A/N Finally! A turning point in the story! Will Brittany be able to
sneak out to summon the Dark Pheonix with Tom? Or will Orion catch them and
finally tell Tom the truth? Find out in Days of Our Lives! JK, actually you
just got a rundown of what's happening in this chapter.
~*BRI*~
**When He Was Tom . . .**
Chapter 9: . . . He Was In Love
***** Brittany scowled at the dark ground. **Damn Orion, he had to make everything so difficult! Nothing ever goes right in my life!** Brittany kicked her shoe to the side of the dormitory and looked around hoping no one had woken up. **Goddamit!**
She got up to pick up her shoe when and hand slid over her mouth and an arm snaked it's way across her stomach. "Brittany, be quiet." Hissed a voice in her ear. Brittany took in a sharp breath. "Yes it's Tom. Come on, we've got to talk . . . take your wand with you." Brittany nodded ferverently and felt the hand let go and she took up her wand. She turned to find absolutely nothing. "I've got an invisibility cloak." Brittany nodded and watched as Tom appeared in front of her and then tucked her under the cloak.
"Why do we need to talk?" Said Brittany.
"Please Brittany, Orion's holding something over your ehad and even if you won't tell me, we've got to find a way to make him let it go and . . . I think we need to summon the Dark Pheonix." Said Tom. Brittany bit her lip and nodded as they snuck all the way up to the top of the North Tower.
"How exactly are we going to do this?" Said Brittany taking out her wand and looking over at Tom who'd started a small fire on top of the chilly roof.
"I found this." Said Tom holding up a small leather bound book. It had a silver snake embedded into the front cover and said, 'Slytherin' underneath it. "Slytherin's personal spell book."
"Wow." Said Brittany reaching out. Tom gave it to her and she flipped it open. The pages were blank. "Um . . . Tom. There's nothing in here."
"Right now." Said Tom smiling and sitting in front of the fire. Suddenly a hissing issued from his mouth and Brittany rose an eyebrow.
"What were you-" Suddenly the pages filled with loopy green writing and Brittany saw latin spread across the extremely white paper. "Wow." Repeated Brittany. Tom blinked and shook his head before looking down at the book smiling.
"And aren't you glad I took time to learn Latin during my summers at the orphanage." He muttered flipping through the book.
"You think it'll be in here?" Said Brittany sitting across from him. Tom nodded reverently reading the loopy script. Obviously this was very important to him. She lay back on the roof and stared into the night sky. The stars twinkled brightly, as if they were small eyes. She smiled and closed her own hearing somewhere in the distance the songs she'd written. **There was a girl, thought of a hero**
"Here it is!" Exclaimed Tom. "The holder of the wand, predicted as a female, should lay on the ground . . . as you are . . ." He said smiling at her. Brittany rolled her eyes. "And take out her wand." Brittany did as she was told. "Hold it at a forty degree angle from the ground and close your eyes, imagining darkness, a black fire." Said Tom, that doesn't make any sense . . ."
"Don't worry Tom, I got it." Said Brittany remembering the night she'd thought about the idea for the series being built off of The Ultimate Stealth. She shuddered and watched the cloak flick around the corner, falling into complete darkness. Then fire . . . black fire, purple. She heard something in her right ear. Something beautiful . . . a song . . . a bird perhaps. "Tom, is that it?" She whispered. A finger landed on her mouth.
"Shhhh." Whispered Tom in her ear. Brittany was about to open her eyes when she felt Tom get up next to her.
"The heir of Slytherin, has my fullest obedience." Said a withered voice. Brittany gulped, the Dark Phoenix could talk!
"Thank-you." Said Tom. "Does the holder of the wand have the permission to speak and see?"
"Yes your honor." Said the phoenix. Tom grabbed Brittany's hand and pulled her up. Brittany opened her eyes and stared ahead of her at the giant bird that was resting on the roof. "The holder holds not only the wand but a dark secret." Said the bird. Brittany bit her lip and Tom cast a piercing glance at her. "One endangering to the life of the heir, it shall be kept a secret." Brittany nodded and looked at the floor. Could this bird read minds like the sorting hat?
"We have been told you can teach us three curses that may be quite useful to our cause." Said Tom.
