Tryst -Tom Riddle

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This chapter is in Tom's POV cause why not?

TOM'S POV
I walked towards Macy's dorm once again to check. I've been trying to talk to her since morning and she's nowhere to be seen. I opened the door, walking further inside, I spotted her on the floor, eyes focused on the ground.

"There you are Macy, I've been looking for you since morning. Where have you been?" I asked but she didn't look at me. She didn't move at all, not saying a single word. I furrowed my eye brows.
"What are you doing on the floor? Get up, I want to-" I was interrupted by a sob that escaped from her mouth.
"Macy"
No response.
"Love, what happened?" I asked once again kneeling down beside her. Honestly, if it was someone else, I would have left them to cry for their pathetic life but Macy? She's different.

"Macy, love, please talk to me. Look at me, please." I tried and once again, no response, no movement.
I placed my thumb under her chin, it made her flinch.
Is she scared of me again? Tilting her head upwards but she closed her eyes.
I sighed and tried talking to her again.
"I won't be able to help you if you don't tell me what's wrong " I said but the only response I got was her sobbing.

I placed my hands on either of her shoulder, helping her get up and sit on the bed.
"Just please tell me!" I said and she is really worrying me now.
"You...you won't understand." She said, her voice barely above a whisper. I knelt down to face her.
"Understand what? Help me understand darling, what is it?" I tried placing my hand on her thigh, she jumped but didn't push my hand away.

" I'm getting worried now, please te-"

"Your plan.."

"My plan?"

"Yes, everything y-you have planned for your future... just stop it."

"What do you mean?"

"It's not going to work, you are not immortal!" She suddenly yelled at me. I was taken aback by her sudden outburst.

"Horcruxes... They won't help you become immortal either!"
What is she talking about? Where is this coming from?
"Did something happen today? What happened to you all of a sudden?"

"Tom, you don't get it! You have to stop everything, right now! It is not going to work, trust me please!"

"How do you know that Macy, was it a bad dream?"

"NO! I know it because of this!" She yelled pulling out something from her pocket, a necklace which resembled an hourglass.

"What is that?"

"A time turner. I know your future, I saw it with my own eyes and believe me it is nothing like you are expecting!"

"You time travelled into the future? Where did you get that from?" Shock is understatement, millions of questions were going on inside my head, why did she time travel? Why did she want to time travel?

"Professor Dumbledore. Tom, it's not good, Harry potter, he is going to kill you, you will die a horrible death!"

" I'm not understanding anything." I sighed. Horrible death. I shivered at that.

She groaned in frustration,
"The prophecy, it clearly says that you will be defeated!"

Defeated? I'm confused, shocked and a bit...scared?
She kept saying some things in between her sobs, wiping tears and I'm trying really hard to understand.
After few seconds, it hit me, Legilimency! I could read her mind. I sat down beside her in the bed.
"Macy, please calm down." I tried but she kept saying things I still didn't know what they mean.
I pulled her into a hug, her head on my shoulder.
"Please just stop." She whispered.
"It's okay, just calm down."
I pulled away and looked deep in her eyes. Fear, pain and so many other emotions hidden in her eyes.

I have tried Legilimency before but this time, I'm a little nervous. Everything she just said, I won't lie, scares me.
I connected our foreheads and closed my eyes, watched her memory, everything she experienced.

I saw her going down in the common room, taking the newspaper. The article scared me, the prophecy she was talking about, how the curse back fired and people thought that I am dead. But when she read about me killing her, guilt and hurt started building up inside me. I can't believe I would kill her! I don't know what happened that would make me do that. Then she again time travelled into future. I saw myself fighting with a 17 year old! He defeated me again? What I saw next made me pull away immediately, gasping out loudly. I saw myself being disappeared in the sky...dead?

I pulled away with a gasp.

Death has always scared me, it has always been my biggest fear and I can't figure out why. I looked at her, breathing heavily. When you use Legilimency on someone, at least this advanced, it makes them exhausted because you are just sharing memory from your mind to someone else's. I could tell she is feeling dizzy, like she's about to faint.
"Macy, are you alright?"
"What did y-you do?!"
"Nothing, but I know what you saw, what you experienced. I'm sorry love. I don't know why I would do that to you. Just give me some time, I promise I-"

"No, no Tom, you stop everything right now! No more of this plan, no more horcruxes, no more murders, NOTHING!" She yelled but quickly held her head. All of this is given her a headache.
"Lay down Macy. Get some rest." I said helping her lay down.
"Tom, promise me you'll stop." She said her eyes slowly closing but she tried to keep them open.
I signed and bent down.
"Shh, just go to sleep." I said and kissed her forehead, covering her body with the blankets.
"Please promise me.." she whispered before falling asleep.

I stared at her sleeping figure, I don't understand whether to be thankful for letting me know or disappointed for doing everything behind my back. I felt like a failure, a coward. I spent day and night for this plan, did everything I can, every risk, everything I had to, I did it without hesitation. Looking at her one more time, I left her dorm and went back to mine having no idea what to do next.
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A/N, I don't really know how Legilimency works, I just made this up, I'm sorry, let's just go with this.