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002 | match of the century
WHO: Tina Goldstein
WHERE: Various places, all labeled
WHEN: 4/10-4/13
OPEN TO: Open
WARNINGS: N/A will update if needed but unlikely.
STATUS: Ongoing
( GRAVES/BAREBONE RESIDENCE-- LOCKED to Graves-- APRIL 10)
Even if Queenie hadn't informed her, it wouldn't have taken long for the young woman to figure out that the sad-eyed boy and her former(?) boss were right next door. She'd padded the road enough to have watched as newer residents took up the empty houses let alone the older ones. Of course, she hadn't caught sight of the man himself if she had she would have felt obligated to stop by. But it's early that morning and she can't possibly sleep any longer when she decides she should head over there.
Unfortunately-- or perhaps fortunately-- she doesn't have her sisters' visitor hospitality and arrives next door empty-handed. There's the briefest moment of hesitation and she wonders if it will be Credence that opens the door. She knows the boy said Graves saved him once while here, but it's difficult to wrap her mind around. If this was home very little would have been done to protect him, in some ways she's too grateful for the people here of their apparent treatment of Credence-- Even Mr Graves.
Shaking her head of those thoughts, the woman let out a soft breath before giving a firm knock against the door. Tina doubts it's too early. She's always been a light sleeper herself and waking up in the morning took longer for her than going to sleep, but she had always woke up early for work and hadn't failed to do so here either. She can't help but suspect that the man was worse about that than she was and, well, if he wasn't today she would try again later.
(THE INN - APRIL 13TH)
After three weeks since her arrival the elder Goldstein hardly felt more at ease in the village. She had long since learned the village's layout and after her initial forays into the forest hadn't wandered back in-- At least not alone. She'd taken instead to learning how to fish from Moana a skill that didn't come too naturally to her. While she'd gotten better since the first few times, it's still hardly anything she'd consider writing home about (if she had ever written home after Queenie joined her at school). Not laughable, exactly, but more than enough to keep her busy to learn more.
She hated feeling helpless or ill-equipped and since day one that is all she's felt within the village. Learning from Moana has helped some and she's utilized her note-taking skills to write what she feels she needs to know, but it's still hardly enough. She thinks if she had better access to her magic this would be easier, but even if wandless magic had been the mainstain of early North American magic her own skills at it were rudimentary at best. Managing a basic levitation spell might be one thing, but catching a fish or repairing something was another.
Which had, of course, become her goals to learn to do early on: learn skills without magic-- some of which she never had in the first place. She may have been an Auror before, trained and skilled in those areas, but she is overwhelming unprepared for the likes of here. Hence why she wants to learn and why she finds herself at the inn, bookbag strapped over her shoulders. She usually keeps to herself on most days, answering when questioned or offering a word if someone speaks openly, but otherwise stays very much on the outskirts.
Of course, today she was on a bit of a mission. She'd talked to other people outside of Moana now and knows there's more she needs to know if she was going to manage here (or help Queenie here-- the ever more important determiner in her life). She almost wishes she has her sister's abilities for kind words and dealing with people, though, as she frowns-- standing to the side of the entryway of the inn a moment. Then firmly settles on the fact bemoaning anything doesn't fix problems. Ever.
"Hey, you!" She starts abruptly when she's firmly decided and then realizes that's not the best way to do it and deflates some. "Uh, sorry." She pulls back in her approach some before tucking some unruly hair behind her ear (she'd need to do something about that one day, Mercy Lewis).
A hand finds itself against her hip in a familiar beat for confidence, teeth sinking into her lower lip the briefest of moments before she speaks again. "Look, I'm from a city not from a place that's helpful for any of this," She offers, lips forming a thin line, "I know a little about gardening, but not much else. So I'm trying to fix that. Do you know anything that might be useful or anyone who does? I was considering writing anything down for future use."
She wanted to learn it but she can't help but think that having some kind of how-to guide available on the common knowledge would be helpful too. And if there's anything she has confidence in it is her note-taking and map making abilities. Her people abilities? Obviously, not so much.
