by the way," Newt added, making Tina smile before he kissed her again.

The young couple broke apart a few moments later, breathing raggedly as they attempted to fill their lungs with air.

"So, you summoned me in the middle of the night just so we could snog?" Tina inquires, raising her eyebrows playfully at Newt.

"No, it's not that," Newt replies a little defensively. "I just realized that ever since we told each other how we really felt that I've never really taken you out on a real date."

"Oh, Newt, you don't really have to," Tina replies, trying to comfort him as she saw guilt etched all over his face. "I'm fine with how things are going with us right now."

"Well, I'm not," Newt interjects. "I've wanted you for a long time, Tina. And I can't exactly pinpoint the exact moment where I stopped seeing you as simply my best friend but as someone I'm attracted to. And now that we've finally gotten here to this point, I just want to spoil you in any way I can."

Tina smiles endearingly at Newt, raising one of her hands to caress Newt's cheek. She plants a soft, chaste kiss on his lips before she says, "You don't need to try and impress me anymore, Newt. You've already gotten me."

"And I intend to keep you for as long as you'll have me," Newt counters, looking Tina dead in the eye, trying to tell her that he was serious about their relationship.

Newt disentangles himself from Tina and starts to walk to the nest of a dear friend. He holds its gaze and bows, later on tugging on its reigns when it finally bowed back. He walked back over to Tina, a smile plastered on his face.

"Care to take a ride with me, Miss Goldstein?" Newt asks grinning.

"Only if you allow me to hold the reigns for a change," Tina replies cockily, snatching the reigns away from Newt's hand and bowing at their old friend Phineas before running her hands against his wings. "would you be okay with that, Phin?"

The hippogriff screeched happily, which made Tina smile. She turned her head towards her boyfriend, challenging him to tell her no. But he doesn't, he just smiles proudly at her and allows her to take the reigns and mount the majestic creature. He then follows her lead and sits behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist and holding onto her firmly.

"Fine, I'll let you to fly for a while," Newt says proudly, snuggling up against Tina and resting his chin on one of her shoulders. "but you'll have to give me the reigns at some point or we won't be able to go where I was planning to take you tonight on our first date."

Tina smiles at him before shaking her head and saying, "Charmer."

Newt chuckles before waving his wand and covering them both up in warm coats, making sure that neither of them would get too chilly because of the night air. Tina clicks her tongue at Phineas, pulling on his reigns at the same time and leading the creature into flight. The cold wind blew past the faces of the two lovers as they laughed and screamed merrily in flight, knowing that neither of their parents would even hear them.

After a couple of minutes of flying, Newt finally asked Tina for the reigns, which she gave to him willingly. He steers his friend hippogriff in the right direction and started to descend to a well-lit area.

Tina squints a little as the hippogriff lowers them slowly and realizes that they were back at the Scamander Estate.

Newt successfully lands the hippogriff and gets off Phineas first, holding out his hand to Tina to help her off. She takes his hand and jumps off Phineas and turns to ask Newt, "You set up our date at your estate?"

"Yes," he replied proudly, petting his friend and whispering senseless nothings to the hippogriff. "Theseus helped me with the lighting and making sure mum and dad don't even notice that we're here."

"Wait, Theseus knows about us?!" Tina exclaims.

"Yes," Newt replies a little nervously, sensing that there must be something wrong with the way he had planned their first date if Tina was reacting this way. "I had to ask his help on where to take you. I'm not exactly an expert on relationships and he is."

"Newt!"

"What? Queenie knows about us and I was fine with that." Newt countered.

"That's different," Tina replies defensively, fidgeting a little, realizing that if they don't stop discussing this they would end up fighting for the first time since the hospital wing. "she's my sister. I tell her everything."

"Well, Theseus is my brother," Newt replies confidently, starting to feel a little hurt that Tina would think that her relationship with her sister was more important than the one he had with his brother. "and we might not have the kind of relationship that you and Queenie do but he has really helped me out when it came to you and how to impress you."

Tina fidgeted even more, feeling a little guilty about the way she just treated Newt. She walked over to Newt and took his hand in hers, squeezing it lightly, "I'm sorry. I didn't want to invalidate your relationship with your brother. I just didn't know that we were telling anybody else."

"It's okay," Newt replies, squeezing her hand back before tugging on it and leading her towards the place he had set up a little picnic for them. "let's just forget about that and just go on with our date."

