Full Circle(Tomarry)

Chapter 12.

"Tea?" Remus very calmly, too calmly , offered to Tom. The werewolf smiled. "Do you like sugar or cream with it?"

"Sugar, please. Just two." Tom stiffly replied and didn't take his eyes off the cup Lupin was preparing for him. Either they used a different, less sweeter kind of sugar cubes or Lupin purposely put six in instead. "I'm not about to get poisoned, am I?" He muttered to Harry, who sat beside him around the kitchen table. Remus and Sirius sat across them, unabashedly staring at the two.

(So maybe Tom was a little wary. But he very distinctly remembered the last time Harry's parent-figure caught the two of them in bed, and it ended with him being chased out of the house. Half-naked. In January. With a very angry father with a shotgun on his tail.)

"Don't be stupid, they haven't had time to brew one." Harry whispered back and snorted when Tom grimaced at the too sweet tea.

"So," Sirius cheerfully started, "Harry. Now, I know you're a teenager now and Merlin knows the kind of company I kept during my younger years," at this Remus coughed, "but wouldn't it have been more polite if you told us you had a friend over?"

"You snuck around with girls and boys all the time when you were a teenager," Harry rebutted, "you bragged to me about it. Hypocrite."

"Which is why I'm the best person to tell you off about having strange boys in your bed," Sirius easily said. Remus rolled his eyes.

"It wasn't like that!" Harry insisted. "It was just cuddling . We had clothes on." Tom, wisely, didn't add anything and just braved through his cup of tea. Because that's what you do when you have the werewolf who prepared it staring you down.

"I believe we haven't caught your name," Remus pleasantly said to Tom, who carefully met his eyes. "And how you know Harry. I had thought we'd met all his friends."

"My name is Marvolo Gaunt," Tom stiffly replied. "I attend Durmstrang, and Harry and I have known each other since before he started Hogwarts."

" Gaunt ," Sirius grinned toothily. "That old family? I thought they inbred themselves into extinction decades ago. Which wasn't the biggest loss in the world."

Harry choked but Tom wasn't one to cower or be offended. Even if he was getting a little ticked off. "No one knew my father was of their family. He himself didn't know until before he died, just long enough to reinstate himself and name me heir. That was the story according to my late mother at least."

"Durmstrang, you say? Interesting. Why not Hogwarts, considering you sound like a native Brit." Sirius peered thoughtfully at him. "And it would've allowed you to be closer to Harry, and wouldn't that have been nice, since you two are friends ."

"My mother thought it would be better for me to go to Durmstrang," Tom's smile was strained, "I wasn't about to go against her wishes. I was a bit of a mother's boy, you see."

'Mother's boy ,' Harry mouthed disbelievingly at Tom. Harry knew very well Tom's feelings towards Merope, and even lifetimes still haven't eased the bitterness or contempt towards some of her life decisions.

"You're a pureblood then, I presume?" Sirius casually asked as he started twirling his wand with his fingers. Harry twitched.