Bad Romance

Shock

-From Tom's POV-

I feel my jaw slightly drop and my eyes widen in confusion and shock. The words rolled straight off of Y/n's tongue with no emotion. I tilt my head. "Why?" I ask her. She holds the eye contact with me, not breaking it in the slightest bit, and leans forward in her chair.

"I was rereading the two pages I took out and using memory charms last night to figure out why my mom tried to kill me and my sister. I figured it out." she starts. I grow curious so I lean forward in my chair as well so we are still eye-level with each other. "She wanted to make horcruxes. She wasn't planning on killing my sister and I, but she was having an affair that my dad didn't know about and didn't want the other man to know that she had kids and a family. At first I thought 'well, maybe she did it to protect her kids' but then I realized that she did it so he wouldn't leave her. Her massive ego got in the way of her running off with her boyfriend because she didn't want to give my dad the power of custody over us. So she was going to kill three birds with one stone: get rid of anything stopping her from running off, hurt my dad, and gain two horcruxes." she finishes explaining. I lean back in my chair.

"Do you know where she is?" I ask her. She nods her head slowly as she leans back in her seat.

"I have an idea. I don't trust her. She doesn't love me, and the feeling is mutual. I'm going to finish off the work that she never could." she says coldly. I don't say anything for a minute.

"What's the first object going to be?" I ask her. She holds up her right hand.

"The serpent ring. I wear it with me all the time, so it just made sense." she shrugs. I nod my head, with no facial expression.

"You're quite a genius, Y/n." I say to her. I see her tilt her head, wondering what I mean by that. "You've just given me an idea. I think people underestimate how powerful you truly are." I tell her. I see an evil smile grow across her face.

"No Tom," she starts off before stretching out her hand to me. "People underestimate how powerful we truly are." I feel a grin start to crack across my face and I reach my hand back out, shaking hers in the process.

This woman is so powerful. So intelligent. So strategic. So perfect.

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I was getting ready in my dorm for bed. Curfew had started ten minutes ago but I had no idea where Malfoy was. I climbed into my bed and started writing in my diary about the idea that Y/n had given me. Five minutes later, Malfoy comes stumbling into the room a blubbering mess.

"Oh God Tom, I've messed it all up haven't I?" he whines out. I sit up and set down my writing for a second and look at him.

"What are you on about?" I ask him.

"My confession to y/n earlier Tom, it was real!" he spits out. I can feel myself starting to get angry.

"What?!" I say sharply. He sits down on his bed and gets a grip of himself.

"My dad is going to kill me. He told me that the Sorcier's daughter was off limits but I can't help it!" he says again. I roll my eyes as I start to grow more annoyed with him.

"Malfoy have I ever reminded you of big of a mindless idiot you are?" I spit out. He falls back onto his bed and looks at the ceiling.

"What do I do, Tom?" he asks me, defeated.

"Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I know y/n well enough to know that she has a mission here and you are not included in that mission." I tell him hastily. He pauses for a minute before sitting up and looking at me.