Chapter 14: The Return Of Tom Riddle

Ginny froze where she sat. She couldn't believe that she was staring at 16 year old Tom Riddle in the flesh. In the actual reality.

He looked just like he did when he came out of the diary 5 years ago. His black hair was smooth and neat, his eyes were a deep blood red, his unblemished skin looked like freshly churned cream. He was mesmerizing to behold.

"Tom..." whispered Ginny unable to say another word.

"My Ginevra, you are beautiful." said Tom in a voice that sounded too wonderful to belong to someone so evil. "Dreams can manipulate things, but now I see everything was just right. Better even."

"Tom...how are you here?" asked Ginny shaking with fear.

Tom smiled and handed her Draco's robe from off the floor. "As much as I enjoy looking at your naked form Ginevra, I insist you cover up. You're making it hard for me not to take you right now and have my way with you."

"Draco..." said Ginny trying to wake Draco up.

"Yes please, wake the boy. He wouldn't want to miss this." sneered Tom.

Ginny quickly put the robe on and nudged Draco as hard as she could. Draco woke up with a start and sat up to see Ginny's trembling face.

"Ginny? What's the-"

"Hello Draco Malfoy. At last we finally meet." interrupted Tom with a sinister grin on his face.

Draco snatched his wand from under his pillow, grabbed Ginny, and pointed his wand at Tom.

"Ginny who the fuck is this in my room?" asked Draco, eyes boring into Tom's.

"Its him. It's Tom Riddle. He's really here." whispered Ginny.

Draco suddenly felt lightheaded and weak. "This isn't...what?"

"Well done Draco. I'm sure The Dark Lord will be most proud of you for setting me free." said Tom applauding.

Ginny pushed Draco away. "What? You...you knew this would happen? This is why we shagged?"

"No I didn't know."

"He lies..."

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" yelled Draco weakly.

"You knew exactly what you were doing, admit it." said Tom standing there looking pompous.

"I swear Ginny! I thought that I was helping you." pleaded Draco.

"By freeing him?!"

"I didn't know that was going to happen!"

"What have you done? Why do anything in the first place?"

Draco sighed. Might as well tell her the truth.

"Voldemort gave me a mission." began Draco. "He said that you had some kind of power that he needed and he wanted me to get it from you. I thought it was just something simple. I didn't know that you were..." stopped Draco coughing, his body feeling weary.

"Looks like this shall take awhile." said Tom sitting down in a chair, looking positively bored of the interaction.

"That I was a what? What the hell am I?" asked Ginny frantically.

"That you were a horcrux, Gin." said Draco.

Ginny gasped. She never dreamed that she was a horcrux. She had just thought that she was being haunted by Tom's memory and that Voldemort had found a way to possess her again. But a horcrux?

"I then thought that I was going to be able to take whatever was inside of you and put it inside me. And I guess I was going to deliver myself to Voldemort. I had no clue that this bastard would just show up!"

Tom laughed. "You should have known. What was it that you and Blaise Zabini discussed? How you were literally going to 'fuck the evil out of her' ?"

"How the fuck-"

"I'm always around Draco. I know all. Hear all. I know your thoughts. Your desires. The fact that this failed being your mission a long time ago. That you actually call yourself liking Ginevra. Something that I find laughable." said Tom as he got up and picked up Ginny's red dress.

"How could you? I trusted you! I can't believe that I did this!" cried Ginny.

Draco didn't know what to say. The room was starting to spin.

"Ginny..."

"And now, we have business to take care of. Come Ginevra." said Tom holding out his hand.

Ginny stood up and backed herself against the wall. Draco stumbled in front of her, his wand at the ready.

"You're not taking her anywhere, you bastard." said Draco weakly but forcibly.

"Oh, but I am. And there won't be a thing you can do about it." said Tom as he approached Draco and Ginny. "You see Draco, you wasted a lot of energy revitalizing me. Your energy is now mine. Eventually you will grow even weaker and possibly die. You're no more use and Ginevra is mine. So there is really no use for you."

Draco tried to say a spell but he felt himself falling, his head hitting the ground. The last thing he his world went black were Ginny's screams.

"Tom please. I don't want to go out there." begged Ginny, once again wearing the red dress.

Tom caressed Ginny's cheek, resting his finger under her chin. "Ginevra my sweet you have nothing to worry about. I won't let any harm come to you. Besides, what could my older self do that I being younger can't handle?"

"You're worse than Draco." sneered Ginny.

"I don't want you to use that name in my presence again." said Tom squeezing Ginny's chin hard. "Now, let's get this over with."

Tom grabbed Ginny's hand and held it tightly as the two walked towards the dining hall in Lestrange estate. They heard the chatter of men loudly. It sounded like arguing. Tom opened the door and walked inside pulling Ginny in with him.

The room grew quiet as one by one the Death Eaters noticed the intrusion. The last to look was Voldemort himself, a corrupt smile growing on his noseless face.

"You didn't tell me I didn't have a nose, Ginevra." whispered Tom. Ginny stood as stiff as a statue.

