Masquerade- Tom Riddle Fanfiction

A Pendulum Swings Both Ways

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You all going to kill me...I just know it...

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  Green staring into blue irises, colder than steel encased in ice. 

  Now, green eyes staring into green. 

   It was almost as if I was staring into a reflection of myself; those cold eyes flashing both grey and green at the same time.

      I looked around the room-- relics everywhere; parts of animals and even magical artifacts crowded the place. Exactly as it always had been; the Erumpent horn hanging over the mantel. 

      "Well?" Grindelwald asked, his smile menacing, "won't you even kiss your father on the cheek?" 

      I composed myself, as I pretended to feel the shock emanating from Tom. "We are surely beyond that, aren't we, father?" The title slipped too easily from my lips, merging into the deep feeling of agony. 

   Grindelwald studied me intently for a moment before laughing, "So defiant, aren't you? I was hoping Mark, here, had at least taught you some manners. Would you need another session, perhaps--" his eyes glittered, merciless and corrupt. Mark smirked, his body aching for blood. I shoved my fists in my pockets, my face stretched with an unnatural smile. Another power play; to subjugate me. To prove that I was completely in his power, and there was nothing that I could do about it. "Go on--" Grindelwald laughed, "kiss your father on the cheek or your handsome friend will live a day in the life of Adeline Grindelwald. He will go through everything you have underwent and worse--" he ended with a slight leer. 

   I stepped forwards, each step closer to humiliation; to obedience. I was never obedient. Still, I lowered my head and pressed my lips against his cheek for the desired amount of time. Inside, I was raging more than a hurtling storm upon a ship. When the time ended, I stepped back-- my lips purged by sin. 

  "Ah--" Grindelwald smiled, "isn't it nice to be kissed by your daughter? But of course, Adeline, it doesn't serve you well when I know that you have betrayed me. The Supreme Leader has revealed everything--" he kicked the motionless woman, as she groaned in pain. 

    "I didn't," I replied coldly, "I manipulated her so skillfully that she never realized it. I have undergone great lengths with even imprinting their mark upon my skin. The Resurrection Stone was firmly in my grasp, if I had it, why not give it to her; for the hopes of sealing a bargain so that you will surrender? No, my Master, I have crossed upon her and took her information. I have fed her truth mixed with lies and she has saw nothing but lies. I give the ultimate power to you now; the second Deathly Hallows. I have been loyal to the end, my Master, and thus is the reason why I have not warned her. She is now fully in your power, to do to her whatever you may please." 

   Grindelwald laughed. "Such a silver tongue," he mocked, twirling a familiar wand in his hands. The Elder Wand. "But--" he held up his finger in warning, "I will accept your lies. Because although you may have tricked me, you have brought an item of great value. But you must know that I do not take kindly to lies underneath my domain. You will have to pay the price." 

   "What will it be, my Master?" I asked humbly, "speak and it shall be done."