(OUTSIDE OF THE WOODS - APRIL 13)
Try as she might to keep busy, Tina still finds herself with more time on her hand than she knows what to do with. At least at home work was long and busy-- when on a case sometimes taking more than a few allotted hours, even days-- and when she went home it was just about time to eat, read a bit, and go to bed. Without even much reading to do she's at a loss and while she's taken to writing important things out she's stingy with the precious reams of paper she has (quite a fair bit right now, but it would dwindle too quickly if used it recklessly). In far too many ways she's going stir crazy and while she's taken to helping with the planting-- something that, thankfully, years of Herbology had taught her at least some of-- the early evening hours find her with far too little to do.
A homebody by nature she's taken to walks through the village which was at least somewhat relaxing and more than enough to let her gather her thoughts. She finds it not nearly enough and after a bit of mauling over takes a more frivolous decision-- finds something hard to write on and a piece of her paper-- before handling the equipment carefully and heading outside. She'd always had a keen eye for details and she never fancied herself an artist but her job called for memorization. She'd long since learned to be decent at making street maps and basic renderings of faces-- nothing extravagant, but enough to show what needed to be.
It's something she can do that's not writing or learning or standing about uselessly. So she takes her stuff considering first the village are, but she's already given herself a basic map of that with notes on what the places were being used for. It was unnecessary, then again drawing for any sense of the idea of fun was unnecessary, but if she didn't do something she'd go crazy. Decidedly, then, away from their house and towards where the forests begin. No desire to enter them today, but she settles there for now-- Taking the time instead to draw what was before her instead of right.
It's a slow process and more than once she sighs and moves to pack things up because she's never been a hobbyist and the drive to work in her resounds more loudly than anything else. And she finds she wonders how anyone can manage to have time to themselves.
"This isn't going anywhere," she grounds out to herself-- loud enough for anyone who happened to pass by to hear-- as she shoves the items away and moves to stand up. Even what little seemed to be put on the paper had turned more to a chart than anything recreational.
WHERE: Various places, all labeled
WHEN: 4/10-4/13
OPEN TO: Open
WARNINGS: N/A will update if needed but unlikely.
STATUS: Ongoing
( GRAVES/BAREBONE RESIDENCE-- LOCKED to Graves-- APRIL 10)
Even if Queenie hadn't informed her, it wouldn't have taken long for the young woman to figure out that the sad-eyed boy and her former(?) boss were right next door. She'd padded the road enough to have watched as newer residents took up the empty houses let alone the older ones. Of course, she hadn't caught sight of the man himself if she had she would have felt obligated to stop by. But it's early that morning and she can't possibly sleep any longer when she decides she should head over there.
Unfortunately-- or perhaps fortunately-- she doesn't have her sisters' visitor hospitality and arrives next door empty-handed. There's the briefest moment of hesitation and she wonders if it will be Credence that opens the door. She knows the boy said Graves saved him once while here, but it's difficult to wrap her mind around. If this was home very little would have been done to protect him, in some ways she's too grateful for the people here of their apparent treatment of Credence-- Even Mr Graves.
Shaking her head of those thoughts, the woman let out a soft breath before giving a firm knock against the door. Tina doubts it's too early. She's always been a light sleeper herself and waking up in the morning took longer for her than going to sleep, but she had always woke up early for work and hadn't failed to do so here either. She can't help but suspect that the man was worse about that than she was and, well, if he wasn't today she would try again later.
(THE INN - APRIL 13TH)
After three weeks since her arrival the elder Goldstein hardly felt more at ease in the village. She had long since learned the village's layout and after her initial forays into the forest hadn't wandered back in-- At least not alone. She'd taken instead to learning how to fish from Moana a skill that didn't come too naturally to her. While she'd gotten better since the first few times, it's still hardly anything she'd consider writing home about (if she had ever written home after Queenie joined her at school). Not laughable, exactly, but more than enough to keep her busy to learn more.
She hated feeling helpless or ill-equipped and since day one that is all she's felt within the village. Learning from Moana has helped some and she's utilized her note-taking skills to write what she feels she needs to know, but it's still hardly enough. She thinks if she had better access to her magic this would be easier, but even if wandless magic had been the mainstain of early North American magic her own skills at it were rudimentary at best. Managing a basic levitation spell might be one thing, but catching a fish or repairing something was another.