"Ah. You see? Your boy has done it Lucius, well done, well done indeed." said Voldemort clapping as he got up and walked over to Tom.

He looked Tom up and down as if he were inspecting him. "Well, I'm a far cry from what I used to be 55 years ago now aren't I? How handsome I was." said Voldemort packing a hand on Tom's shoulder.

Voldemort didn't catch it but Ginny did see the quick glimpse of disgust that Tom had displayed at the touch.

The Death Eaters eyed the boy as if he were a shiny new toy. Tom gazed upon the group, sizing everyone up.

Bellatrix had her eyes set on the vixen in the red dress. Her jealously growing with every blink of her eyes. "I see your past self has taken a liking to the blood traitor Weasley girl." sneered Bellatrix.

Tom gave Bellatrix an icy stare.

"My younger self and Ginevra have a history. You will do well to respect it as have said before dear Bella. Young Ginevra here is to become my queen after all this is over."

It was then that Tom averted his gaze from Bellatrix to Voldemort. "Your queen, you say?"

Voldemort looked at Tom as if he were a proud father. "Yes, my former self. Once you and I purge this world of all that is impure, I will take her as my wife and she will rule beside me. She has no choice." he said as he held Ginny's hair and smelled it. Ginny stood completely still, too petrified to move. A single tear made its way out of her eye and rolled down her cheek.

"You can unhand her now." said Tom in an eerily calm voice.

Voldemort looked at the boy in confusion as well as the rest of the room. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me. Unhand her. You are scaring her, and I do not like it when others scare her."

Voldemort gazed at the boy, but dropped Ginny's hair. "I was most arrogant in my youth as you can see. It's refreshing to know that it hasn't changed with my past self residing in this girl."

Voldemort laughed at his joke, however, the Death Eaters in the room did not. They could feel it, the shift of power in the room.

It happened so quickly. Ginny couldn't wrap her mind around it. Tom took out Ginny's wand that he had taken from her earlier and sent out a non verbal crucio onto Voldemort.

Voldemort withered in pain, his blood curdling scream filled the room. Bellatrix jumped quickly put off her seat ready to attack when Tom pointed the wand at her.

"Be smart Lestrange. Be smart." said Tom calmly.

Bellatrix backed away and watched in horror as Tom pointed the wand back to Voldemort. A green light, a whooshing sound.

And the room fell silent. Voldemort was dead.

The Death Eaters didn't make any sudden movements. They simply stared at either Tom or their fallen Dark Lord.

Tom took Ginny's now shaking hand and pulled her towards the extravagant chair that Voldemort had sat in at the head of the table. He sat down, drew up another exquisite chair beside his and made Ginny sit in it.

"You there." he said pointing his wand at the Death Eater Dolohov. "Get that mangy carcass out of my sight."

Dolohov moved quickly, taking another Death Eater with him as the two dragged Voldemort's lifeless body out of the room.

"Let that be a lesson to anyone that dares crosses me or my sweet Ginevra here. I am still your Dark Lord and you will give me the same respect as you gave my elder self. And you will extend that same respect to Ginevra. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes, my Lord." said the room collectively.

Tom eyed the weeping Bellatrix. "I said am I clear? Pick yourself up woman, I'm still here. Only much younger with my original nose." he said laughing at his own joke.

"Yes, my Lord." whispered Bellatrix bowing down.

"Right. Now then, what's first on the list of things to be done? Oh yes. You there! You're Draco Malfoy's father aren't you? He resembles you."

Lucius stood shakily and bowed. "Lucius Malfoy, my Lord." he said.

"Ah. I have the perfect assignment for you. I need you to kill your son." said Tom cheerfully.

"NO!" screamed Narcissa and Ginny at the same time.

"Please my Lord please reconsider!" continued Narcissa. "He set you free. Surely he has earned his right to live, please my Lord, please!"

Tom looked at the pleading woman, bored. "You're his mother I assume? Normally I would have your beautiful little head for your interruption, but killing your son will be punishment enough for you."

Narcissa sobbed.

Tom turned his attention back to Lucius. "As I was saying before your rude ass wife interrupted me, I would have let him live had he not fallen for my Ginevra here. I do not share my things, especially her. So, you will kill him Lucius. Or you and your wife will join my former self in Hell."

"Tom please!" begged Ginny.

"Silence my angel." said Tom gently to Ginny as if she were a child. "Now Lucius, do we have a problem? Will you carry out the deed?"

Lucius bowed once more. "I shall, my Lord."

Tom smiled as if someone told him his favorite Quidditch team won. "Excellent, that's what I want to hear. Now, all of you, get out of my sight!"

The Death Eaters all got up and bowed. They walked out of the room slowly, Narcissa still sobbing, Bellatrix still in shock.

"Tom please! Please don't do this!" begged Ginny again.

Tom took Ginny's hand and kissed it. Why are you protecting the boy that betrayed you?"

"He….because I...just don't do this, Tom." stuttered Ginny.

"Oh my sweet, sweet Ginevra. You have gone and fallen for him, have you? Don't worry my love. We will right that wrong and we will be free to be together soon." said Tom with the sweetest most evil grin Ginny had ever seen.