Tom Riddle's View On Love

Part 8

I've loved you for a thousand moments

You felt the rain drench your skin as you pulled away from him. You shake your head slowly letting out a long breath. You grab on to his hand pulling it away from your mouth. Your voice is low but full of seriousness with a hint of anger, "No, you don't get to do this to me. You don't get to tell me I don't get to say I don't love you. Not when I have loved you for a thousand moments. Not when I actually remember meeting you for the first time. Not when I hold on every second with you and guard it against my heart."

You look up at the sky taking a deep breath shaking your head as the rain completely covers your face. You struggle to catch your breath as emotion wrecks each word that stumbles out of your mouth, "I need to tell you a story....It was close to starting Hogwarts. I had begged my parents to take me to Diagon Alley. But, yet again they didn't want anything to do with me. They were never there or around. I know it sounds like poor me. But, most of my life I have been completely alone. I wasn't allowed friend or being around kids my age. I was sent to Diagon Alley that day to buy my supplies all on my own. I got my wand and turned around. I saw the most handsome boy I had never seen. I tripped and fell at that boys feet. He lifted me up and his voice caught me. I remember feeling magic flow between our finger tips as you helped me up. I for the first time in my whole life didn't feel alone. I felt for the first time that I could handle it. I watched you go through Diagon Alley that day. I watched you get ready to go to Hogwarts like a strange stalker but, for the first time in my life I saw someone I knew I needed in my life. I knew I loved you at first site. I have loved you a thousand moments after it and I will love you for a thousand more Tom."

He shook his head back and fourth as he felt something he didn't understand threaten against his eyelashes. "I...y/n...I" You close the distance lacing your fingers in his. He presses his forehead against your letting out al long breath "I love you... I remember that day I remember wanting to both destroy you but also protect you... I remember losing my breath... But... I don't know if I believe you...I don't know if I believe you.. I don't know if I can allow my self to believe you" You run your fingers through his rain soaked hair. You let in a deep breath, "I am going to prove it to you Tom. I know how to prove it. Do you trust me?" He gently nods keeping his forehead against yours, "I don't want to trust you but, I do. I do trust you"

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The Mark

It wasn't easy for him to trust but for you he would do it a million times over. He felt the rain pelt down on his skin as he stared at you. Your was so very soft, "I want to prove my dedication and love to you Tom" He looked confused shaking his head, "I don't understand"

You pulled up your bare wrist and handed out your wand. "When you court someone in the sacred 28, there is a ceremony that is performed. It is like a sort of vow. It is the first step to tying our magic together. It also shows the strings of our bond. So we know how likely we are to be a compatible match. Gold for everlasting eternal love. Green for shared health. Blue for wisdom and understanding between the two. Red for a true fated mates bond. Most couples are lucky to get one much less two. We trade wands and if our magic accepts each other a Mark will be formed. It will bond us and our magic forever till we break the vow. Although, the mark will always be there as a sign of the promise that once was. It would be sign we are courting"

He nodded his head slowly looking a little too stunned to speak. He raised his arm so that it was bare to the rain. He handed you his bone wand as you took his. He placed the tip of your wand against your wrist as you did the same. He copied you following the spell word for word. There was nothing more breathtaking than sharing your wand with the man you knew you loved.

The grin on his face is enough to shake the earth to its very core. You can't help but give him the same grin. The exchange of courtship vows, it was sacred and special. His voice is soft as he tries to keep his breath slow and steady, "Then I Tom Marvolo Riddle, accept this courtship. I promise to hold you, care for you, and spend the rest of my days caring for you and loving you for the rest of my days till the earth takes me. I will protect you till my last breath. I will hold you on the coldest nights. Pick you up on your saddest days. I will spend my entire life giving you everything you have ever dreamed of. You are mine, and I am yours. I fully submit my life, heart, soul and body to you my one and only love." For the first time in his life he could honestly say that he felt free.