Fate's change of plans

Chapter 2

  When I woke up, Tom was still asleep so I cast another tempus and it was 6:30 so I decide to walk down to the kitchen to help because I really didnt have anything better to do. I knocked on the kitchen door. It was opened by a pleasant mid aged woman which asked me politely if I needed anything. Shock and Delight lit up her face when she found out that I wanted to help her cook. She quickly welcomed me into the kitchen and we started making food together. We made gruel and then I suggested to make pancakes because we had a lot of eggs, flour and milk left over. About an hour and a quarter later I walked into the food hall to see a surprising amount of people talking about the food since theyve never had pancakes before.
 
Once I ate my breakfast I left the hall I walked outside and sat on top of a tree and started talking to Ivy about stuff in general not realising someone was reading while listening to our conversation until I heard a boy shouting at the person at the bottom of the tree. I was too high in the tree to be spotted. Me and Ivy just watch billy (I think) call Tom names like Freak. I decide to jump down from the tree with Ivy back in my sleeve, ignoring the shocked faces of all of the boys (surprisingly included Tom until he snapped out of it) and just walked towards the kitchen until I saw a mid-aged man with knee-length buckled boots and purple robes and froze until I decide to run to mine and Toms room .
 
While I was running back to the room, I caught a glance of tom with a confusion plastered all over his face. I just ignored him, ignored the looks, it wasnt something new and ran. I ran into the petite room clumsily, dropping to my knees as I heard the large door shut. I start to even out my breathing until I hear a pair of footsteps hurried towards here. Unconsciously, I whip out my wand and cast a notice me not charm and moved to the corner to the left of the door. I dont know what made me run when I saw Dumbledore, but his presence felt darker and colder. My chain of thoughts ended when I heard the door open. I looked up to see Tom enter the room muttering something like I swear I saw this door close. He looked lost in thought until the door swung open again, neither I or tom noticed the footsteps coming towards the door. It was too late to escape
 
With swift movements, dumbledore entered the room. He was wearing shockingly bright purple robes, knee length buckled boots, his beard was shorter and auburn, his eyes didnt seem to meet the same eyes of his grandfather figure, eyes blue and dull, no longer reminding me of crystal waters with beautiful beams of sunlight streaking down. No. These eyes were cold to the touch, critical and hard, no light escaped through them only hated while staring at tom. His face was younger and had less wrinkles, his face blank of emotion, no welcoming smile, no friendly eyes. It was, quite frankly, scary to think this was the man who Ive seen as my grandfather figure.
 
I watched intensely as Tom turned around (either knowing dumbledore was there or hiding his shock) with a blank face masking any emotion.

"Hello professor he said surprisingly politely, is there anything I can do for you?".

A moment of frozen silence past as dumbledores gaze was fixed on tom until it was fixed on me. I could feel nervousness crawl up my spine as I unknowingly help my breath. The thick silence was broke when dumbledore asked neutrally to tom, "where is your roommate?".

Toms deep blue eyes narrowed at dumbledore in suspicion. At this point I was praying for dumbledore to leave with the thick tension, nearly suffocating me. Dumbledores gaze never left from me when he said,"I need to take both you and Mr Peverell to Diagon Ally for your Hogwarts supplies".

Tom face flashed with confusion and they gave a slight nod in acceptance. Dumbledore, gaze never left, reached inside his robes bringing out an envelope tinted yellow with a royal red wax stamp on. He placed it in front of me facing up so I could read it. Tom was watching dumbledores peculiar actions like a hawk.

The silence was cut through by dumbledore smugly saying, "goodbye, Mr Peverell and Mr Riddle, Ill pick you up tomorrow morning".

At this comment I paled while Tom moved to his bed while studying the whole room. Dumbledore swiftly left and I let out a not so quiet breath I didnt know I was holding. Toms head snapped towards the source of the sound. I panicked. I didnt know what to do so I just ran, out of the room to the tree I was in earlier to take the charm off. Tom just watched in wonder as the bed opposite him creaked as though someone was getting off it and the door burst open and then slammed. The Riddle heir started to query who was it? Was it really his roommate? Did he preform accidental magic or does he already know magic exists? Tom just stared at the old, cheap bed in front of him too deep in thought to run after the petite boy.
 
I leaned against the tree, catching my breath whilst sliding to the ground. Ivy slipped out of my sleeve and coiled in front of me.

I hear her ,after I dont know how long,"asked hatchling, are you ok?".

I nod lazily and then reached out my arm towards her, allowing her to hide in my sleeve and then I start heading towards the kitchen to help out again. I help out in the kitchen again, improving the quality of the food for dinner. While the food was cooking, I talked to the lady, who cooked every day by herself for the orphanage. Time quickly escaped my grasp and flew to 7:00, so I slipped into the food hall unnoticed and started eating by myself. It didnt last long. Tom soon slid into the seat next to me which caused the messy, roaring hall into not so quiet whispers. This was something I was to use to therefore I ignored it and kept on eating. Ignoring the whispers enclosing on me, ignoring the presence of the younger version of the oh so great dark lord, ignoring that Im stuck in a time where I was not supposed to be.

As soon as I finished my -not to bad- food I left the food hall and sped towards the room. Once I got into the room, I collapsed gracefully onto the luxurious bed. I stared up at the crumbling celling thinking, what in Merlins name am I going to do now? I hear the rusty metal door screech open and flinch when it banged closed. I dont know if Tom noticed but who cares, he wouldn't. I hear Toms clothes ruffle as he moves towards his bed and the springs in the worn-out mattress screak as they recoil to the weight. I assumed he would just ignore me and go sleep, but I had to be wrong. I mentally jumped when I heard Tom say stiffly"I'm Tom Riddle, whats your name?".

I laid there in shock for a moment, then replied Hadrian Peverell".

I slowly sat up and looked at Tom who seemed to be in deep thought. He replied surprisingly softly for a future Dark Lord " as in the Peverells from the tale of the three brothers?"

"the what?" I reply quickly. Tom just sighs and then asks do you understand what were doing tomorrow, I automatically say "yes" and he raises a brow but I just shrug it off.  

I silently get in bed with my back towards Tom and he mirrors my movement. After 5 or so minutes I hiss "night" to Ivy forgetting Tom understands parseltounge. I surprisingly get two sleepy night back, one from Ivy and the other from an apparently really tired Tom who didnt even process I said it in parseltounge.