Are We Destined To Make The Same Mistakes

Chapter 5 - A Sleepover & A Secret Meeting

 
“ow that hurt” poppy said while finally getting up.
“sorry wasn’t watching where I was going “ Y/n said and within an instance poppy brightened up
“oh Y/n there you are, we’ve been looking for you, where were you last night?” poppy asked with a devilish grin.
 
Y/n just shuck her head knowing all too well what poppy was implying “no where interesting just the library, must have fallen asleep half way through  Ancient runes” to this poppy gave a groan.
 
“You forgot about are sleep over “ poppy whined as if it was life or death, but Y/n looked sad as she had infact forgotten all about her sleep over plans, “I am sorry poppy it just slipped my mind, I’ve been so far behind with ancient runes I really needed the extra reading, hey what about tonight?” poppy lit up upon hearing that “you promise ?” Y/n was annoyed at this point she didn’t understand why it was so important to poppy but she shuck her hand.
 
Y/n stared down at the empty desk , Dumbledore was speaking about how a simple flick of the wrist could impact a spell and how if you pronounce a word incorrectly, but Y/n had just tuned it out she was not bothered in the slightest, her thoughts were on the boy infront, Tom had a smirk, he knew Y/n was watching him, she was beginning to understand why Dumbledore hated Tom so much, he had a way to him that made you think you were less than him, and Y/n unlike most girls in the school was not fooled by his charm.
 
Tom stopped looking at Dumbledore and turned around to face Y/n, this caught her off guard, he had never given Dumbledore the opportunity to one up him or stab him in the back as he would call it, but here he was turning to stare at her.
 
“yes, why are you staring at me?” Y/n whispered towards Tom who started to smile just a bit “only repaying the favour” toms smile grew into a full toothy grin, one of which she’d never seen and doubt most people had.
 
“I’d like to know if you’d consider being my ally” Tom said it like he hated the word, Y/n had raised her eyebrow “wait are you asking me to be you’re friend, I thought we were friends riddle?” Tom stared at her, she had used his last name perhaps she was toying with him “ah, I guess so" Tom had returned to his seat lost in thought.
 
If she thought we were friends already then what more must I do to make her vulnerable, I must know what it is she is hiding.
 
Tom had been awoken from his thoughts to see Dumbledore right infront of him perhaps the old man had finally found an opportunity to punish him.
 
“ah welcome back Tom, I hope my class was not too boring for you" most of the Slytherins groaned as if they too were fast asleep but the Gryffindors just laughed at the high and mighty riddle being told off.
 
“Professor perhaps it would do us all good if we could perform a spell incorrectly, showing us the impact it could cause" Tom was smiling he had shown politeness and eager to learn, Dumbledore had no out and he knew it.
 
“yes perhaps you’re right Tom” you could see how much that sentence pained the professor to say but he reached for his wand and performed a spell where he said Ebubla Jinx the wand shot out a spell turning the chair infront of him yellow.
 
“as you can see class the way I said ebula was spoken incorrectly making the spell incomplete if spoken correctly eubulio jinx " Dumbledore once again aimed for the yellow chair and this time it turned into a duck  quacking and all the class looked some what interested after that much to toms annoyance.
 
Y/n looked up from her desk to see a duck waddling towards her, unaware of the past moment she blasted the duck , leaving only a black mark of where it once stood, Tom and Dumbledore looked upon it in shock, Dumbledore more so as the attack came out of no where.
 
“ detention miss black , and see me after class" Dumbledore spoke with such distaste and seriousness that Y/n just shrugged and began to look over her work once more.
 
The class ended much to everyone’s excitement, they had finished class for the day and due to Dumbledore boring half the class they were eager to leave, so much so they didn’t even wait to be told to go, once the bell chimed the students ran for the door causing Dumbledore to roll his eyes.
 
“Miss black, what you did today shows me you’re quite dangerous and frankly I’d have expelled you if I had the authority to do so" Y/n rolled her eyes at Dumbledore’s tactics, she knew he had enough leeway to persuade dippet if he so wished but just waited for the old man to blackmail her in some way.
 
“as you can see you’re quite familiar with dark arts and can handle you’re self, but once again I must ask for you to do me this favor” Dumbledore paused to look at Y/n as if calculating his next move, but Y/n was just holding back a laugh, he had been asking her this question for the past week or so, and here he was trying so hard for her to say ‘yes', really the man needed to know when to stop, it would have surprised her if he had never had anyone disagree with him before.
 
“I would like for you to befriend riddle and report back to me, perhaps weaken him a bit, as you can see I am not a student and therefor can not interfere with one in such a manner, I leave that job up to you" Y/n was now laughing unable to keep it in, “I am sorry professor but as I’ve said before that would be wrong and black mailing me won’t change that" Y/n was about to head out when Dumbledore grabbed her shoulder , “why do you defend him so?” Dumbledore had a sparkle in his eye and let go of her, Y/n scowled at him and walked back towards the common room when she noticed Tom.
 
