Inside My Mind (A Harry Potter Fanfiction)

Chapter LXIII

The Riddle Manor, Little Hangleton, England, Great Britain

Monday the 2nd of August 1996

8:30 PM

Tom walked down the hallway. He could feel Ginevra and Gideon Weasley peeking out from behind a door, staring at him, as he walked down the hallway with a scowl on his face. He could almost hear Gideon's glare and Ginevra's heart accelerate as he passed. He would've called them out but he had false information to feed to the Order.

He walked to the door where they held meetings. The dining room of course. He threw open the doors and walked inside. The rest of the Order was sitting there. Dumbledore was sitting at the head of the table, looking extremely worried. Snape sat to his right, looking angry.

The seat to Dumbledore's left was left open for him. Tom sat down and everyone turned to him, waiting for his report. It seemed that he was late. But, no, Tom was never late. Everyone else was simply early. Tom leaned back in his chair and he slammed his hand on the table.

"She's in Romania."

Everyone stared at him in shock. Dumbledore frowned in confusion and turned to Tom. Dumbledore had discovered that Bella had disappeared from Privet Drive just this morning. Tom didn't feel like it was required of him to tell them before they found out. It wasn't his fault that they weren't keeping tabs on their 'Savior'.

"Excuse me?" Dumbledore asked, softly.

"She's in Romania at Charlie Weasley's apartment. She wanted to get out of England. Her current guardian, Maya Granger, allowed her to go along with Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Draco Malfoy, and Blaise Zabini," Tom said, flatly. Snape sneered at him and Tom had to restrain himself from killing the traitor right then and there.

But, no…he had to patiently wait. It was only a year. Just a year and then he would have his way.

"Shouldn't you have more control over your ward? You allowed her to run off to Romania," Snape said, disdainfully. Tom's eyes narrowed and his eye twitched. Now, Snape was different from Rodolphus. Rodolphus' wit and humor could easily be received as being rude. Snape was trying to be rude.

"She's not my ward, currently. Sirius Black is legally dead until he wakes up. He named that if he were ever rendered unable to care for his goddaughter, that Maya Granger should have control over his vaults, estates, investments, and the care of his goddaughter. I may be her magical guardian but he blood adopted her. I have no say in the matter. If her current legal guardian gave her leave, she can," Tom said, coldly. Snape looked surprised by this.

"Where is Maya? Shouldn't she be here?" Molly asked, curiously. Tom restrained himself from sneering at the woman. He didn't want any issues. He was tired and he just didn't want to deal with them. Not when he was trying to formulate a plan for forming an alliance with Bella Potter.

"Her fiancé is in a coma. I doubt that she'll be coming until he comes out of that coma. There are few that can bring him out of the coma any sooner than he is ready. Most at St. Mungo's believe that he won't come out of it. But, I believe that I know a Healer that may be able to bring him out with more training," Tom said, carefully. He didn't want to exploit the boy but if it gave him more standing with his sister than he didn't give a damn. He needed the damn alliance badly.