Always || Tom Riddle

Losing him

"I need some air!"I muttered only just managing to hear Slughorns voice behind me as I made a break for it down the stairs.

"But we are already outside!"I ignored him continuing on my way down the metal steps.If Tom found me here I was seriously dead meat.After walking down a few flights of stairs I saw the snake again,what was up with that snake seriously.Its fathomless black eyes bored into mine and it slithered off into the crowd of people.I wanted to make a run for it upon seeing it make its way over to Tom,he was a parseltounge and that snake looked like it was about to dob me in.I stood frozen on the spot as the snake slithered up his arm and around his neck.Only seconds later he looked me to me with a devilish smirk.Shit!I wanted to run,run far away from him but my legs wouldn't move and you couldn't apparate here.

"Having a nice time Pevensie?"Why the hell was he calling me by my last name?I none the less forced a small smile and nodded.

"Yeah its great fun!"

"Then how come your down here missing the game when you could be up with Sluggy watching it?"He cocked his eyebrow and I paled.What the heck was wrong with him?He was acting odd.

"Are you sure your feeling alright Riddle?"I replied seeming as we are on second name basis now.

"Are you sure your feeling alright?Escaping from your room and sneaking off here?Especially when there is a killer on the loose"

"You didn't answer my question?And don't you mean the killer you set loose?From Azkaban was it?Tell me your whats your secret to smuggling high security prisoners out?"Tom gave me a warning glare and grabbed my wrist forcefully leading me off towards the tents.I took a quick glance around,none was here they were all busy having a nice time at the game,shame I wasn't.

"Don't you ever bring that up in public!"He hissed forgetting to ask me about how I knew what he was up to,he had never told me beyond his business with the dark arts and horcruxes.Just as I had only a few moments ago he seemed to be glancing around checking if there were any leftover people within earshot.

"How was your time in Alabania Tom?"His head snapped up and he furrowed his eyebrows at me in confusion.

"How did you know about that?"

"Oh so I wasn't supposed to know.Why are you keeping secrets from me?What have I done so wrong that you don't trust me anymore!"To my surprise he cupped my cheek and his expression turned from worried and confused to guilty.

"I had been meaning to tell you tonight..."

"Tell me what?"I asked wiping away a few stray tears,now was not the time to be emotional I needed to pull it together.

"That I made another horcrux...that's why I went away"He looked away from me and I knew exactly why,he was fearing how I would take it,making a horcrux meant he had to kill someone else,another murder in order for his soul to split...not that he would care he was become more hostile and secretive by the minute.

"How many are you planning on making?!"I exclaimed feeling another wave of tears come over me,I was losing him the Tom I knew or once knew didn't hide anything from me,he was changing and quicker than I cared to admit.

"Seven"Not knowing what to say we stood in silence for a few moments before I broke it.

"Who did you have to kill in order to create this new horcrux?"I asked not even bothering to look Tom in the eyes but resorted to looking at the grass as it blew softly in the night time breeze.

"Just some peasant..."When I didn't reply he continued "I did more good for him than bad,he was homeless,his wife and child were dead,he had nothing left to live for other than wallow in his self pity"At that my head snapped up,I was furious!

"Are you trying to make this sound any better because it really isn't working!" 

"I know..."He trailed off and didn't meet my gaze but to be honest it didn't look like he cared that much.But what was I expecting to see?Him drowning in his own tears...yeah maybe when he realizes his realizes his precious diary has been read,where he writes down all of his new evil plans to take over the world and rid it of muggles and mudbloods.

"Wheres the locket that I gave to you to keep safe?"Tom asked suddenly,it was not an unexpected question and I knew exactly it was.I felt for it under my jacket just to make sure it was not stolen or had fallen off in my dash to get away.luckily it was but I wasn't so sure I would give it to him just yet,I wanted to find out more about what he was doing but not telling me.

"Why do you want it?"

"Would be nice"I resisted the urge to roll my eyes at his bluntness,honestly you would never know he was 19 nearly 20.I undid the locket and began to back away with it in my grasp.Just as I had expected his eyes followed it obsessively.

"If you want it back you are going to have to spill whatever you are hiding me,I don't like having things kept from me,surely you of all people would know this."

"Its a long story and probably one you don't have time for"It was my turn to be blunt,he wasn't cutting any corners,not on my watch.

"I have plenty of time"