Author's note : This is the longest chapter I have written so far. The rating of this story changed from 'T' to 'M' last month due to few scenes I wanted to add, one of which is in this chapter. Please pardon me if you don't like it, but I thought it would bring some drama. Please review for your feedback about this chapter :)

Harry tilted her head as she observed her reflection in the mirror. She was wearing black trousers with beige coloured sweater. As usual, she didn't apply any makeup or try any hairstyle, she just combed her hair properly to make them look straighter and shinier.

It was Hagsmeade and she made her best effort to get ready, as she wanted to look good for Tom, she shook her head, not Tom her date was Marcus with whom she was going as a friend.

She looked back at her reflection and shrugged, "I think this is the best I can do. Atleast, my hair are manageable now."

She picked her wand and put it in her back pocket, then moved towards the stairs. As she came down, she found Marcus waiting for her.

He saw her and smiled, "You look pretty."

She smiled back. "You also look great. I really like your jumper." She replied looking at the royal blue jumper he was wearing with black trousers.

Marcus started grinning , "Thanks. My sister made it for me. Oh and this is for you." He forwarded one lone Lily flower to her.

She took that flower from him, "You know my mother's name was Lily." Then looked back at him, "Thanks Marc."

"You're welcome Harry", Marcus replied shyly.

She gazed around, most of the students had left, only few first and second year were sitting in common room doing their own work. "I think we should leave too."

Tom was standing against one wall near main gate with his hands in his pockets, next to him was his date Connolly. He was looking at various students who were leaving, not paying any attention to the number of gazes they were attracting. He was waiting for the witch who was the reason for all this, he wanted to keep a close eye on her date Barnes.

His date Connolly, however thought that maybe Tom wanted to show her off, that's why standing there. She had a smug expression, as she got a lot of jealous looks from the majority of female population who passed by them.

She looked back at her date who was not looking at anyone particular but his eyes were moving around. She pouted, "Come on Tom, let's go. I am really tired of standing here. "

He ignored her and kept on standing there.

She shrugged, maybe he wanted to show her off more to other students, "Okay I'll stand here for you, for some more time."

Tom just kept on gazing around at various faces waiting for her. After waiting for so long, he finally saw Harry. He straightened up then ran his hand through his hair. She met his gaze and gave him a small smile. She then looked towards the witch next to him then glared back at him accusingly. He chuckled, she doesn't like his date at all. He shrugged then jerked his head towards Marcus as if telling her, 'You too'. She the rolled her eyes and he understood that she was saying 'how many time do I have to tell you'.

He shook his head and she smiled again.

He raised one eyebrow and she winked at him then smelled the flower she was holding.

He narrowed his eyes, she was playing with him.

He mouthed 'Okay, you asked for it.'

She frowned, then her eyes moved back and forth between Tom and Connolly. She didn't like his challenge. She looked away from him hoping he won't start kissing that bitch.

As they passed by them, Marcus narrowed his eyes at Tom.

Tom chuckled at the challenging look he was getting from Barnes, "Seriously?"

As they moved ahead, Tom took hand of his date, "Come on Connolly, let's go."

"Oh Merlin we are holding hands. yeeeee. " Cecilia squealed in excitement.

Tom took a deep breath, this was going to be a long day. He looked ahead and found Harry looking back towards them as she walked next to Barnes. She was again glaring at him, and she only looked away when her date pointed at the place where he would be taking her first.

Maybe it would be worth it, he thought as he observed her from behind. He looked towards her back pocket where she had tucked her wand. He sighed, those trousers hugged her backside sinfully snugly and he really wanted to pinch her there.

"Tom, where are we going first?" Connolly asked.

He was busy staring at Harry's backside as she walked ahead of him and was unable to move his eyes away from there. "I think that shop over there. " He jerked his head towards the shop where Marcus was pointing earlier.

"Oh Tom. You'll be taking me to the candy store. That's so sweet." She again sqealed in excitement.

He immediatly looked towards the shop, where that idiot Barnes was taking Harry, it was Honeydukes. He never went to that shop as he hate sweets and never want to enter there ever. Then he looked back towards Harry, he can't leave her alone with that Barnes, Merlin forbid that idiot might add something in her drink or meal then take advantage of her. How can she accept his friendship after what he did? He shook his head, he would be going to that sweet shop for the first time, one more thing he was doing for the first time for her.

He followed them as they entered that shop, then looked around. Everything was so colourful and cheery. His date Cecilia ran towards the counter to buy some sweets, he made face and decided to stand near door to look for Harry.

He found her standing near other end of the counter with Barnes. He noticed that Marcus was trying to give one red coloured round candy to her, he narrowed his eyes, he won't let that Barnes drug her again. He imagined Barnes kissing drugged and helpless Harry then felt his temper rise, immediately that round candy burst into flames and Marcus screamed like a girl then dropped it. Tom smirked then pocketed his wand.

"What happened Tom? You look really happy." His date asked as she walked towards him carrying the package of sweets.