Which had, of course, become her goals to learn to do early on: learn skills without magic-- some of which she never had in the first place. She may have been an Auror before, trained and skilled in those areas, but she is overwhelming unprepared for the likes of here. Hence why she wants to learn and why she finds herself at the inn, bookbag strapped over her shoulders. She usually keeps to herself on most days, answering when questioned or offering a word if someone speaks openly, but otherwise stays very much on the outskirts.
Of course, today she was on a bit of a mission. She'd talked to other people outside of Moana now and knows there's more she needs to know if she was going to manage here (or help Queenie here-- the ever more important determiner in her life). She almost wishes she has her sister's abilities for kind words and dealing with people, though, as she frowns-- standing to the side of the entryway of the inn a moment. Then firmly settles on the fact bemoaning anything doesn't fix problems. Ever.
"Hey, you!" She starts abruptly when she's firmly decided and then realizes that's not the best way to do it and deflates some. "Uh, sorry." She pulls back in her approach some before tucking some unruly hair behind her ear (she'd need to do something about that one day, Mercy Lewis).
A hand finds itself against her hip in a familiar beat for confidence, teeth sinking into her lower lip the briefest of moments before she speaks again. "Look, I'm from a city not from a place that's helpful for any of this," She offers, lips forming a thin line, "I know a little about gardening, but not much else. So I'm trying to fix that. Do you know anything that might be useful or anyone who does? I was considering writing anything down for future use."
She wanted to learn it but she can't help but think that having some kind of how-to guide available on the common knowledge would be helpful too. And if there's anything she has confidence in it is her note-taking and map making abilities. Her people abilities? Obviously, not so much.
(OUTSIDE OF THE WOODS - APRIL 13)
Try as she might to keep busy, Tina still finds herself with more time on her hand than she knows what to do with. At least at home work was long and busy-- when on a case sometimes taking more than a few allotted hours, even days-- and when she went home it was just about time to eat, read a bit, and go to bed. Without even much reading to do she's at a loss and while she's taken to writing important things out she's stingy with the precious reams of paper she has (quite a fair bit right now, but it would dwindle too quickly if used it recklessly). In far too many ways she's going stir crazy and while she's taken to helping with the planting-- something that, thankfully, years of Herbology had taught her at least some of-- the early evening hours find her with far too little to do.
A homebody by nature she's taken to walks through the village which was at least somewhat relaxing and more than enough to let her gather her thoughts. She finds it not nearly enough and after a bit of mauling over takes a more frivolous decision-- finds something hard to write on and a piece of her paper-- before handling the equipment carefully and heading outside. She'd always had a keen eye for details and she never fancied herself an artist but her job called for memorization. She'd long since learned to be decent at making street maps and basic renderings of faces-- nothing extravagant, but enough to show what needed to be.
It's something she can do that's not writing or learning or standing about uselessly. So she takes her stuff considering first the village are, but she's already given herself a basic map of that with notes on what the places were being used for. It was unnecessary, then again drawing for any sense of the idea of fun was unnecessary, but if she didn't do something she'd go crazy. Decidedly, then, away from their house and towards where the forests begin. No desire to enter them today, but she settles there for now-- Taking the time instead to draw what was before her instead of right.
It's a slow process and more than once she sighs and moves to pack things up because she's never been a hobbyist and the drive to work in her resounds more loudly than anything else. And she finds she wonders how anyone can manage to have time to themselves.
"This isn't going anywhere," she grounds out to herself-- loud enough for anyone who happened to pass by to hear-- as she shoves the items away and moves to stand up. Even what little seemed to be put on the paper had turned more to a chart than anything recreational.
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Graves contemplates her, a flicker of surprise in dark eyes. It's gone as quickly as it comes, and a part of him wishes he has something else to do to occupy himself with -- anything but facing this. Tina is here because she cares, this much is written all over her face; she tends to wear her emotions on her sleeve, much to Graves' chagrin.
