they were dressed in flames and snakeskin, they were afire and serpentine.

Azalea glared at the smug man in front of her. "So, why have you suddenly decided to start barking orders at me?" she asked icily. "I have a task for you," Tom replied, his observant gaze sweeping over Azalea. "A task?" she inquired with a raised eyebrow. "Sounds dreadfully boring."

"my bones are stained with sins, scorched from fires, broken by betrayal, cold in loneliness, soaked in blood, and still we keep fighting." ~ Kenna Karamakov is just trying to leave. Leave the family home she grew up in that was never really hers, leave the school she never belonged to and leave her own mind. However, she still has two more years at Hogwarts and hopes they go along fast. But Kenna never gets what she hopes for. When Dumbledore offers her a proposition she can't resist, Kenna is thrown into the twisted world of Tom Marvolo Riddle. Kenna soon learns that once you get into the mind of the dark orphan, it's near impossible to get out. Yet, does she want to get out? Or has she finally found someone who carves darkness as much as her?

Have you ever wondered what life at Hogwarts was really like for Tom Riddle, known by his darker moniker Lord Voldemort? How did he manage juggling life as a student while simultaneously plotting his immortality and tyrannical reign over the Wizarding world? Corinne Carrow, a shy Slytherin witch with a famous family lineage, was certainly not your typical cunning Slytherin. She was the outcast of her very reputable Pureblood family. Throughout her years at Hogwarts, Corinne wasn't fond of socializing much among her peers. That is, until she reached her 6th year, when fate led her to reestablish a friendship with the notorious and tragically handsome Tom Riddle. A complete opposite of Corinne, Tom was an intimidating and brooding character with expertise in the art of persuasion and manipulation. Though for some strange reason, Corinne found herself quite intrigued by him. While everyone else feared Tom and viewed him as potentially dangerous, Corinne overlooked this and saw straight through his dark ways. You may think you know the tragic story of the troubled orphan boy who would eventually become the most feared and immensely powerful Dark wizard in the world. But what you don't know is that the young Dark Lord happened to have one particular companion; one he may have even loved. So if Tom Riddle inadvertently defied his own loveless nature despite all impossibility, what made him not change his ways for Corinne? What made him instead enter a much darker route in life that led him to become the Dark Lord? This is the alternate story of Tom Marvolo Riddle, before he was Voldemort.