Where, When, and Why?

C. 11 After I lost you

---- Room of Requirements (Afternoon) ----

Riddle woke up to a cold and empty bed, the fire was still burning in the furnace but there was something missing. He opened his eyes groggily and looked around to see that no one was there with him, casting a tempus '12:30pm'. He stretched his body "Harry where are you?"

Tom started to look around the room but Harry was no where to be found and he started to worry "Come out Harry, this isn't funny!" maybe he was just overthinking, that's right Harry can't just leave school.

Harry wasn't gone and it was just a prank and when he walks out of the room he'll find Harry sitting in their table and chatting along with the other students, just how it's supposed to be. He paced around the bed murmuring many assurances to himself when his sight finally stumbled on the letter upon the nightstand.

He cautiously grabbed the letter with shivering hands, with letter in hand he opened it to reveal a familiar writing 'this is definitely Harry's.' 

When he finished reading the first paragraph his knees gave out and he landed on the floor, hands gripping the carpet floor 'no no no, this can't be...' he couldn't finish reading, he didn't have enough courage to do so.

He ran out of the enchanted room, the letter crumpled on his left hand and casting a wordless disillusionment charm out of instinct. He franticly ran through the empty halls of the school, his magic stretching out to see if he could still find him.

He couldn't bring himself to care if he was skipping classes, all he needed was to get him back...

---- Deep in the Galloway Forest (sunset) ----

The raven-haired boy felt grass tickling his face, as he stood up he noticed the pain that enveloped his body and bloody hell was it painful, his muscles were sore and he felt like he was shredded into bits or something.

With a groan he looked around to see where he was, his sight was filled with beautiful nature. Enchanted with it's beauty he began to wander around the fine forest 

for a moment he forgot what had brought him here, what he lost that day... until he made it to the cliff, seeing the sunset like from the astronomy tower of Hogwarts and Tom- he fell to his knees as a silent cry left his lips.

He felt his chest heave like it was suffocating from a tight grip. He'd cried too much, he couldn't breathe and he was too tired to stand on his own. Consciousness left him as his body laid down on the grassy surface.

---- 1941, Hogwarts (Tom's time) ----

It has been almost a month since the raven-haired boy's disappearance, he grieved silently the lost of the only one he trusted in this world had drove him to the borderline of madness.

He kept up the perfect student facade but some Slytherins have began to notice the changes with their house heir, he'd become a little more cold, a little more mad and a lot more angrier than he used to be.

They would see Gryffindors trying to fight him but he would win with just one spell not caring of the damage he had done to them or what the Professors think. There are those unfortunate enough to let Hadrian's name slip out of their conversations and they would find themselves in the hospital wing for at least 2 weeks.

Nothing was the same even when the Professors or Headmaster did not notice the students knew from the cold magic scaring them, it was all because Hadrian was gone. The one person who could tame the wild beast inside of the dark wizard.

Even so no one talked about it and whenever they heard the Professors ask him about that person in their class, they would feel an intense wave of murderous cold magic because Riddle didn't like it when other people spoke of his name he said it felt like they were staining the lost boy's image with their dirty souls.

The knights of Walpurgis, mainly Orion, Abraxas and Avery, came to talk to him about it. They knew they couldn't convince him much but it was worth a try, after all that's what their friend would've wanted.

"Why did you call me here on such short notice?" a sharp stare was present on his face that was enough to shake them to the core "We need to talk about how you've been acting Riddle, you look like you've gone mad." Avery said

"Oh, is that so and I don't think that is your place to say." Orion felt enraged at his response but Abraxas spoke up which was unusually unlike him "You're not acting like yourself and Hadrian wouldn't-" Tom's eyes widened at the name but quickly pointed his wand at the other 

"Don't you dare say his name. You don't have the right to say that name!" Orion pointed his wand back at him as he pushed the other two back "We have every right! You aren't the only who grieved Riddle, we all did! Do you honestly think that he would've wanted this?"

"Shut up what would you know, you didn't know him like I do." his grip on his wand was so strong that his knuckles turned white "We might not know him as much as you did but we were still his friends and..."

The boy turned away from them "Riddle, please, you have to see reason. He wouldn't want this." and he walked away.

Upon making it to his room he quickly opened the drawer in his nightstand and opened the letter one more time, sitting down on the floor...

"Where do I go from here, if your not around?" he asked "We were supposed to grow up together." he said

"Can I even tell what happened to you?" the other asked "When I wasn't even there with you." the other said

"Why does this always happen to us?" he asked "Why can't we just be happy" the other asked

"Was it too much to ask?"

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...

he is tom and the other is harry... very very sad (at least to me that is)

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

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