"Blood will be split and there's no changing that. Let it be mine and not yours." Marlene Kostrova is destined to kill Tom Riddle. She could learn to love him, admire and adore him, but she cannot escape the fate that one day she will have to murder him in cold blood to end the Slytherin bloodline. started: approx. June 24, 2025 first published: March 12, 2026 completed: this didn't start off as a tom riddle fanfic and more so was written to encapsulate the feeling of being friends with the knights of walpurgis... but i think it's just slowly became a tom fic so i might as well commit to that? also not very structured