He shook his head, then looked at Harry who was staring at him again, then back towards his date, "Nothing. I am just glad that you are with me today." He took her hand and brought it closer to his mouth then kissed it.

Cecilia started blushing and giggling.

He moved his eyes towards Harry, who now was glaring daggers at him as she walked towards the door, he then met Marcus's gaze and smirked. Then taking Cecilia's hand again, he dragged her out of that shop.

He knew their next stop, he saw that in Marcus's eyes, he was able to look into his memory in few seconds without that idiot noticing.

Salazar was right, his possessiveness and love for Harry was making his magic stronger. He wanted the world to be brought to her feet then protect her from everything, and to acheive that he wanted to reach at the zenith of his magical powers. He never felt this ambitious before, as earlier he wanted to be powerful to punish all muggles and Mudbloods, and now this all was for the better future of her with him.

He gazed towards her again, she appeared really upset and was looking away from him.

He took Cecilia into Three Broomsticks pub and chose the table at the back to keep a close eye on Barnes. Cecilia started giggling again, thinking Tom wanted to do things away from prying eyes that's why took her there. She removed her jacket to display her low neck cleavage revealing top. He did not pay any attention to her but stared at Harry as she came in with Barnes.

They sat down near window, she just nodded to whatever Barnes was talking about and looked lost in her own world.

As if feeling his gaze, her eyes moved towards his and locked. Both kept on staring at each other, lost in each other's gaze not paying any attention to whatever their dates were saying.

Tom felt someone shook his shoulder and looked towards the person, who was his date then frowned, "What?"

Cecilia immediately removed her hands, "Sorry. You just looked so lost. Madam Julianne wants to know your order." She gestured towards the pub lady standing next to their table for order.

He shook his head then placed his order. His date started talking about her classes and he shook his head again in irritation.

He kept on looking back towards her table to make sure her date Barnes was not doing anything inappropriate with her. His own date, just kept on talking nonstop about something or the other, she didn't notice that he was hardly paying any attention to her. She thought him to be an excellent listener, as he didn't intervene in between like her earlier dates, and let her express herself completely.

After some time, Tom noticed that Barnes had moved his chair little closer to Harry's and was now speaking to her with his head closer to her ears. He then put one hand on her shoulder and Tom immediately stood up. "What happened Tom?" His date asked.

But he hardly heard her, as he watched Harry standing up suddenly, then literally running out of that pub leaving Barnes sitting there shocked still.

He looked back at Connolly, "I am leaving."

Then he walked towards Barnes and stopped in front of him. "What did you say to her?"

Barnes looked up at Tom, " I.. I just."

Tom stared in his eyes and got his answer, then chuckled, "You told her about your feelings. Even though you know she only consider you as her friend."

He then shook his head, "Idiot. "

He walked out of that pub to look for her and started searching for her.

He saw her run towards the opposite direction of Hogwarts when she left that pub. He asked few students on the way, but none of them saw her.

After about an hour of searching for her, he thought that maybe she went back to Hogwarts. He started moving towards the school when one fourth year Slytherin approached him, "Tom, I heard from that old witch near Hogs Head Bar that she saw one young Hogwart's witch walk into the forest sometime back. She told me to tell some professor as it's not safe for witches to go there alone. I thought I should tell you as you're a prefect."

Tom felt his heart miss a beat, "Did she tell you anything about her appearance?" He was hoping that Harry was not stupid enough to go there alone.

"She said that young witch was wearing black pants and had long black hair."

"She is really stupid " He ran towards the place where that fourth year had pointed.

Harry kept on walking not paying any attention to where she was going. She wanted to get away from everything. First Tom and his bimbo date, then Marcus and his feelings of more than friendship towards her.

She just ran away from him before he could complete his sentence. She knew it would have been difficult to say no him that's why ran away from him.

After some time, she stopped and looked around, she didn't realise when she walked this far into the dark forest and now she was standing in some unknown part of the forest. She heard waterfall nearby and walked towards it. Then, she found the most beautiful place, right in the middle of the forest, hidden from everyone. Thousands of galleons of water was falling down into a beautiful pool, surrounded by greenery with few flower beds all around.

She sat down on one of the rocks near shore to observe the beauty of that waterfall. Her thoughts again roamed towards Tom. She had realised her feelings for him. She understood that she was not angry but jealous of that Ravenclaw witch because she was in her place next to Tom. Without realising he had become very special to her. She closed her eyes and started listening to the sound of that waterfall.

SNAP

She immediately opened her eyes then looked towards the place where she heard that sound. Two middle aged wizards wearing dirty dark cloaks were standing there. There was a hungry expression on their faces as they stared at her up and down. Getting alert, she immediately stood up and took out her wand.

" No need to be defensive little girl. We were just passing by. Have you lost your way? We can show you the correct way out." The wizard on the right hand side said. Then, he started laughing with the wizard next to him. They both found that statement amusing.

"Don't call me little. I can very well defend myself against the likes of you." She hissed back, she was ready to cast even the darkest spell on them if they made any move towards her.

