tom riddle x reader

Chapter 16 - suspicion and a lesson

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week had past since the bathroom incident and Dumbledore was looking into you and Tom quite a lot but he had no evidence other then the fact you were a crazed serial killer and Tom was quite unhinged when he had first met him but those were just bias opinions and Dumbledore knew that if he spoke up, he knew he’d not be taken seriously so he waited just for the right moment, constantly watching from the side line and sending folks to follow from the sky.
“god, hasn’t Dumbledore gotten anything better to do than spy on us?" you say as you sit next to Tom in the library, you had been doing that a lot lately, something that surprised you to no end.
“clearly he is suspicious of us" Tom said not even bothering to look up from his book, while you huff and walk towards Tom “yes which is why I think its best we wait for  little bit before we kill him" you said just below a whisper, Tom had slammed his book causing people to stare in your direction and mutter to them self “that was what I was thinking, there is too much suspicion on us that if he died, then it would lead back to us" Tom said while getting up and ready to leave clearly not interested in having a conversation with you about such matters in a public library.
“follow me" Tom said as he held his hand out for you to take, clearly taken aback from the new side of Tom, you take his hand and immediately are transported into a dark ibis “how did you do that?” you say while trying to catch your breath, Tom was twirling his wand, something he always did when he was showing off “nothing special I just noticed a part of the library isn’t protected by Dumbledore’s stupid barrier where no student can’t evaporate” you stared at Tom as if he’d gone mad but regained your composure and asked “where even are we?” Tom stared for a moment and then began walking “isn’t it obvious? This is the Forbidden forest, just out side of Hogwarts boarders” Tom looked at you clearly waiting to be praised at his handy work but was sad to see a puzzled look on your face “but why are we here?” Tom was about to hex you, he hated unnecessary questions and you had asked far too many.
“Does it matter?” Tom said anger evident in his voice, causing you to walk slowly behind him and not ask anymore questions, he had quite literally scared you into silence.
Tom looked back to see you clearly unhappy and not wanting to be here “fine, were here to advance are plan on killing Dumbledore, are you happy now?” Tom said with a sigh clearly unhappy at being bested by a girl “not really but, I guess if your in charge Dumbledore won’t stand a chance “ just as you had finished speaking a group of boys approached you and Tom, bowing before Tom and then shaking your hand.
“What’s with the group?” you say more to your self than Tom but he answered regardless “these are my followers, I think you know most of them as there in the same house as you, Avery, Lestrange, rosier and malfoy" you spike up, upon hearing malfoy, clearly not wanting anything to do with him, even though it wasn’t his fault completely you had somehow got it into your head that it was his fault you were in this mess, if he wasn’t the one you were set up with, you wouldn’t have even considered riddle as anyone was better then him apart from malfoy but the decks were stacked in your favour and you had hated malfoy for it ever since.
“You told them?” You say while pointing your want at Tom as if to poke him “these morons will tell anyone anything for the right price, how do you know you can trust them?” you say clearly angered about having so much on the line and having to trust a bunch of mistrusted students “are you saying my judgement is flawed?” Tom said clearly angry at the fact you’d consider questioning him, you placed your wand down and Tom addressed the group around you.
“very well then, class is in session, everyone I’d like for you to pick partners and then try crucio-ing each other” Tom said with a sadistic smile clearly happy about there   misery.
You look around you to see groups of toms followers attacking one another, after five minutes of  torture you snapped and threw a powerful shielding charm around the group making any magic impenetrable much to toms annoyance you could clearly see the red glint in his eye as his entertainment had been cut short.
“what is the meaning of this l/n?” Tom snapped as his followers dusted there sleeves off and tended to there injuries.
You scoff and flip your wand, making the shielding charm dissipate “I didn’t want to see your followers kill one another, plus what kind of a leader makes there followers do that?” you say shouting so loud the birds flew out of the trees.
Tom turned to face you “I do not need to prove myself to you!” and raised his wand almost as if he was tempted to hex you or something, “they are far too weak, they must battle to be at least worthy of my time" Tom said as he lowered his wand and watched as his followers once again started there training.
“why are you even showing me this?” you say clearly afraid of what tom might be planning, but Tom just stared and you could tell he was thinking the same thing “we share the same goal and I believe we can achieve that with backup" you instantly knew tom was up to something far worse than murdering Dumbledore.