"Our cause? Dear Thomas, you may be lying to yourself. She will be out of your life soon enough." Said the Pheonix. Brittany gulped watching Tom's anger rise. "If you choose to teach her what knowledge I bestow on you now, then you may be making a good decision, how ever powerful I may be, I cannot see through dimensions." Brittany tried as hard as she could to make the bird shut up. "Step forward Thomas, your destiny awaits." Said the Phoenix setting a box on the roof. "I leave you now. When the future comes, you may see me again." Said the Pheonix. A bright light filled the roof and the phoenix disappeared. Tom turned to Brittany.
"Why does everyone know you're little secret?" He shouted at her. Brittany's chin clenched and she went and picked up the box.
"Like the Phoenix said, it could be dangerous to you, I can think of more then one way." Said Brittany forcing the box into his hand.
"What am I supposed to do with this."
"Hmm, I don't know, perhaps open it?" Said Brittany angrily. Tom sighed.
"Why do you have such a quick temper?"
"ME!" Said Brittany close to laughing. "I have a quick temper? Yeah right, maybe you should check a mirror." Tom looked stunned.
"What?"
"Oh please don't tell me you haven't noticed how fast you get angry." Said Brittany bursting out with laughter. "You . . . oh my . . . that's funny, too bad I didn't point it out to you sooner."
"Shut up." Said Tom.
"See right there." Said Brittany pointing to him.
He rolled his eyes and looked at the box. "I've just got to open it and the information will suddenly be inside my head." He said reading the carvings on the box. Brittany stopped laughing and sat it front of the fire warming her hands. He sat across from her.
"Well do it temper boy." Said Brittany urging him on.
"Fine." Said Tom shaking his head and opening the box. A bright light filled the roof again and Tom fell back on the brick's. Brittany shrieked and jumped up.
"Tom?" She said shaking him. Then she stopped, if he was dead it probably wasn't good to get her finger prints all over him. "Tom . . . oh gosh please don't be dead." Suddenly Tom's fingers grabbed her arm. Brittany gasped and he jerked up and rose his wand.
"Avada . . ."
"TOM! STOP!" Shouted Brittany trying to rip her arm from his grasp. A green light started forming at the tip of his wand. "Please Tom." Said Brittany feeling a tear fall down her cheek. Suddenly silence fell around them and Tom loosened his grip.
"Morgaine, why are you crying?" He said softly. Brittany removed his hand and stood examining her arm.
"I . . . nothing." Said Brittany wiping the blood dripping down her arm.
"Did I do that?" Said Tom standing and tenderly taking her arm.
"Er . . ."
"I'm sorry. I don't know what happened." Said Tom kindly. Brittany nodded looking up at him.
"Your eyes!" She exclaimed. Tom rose an eyebrow. "They're blue!" Brittany took out the compact she'd borrowed from Mary-Beth and gave it to him. He took a step back.
"What the heck!" He said. Brittany stared at him.
"Maybe it's because of those curses." Said Brittany. Tom blinked and then looked at Brittany.
"Do you want to learn them?" He said smiling. Brittany bit her lip. (A/N I do that a lot don't I?)
"Sure." She said thinking of how much the Imperious Curse would suit her needs in High School . . . if she ever got back. Tom nodded and picked up her wand from where she left it on the ground. He handed it to her and Brittany motioned for him to teach her.
"Alright . . . can I see if they work first?" Said Tom. Brittany nodded and then stopped.
"On who?" Said Brittany.
"You of corse."
"Um . . . what exactly do the curses do?" Said Brittany having read the forth book over 20 times she already knew what they did, but he wasn't about to find out about that.
"I'll just cast the Imperious Curse on you." Said Tom. "It just controls people." Brittany rose an eyebrow but nodded again. "Alright . . ." He said raising his wand. "Imperio." Brittany suddenly felt very light headed and giddy. (A/N Isn't that a funny word . . . Giddy? It's kinda like Navel! Navel, navel, navel.) She giggled. **Kiss Tom.** Said a voice in her head. She stepped forward obediently but then stopped, Tom frowned.
