tom riddle x reader

Chapter 7 - stolen seat and new friends

“did you hear Lizzy was found petrified along with a Hufflepuff girl” Bellatrix said while you make your way to the Great Hall “yeah, I can’t believe its already petrified two people, I wonder what’s causing it” you say while staring at Dumbledore “who knows but it hasn’t hurt any purebloods so far” Bellatrix said smugly as if she was invincible, causing you to raise an eyebrow “yet" a single word caused Bellatrix’s wide grin to falter  and become fearful “you don’t think it would really get me do you?” this question caught you off guard as she had always been the loose cannon clearly not scared of anything or anyone but here she stood scared of the monster within the shadows. You put your hand around her shoulder and sit down at the slytherin table “as long as I am here no one will hurt you Bella” you say making Bellatrix sigh and begin eating “Where’s pansy today, Don’t say she’s still got a hangover?” you say while eating some toast, this caused Bellatrix to look at you questionably “your her best friend if anyone should know it would be you?” Bellatrix huffed and pointed towards pansy in Malfoys arms, making you gag at the display “wow, I never thought she’d pick suicide" you smirk at the horror stricken Bellatrix and walk over to pansy, “pansy I was gone for one day” you say clearly annoyed at the fact she’d run to Malfoy “so? Its not like I can’t have boyfriends” pansy says after kissing Malfoy for the third time that morning, causing you to roll your eyes at them, earning a laugh from pansy “aren’t you and riddle like a thing, go and bug him” you huff at pansy and go towards the library to go find more information on the creature running around Hogwarts.
Tom was on cloud nine when he heard that the Basilisk had petrified another student nothing could bring him down Except perhaps a certain some one stealing his seat. now Tom always was a type of person who liked to do a certain thing like sitting in certain seats, turning off the light switch seven times believing it was lucky, making sure everything was neat and tidy, he could spend hours cleaning a clean room just so it shined.
“What is the meaning of this" Tom said politely so the librarian wouldn’t come and scowled them “I am reading, what does it look like riddle?” you say not taking your eyes off said book, making tom become furious he hated when people didn’t look him in the eye, it was like they were trying to be better than him when they were infact beneath him, huffing Tom tried to forcefully levitate you out of his seat causing you to glare at him “what is your problem, there’s like three other seats you could pick" you say moving to the next seat “that seat has the best view of the librarian and it is the closest to the restricted section so is easier to get into it without being detected” tom said smugly as he sat in his seat, you roll your eyes at him and continue to read your book clearly not in the mood for him today, as you looked to your right, he had disappeared clearly gone into the restricted section but your curiosity got the better of you, placing the book down you ventured into the dark anonymous room walking into many cobwebs as you reach the middle of the dark hallway, you notice riddle reading on a table clearly to in thrilled with the book to notice your presence, so you did the only thing you could think of which was cough causing riddle to jump in alarm, you started giggling at his reaction, hand on wand and staring at you like a deer in head lights.
“What are you doing here? You do know I am a -" you cut him off “prefect right?” causing tom to scowl at you “what are you doing here?” Tom said putting his wand down making you breathe a sigh of relief, you new from experience that you stood no match against Tom even if you strike first which in fact you have done many times.
“got you now" you say throwing a spell at a younger riddle, he dodged it without even looking up from his book making you sigh in annoyance, without even lifting a finger he had managed to cast a spell in your direction making you slam into the wall, another time you had been hiding under his bed to try and scare him to death so you could score top results but he had managed to sense your presence and cast Cruciatus at you causing you to growl and wince at the amount of pain he could cause without even bothering.
“are you even listening to me?” Tom said as you stare off into the distance remembering past mistakes “no" you say so bluntly he’s eye twitches in annoyance “clearly I can’t get away from you, as you constantly follow me” Tom said beginning to read his book trying to forget about your existence “well if you must know, I find you intriguing, everyone else is like an open book but your pages seem to be shut or locked off” this causes tom to stop reading and look at you for the first time, realising how alike you and him really were.
You raise your eyebrow at toms stare but before you could mumble a single word a light flickered close by causing you to jump in a alarm, “get off me” Tom said as he tried to get up, you jump up clearly embarrassed at your Scaredy cat actions, making tom blankly stare at you and then look directly towards the light which had now gotten closer, “its coming this way follow me" Tom said walking fast towards a maze of book shelf’s “how do you know where your going?” you ask while following tom through countless turns, “you learn a few things after a while" he spoke in riddles once again causing you to groan internally, you look up to see Tom had stopped infront of a huge bookshelf “are we lost?” you say scared of the closing light “no, I have good sense of direction" Tom said while tapping three books making the book shelf move aside to show a door, you look at Tom in bewilderment causing him to scoff and open the door “are you coming" he says while holding the door clearly inpatient “yeah thanks" you say turning back towards him with a cheerful grin “like I’d leave you for one second, I know you know something about this mystery” you said clearly aggregated at the fact he knew something you didn’t but this just caused tom to smile and walk out of the door with you following suit “so are you gonna tell me what it is?” you say eagerly causing tom to once again look at you and sigh “I have no idea what your talking about y/n, but if I were the mastermind as you put it, wouldn’t it be wise not to ask questions” he says politely as if he were talking to a professor, causing you to laugh and snort at him so much so, you caused people to stop and stare at you “ha, that’s funny like you’d try and kill me" Tom raised an eyebrow at your statement “as I’ve told you many times, you wouldn’t stand a chance against me" Tom says twirling his wand clearly entranced in his own twisted thoughts causing you to shiver.
 Tom couldn’t stand you, always getting your nose in other peoples business, he wished he could just kill you and make it look like an accident but, the first time he’d done that at the astronomy tower you had miraculously survived much to his annoyance but at least you had forgotten about the issue or was a very good actress, Tom began to wonder what else you could be hiding while you walked beside him back to the dormitories.
“I’ve been meaning to ask you what you remember of the Night you fell from the astronomy tower” Tom spoke slowly and calculating watching your eyes for any indication of fear for him “um I haven’t really thought about it much" Tom scoffed at that how typical of you to have a near death experience and brush it under the rug like it was a bad hair day, “so you don’t have any indication of who it might have been? Or why they had wanted you dead?” Tom said while watching you closely “not sure maybe I found out something I shouldn’t have?” you said so innocently and pure that Tom almost had to look away, he realized you did infact not remember finding out his horrible deed of killing his family members, as he stared at you he remembered that day.