A Black Riddle // Tom Riddle // 2020 Fanfiction Edition

Uploading randomly, written in 2020 edited 2026

Older boys always seemed more appealing.

They knew how to cook. How to take care of themselves. How to say the right thing at the right moment. They carried themselves with a confidence that made them seem untouchable.

But people rarely talked about the other side of that attraction.

Some could pull you apart piece by piece without ever raising their voice. They could make you question your own thoughts, your own choices, until you no longer recognised the person staring back at you in the mirror. Not because they changed your appearance, but because they changed everything underneath it.

Love could be intoxicating. Dangerous. Addictive.

Tom Marvolo Riddle had only ever been interested in one person.

A girl who was fascinated by fear, yet hated feeling afraid.

A girl who wanted to be strong enough to withstand pain, yet dreaded being hurt.

Their relationship was not healthy. It was not safe. It was a slow-burning chemical reaction destined to become something volatile.

They were each other's poison.

Each other's obsession.

And neither of them knew how to let go.