"You promised me that you wouldn't leave."
"Tom...I never left."
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Fate is Cruel. Truly.
What if the dark Tom Riddle was never evil from the start? What if something important to him vanished and made him become a monster?
What if he had a lov...
"Tom. Speak clearly. That way I can help you. I can teach you anything you want. Please, Tom. Anything."
"Anything..?"
"Yes."
"...Even Dark Magic?"
"I...Of course. So now, what happened to Miss (L/N)? You two always stuck together."
"My information first."
"Alright. What do you me to tell you, Tom? What kind of Dark Magic?"
"I was in the library last night. In the restricted section. And I read something rather odd about a bit of rare magic. It's called, as I understand it: A Horcrux."
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"I..I beg your pardon?"
"Horcrux. I came across the term while reading. And I didn't fully understand it."
"What you're reading Tom, is very dark stuff. Very dark indeed."
"Which is why I came to you."
"...A Horcrux is an object where someone has concealed part of their soul."
"And I don't understand how that works, Sir."
"Well, you split one's soul and and hide part of it in an object. By doing so it means that you are protected should you be attacked and your body destroyed."
"Protected?"
"In other words you cannot die."
"And how does one split his soul, sir?"
"I think you already know the answer to that, Tom."
"Murder."
"Yes. Killing rips the soul apart. It's a violation against nature."
"Can you only split the soul once? For instance, isn't seven..."
"Seven? Merlin's beard, Tom! Isn't it bad enough to consider killing one person? To rip the soul into seven pieces... This is a lot to take in, even for a fifth year..This is all hypothetical, isn't it Tom? All academic?"
"...Of course sir. It'll be our little secret."
"Alright...dear. Now, Tom. Tell me about her. Miss (L/N)."
"I'll see."
I'm doing this for her. I'm not doing anything wrong.
I'm not crazy. Am I?
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He had to hurry. What if they had hurt her? What if they had killed her?! He couldn't bear to think about it. Tom ran down the stairs and almost tripped in the process.
All of his calmness and bluntness had disappeared. He was desperate to find her. As he ran into the basement, he saw tens of cages aligned with each other, and he swear that he saw a skeleton in one.
This was an Animagi prison. Hunters used them to complete missions for them and spy on other things. This was...horrible. He had to find (Y/N) quickly.
"(Y/N)?" he shouted into the darkness. There was no reply. All he heard was some footsteps. Wait. Footsteps?!
He pointed his illuminated wand towards the direction. But Lumos didn't really light up the whole room. So Tom thought of his happiest memory. The time when it was his birthday.
"Expecto Patronum!"
A glowing wolf burst out of his wand and howled as it ran towards the darkness, brightening the abyss. But what Tom saw was shocking. As the wolf faded away, he saw an actual wolf standing in the darkness in a battle stance, and a snarl on its face.
He raised his wand to fight it, but then met eyes with the alert beast. Its eyes were too familiar, too friendly. Tom's eyes went wide as he lowered his wand with a starstruck expression on his usually cold face. It couldn't be.