“stalking me now?” Y/n said while turning to see Tom “perhaps, who knows what you’ve got planned” Tom was speaking more to him self than to Y/n but she just huffed and began walking once more “what did the professor want?” Y/n took notice on how tom avoided saying his name but just smiled “ah he wanted me to spy on you of course “ Y/n said it so innocently that Tom almost misheard her “what a foolish man, I’d never intrust you" Tom said while thinking about how much he did trust her perhaps too much for his own good “not that it would matter as I’d never tell that guy anything, he’s just a old forgotten man eager to stop you from becoming great” Y/n was so lost in her monologue about hating Dumbledore she didn’t notice the awe that was in Tom’s eyes perhaps he was growing weak, this girl he hated not too long ago had invaded his head and now starting to invade his heart, he had to do something about it perhaps feed her to the Basilisk but the thought made him worse.
 
Both had returned to the common room, tom had been swiftly stolen by Avery and spoke in hush tones while Y/n was dragged towards the girls dorms.
 
“Tom we must talk about you’re plans, we’re not at all sure where to start" Rosier asked clearly flustered from the stare Tom was now giving him.
 
“very well, my monster may have failed but we will not need her as I have you, you will learn as much as there is to know about the dark arts" Tom said while handing each a copy of spells each worse than the last, now we will meet daily to improve you’re skills in the room of requirements I expect great things from you don’t disappoint me" Tom said with murderous intent and each one of his followers nodded and began to read the books while tom stared into the green flames remembering how his family screamed and wished for mercy, he had smiled then and once again he smiled at the flames while looking at his trophy (the gaunt ring).
 
Y/n stared at her two best friends they both wore a green onesie and was half way forcing Y/n into the same when they heard a laugh at the door “I was going to come help you with you’re potion assignment but I guess you’re a bit preoccupied” Tom said while starting to turn around to leave, when poppy had dragged him inside her dorm “nope, you’re not leaving” to this tom quirked an eye brow as if to say try and stop me but was interested in her reasoning “why not?” Tom asked so innocently that it was dripping honey, causing poppy to blush “Well, I’ve heard you’re a bit of a loner and never had a sleep over before so we’re forcing you into ours" Tom rolled his eyes, even if he wanted to which he did not, it would be all boys and not girls what kind of creep would that make him if anyone found out he spent the night with three girls, he’d be just as bad as malfoy if not more so as he was the perfect student.
 
Tom went for the door once more and Y/n had some how barricaded it while he was in his train of thought, Tom scowled and then went for his wand to blast the items away only to notice his wand was gone, rage fuelled him, not only had she barricaded the door but had taken his wand.
 
“give me my wand back" tom had demanded forcing both girls to look at one another and shrug “sorry Tom but its for you’re own good" Tom highly doubted that but he was bested, he didn’t know where she had put it and it wouldn’t look to great if he murdered or rather hexed them all, so reluctantly he sat down next to Y/n.
 
“Where will I be sleeping?” Tom hadn’t shared a room with anyone since first year and he had no idea what the rules where to how people slept.
 
“Well there’s four beds so just choose one" poppy said while grabbing something from her trunk, she grabbed some black shorts and black top and flung them towards Tom, he caught them and then looked at poppy “go change, you can’t sleep in that" poppy had gestured to his robes and Tom got up and changed.
 
“OK what the hell poppy" Y/n said while tom had left the room.
“I just wanted you to make a friend" poppy was grinning now but she knew crossing riddle was a bad thing to do and that she would be on his list, but she thought that if Y/n got with Tom she’d be OK, how wrong that statement was, Tom was already thinking of ways he could torture them without a wand but came up empty, for growing up in the muggle world he had no experience on how to inflict damage without his wand, sure he could do none verbal magic but he wasn’t as skilled at that with torture, so once again he emerged from the bathroom this time looking more like a human.
 
“ok Tom were playing cards wanna play?” it wasn’t a request and Tom knew it, Y/n would probably force him to play or make him think he wanted to she had a way of getting into his head and he hated that, frankly he was considering calling the Basilisk to end this problem once and for all but after the whole problem last year he didn’t want to get into the hassle just for three girls.
 
