Title: Poison
Pairing: Dom!Harry/Sub!Tom
Rating: M
For: Any crazy person willing to read this.
Disclaimer #1: If I owned Harry Potter, it would be a Netflix series.
Disclaimer #2: If Yaoi ain't your thing, please do both you and I a favour and just get the hell out of here. Any flames left will be used to warm my toes at night. :)
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SUMMARY: Hadrian Peverell, new CEO of Deathly Hallows Fashion is looking for a partner to share the rest of his life as is expected of him. He doesn't like the suitors his parents keep on setting him up with because they can't deal with the more darker side of him.
Tomlin Riddle, just another unimportant intern just fresh out of university. He was determined, and did his best at his job. He hadn't spoken to Mr Black until the day his best friend Bella tells him that "Mr Black wanted him to get him a coffee" and deliver it to his office.
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CHAPTER ONE
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"It's Tomlin Riddle."
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"Oh Tommy! Aren't you excited about your first day at the job?"gushed Tomlin's mother, Merope Riddle. She squeezed her son one more time.
Tomlin flushed a bright red as his mother tried to fix his already neater than normal chestnut hair. She dusted off imaginary dust off of his black suit and and fixed the circular wire-rimmed glasses that hid the most unusual iciest blue eyes.
"I guess so, Mum..."he mumbled unsurely.
"Don't worry, Tommy! I'm sure you'll do great!"Merope chirped, pushing back her inky, grey speckled hair behind her ear, eyes so much like Tom's own.
"I hope,"he sighed. "But do you remember what I told you to do today?"he asked.
"Yes, Tommy. I do remember! I'm not that old. Honestly, your father keeps on saying that to me! I only lost the car keys ONCE now he never lets me forget about it..."
"Hmmm...Then what did I ask you to do?"
"To watch Nagini here for the day then when you come back home, you can go and pick up that devil cat of yours..."
"Mum! Nagini is not a devil! She's my little angel and she'd never hurt a fly!"Tomlin spluttered.
"Say that to my arms. I still hadn't recovered from the last time she scratched me...I had to get a shot from the doctor,"Merope muttered.
Tomlin was about to retort but he heard a loud car beep come from outside.
"OI! GET YOUR FINE ASS OUTSIDE TOMMYKINS! WE'RE GONNA BE LATE ON OUR RUDDY FIRST DAY!"yelled his best friend, Bellatrix Black from his car.
Merope laughed. "Honey, off you get. I'll see you later sweetheart,"she showed him off as pushed him out of the door.
"Nagini only likes chicken flavoured food pellets—!"Tomlin tried to tell her.
"I know!"Merope said with one final push out the door and shut it in his face.
On the quiet neighbourhood of Wool's Drive, a very pissed off black haired girl with hair tied into what was a neat bun but now had curly bits of hair of hair poking out.
Her dark grey eyes held a threatening gleam in them that promised lots of pain if he didn't get into the car and drive.
Tom got into his black Renault Clio that he'd had since his sixteenth birthday. His parents were well off and they could live in the high income residential areas and they could afford a lot.
But both Tomlin's and Bellatrix's parents wanted them to work hard to get the things they wanted in life, so the only thing they did was pay the rent for their apartment and give them some allowance while they were still just getting used to the real world.
Tom lived with Bellatrix—his best friend since she moved here when they were five. They lived in London in a cosy apartment with their cats and that was just the way they liked it.
Now they were starting out as interns in the best fashion house in the U.K, Deathly Hallows! It was founded by the Peverell Brothers, Cadmus, Antioch and Ignotus back in the Victorian Era. Queen Victoria loved their clothing and only bought from them and soon the Peverell Brothers raked in money until they lived like kings.
It was really hard to get into the company but Tomlin and Bellatrix had made it with their degrees in finance. While others liked things that were trendy at the moment back at school, Tom and Bella did their own thing with numbers instead.
"You know, I wonder how this'll turn out...I have a great feeling about this!"Bellatrix said after fifteen minutes of silence as she fiddled with the radio and finally settled on a song she actually liked. It was AJR's Break My Face.
"We can only pray to Jesus that you're right..."Tomlin mumbled as he turned a corner. They were too close to the building. The Deathly Hallows symbol gleamed brightly on the skyscraper.
"What doesn't kill you
Makes you ugly
Life gives you lemons
At least it gave you something..."Bellatrix sang as she bobbed her head to the music.
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"Where were we supposed to be right now?"Tomlin fussed as he looked at piece of paper in Bellatrix's hands.
"Uhhh...The 33rd Floor...Shite...We're gonna get fired...On our first day too..."Bellatrix squeaked as they ran into the lift as soon as the door opened.