**Why? Would should I kiss him? I mean, he's asking me to kiss him, because he's the one who cast the curse, but-**
**Kiss Tom!**
**Why though? We're not going out. And we've tried this once before, if I call we didn't do so well . . .**
**KISS HIM!**
**Oh fine, only because he's hot though.** Thought Brittany leaning forward. Tom was smiling again as her lips landed on his. He lifted the curse and the realization of what they were doing hit Brittany. She still moved forward, having already gotten herself in a position she couldn't just leave ith out striking his hot temper. He pulled her closer and Brittany suddenly remembered a voice, "Alright, when you wake up, you're going to take me aside during Lunch and tell me your secrets, where you really are from, and why you haven't found out about your powers until now, how you got here and why you're also so mysterious . . . and you'll tell me the truth about how you feel about Tom."
"OH MY GOSH!" Said Brittany pulling away from Tom.
"What is your problem?" He said angrily.
Brittany's bottom lip wobbled. "Both of you just think I'm just some object you can control don't you?" She shouted her fists tightening.
"What are you talking about?"
"Orion . . . you . . . I . . . I can't believe this!" Said Brittany disgustedly grabbing her wand where she'd dropped it unknowningly and dashing down the steps. Tom grabbed her arm again.
"Stop Brittany." Said Tom. Brittany stopped eyes wide. "So it's true." Brittany gulped. "Orion wasn't lying . . . you really are from the future." She turned.
"Tom . . . I wasn't trying to lie to you it's just-"
"Save it. I don't need this. I can't believe I haven't already killed you in the future." Spat Tom. Suddenly they heard something on the corner of the roof. Both of their heads shot up to find Orion emerging from the shadows.
"Brittany . . . you shouldn't have told me your secret." Said Orion. Tom let go of her and shook his head.
"Tom." Said Brittany eyes filling with tears. He just kept shaking his head. Orion slipped an arm around her waist.
"You see . . . he doesn't like being lied to." He whispered. Brittany shoved his arm off and dashing to the stairwell again.
"Brittany." Said Tom softly. Brittany willed herself not to turn around ubt soon she was facing Tom again silent tears falling down her cheeks. "I trusted you."
Brittany got mad. She hated when people decided they couldn't trust her anymore, she hated it. "Yeah well I'm sure plenty of people trusted you to grow up and become something better then the ugly half snake you've become." She spat. Tom snarled and raised his wand. Brittany knew what was coming. "Kill me now. I don't care! It's not like I'm ever going home again! Go ahead say it! Avada Kedavra! Go ahead! Yeah I know all the curses! Because I READ and personally I don't know how I could have ever wanted to join you!" She shouted running down the stairs.
Tom stopped. "DO IT!" Shouted Orion ripping his wand away and following her. Tom watched him go unable to stop him. He shuddered. *****
Suddenly light filled the room and Tom opened his eyes. He'd fallen asleep in the common room again and Brittany had fallen asleep on the armchair across the room. He sat straight up. Had he just dreamt that whole thing? It had seemed so real.
Tom looked down to find a small leather bound book at his feet and his wand next to it. "What?" He said picking it up and looking over at Brittany. She lay still, breathing deeply. The sunlight streaming through the window's was enough to tell him it was noon, why were they asleep? He went to the calender on the wall and felt his eyes widen. It was the Hogsmeade Weekend. Where was Orion? Why wasn't he with Brittany.
"AH!" Shrieked Brittany jerking up and looking around. "Oh thank God!" She breathed. Tom walked over to her. "Tom! What are you doing here?" She said jumping up. "Isn't it Hogsmeade weekend?" Then Tom remembered, he'd helped Brittany hide under his invisibility cloak from Orion the night before, but why? That question still bugged him. Why did Orion torment Brittany so much? Did it have anything to do with that odd dream?
"Yeah." Said Tom. Brittany ran a hand through her hair and looked at er hand.
"I need a shower." She muttered getting up.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Shouted a voice behind them. Brittany jumped and Tom turned to find an overly angry Orion glaring at them. "We were supposed to go to Hogsmeade together and I find you in the Common Room with 'Lord Voldemort." Said Orion angrily grabbing her arm.
"Orion, don't have a cow." Said Tom pulling Brittany behind him.
"Tom no I-"
"You don't even know what her deal is Riddle so just let her come with me and no one will get hurt." Said Orion.