“I would be delighted to join you in you’re game, but perhaps we could have a wager ?” the girls looked at Tom and smiled “ok, if I win you can’t attack me" jenny had said far too quickly “how about no stalking me" Y/n said with a sadistic tone causing tom to roll his eyes “ooh, you have to kiss the best person here" Tom was outraged of that one he had never even looked at a girl let alone kissed one, but he didn’t care he had far too much confidence that he would win “very well and if I win, you give me my wand and I walk out of here" Tom said with a cunning smile all the girls laughed and proceeded to throw a pillow at him much to his annoyance “very well but you’re up against three I don’t think you’ll like those odds” Y/n said while handing him his cards.
 
Poppy had won in a landslide, Tom was fuming he had never lost at anything in his life perhaps he should have been paying more attention when his followers would play amongst them selves.
 
Poppy looked at Tom and he just huffed and proceeded to kiss his hand, causing the girl to erupt in laughter “I guess I should have been more specific huh?” poppy said through laughter.
 
“Yeah, of cause riddle would find himself the best person in the room" Y/n watched as tom had a Cheshire cat grin and she saw Tom notice his wand on her dresser, before Y/n could grab it, tom had it in his hands once more. “this has been a waste of my time, and I will be off now" causing the girls to all boo him and try to make him stay much to his annoyance Y/n had just shrugged and started eating some chocolates.
 
Tom had left the room and vowed to have his revenge but not yet, he would wait until they thought they were safe and he’d hit them with Cruciatus Curse his most favourite of the Unforgivables.
 
Tom couldn’t stand being bested by three girls, he had to get better at none verbal magic, he was able to levitate himself and small objects but as much as casting a spell he was out of luck, he had been practicing all day in the room of requirement and had gotten so lost in his training he hadn’t heard the door open, Tom was getting sloppy and he knew it, he was trying to make himself more powerful to counter the issue.
 
“what are you doing?” Y/n said while still wearing her onesie, Tom just scowled at her “ah still mad about the kidnapping, I understand, but just so you know it wasn’t my idea" Y/n said while standing behind him, he had a house elf infront of him while he tried to blast spell after spell, the creature didn’t even blink.
 
Tom turned and acknowledged her presence “what do you want?” Tom spoke above a whisper he was so enraged he didn’t trust himself not to shout so loud the whole castle could hear, but Y/n just sighed and spoke the same volume “Well, I wanted to say I was sorry and second I wanted to give you these for not hexing us when you left” Y/n handed Tom a box of chocolates, Tom had never accepted such gifts from anyone as people tend to use love potions on sweets but as she was eating some earlier he accepted.
 
“so what are you working on?” Y/n said while looking at the elf in the corner, Tom had looked at her as if to see if she was trustworthy or not, but considering he knew she knew how to perform none verbal magic as well, it wasn’t too bad for him to let her know.
 
“I am trying to cast a spell without my wand” Tom said while not looking at her it was if he had felt weak admitting that he couldn’t do something, but Y/n just smiled at him knowing he was becoming some what nicer from the fact he hadn’t forced her out or tried to use it on her.
 
“oh, yeah that took me a while to learn that one, you’ve got to really want to do it, like life or death, get the feeling of almost dying and needing escape and it will come to you naturally” Y/n said while performing a none verbal magic spell hitting the elf and then him falling over.
 
Tom was impressed and then tapped into rage and tried to focus on it, the room around him started to become dense and darker, as if all the light in the world had faded, Y/n was becoming worried, how much magic did he possess to cast such a large shadow of power and within an instant the house elf had been blown once again off his feet taking him much longer this time to get back up, Y/n almost thought the elf had died but it got back up and disappeared unable to take the abuse anymore.
 
Y/n had cheered, Tom was shocked at the sincerity of Y/n she was genuinely happy for him to succeed but what he didn’t like was the fact she had decided to hug him once more, he really didn’t understand the need for such a useless thing, yes he had something great but that didn’t need her to hug him for it, but strangely Tom was starting to like it, the warmth he would get from her hugs would  make Tom understand why people constantly gave them, perhaps she was changing him and he really didn’t like that thought.
 
Y/n left a frozen riddle to him self, she needed to do her prefect duties after all.
 
Tom had sighed once Y/n left he was becoming more weaker, and just as he had that thought his followers entered the room, causing tom to smile, Avery watched as tom pounced on malfoy he was unaware of the curse coming towards him until it had hit him square in the chest within minutes he was on the floor wailing and screaming in pain, rosier looked on in shock he wasn’t expecting tom to be so brutal but the look in toms eyes make rosier not question him.
 
“now then, I’ll be teaching you the Cruciatus Curse it can be quite lethal depending on the caster but luckily for malfoy I am quite skilled at the curse" Tom was scowling at malfoy while he let the spell die down, “now I’d like you all to practise”, Tom was like a teacher he only excepted greatness and anyone less would have the spell cast on them until they did it right.
 
The night had become morning and the group could all cast the spell others better then some but at least they could cast the curse and that was as close to exceptional  they were going to get before class started.