What Makes A Villain // Mattheo Riddle

Dreams

"Father" Mattheo nodded his head obediently "My son" his father looked up from the table "You've returned" Mattheo just looked at the floor "I knew you would after I killed that filthy blood traitor of yours" His father spat, Mattheo looked up slowly, his eyes were dark and cruel "Don't speak about her like that, she wasn't a traitor" he snapped "Don't raise your voice to me boy, she was worthless alive and she is worthless dead" you could almost see a smile on The dark Lords lips. Mattheo lunged toward the man but before he reached him a flashing light flew out of his fathers wand and shot right toward him.

When Mattheo opened his eyes he was in the carriage, his body jerked forward and he looked around like a deer in headlights.
"You okay mate, your were going crazy in your sleep" Theo patted his back "Ye, just, just a really weird dream" Mattheo rubbed his eyes "You were asleep all day" Pansy chuckled from behind them "Oh" Mattheo lay back down in his seat "I haven't been feeling like myself lately" He sighed.
"Ye, well you're looking terrible" Theo teased "Like a dead man walking" Pansy joined,
"Oh shut it you two, I haven't slept in weeks" Mattheo punched Theo's arm "I'm surprised we've managed to live this long without her" Pansy shook her head "Well she's been looking out for us pretty well" Theo shrugged, Mattheo and Pansys heads snapped around to look at Theo "What are you talking about?" Pansy sounded shook to the core "You know with the white wolf, it's always around when something bad is about to happen" he explained pretty nonchalantly "Your hallucinating" Mattheo scoffed "Well it can't be a coincidence every time he's been in trouble it's been there" Pansy argued back "Maybe she's not dead" Pansys eyes were teary "She's dead and we have to except it, Theo's clearly just struggling to come to terms" Mattheo said through gritted teeth "NO, no, it's real" Theo sounded offended "I know it's real" he choked "if she was alive she would've come back, I'm sorry Theo" Pansy leaned over and rubbed his shoulder.

The conversation ended and they all sat together silently processing everything. The carriage screeched to a halt and Blaise threw the doors open "Oooo bad energy back here" he looked between all the upset faces "Well perk up, we've found something" he smirked menacingly "You're looking rather mischievous Zabini" Mattheo chuckled as he helped Pansy down "You'll see" Blaise winked.

He led them around to the front of the carriage where they found Enzo unpacking some weapons "Wow, wow, wow" Theo grabbed Pansys bow from Enzo "What's going on?"
"We found the trios base" Enzo grinned excitedly. He chucked Theo and Mattheo some daggers and gave Pansy her bag of arrows. Pansy had an enchanted bow, it was impossible to miss a shot and it was practically better than a wand.

Blaise pointed up to a large cedar tree.
"That's on the border of their camp, post up on one of the big branches and stay hidden in the leaves" Pansy nodded and ran off into the trees "Mattheo, you need to stay invisible, only come out if completely necessary. Enzo, Theo we're going straight in" the boys nodded and fell into their positions.

Blaise, Enzo and Theo walked up to the border of the barrier. Someone had used a spell to hide the camp but it wasn't good enough to trick Blaise, he noticed a weird shimmer in the woods and quickly put the pieces together when he realised the area they were in.

The three of them shot a combined spell at the barrier. Red, Blue and Yellow light shot out of their wands and slowly broke down the spell in front of them. Once the border fell they were greeted by a small camp, a quarter the size of theirs.

They slowly entered the tent with their wands drawn but found it abandoned. "Looks like they left in a rush" Theo picked up a slice of toast from the table "The tea is still warm" Blaise looked around anxiously "They couldn't of known we were coming" he shook his head "So why did they leave so quickly?" Enzo flicked through their papers.
The universe answered their question almost instantly when a huge crash came from outside the tent, followed my a scream. "PANSY" Theo sprinted out of the tent. Enzo went to follow but Blaise grabbed his arm "Not yet" he whispered.

When Theo got outside he found Pansy being held against a tree by her neck, the trio were bound and sat on the ground and five death-eaters surrounded the borders of the camp.
"Another one!" A shaggy, dirty man exclaimed "This is brilliant, you just keep coming to us"
"Me and her aren't with them sir" he glared at the three on the floor "If anything we're against
them" he flinched when he heard Pansy wince in pain. "But you're not with us" He gestured to the other four men "No sir we don't affiliate with anyone" Theo explained.
The man cocked his head slightly and scanned Theo, he opened his mouth to speak but was interrupted.

Harry had somehow managed to get his gag out of his mouth and didn't waste a second before he started talking "You fucking traitors, all you Slytherins are the same, fucking rich, arrogant, pure blood supremacists" he snapped, but Theo just chuckled. He turned to look at the death eaters "Did you guys know his father was one of the richest pure bloods ever? Hypocritical" he smirked, his comment amused the death eaters. But it definitely didn't amuse Harry.
"Oi Nott, heard Gray died, good riddance she was a pest to society" Theo looked up slowly, his whole domineer switched and his eyes darkened. He pounced on Harry and began punching his face, the Death eaters didn't even try stop him they just watched happily as blood began dripping from Harry's nose and mouth.

"Release the girl" the leader motioned to the man holding Pansy "appreciate it" she rolled her eyes "Could you get your friend off our prisoner, we kind of need him" Pansy nodded and grabbed Theo "Come on Theo, let them deal with him" she pulled him off, once Theo was out of the way she leaned over Harry herself "Speak about her like that again, and I'll let him kill you" she spat on him and then turned back to the death eaters. "Ooo I really like these kids" The shaggy leader man grinned at his henchmen.

"We didn't see anything" Pansy nodded
"Nor did we" the leader agreed "May I ask though, who was the boy referring to? She must be important for a display like that" He laughed "Lilith Gray, our family" Theo nodded, the man's eyes grew wider "THE, Lillith Gray, dead?!" He gasped "Yes. The Dark Lord killed her, shouldn't you know?" Pansy questioned "We've been in the woods with no outside contact for the last two months searching for these little shits" he nodded toward the trio "We hadn't been informed" he finished.

"Well, we'll let you be on your way" Pansy and Theo shook his hand and watched them leave. "I guess I could help them a little" Pansy whispered to Theo. She flicked her wrist and the ropes on their wrists fell to the ground "They can take it from there"

When they re-entered the tent they found Blaise and Enzo having tea and laughing together "What are you dipshits doing?" Pansy smacked Enzo over the head with a nearby newspaper "We didn't want to storm out straight away, just incase you needed back up" Blaise explained "Besides look what we found" he handed them a sheet of paper "A list?" Theo raised a brow "A list of horcurxes" Mattheo smirked from over Theo's shoulder "Brilliant".

A/N
Enzo and Blaise got the best bromance 🫣😉
Anyways sorry for the wait I was really busy and it's hard to find the motivation sometimes. These chapters are just kind of filler before all the big stuff happens, so sorry if it isn't to exciting but trust me you want to stick around 😁 I got some funnnn stuff planned