Aidenet Potter sat with her boyfriend-in-disguise, Tom Riddle, in 12 Grimmauld Place. Her godfather, Sirius Black, was glaring at the blonde Tom Riddle. That was until he was bonked on the head with a book, note and a few certain people faceplanted onto the floor. "James! What the actual hell?" The redhead yelled at the ravenette. "Lily-Flower, why do you always assume it's me?" 'James' whined to her. "Because it usually is.." 'Lily' was cut off by Aiden coughing. "Who are you and where are we..?" Lily forgot about her previous statement and showed her confusion. "I'm Aidenet, or Aiden, Potter... This is Remus Lupin," she pointed at the werewolf on her right. "Sirius Black," she pointed at the animagus on her left. "And my boyfriend, Tom Riddle," she pointed at the blonde. "And you're in Grimmauld Place. I think, however, a better question is when are you but.. Who are you?" The female ravenette inquired. "James Potter.." The hazel-eyed-ravenette shouted, causing the future trio's eyes to tear up. "Lily Evans." The redhead spoke calmy, making whatever dam was holding Aiden's tears fell and she finally broke down against Tom. "But like you said, when are we?" James asked. "You're in 1995... Oh Prongs.. What did you do this time..?" Sirius answered. "Anyway, let's just read these books."

"Riddled, chapter one," Sirius started. "The diary of TM Riddle. Hmm."

~Aidenet Potter walked down the side walk in London behind her classmates with her head down. They were there on a mandatory field trip that the Dursleys couldn't prevent her from going on.~

"Aiden, why are we talking about my sister's boyfriend?" Lily asked. "You'll see.."

~Aidenet, or Aiden as she preferred to be called, was actually having a good time for once, despite being forced to walk at the back of the class without a partner like everyone else.~

"Why..?" Sirius growled. "Because. Now hush."

~It was intended to be humiliating, but Aidem preferred things this way. No partner meant no one to pick on her, no one to pull her hair, no one to call her names, no one to spill things on her. ~

"Dearest.. Why didn't you tell me?" Tom growled. "Because I know you'd kill them and we can't have that happening."

~She enjoyed being alone. It was the way she had always been, and, she thought bitterly, the way she was likely to always be if the Dursleys had any say.~

"Well them Dursleys can shove what they say up their rears." Tom, yet again, growled.

~Looking up, she realized she had started to lag behind, walking quickly to catch up, she saw a black book lying on the ground out of the corner of her eye.~

"Dearest... You found my diary.. On the floor..?" Tom whispered in her ear. "Yes. I did." Aiden whispered back.

~Aiden figured she was already behind enough, it wouldn't hurt to stop and pick it up. And so she did, shoving it in her backpack while running to catch up to her classmates.

This small moment changed things irrevocably. Had she not picked it up, some minutes later when a pissy blonde man with an ugly sneer on his face would have realised he'd dropped it and begun retracing his steps and found it just outside of a dingy pub called The Leaky Cauldron. However this was not to be. And so, the fate of the Wizarding World changed forever.~

"Well that was epic. And that description of Lucius? Beautiful, Bambi."

~It wasn't until later in her cupboard under the stairs~

"Hold up... You made the daughter of James Potter and Lily Evans sleep in a cupboard under the stairs?" Remus shouted in outrage, Moony growling inside as it wasn't the full moon

~that Harry had the chance to examine her find. Using a torch she had stolen from Dudley's second bedroom, she eagerly took in the notebook. The black book's cover was worn, but appeared to be expensive.~

"He had a second bedroom?" Tom exclaimed in anger.

~Turning it over, she saw the printed name of a newsagents in Vauxhall Road, London and a date from roughly fifty years ago.

"Interesting. Must be an old journal of someone's. Should provide some entertainment," she mumbled to herself.~

"I see where you're coming from, Bambi." James and Sirius commented.

~She opened it and saw the first page had nothing written, except for the name "T. M. Riddle" in smudged ink. Turning the page, she saw it was blank. Flipping through the rest of the pages, the black haired girl saw they were also blank.~

"Damn. Blank pages in a diary? Weird." Remus thought aloud.

