C52 Preparing for Guests

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After some proper motivation, Druellas mother swore her loyalty to Tom the same way the Slytherin students did. After Tom stopped using the Cruciatus curse on her, Francesca took a while to get her breathing under control. Her mind was reeling from the unimaginable pain Tom put her through. She could feel aches all over her body as if she just ran a marathon without any training.

Throughout the whole thing, Druella watched on with slight reluctance. She may have started growing apart from her parents since joining Hogwarts, but this was still her mother that Tom was torturing. She swallowed her reluctance and looked forward with determination.

'I may not like it but it has to be done. After she swears the same oath like the rest of us, the pain will end and I can go back to being mad at her.' Druella thought.

Once the oath of loyalty was sworn, Tom had Lady Rosier stand beside her daughter and moved on to his friend's father.

"Enervate!" Tom calls and Lord Rosier awoke from his frozen state.

"Huh?" He said as he stood from his place on the floor of the mirror dimension.

"Hello, we've met already but I'll introduce myself anyway. I'm Tom..." Tom goes on to give him a similar speech as his wife.

As Tom was talking, Lord Rosier waved his hand and called the disarming charm without a wand.

"Expelliarmus!" Royce Rosier yelled and took Tom by surprise.

(A/N: I can't remember if I gave Drues father a name or not. If I did let me know and I'll change it.)

Tom dodged to the side but the spell grazed his shoulder. His bone-white wand flew from his hand and into the direction of Druellas father. Royce sprinted forwards to catch the wand and leaped into the air to snatch it.

"Flipendo!" Francesca called as she pointed her wand at her husband.

Just as Lord Rosier was about to grab the wand out of the air, his wife's spell struck him and he went flying back.

'*sigh* I'm glad I gave her wand back to her.' Tom thought as he swears to himself that he will do his best to not be surprised by wandless magic like that again.

As Tom walks up to his wand and picks it up, Lord Rosier sat on the ground staring at his wife in shock. They may have an arranged marriage, as most Nobles do, but he and his wife are fairly close. The fact that she just turned on him was truly a surprise.

"I'm sorry, my love but I swore an oath of loyalty on my life." Francesca said as she keeps her wand trained on her husband.

"What?!" Royce exclaimed.

"Can you at least wait until I'm finished talking before you attack again? I don't like repeating myself." Tom says as he starts explaining the situation again, but this time he keeps his wand trained on Lord Rosier.

After hearing Toms full speech, Royce vehemently refused to swear any oaths of loyalty. This caused Tom to start the torture again, but Lord Rosier had a stronger will than his wife. Even after a full five minutes of the Cruciatus curse, the man didn't give in at all. Tom stopped torturing him, as he didn't want to cause too much damage. He decided to just leave him in the mirror dimension for now. It would take time to break someone of his fortitude.

While Lord Rosier heaved in pain on the floor, Tom opened a portal back into the Rosier Manor.

"Let's go. Anymore torture and it may cause some lasting damage. He can sit in here and starve until he decides to swear the oath." Tom said and the mother-daughter duo followed him out.

They were happy that Tom didn't want to cause any lasting damage to their family member. Druella wasn't too shaken up by it but he's still her father. Francesca on the other hand was not happy seeing her husband in such a state. She was truly relieved when her Lord stopped the curse and decided to leave. Starvation is better than being tortured by that god awful curse after all.

When they returned to the Manor, Tom put Francesca in charge of the elves to placate them. Who knows what they would have done without their master or mistress to keep them in check. Tom doesn't need elves getting in the way of his plans.

According to Francesca, Lord Prince will arrive tomorrow around noon with his wife, as she and Lady Prince are close friends. Tom needs to capture them as he did the Rosier couple and get them on his side as well. He isn't strong enough to face the whole of the Slytherin Alumni, so he needs to control the information they are given. Once he's strong enough, the Rosier and Prince family's can help him move against the rest of the Alumni.

Firstly, Tom had Francesca take him to the ward stone for the manor. He needs to gain control of it, so he can use the wards against Lord and Lady Prince. With the wards under his control, Tom wouldn't need to take the couple by surprise or use any underhanded tricks. As long as the wards are strong enough, he should be able to beat them easily.

"Right this way, My Lord." Lady Rosier says and takes him to the basement of the Manor.

In the basement, she takes him to a wall and taps it a few times in specific places with her wand. The wall opens up in a similar way to the entrance to Diagon Alley. Behind the wall is a hidden room with a big stone pillar. The pillar itself has different symbols and arrays throughout that glow in a bright blue color.

"Give me control of the wards." Tom says and she hurries up to the pillar with him following closely behind her.

"Place your hand here, My Lord." She says and points to a certain cluster of runes.

Tom does as she says. As he does so, Francesca places her hand on another portion of the pillar and starts pumping her magic inside. The pillar glows slightly brighter as Lady Rosier says a few words and the light dies down.

"You're now in control of the wards. You have to same privileges over the manor as my husband and I." She says and Tom starts testing out his power over the wards.

He first, tried to use the wards to teleport himself and Lady Rosier to the living room. Suddenly, they both disappear from the basement and appear where he wanted to go.

"Good, now let's run a few more tests." Tom says as he has Francesca call for one of her elves.

With a pop, the elf appears and Tom orders it to walk out the front door. As the elf does so, it's stopped by a barrier as if it's walking into a brick wall.

After testing out a few more things, Tom can see many ways that he could use the wards to beat tomorrow's visitors. He spends the rest of the day testing out the wards and preparing for his guest's arrival. Tom didn't bother to check in on Lord Rosier, as the man needs some time in order to break that tough exterior of his.

Once Tom was sure that he was ready for tomorrow's guests, he took a guest room to sleep in, performed his usual nightly magic practice, and went straight to bed. He has a busy day tomorrow after all.