BELLAMORT: POP: POWER OBSESSION AND PASSION.
Author Notes: I don't own the characters and names of the places, all that is property of JK Rowling and Warner Bros.
A/N: There are some modifications of the time line, because that was the idea in first place.
Chapter 12:The first night together.
Bella nodded, and Tom grabbed her hand after both left the Slytherin common room. In the hallway, the two began to run trying not to make noise so that no one would find them.
It didn't take long to get to the Room of Requirement, because Tom knew hallways where no one would walk, and as it was night and it was forbidden to leave the common room at that hour, they needed to be stealthy.
This time when the door closed behind them, the Room of Requirement looked different. There were big fluffy cushions and chairs, a stove on and a small table, able to leave the books there.
Bellatrix left the books on that table, and sat on the couch in front of the stove, Tom sat down beside her and asked with some impatience:
"What did you find?"
Bella looked the parchment where she had written the most important information, but before showing him the list, she said, worried about his reaction:
"Tom, I... didn't find the name of your father here."
Tom frowned and accused her:
"You searched all right?"
She nodded a bit upset about that accusation, but she chose not to contradict him:
"Yes, the names are ordered alphabetically and doesn't exist here the surname Riddle."
She didn't mention what she was beginning to suspect that he wasn't a pure blood, he was a mudblood as everyone had suspected at first. As she had told him a few times. But Tom, who was no fool and knew immediately that his father was a filthy Muggle, somehow knew what she was thinking and said:
"Tell me, are you going to make fun of me, right?"
Bellatrix immediately denied:
"Never mind the fact that your father is not a wizard."
Tom laughed at her, knowing Bella's feelings towards him, although she had never said he knew her too well:
"Because you love me?"
He said the words with a tone of mockery, because for him love was something completely stupid, that was worthless and could only fools fall in love. He had always thought that Bella was more than a fool, but he was wrong.
Bella felt stunned, with the comment and the mockery of Tom, she felt her cheeks turned red at that time. She didn't know, what to say immediately, she wanted to leave the room and hide her face, but a movement of Tom left her even more paralyzed.
Tom approached her and asked again:
"I can trust you enough to know that you're not going to say this to anyone?"
She nodded without speaking, her face still red with shame. He smiled, but this time it wasn't a mocking smile, but the closest thing to a genuine smile, something very unusual for him. To achieve even further persuade Bellatrix that this finding should be just between them, he stroked her cheek, which made Bella feel even more embarrassed and he kissed her.
Bella gasped and closed her eyes allowing herself to return that unexpected kiss, she attempts to make another move, but Tom took his lips from hers, immediately.
She sighed, still surprised by all this, and said:
"I won't ever say that your father isn't a wizard."
He nodded now, going back to use his voice harsh and unfriendly:
"Good. Now tell me what else you found?"
Bella began to slowly recover herself from the shock, in her head there was anything else that Tom's face near her own face, and those lips fixed on hers. She looked for her papers in the books, which took several minutes, she was behaving like a fool in front of him, but had many things in her head. She had her first kiss with the boy she secretly liked, although he knew perfectly all her feelings toward him. When she found the papers, she gave them to him.
Tom read carefully all that Bellatrix had written, but just as Bella had thought before, he didn't know immediately if the Gaunt family had something to do with him.
He then broke the silence:
"We have to discover who are the Gaunt. But now, it's almost dawn."
Bellatrix then realized that night was the first night with Tom, and he kissed her. She nodded trying to focus her mind on something else and then replied:
"Yes, I will look about the Gaunt family after I get some sleep."
He nodded and the two left the Room of Requirement and returned to the Slytherin common room, and both went to their rooms and got into their beds, so nobody would suspect.