Tom Riddle began working at Borgin and Burkes directly after graduating with the full intent of gaining more knowledge and having free rein to practice his darker interest. However, when Chiara Romano walks into the antique shop asking for a job he finds himself thrown slightly askew from his agenda. COMPLETED [Tom Riddle/Original Female Character]

"You're Bellatrix's daughter." "Isn't that unfortunate for the both of us?" At Hogwarts, names are everything. And Elara Lestrange wears hers like a curse. She knows how to disappear. She's been doing it her whole life - in shadows, behind her name, between the pages of stories that always end in ash. And George Weasley is everything she was taught to despise. But war is a patient thing. And hatred makes a strangely faithful companion - until it doesn't. How many times can you say goodbye before it counts as love?