Are We Destined To Make The Same Mistakes

Chapter 3 - Basilisk Attack

The day had begun to end, the feast had finished and the night had soon become dawn, not a sound to be heard inside the castle but below it, there were countless arguments and banging. Tom was eager to tame the beast that Salazar claimed as his house, the Basilisk that only obeyed him, and Tom liked the power it gave him, something bound to him undying and unable to resist.
 
“What is it you wish of me master?” the snake hissed as tom rose his wand to slice her again “ah that’s more like it, and I’d like you to kill any mudblood you see, but don’t get caught, wouldn’t want anymore reasons for Dumbledore to watch me"
 
The snake nodded and headed through the pipes to go find any one wondering about at this time of night. The castle was awoken from the sound of a scream, something that would get your hairs lifting, each student arose from there beds clearly wanting to go back to bed but too curious to resist the urge to go and find the sauce of the screams.
 
Y/n was the first on the scene since the screams were coming from out side of the common room, Y/n stepped back in horror upon realising it was a raven claw of the name moaning Myrtle, yeah Y/n may have hated the girl but she didn’t wish for her to die. Y/n found it odd that she was so close to the Slytherin common room considering she was a raven claw but assumed she was lost or perhaps was going to stand up to olive for once but that was  far-fetched.
Y/n began to use a healing spell and tried to understand how she had died when she saw headmaster dippet arrive.
 
“Now what Is going on here?” the head master spoke clearly not wanting to be out of bed any longer than he had to be.
“I found this girl outside are common room, I’ve tried every healing spell I could think of but nothing” Y/n said while staring down the old man.
“Very well then, I will take this for now, shoo" he said while motioning with his hands, causing Y/n to scowl at the headmaster and walk back to bed.
 
Unbenounced to everyone there, Tom was hiding in the shadows smiling ear to ear, his plan had worked and now every mudblood would be on the menu, perhaps he could even get rid of every half blood while he was at it.  The only person who seemed to notice toms presence was of course Dumbledore he had the uncanny ability to know when he was around him, Dumbledore was about to reach out and investigate when dippet caught his attention.
 
“Dumbledore this is beyond my capabilities, she seems to be dead, I am afraid we might have to close the school at this rate" dippet said with all seriousness in his voice while two hospital staff carried the now dead Myrtle out of the castle.
 
Toms face became ghostly white upon hearing they may close the school, he couldn’t have that, he had too much to do, people to meet, and he would do anything not to go back to that hell hole they call an orphanage. Perhaps he was being a bit hasty maybe he could space the murders out and cast a charm on them to make them disappear.
 
Tom was too lost in thought to notice he had been walking back to the common room and bumped into Y/n who was now staring at an empty room, clearly confused at how she fell over.
 
“Y/n are you ok?” jenny asked as she helped Y/n up off the floor, Y/n looked around and then sheepishly said “sorry jenny, I am just so clumsy sometimes” Tom stared for a second and noticed his coast was clear and went back to his dorm room.
 
“so what happened why was there screaming" poppy asked through yawns, causing both girls to raise an eye brow at her.
“um a raven claw is dead" Y/n said with no emotion clearly more annoyed that the screams had woken her than the death of a class mate.
 
Poppy squealed and hid behind her hands “you don’t think I’ll be next do you?” to this Y/n rolled her eyes and went to comfort the blond “no, you’re the most liked here unless you count sourpuss riddle” to this poppy started to lighten up and smile “if anyone’s going to be next I’d say jenny” Y/n said with a smirk but said girl looked more angrily towards her “whys that?” jenny asked clearly enraged at Y/n for even considering it.
 
“Well your a mudblood, everyone seems to dislike them and the raven claw girl was one as well" Y/n said matter-of-factly, while jenny looked murderous.
 
“I can’t believe you went there, your my best friend and you call me a mudblood you know I hate that word" jenny was now waving her wand out like a mad man. To this Y/n just laughed “sorry jenny but you can’t argue with facts" and with that Y/n went back to bed.
 
The day went quite quickly what with all the teachers talking in groups and announcing the death of the raven claw the day had been spent searching for hidden passageways, Y/n had always been an adventurer, she had found the streaking shack first , short cuts to every class through walls that weren’t really walls in second year, third year she managed to find a secret passage to Honeydukes through the third floor, last week she had managed to find a passage, through a mirror on the fourth floor, that led to Hogsmeade, that had come in handy considering Tom constantly bewitched her school supplies making her having to go to Hogsmeade quite regularly and just last night she had been polishing a suit of armor for her hundredth detention when she slipped behind it to find a passage to Hogsmeade.
 
