Marauder's Daughter (Eventual Tom Riddle X OC)

Chapter 63: Weasley's Wizard Wheezes

"Abigail, did you get home safe?" Tom asks me the next morning when I woke up and pulled him into the realm to talk. I knew I left him kind of abruptly, and probably left him thinking I was going to be attacked. I knew that Voldemort most likely wasn't connected to the ring anymore and wouldn't have felt it, but I used Tom's fear as an excuse to store him up and left to my fruitless resurrection mission alone. I feel guilty for preying on his newfound worry emotions like that, which is why I wanted to reassure him as soon as I was awake, even if I wasn't quite myself yet and frankly didn't want to talk to anyone.

"Yeah, no one came." I respond quietly.

"You look... sad about that? Why?" He asks in confusion, moving to see my face better when I wasn't making eye contact with him.

"No, I'm fine that no one came, I just... did something stupid after that didn't work." I respond vaguely, no life in my voice and I know it's because I'm emotionally drained. "I just wanted to hear..." I sigh out, feeling another sob build up in me as I think about Jason, and how much I miss him and just wanted to hear his voice. 

Before I could stop it, I heard Jason's voice in my realm, his light hearted laugh, his contagious cheering, and later his wonderfully dark and sarcastic scoff.

'Come on Ana, let's show these guys who's boss.' Jason's voice echoes around me realm, and I can completely visualize his smirk he would have on his face, picturing him getting on his bike and putting on his helmet. 

I visibly saw him then, just on the outskirts of my Konoha realm, just as I remembered him. Red Hood was smirking at me and sitting on his bike, beckoning me to join him for a patrol. My eyes widened as I saw him though, and I shook my head vigorously, thankful Jason had appeared behind Tom and the boy missed it, but he didn't miss hearing Jason's voice. A look of confusion crossed over Tom's face before a flash of another emotion passed over it, but he quickly suppressed it before looking at me again curiously.

"Damnit." I bitterly say, scolding myself for letting sentiment slip through my realm. I can just hear Snape lecturing me now that it was my greatest weakness, and here I just let my memories bleed into the realm with Tom inside of it. For the most part, I didn't find myself caring though. It's not like it's five years ago, Tom isn't the same as he was, and maybe it's not the worst thing that he heard that.

"Who was that?" Tom asks shortly, a small temper behind his words that didn't go unnoticed by me.

"No one." I say shortly, not caring for his tone nor his prying. "Sorry, I wasn't supposed to let you hear that. Don't worry about it."

"Who is Ana?" Tom presses further, not dropping it.

"No one." I reply sadly, because I'm not Ana anymore. "Not anymore."

"Then why did I just hear that man's voice?" He kept pushing, and I felt myself growing angry that he wasn't dropping it.

"Drop it, Tom." I warn him, but he just frowns unhappily at me.

"No, it clearly is someone who upset you, otherwise I wouldn't have heard it here, and I can see you're sad. Who is he?" He continues to press, and I feel my old rage take over, my need to defend my brother blinding me as I direct the full force of my rage at Tom. My suppressed emotions are taking over blindly at this point.

"He's gone! It doesn't matter anymore who he is! He's GONE!" I scream out in rage, and he backs away from me with widened eyes, regret racing across his features, but I don't care as I advance on him, still raging. "I don't have to share who my family is with you, Tom! You don't get to sit in here and interrogate me! And the only thing about him that could ever upset me is the fact that he's gone and I'm here!"