Hello loves!
Hopefully you all enjoy this newest chapter to Daughter of an Alchemist. Sorry that it's taken me a bit to get this chapter published for you all to enjoy.
It's been a few weeks since Cardia had helped Tom connect to his roots or his family. Since then nearly all of Slytherin had found out that he is related to the Gaunt Family and according to the family tree Slytherin him self. Many of those who called him a mudblood had stopped and began to call him Lord. Cardia thought it amusing that those in Tom's house would change their tune so quickly. Once when he was with Abraxus, Talon, and Theon when she passed saying hello to Tom. Theon grabbed her arm before she could completely pass them.
"Beckford, you know how to address those better then you, and Lord Riddle is a better then you are. You except everyone regardless of their blood pure or dirty." Theon snirred at her.
"Honestly Nott, I never knew I had to be formal with those I see as my friend. If I'm correct weren't you a few weeks ago calling Tom her by the crud name. Now you think you his friend." She raised and eye at the boy.
"A laps in judgment on my part, he is one of the top students of our year." Theon countered.
"So was it a laps to not except him before you realized the family he came from or a laps to not see that his blood doesn't define who he is?" She asked wrenching her arm from his grasp.
"What do you mean Beckford?" Theon asked looking down his noes at her.
Cardia, rolling her eyes before looking the bully in the eye explained; "I was his friend before he knew who he was, and was his friend regardless of his blood." She sighed looking at Tom.
"I don't see the need for Cardia to be formal with me like you do Nott." Tom spoke looking at her meeting her eyes.
Cardia knew that before now, she wasn't sure if Tom actually excepted her as his friend. But hearing him tell Nott that she hadn't the need to be formal with him as Nott had to was gratifying.
"But Lord Riddle, Beckford is lower then you are. How can she be informal when you've asked us, those you room with to be formal?" Abraxus asked looking at Cardia with slitted eyes.
"Well Malfoy, as she just stated she is a friend, while you are acquaintances to me." Tom drawled to moved closer to Cardia.
"But, she excepts those of lesser blood!" Talon exclaimed.
Tom looked at Cardia and gave her a nod, as he had done before towards the library. Cardia looked at him then the other boys and nodded back. It was a strange way they communicated sometimes.
"I'll meet you in the Library Tom, the others will be studying with us as well." She said before she turned away and continued down the hallway not worrying about what Tom was about to say or do. Abraxus, Theon, and Talon where the banes of her life with their constant bullying towards her; A Lady of their community with blood as pure as theirs. She was appalled last year when her Grandmother Prince told her to be nicer to the three boys as one may end up as her husband later in life. She explained that she would rather be a spinster then marry one of them.
"Cari! What held you up?" Charlus asked as she sat down at their table in the library.
"I ran into Abraxus, Theon, and Talon looking for Tom." She explained pulling out her books.
"What did that trio want from you?" Percival asked raising a eye brow at the girl.
"Oh I'm sure everyone had heard by now that Tom found out who he is related to. They didn't like it when I addressed Tom informally. They went on about how I'm lower then them and him. You know them Percy." She sighed.
"Are they still going on about you being lesser then other pure bloods?" Alphrad asked her.
"They are always like that."
"You're a pure-blood lady of our community. It shouldn't matter who you except as a friend." Charlus spoke a little to loudly and they where shushed by Madam Hilda.
"See Potter, you are to excitable for the library. I don't see how you are still able to enter here." They where greeted by Tom's voice coming from behind Cardia.
"Oh Tom, glad you could join us." She turned and smiled at him.
"Well, I have yet to miss a study session with our acetic group." He drawled sitting at the empty chair.
"I see you only see Cari here a true friend." Percy rolled his eyes.
"She and Miss Prim are the most tolerable of those here at the table." Tom shrugged pulling out his charms things.
"See, he only sees the ladies here as friends, the rest we are tolerable." Charlus laughed.
"That's because you and Percival are loud and obnoxious Gryffindors." Tom rolled his eyes.
Cardia just smiled and started on her essay for charms. This was how the boys where together. Tom would pretend that Charlus and Percival where high strung and obnoxious, Alphrad and a quiet tolerance, while Prim and she where well liked in their group. To others their group was strange to everyone in the school; 2 Slytherins, 2 Gryffindors, and 2 Ravenclaws all look to be friends. Zen joked one time that they needed 2 Hufflepuffs and then they had a group of friends from all the houses. Headmaster Dippet laughed at their little group when they passed him in the halls. Dumbledore always watched them anytime the Professor was near, as if they where going to cause trouble or he couldn't believe that the six of them could be friends despite their placement in their houses.
"So Tom, my mum wrote me about something interesting." Alphrad spoke after some time.
"Interesting Black?" Tom asked.
"I asked her if she knew anything about the Gaunt Family, she said that there was little known about them. But they are recluses of the Wizarding world, she says." Alphrad explained.
"Al, that is interesting, but why did she say they are recluses?" Charlus asked looking interested.
"She said that she heard that they only marry family to not mix their blood. Like brothers marring their sisters. But not sure if that is completely true or not. But she also said that they really haven't been seen in society since Corvinus Gaunt left Society and was the last Gaunt to walk the halls of Hogwarts." Al explained.
"That's disgusting, marring your sister." Percy squelched his nose at the thought.
"Yes but it happened back in the past not so much now, unless its second or third cousins, but that's even like Percy said Disgusting." Cardia shook her head in disbelief.
"Do you know anything else?" Tom asked curiously.
"Only that about 13 years ago, Mum said that Marvolo and Morfin Gaunt where placed in Azkaban and when released they disappeared once again." He shrugged.
"That's a shame, it would be interesting to know where they went to. I'm sure their heads are full of Nargles." Prim giggled at that.
Cardia could see that Tom really wanted to find out more about his family tree. Growing up as an orphan made him courses about those who wanted nothing to do with him. The name Riddle was not as common as Smith in the muggle world maybe she could help him find his fathers side of the family, and maybe they may take him in. She would hate for him to go back to the orphanage after finding out things about his family. She also wanted to know more about the Gaunt family too, maybe there was a clue to stop him from turning into the evil man that haunted the back of her mind. She looked at their table and hoped that maybe being considered a friend in their group will help at this time but down the road she needed to know if there was something that she could do. Hermione's voice played across her mind.
'He never knew love, so he cant understand it.'
Danielpheonix; There is more to come! Im glade your enjoying this fic.!
PinkSlytherin; I think this chapter answered your question, or at least for now. Have to see how the story unfolds.
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