"My secret is one endangering to the life of the heir." Said Brittany remembering the words from her own dream.
"I don't care if Tom can get hurt by your stupid little secret." Said Orion snarling. Tom took a step back.
"The dream." He said. Brittany gulped and nodded turning to the dorm stairs. Orion grabbed her.
"What dream wench?" He hissed.
"You have no right to talk to me." Said Brittany ripping her arm once again from his grasp.
"I have every right." Said Orion. Brittany rolled her eyes.
"Freedom of speech is in America sweety." She said flicking him in the head and running up the stairs without looking back at Tom.
"So it's true?" He said sitting on the couch with a dazed look on his face.
"Yeah. Stupid beast. I should-"
"You should what? Orion. I'm slightly curious." Said Tom standing and pushing Orion into a wall. Orion gulped and his left eye twitched.
"Nothing. I should do nothing." He said weakly.
"And you can't hold anything over her head again, I know her secret now." Said Tom. Orion nodded gulping again.
"Don't. don't hurt me." Said Orion cowering.
"Worm. Go crawl back under your rock." Hissed Tom. Orion nodded and slid out from under Tom's hand and ran out the door. Tom then looked up the stairs and sighed.
"Here we go." He said tromping up.
**
A knock sounded on Brittany's door and she looked up fearfully. "Wh- Who is it?" She said going to the door.
"Brittany, it's Tom."
"You can't come in."
"What makes you think that now I know the Three Curses I can't just let myself in." He whispered at the door.
"I don't know." Muttered Brittany kicking the ground. "You're probably really pissed off aren't you?"
"Pissed?"
"Peeved."
"Peeved?"
"Angry."
"Oh. Well . . ."
"See! I knew it! This is why I didn't want to tell you! Because you'd be mad that I never told you in the first place and that I might have to go back." Said Brittany. The door knob turned and Brittany made no effort of not letting him in. He stood surveying her.
"I suppose I knew all along." He muttered sitting on her bed. She closed the door and sat next to him. "I mean, it was right there. I'm supposing the Ferula Potion brought you here?"
"I don't know." Muttered Brittany pulling her legs up on the bed and sitting cross legged.
"Well, I don't think anyone ever will. Just to tell you, I'm not mad." Said Tom looking at her. "I'm actually quite impressed you kept it from me for so long." He said smiling.
"Really?" She said sighing with relief.
"Yeah. Now tell me about it." Said Tom laying back on the bed. Brittany looked at him and smiled.
"Alright." She said starting from the beginning, knowing she could tell him all about Harry Potter and everything, knowing he wouldn't become Lord Voldemort when he was older for some reason. She told him her theory about switching dimensions.
"So wait. Anytime you go back or forth in time, you can't alter your own future, just the person who's in the dimension that's like you. So if you go forward to your own time, would you be switching to another dimension or back to your own?"
"Hopefully back to my own. At least that's how it worked in my story. But yeah, that's basically it." Said Brittany clasping her hands and looking at Tom.
"About the dream." Said Tom picking himself up and looking at her.
"What about the dream?" Said Brittany cringing.
"Well, I think perhaps, I was you, and you were me." Said Tom. Brittany flushed.
"So what, when you put the Imperious Curse on me it was me putting it on you . . ." Said Brittany trailing off. Tom cupped her chin in his friend and smiling.
"I'm not sure about that part." He said softly. Brittany leaned forward and kissed him softly. He shivered and kissed her back. "I think that was what we both wanted." He muttered.
"You sure?" She said lifting her eyebrow momentarily before Tom kissed her again, deeper this time. The room spun as she pulled him onto the bed again. He leaned over her kissing her more and more, traveling from her lips to the hollow of her neck. She started pulling off his robes and he undid her uniform, only stopping kissing her to remove the top shirt. Suddenly she stopped putting her hand in front of her mouth and laughing slightly. "Tom . . . Tom, we can't go this far. For one we're fourteen and . . . see this ring. She said holding up her other hand. Tom looked at it. "It's a promise ring, it means to hold out until you get married, to the right person." He took her hand and looked at the ring.
"True. Love. Waits." He read. Brittany nodded and he looked her in the eyes. "If you want to wait, then I'll wait with you." He said. Brittany bit her bottom lip as he got up. She picked herself up and looked at Tom her eyes full of sorrow. "What's wrong?"
