This is an oneshot I thought of doing for a while, since I can't get very far in Magiked. I though about Voldemort when I was watching the Harry Potter movies over the weekend, and his childhood so I read parts of HBP again and wrote this. It took about 20 minutes so it might be short, but whatever.

Tom.

Tom Riddle.

Tom Marvolo Riddle.

My name. My former name. My former self.

It makes me wonder….

If I had kept my name, if the anger within me stayed just that- within, would I be the same person? The perfect student, high marks on all subjects, Head Boy, receiver of the Award for Special Services to the School, among other things?

Would my mother have stayed alive if the evil within me didn't exist? Would she have taken me in or still leave me abandoned in an orphanage for 11 years?

Would I have killed my father if he accepted my mother for who she was? If he knew what I was?

No, I'd kill him either way because he is a muggle. I probably would have killed my mother as well. It's because of these two, my mother and father that I've turned down this road. Because of them, the world must pay for their actions.

And what of the world?

Would the world be different if Lord Voldemort, heir of Salazar Slytherin, killer of muggles and mudbloods, master of horcruxes, had never been there? Would Europe tremble in fear of another? Would another name strike fear into the greatest wizards and witches of the age as mine does?

At some point this would have happened. Rather it'd be sooner than later.

The house of Slytherin ends with me. I am the last descendant of Salazar Slytherin. Would he love me for killing mudbloods and muggles, purifying the wizarding community? Or despise me for being the son of a muggle and spineless squib? Because I am not of pureblood descent like my family before me. I can only know in death.

Harry Potter.

We have some things in common don't we? Both half-bloods and both from well known families.

Yes, I know of the Potters. I know the prophecy as well. 'Neither can live while the other survives.' Tonight, the prophecy will be fulfilled. The Potters shall die and I unstoppable.

Tom Marvolo Riddle

I AM LORD VOLDEMORT

Yes, I'm done. I know it wasn't long but I tried, and I'll probably fix it later once I get reviews. For those of you wondering when chapter 3 of Magiked will be up (sighs) I can't tell. My classes will be switching soon and none of my next classes have computers except Journalism and I might switch out of that. One of the downfalls of going to a four block school. Good news? Well, I might be getting another a computer at home. I have one but I don't use it because it's as old as me (15 years old). I can do some stuff there. Why am I babbling? You guys are still reading? Whatever, bye.