The Reason- Chapter One

Winter, a point in time where the sun holds very little rays of light, as the night grows longer and longer everyday. Caused the people to retire to their homes earlier than before. Children going back to their homes in need of shelter from the cold. Where they hang their soaked wet coats up to dry by the fireplace, receiving hot chocolate from their mothers.

Each house looked like a ginger bread house, each one she passed. Looking into the windows of few to see almost the same thing happen before in the other house. Causing her heart to break that she will never have a mother to do that for her, nor a father, for she is an orphan. Alone in this cold time, wearing a thin-layered coat and clothes that barely kept her warm.

Hogsmeade was where he found the child. He didn't expect to find a child, a girl to be correct, out and about when twilight started to claim the sky. To him, she looked thinner than any other Hogsmed child he had seen before. From the clothing that he could see on the child, they were thin as his shirt that he wore under his robes. Barely anything there. He wasn't the one who took pity on people, but something about this child had gotten his attention, and nothing else.

He dare to walk up to the child, for he isn't the most 'welcome' guest in this town, nor any other wizardry town for his dark crimes he had caused. But then remembering who he is, and how powerful he is, he could simply take out who ever dared to stand in his way. Slowly walking up behind the child, he looked with in the same window she did, and watch as the other children played with their toys and drink their hot chocolates as their father read the evening paper and the mother playing with the children.

"Where are you parents?" he finally asks as he broke the silence between them. Looking down at the child, only then to see two pair of grey eyes looking back up to his red ones.

"Th-they were killed a summer ago." The child spoke softly and turned her attention back to the family in the window. Pushing back lose strands of hair that fell from behind her ear. He was shocked at how the child didn't start crying at the thought that she would never see her parents again. He felt a soft pain in his chest, as he knew that it was probably one of his death eaters that killed her parents. Shaking his coat off, he placed it around the girl's small shoulders. She barely stood tall enough that her head barely reach his hips; she must have been younger than he thought she was.

"How old are you dear one?"

She held up five small fingers to him, he didn't know what to do, but he didn't want to leave the child behind for some other pathetic creature to take the child, but he wonder even more how she even survived this long on her own.

"Would you like to come live with me?" he ask as he got onto one knee to be the same height, or near the same height as the poor girl. He saw her nod her head in agreement. Picking the child up slowly in his arms, she laid her head on the mans shoulder, pressing her cold nose up to his warm neck. He held a soft smile on his face as he walked away from the window and from all the other houses, where then he walked away from the town. Forgetting why he even went to that town in the first place.

"What is your name, little one?" he asked as he looked into the girl's blank face, wondering if she would come up with something funny and ignorant.

"Draconis Rose Thomas" she finally said after a few minutes of wondering what it was, truth to be told, she hadn't used that name in a long time- only for there was no one to call her by her name. And she loved her name. She knew 'Draconis' means 'Dragon' and Thomas meant 'Twin' in Greek. She felt special because of her name, because she was the only in her family who had that type of name. But she didn't know why she had a different last name from her parents.

"What a strange name for a petit fille like you." He said softly, throwing a few unknown words in her way, to see how smart this child was.

"Small girl?" she replied within seconds after he spoke those words to her.

"Very good, and how did you know that?" he kept walking on with the child, not caring where his feet took him, as long as he was in conversation with the girl, to learn more about her.

"Mum went to a special school in France. But father went to a school some where's else." She said as she yawned in front of him. "What is your name?"

"It's… Tom, Tom Marvolo Riddle. But I mostly go by several different names, young one." He replied, not wanting to give out his current name to the little one, in fear that she would scream in horror of who he is. "You're rather a smart little girl, aren't you?"

"Mummy and daddy wanted me to learn at an earlier age." She explained as she begins to yawn bigger this time, making soft moaning noises also with that yawn.

"Sleep little one" Tom said, as he tightens his grip on the little Draconis that lay sleepiest in his arms. Falling into a deep sleep as he hummed her a lullaby that he heard once in a great time ago.

As he hummed onward, the girl made very little movements within his grasp. 'A tired little thing she is' he thought to his self in amusement, only to be a little frightened of why she wasn't. Soon he would have to get back to the Manor to then find a caretaker for the little one. The more he thought about it, the more he wonder what family she belonged to. He didn't remember there every being a pure blood family that held 'Thomas' as their last name. But then again, he never heard any half blood families with that last name either. 'Muggle born? No, she couldn't be that, only half bloods and pure bloods are allowed to live in the wizardry world, unless they are at age and the muggle born can also live with in the wizardry world' he continue his thoughts.

But it didn't matter what blood the child had, he will find out soon and when he finds she has witches blood within her veins, she will become his only heir. He will teach her everything that he knew. 'Draconis Rose Thomas Riddle?' he question himself, wondering if he should even give the child his muggle last name. 'No, that fool Dumbledore will try to use her against me.' He finally thought as he agreed to keep it the way it is, but he will need another person's thought about it first.