So umm, I started to write some more, here's another chapter to keep you all hungry for more!
"Potter and Weasely better stay in their place if they know what's good for 'em." Abraxas boasted while they were sitting at the Slytherin table in the Great Hall. Tom said nothing to this. Abraxas was full of himself and would soon learn his place. He was not so high and mighty that he could not be shot down to where he belonged, pureblood or not Abraxas was a fool to think that he was an equal with Tom Riddle, much less Lord Voldemort.
Headmaster Dippet talked about a bunch of irrelevant things and sat down. That man was loony. The Slytherins weren't exactly sure just how he became the next headmaster. "Maybe he taught Divination." Izzy joked. "No, muggle studies." Cy laughed with her. Tom had to agree, that man wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
"Meeting tonight. Spread the word." Tom said to Cy who nodded. As the Slytherins were walking down the hallway Izzy said, "I think I'm going to go to the library." Izzy departed with them and went on her way to the library.
Midway through reading in the restricted section due to Professor Merry-Thought's note she found something while tracing back through the family lines of the Founders since she was bored and didn't want to go back into the Room of Requirement. The screaming really gave her a headache.
'Merope Gaunt? Didn't Tom say that was his mother that died while giving birth? Tom's a descendant of Slytherin?' Izzy wrote down what she found and rushed off to the Room of Requirement where they were currently having a meeting.
Izzy entered as quietly as she could with all her excitement contained. Izzy was like the researcher for all Tom's plans. She found out all about everything they needed to know through the library. The best part was that some of the things that weren't in the restricted section had valuable information. It was just that nobody knew that what they found could be of any use to a group of fifth years. They just didn't count on Izzy's keen eyes picking apart every book in the library.
"Tom!" Izzy said, breathing hard. Running halfway across Hogwarts in less than 5 minutes was quite a feat for anyone but Izzy couldn't get this information to Tom fast enough. She knew that he would be happy with what he was about to learn.
"What is it, Izzy?" Tom asked through gritted teeth. It was well known that Tom Riddle did not like to be interrupted. If anyone other than Izzy had burst through the door like that and stopped Lord Voldemort halfway through a sentence…they would be in for it.
"I…found…important…library…" was all that she could get out. Or it was all that anybody caught, Izzy was so out of breath what she said was so hard to make out. "All I got out of that was 'I found important library.'" Crabbe said. "Really? I only caught 'I found'" Goyle replied. "That's because you're too thick to understand words with more than one syllable." Abraxas sighed. "What?" Goyle asked. "I rest my case." Abraxas continued. They didn't notice that Tom was absorbed in another conversation which had muffliato cast around the two, which was probably why they weren't in extreme agony at that moment. The dark lord wasn't there to punish them.
"What did you find?" Tom asked. "Merope…Slytherin…ancestor." Izzy coughed a few times. "Okay, that's better. I was reading through a book about the founders' family line published only a few years before 1926. It appears that Merope Gaunt, if I remember correctly you did say that was your mother?" Izzy asked.
"Yes, she was. Get to the point." Tom said, getting impatient. "Merope Gaunt is directly descended from Salazar Slytherin." Izzy said. Tom's surprise was evident on his face. This was the first time in a long time that Tom Riddle showed surprise. Anger was a more prominent feature to grace his handsome face then.
"You are sure?" Tom asked. "As sure as my name is Isabella Marie Black." Izzy said with certainty. At that moment Tom's trust issue with Izzy was resolved. But his abandonment issue had yet to abate.
He pulled Izzy into a hug. Something Tom would never have done in a room full of followers. "I've got more for you later." Tom whispered in her ear before he let her go. Abraxas was fuming while everybody else was trying not to either laugh or smile.
Izzy was a little nervous about what Tom said. Even though Izzy really, really liked Tom she was afraid because of all those times that teachers and other men have tried to take advantage of her. Secretly, when Tom said what he said it made Izzy's stomach which was already full to burst with butterflies do flips and shoot up into her throat.
Tom knew that he would have Izzy as his Dark Lady one way or another and knowing that she returned his feelings helped his confidence on this.
"It appears that what I thought is true," Tom announced to his group of followers, "being the Heir of Slytherin I will be able to open the chamber of secrets." Tom was very satisfied. He had just gained more power and as a result he would be feared more by his followers. But it wouldn't stop there. Every muggleborn attending Hogwarts would quiver at just the mention of his name.
Tom wanted to know more about his ancestry. He had no idea who his father was. He would have to look farther into his mother's family in order to find out whether or not he was pureblooded or halfblooded since it was certain that he was at least half blood.
"This Saturday night we shall open the chamber of secrets," Tom exclaimed then turned to Izzy, "you are to meet me in the library every day after classes are over." He said. "Of course." Izzy smiled in return.
"Time for patrol I suppose." Izzy sighed as everybody left. "I didn't say you could go yet." Tom said to Izzy who was currently at the door. "I apologize." Izzy sheepishly replied as she turned back around.
"I told you I had more for you." Tom said with a silky voice. "What if the Head Boy and Girl found out we skipped?" Izzy asked. "They won't." Tom's eyes darkened as he closed in on her.
Izzy couldn't say anything before his lips were on hers. He kissed her so fiercely that it almost hurt. Before Izzy knew it she had responded. She was a little surprised to say the least.
Tom's arms wrapped around her and she knew she was safe. As long as she was with him, nothing could hurt her.
When they finally parted Tom's firm embrace didn't loosen any and Izzy rested her head on his chest. "That was my first kiss." Izzy whispered as she clutched onto Tom's jacket. Of course Tom wouldn't admit that he had actually saved that kiss especially for his Dark Lady, but nonetheless he was very pleased that he was the one who gave her first kiss.
"Izzy…would you allow me to…court you?" Tom asked, almost uncertain with his request. Izzy looked up at Tom with a smile. "I thought you would never ask."
'She said yes, she's mine…' Tom thought with a hint of astonishment. "Tom?" she asked after a while. "hm?" was his response. "Could you…kiss me…again?"
This time the kiss was softer, but with the same hunger they experienced earlier. Tom pushed her up against the wall and pinned her there.
Izzy couldn't think. Even if she could, she was sure her thoughts would be full of Tom and nothing else.
It was nearing eleven by the time Tom and Izzy left the room of requirement to patrol the many hallways of Hogwarts.
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