BOOK 3: MARAUDERS. (Mattheo Riddle).

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MARAUDERS.
Chapter 50.
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Mattheo, Lorenzo and Frey know that if they leave the castle before the sun goes down then they're not breaking any rules. The Aurors don't mind letting Lorenzo and Frey out of the castle, but Mattheo still has to be smuggled out under a disillusionment charm.

Lorenzo and Frey walk either side of Mattheo until they reach the end of the wooden bridge.

"Ow, fucking hell" Lorenzo catches himself on a loose splinter of wood when he's running his hand along the railing. His skin tears open and blood drips all over the place.

"How'd you do that?" Frey asks.

Lorenzo shakes the sting away from his hand. "God likes to punish the people who enjoy the world too much. Gone are the days when a person can hold onto a fucking railing!" Lorenzo would set the bastard thing on fire if they didn't need it to get in and out of school.

"Lorenzo!" Mattheo isn't in the mood for his cheerful attitude. "Artemis has to be down there, or I'm out of fucking options" then he will have to resort to telling Mabel that Artemis is missing.

"Maybe you should have worried about Artemis earlier?" Lorenzo mutters under breath.

"What was that?!" Mattheo shouts at him.

"Nothing" Lorenzo shouldn't have said anything.

"No, go on. If you have something to say then say it!" Mattheo shouts at Lorenzo. He's already been screamed at by Tom, but he wasn't expecting Lorenzo to turn on him.

Lorenzo doesn't want to kick Mattheo when he's down. "Seriously, nothing" Lorenzo tries to laugh it off.

Lorenzo had told Mattheo to be honest with Artemis before the Summer Ball. Either Mattheo had to tell Artemis all of the secrets or he had to leave her alone. Mattheo chose to keep the secrets and date Artemis, and now it's all coming back to bite him in the arse.

"He said that you should have cared about Artemis before we started lying to her!" Frey isn't afraid of a little confrontation.

Mattheo looks between them both. "Don't you think that I know that now?! Don't you think I would have wanted to tell all of that myself?!" Mattheo snaps at both of them. "I didn't want Tom to be the one to tell her".

Frey winces at the waves of depression that are storming inside of Mattheo. She can control feeling emotions now she has her memories, but every now and then they still overwhelm her slightly.

Mattheo doesn't care what the two of them think.

Finding Artemis is what is important right now. Not their feelings.

"Come on" Mattheo pushes through the middle of Lorenzo and Frey. "If you're done!" Mattheo claps at them.

Lorenzo and Frey look at each other.

"I don't want to leave him alone. I think that he might be dangerous" Lorenzo tells Frey.

"That's an understatement" Frey says. One wrong move and Mattheo is going right off that deep end. Artemis is the only humanity that Mattheo has anymore, everything else has been eaten away by the dark magic inside of him.