Tryst -Tom Riddle

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BEFORE YOU READ:
I know that when someone uses the time turner, they aren't supposed to be seen when they travel to past or future but for the sake of the story, let's pretend that we can, please.

There's a surprise in this chapter. Tell me what you think about it!!

MACKENZIE'S POV

"Are you sure you don't want to join us?" Aimee asked me putting on her coat.
"I am"
She sighed and looked at me.
" I believe you but honestly I am a little worried about our friendship. I mean you know how we don't spend much time together. It makes me feel like you don't want to be friends with me anymore."
"No Aimee, That's not true. I'm sorry if I did or said something that made you feel that way. Tomorrow is Sunday, we can spend the day together if you'd like. How does that sound?"
"Awesome! It will be so much fun Mackenzie, just like old days. See you then!"
"Have fun." I said and closed the door.

I immediately pulled out the time turner and inhaled sharply. "Everything will be fine" I whispered to myself before spinning it around. Everything around me started spinning, I felt a bit dizzy.
Everything stopped. I am exactly where I was before just.....in future, 1981.
I gasped loudly, this is scary. What if I won't be able to go back?
"Think positive Y/N!" I whisper yelled at myself. No one is in the dorm, where is everyone? I slowly went out and noticed two girls, maybe in third year?
"Make it quick Phoebe, we'll be late for dinner!" One of them yelled.
So, it's dinner time. I walked downstairs into the common room.
What exactly do I do now that I am in the future? I sighed and went further downstairs.
On the table, I could see a newspaper. I walked towards it and picked it up.

The title of the article caught my eye. It said
"IS LORD VOLDEMORT DEAD?" I furrowed my eye brows and read further.
"A surprising yet magical event occurred last week. A prophecy was made by Sybill Trelawney, a Divination Professor at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which said that Lord Voldemort will be defeated by a baby boy born at the end of July. As about now, we know that he killed the boy's parents last week but the boy survived. Some people have assumed that it was his mother's love that saved him and hence the curse back fired. This marked the end of the First Wizarding War."

Is this saying that Tom....he's dead? No, no he isn't dead, he just can't be dead! But then it hit me, horcruxes! He might have made some more by now so he isn't dead. His soul is scattered into different non living objects, looking for a body to live. Oh, my god, this is horrible!
What are you doing to yourself Tom?
I read further details written in this article.

"These were two of many people we know that were killed by Lord Voldemort, majority of them being Muggle born witches and wizards, some pure blood wizards too which includes Ms Mackenzie Rose, sources tell us she had known him for a very long time."

I gasped loudly and the newspaper slipped from my hand. I dropped to my knees as tears of frustration, hurt and betrayal started flowing down my cheeks. I sobbed and I immediately started regretting my decision. Why would he want to kill me? He was the one who dragged me into this mess! I never asked for any of this! After having a terrible mental breakdown for a few minutes, my inner voice said,
'Be strong Macy, be strong. You are here to change this horrible future.'
"Yes.. be strong " I whispered, repeating the phrase. I took a deep breath in and got up and ran back upstairs into my dorm, or someone else's dorm.

So, Tom is still alive, but dead for People.
I heard footsteps outside the dorm. Maybe they'll come back soon. I spinned the time turner again, once again travelling to the future.
As soon as I reaches, I could sense the chaos, something's not right here. I once again went down into the common room. The voices of people screaming and running got louder. The common room is empty.
What is going on? I picked up the newspaper and it said it's the year 1997. "Stay calm" I said to myself.

I went out of the common room, people were screaming and running. Windows were shattered, it's a complete mess. My nervousness and fear were really high at this point. I continued walking further down the hallway with the time turner tightly held in my hand. I was constantly being pushed by someone running. I suddenly felt someone's hand on my upper arm and I was pulled into an empty hallway which lead towards the Room Of Requirements.
"What do you think you're doing? Do you think you're in a garden? Run for your life!" I looked at this boy, around 17 maybe, pale skin, blonde hair, greying blue eyes and he looked a lot like....Abraxas Malfoy.
"Malfoy?" It just left my mouth.
"Are you a complete idiot? This is not the time to play the game of introducing ourselves!"

He is nothing like Abraxas! He started running the opposite direction.
"Wait!"
He turned around. "What?"
"What's going on?"
He gave me a look like he would kill me any second.
"Are you-?"
"Just tell me please!"
"The Dark Lord, he attacked the school, he wants to kill Potter! It's Second Wizarding War. Go run for your life and stop being so dumb, you'll end up dead!" He yelled and pushed me towards the wall and ran away. I sighed and ran. Everyone was leaving the castle, I followed them.

I went out and stood beside Malfoy. He had an extremely broken look on his face, I don't know what happened but it broke my heart.
Then I noticed a group of people walking towards us.
"Is that.. ? I asked Malfoy again, knowing that it will annoy him but I couldn't care less.
"Lord Voldemort? Yes. And that's Potter in Hagrid's arms." He whispered.
Hagrid? Oh, my god I remember what Tom did to him. Tears started filling my eyes.
As they came closer, I observed full appearance of him. I gasped loudly as I saw him, paler than the moon, his nose just disappeared.

What have you done Tom?!

"Harry Potter is dead!" He yelled with extreme happiness on his face. I came to know that Draco was a death eater too, by the look on his face, I'm assuming he was forced to. Harry out of nowhere jumped off Hagrid's arms. The war began again. Me having no idea what to do, I stood in the corner. Harry and Tom both had their wands pointed at each other. On the other end, I could see another boy with a sword in his hand, killing a snake. Why would he kill the snake? But then I looked at Harry and Tom, and Tom..he just.... disappeared in the sky. He.. died?

"NO!" I yelled and everyone looked at me with weird looks on their faces. The snake, it was a horcrux! Maybe the last one. I sobbed uncontrollably. Running back inside the castle, I stopped in an empty hallway and quickly used the Time Turner and went back to the year I belong to. Everything started spinning again, and I reached in my dorm room.

Everything I saw, read and experienced started replaying in my head and I dropped down on my knees crying my eyes out, sobbing uncontrollably. At this moment, I don't know whether to feel sorry for Tom or to blame him for everything. I have no idea how I'm going to get all of that out of my head, how will I explain it all to Tom and even if I did, why will he believe me? Just as I was lost in my dark thoughts, the door opened and I didn't even care to look who it is.

"There you are Macy. I've been looking for you since morning. Where have you been?" Tom. What do I do? I'm not ready to face him yet.

"What are you doing on the floor? Get up, I want to-" he was interrupted by an unintentional sob that left my mouth.
"Macy?"
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