"I. Tom . I . I have to go back." She said gulping. His eyes narrowed.
"Why?" He said.
"I have family, friends . . . I have people I care about there too!" She said.
"But I care about you! Why can't you stay here! We could grow up together!" He said. Brittany shook her head.
"I don't belong here." She muttered. Tom calmed his temper down.
"Fine. I know you don't, but what will happen . . . to us?" He said.
"I don't know." Said Brittany. Suddenly popping noises sounded all around them and Brittany whirled around recognizing the black masks and cloaks.
"I do." Said the leader grabbing Brittany by the arm and raising his wand. Tom jumped up. "I believe we will meet in the future Thomas, but until then I'll have to fix your memory." Said Lucius Malfoy.
"NO!" Shouted Brittany grabbing Lucius' wand and snapping it in half.
"Fool!" Shouted Lucius throwing her against the wall. She tried fending off the blackness slowing surrounding the edge's of her mind, but she couldn't stop it. Her hand went lack as she closed her eyes.
~*BRI*~
**When He Was Tom . . .**
Chapter 9: . . . He Was In Love
***** Brittany scowled at the dark ground. **Damn Orion, he had to make everything so difficult! Nothing ever goes right in my life!** Brittany kicked her shoe to the side of the dormitory and looked around hoping no one had woken up. **Goddamit!**
She got up to pick up her shoe when and hand slid over her mouth and an arm snaked it's way across her stomach. "Brittany, be quiet." Hissed a voice in her ear. Brittany took in a sharp breath. "Yes it's Tom. Come on, we've got to talk . . . take your wand with you." Brittany nodded ferverently and felt the hand let go and she took up her wand. She turned to find absolutely nothing. "I've got an invisibility cloak." Brittany nodded and watched as Tom appeared in front of her and then tucked her under the cloak.
"Why do we need to talk?" Said Brittany.
"Please Brittany, Orion's holding something over your ehad and even if you won't tell me, we've got to find a way to make him let it go and . . . I think we need to summon the Dark Pheonix." Said Tom. Brittany bit her lip and nodded as they snuck all the way up to the top of the North Tower.
"How exactly are we going to do this?" Said Brittany taking out her wand and looking over at Tom who'd started a small fire on top of the chilly roof.
"I found this." Said Tom holding up a small leather bound book. It had a silver snake embedded into the front cover and said, 'Slytherin' underneath it. "Slytherin's personal spell book."
"Wow." Said Brittany reaching out. Tom gave it to her and she flipped it open. The pages were blank. "Um . . . Tom. There's nothing in here."
"Right now." Said Tom smiling and sitting in front of the fire. Suddenly a hissing issued from his mouth and Brittany rose an eyebrow.
"What were you-" Suddenly the pages filled with loopy green writing and Brittany saw latin spread across the extremely white paper. "Wow." Repeated Brittany. Tom blinked and shook his head before looking down at the book smiling.
"And aren't you glad I took time to learn Latin during my summers at the orphanage." He muttered flipping through the book.
"You think it'll be in here?" Said Brittany sitting across from him. Tom nodded reverently reading the loopy script. Obviously this was very important to him. She lay back on the roof and stared into the night sky. The stars twinkled brightly, as if they were small eyes. She smiled and closed her own hearing somewhere in the distance the songs she'd written. **There was a girl, thought of a hero**
"Here it is!" Exclaimed Tom. "The holder of the wand, predicted as a female, should lay on the ground . . . as you are . . ." He said smiling at her. Brittany rolled her eyes. "And take out her wand." Brittany did as she was told. "Hold it at a forty degree angle from the ground and close your eyes, imagining darkness, a black fire." Said Tom, that doesn't make any sense . . ."
"Don't worry Tom, I got it." Said Brittany remembering the night she'd thought about the idea for the series being built off of The Ultimate Stealth. She shuddered and watched the cloak flick around the corner, falling into complete darkness. Then fire . . . black fire, purple. She heard something in her right ear. Something beautiful . . . a song . . . a bird perhaps. "Tom, is that it?" She whispered. A finger landed on her mouth.