But there isn't much he knows to say to that, especially in the face of such naked concern. Back in MACUSA, perhaps he could have fended it off with assignments, more work, but here -- well, here, there isn't all that much to do, is there? Graves still keeps himself busy, but it's nothing that will turn Tina away.
Her response reminds him of what will happen, his fate an uncertainty that he's reluctant to contemplate, and he takes a sip of his tea. Ignoring the lump in his throat, he waits a few moments to speak up again. "Queenie told me it ended well."
For them.
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She was torn between watching what he was doing and keeping her gaze to the table. Finally resolving to look at the man when he speaks and giving him a prompt nod. "We captured Grindelwald," She reaffirmed-- it's strange to think of. The most powerful dark wizard and she disarmed him while Newt detained him. Not many people could put that on their resume.
"The Aurors dealt with the city crisis and Newt was able to do a mass oblivation," She continued, warily. That's it though. She was reinstated as an Auror, but it's not something she says because it's neither here or there. Tina is almost certain he'd like to know if they found him, in any form, but that is not an answer she has.
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He watches her as she gathers herself, and he nods as she relates the events to him, concise and careful. She's right; he wants to know, but would that change anything? Times goes as it should, and his personal feelings on the matter should be set aside until he's on his own. In the meantime, he redirects the conversation, steers it away from himself -- it won't do to brood on it.
"You helped to capture him as well? How?"
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She is almost certain she'd have a better report on paper, at least she was used to those. Brushing back a strand of hair the young woman shook her head before finding the words she was looking for. "Other particular adventures aside, we saw something destroying the city. An Obscurus, Credence," She shoots him a fervent look, "Newt wanted to stop it and I joined him. We only found out a few minutes later it was Credence. Grindelwald was there trying to get Credence to join him. Of course, we couldn't let that happen. I-- Told Newt to save him while I went after to duel him."
Which sounds far more impressive than she feels it was now. She knew it wasn't Graves, she'd figured something was wrong hours previous, but it's hardly as if she had any idea who it was. Her jar tightens at the thought of his escape and what came next. "He managed to escape by throwing a car at me," Tina adds, bemused smile crossing her features, "it took a few minutes to find them in the subway and by then he'd found Newt and Credence--" A beat as she reclaims herself from the way her voice breaks, for just a fraction of a second "--After the Aurors arrived Newt was the one to stop him while I managed to disarm him."
She carefully avoids the details of Credence's demise and tries to keep it to the point. There's no need to speak of her talking Credence down or the actions in the interrogation room and death chamber.
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Graves' jaw sets as he contemplates the magnitude of the mess that is to be cleaned up -- but Queenie had told him that it ended well in the end, there was no war. The No-Majs who had been privy to whatever had transpired had been obliviated, perhaps, and Graves cannot help a powerful surge of frustration, of restlessness, but he sets that aside when he catches on the fact that she'd managed to disarm Grindelwald. A team effort, it seems, but a good one nonetheless.
He nods briefly. "Very good. You still haven't explained what you were doing, embroiled in all of that. You were supposed to be in the Wand Permit department."
A neutral observation, not a prelude to a chiding.
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Credence was here though and for as much as she hated it here-- and she did-- that was one of the few saving graces. If he was able to find some trace of happiness here despite his position at home, she would encourage it and ensure it as much as she possibly could.
The silence fills her and when Percival speaks she takes in a breath, having forgotten to breathe. Dark eyes glanced up towards him, cheeks coloring, as she darts her eyes away. There's a familiar bout of shame at potential disapproval, but she wards it off with a laugh. "It certainly wasn't intentional, sir," She said when she found her voice.
"There was a bit of an incident at a bank. One of Newt's creatures escaped his case and wrecked havoc. A No-Maj saw it all and I tried bringing Newt in after he failed to obliviate him," She shook her head, smile tightening, "no one believed me, of course..." She trails off there, it still hurts in many ways being an Auror dishonored. Even if she knew she would never regret her actions, the mistrust and shame that followed still settled with her.
Brushing her hair back she added in, "I made to make sure he obliviated the No-Maj properly and retrieved all of his creatures, but that just turned into a bigger mess."