Three days passed since the first victim, three days passed since she woke up in Tom's room, yet in these three days a third year, Gryffindor was blamed for the crime, since the boy kept an Acromantula as his pet . Hagrid was expelled, but with the help of Dumbledore, who had more power in the Ministry than in the school, made him a gamekeeper.
The sun had already gone to rest, the moon taking his place as the darkness began to surround the castle, when Melyssa was returning from his hut. She was sure that not the half-giant and his pet were guilty for the murder. Also Tom wanted to get rid of her, and her questions, also he warned her to stay in her room, or at least the common room during the night. She didn't have the time to find to much information about the huge spiders. And if she wanted to find something about a poison, then who was better than Horace Slughorn?
She was ready to knock at the door when she heard voices. Tom was there speaking with the professor:
"And how exactly does one split his soul?"
"Well, you must understand that the soul is supposed to remain intact and whole. Splitting it is an act of violation, it is against nature."
"But how do you do it?"
"By an act of evil — the supreme act of evil. By committing murder. Killing rips the soul apart. The wizard intent upon creating a Horcrux would use the damage to his advantage: he would encase the torn portion —" Then Mellysa knew that she heard to much, turning on her heels she started to run towards the dungeons, but it was too late. He grabbed her forearm and turned her. Anger filled his eyes, the air around him was macabre.
"How much have you heard? I know that you are not as foolish as all these bloody idiots around the castle."
"I...I.."she sutured a bit, before he grabbed her neck. Pain scooped the air from her throat. Shock made it impossible to speak. There was a cry on her lips, horror in her eyes.
He let her go.
"What happened to you, Tom?" she whispered, as he was staring at the red mark that he let on her slender neck.
He did hurt her.
He frightened her.
"You did it, Riddle. You got rid of me. I hope that you'll have a happy life, but from what I know, you won't." she spoke as she turned to leave.
She knew very well that he was most of the time in a black mood, but to think that he would even...Tears filled her eyes, as she was running threw the corridors.
"Melyssa, stop! " she heard him yell after her, she could hear his footsteps while he was running after her, and then a shadow passed before her. Melyssa stopped in her tracks, as she saw it. A huge snake, remembering what he told her, she closed her eyes, as she heard Riddle say something in some unknown language.
'Parseltongue' she thought.
"I warned you to not go out tonight. Come with me, I'll tell you the truth." he started to drag her
"My mother was a pure-blood, but my father was a muggle-born. She made a love potion and gave it to him. Years later, she was pregnant, and the effect worn off, he left her. My mother gave birth in an orphanage and died minutes later." he began, they were in the Come and Go Room, so there was no way that someone would bother them" I was different from the other children, even as a baby I wasn't crying much. And the children born from these kinds of marriages, are incapable of feeling."
Melyssa was staying on a couch, watching Tom's every move, she wasn't able to wrap her mind around what she was hearing.
"She was a direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin, also a Parselmouth. I found out all of this in the previous years at Hogwarts. The Chamber of Secrets is not just a story, and that was the monster who was closed in it. I have to purge the place of mud-bloods." he started to walk around the room.
"I made my first Horcrux, when that girl was killed. I wanted to make sure that it was done."
"Horcrux? You are saying that you blamed Hagrid just for the fact that Dippet wanted to close the school? You were the one that killed that girl? You are saying that is your fault that today I saw my death twice? And your excuse is the fact that you have read in a book that you are incapable of loving?" Melyssa stood up speaking, she was calm, yet she didn't know what to feel, fear, anger, or mercy.
Tom was expecting her to threw threats and run to tell the truth, or at least he expected her to cry.
"Tom, are you sure? I don't think that just because you read it in a book it's true. I mean, the part with the feelings. Maybe you wanted to get rid of me, but let me tell you something. I'm not going anywhere. And since you can't look at the bright side, I'll stay with you in the dark." Melyssa threw her arms around his torso, waiting for something, a small smile on her lips. Maybe she was able to change him.
"Also, to die will be an awfully big adventure. But you have to close that snake."
Melyssa looked at his demons in the eye and smiled. She accepted and embraced every thing he thought she'd fear. And it was true, at first she was scared of him, but that fear was gone.
A chuckle escaped from his lips, as he hugged her.