They laughed harder at her reply.

"Oh no sweetie. I take my statement back. You're not little but really grown up." He gazed towards her chest area as he said this.

She threw bombarda maxima spell towards them, and they immediatly moved out of the way.

She frowned at them, they moved really fast.

The right wizard whom she thought was the leader of the two stood up, then ran his fingers through his greasy hair. He was not laughing now but looked very angry." Now you've done it witch. You just woke up the beast." Then he started advancing towards her.

She was about throw another spell when someone jumped at her from behind and grabbed her wand arm. She struggled to free herself when that wizard twisted her arm, she screamed in pain as the bone of her arm snapped. Her wand dropped from her broken hand and she tried her level best to free herself, but the wizard behind her enclosed her tightly in his arm making her efforts futile.

The other two wizards laughed as they walked towards her. They stopped in front of her.

The leader brought his face closer to her, then pinched her cheek.

"Tch Tch Tch .. You forgot to notice our friend behind you. You see we three were here for our usual get together as its a full moon tomorrow. But we never knew we'll find young.." He sniffed her then nodded " untouched witch alone here waiting for us."

She gritted her teeth then spit on his face.

He growled then slapped her hard. "Bitch. You will be taught the lesson for your short life tonight. Tomorrow you'll serve as our meal but tonight.."

He tore open the front of her sweater in one go, then stared at her black bra and grinned at her, showing his dirty yellow teeth. "You will serve us."

She started struggling, kicking her feet harder trying to free herself as he moved his hand towards her trouser's zipper.

Suddenly, the temperature dropped around them. And they heard a chilling voice, "Get your filthy hands off her."

They looked towards the place from where they heard the voice. Then laughed when found one young wizard standing there.

Harry however shouted, "Tom these are werewolves. Be careful. They are very fast."

The leader laughed harder, "So this is the boyfriend of our young witch here. Oh my, what a tragedy. Young wizard dying while trying to protect his witch. Tch Tch Tch "

Harry gritted her teeth, "Shut up bastard."

SLAP

"Bitch I told you to shut .."

Immediately the leader was thrown about twenty feet away.

The other two wizards stared at that young wizard who had not even taken out his wand but only pointed his finger at their leader. He just stood their and stared at their leader as he screamed in pain, as if he was under the most powerful cruciatus curse.

Again they heard his chilling voice, "I told you to keep your filthy hands off her."

They immediately let go of her and and looked at that young wizard and noticed that his eyes were red as lava. They started trembling in terror, " Its devil himself. Oh merlin. "

They tried to run, but the wizard who was holding Harry earlier felt the bones of his arms crush and screamed in pain. Then, he too was thrown at the same place where his leader was lying bleeding.

The last wizard knelt down, "Please please. Have mercy."

Tom tilted his head then chuckled, "No mercy for you." And the third wizard too screamed in pain.

Harry looked at Tom teary eyed as he converted into a different person altogether. He was going to kill these three. She shook her head, she won't let this happen and cried, "TOM NO"

On hearing her voice, he immediatly stopped and looked towards her then blinked his eyes. She sighed in relief as those red eyes converted back to those loving chocolate eyes.

She then looked at the wizard on the ground in front of Tom, "Bastard take your partners and get out of here. And don't ever show your ugly face again."

Tom shook his head, "But he tried to.."

"Please Tom." She looked at him with pleading eyes and he took a deep breath then nodded.

He looked back at those wizards on ground, "Get out of my sight before I kill you three."

They all nodded and ran away from there.

He looked back at her, "Are you.."

She threw her left unbroken arm around him, then hugged him tight, "Thankyou thankyou thankyou."

Her affection made him smile and he removed her left arm to look at her right broken arm.

He touched it as if it was made of glass, then hissed epiksey in parseltongue. The effect was immediate and she smiled back at him.

"Let me see." He took her face in his hands to look at it closely for any other injury apart from her bleeding lip.

He then ran his thumb over her lower lip, healing it with his wandless magic. Then met her gaze and smiled back at her. He knew what she wanted but shook his head, "Not yet sweetheart."

He then removed his hands from her face, and looked down at her body for any other injury, trying to control his feeling as he observed her exposed skin. He noticed one nail scratch near her navel, then put his finger there to heal it, as he ran his finger there he heard her moan. He again met her gaze but this time she was breathing heavily. When he did not move, she took the initiative and threw her arms around him then started kissing him hard. Tom too wrapped his arms around her and kissed her back with full force. There was a lot of tongue fighting involved as both wanted to dominate that kiss. She had her legs wrapped around his waist and his roaming hands got the chance to pinch her back. As they broke off, both were breathing heavily.

Tom stared in her eyes, "Are you mine now? "

Harry, whose legs and arms were still wrapped around Tom, grinned back at him, "Yes, yours forever."

Tom started grinning like an idiot for the first time in his life, then he hugged her tightly, "Yes, you are mine forever."

For both of them this was the happiest moment of their life.