Tina nods and allows Newt to lead her past the lights that were illuminating the path that she realized led to the tree that she loved so much. The tree had white Christmas lights over its branches which illuminated the scene below it. Tina observes the setting in wonder, loosening her grip on Newt's hand until finally their hands were separated.

Tina was rooted on the spot, amazed at how beautiful the scene was with all the beautiful lights that seemed to come alive. She was in awe of how Newt was able to make such a simple, beautiful place come alive with only lights and how it looked even more beautiful than it did in the daylight.

Tina could feel tears start to form in her eyes as they started to fall from the branches of trees to meet the eyes of the man responsible for all of this. Her eyes met Newt's, his eyes shining with awe and adoration at the sight of her happy. Tina beams at Newt with pride, her own eyes shining with happiness and admiration at how dedicated he was to making this one night special for the both of them, especially for her.

Newt held out his hand to her, one she took immediately. They held hands, swinging them lightly as they strolled until they reached the picnic that Newt had laid out for them.

"I know it's not as grand as any first date someone else could have set up," Newt starts to explain a little nervously, trying to avoid Tina's gaze as he looked at the small picnic sitting on a checkered red picnic blanket he had laid out. "but it's the best I could do. I know how much you have loved this tree since we were little kids. And I've read enough astronomy books to know that the stars shine brightly more tonight than any other night. So, I just thought it was a good idea for a first date."

"Newt, it's perfect."

"No, it's not," Newt counters, his low self-esteem getting the better of him.

Tina walks closer to Newt, her hands still entwined with his. She reaches him, her face only inches from his. She locks her eyes with his and says with all the conviction she had, "It's perfect."

She smiles at him and plants a kiss on his cheek. She then moves towards the picnic that Newt had set up for them, tugging on his arm so that he'd follow her. They sit beside each other comfortably as Tina starts to unpack the food that Newt had prepared. She smiled at herself when she simply finds a couple of sandwiches and pumpkin juice, for some reason the simplicity of it all making the date even more special than any another expensive date that Newt could have sprung on her.

Tina holds out her hand and offers Newt one of the sandwiches that he had packed. He takes it willingly and munches on it silently, unable to think of anything he could say in that moment.

Tina smiles as looks at him, his eyes staring off into the night sky, admiring each star that he sees. He didn't attempt to impress her by pointing out any of the constellations that they learned in astronomy class. Instead, he just sat there, looking at the stars and munching on his sandwich. It made Tina smile, knowing that the man she loved didn't do anything other than be himself to impress her.

Tina leans back against the pillows that Newt had laid out against the bark of Tina's favorite tree, sitting as comfortably as she can as she took a bite out of her sandwich. She turns her gaze from Newt to the stars and stares in awe at how beautiful it looked tonight more than any other night. She didn't know if it was simply because the stars did shine brighter tonight of all nights or if because having Newt there with her to gaze at them made them all the more evident. All she knew that she could sit in this moment forever, happily beside the person that she loved.

"You know all this sneaking around is pointless, Tina," Newt blurts out into the comfortable silence that they had formed. "my mother already knows, Queenie knows, Theseus knows."

He turns to look at Tina at the exact same moment she turned to look at him. He moves his body towards hers and places one of his hands on top of her own. "I don't see why we can't tell everybody else about us."

"I know, I just…" Tina starts, trying to put to words her reasons behind keeping their relationship a secret. "I'm just really enjoying this…us…right now. And I'm just scared that if we tell everyone else that they'll make a big deal out of it and we don't get to be us anymore."

"I understand," Newt nods in agreement, knowing full well what Tina meant. They've been friends since they were kids and their families won't be able to resist from teasing them about it once they've learned about their relationship. "We'll tell them when you're ready."

Newt then takes Tina's hand in his own and brings it to his lips so that he could plant a kiss on her knuckles before he settles their linked arms back on the ground. He gives her one of his charming smiles before looking back at the stars.

Tina squeezes Newt's hand in appreciation before she inches closer to him. She then wraps his arms around her without separating their intertwined hands. Newt was caught off guard but happily pulls Tina towards him as she snuggles against him.

"You know, I'm actually surprised that Diana hasn't told my parent's yet," Tina says a few moments later.

"I can tell that she wants to," Newt admits. "but she promised not to, and she always keeps her promises."

Tina nods and returns to settle against Newt. She was starting to get comfortable in his embrace again when he moved, unwrapping his arms from Tina and letting go of her hands. Tina feels sad by the sudden loss of Newt's touch and was about to look up at him to give him a puppy dog face, but he already had his hands out.

