Bad Romance

Black Out

-From Tom's POV-
I was sitting in the Slytherin common room, watching the fire and rolling my wand between my thumb and pointer finger. Just thinking. It was quiet and I hadn't had much of that all week. Alex and Draco, for whatever reason, had been on my tail all week so to finally have these brief moments of tranquility was refreshing. My thoughts were interrupted by the door opening. I didn't turn around, I just say completely still hoping it wasn't someone coming in to annoy me. I hear light footsteps approach and then feel a hand on my shoulder. Based on the elegant fragrance that I've come to recognize so well, I can tell the hand belongs to Y/n. She leans down and plants a kiss on the top of my head which slightly messes up my hair, but for her, I don't mind. "Are thoughts being thunk?" She jokes before sitting down on my lap.

"When are thoughts not being thunk?" I ask her. She shrugs and wraps her arms around my neck.

"She's been dealt with." She says in a calm tone, letting out a sigh.

"How so?" I ask her curiously.

"She's scared. She knows if she digs any deeper it'll go south.".

"Does she still suspect it was either of us?" She lightly shakes her head no.

"Deep down, she probably does. But she'll never admit it aloud now that I've intimidated her." She says confidently.

"I hope she realizes it really is in her best interest to leave it alone." I sigh. Y/n nods her head slightly.

"Some people never understand when you're protecting them." She says. It goes quiet for a moment as we both just sit and watch the fire, and then Y/n breaks it. "At least we're had some good news. That's a win in my book." She says.

"Well you know, all good news should be celebrated." I say in a low tone and immediately, her head turns around and I can see the giant grin that's appeared. "Is that a yes?" I ask her hopefully.

"Of course it is." She practically jumps out of my lap and yanks me up from my seat by my arm. We quietly make our way down to our secret room. I had quietly closed the door and put my hands on Y/n's waist as she pulled me to her face for a kiss. We both took our robes off and went back to kissing when we heard something crash in the corner of the room that was loud enough to make us both jump.

"What, in the HELL was that?!" I whisper-shout.

"Your guess is as good as mine." Y/n whispers back. We both reach for our wands as we creep over to the corner to investigate. We finally got to the corner of the room and had a thorough look through and saw nothing. Absolutely nothing. We both felt too creeped out to finish our 'celebration' so we decided to sneak back to Y/n's room where it'd be quiet and private. And less creepy.

We got into her room successfully without anyone in the corridors seeing us. We scrambled into her room and after she gently shut the door, we picked up where we left off. We were five minutes into making out and both us were standing in our uniform pants still and undershirts (although those were coming off any minute) when a knock at Y/n's door interrupted us. "Shit." She mumbled.

"You've got to be kidding me." I whisper as we both pull apart from each other. Y/n waves for me to hide in her closet and I listen. I quietly hop in and close the doors so that whoever is at the door won't see me. Y/n throws her robe on and wraps it before opening the door. "What do you want??" Y/n's voice is very clearly annoyed.

"Have you seen Tom?" Asks a familiar boy. I quickly pick up on who's voice is it. It's Alex.

"Nope." She responds sharply. I hear Alex sigh.

"Well, whenever you do magically see him again, tell him he's being called to a prefect meeting in Slughorn's room. Something about a breach of security? Whatever that means." He says.

"Will do." She says flatly.

"And Tom, wherever you are in this room, hii!" He jokes before I can hear Y/n push him out of the doorway and shut the door behind him. I step out of the wardrobe Y/n sits down at her bed and looks at me.

"Are you going?" Y/n asks in a defeated tone.

"I don't want to, but I have to. I need to find out what this is about." I say as I pull my shoes on and find my over shirt. "Who knows, maybe I'll find out who was trying to break into our room that night." I say as I adjust my tie and slip my robe back on. I see Y/n throw her head back before looking at me.

"But Tommm..." she starts to plead out. She tried to use puppy eyes on me and I just chuckle before leaning over and kissing her on the forehead.

"How about I sneak out tonight for another sleepover?" I suggest. I see her think for a minute before seeing a smile grow across her face. "Perfect. See you then, love." I say before leaving the room.

I made my way to Slug's and saw the other prefects sitting in there. "Mr.Riddle, how nice of you to join us." Slug says cockily. Without saying anything, I just find a seat and sit down, crossing my arms. "It has come to our attention someone has stolen old maps of the school from the library. And the only people who had access to it during the time they were stolen was someone in this room." He begins explaining. I had seen those maps many times. It's how I knew about the secret room that became Y/n and I's. But I had never stolen them. I wasn't dumb and I knew if they went missing, there would be a frenzy to find them.

"So? What's so important about some stupid maps?" One of the other prefects pipes up.

"There's valuable information on them. That's all you need to know." Slug says sternly. "So, until they are found, each of you will be subjecting to questioning from the headmaster and all prefect duties are on hold until further notice." There was a wave of sighs and scoffs at his announcement. I felt relieved. It just meant more time in my schedule. More time for Y/n, studying, writing, so many things. "Oh and one more thing." He starts again. "Students caught lying about their knowledge on this topic or are found to have stolen the maps is subject to expulsion." A wave of gasps came around again. I wasn't scared though. Nothing in this world scared me. It made life so much more convenient to not have any fear.

After a few more moments and announcements, we were released. By now, the sun was setting and I wanted to see it so I went up to the owlery to watch it. I leaned on the cobblestone balcony and watched it slowly sink further into the horizon. When it was effectively set all the way, I decided to head back inside so I could take a shower and study a bit before sneaking to Y/n's room.

I was walking down a dark corridor that was often empty when I saw a black figure appear at the end of it. At first, I kept walking as I saw it. "Hello?" I call out to it. "Is something wrong?" I ask the shadowy figure.

"Yes, everything as a matter of fact." Before I could even respond to the stranger's words, I felt something stiff and heavy hit the back of my head. Just like that, I was knocked all the way out.

A/N: Hey guys! I'm so glad to see that this is getting more and more reads and votes each day (I didn't expect it to get any to be honest). But I'm so glad you're liking the stories. The more I see you guys voting and reading, the faster I try to put out chapters. So glad you guys are enjoying though; your satisfaction makes the ridiculous 1500+ word count worth it 100%. Also I'm going to take this time to self promote: I have another fanfic out right now that has 20+ parts and a cross between a fanfic and an adventure story coming out later this week (told from the perspective of a villain, again.). But anyways, I'll shut up now. Love y'all!