The Maleverum Chronicles: Amortentia

by TrueMorrigan

I wasn't sure of when we first met. This was an ominous notion that often frightened me in the late hours of the night when all manner of dark thought tended to strike. I did not know when we had first met, and I did not know if you had always been there, a part of my soul long before I knew to keep you out. (Disclaimer: Not a Good! Tom Riddle Fic, and not quite a romance either).

1. Summary

The twisted tale of two entwined souls begins here.

She was born with an expiration date, and a destiny she could not outrun. When the clock struck at exactly midnight upon her seventeenth birthday, the family curse would enact, and she would be doomed to either die like her sister before her, or be corrupted by the raw ancestral magic that would flood her veins. Black of heir, blue of eye, dark was an heir of Morgenstern doomed to die.

He was born with an expiration date, and a destiny he could not outrun. The prophecy had been clear, he knew what he had to do to ensure the success of his meticulous plans. The girl was the key to his survival, he needed her. He could not fathom how deeply he would fall into the indigo oceans that matched his own eyes, did not realize how deep his desire to possess her entirely would grow. Destiny was a strange thing, stronger than anything known to wizardkind.

It was a dangerous game, but the players were set and the dance ready to begin.