But today she had found the mother load, she was pacing Back and forth thinking of ways to get out of doing any potions homework on the seventh floor when the wall began to change into a door, this got Y/n’s interest and went straight inside without even a knock. Inside she found a wall of books, a fireplace and a bed along with a desk facing the bed, upon closer inspection she noticed someone slumped over the desk and went to investigate.
 
She got an inch from the desk and within a second tom had arose, wand at the ready and a scowl on his face.
“What are you doing here?” Tom demanded, his eyes hazy from his slumber but still managing to stand and hold his wand inches from her face.
“Sorry didn’t know a mystery room belonged to anyone" Y/n said sarcastically, eyeing his wand as he slowly places it back into his robe. tom huffed and began to hide the contents of what was on his desk, clearly he was working hard as he had fallen asleep half way through.
 
“What is this place?” she ask with wonder in her voice clearly she'd never seen anything like it before.
“if you must know its called the room of requirements” Tom said as if it had pained him to do so.
 
He began to go towards the fireplace and fill a glass of what Y/n assumed was fire whisky, he handed her one as well if not to be impolite.
 
“thanks, but where’d you get this?” Tom stared at her for a second and shuck his head clearly not wanting to start a debate.
“Well as you can see I am very bu-"
“how long have you known about this place?” Y/n interrupted him causing tom to scowl and bite his tongue.
“first year, I know about all the secret rooms in Hogwarts” Tom said matter-of-factly rather pleased he knew something she did not.
Y/n finished her drink and began to wonder round toms room “so you’ve been sleeping here instead of you’re dorm room?” Y/n asked while messing with toms books, she started to read one as tom began to answer.
 
“Malfoy snores too much and I can’t concentrate with Avery following me” Tom sounded almost annoyed at the two followers he had but she payed it no mind, infact she had been caught up on a dark arts book.
 
“how do you have this? I thought these type of books were Forbidden” Y/n spoke above a whisper more amazed at the contents and not bothered of the owner who had probably read the contents back to front. Tom had his arms folded clearly annoyed at Y/n’s presence “that is none of your concern, please leave now" Tom spoke catching Y/n off guard and she shot a spell out hitting the wall just above his head.
 
“What was that?” Tom said shock evident in his voice he knew he could do none verbal magic, but he hadn’t realised anyone else of his age could.
 
“Oh sorry, when I get nervous I shoot a spell out, I am very talented at none verbal magic actually and most of this book is easy, I mastered most of the dark arts at age twelve, what being a black I need to know every dirty trick in the book, but what’s your excuse?” Y/n eyed tom suspiciously.
 
Tom took a step back he was impressed at her knowledge but was annoyed at her lack of decency.
“if you must know I have a plan you see, and these spells will help me achieve it.” Tom said vaguely causing Y/n to scowl.
 
“So I guess your looking into horcruxes then?” Tom stopped short, how had she known of his task, perhaps he was getting sloppy no otherwise it would be Dumbledore here not her, perhaps she did have some usefulness after all, Tom thought to himself as Y/n handed the book back to him.
 
“trust me there’s better ways than that, after all it takes a piece of your features and we wouldn’t want anyone to notice, what with you already having one, no one will be able to notice a slight change in your skin colour but anymore and you might loose limbs" Y/n said while walking out the door, winking as she left.
 
Tom stood still she couldn’t have possibly known, how had she known, he had to hide the diary, he couldn’t let her destroy it after all, that was half his soul.
 
Y/n arrived late to potions not to anyone’s surprise, slug horn gave her a scowl and asked her to sit in her seat clearly annoyed at her lateness and inability to come on time.
“what are we making? “ Y/n whispered to Tom as he continued to stir his cauldron clearly choosing to ignore her.
 
Y/n huffed and began to make a potion of her choosing  she had decided upon  Polyjuice Potion, she had to laugh at the idea, but was busy getting all the ingredients, honestly who in the right mind would drink something so valgour, she picked up, lacewing flies, leeches, powdered horn of a bicorn, knotgrass, fluxes and boomerang skin, internally gagging at the thought.
 
After a moment of stirring Y/n stopped and said a spell to enhance the speed of the potion and then ever so slowly stole a hair from Tom, he was too busy with his potion to notice and after the god awful taste she had become Tom, identical in every way.
 
Slug horn past by and double checked, “Tom? Why are they two of you?” Tom looked up from his potion to see that there were two of him, this caused him to scowl while Y/n in Tom’s form smirked at him causing him to send daggers at her/him, he found it odd looking at himself with such distaste.
 
Slug horn began to clap “oh marvellous miss black, we haven’t even started studying Polyjuice potion as of yet and here you are making a perfect batch” to this toms scowl became deeper.
 
“but of course you were supposed to make blemish Blitzer something more safer but I can see your more capable than you seem" slug horn smiled and then went on to praising the class and giving house points to Tom as always.
 
