When the Impossible Becomes Possible By VisciousRos

Chapter 12: Making a Deal with a Devil

Getting through the traps laid and into where they hid the philosopher stone was as easy as stealing candy from a child. It helped that I already knew what each challenge was and after looking into some murky spells to knock out a troll for an hour or so and to make a copy of something to be a replica taking most of the time. Now here I stood with the blood red stone in my hand and with a brilliant idea in mind. Smirking I headed back to my dormitory and to ask Neville and Blaise to cover for me later that night.

"Hello professor Quirrell do you have a moment before curfew?" I asked later that night right after dinner after tracking the man down inside his classroom. I had no wish to wind up in a hospital bed nor attacked in the Forbidden Forest so why not kill two birds with one stone?

"Ah yes very well Mr. Potter!" Quirrell answered with a slight stutter that was hella annoying. Walking inside and closing the door and locking us in the room so no one could interrupt us I focused back onto the problem at hand.

"I have a deal I wish to make with your master and even have what he came to this school for with me if he agrees to the deal." I get straight to the point because while most things would take cunning in this instant it wasn't needed seeing he was overly insane and had trouble focusing his thoughts.

"Is that so? Then what can I do for you Potter?" A hissing voice asked as Quirrell's eyes became blood red as he straightened up and folded his hands in front of him surprising me. It looked like all that time I sent my happier emotions along with my magic to help him it did more than I thought it would be making me slightly worried over if my plan would work or not.

"I have no wish to be your enemy. The war my parents fought in didn't involve me seeing as I didn't even exist then. What I would like is to become allies and for us to take oaths to not kill each other nor have someone else kill the other, that includes physical and mental harm and maiming." I state sitting up while letting my magic fill the room allowing Riddle to realize just what type of wizard he was dealing with. Hearing him laugh was surprising and not what I expected from this night and I couldn't tell if that was a good thing or not.

"You have caught my interest these last few months; you are not the golden boy everyone thought you would be and you gather the most interesting of loyal friends." Riddle stated while tilting his head to study me as if I was some fascinating bug under a microscope for him to study as he wished.

"I do try to stay outside of any labeled boxes that this society wishes to shove me in. Yet that doesn't answer if you wish to take the deal or not." I get back to the point while letting a devil may care smile to overtake my face and the crueler glint to show in my eyes as my smile was more a baring of teeth from one monster to another.

"And what do you have that could make me wish to go along with this?" Riddle asked leaning forward with his own magic rising and intertwining with my own causing a shiver to race down my spine at how possessive his magic seemed of mine and causing me to feel something like how I felt while holding the diadem.

"Well first I think you should know that when you tried to kill me and was banished you left something important behind just a small piece hardly enough to really be noticeable." I answer instead, two could play that game of misdirection. Watching as he sat up his eyes narrowing as his wand appeared in his hand as his eyes locked onto the scar upon my forehead and with no hesitation started firing spells at it and causing me to slightly tense in my chair but hold still in order for him to see the truth for himself.

"This should be impossible! How are you one of my Horcrux's?! How did I not notice before!" He started to mutter to himself as the reality of our situation hit him.

"I do like to make the impossible possible I'm afraid. And its because you had made to many prior to going after me causing your soul and magic to be unbalanced and easily be split again and even causing insanity, hadn't you notice?" I inquired while folding my hands in front of me keeping a close eye on the raging Dark Lord.

"You know! How do you know?" He questioned moving to stalk up to me and tower over my sitting form. I didn't even blink nor cower away in fear just met his eyes evenly with my own.

"The Horcrux is a small piece of your soul, and I am very good at knowing my own mind you could say, so when I went to reinforce my mind and happened to find something that shouldn't be there, I grew curious. The soul piece was very willing to inform me of not only what and who he was a part of but what exactly he was and how many times he had achieved it." I stated lying through my teeth. There was no way I was telling him that I once lived a life with this being nothing more than a set of books and movies.

"This changes everything, fine I shall take your deal and we shall swear our oaths." He finally got back to the point but now in his eyes I noticed possessiveness and something darker coloring his eyes as he kept them trained on me.

"Then I do believe this is for you." I say smirking as I handed over the bright red stone causing his eyes to widen as he took it reverently.

"I, Hadrian James Potter, do hear by swear on my magic and life, that I will not try or have someone else try to kill Tom Marvolo Riddle so long as he shall do the same, so I swear, so mote it be!" I state allowing my magic to pulse and flash as the oath set in wrapping around me briefly to show that it had took.

"I, Tom Marvolo Riddle, do hear by swear on my magic and life, that I will not try or have someone else try to kill Hadrian James Potter, I also swear to protect and help him in his time of need, so I swear, so mote it be!" Tom said with his magic not only pulsing and flashing but tightening around me as his own oath took effect. I could only widen my own eyes at what he had exactly sworn to do taking me completely by surprise. This was one hell of a deal with the devil now if only I could find out what the catch was.