"Shhhh." Whispered Tom in her ear. Brittany was about to open her eyes when she felt Tom get up next to her.
"The heir of Slytherin, has my fullest obedience." Said a withered voice. Brittany gulped, the Dark Phoenix could talk!
"Thank-you." Said Tom. "Does the holder of the wand have the permission to speak and see?"
"Yes your honor." Said the phoenix. Tom grabbed Brittany's hand and pulled her up. Brittany opened her eyes and stared ahead of her at the giant bird that was resting on the roof. "The holder holds not only the wand but a dark secret." Said the bird. Brittany bit her lip and Tom cast a piercing glance at her. "One endangering to the life of the heir, it shall be kept a secret." Brittany nodded and looked at the floor. Could this bird read minds like the sorting hat?
"We have been told you can teach us three curses that may be quite useful to our cause." Said Tom.
"Our cause? Dear Thomas, you may be lying to yourself. She will be out of your life soon enough." Said the Pheonix. Brittany gulped watching Tom's anger rise. "If you choose to teach her what knowledge I bestow on you now, then you may be making a good decision, how ever powerful I may be, I cannot see through dimensions." Brittany tried as hard as she could to make the bird shut up. "Step forward Thomas, your destiny awaits." Said the Phoenix setting a box on the roof. "I leave you now. When the future comes, you may see me again." Said the Pheonix. A bright light filled the roof and the phoenix disappeared. Tom turned to Brittany.
"Why does everyone know you're little secret?" He shouted at her. Brittany's chin clenched and she went and picked up the box.
"Like the Phoenix said, it could be dangerous to you, I can think of more then one way." Said Brittany forcing the box into his hand.
"What am I supposed to do with this."
"Hmm, I don't know, perhaps open it?" Said Brittany angrily. Tom sighed.
"Why do you have such a quick temper?"
"ME!" Said Brittany close to laughing. "I have a quick temper? Yeah right, maybe you should check a mirror." Tom looked stunned.
"What?"
"Oh please don't tell me you haven't noticed how fast you get angry." Said Brittany bursting out with laughter. "You . . . oh my . . . that's funny, too bad I didn't point it out to you sooner."
"Shut up." Said Tom.
"See right there." Said Brittany pointing to him.
He rolled his eyes and looked at the box. "I've just got to open it and the information will suddenly be inside my head." He said reading the carvings on the box. Brittany stopped laughing and sat it front of the fire warming her hands. He sat across from her.
"Well do it temper boy." Said Brittany urging him on.
"Fine." Said Tom shaking his head and opening the box. A bright light filled the roof again and Tom fell back on the brick's. Brittany shrieked and jumped up.
"Tom?" She said shaking him. Then she stopped, if he was dead it probably wasn't good to get her finger prints all over him. "Tom . . . oh gosh please don't be dead." Suddenly Tom's fingers grabbed her arm. Brittany gasped and he jerked up and rose his wand.
"Avada . . ."
"TOM! STOP!" Shouted Brittany trying to rip her arm from his grasp. A green light started forming at the tip of his wand. "Please Tom." Said Brittany feeling a tear fall down her cheek. Suddenly silence fell around them and Tom loosened his grip.
"Morgaine, why are you crying?" He said softly. Brittany removed his hand and stood examining her arm.
"I . . . nothing." Said Brittany wiping the blood dripping down her arm.
"Did I do that?" Said Tom standing and tenderly taking her arm.
"Er . . ."
"I'm sorry. I don't know what happened." Said Tom kindly. Brittany nodded looking up at him.
"Your eyes!" She exclaimed. Tom rose an eyebrow. "They're blue!" Brittany took out the compact she'd borrowed from Mary-Beth and gave it to him. He took a step back.
"What the heck!" He said. Brittany stared at him.
"Maybe it's because of those curses." Said Brittany. Tom blinked and then looked at Brittany.
"Do you want to learn them?" He said smiling. Brittany bit her lip. (A/N I do that a lot don't I?)
"Sure." She said thinking of how much the Imperious Curse would suit her needs in High School . . . if she ever got back. Tom nodded and picked up her wand from where she left it on the ground. He handed it to her and Brittany motioned for him to teach her.
"Alright . . . can I see if they work first?" Said Tom. Brittany nodded and then stopped.
