Disclaimer: It all belongs to Jo.
Summary: Merope Gaunt is determined to get what she desires, at whatever cost.
A/N: Cecilia is the name of the girl who was riding in the carriage with Tom Sr.
A/N2: Another repost, I know, but I hate to let this stuff just sit in files in my computer.
Cupidity
She is not even that pretty.
Yes, I'm no jewel either, I know; my dear, dear brother has informed of that enough. But Tom, my Tom, deserves better. Cecilia. What an absolutely ghastly name.
I've seen the way she looks at him, oh yes I have. She is a dirty slut, eyeing him like candy. I would treat Tom better. I would give him what he wanted, whatever he wanted. If only he'd look away from that filthy witch and see me, blood of Slytherin, in all my glory.
Oh, yes. She is no doubt entrancing him with her false beauty. Well, two can play at that game. She may be a witch by nature, but I am a witch by blood and by name.
I will bewitch Tom, to free him from the whore's tricky tricks, for he cannot so deeply love her once he has discovered me. I will teach him what true love is.
And we will have a child so he won't be able to leave me for Cecilia once I let up the enchantment, and it will be a son, I can feel it.
Our son will look like his handsome father, I know. And I will call him Tom. Tom Marvolo Riddle. He will be great, and his name will not be forgotten, for he will be the son of I, Merope Gaunt, daughter of Slytherin; and Tom Riddle, the handsome boy who knows as well as you and I that Cecilia is a babbling fool.