Let The World Burn (Tom Riddle X Reader)

11

The next day you woke up alone. There was no sign of Riddle, no note or anything. You guessed the rumours were true then. He was good in bed, but he was absolutely heartless. Once he gets whatever he wants from you, you are a goner. You got up to your feet and felt a severe pain between your thighs. You quickly put on your clothes from yesterday and left the room. You took the walk of shame back to your dorm where you took a long shower.

There really was a bruise in the shape of his hand on your butt cheek. You looked at your neck in the mirror and it was all strewn with hickeys. You put on a turtle neck shirt, trying to cover them up as much as possible.

You threw yourself on your bed tired and stared at the ceiling. You had one mission and you managed to fail it in the worst possible way. You didn't know if he was Salazar's heir, but you slept with him, you wondered how you would look him in the eye again. Then you remembered his tattoo of a skull from the mouth of which a snake came out. You wondered if the tattoo had a specific meaning so you quickly headed to the library. There you saw Regulus and went to talk to him.

"Hey, Reggie how are you?" you asked and he looked up from his book.

"Fine. How about you? Yesterday you were pretty wasted." he chuckled and stood up to leave the book in its place. As he was leaving the book on a higher shelf, his sleeve rolled up and you saw that he had the same tattoo as Tom. You grabbed his hand and pulled the sleeve up so you could look at the tattoo more closely. Regulus' eyes widened and you could see the anxiety in them.

"What's the meaning of this tattoo, Tom has the same one?" you asked curiously.

"It... um" he loudly swallowed the limb that had formed in his throat. That made you realise that something was wrong.

"Go on spill the beens. I won't tell anyone, I promise." you let go off of his hand and he quickly rolled his sleeve back down. He didn't want anyone else to see it.

"Look, (Y/n) you can't tell a single soul about this mark." he whispered and you could feel the fear in his voice "This is a dark mark. You get one when you become one of the Death Eaters." he pulled you aside so no one could hear you.

"Death what?" you didn't understand a single thing he was trying to tell you.

"The Death Eaters, (Y/n)." he answered annoyed.

"Is that some type of a cult or?" you raised an eyebrow. Regulus rolled his eyes and nodded "I'm guessing Riddle is the leader?" he nodded again and that was enough for you to understand that he also was the heir of Salazar Slytherin.

"Look, you have to pretend you don't know anything about this. Actually don't pretend forget about everything I just said. Okay?" he was so nervous that he was lightly shaking.

"But why?" you asked.

"Because he'll kill me, if he finds out I told you about the Death Eaters." he whispered.

"What why? The name of your small band is not very cheerful, but what are you doing that must be kept a deep and dark secret?" you chuckled not ready for the next few sentences.

"They kill people, (Y/n). They kill muggle-borns like you and blood traitors like my brother." he explained and you gasped, you didn't want to believe in your ears "Why?" you asked.

"Because they seek complete power and control over the entire world." he explained.

"Why are you part of the Death Eaters?" you asked judginly.

"I want to stop them and the only way is by making them believe I'm one of them." he explained and you imminently regretted judging him.

"I want to help you." you stated as you crossed your arms before your chest.

"You want to help? Sure, you can start by staying away from Riddle and stop messing around where it's none of your business." he warned you.

"Whatever." you rolled your eyes and walked away.

You went back to your room and you were overtaken by your own thoughts. You remembered the day when Riddle walked in the girls bathroom after you had left, he was standing in front of the broken sink. That sink was broken since forever. He didn't expect you to come back in the bathroom and that was why his eyes widened when he saw you standing behind him. You remembered how his name disappears a few seconds after entering that same bathroom. It finally hit you that the sink was the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets.

You decided that tonight you would put an end to all of this by following Tom into the chamber.