~"How boring. Might as well use it for myself though." She decided.~

'Here we go' Tom thought.

~Digging through her blankets, she pulled out a worn down pencil.~

"Wow. You stored a pencil?" Lily asked in disbelief. "Course. Homework. Duh." Aiden said as if it was obvious.

~My name is Aidenet Lily Potter and I am 9 years old. She wrote. I have shoulder length, black hair that gets too messy to grow out any further, even though I'd love to have longer hair. If I grow it any longer, it turns into a rat's nest. I have green eyes and a lightning bolt scar on my forehead. I'm told by my aunt it was from the car crash my parents died in. The crash was my dad's fault, according to her. He was driving drunk. ~

"Uhm... What? We died in a car crash?" Lily asked, shocked. "No. It was a lie." Aiden corrected.

~Aiden paused in thought. She wasn't sure if she believed that or not, though whether her parents had been sober or not, she wished they'd been more careful.~

"You doubted them?" Tom started. Aiden nodded. "Damn..."

~Maybe if they had been she wouldn't have ended up living with her fat uncle, Vernon, her horse faced aunt, Petunia, and their hell spawn, Dudley.~

"Oh god! Those descriptions of them were amazing!" James, Lily, Tom and Sirius laughed out.

~While she pondered this, she didn't notice the paragraph she'd written begin to fade into blankness. When she looked again, she blanched at the empty page.~

"Uhm.. That could be two things. A horecrux or one of those diaries from the Grindelwald war..." James commented, not noticing the nervous glances Aiden and Tom shared.

~"What on Earth...?" she muttered. "Aunt Petunia would definitely consider this something freakish."~

"Hah. No." Remus laughed.

~Maybe this diary belonged to someone like her. A freak. Maybe there were more freaks than just her and her deceased parents.~

"Dearest, you aren't a freak." Tom growled out.

~I am a freak.~

"No! You're not." Sirius yelled.

~She wrote and then waited. Sure enough, her messy scrawl soon faded from the page. However, instead of remaining blank, words in an elegant script faded in.

Why do you say that? The diary asked~

"Fair point. Why?" Remus asked confused.

~My Aunt Petunia told me I'm one. She wrote back hesitantly. I make freaky things happen. Once when the girls at school were chasing me I jumped and ended up on the school roof. Another time my Aunt tried to cut my hair really short so it wouldn't be so "unsightly" but it grew back to its normal length over night.~

"You just can't tame the Potter hair." James joked, causing Aiden to smile weakly. 'Lupus said the exact same thing. So did Haylee'

~You are not a freak, Aidenet. From the sounds of things, you're a witch.~

"Big reveal!" Sirius and James said in a 'mysterious' tone.

~That's not very nice to say. Aiden frowned.~

Aiden blushed. "I was nine!" Remus laughed. "It's not that.. It's just.. Your mother said the exact same thing."

~On the contrary, dear Aidenet. It is the utmost compliment. You can do magic.~

"Magic..." James and Sirius said in that same 'mysterious' tone.

~Magic? She asked. Is that what this is? This diary I mean?

Yes. The diary wrote back. I am a construct of magic. My name Is Tom Riddle. It's a pleasure to finally meet someone after all this time. May I ask how you came across my diary?~

"Completely forgot I told you, did you?" Aiden whispered to Tom.

~I was on a field trip, the jade eyed girl responded. And I saw your diary lying on the ground. I was curious, so I picked it up. I thought it might belong to one of my classmates. That maybe it held their secrets that I could use to get them to leave me alone.~

"Damn.. Well thought out." James complimented.

~I see. A very good plan. Wrote Tom. A shame that it didn't work out. Do your classmates often harass you?

Yes. They like to chase after me and throw things at me. If they catch me they like to dump their juice and water on me, or take me to the bathroom and dunk my head in the toilet.~

James looked livid. Moony was growling inside Remus and they heard a gunshot from outside.

~I'm sorry you have to experience that, Harriet. The children in the orphanage where I grew up were cruel to me as well.~

They heard another gunshot.

~Really? Why? You grew up in an orphanage? You're a person? Not just a diary?

