In 1935, Hermione Granger meets a boy who despises fairy stories, liars, and mediocrity. He offers her a deal of mutual convenience, and soon a tentative friendship forms—if Tom would ever lower himself to call anyone a "friend". But whatever they have, it's something special, and if there's anyone who can appreciate Specialness, it's Tom Riddle. (1930's Childhood Friends AU)

A ten-year-old foster child named Tom Riddle showed up on the Granger's front doorstep with his social worker in the summer of 1990. Hermione spent the following years adjusting to life with her new foster brother; so, she never realized how often he kept an eye on her. "I've always watched you, Hermione; and you've always been mine." [Magical AU]

Tom Riddle develops a fixation on his new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Granger. What begins as fascination slowly morphs into obsession.

Had Hermione known that running from a monster would end with an unholy union, or that it would call the attention of all things Dark, she wouldn't had run away. Her fifth year could have been normal. Now the healers are calling her an 'obscurial' and she has a demonic familiar. Torn and uncertain how to move forward, she is unprepared for the tempest approaching. Not all is Dark.

Tom Riddle is sixteen. He is also angry, a murderer, and scrambling to salvage his very-well-thought-out plan. Hermione is sixteen. She's bleeding out on the Ministry floor, and events just get worse from there. [AU from Order of the Phoenix]

Rumors and mysteries surround him and she wants to know: what is Tom Riddle doing inside the girl's bathroom? [OC Insert, Slow Build, Slow Burn]