Marauder's Daughter (Eventual Tom Riddle X OC)

Chapter 48: Impersonation

"Alexei?" I ask my boyfriend a few days after Roger and I's prank day. Alexei and I are getting dressed again after finding an empty classroom and commandeering it for a little bit again.

"Yes?" Alexei asks me, trying to find his shoes.

"Um, I think we should talk." I say sincerely, and he pauses and turns to me.

"About what?" He asks, though he has an idea since he comes and sits on a table in front of me.

"About us." I start off, and he sighs. "I like you, I really do. But I'm starting to think there is not much more to us other than..." I indicate to where we had just been intimate at on the floor that I had cushioned.

"I am... understanding." He says softly. "I do like you though. But it's maybe... not enough? I know I leave soon, and am finishing school. I'll be far away."

"And maybe we won't work from far away." I finish for him, and he nods sadly. "I would like to still be your friend." I offer out to him softly.

"I would like that too." He grabs my hand and squeezes it gently. "After I leave, I will still write you. And perhaps until I leave, we can still be... together?" He asks sheepishly.

"Perhaps." I smile at him. "We will both be busier with end of year exams. But I wouldn't mind a few more... classroom visits with you." I smirk at him, and he grins softly at me. He leans forward and kisses me softly a few times, both of us knowing there is now no future between us, only passion.

"I thank you for being with me this year, you have helped me a lot. You have taught me a lot of English, and helped make me a better man." He says sincerely, and I give him a surprised look. "You helped me when I got jealous. And helped me learn to have more fun. You and your Weasel twins have so much fun, you make me laugh more this year than all my years at Durmstrang. I enjoyed being around you very much." He kisses me once again before standing up fully. "I will see you around later, yes?"

"Yes, I'll see you around." I say softly to him, glad I brought some happiness into his life. He has described Durmstrang often, and it is a rather sad and dark place from his description. Half the students are there to learn the Dark Arts, the other half are trying to make the school a better place. He said that even a few of the classmates he came with are more interested in the Dark Arts than in learning. He and Viktor are actually really good friends because of their shared dislike of Grindelwald and his reign of terror he did at their school and on their families.

It wasn't long after that when Barty Crouch Sr turned up dead in the forest. It was one month before the final task, and a Beauxbatons student found him dead just outside the paddock of the giant horses when it was his turn to feed them. I remember from the stories, it was Harry and Viktor who found him originally. I can't remember the details, but I knew it had something to do with Rita Skeeter and her articles, which have all abruptly stopped being about gossip, and not even about the tournament anymore since she is banned from school grounds. 

Percy is currently in trouble because he never reported his boss as missing like I warned him to. Winky, the house elf of the Crouch's, is currently in the school kitchens along with Dobby. She also got questioned about her former master, though she was in no fit state to properly answer questions.

"Tom... I wanted to warn you, I'm about to fight Voldemort in a few weeks. So I'll be storing you away for my uncle to find, just in case I fail. He will take over my hunt for the remaining horcruxes." I tell Tom plainly, setting things up in case I don't make it out of the graveyard alive.

"In case you fail?" Tom asks in a shocked whisper. "You mean, in case you die?"

"Yes. I don't know what will happen when I get there to the battle sight. I'll be outnumbered, so it's a potential." I say casually.