"C'mon," Newt says, motioning her to stand. "I better get you home before anyone notices you're gone."

Tina chuckles, shakes her head at him and takes his hand. "Newt, thanks for tonight. It was lovely."

"Anything for you, my Tina," he smiles happily in reply before he inches closer to her, tucking his index finger under her chin before kissing her goodnight. That was the first time he ever called her his.

Newt then takes one of Tina's hands in his as he started to lead her back towards the Goldstein Estate.

"Actually, Newt," Tina starts to stay as she tugs on Newt's hand. "I think it's better if I go home on my own. Someone might catch you on your way back."

Newt chuckles and shakes his head at Tina. "Okay, you may be right."

He then pulls her in for another kiss, a passionate one this time. Their lips meet halfway, their lips crushed against each other, their bodies moving in unison. Tina pushes Newt away from her a mere seconds later, knowing that she won't be going home anytime soon if she doesn't stop it. Their eyes linger on each other for a second before Newt finally lets go of Tina and watches her as she jogs back to the Goldstein Estate.

Tina couldn't keep the smile off her lips, her hands ghosting over them every time she remembered what it felt like when Newt's lips were on hers. She was thankful that it was dark because she knew that if it wasn't the blush on her face would be evident.

She sneaks back up her bedroom window, a bedroom she shared with Queenie. She tiptoes back to her bed, trying not to wake her sister and throws the covers over her head once she settles in, ready to dream about kissing Newt for the rest of the night.

"Funny enough, that night was the night I decided I was ready to tell mama and daddy about Newt and me," Tina adds as she finishes telling Queenie the story that she removed from her sister's memory.

Tina walks away from Queenie towards the floor length mirror. Queenie follower her big sister and wraps her arms around her sister's waist while resting her chin on Tina's shoulders.

"And thank Merlin you did," Queenie says with a laugh. "I wasn't sure I would have been able to keep the secret from them any longer."

Tina laughs along with her sister, looking away from her reflection as a tear of joy escaped her eye.

"You look beautiful, Teenie," Queenie remarked a few minutes later.

Tina looked back up at the mirror, locking eyes with her sister. "Thanks, Queenie."

The sisters stay in their embrace in front of the mirror, happy to be in the presence of each other in that moment. They would have stayed in that position for longer, but another knock came, which broke the sisters from their private moment.

"I hate to break up this little moment," says the man peeking through the door. "but they're ready for you, Teen."

Tina smiled at the man by the door, the man she already considered her brother. She turns around to face her sister, who gives her a final kiss before grabbing her bouquet lying by the dresser. Queenie gives Theseus a light kiss on the cheek before she starts walking slowly down the staircase leading to the altar. Theseus moves past the door and takes Tina's left hand and loops it on his right.

"Are you ready for this?" he asks her, the question obviously rhetorical because he knew that his brother and Tina have been ready for this since they were teenagers.

"I think I am," Tina answers even though she knew that Theseus didn't really expect her to give him an answer. "I think I have been ready for this moment for a while now."

Tina smiles at her soon-to-be brother-in-law, who gives her a kiss on the cheek before leading her out the door and down the staircase. The pair of them descend the familiar staircase slowly, Tina's wedding dress making it a little difficult for her to walk faster than a step at a time.

These steps were the exact same ones she walked at her 17th birthday party. At that moment she was nervous of facing all the strangers at her party, she was nervous about dancing with 16 bachelors, her father, and Newt in front of all the most well-known witches and wizards in Britain. All the could think of 6 years ago was that if she tripped and fell or stepped on anyone's toes she would embarrass herself, her family and the Scamanders. But right now, all Tina could think of was the man waiting for her at the end of the altar.

When they reached the bottom of the spiral staircase, Tina was in awe. She had never seen the venue for her wedding before today. Her sister and soon-to-be mother-in-law had insisted that they handle all the wedding details, including the venue and the reception, and that all Tina had to do was rest and get ready for the special day. The ballroom had chairs that had intricate golden designs on them. The ceilings had beautiful ornaments of magical creatures floating back and forth in the clear blue sky that was enchanted similar to how the ceilings of Hogwarts were enchanted to look like the night sky. The path towards the alter was covered white rose petals scattered all over the thick red carpet beneath.. Tina looks even further to the end of the altar and finds him there smiling at her. She smiled back at him, forgetting about everything around her at the sight of his eyes and the love that radiated from the beautiful green orbs.

