A.N. Hey guys, this is my second crack at a TMR-OC fix. I wrote my first one, A Twist in Time, which had been my first and main inspiration, but I couldn't get enough of Tom Riddle (just love him so much, but I can't explain it. Is it normal?), and I tend to write better with OCs, where I have more room for creativity, as opposed to having Ginny or Hermione, the two main female leads opposite of TMR, since there already so many good ones for them out there and all the ideas seem to be taken. Anyway, give this a try. Enjoy! Well...maybe not at first...

"Crucio," a male voice said lightly. Sarah braced herself for the intense pain that she knew she would feel, but nothing could have prepared her for this. She had always been sensitive to pain, not having a very high tolerance for it, and now she was being hit by a pain so intense it was blinding. All other senses shut down, and the only thing she felt was the sensation of white-hot knives peeling away at every inch of her skin. Her back arched against the pain, and her body twitched involuntarily, as if trying to shake it off. Not...real...she managed to think. Her mind was a haze, but she tried to tell herself this. Nothing...is...wrong. This...won't...kill...me... That was all she could think, and her mind repeated this. It was all she could hold on to, the thought that her body wasn't actually being mutilated beyond repair, and so the pain held no real meaning. All of a sudden, the endless hell was over. She vaguely heard her torturer hit the ground with a grunt. With infinite effort, she turned her head to see who her savior was, the effort feeling like pushing at a wall. Sarah managed a small smile of recognition at the sight of the features that were so familiar to her.

"Thanks," she managed, but that was too much for her. She faded out of consciousness, the last thing she saw being two hands reaching out for her.