Catch Me If I Fall

The Past-Chapter 1

"The nurse said that it was an infection of the kidneys, it'll take a few days of rest, but you should be back to normal in no time," he replied. From that moment on he became like a second father to me, he took me under his wing at school.

I nod. Dumbledore was somewhat right. Things did return to a partial normal once I got out of the hospital wing. But I was consistently more tired, I slept more, and my joints screamed at me every time I played Quidditch.

Not too long into the Quidditch season, I had to quit. It was too much. However, I didn't want to tell everyone the reason why I quit, so I told everyone I just wanted to focus on school and didn't enjoy it anymore. Which was a total lie, I missed it with every bone in my body.

"Linda!" said an out of breath voice from behind me. It was Newt. "Linda, I heard some people saying I quit Quidditch! I told myself I don't think that's right because-"

"No they're right I did," I answered.

"Is it you're shoulder again? Pickett and I can keep you company again in the hospital wing if you want, I don't mind doing my homework there," offered Newt.

"I just don't like it as much anymore." Lie.

Newt looked at me in shock, that didn't sound very like me. "But you love Quidditch Linda," he said as an almost question.

"Not anymore Newt, not playing it at least," I said as I walked away briskly.

Newt didn't bring up me playing Quidditch again until many years later.

I pushed through the rest of the year, and despite losing touch with most of my Quidditch friends, and managed to graduate just fine. Theseus and I went on to doing Auror training together. I bought a flat together and became roommates. As we neared the end of our training year, Theseus and I began to grow discontent with the war building in the mainland and the lack of ministry action. We were told that it was a muggle war; however, the Central Powers had many wizards. It was an unbalanced fight where too many lives were lost. So naturally, we did what any bright-eyed, bushy-tailed idealist Auror's would do; we went to war. During that time the two of us grew up fast and grew closer. After a year, we were called back to Hogwarts.

"Newt, I cannot believe you got expelled!" shouted Theseus. "Linda and I leave for overseas for a year, and you go off the walls! And you only had one year left too!" Theseus dramatically left the room leaving only I and Newt.

"So who did it?" I asked calmly.

Newt swallowed nervously. "I'm sorry?"

"I know it wasn't you Newt," I stated. "I've seen you deal with Jarvey's your whole life. So there's no way it was you who caused the incident. So who are you covering for?"

Newt thought for a moment about the possible repercussions of telling me but told me anyway. He explained that he took the blame for Leta because he felt that she would be better off continuing her education than he would with his. I thought about reaming him out, but I ultimately decided that Theseus had done good enough of a job at that.

"I hope she's worth it Newt," I replied.

By the time Theseus and I were ready to return to the front lines, the Ministry had decided that it was an excellent time to get involved. They saw the lives that Theseus and I had managed to save —I think they just wanted to improve their relations with the muggle government— but they began to conscript witches and wizards. Newt ended up in a dragon unit of course, while Theseus and I returned to the front lines.

After the war, things changed once again. Theseus and I were being followed around by the press, all wanting to get comments from the 'Great Two.' We were regaled as War Heroes as stories began to circulate about the opposing wizards and witches we faced. It all became a bit overwhelming, but things began to settle. Newt got a job as a mazoologists assistant and bought a flat not too far from me and Theseus' meaning that he frequently came over. One night when Theseus and I were sitting around reading Newt burst through the door with excitement.