Theseus readjusted his grip on Tina, breaking her from her reverie and breaking her eye contact with Newt. She smiles at him before they start to walk down the aisle, towards the altar where Newt was waiting. Tina had gained her pacing almost immediately and started to look back up at the altar, searching for the eyes of the man she was going to marry. She found them almost immediately, her brown orbs locking with his greenones, the both of them getting lost in each other's gaze and seeing nobody else around them but each other. With every step she took, Tina realized that she was one step closer to forever with the love of her life. She looks into his eyes, her own a little beady with the tears that were starting to form in them as she reminisces about the day that led both her and Newt to where they were right now.

It had been almost 6 months since Newt had returned from his travels to study magical creatures around the world and everything had went back to normal. He and Tina have grown stronger than ever since his return and the publishing of his book. For the first three months since his return he had to go on book tours to promote Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and even though Tina said she was okay with him being gone again even after he promised that he was back for good, she was a little sad that she only got Newt for a few weeks at a time.

One Friday afternoon, Tina came home from a very tiring day at work and arrived at the Scamander Estate at 5 o'clock. Ever since their parents died, Tina and Queenie have been staying at the Scamander Estate more than they have at their own home. At times they would have sleepovers at their parent's old bedroom and reminisce about the wonderful times they had as a family. But most of the time the Goldstein sisters slept in the room that the Scamanders had for them in their own home. They've considered the Goldsteins as family at that point and insisted that the girls made Scamander Estate their permanent residence.

Tina walks through the front door of the large Scamander home and starts to walk up the stairs to the bedroom she shared with Queenie. She usually went to the Hippogriff nests first to greet Diana and then to Percy's study but today was not one of those days. Tina felt tired and raw from all the work that she had today. All she wanted to do was get to her room and lie in her bed until she fell asleep.

Tina reached the door to the room she shared with Queenie and pushed it open. She shrugged off her coat and left it laying on the floor before walking hastily to her bed, falling face first on top of it. In her haste to get to the bed, Tina didn't notice her younger sister Queenie by the vanity, adjusting her make up.

"Well, hello sis," Queenie greeted merrily from where she was sitting as she added a little mascara to her eyelashes. "it's been a while since I've actually seen you in this room."

"What?" Tina asks, her head snapping up immediately. "What are you on about Queenie? This is our room remember? We've shared it for two years."

"Yes, I do know that, Teenie," Queenie replied, eyeing her sister through the mirror. "I just mean that you haven't slept in this room since Newt finally returned from traveling the world."

Tina turned bright red at her sister's insinuation, making Queenie smile mischievously at her sister through the mirror.

"Oh, no need to be embarrassed, Teenie. I get it," Queenie continued teasing her big sister as she tucked away her lipstick into her purse. "you missed Newt. He missed you. It happens."

Tina groans at her sister and buries her head back onto the bed, not realizing that Queenie was getting up from where she was sitting and walking towards her.

"You don't even sleep on this bed on days when he's gone," Queenie states innocently, crossing her arms at Tina, who looked up at her beautiful younger sister. "I would argue that this isn't even our room anymore. It's just my room now."

Tina chooses to ignore Queenie and slumps back on the bed face first, knowing that the blonde was still standing right in front of her. She was in no mood to be teased after the tiring day she had.

"I'm just saying," Queenie adds in softly as she strolls back to the vanity to give herself a final once-over before heading out on her date. "you won't be able to sleep well here. You're not used to it anymore."

"Fine," Tina grumbles as she stands up from her bed, grabs her coat and stalks off to the door. "I'll go sleep elsewhere."

Tina walks to the next door, the door that led to Newt's bedroom, where she had been sleeping since he came back. She yanks the door open and walks in grumpily before slumping onto the bed that she had grown familiar with. She adjusts herself angrily, removing her shoes before tucking herself in.

She was really on edge and she knew why. It wasn't just because of the day she had, but because she received a letter from Newt that told her that he wasn't coming home until next week. He had promised he'd be home for a week before he had to go off to another book tour. But he has broken his promise. Again.

With all the anger Tina had, she didn't even realize she was hungry. She fell into a long, dreamless sleep to be woken up the next morning wrapped in the arms the one person she needed to make everything better.

"You were mumbling in your sleep," Newt comments sadly, his chin rested on one of her arms and his arms wrapped around her waist. "mostly cursing me."

