```Chapter 10```

Grindelwald blinked once and Minerva watched horrified as the dark blood trickled out of his nose. Briellie, Tom, and Albert all stared wide-eyed and shocked.

"M'lord?" Tom asked, moving forwards nervously, looking timid himself. Grindelwald began to smile slightly and Minerva's eyes opened wider.

"Around noon isn't it?" He asked simply, ignoring the blood that came from his nose and to the side of his mouth as he moved with poise to the head of the dining room table. "I do believe it is time for lunch." Said Grindelwald deftly.

Briellie moved with her usual grace to the chair next to him and Tom followed suit on the other side.

"Minnie," he said lightly, gesturing to the chair beside him. Minerva shrank out of the wall she had been backed into and walked carefully across the floor and to the chair. Albert looked angry and stubborn as he sat in his chair next to Briellie.

Grindelwald looked at all of them in turn and then picked up the starched white and blue flowered napkin in front of him and dabbed the blood off.

"You know Miss McGonagall, I am able to punch much harder than you." Grindelwald said in a conversation tone.

"I-I suppose you could." Minerva stammered, utterly unnerved and wondering what Grindelwald was going to do.

"Don't suppose anything Miss McGonagall. You are to believe anything I tell you." He said simply and in a light-hearted sort of way that made Minerva's heart tremble in her chest as coldness over took her stomach. Minerva sat in silence staring at the place in front of her. "Answer me when I speak to you!" Grindelwald roared, his nostrils flaring and sending the blood to splatter all over the tablecloth.

"Al-All right." Minerva faltered again, unsure what he was going to do and beginning to dread it all the more. Tom's hand moved to cover hers under the tablecloth. Inwardly Minerva seethed but did not move back for fear that Grindelwald would see the sudden movement as a threat or Tom would become angry.

Briellie smiled sweetly at Tom and Grindelwald and looked at Minerva with a perplexed sort of manner that she normally would never have even considered wearing on her face.

"Minnie you are so rude to my Master." She clucked, shaking her head as she pulled out her napkin and folded it elegantly across her lap. "I suppose I shall get punished for your bad-mannered and offensive ways." Briellie shook her head slightly.

"Mud-blood, I do believe you are right." Grindelwald began to smirk and the never-ending flow of blood continued out of his left nostril and down his chin, occasionally dripping into his mouth, though he didn't seem to notice. "In fact your daughter must learn her lesson. Will you go upstairs to your room and wait for me?" Briellie nodded and practically floated off with an elated expression on her face.

Grindelwald smiled maliciously at Albert and stood up, petrifying and then levitating Albert to follow him. "Come along, Lord Voldemort. And bring Dumbledore's whore." Tom stood up unquestioningly and took Minerva's arm and led her up the stairs to follow Grindelwald and her father.

Grindelwald walked slowly up the steps and to the end bedroom, shutting the door behind him and leaving Albert outside the door. Tom gave a small 'oh' of acknowledgement and stood outside the door with Minerva. Minerva was about to demand to know what was happening when she heard her mother begin to sob.

"No, please- No!" her voice started out softly with protests but became louder and more strained. "Stop it! Albert! Minnie! Oh God... Stop it!" Briellie's sobs got louder and Minerva's eyes opened furiously and she tried to go to the door.

"No Minnie. He'd kill you if you went in there." Tom said gently, holding her back by the arm.

"Mum!" Minerva shouted helplessly. "Stop hurting her this instant!" and Minerva began to blink furiously to hold back the tears that started to threaten to spill down her cheeks. Albert stared helplessly at the door and with a great pain as there was a loud crack and Briellie screamed loudly, begging to be released to no avail.

Minerva wiped at her eyes feverishly and with hatred against crying as Tom noticed her damp cheeks.

"Minnie, don't cry." Tom said softly, patting her arm softly. At that Minerva began to cry even harder and Tom wrapped his arms around her and pulled her against him and patted her back and stroked her messy and un- brushed curls. "Minnie, hush. He'll stop soon." Minerva didn't dare pull away from Tom incase he got angry, and in the depths of her mind she knew she enjoyed being comforted.

"Make him stop hurting her! Please! I'll do anything if you'll make him stop!" Minerva pleaded not thinking what she had said, leaning into him and looking as docile and dainty as she could, hoping desperately that she looked pretty enough at that moment that Tom would try to help her mother.

Tom looked down at her for a moment, looking thoughtful before he slowly released his arms from around her and Minerva stood looking at him with a paleness spreading over her face as Tom moved towards the door.

"M'lord. Should we not call the meeting?" Tom called into the room. Briellie stopped screaming and her sobs were beginning to subside as Grindelwald called back.

"I believe you are right, Lord Voldemort." He said as he opened the door, looking very self-satisfied with a leer on his face at Albert's expression. "Your mud-blood is fun. I can see why you keep her." He said coldly. Minerva slightly envied her father because he could not change his facial expression while she fought courageously to keep her face neutral. "Go fix her." Grindelwald said calmly to Minerva, pointing to the bedroom door.

Minerva watched sadly as the two took her father down the stairs and Tom blew her a kiss at the last possible moment that he was in her sight. Minerva barely fought the temptation to gag as she rushed into her parent's room to find her mother.

She was not able to stop from gagging as she caught sight of her mother.

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