The Chamber of Desire [ Tomarry

- Thomas Riddle.

January 28th, 1993.

After tutoring with Lucius, Harry immediately ran up to his and Tom's room. Unfortunately, that night was going to be a long Death Eater meeting, yet Lucius gave them more homework. So, Harry had to (unfortunately) finish some of it before the meeting, even though he would much rather be hanging out with his friends or Tom.

Harry knew he'd be without human contact in his room. Tom almost always spent Thursday in his office going through every last nook and cranny of the meeting later on in the evening. However, Nagini had just gotten back from her family holiday trip, and she was in an extremely good mood.

"How wass your day?" The snake asked once Harry opened the door, watching intently as the boy closed the door behind him and sat down in the edge of his bed. "Did you learn anything valuable, like how to sew? Or how to kill someone?"

Harry chuckled. "No, Nagini. We learned about a sspell Tom made to make uss invissible at will." He let Nagini slide against his calves. "Would you like to ssee?"

Nagini nodded her snakelike head, so Harry focused on turning invisible. In a couple seconds, Nagini hissed approvingly. "I ssee that that young sscoundrel issn't all that bad. He'ss sstill not good enough for you."

"You would ssay that about anyone who could have been my ssoulmate." Harry chuckled, summoning a quill and parchment as he got ready to do his questions. "Tom iss way too good for me, Nagini."

Nagini huffed. "I highly doubt that. No one iss too good for you, little one."

Harry blushed and changed the subject. "Well, now that you're here, I have to do a Defencce Againsst the Dark Artss project on an animal expossed to any ssort of magic. Are you willing to help me?"

"I bet Luciuss will have a fun time reading your report about me," the snake said cockily.

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Harry had just finished his project when Tom entered the room with a dozen cuts littering his body. When the small boy looked up, his heart filled with worry when he saw the red slices upon his soulmate's skin.

"What happened?" Harry asked worriedly, standing up quickly to rush over to Tom and inspect his cuts. "Do you want me to get Cissy? These don't look very deep. What were you doing? Should I get a first aid kit? I—"

He was cut off by a long kiss from Tom. "I'm fine, my love," Tom smiled, "a tiny shower will do. There is no pain."

Harry frowned. "Okay. But after the shower can you please tell me what happened? And if I can help?"

Tom smiled before leaning down to give Harry a slight peck on the lips. "I love you."

"I love you too," Harry responded, letting his eyes linger on his soulmate as he walked to the bathroom. Of course Harry was worried about him. How could Tom get all those cuts when he was just in his office? They looked like chicken scratches, so unless there was a secret group of chickens in his office, Harry had no idea what was going on. Did it have something to do with the diary?

Harry frowned. He had forgotten all about the diary. It was obviously important to his soulmate, which was strange, seeing as the list of things important to Tom wasn't very long. And besides, how could a diary, an inanimate object, cause harm? However, it did seem to be important, especially considering it was top secret. Ugh, why couldn't everything be easily explained?