“so how long does the potion last for? I am kinda scared looking into your eyes" jenny said clearly scared of the real riddle after he had hexed her for merely looking at him.
 
“um... I am not sure, I’ve never actually used it before" Y/n said honestly, something that sounded strange coming out of toms mouth.
 
“now you’ve done it" poppy said while running, tom had arrived moments after clearly enraged at Y/n.
 
“What gave you the right to become me?” Tom said while itching closer to his wand, Y/n shrugged and passed by him not even bothering to reply, something that caught him off guard he was clearly not expecting that.
 
Tom through a hex at Y/n something of the stinging jinx but she quickly reverted it back to him without even looking back, Tom was now storming his feet, he marched towards her and turned her around.
 
“Now you listen here, I’ve been nice so far don’t push me, trust me when I say this you don’t want me as you’re enemy” Tom smirked and Y/n just began to laugh so much so that she began to cry something that Tom found odd considering it was his body and he had never cried “as if, you’re all talk and no bite" Y/n said while tom pushed her towards a wall caging her and began to crucio her but the odd thing was she wasn’t reacting, not like his followers would, they would be on the ground begging by now, but not her, she was still smiling, it unnerved him.
 
“is that all you’ve got, I am a black remember they do this to me in my sleep" Y/n said while escaping his grip, “oh and for your information, I can do what ever I want" Y/n said while storming out of the empty class room.
Tom was left speechless.
 
“Is it true that you saw the body?” a little first year was asking Y/n a little too happily while smiling up at her.
“yeah what of it?”  Y/n said while shovelling porridge down her throat.
The girl smile grew even more, her blue eyes shining  “can you tell me anything about it?” the girl began to grab a note book and began jotting down, to this Y/n rolled her eyes and put her spoon down.
 
“her name was moaning Myrtle, third year, Ravenclaw, extremely dumb and would cry for hours, if you ask me she deserved it" Y/n said sounding more bored then ever, the girl thanked her and skipped away her pigtails flying in the wind while she goes.
 
“so, do you think they will be anymore deaths, Tom?”  Y/n said as tom stopped mid bite, his expression showed murderous intent but placed his toast down and stared across at Y/n “I’d say headmaster dippet is capable of protecting us" it was asked more of a question than a reassurance but Y/n shrugged and began eating her porridge once more, after all she couldn’t fly with an empty stomach.
 
Y/n stared at Tom, he seemed like a natural, infact she’d never seen him even touch a broom in her life, he had always had a convenient excuse to get out of these lessons but today madam hooch wasn’t taking his excuse, much to Y/n’s glee and toms annoyance.
 
“alright students on the count of three get ready to mount your broom" she had said and within a second everyone was up in the air and playing Quidditch, something Tom despised but Y/n adored, she had grown up playing the sport with her brother and the twins, so of cause she’d have a natural talent for the game but what she couldn’t understand was how tom, a boy who hated flying was amazing at it, and not just that, he also had the talent to be a beater.
 
Y/n’s smile became enlarged once more after she had reached the snitch first and won her team the match.
After the flying lesson Y/n wondered the halls to her next class one of which she hated, she really didn’t understand why she had chosen the class, perhaps it was because both her friends were doing it but alas here she was standing out side her divination class with her two best friends dragging her in.
 
“now class ready for are lesson on tea leaves?” a man with dark bushy hair and as tall as he was thin,  of the name professor Gregorovitch spoke from across the room, his purple eyes piercing through your very soul, Y/n looked away unsure of the professor as he seemed to know more than he should.
 
Y/n began to sit down when a tea cup floated onto her table, pouring the liquid it contained into the three cups.
“Now then students I want you to drink you’re tea” Gregorovitch said while writing down the lesson plan on the chalk board.
 
“Wow I got a heart in mine" poppy said sounding shocked to find something so her it was laughable, jenny rolled her eyes and began to look at her own cup, shock crossed her features and then spoke “I got a club, it means a deadly attack, I best stay away from riddle, there’s no way I’d make it out alive" jenny said half joking.
 
“what did you get ?” poppy said leaning over to reach for Y/n’s cup “a sun?” to this poppy brightened and began digging through her bag to find her book “ah ha, I knew it, a sun means great happiness” poppy was grinning but Y/n couldn’t care less.
 
“What’s wrong, why are you sad, its a good thing you know? Oh I see you’re missing riddle isn’t that right?” jenny said with a devilish smile, to which Y/n just scowled and rolled her eyes “you know not everything’s about him" at the mention of riddle he seemed to be summoned as a knock was heard at the door and said boy walked into the class room.
“Excuse my Intrusion but headmaster dippet demands to see Y/n at once" Tom said with such politeness Y/n almost was fooled but she knew better he was just a sweet talker.
 
