Song for this chapter: Small doses by Bebe Rexha
Hermione has been having dreams and hallucinations about a familiar boy. He would always haunt her dreams and made her worried. Every since the capture of Ginny, Hermione was shocked of he was haunting her.
"You are all I need, Hermione." He would say a lot to her.
"Hermione."
She kept replaying that scene in her dreams over, and over again.
"Hermione."
"Leave me alone, you dead." She exclaimed to him, fighting that his hand was on her wrist.
"Oh my god, is she deaf? 'Mione."
"No, I'm not. Just a memory inside your head......."
"HERMIONE!" Someone yelled and Hermione woke up with a start. Harry, Ron, and Ginny were watching her.
"Thanks, she finally woke up." Ginny said and helped Hermione up. She breathlessly looked around .
"Where am I?" She asked and they all looked at each other with shocked faces.
"Your in the Gryffindore common room. Remember, you were studying for the test for next week, then we found you here passed out after Quidditch." Ron says. Hermione sighed and put her hand on her head, rubbing her temple.
"Guys I'm totally fine, don't worry about me-.." She stopped when she saw the same boy right next to the window. He smirked looking down at her.
"You can see me but they can't." He said.
"Hermione what are you starting at?" Harry asked. Hermione turned to him and shook her head.
"I'm going to the loo, you guys stay here and talk about.............Quidditch, like you always do." She says. Before they could protest she was out the door. Hermione made her way to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. She gasped and sat on the floor.
"Why me?" She said.
"WHY ME!" She yelled and banged her head in the stall. She heard footsteps and she stopped.
"Hello, Hermione Jean Granger." She heard the boys voice say. She whimpered.
"You are probably wondering what my name is. Well.......its Tom Riddle. Does that name ring a bell to you?" she then remembered what Ginny had told her during her second year. Ginny was under a trance given by Tom, she wrote on the walls and opened the chamber of secrets.
"Yes, your the person Ginny was fond of." She replied. She saw him come out of the dark. He was quite handsome. Hermione then remembered that this was younger Voldemort, the person who started making Horcruxes. He stopped in front of her, and held out a hand for her to take. She took it and looked into his eyes, that were already starting back at her.
"Thank you." She said and took her hand out of his grasp, but he held on tighter.
"What do you want?!" She yelled and tried to have her hand back. He smirked.
"I want to make you my dark queen. We could rule together you know." He said and let's go of her arm. She gasps and saw the red marks from where his hands were.
"And why would I want to do that?" She said slightly clenching her jaw in fear. He chuckled and circled her.
"Because I like you, your brave, talented, beautiful, amazing, beautiful..."
"You've already said beautiful, but why me?" She said. Tom stopped in front of her face.
"Because, I've never met anyone like you." He says and leans closer.
"But I'm a-.."
"Hermione what are you doing in here?" She turned and saw Cho Chang, Harry's former crush.
"Oh I was just tying to use the loo." She says, lying.
"You know I've heard voices in here. Who were you talking to?" Hermione saw Tom on Cho's farther left listening, he was leaning against the pillar.
"Oh you probably were just hearing things." Hermione says. Cho smiled.
"Okay, you should get back, it's pretty late." She says with a smile, then left. She then heard Tom clap.
"That was amazing, Granger." He says. She chuckled breathlessly. Tom walked closer to her, until they were only a few feet away.
"No stop! Your just using your charm to get to me aren't you?" She questioned. Tom looked at her and shook his head.
"No, I would never. I like you." He said and this time, gently took her hands in his.
"The truth is, I like you and if you have a problem, the problem won't go away." He said and kissed her. She froze. When Tom broke the kiss, Hermione panicked.
"Look, I don't know about this. Your basically a ghost only I can see, and you will probably change the future-.."
"For all I care." Tom said and kissed her yet again. This time Hermione kissed back.
"Wait if anyone comes in the will see me kissing a ghost." She said and Tom didn't say anything. The truth is that Tom really did like her and she really did also like him. Maybe this changed for the good.
