He was gone. He was gone.
Maybe that was why she thought it was just a hallucination, at first. Surely, surely, he couldn't be back, not so soon. Please, not so soon.
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Ginevra, don't you miss me? I was a wonderful friend, always listening to your troubles. Don't you miss me, Ginevra?
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No. No, no, no, no, NO! Go away, please, please, GO AWAY! You were a terrible friend, the worst in history.
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The second time it happened, she didn't know what to think. She was going crazy, maybe. She'd prefer it, really. Prefer it to having him come back.
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Why so mean, Ginevra, why so cold?
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Why so false, Riddle, why so fake? You tried to kill me.
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By the third time, she realized it. She was insane. That was the only solution. But no one would know, no could ever know, because they had already been hurt enough.
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You wound me. You've grown up, I see, much older now, so cautious. Pity. Do you know something? I haven't. Not years, as you have. Not months, not weeks, not days, not hours, not minutes. Not a single second.
Won't you pity me, Ginevra? Won't you trust me?
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She couldn't honestly remember when keeping it a secret became her only problem with it. She never trusted him, no, she was not so foolish. Not this time.
But, she would reply to him, whenever he was lonely. She pitied him.
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Won't you give, just a little bit more to me? Won't you let me age? Let me live?
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No. How about I tell you a story, Riddle? Of a trusting little girl and her diary. Yes, you know what I'm talking about. You know how it ends, as well.
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He would ask, every time. She even remembered that he'd begged once or twice.
She never relented.
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One day little Ginny Weasley-Potter was found dead in her bathroom, her wrists slit and sitting in a puddle of her own blood.
She was 87 years old and Tom Riddle sat next to her, frowning, invisible, and forever 16.
"And that was the end of her, though not Tom. Some say that he stills roams the earth, scowling and bitter, kicking puppies and spitting on rainbows. And eating little children, of course."
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"You're just kidding, right, Grandma Luna?"