Y/n rushed out eager to know what was so urgent she needed to miss class but Tom just began walking.
“hey, what does the headmaster want?” Y/n said while jogging to catch up to Tom, as he was at least a foot taller than her she found it extremely difficult to keep up.
 
Tom stopped at the entrance of the headmasters office and began walking into it. In the room all the other prefects were there along with professor Dumbledore, Dumbledore looked like he was about to speak when dippet bet him to it.
 
“ah as everyone is here, I’d like to inform you of yet another death, this one came at such a surprise, what with the student being under a charm to become invisible, we wouldn’t have been the wiser if it wasn’t for Dumbledore noticing the charm. I’ll be it the poor first year, her pigtails had turned white in the end, but that’s preside the point, I have gathered you all here to inform you of the new curfew I am to put in place, you are to be the teachers eyes and ears when we can not, every student is to be walked by someone and no-one is to be out after classes have finished, I am afraid we might even have to close the school if this keeps happening” dippet had begun to cry, he had felt bad for the fourth year but this was an eleven year old girl  curious about the world and he couldn’t protect her.
 
Tom on the other hand was fuming of course Dumbledore had figured out his plan now he’d have to get more tactical perhaps he could liquidise the body but that would take too much time, perhaps the lake and put a weight spell on them Tom was thinking so much he hadn’t realised Y/n had pushed him out of the room and had begun walking them back to the common rooms.
 
“I just talked to her this morning , I can’t believe she’s dead" Y/n spoke just above a whisper, clearly in shock at what had just happened. But Tom couldn’t careless, one less mudblood if only he had a way to get them all in one go but then dippet would notice a sixty foot Basilisk around and he couldn’t have that.
 
Y/n had begun to cry, clearly in shock at  the news but Tom had no time to waste on comforting her, but something inside of him was pulling him closer towards her. A moment later he had wrapped his arms around her and was hushing her, this shocked not only her but him as well, he had never voluntarily touched another person but here he was hugging the same girl he hated only a month ago.
 
The hug was short lived as poppy coughed very loudly causing both of them to look embarrassed, something Tom was unfamiliar with but decided this was his que to leave.
 
“so? What was that?” poppy said while jumping for joy, Y/n just rolled her eyes “well a girl who I talked to this morning died and it kinda scared me, anyone can die at any moment and Tom just was comforting me" Y/n said reasonably, while poppy’s smile only grew “awwe, I knew you’d eventually get together “ poppy said while hugging her “were not, stop this, not everyone needs a boyfriend like you" Y/n said while escaping the hug, earning a huff from poppy as she went to see her boyfriend once more.
 
The school became more of a prison after the death of yet another student this one being a boy named Finnegan everyone was shocked when bodies kept popping up left and right, the tenth one was too much for dippet to handle and ordered everyone to head home as he would be shutting the school.
 
Tom was quickly growing annoyed not only was Dumbledore finding his hiding places but was actively watching his every move, but luckily he had noticed a giant of the name Hagrid, who was collecting monsters, he had cornered Hagrid in the common room and questioned him for hours, learning the fact he had an acromantula.
 
Tom was stalking Hagrid and noticed he was talking to a wooden box, he noticed it had hairy legs and began shining his wand at the creature, Professor dippet arrived not a moment too soon, called upon by riddle and caught Hagrid in the act. Dippet being the ever so nice headmaster, he gave Tom a medal and Hagrid a life sentence.
 
Tom knew he had to be smart he couldn’t open the chamber again, this angered him as it was such a wasted opportunity but alas he knew Dumbledore wouldn’t think twice before condemning him so he closed the door and walked back to his group.
 
Y/n scowled at Tom as he accepted his reward, Tom had put on quite a show, making out to be Hagrid’s friend all while smiling menacingly at the crowd, his victory was short lived as he was swamped by fan girls all wanting to congratulate him and suck up to him, but as much as he hated them, he had an image to uphold and knew hexing them would raise some eyebrows, so he gave in and walked away from the hall trying to politely escape the fan base he created.
 
“So what’s it like being everyone’s hero?” Y/n said as she walked into the common room to find him reading a book, “quite nice actually, I can do what ever I want and no-one will care” to this Y/n scoffs and sat next to him causing a confused look from tom “ there’s plenty of space somewhere else" Tom said with no niceness in his voice. Y/n huffed and began to read over his shoulder “what are you doing?” Tom said while moving the book out of her view, “I am curious what it is you’re reading?” Tom huffed and began reading once more “ok how about I show you how to do it instead “ with that Y/n had been replaced by a snow white fox, Tom stared slack jawed at the animal infront of him and within a second the fox had become Y/n once more. “its quite simple really" Y/n said before he could speak “lets go, I can’t wait to see what yours will be “ Y/n said while dragging Tom towards the potion class room.