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Sisters Divided – Part 6:

"You must be mistaken Madam Santos," Flora said, "I'm Flora Rosier, Vinda's sister… a less well known one," she said before managing to make eye contact with Tina and, somehow, Tina knew what Flora was saying and just nodded softly.

"Well you look so alike her I would have said you were her," Santos said as she nodded, "my apologise Miss Rosier."

Vinda looked at Flora before leading her away as they went to their table. Grindelwald soon followed and sat down next to Rosier. He looked over at Flora and watched her as she caught sight of Lally. The two looked at each other before Flora grabbed the nearest glass of wine and downed half of it in one go.

"Flora… you did well. Relax and enjoy yourself tonight. You look beautiful. Vinda did a good job with your hair as well," Grindelwald said as he looked from Flora to Vinda, "I hope I will see this side of you more often."

Flora found herself blushing as she heard the Dark Wizard's words and she wondered what was going to happen. Of course she had no idea of the assassination attempt that would be happening during the evening. She was just glancing around and soon sighted everyone who had been sent there by Dumbledore. She was unsure why they were all there and hoped that it wasn't going to be an attempt to save her because that wasn't going to help anyone and she had the horrible feeling that someone would get hurt.

Her eyes drifted around to see what was going on and that only set her more on edge… to the point where she could barely touch her food. In fact it almost felt like she was unaware her food was in front of her. Grindelwald and Rosier knew that the event had set Flora's nerves off and they would make sure she ate something when they returned to the Castle. It was impossible to try and get something into Flora when she was a bag of nerves.

Lally, meanwhile, had been watching everyone in the one and finally had settled on a waiter who had a very shifty look about him and he was in charge of the beverages for the top table where both Santos and Liu Tao were sat. She wasn't sure what had drawn him to her but she really didn't like him.

"Excuse me Jacob," Lally said as she rose from her seat as she saw the drink in front of Santos. She made her way through people and knocked into a waiter but used her wand to make sure that nothing shattered on the floor.

Having almost reached the top table she found a couple of tough wizards in front of her. She watched as Santos went to drink the wine. Wish a subtle flick of her wand she sent the wine towards the door where it hit and burned a hole in the door.

Lally made to move back to her seat before turning around as she saw Tina on her feet, eyes firmly on Flora. She sincerely hoped that Tina was not going to make an attempt to get Flora back. She sat down next to Jacob again and carried on eating.

Tina looked at her sister before walking over to her and pulled her wand out and pointed it at Grindelwald.

"Release my sister now and let her come back to her to her sisters," she said as she kept her wand pointed at Grindelwald and he didn't react at all.

"She's had plenty of time to leave me and she has known that this whole time," Grineldwald said with a shrug of his shoulders and a look at Rosier, who just looked back at him.

Flora shook her head at Tina and could only watch on in horror as Theseus made a grab for Tina but was stunned in the process. Tina's wand arm lowered faster than she'd ever lowered it before as she watched Theseus being taken away.

Lally looked around and watched before realising what was happening.

"Grindelwald has the Ministry…"

"What did you say Lally?" Jacob asked.

"Grindelwald has the German Ministry of Magic. We need to leave… now!" Lally replied as Tina rushed back over stunned.

"They have the Ministry," Lally told Tina, "that's why that he's not worried about anything," she said before Tina's eyes widened as realised that's why everyone had all but turned a blind eye despite the fact that Flora was clearly the missing Goldstein sister was clearly with them.

Grindelwald and his group were stood up and getting ready to leave when Jacob pointed his wand at the back of Flora's neck. She turned around and pulled out her wand to come face-to-face with Jacob.

"Tell them I'm safe Jacob. Nobody will hurt me," Flora said, realising this was possibly her only chance to get a direct message to her sisters.

"How do you know?" Jacob asked.

"I just know. Please just tell them the message and I'll find a way to contact them soon," she said and Jacob nodded.

"I will tell them. This is a…"

"Fake wand. I'm careful to keep the pretending going," Flora said.

Lally knew they had to get out of there and flicked her wand to send Jacob's 'wand' arm into the sky and caused a storm to appear. Jacob quickly moved and headed over to Lally as she prepared her book to get herself, Tina and Jacob out of the way.

Someone had decided in that moment that they would try and grab Jacob. Lally flicked her wand once more to send crockery and cutlery flying through the air so Jacobs could get to them.

Flora had been making her way through the chaos with Rosier when something struck her and tore her away from Vinda and rendered her unconscious.

"FLORA!" Tina shouted as Lally grabbed her before Grindelwald rushed to Flora's side, Rosier following soon behind.

"Get her out of here. Get her to her room. You know what to do," he said and Vinda nodded before she took Flora in her arms and apparated away leaving Tina struck with horror as her sister vanished from sight.