Catch Me If I Fall

Second real chapter up! Let me know what you think in the comments, and as always give suggestions! This chapter has some character building of characters that were kind of glossed over in the movie, as well as Linda.

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A few days after her stay in the Saint Mungo's, Linda is back at work. She walks down the Ministry of Magic's lavish and dark coloured corridors with a set of files in hand. Once she reaches an office with a sign reading The Office of Theseus Scamander — Auror, she knocks on the door.

A faint "Come in" can be heard from the other-side as Linda lets herself in. Once she opens the door, Linda sees Theseus sitting in his chair at his rather large desk mulling over a stack of papers himself.

"You know if I had a time-turner, I would go back in time and warn myself exactly how much paperwork is involved with this job," groans Theseus. Linda chuckles. He wraps up whatever work he had been doing, signing one last paper, before closing the file and turning his attention to Linda. "What case is that?" he asks observantly.

"Your brother's," Linda replies. "It says here that he is coming in this afternoon for another hearing to get his travel visa back."

"I'm sensing a but here," speculates Theseus. He is always quite good at deducing things at this time is no exception.

"But this time the ministry has no intention of turning him down," informs Linda. "They want him to take a deal."

"What kind of deal Linda?" Theseus asks with concern.

"They want him to—"

Before Linda can finish her sentence their boss, Torquil Travers, burst into the room. He looks at the two of them for a moment and then begins to speak, "Oh good, the two of you are here. This saves me two trips then I suppose."

He continues, "You two are probably not aware of this, but we have decided to offer Newton Scamander a plea deal," he pauses. "Under the condition that he joins the ministry as an Auror and kills the Obscurus," he says dramatically.

Theseus looks shocked. Newt would never agree to this! He wouldn't want to be an Auror, let alone an Auror with a mission to kill. "So in the likely chance he says no, what do you intend to do?" Theseus asks agitatedly.

"Well, that's where the two of you come in," proposes Mr. Travers. "I need you two to convince him to take it."

Theseus and Linda shoot each other a glance.

"We could try, but he would never take it in a million years," sighs Linda as she sits on the front of Theseus' desk.

"Well if he says no after that then we have a backup," reveals Mr. Travers.

Linda looks genuinely surprised by this. She doesn't remember seeing anything like that in the file she held in her hand. "Who?"

"Gunnar Grimmson," replies Mr. Travers shamefully. Both Linda and Theseus have encountered him before; he is a bounty hunter with little regard for human life. He also seems to be quite taken with Linda, much to the annoyance of both Linda and Theseus.