TW: Violence, Domestic Abuse.
"Get out." He orders his friends and they are hesitant when they see me in Tom's dorm , holding my sore and throbbing eye, tears streaming down my face, contrasting the conflict in their own.
"What happened to Adriana?" Lestrange asks in concern while I stay quiet, the occasional sob rips through my unwilling lips.
"Get out!" He says more sternly and they do, each sending me sympathetic looks.
This can't be happening, this just has to be one of my sick nightmares. My Tom would never hurt me, never in a million years, but if its a nightmare- then why does the pain I feel, feel too real?
"How long were you listening? How long!" He yells at me and I flinch, but he finally let's my arm go and I run to the other side of the room.
"Just the last bit." I lie, but he sees through it.
"Don't you lie to me." He roars and in a moment of mindless bravery, I find my voice.
"Okay so what if i heard it all. Why are you doing this Tom! Do you really want to make one of those things? I won't stand here and allow you to put your hands on me like that. I love you Tom- do you realise that? But I won't stand this!" I yell back, attempting to walk to the door, budging past him as I do, tears in my already sore eyes.
"You will never leave me!" He yells, making me turn to face him just in time for the large glass decanter he has thrown to hit my forehead and shatter with the impact, and I'm knocked to the floor.
My hands, a bloody mess with pieces of glass stuck into them as they broke my fall, I lift my shakey hands off the floor and carefully touch my face and forehead, where I know more glass is inbedded into my skin.
I scream and I cry, scared to death of the boy I love, who is also sat on the floor, hands on his head, rocking forwards and backwards.
"Tom." I cry as I scramble to my feet and I'm confronted by the small mirror on the opposite side of the room.
Blood streams down my face, covering my head, cheeks and dripping down my eyes. Most notable, is the large shard poking out of my forehead. I take my uncontrollable shaking hand and grip onto it, harshly ripping it from my flesh, making me scream more.
Finally Tom looks up at me.
"Adi, I'm so sorry Adi, I didn't mean to do that. Please I beg, you forgive me." He says, clambering up onto his knees and grabbing me by my legs as he looks to me in distraught.
I find that for once, I truly have no words, my mind consumed by the pain my body feels, mainly in my heart.
"Tom-" I cry.
"Forgive me for this." He says as he stands, wand in hand and I can do nothing to defend myself from him.
"Petrificus Totalus." He whispers in my ear and everything goes black.
*Flashback*
"Why do your parents hurt you?" Tom asks on one of our many visits to the black lake.
"I'm not sure, it only started once I became older. They only ever wanted a son, so when I came into this world I was immediately a disappointment. My mother wouldn't lay a finger on me though, I'm pretty sure she loves me in her own way, but she watches it happen and does nothing. I think my father just resents me for not being a man." I tell him honestly.
"That's horrible Adi, you deserve so much better." Tom whispers into my ear as he plays with my hair and I admire the sun set.
"It's okay, in some ways I'm also his most prised possession, it's good for making friends in higher places. I'm his most fascinating toy." I add, referring to how he shows me off during our lavish balls.
"You know I'd never hurt you, don't you?" He says, making me look up to him with a smile as I nod.
"One day Adi, I'll take you away from all that and we'll be happy together." He says as he bends to give me a soft kiss.
*end of Flashback*
He had promised me the world, and I fell willingly for his trap. All I ever wanted was to be loved, this is what I get for being in love.
I gasp, and suddenly I sit up, startled. My mind going a hundred miles per hour as I relive the worse few hours in my life and everything all comes back to me.
"Adi?!" Brax whispers and I turn to follow the voice, as I do he gasps as the sight of me, of my bloodied and bruised face.
"Oh Adi." He says, a tear falls down his cheek, just like my own.
"Where are we?" I ask him.
"My darling you are in the chamber of secrets, built by Salazar Slytherin himself. Magnificent isn't it." Tom announces himself and I can't even stand to look at him.
"What did you do to her!" Brax yells and Tom sends him flying backwards with only a wave of a hand.
"Nothing she didn't force me to do." He says coldly before crouching down and lifting my face to meet his eyes. He looks so sad, from what I can see from my one good eye, the other is swollen shut.
"Leave her alone Tom, you've done enough." Abraxas says, voice breaking toward the end.
"Adriana, I'm sorry I had to do that to you, it pains me incredibly to see what I've done. I care for you, if I didn't have you my life wouldn't be worth living. You can't leave me, but I'll give you a choice. Are you listening Adriana." He explains and I can't do anything apart from nod at him.
"Good, I'm sure you've worked out by now that it is indeed me that has been attacking students, in fact there's a dead girl just outside."
I cry at that, how could my Tom be a murderer, not only that but to kill someone we know I can't believe the thoughts going around in my head. When will this nightmare end?
"But darling, I promise you that I'll stop it all. All of it. Completely, only if you agree to be mine- properly. Only if you agree to become my partner- girlfriend if you will and that you won't leave me. It is your decision, but if you won't agree then I will kill this boy and make you watch and I will kill every mudblood until I've cleansed this school of all impurity. How much does he mean to you, my love? Its your decision."
I am condemned. As soon as the words left his mouth I knew I had no choice. I couldn't let him hurt anyone else- especially not Brax who I believe absolutely adored me, not a doubt in my mind that he truly loves me. He is so pure, I find myself wishing that he had told me how he felt long ago, then things might not have ended like this.
"Don't do it Adi, please don't." Brax cries.
"I accept." I say shakily, still not able to look at him, despair clear in my voice as he kisses me gently on the lips.
"Good girl, no one else will be harmed I assure you. Thank you darling, I'll let him go, you can leave also, i'll give you time to adjust." He says as he disapparates from the chamber with Abraxas and I apparate straight to my dorm.
"Adi! You scared me." Alex exclaims, shock plastered on her face as she sees the state that I am, dirty, wet and covered in dried blood. My own blood, pieces of glass still embedded in my flesh.
"Adi! ADRIANA?!" She says as I fall into her arms, where I sobbed and sobbed until the tears had dried up.
I was doomed.
Narrator:
What a pure soul, she had condemned herself for the sake of others. She only wanted to be loved, and now as she laid in the arms of her bestfriend. The only feeling she truly felt was heartbreak. She got the boy, a boy who had promised to look after her. She loved him with everything she had, a boy who had manipulated her to fall in love, and now she had to stay with him for the rest of her life. Though at the time she had no idea just how short that life would be. He would bring her immeasurable suffering, and she would take it. Every bruise, slap, kick or punch had saved a life and no one knew.
I had warned you that this was no happy story. Now before you call Adriana naive, an idiot or even stupid. Ask yourself, what would you have done?
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