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Aurelia slipped into the abandoned classroom, torchlight trembling across the stone. Tom stood at the center, posture immaculate, still as a drawn wand. He didn't turn when the door clicked shut.
"You're late," he said-cool, measured, intentionally provoking.
Aurelia approached with unhurried precision. "Precision requires privacy. Privacy requires time."
"I don't require excuses," Tom murmured, finally facing her. His gaze swept over her-clinical, deliberate, lingering just long enough to betray intent. "And you enjoy offering them anyway."
She let a faint smile unfold, calculated sweetness over steel. "If I didn't challenge you, you'd grow bored"
Tom stepped closer, the air tightening. The faint trace of cinnamon from his last spell mixed with something warmer-him. "You've been shifting alliances in Slytherin."
"Observation," she countered, brushing a fingertip across a desk. "Not confession."
He caught her wrist, precise and controlled, yet unmistakably possessive. "You maneuver around me as though I'll tolerate it."
Her breath softened-not yielding, but assessing. "You haven't stopped me."
His eyes darkened, calculation giving way to something hungrier. "Not yet."
Aurelia's pulse betrayed her, quick and sharp. "Because you like the game."
His smirk cut clean through the space between them.
"Only when it looks at me the way you are right now."
(Tom riddle and all other character other than my oc belong to jk rowling)