Crimson Ink

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Lucius frowned, "We ran into someone and it would be best if you listened to his story before over-" They made it to the lavish living room and Peter spotted Tom ... Peter wasted no time dashing forward and punching the wizard in a school uniform right in the jaw, "-reacting." Lucius and Severus sighed ...

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"Damn Gryffindor." Severus grumbled as he watched Peter jump on the fallen wizard and punch again.

"We really should've tried to hold him back." said Lucius uncaringly.

Severus shrugged, "Slipped my mind." Neither of them cared. They pledged their loyalties to Tom and the man quickly drops the cause he stood for and uses them as slaves. Tom became Voldemort, used curses on them, tortured them, he's the reason Harry was orphaned ... the idiot dark lord deserved a punch ...

Bellatrix and Narcissa walked into the living room, "HIT HIM HARDER!" yelled Bellatrix as she bounced round excitedly.

Just Peter was about to pull his arm Tom reached up and caught his wrist, "You're bleeding." Peter finally calmed down and noticed the pain in his shoulder. He was in fact bleeding.

"Oh Peter!" Narcissa exclaimed as she ran over to the handsome spy clearly worried about the blood now seeping through the shirt.

"Damn, you reopened the gash on your shoulder." Severus cursed as he went over and helped Peter sit on the couch to heal him. "You going to explain?" He asked as Lucius, Narcissa and Bellatrix sat down clearly showing concern only for Peter and not even sparing Tom a glance.

"Yeah.," Tom winced as he got up from the floor and sat on a chair, "To make things clear I'm not Voldemort. In fact, I never met any of you." Tom sighed as he was met with skeptical glares ... no surprise, he himself had trouble believing it ..."While in school my friend, Myrtle, and I discovered that Dumbledore created a Horcrux through some old letters we found in an old journal that got mixed up with the library books. Making a horcrux is a powerful and forbidden act of soul magic where a piece of your soul is broken off and stored in an object there by anchoring your soul to this would. It's a foolish means of gaining immortality"

Lucius's jaw dropped slightly just like everyone else "Myrtle? ... you were friends with moaning Myrtle? Dumbledore used soul magic?"

"Yes, I was friends with the most stubborn Ravenclaw known to grace the halls of Hogwarts and who is currently haunting a bathroom. Yes, the great defender of the Light side has used the darkest section of magic known to exist and it gets worse. We were the only ones who didn't fall for Dumbledore's saintly grandfatherly mask and it wasn't good for him to have a horcrux. As Myrtle and I attempted to find the horcrux in order to destroy it so Dumbledore couldn't become immortal, Myrtle became very ill." Tom frowned sadly as he recalled those events years ago, which wasn't too long ago for him really. "She collapsed in the Chamber of Secrets as we were thinking of possibilities for Dumbledore's horcrux. I was able to find out that she was poisoned, but there was no time to help her. She told me that there was no chance ... that she was dying and to kill her first ... Myrtle was in so much pain and all I could do was order the basilisk to look her in the eyes for a painless death, but ... that's where I made my first mistake"

Severus's eyes narrowed, "How are horcruxes made and why don't we know anything of this?" Then he paled heavily. "Basilisk?! There's a basilisk in Hogwarts!"

Tom chuckled bitterly, "and yet again yes, but she's very nice ... the act of killing is what breaks the soul apart. I used Myrtle's death to make a fragment thinking it would give me time to find Dumbledore's horcrux, but instead of being a backup plan it's where Voldemort happened. The side effects of breaking your soul includes insanity, paranoia, disfiguring changes, decaying magic and sadistic behavior ... you also can't resist making more." Tom glanced at each person there. "The very day Myrtle and I started searching Dumbledore removed everything from the library and had the information labeled dark magic so you couldn't have known ... the letters we found disappeared after Myrtle's death... you know, by the time you all started following the dark lord a fourth horcrux was made. Tom's mind was already slipping into the Voldemort mindset and full of so much paranoia that he trusted no one. By the time Voldemort was stopped there were five horcuxes deliberately made."