Blood. There was a lot of blood. So warm and thick and his. Pouring out through the wound that would kill him. He could feel it. The acidic venom that was spreading through his veins like wildfire. He would die today. He accepted that. What he did not accept was dying alone. Tom Riddle would die today. He would die with Harry. For Harry would accept nothing less. If a twisted mutation such as Tom Riddle could die.
He would save Ginny. He'd been fascinated by the red haired witch since he first saw her at Kings Cross Station almost two years ago. He was her hero. He would save her. He had to. He refused to disappoint her.
Ideas flashed through his head at light speed. He started moving before he was fully conscious of what he was doing. Clumsy fingers grasped at what would be the weapon that ended his life. How poetic would it be that it would also be the weapon that ended the existence of Tom Riddle.
The boy in question stood off to the side, leaning casually against the statue of Salazar Slytherin, the slain basilisk at his feet. Had another observed this scene it would be he who would appear to have slain the beast. A heroic image for a decidedly less than heroic being. Tom taunted Harry as it was in his nature to do so, bragging about his greatness and Harry's inevitable death. Insults and taunts that fell on deaf ears. Harry was focused solely on gathering the last of his strength for a final move.
Exhausting his energy, Harry rapidly raised his arm before plunging the large fang into heinous diary that brought death and destruction with it. The diary of a soul who had lost himself to the darkness.
The effects were instaneous. Tom Riddle started shrieking. Shrieks of desperation and fear. "What have you done you miserable little mud blood?" The shrieks went unheard as the only one conscious enough to hear them was barely that.
Harry collapsed, his body hitting the floor with a dull thud. A blind hand reaching out for Ginny's and gripping it as tight as he could muster once he'd located it.
Slowly, Harry let the world go black around himself.