Because they knew I was different. They didn't like that. Muggles don't like us. They're jealous of us. They fear us. I am indeed a person. I am trapped inside this diary by my own will.~

Another gunshot was heard. Then another. And another.

~Muggles? Aiden asked. It was a strange word. And why would you do that?~

Once more, a few gunshots and a "Bored!" ran through the halls.

~Non-magical people, explained Tom. And my reasons are my own. It is fortunate you found me. I was getting lonely. I hope I'm able to help you, dear Aidenet.~

"Well.... Damn." James whistled.

~Oh. I see... Sorry for asking. Just Aiden is fine, by the way~

Tom kissed the top of Aiden's head.

~I prefer Aidenet, my dear. Aiden... just doesn't seem to do you justice.

Aiden blushed, feeling strangely flattered by the diary's words and desire to help her. Maybe it—he – would. Maybe now she wouldn't be alone any more.~

A laugh sounded through the halls. "Us Potter girls really do fall for the strangest of men, eh?" A new voice said with a giggle. They looked up to see a tall woman, a child, who looked around two, and a tall man. "Lupus...?" Aiden cried. "C'mere lil sis." After a few moments, they returned to the book.

~She was about to respond when a knock at her cupboard door forced her to slam the diary shut and hide it underneath her blankets.

"Girl!" Her aunt's voice screeched. "Get out and make supper. Diddy-Darling is getting hungry!"~

"D.... DIDDY-DARLING?!" Lupus wheezed, the man next to her chuckling.

~"Yes, Aunt Petunia." Aiden moaned.

"Watch your tone, girl. I will not have you disrespect me after everything I've done for you." Petunia snapped at her niece.~

"BITCH! You did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR HER!" Lupus yelled.

~"Sorry, Aunt Petunia." She hastened to apologize, not wanting to get on her aunt's bad side. While things were never pleasant for her, per se, things could always be worse.~

"They couldn't get worse...I'm so sorry for leaving you, little sister." Lupus cried.

~Aiden did almost all the chores around the house. She cooked, she cleaned, she gardened. She wouldn't say she was abused... Neglected emotionally? Yes. For sure. Minor physical neglect? Perhaps. But she wasn't abused. Her aunt and uncle never hit her, nor did her cousin. No one touched her like that either. She got enough to eat, if only barely. She'd occasionally miss a meal as punishment, and sometimes only received bread, water and a multivitamin if she'd recently done anything freaky. Her clothes... they were second hand from the thrift shop, and her aunt often bought them several sizes too big so they'd last as long as possible. It was far from a happy life. But as her aunt and uncle reminded her, she had to be grateful they even took her in. That they didn't send her to an orphanage. So many children and families had it much worse, they reminded her. Of course, when her sisters, Lupus and Haylee, were here, it was much worse. Lupus was touched like... That. Haylee was beaten. And Aiden? Aiden was only two at the time, so all she had to do was help feed Dudley when she wasn't napping.~

The comment on Lupus made the strange man next to her stiffen and wrap a long coat around her.

~That's not to say she wasn't bitter about it. But she knew there was nothing she could do. You can't make people love you and care about you.

Later that night Aiden was back in her cupboard after finally completing all the chores her aunt and uncle wanted her to do. She groped around for her torch and turned it on. She pulled out Tom's diary, grabbed her pencil and began to write.

Sorry I disappeared suddenly Tom. Aunt Petunia made me cook dinner and then clean house. She wrote~

"Our horse of an aunt made you do what?!" Lupus yelled in outrage, the two-year-old in her lap wincing.

~It's alright, wrote Tom. I assumed it was your relatives, Aidenet. Tell me how they treat you.

And so she did. She told him everything. She told him all about herself. She poured her heart into him. And he grew stronger.

In return he told her about the orphanage. How the other children treated him. How the adults did. How eventually, he learned to use his magic to intimidate them and get his revenge.~

"Nice one Tom." Lupus leaned over and whispered, having a sincere smile on her lips.

~Can you teach me? Aiden inquired.