"On who?" Said Brittany.
"You of corse."
"Um . . . what exactly do the curses do?" Said Brittany having read the forth book over 20 times she already knew what they did, but he wasn't about to find out about that.
"I'll just cast the Imperious Curse on you." Said Tom. "It just controls people." Brittany rose an eyebrow but nodded again. "Alright . . ." He said raising his wand. "Imperio." Brittany suddenly felt very light headed and giddy. (A/N Isn't that a funny word . . . Giddy? It's kinda like Navel! Navel, navel, navel.) She giggled. **Kiss Tom.** Said a voice in her head. She stepped forward obediently but then stopped, Tom frowned.
**Why? Would should I kiss him? I mean, he's asking me to kiss him, because he's the one who cast the curse, but-**
**Kiss Tom!**
**Why though? We're not going out. And we've tried this once before, if I call we didn't do so well . . .**
**KISS HIM!**
**Oh fine, only because he's hot though.** Thought Brittany leaning forward. Tom was smiling again as her lips landed on his. He lifted the curse and the realization of what they were doing hit Brittany. She still moved forward, having already gotten herself in a position she couldn't just leave ith out striking his hot temper. He pulled her closer and Brittany suddenly remembered a voice, "Alright, when you wake up, you're going to take me aside during Lunch and tell me your secrets, where you really are from, and why you haven't found out about your powers until now, how you got here and why you're also so mysterious . . . and you'll tell me the truth about how you feel about Tom."
"OH MY GOSH!" Said Brittany pulling away from Tom.
"What is your problem?" He said angrily.
Brittany's bottom lip wobbled. "Both of you just think I'm just some object you can control don't you?" She shouted her fists tightening.
"What are you talking about?"
"Orion . . . you . . . I . . . I can't believe this!" Said Brittany disgustedly grabbing her wand where she'd dropped it unknowningly and dashing down the steps. Tom grabbed her arm again.
"Stop Brittany." Said Tom. Brittany stopped eyes wide. "So it's true." Brittany gulped. "Orion wasn't lying . . . you really are from the future." She turned.
"Tom . . . I wasn't trying to lie to you it's just-"
"Save it. I don't need this. I can't believe I haven't already killed you in the future." Spat Tom. Suddenly they heard something on the corner of the roof. Both of their heads shot up to find Orion emerging from the shadows.
"Brittany . . . you shouldn't have told me your secret." Said Orion. Tom let go of her and shook his head.
"Tom." Said Brittany eyes filling with tears. He just kept shaking his head. Orion slipped an arm around her waist.
"You see . . . he doesn't like being lied to." He whispered. Brittany shoved his arm off and dashing to the stairwell again.
"Brittany." Said Tom softly. Brittany willed herself not to turn around ubt soon she was facing Tom again silent tears falling down her cheeks. "I trusted you."
Brittany got mad. She hated when people decided they couldn't trust her anymore, she hated it. "Yeah well I'm sure plenty of people trusted you to grow up and become something better then the ugly half snake you've become." She spat. Tom snarled and raised his wand. Brittany knew what was coming. "Kill me now. I don't care! It's not like I'm ever going home again! Go ahead say it! Avada Kedavra! Go ahead! Yeah I know all the curses! Because I READ and personally I don't know how I could have ever wanted to join you!" She shouted running down the stairs.
Tom stopped. "DO IT!" Shouted Orion ripping his wand away and following her. Tom watched him go unable to stop him. He shuddered. *****
Suddenly light filled the room and Tom opened his eyes. He'd fallen asleep in the common room again and Brittany had fallen asleep on the armchair across the room. He sat straight up. Had he just dreamt that whole thing? It had seemed so real.
Tom looked down to find a small leather bound book at his feet and his wand next to it. "What?" He said picking it up and looking over at Brittany. She lay still, breathing deeply. The sunlight streaming through the window's was enough to tell him it was noon, why were they asleep? He went to the calender on the wall and felt his eyes widen. It was the Hogsmeade Weekend. Where was Orion? Why wasn't he with Brittany.
