Where, When, and Why?

C. 9 5th Time's the Charm

Finally, after his years of search he finally found Salazar Slytherin's Secret Chamber, Oh Harry would love this. With that in mind he set out to find his dear brother, wherever he may be that is...

Meanwhile Harry is not having such a great time, I mean who would be when they have just received news regarding a terrible, no, down right ghastly subject...

"I apologize Mister Potter but there is not much we can do about your 'situation'."  Hadrian eyes filled with dread for a moment "Please explain." The goblin nodded and stood up from his seat "You, Mister Potter, seems to be fading from existence. Tell me has anything unusual happen to you before these symptoms?"

The boy thought hard about it, everything around him was strange but something happened― no, that couldn't be it but there's nothing else that could explain it "I haven't drunken any weird potions but... I was hit by the dark lord's killing curse when he attacked Diagon Alley and survived." The boy looked up to the goblin in desperation "Please there must be something you could do about this, I'll give anything just please..."

"Well Mister Potter we do not have a permanent solution but we have something you could use right here." Griphook opened the bottom secret compartment of his desk and took out a small enchanted box, opening it up and facing it to the boy "gloves?" Griphook nodded as he began to carefully take it out of the box "These are no normal gloves. These gloves contain time magic and a powerful one but it can only alleviate your problem for a short time , wear it on your hands at all times, you must never remove it until all the magic in it is gone."

Hadrian absentmindedly bowed his head "How much time do I have?" Griphook sighed and proceeded to take the box back to it's original place "You have 4 days, the magic inside those gloves were only meant to stabilize but not fully heal the damaged cause especially since you were struck by the killing curse, if it were this not severe then we could've helped."

Hadrian should've known it was too good to be true in the first place but he couldn't help but feel a little bitter about it. He wore the gloves with haste, with one last goodbye Hadrian thanked them for everything "I do hope we meet again Mister Potter, we would like to extend our nation's hand in friendship." 

"But that wouldn't be very beneficial to you." "Perhaps not but we have never met anyone else who treat us goblin's with such respect, it would be fair to do the same." Griphook raised his hand to the child and Hadrian took it in his shaking hand "Be strong boy and let Lady Magic guide you safely to your next journey." the raven hair noticed the difference in the greeting since it lacked any mentions of violence 

"May I ask you one more request?" The two goblin's nodded and with a shaky breath he said "When I am gone please help Tom Riddle in any way you can." Griphook bowed "We shall extend our hand in friendship when you depart." Hadrian smiled at least he helped him even if it was just this "Thank you Griphook, I thank the Goblin Nation for their help."

"May we meet in again young wizard."

Tom opened the door to their dorms and found his brother all alone sitting by the window sill, He walked up to him and noticed his blank expression "Are you alright?" the small boy looked to his eyes in surprise "yeah." 

Tom looked like he didn't believe it but decided not to push further Harry will definitely like his surprise "I have a surprise for you, let's go the others won't be back from dinner for at least another hour or two." The two boys ran through the secret passages and entered the girl's lavatory 

The taller lad hissed "open." a secret passaged opened, as they went deeper into the chamber the atmosphere around the two slytherins become more and more stiff but the slytherin heir has yet to realize it 

They stopped in front of the statue, Tom turned to look at his brother to find that he did not look even slightly happy "Is there really something more important than finding an ancient hidden chamber?" Harry blinked with a confused look "Wha- Oh, um it does look quite... eerie."

"And I'm guessing that's not the reason why your so out of it tonight." the smaller boy looked away from his dear brother's eyes not wanting him to discover anything through his eyes "Why would you think that?" Tom didn't like it when his little dear couldn't look him in the eye

"Harry." the boy did not respond so he tried again "Harry." The boy trembled at the weight of Riddle's words, trying to calm himself down "What is it Harry?" the boy swallowed and whispered "It's none of your business Tom." 

Riddle was taken aback from his brother's response "I beg your pardon?" Harry looked up with sudden courage "I said it's none of your business." he opened his eyes after screaming at his brother to see hurt written all over his face then was suddenly replaced with anger

"And why not? Your my brother, Why can't you just be honest with me?" the taller boy responded gripping his hands tightly "Because you don't have to know!" the smaller boy shouted back "But I can't help you if I don't know what happens to you!"

"You can't help me! You've always just made everything worse! Can't you see if you didn't kill all those people back then I wouldn't be like this!" Harry gasped what has he done "Tom I didn't-" he tried to grab his brother but he backed away "You didn't what? didn't mean it, you didn't mean that I was a monster? A heartless cold freak?!"

"I've tried so hard for so long to prove to you that I could change, that I could be better, why won't you believe me." Harry's heart clenched from the sight of what he has done "I believe you, I really do and I'm sorry about what I said. It's just- I just can't tell you." 

Harry walked this brother their faces inches apart "Why must you be like this..." Tom gripped the edge of harry's sleeve like a child who feels lost "I never wanted to tell you because there's nothing you can do, I don't want to see you hurt." 

"Harry please-" the smaller boy held his brother's hand in his own "I really can't." and with that the boy gently dropped the other's hand and ran out of the chamber only hearing the angry and desperate shouts of his brother...

A/N: Again I do not own Harry Potter nor the music~ and sometimes chapters might be short and not that detailed, for this I'm sorry bout that but that's all I have at the time so just- I don't know- do whatever you always do I guess, Oh! Thank you for reading, Have a good day...

Sorry I know it's short and all (I actually couldn't believe it was this short), also I haven't update that quickly was because I didn't know how to write the scene and so i settled with the short one ✍(◔◡◔)

p.s. sorry for plot gaps and whatnot lol :)

unknown update schedule but if you want to update faster feel free to say on comments I'll find time to make it.

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