Secrets of Erised - Part Four
Time Frame - Tom Riddle's fourth year
Tom Riddle ran mercilessly through the hallways, hoping he would not be caught for his latest crime. Currently In his fourth year and bursting with arrogance, he had cursed Maria Todd's brades into tentacles that were now attacking her face. That's what she gets for not lending me her quill, he thought with a smirk.
He ducked into a classroom to avoid detection, scanning the room for a desk to hide under, but instead was drawn to the large standing mirror in the center of the room. Something-Erised, it read on the frame. The rest was undistinguishable.
He peered into the grame, hoping to catch another glance of his handsome self when something else caught his attention immediately.
It was him, but different. His eyes were scarlet, his nose was slitted. A long snake was settled on his shoulders. His skin was paler than bone and stretched tight against his skull. Around him, a circle of wizards in masks stood, almost bowing. A green skull hung in the air with a snake crawling out of its mouth. There was a boy with a scar; the Tom in the mirror was pressing a wand slowly towards the boy's chest, hoping to cast the curse that would end his life-
The real Tom smiled. What new magic was this?
The future. This was the future. He would be this, this overlord, with his followers, and he would kill this boy that threatened him. He would rule over Wizardkind. He couldn't recognize the boy, but he felt a new surge of hatred towards him for no reason at all.
He watched as the boy slumped, dead, glasses flying off as the jet of green light penetrated his body, the wand in the caster's hand different than his current yew-and-phoenix-feather. He watched as the hundred of bodies he had surely killed fill the frame, suddenly feeling like laughing. It felt great to know that he would have this much power when the time came.
He sauntered out of the classroom, a new sparkle in his eye that had nothing to do with Maria Todd. Nothing, not even Dumbledore, would keep him out of this room tonight.
A/N: Sorry it's so short, but I couldn't think of what else Tom would see other than being powerful. I liked how this turned out, because if it were a part of the true series it would all make sense. He might have grown to be nothing more than a bully if he had not known that what he saw might come true. It would also kind of explain why Dumbledore told Harry not to go looking for the Mirror of Erised again; it might have been because he did not want Harry to misunderstand like Tom Riddle had. Idea inspired by Luna Leo. By the way, Tom finds it in a classroom because I don't think it would have been moved before Harry discovered it.
