War, Love, and Riddle //Mattheo Riddle x OC

Chapter Twenty Seven - Avada Kedavra

"Mattheo" Hermione's voice carries through the room as he turns his head to look up at her. The instant he does he feels his legs get weak. Pansy's hands go to his back as all their friends watch Hermione and Ron walk closer to them. Hermione's face tear-streaked, Mattheo knew....he knew exactly what she was about to say. Somehow his body just stood frozen, everyone moving around him as he just stood there watching Hermione in slow motion as she handed him a vile of something. He could only make out Dumbledore and pensive from her words. 

"I need to go after her." His voice came out strangled. Hermione stands in front of him shaking her head no. 

"They have to do this Mattheo. It's the only way." Fresh tears fell off her cheeks. 

"I don't fucking care about saving the world! I don't give a damn if this world burns to the fucking ground as long as she is safe....as long as she is home with me. She is my world!" His shouting made Hermione and Pansy flinch. 

"I'm sorry Mattheo. She wanted me to tell you that meeting you was the greatest happiness of her life. Just Emma and just Mattheo...forever." Hermione has never seen a man fall to his knees and sob before.....watching him break down was almost too much to handle.

After a few moments Theo and Pansy help Mattheo up as they lead him towards Dumbledore's office. The Slytherin friends were all silent as they walked together, trying to comfort each other. All of them in disbelief, everything Emma has been preparing for.....everything she said was coming true. She was going to die in this battle, all of them feeling the emotional tidal wave hitting them right in the chest....right in their hearts. The Slytherin group have been friends since year one but it wasn't until Emma came along when they truly felt like their little group was a family. She had a way of bringing them together, caring for them, loving them. Emma showed them all what love meant and now they were loosing her.....loosing someone who loved them unconditionally.

The pensive is right where Emma and Harry left it, Pansy holding Mattheo's arm as he walks up pouring his wife's tears out of the vial. He slowly puts his head into the sliver white cloud like liquid. All of Emma's memoires of them from the moment they met until their last moment floated through the pensive. She had loved him the moment her eyes found him when she was sorted into Slytherin. She didn't realize that little feeling blooming in her chest was love, but Mattheo knew...he knew what it was because he felt the exact same way except he knew he loved her the moment those light green eyes found his. He watched the way her love for him grew with each passing day until it was so overwhelming it could knock you off your feet. He watched as her need to protect Harry at all cost shifted into wanting to protect Mattheo...wanting to keep him safe from his parents....wanting to take his childhood trauma away and fill it with a future full of love. He watched as his love healed the broken pieces in her. Emma's memoires floating around him like a book retelling their love story, the most breathtaking love story Mattheo would ever read. Her last memory was her standing in the same room as him, she looks at her reflection in one of the glass doors. Tears streaming down her face 

"Matty....." her voice surrounding him like a siren song. "You have woven into my very being so deeply that no one could ever compare to you. You are the reason I laugh, the reason I light up, the reason I found true happiness...you Mattheo Riddle are the greatest love of my life now and forever. I hope you see yourself through my eyes....see how exceptionally incredible you are. How much you deserve to be loved fiercely and infinitely. I wanted to give you the world....the moon....the stars...the whole fucking universe. I'm so sorry baby....I'm sorry for not saying goodbye properly but I knew if I looked into those chocolate eyes I wouldn't have gone. I have to do this Mattheo....for you, for our friends...they deserve to live. Promise me you will move on. Promise me you will live. Live for me....I love you, just Mattheo. I'll find you in the next life." Her voice fades and her memories with it.