"Newt, what," Tina yawns before she turns to face him. "what are you doing here? I thought you couldn't come home until next week?"

"I thought I couldn't," Newt begins to explain, shifting on the bed, propping his right arm to support his head as he looked at the beautiful woman beside him. "but apparently there was a mix up with scheduling, so Mr. Worme told me to come home while they fix it."

"Well, I'm glad you're back," Tina replies, throwing arms around Newt.

"Are you really?" Newt asked sadly, remembering all the words Tina had been muttering in her sleep.

Tina sits up, a little hurt that Newt would even think that she didn't want him there. "Of course, I am Newt. I miss you."

"Didn't sound like it in your dream," Newt pouts endearingly.

"That doesn't mean anything," Tina explains, lacing her fingers with Newt's to reassure him. "I just had a bad day at work yesterday and then I got your letter about not being able to come home and I got mad at you. After all, you said you were finally home, finally done with all the traveling and research, but I barely get to see you after you came home."

She looks at Newt with sad eyes, his own laced with guilt.

"I just thought that it would be easier for us to be us again after you came back," Tina continues her rant, finally letting herself say the things she had always wanted to say in the years where Newt was traveling. "but it only became harder. I think it was easier not seeing you for years and you coming home for a long vacation before leaving again than it is right now with the situation book tour. I barely even get to spend time with you anymore."

Newt moves to comfort Tina, pulling her into an embrace, but before he could hold her firmly and apologize to her, she moves away from him and stands to face him, her arms crossed against her chest.

"I thought it would be different this time, Newt," Tina says sadly from where she was standing, scared of where her thoughts were bringing the conversation. "I thought we could move past the distance and the separation, but I don't think I can anymore."

Tina looks up to meet Newt's eyes, seeing so much pain in his beautiful green eyes. Her heart was breaking too, when she realized was she was about to do and what her words meant.

"Tina, please don't do this," Newt pleads as he stood from the bed and walked over to her. He reaches her and holds her by the arms, trying to get her to look at him, to listen to him.

"Why not, Newt?" she asks as she looks up at him. "We've been apart from each other for most of our relationship. I know in my heart it made us stronger, but I just can't do that anymore, Newt."

Newt opens his mouth and tries to say something, but Tina didn't allow him to, she continued on with her monologue, never taking her eyes off Newt's, hoping that she could make him understand what she wanted and why she thought this was the right thing to do.

"I want you here with me. And I know that's too much to ask of you especially when it gets in the way of you achieving your dream, but I am asking," Tina rambles on until she could barely breath. "I want you to prioritize me for a change."

There it was. Finally, she was able to ask for the things she had wanted to ask Newt ever since he had returned to her. She knew it was selfish, but she knew it was necessary. She started to move, deciding to walk away and leave Newt to think about what she just asked him. A lot of doubt started to build up inside her, doubt that Newt would pick her over his precious book. But she asked for it, and whatever answer Newt will give she would have to accept it.

She turned and started to walk when Newt grabs her hand, almost missing it narrowly. "Come with me."

Tina was taken aback by Newt's reaction. He didn't even look like he was thinking about it. Nevertheless, she followed his lead as he led her out the veranda where they usually greeted the sun together on the days that he was actually home. The memory of those mornings brings back a pain to Tina's heart. She was going to lose that if Newt decides that his book was more important than her.

Newt looks at Tina tentatively, holding a hand out to her, gesturing at her to head out before him. She walks past Newt and into the veranda and was thoroughly shocked by the sight that met her. The veranda was adorned with what felt like a hundred bouquets of blowers encircling a table at the center of it. On top of the table were a variety of treats and breakfast foods that Tina liked as well as her favorite cup of coffee.

Newt takes Tina by the hand and leads her towards the table, with her following him gobsmacked. He offered her a chair and she sat down with his help. He then walked to the opposite side of the table and sat opposite her.

"I really intended for things to change, Tina," he begins explaining himself. "I came home today to surprise you with the news that the next destination of my book tour will be my last."

This revelation caught Tina by shock. She was about to argue and ask questions, but Newt didn't let her. It was his turn to talk.

"The truth is, the scheduling of my next tour wasn't messed up," Newt says as he looks at Tina, pleads at her with his eyes to hear him out. "it was already set. But I walked up to Mr. Worme and told him that I decided to make the next destination my last one and we argued. It wasn't pretty, you know how he is. But in the end, he agreed, said that the sales of my book are actually good and that we just need to make one more strategic reading in the right place to boost the sales up even more."

