Strings Attached

Chapter 19

Celeste and the team apparated back to ministry, but their plans were cut short as Minister's assistant informing their short departure to Paris as they got the Grindelwald situation.

"Repeat? Where do we have to go again?" Celeste asked, tilting her head a bit. "Paris. Grindelwald is in Paris." The assistant spoke up, clearly exhausted with the day already.

"Thank you." Celeste said, looking at Theseus, baffled. The assistant walked away in another direction, clearly in haste.

"What exactly does Fawley want to do exactly? One second he is wasting time, and the other second he wants us to travel internationally. Does he suddenly believe that the Grindelwald threat is real?" Celeste spoke up, as she picked up her pace.

Others followed her with the same disdain for Fawley as Celeste. "He didn't even tell us why he wanted us to go to Paris in the first place." Theseus pointed out, making everyone groan.

"So we are at blind witch hunt again?" One of the aurors grumbled. Celeste nodded her head.

"We have to do something about this before all of this gets out of hand." Celeste said, frustrated. "But what?" The other auror asked.

"Remove him from the position and re-elect the minister. Someone who will take all of this seriously." Celeste offered as they entered the elevator to her office.

"We have no obvious choice. Dumbledore won't step up, he has already made that clear." One of the two auror said.

"We will find someone, we will have to." Celeste stated firmly, looking at her team.

Everyone nodded their heads before the elevator stopped at their destination. As they moved out of the elevator, they were met with a big team of aurors waiting for them.

"What the fuck is going on?" Celeste asked, feeling lost. "Same question." Theseus said, his mouth open in question.

"This is your team. You asked me to take some action, and I did." A voice spoke up, from the right side.

Everyone looked at the source of the voice. "Huh?" Celeste asked, getting more confused.

"You are going to Paris to figure out what Grindelwald's big game play." Fawley said, looking as though that was his greatest step he has ever taken.

"But why an army of aurors for that? Are we expecting action?" Celeste asked, looking over the group of aurors.

"Exactly. We are helping the French ministry. It is now true that Grindelwald is in fact in Paris." Fawley nodded his head.

Celeste pinched the bridge of her nose, clearly exasperated. "Great, but I need everyone one of you to be ready for this situation. We are ambushing a meeting, so there will be lots of surprises and attacks. I hope you are ready for that." Celeste addressed the crowd.

"I will leave this to you." Fawley said, before walking away, making Celeste roll her eyes. "Leta, fetch all the hit wizards and witches. Tell them it's an emergency. We are ambushing Grindelwald." Celeste said, making Leta nod her head and walking towards the hitwitches and hitwizard department.

"I want all of you to report back here in an hour. Go home, do whatever you have to and be back here exactly in an hour." Celeste ordered, her voice ringing out in the corridor.

Everyone nodded in agreement and started to disperse in haste so they could be back in an hour.

Celeste waited for hitwitches and hitwizard to come so she could give them the same information and instructions.

"Should Gilbert and I head home too?" Theseus asked, looking at Celeste. "Yes, be back in an hour." Celeste answered, nodding her head.

As soon as Theseus and Gilbert walked out, the team of hitwitches and hitwizards appeared from one of the many corridors.