"The Serpent's Teeth"
(A Tom Riddle love story)

12th April 1945
Sunday

Again.
Again I hang puking over the toilet bowl.

I was feeling alright
yesterday after lunch!

"Hazel?"
"I'll be out in a minute!"
I shout through the door.

Why must he be awake?
Can't he sleep longer than me for a change?
It's only six o'clock on a Sunday!

The whole castle, ghosts excluded, is still in deep slumber.
Not even the sun is anywhere to be seen yet, even though the sky already lost its blackness.

Following the same procedure as yesterday I come out of the bathroom.
Tom is already holding out a teacup for me.
His expressionless gaze wanders along my face.

I smile weakly at him.
"I think I should take a bath to relax."
"Good idea," he agrees with me.
"I'll bring you some clothes."

Thankfully smiling I go with the cup in hand into the bathroom only taking of my shirt and pants.
Reluctantly, I stand before the mirror.
Nothing.
I can't say really tell if I've gained weight, or if my breasts are fuller than before.
Slowly I look down at myself ... and freeze.
Slowly I lift my leg and stare at the bluish vein.
Spider veins.
Startled, I back off from the mirror and try to stop myself from panicking.
Many girls at my age have spider veins.
This is due to growth.
Maybe I've grown or have strained some muscles from carrying around heavy books.
This would also explain the slight body aches, that I've been having lately.
That must be it.

Slowly, I let myself slide into the soothing water, as there is a knock at the door.

"Come in!"

Tom opens the door and gives me one of his rare smiles.
He places my clothes far enough away from the bathtub so that they won't getwet, and crouches down beside my head.

"Can I do anything for you?"

I shake my head.
"No. Unless you want to keep me company."
"Not now," he tenderly kisses the back of my head.
"Malfoy is waiting outside. Get dressed before you leave the bathroom. "

"Will do," I beam at him and frown immediately annoyed after the door shuts close behind him.

Malfoy.
Great.
That means that the rest of Toms followers will also be here soon.
I want to have as little as possible to do with his gang.

Oh well...
I'll just have to play the perfect housewife for Tom.
Or the born Death Eater?
Or maybe I should just be myself?

After all Tom an I are officially dating.
Everybody knows who I am.
If I act differently now, they will realize it.
So, better not.

I'll just enjoy the silence and the warm water for now.

I praid my still wet hair into a side braid and enter the living room smiling weakly.

Iwas right.
Meanwhile, not only Malfoy is present.

"Hello," I welcome them and sit down next to Tom, who has turned the chair in to couches.

"Am I disturbing you?"
"No," Tom replies and lightly swinging the red wine in his glass.
"Do you want a drink?"
"No thank you," I decline and smile in to the round.

Malfoy, Mulciber, Lestrange,Dolohov, Avery, Rookwood, Nott, Cygnus and Orion Black, two fourth-year Slytherin, no idea if they are twins, or cousins ​​and Alphard Black, a sixth-year have gathered in Tom's living room.
Aside drom the three minors all have a glass of wine in hand.
And all of them are Death Eaters.

Does siting here with them make me a traitor?
After all, I'm dating Tom and secretly spying on him at the same time.

Through my betrayal I'd be making sure that he will be defeated.
If he is really hiding a Horcrux in the Room of Requirement.
I will not betray him.
I cherish the presumption that I am the only person he trusts.

Maybe I should stay in this time and stop him...
Show him that what he is doing is wrong?
But how should I do it?
He has no conscience.
Muggles are animals in his eyes, but they also kill without need.
They are worth less to him than house-elves.

What are Snape and Dumbledore thinking?
Why did they send me here?
Should I be doing a lot more than what they told me?
Did they know more than what they told me?

Who can I trust?

What if Tom is the only one who is real and honest in my world?
Isn't honesty something that means more to me than anything else?
And Tom is honest with his opinion.
He is fighting for his goa.
Isn't that what all of us want?

Shouldn't I be proud of him?
Consider myself lucky that he wants only me?

What do I want for my life?
Stop time, but that isn't possible.
I can't stay with Tom forever at Hogwarts.
We also need to grow up.

But the thought of a future without Tom seems so empty to me.
So unspeakably empty.
I would rather go down with him than to be without him.

What would my life be without him?

A farce.
A nothing.

My place is at his side.
But I don't want to be a murderer.
I don't want to be a Death Eater.
I could never proudly accept the atrocities that happen under his rule.
I don't want to live in his world.

I want to live in a peaceful world.
In a peaceful world with Tom.

My life seems to have turned a hundred and eighty degrees, since I'm here.
There are so many new impressions that I can't cope with.
So many unrealizable desires.
I have to decide.
Time is short, I have to slowly make a decision.

But one question haunts always around in my head.

Who am I?
Who is this young woman who looks at me in the mirror?
How do I decide on something if I don't know for whom I'm doing it?
What is the right thing for these people?

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A/N:
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