There were two other people in there too. It was a boy and girl their age. The boy wore a suit like Tomlin's except that everything was all black, even the shirt. His hair was an inky curtain and his nose a bit too long and his skin was pale with sharp black eyes. The girl had wavy shoulder length flaming hair and freckles dotting her face with kind brown eyes and was a half a head shorter than everyone else. She wore powder blue flats and a floral flowing short-sleeved dress.
She smiled sweetly despite the large amount of paper stacks in her hands at Tomlin and Bellatrix.
"Hi!"she chirped, speaking around the paperwork.
"Um, hi!" the two greeted awkwardly.
"You guys new here?"she asked them.
"Yeah,"Bellatrix answered.
"Aww you guys are just too adorable. I started here two years ago along with this moody dude here! My name's Molly Prewett and next to me is Severus 'imma lil git' Snape. Say hi, Sev!"
The inky haired boy rolled his eyes and gave the two a visibly forced smile. "Hullo,"he greeted before turning back to watch the buttons of the lift.
"...Anyway...So, what're your names?"Molly asked.
"Bellatrix Black."
"Tomlin Riddle."
"They sound so cool!"Molly gushed. The door slid open at floor 29.
"This is our stop! C'mon, Sev!"Molly told the boy. He sighed loudly before exiting and holding his arm out to make sure the doors didn't slide closed while she was still in there.
"Bye guys!"Molly said before bustling out of the lift.
As the door slid closed, the two looked down at themselves. "I feel like we tried too hard..."Bellatrix mumbled as she looked at her dark grey pantsuit and her black pencil heels.
Tomlin straightened his emerald green tie. "True..."
TING!
The lift opened its doors on their floor and soon the two were met with lots of sound. Lots of people were bustling around with posters and mannequins. Some people had bits of cotton or feathers in their hair and noises of pencils against paper could be heard.
The warily walked around to find a woman with auburn hair and a very stern expression waving them over to her from a far distance away in the wide department store like room inside her glass office. They went over and opened the door. As soon as the door closed, all the shouts from the room was silenced.
"Sit,"she ordered them. Her bun was neat, not a hair out of place and her feline-like pale green eyes stared at them intently, sizing them up. She pursed her lips.
"You're the new interns. Timlon Roddle and Balletrixa Black?"she asked them.
"It's—It's Tomlin Riddle and Bellatrix Black, Madam,"Tomlin corrected her tentatively.
"That's what I said."
Bellatrix bit her lip and ducked her head slightly to stop herself from having a giggling fit.
The woman gave Bellatrix a sidelong glance, frowning deeply,
"Anyway, I need you two to go up to Marlene's floor and she'll tell you what to do,"she ordered them. "It's the 38th Floor. She'll tell you what to do. Now off with you!"
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The 38th Floor-Finances
This floor wasn't as busy as the others. In fact, there seemed to be not a single living soul in it unless you saw all the men and women working diligently in more glass cubicles.
A pretty woman with long blond hair and dark blue eyes in a pantsuit like Bellatrix walked over to them.
"Hello there, I'm Marlene. Why don't you two follow me and step into my office?"she asked them kindly before promptly turning around and walking into the glass maze.
Not wanting to get lost, they followed suit.
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"Tomlin Riddle and Bellatrix Black, yes?"Marlene asked them.
"Yes Madam,"they replied simultaneously.
"Good. There are other interns here, your jobs are to go and deliver any paperwork, packages or even coffee and lunches for people on the twenty first floor and above. You have two hours' breaks every day.
You can pick how you use up that timeframe given to you. Quitting time is six o' clock and you should be here by half past eight at the latest. If you fall sick, please notify us by a call and if you are absent for more than three days please provide a doctor's note. And one last thing—Always, always greet Mr Peverell whenever he walks past!"she told them. She picked up a tiny remote and pressed a button and the door slid open.
"Miss Granger!"she called.
A girl with bushy brown hair and buck teeth walked in with a bunch of files in her arms.
"Mrs McKinnon, you called me?"she asked the blond woman.
"Yes, I did. Miss Granger, would you please show the newbies the 'Intern Route'?"
"Of course, Mrs McKinnon!"she gushed. She set the files down and spoke again:
"These are the weekly finance reports from me and I even had calculated product profits and the surplus the company will get if all of our regular partners ask for more stock again this month,"the girl chirped.
Marlene blinked. "Um, thank you very much, Miss Granger." She turned to Tomlin and Bellatrix. "Now off you go, dears."
They followed the girl out with their satchels slung securely on the shoulders.
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