Yes. But it will be difficult. He answered. The earlier you start the better. It is rather simple, though difficult to achieve. You simply have to want something badly enough. That is how accidental magic works. You want something. You wanted to get away from the girls chasing you. You wanted your hair to be a certain length. You have to want, with all your being, something specific. I suggest you make the house shake. Simply think about how badly you want it to. Think about nothing else. Focus on it entirely. Want it with your entire being, and it will happen.

That's it? She asked. That simple? ~

"I wish." Lupus murmured.

~Yes, but it will be difficult. Your magic best responds when you aren't trying to use it. Wandless magic is very difficult to use consciously. Explained Tom.

Why?

I don't know. All I know is that as you get older and your magic develops it will get harder to control without a wand. You're almost too old to have a good chance of using it consciously.~

"Which sucks." James commented.

~But you think I can do it, right? Aiden bit her lip. She wanted to scare her family. She wanted to do fewer chores. She wanted a room. She wanted clothes that fit.

Yes, Aidenet. I think you will. Just practice.~

"I think it's time for introductions.." the blue-haired-female started. "I'm Lupus Fern Potter, this is Sherlock Holmes, by boyfriend, and Rosie, Sherlick's best friend's daughter. I'm also from the future. 2011, to be exact."

~And so she did.

It took her nearly a month of trying to get the house to shake to make any progress. Tom said she was doing well, but she wasn't sure. She giggled at her relatives (for that's what they were, not family, as Tom said) reactions to the house suddenly shaking. It took two months to be able to make it shake within a few minutes of wanting it, and Tom finally felt she was ready to demand a room of her own.~

"Yes! You go lil sis!" Lupus cheered, much to the amusement of those in the room.

~Aiden decided the best time to broach the subject to her relatives was Sunday morning after she had finished making breakfast.

"Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, I'd like to speak to you about something, please." Aiden said in her most formal and polite voice.

"What is it girl?"~

"You.... Damn you Vermin!" Lupus growled, Sherlock hugging her along with the small two-year-old.

~"I want Dudley's second bedroom." The jade-eyed girl demanded~

"You go sis!"

~"Ha! Why would we give it to you, you ungrateful brat? You have a place to sleep, clothes on your back, food on your plate..." Her uncle laughed.~

"You gave her almost nothing!" Lily yelled.

~Aidenet took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She focused on what she wanted. She wanted the house to shake. She wanted to scare her relatives. She wanted nothing more than for the house to shake. It was all she desired. She needed it. More than anything.

And it worked. Within the minute the house started to shake.~

"YYYYYAAAASSS!" Lupus yelled, Sirius and James yelled.

~"Give me Dudley's second room." She demanded, her eyes green ice as she glared at her relatives.

"Wh- stop that! You freak! You're doing this aren't you?" demanded Vernon, his face puce and his voice rough.~

"Ack.." Lupus flinched, Aiden following.

~"Not until you give me Dudley's second bedroom." She replied, her voice firm.

"Don't be ridiculous- you stop that or it's the cupboard for a week with only bread and water!" her aunt threatened in a shrill voice.

"No! Give. Me. Dudley's. Second. Room." As she spoke, her temper rose. This wasn't working.

A vase shattered. Her magic was responding more than she'd anticipated.~

"Damn..." Tom whistled slowly.

~"You ungrateful freak! How dare you do this to us after all we've done for you!" screamed Vernon.

"Give it to me!" Aiden shrieked, and the china in the sink shattered.~

"Oof." Lupus muttered.

~"Mum! Dad! Just give it to her! Make it stop!" whimpered Dudley.

"No Didddy-dums, we can't give in to the freak-" Petunia was cut off by the rest of the china in the cupboards shattering.

"Give it to me or I'll destroy the entire house!" Aiden roared, beyond frustrated. The ceiling cracked. At the rate things were going it wouldn't be long until they gave in. She could feel it.

"Fine! Fine! You can have his second bedroom!" Growled her whale of an uncle. "Just stop this freakish nonsense before you destroy the house!"

"With pleasure." And just like that, the shaking and breaking stopped. She had her room. And it was all thanks to Tom. Boy, would she enjoy it.~

"So... That was eventful." Sirius stated, gazing around the room. "Who is reading next?"