"What are you saying?" Tina asks, trying to make herself stop hoping that this was Newt telling her that he chose her.

"I'm saying that the traveling is coming to an end," Newt replies with a hopeful smile. "unless it involves you coming along with me."

"But…"

"Tina, I know it hasn't been easy on you," Newt continues, reaching out to hold Tina's hand and make her feel that he understood why she said the things she said. "it hasn't been easy on me either. But after returning from my travels and actually getting to be with you, I realized how much I've missed by going on that venture in the first place."

Tina smiles, happiness starting to flood her at the realization that the man she loved understood her even in a moment of selfishness.

"And I just cannot miss any more moments like that with you anymore," Newt says with conviction. "I won't. I love you too much to let distance take you away from me."

Newt brings the hand that was holding Tina's towards his lips and kisses her knuckles.

"I love you, too," Tina echoed in reply as a tear escaped her eye.

The two lovers forgot about the food in front of them and instead just stood from where they were sitting to share a kiss.

Newt held Tina close against him, not wanting to ever let her go again. Tina wrapped her arms around Newt's neck, not wanting any distance to ever keep them apart anymore.

"So, you're staying for good this time?" Tina asks again, wanting to make sure that she heard him right.

"I am," Newt confirms with a nod and a smile. "I promised you once that I'm never leaving you again but I seemed to have broken that promise a million times over.

Tina laughs at the man she loves, nodding in agreement at the words he just said. Newt laughs along with her and kisses her once again. They pepper each other with kisses, until finally Newt stops it. Still holding her close with one hand, Newt tucks his fingers into one of his pockets and pulls something out.

"There's also this," Newt says confidently, bringing the engagement ring that he had bought Tina when he returned from his travels.

"Oh my god, Newt," Tina exclaims, her hands immediately flying to her mouth in surprise.

Newt pulls away from Tina and starts to lower himself down on one knee. "Miss Tina Goldstein, will you do me the honor of being my wife?"

"Are you crazy?!" she exclaims in reply, not entirely sure how an almost break up led to a proposal.

"Yes, I am," Newt replies with so much conviction Tina actually believed that he was in that moment. "I am crazy about you."

"Newt, c'mon be serious!"

"I am serious, Tina," Newt countered softly, so much sureness etched in his eyes as he took one of Tina's hands into his own free hand. "it's you. It has always been you."

"We're too young to know that, Newt," she says, trying to sway him from his decision. "we don't know what the future has in store for us. We still have a lot ahead of us,"

"It doesn't matter when or how old we are. I love you and that's the only thing I have ever been sure of in my entire life. I love you, I've always loved you and I will always love you. I will always be here, for as long as you'll have me."

Tina looks at Newt with so much love in her eyes, appreciation and love for the man in front of her growing with every minute. She moves to give him a long searing kiss.

"So, will you?" Newt inquires again, his heart racing as he waited for the woman he loved with his entire being to answer the question he had been so afraid to ask since he returned a few months ago. "Will you have me?"

"Yes," Tina replies softly with so much certainty. "Yes, I will have you Newt Scamander. From now until the end of time itself."

Newt thought that he had died and gone to heaven when he heard her say yes. He grabbed her by the waist and crushed his lips onto hers, happiness dictating every kiss, every touch, every caress that he was giving her. They break apart and Newt places the ring on Tina's finger before kissing the diamond ring that signified the beginning of another chapter of their lives together.

"Here's to forever, Porpentina Esther Goldstein."

Tina smiles at Newt saying her full name. She inches her head closer to him, their noses brushing against each other's and whispers in reply, "Here's to forever, Newt Artemis Fido Scamander."

Tina reaches the altar with Theseus steadying her again. He gives her away to Newt, smiling first at him before giving Tina a kiss and then finally taking his place at his brother's side as his best man.

Newt takes Tina's hand from Theseus, holding onto it firmly, ready to never let it go. The two of them walk a little closer towards the altar to face the minister presiding over their wedding. The minister was an old friend of Newt's parents, Timothy Miller. He looked at the young couple and smiled brightly at them with pride.

Newt holds onto Tina's hand, tugging her towards him so that she would face him. Tina turned to look at the man she was about to marry, waiting for him to say what she knew he was about to say.

"Are you ready for forever, Porpentina Goldstein?"

"I am, because it is with you Newt Scamander."