"A SAD STORY"

"I'm so sorry about your creatures, Mr Scamander" Tina said in guilt in the verge of tears as she realized what she had done. "I truly am"

Kenna looked up from the dark corner she was siting. She had been thinking about the obscurus. Which child was suppressing their magical source just in fear?

Kenna didn't even register the apology, not even blaming her at all. She knew one day she'd end up at a holding cell. Tina just made the process faster.

"Can someone please tell me what this obscurial,  obscurius thing is, please?" Jacob questioned breaking the tense silence.

Newt opened his mouth to explain but got silenced when noise over Kenna's corner was made as she slowly shifted from position.

"It happens when a witch or wizard suppresses their magic for so long that the magic turns inwards and basically eats them from the inside out" Kenna began explaining quietly, not looking up from her hands.

Her mind, now that there was a reason to start thinking, traveled back to when she first discovered her magic. It was accidental sure, but she was alone. Her father used to work at the ministry and her mother, a muggle had been at the grocery store.

It had been a few minutes, and no one thought it'd hurt leaving a small child alone. But they were wrong.

Kenna had been disoriented and wanted her mother because she had woken up from a nightmare. She had set off to find her mother. The village she lived at was crowded with muggles, they were the rare wizard family leaving among them. So, it was common for people like Mary Lou Barebone to brainwash people into believing the unknown, the magic was from hell, from the devil. Kenna knew the woman who lived across the street, she always kept to herself but her father got along with her. However, being alone always brought questions, people didn't like not knowing everything about everyone so the rumors were always there. That day, the woman came across one of these Mary Lou's clones, claiming she was an unnatural woman, got people surround her, all holding pitch forks and torches wanting to hurt her. Kenna had witnessed it all, remembered her father telling her to never bring attention to herself when she got to witness something like that, that it wouldn't be safe because she was different, like him. They could do magic, things ordinary people would never be capable of doing. This scared Kenna, witnessing such a kind woman be harassed and hurt. She knew one day she could be her, only for being different. Because she could do extraordinary things, demon things. Someone from the group had noticed Kenna crying in fear and mistook the action. They thought she was crying for her mother. They thought she was a demon like them. They chased her too. And with that, they managed her to trigger her magic for the first time in the most violent way against those muggles.

Kenna remembered seeing dark for a moment and then, everything was destroyed. The streets, some houses. Muggles were scattered over the ground, muggles who just minutes ago had been trying to hurt her and the other witch. Kenna remembered crying in fear, crouching in the corner of an alley, shaking in pain and horror. She'd never be able to forget the whispered words of a muggle whose face was scratched with blood running down her face.

The muggle had looked into Kenna's eyes, mustering all the disgust and fear in her voice. "You're a monster"

And Kenna believed it.

She had hurt too many people. Her magic had lashed out in order to protect her but like she had no control of it, it didn't measure its strength.

Every witness had been oblivitiated, the surviving victims had been healed, oblivitiated and sent home. The ministry of magic was called. Kenna feared she'd be in a holding cell at the end of the night but that never happened. The witch she had unknowingly saved from being hurt or killed took the blame for the accident. She had taken pity upon seeing the horror in the little girl, noticing it was the first time she did magic and didn't want to take away the opportunity to learn how to control it, to feel herself safe with her abilities.

Kenna never told anyone what happened. Not even her father. No one said anything, not even the unframed witch, knowing if she said something the girl would be arrested. She had apologized to Kenna's father, saying she was accidentally caught in her mess. She let Kenna walk free.

Since then, Kenna had been terrified about what she could do. Tried to suppress her magic so her father would think she was a squib but that never happened, one day she slipped. So much bottling up her magic brought bad consequences she didn't want to think about. It was the last time she saw her father.

Kenna was snapped from her thoughts by the feeling of eyes on her. She looked up noticing Newt's gaze on her as he finished recalling what he knew about obscurials and the age they could live.

But now, he could tell that was wrong. He had known an obscurial from a long time, since said obscurial was twelve years old. Kenna was a powerful one if she had managed to survive this long.

"What are you telling me?" Jacob asked in disbelief "That senator Shaw was killed by a ... kid?"

Kenna looked up, a dark look passing through her eyes "No, he was killed by a parasite. The obscurus is a dark parasite inside a frightened child"

Newt flinched looking down, knowing in that moment what she felt about her magic. There was a tense pause before footsteps making their way to them and the four of them were met with people in white coats entering their cell.

Kenna backed away not wanting to be touched fearing their safety. Newt shook his head slightly at her trying to look reassuring but knew it wouldn't work as soon as he noticed the dark matter surround one of Kenna's hands before she was roughly pulled out of the corner.

"It's aright. We're just being escorted" Newt quickly called to her, his voice relaxing the woman's muscles, the dark matter retreating back to her skin.

Tina sent him a questionable look as the three of them were forced to walk out of the cell leaving the muggle behind.

Newt looked behind his shoulder at Jacob "It was good to make your acquaintance, Jacob ad I hope you get your bakery"

Kenna looked behind her shoulder and sent him a calm and kind smile.

Jacob waved slightly worrying about his newfound friends, not wanting nothing bad happening to them.

Jacob sighed heavily looking down as the wizards turned around and rubbed his face solemnly. He didn't want to forget all wonderful magical things he had got to know and much less the wizards he had befriended. He didn't want to forget them.