Invisible String [t. s]

Skyfall

If there's one thing a sane Amélie wouldn't do is attack first, Theseus knew that, but this Amélie that served as Vinda's puppet didn't hold back, she was the one to attack.

  With a flick of her wand, Theseus flew backwards, hitting a wall. Lally didn't have much chance to do anything, for Élie disarmed her and made her fly across the open area as Hicks' wand flew towards Rosier's hand and Carrow arrived to hold Lally in place while Abernathy took a hold of the case she was holding. A second later, Rosier was the one to fall, for Theseus stood up and attacked her.

"It's been a while since we found ourselves in a similar situation, am I right?" She said.

"Amélie, snap out of it!" In a second, she sent a spell his way, which he blocked. And a rapid fire of spells flew back and forth for two minutes straight. A light coat of sweat covered Theseus' forehead while Amélie attacked him mercilessly, no emotion on her face. "Amélie, this isn't you, knock it off!" She didn't stop. Her face shifted, worry over it. "My Élie wouldn't do this, you don't want to do this! I know it!"

  Suddenly, Amélie groaned in pain and held her head, her body contracted, as if she was trying to hold back but she really couldn't she was forced to keep going, to keep attacking him; this made Élie feel an insane amount of pain. Theseus didn't want to attack, he just stood there. Rosier's face shifted to emotionless again and Theseus blocked right on time when she attacked again, that's when he felt the tip of a wand on the back of his neck, it was Helmut.

"Drop the case, Scamander." Élie said calmly as she approached them. Amélie held the case and pulled it towards her, Theseus was not letting go, so she placed the tip of her wand on his neck. "Drop the case or I will take it from your corpse." Amélie's eyes started filling up with tears as Theseus released the case.

"I know you don't mean that." She walked away with the case in one hand and Theseus' wand in the other one, Scamander noticed how a tear rolled down her cheek. All of Grindelwald's sympathisers started to wake up and stand behind her. Helmut moved to stand amongst them when Kraft replaced his position behind Theseus, Vinda arrived in a second and Theseus noted how she was aiming at Amélie, she was the one controlling her.

"Let her go." He commanded Vinda, who simply smiled wickedly.

"Thank you, Amélie." Said Vinda as one of her sheep took the case from Amélie's hand, placing it before them. Abernathy placed the case he had taken from Lally on the ground too before both men aimed at the cases.

"Wait." Said Helmut. "Open them, make sure it's in there. Idiots." The men in the wall punched the bricks and Amélie released one while Hoffman released the other one. Theseus exchanged looks with Lally when two wizards grabbed the cases, Helmut and Vinda approached the cases and Theseus moved to stand in front of Amélie while her sister wasn't looking. Scamander held Rosier by the arms and shook her gently.

"Amélie, darling, wake up." Her eyes were lost behind him, looking at Vinda, her face showed no emotion at all. "Fight it, you can fight it, I know you can." He looked over his shoulder, they opened the cases. From the one he had, a Golden Snitch flew out while the one Lally had was packed with books. He looked back at Amélie and his hands cupped her cheeks, that's when her eyes finally looked into his. "Élie, fight it. Come back to me."

  Everyone behind them yelped. The books started attacking everyone, for they were monster books, and the pages created a curtain between them and the bad guys. Theseus also heard the characteristic whoosh of the Bludgers and admitted to himself the fact that Dumbledore did have his aces underneath his sleeves.

"Theseus, we've got to go." Said Lally as she grabbed her wand from Amélie's hand and ran away. He nodded and his hand found Amélie's after he had taken his wand back, too; he pulled her with him, but she didn't move.