"AH!" Shrieked Brittany jerking up and looking around. "Oh thank God!" She breathed. Tom walked over to her. "Tom! What are you doing here?" She said jumping up. "Isn't it Hogsmeade weekend?" Then Tom remembered, he'd helped Brittany hide under his invisibility cloak from Orion the night before, but why? That question still bugged him. Why did Orion torment Brittany so much? Did it have anything to do with that odd dream?
"Yeah." Said Tom. Brittany ran a hand through her hair and looked at er hand.
"I need a shower." She muttered getting up.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Shouted a voice behind them. Brittany jumped and Tom turned to find an overly angry Orion glaring at them. "We were supposed to go to Hogsmeade together and I find you in the Common Room with 'Lord Voldemort." Said Orion angrily grabbing her arm.
"Orion, don't have a cow." Said Tom pulling Brittany behind him.
"Tom no I-"
"You don't even know what her deal is Riddle so just let her come with me and no one will get hurt." Said Orion.
"My secret is one endangering to the life of the heir." Said Brittany remembering the words from her own dream.
"I don't care if Tom can get hurt by your stupid little secret." Said Orion snarling. Tom took a step back.
"The dream." He said. Brittany gulped and nodded turning to the dorm stairs. Orion grabbed her.
"What dream wench?" He hissed.
"You have no right to talk to me." Said Brittany ripping her arm once again from his grasp.
"I have every right." Said Orion. Brittany rolled her eyes.
"Freedom of speech is in America sweety." She said flicking him in the head and running up the stairs without looking back at Tom.
"So it's true?" He said sitting on the couch with a dazed look on his face.
"Yeah. Stupid beast. I should-"
"You should what? Orion. I'm slightly curious." Said Tom standing and pushing Orion into a wall. Orion gulped and his left eye twitched.
"Nothing. I should do nothing." He said weakly.
"And you can't hold anything over her head again, I know her secret now." Said Tom. Orion nodded gulping again.
"Don't. don't hurt me." Said Orion cowering.
"Worm. Go crawl back under your rock." Hissed Tom. Orion nodded and slid out from under Tom's hand and ran out the door. Tom then looked up the stairs and sighed.
"Here we go." He said tromping up.
**
A knock sounded on Brittany's door and she looked up fearfully. "Wh- Who is it?" She said going to the door.
"Brittany, it's Tom."
"You can't come in."
"What makes you think that now I know the Three Curses I can't just let myself in." He whispered at the door.
"I don't know." Muttered Brittany kicking the ground. "You're probably really pissed off aren't you?"
"Pissed?"
"Peeved."
"Peeved?"
"Angry."
"Oh. Well . . ."
"See! I knew it! This is why I didn't want to tell you! Because you'd be mad that I never told you in the first place and that I might have to go back." Said Brittany. The door knob turned and Brittany made no effort of not letting him in. He stood surveying her.
"I suppose I knew all along." He muttered sitting on her bed. She closed the door and sat next to him. "I mean, it was right there. I'm supposing the Ferula Potion brought you here?"
"I don't know." Muttered Brittany pulling her legs up on the bed and sitting cross legged.
"Well, I don't think anyone ever will. Just to tell you, I'm not mad." Said Tom looking at her. "I'm actually quite impressed you kept it from me for so long." He said smiling.
"Really?" She said sighing with relief.
"Yeah. Now tell me about it." Said Tom laying back on the bed. Brittany looked at him and smiled.
"Alright." She said starting from the beginning, knowing she could tell him all about Harry Potter and everything, knowing he wouldn't become Lord Voldemort when he was older for some reason. She told him her theory about switching dimensions.
"So wait. Anytime you go back or forth in time, you can't alter your own future, just the person who's in the dimension that's like you. So if you go forward to your own time, would you be switching to another dimension or back to your own?"
"Hopefully back to my own. At least that's how it worked in my story. But yeah, that's basically it." Said Brittany clasping her hands and looking at Tom.
"About the dream." Said Tom picking himself up and looking at her.
"What about the dream?" Said Brittany cringing.
"Well, I think perhaps, I was you, and you were me." Said Tom. Brittany flushed.
"So what, when you put the Imperious Curse on me it was me putting it on you . . ." Said Brittany trailing off. Tom cupped her chin in his friend and smiling.
"I'm not sure about that part." He said softly. Brittany leaned forward and kissed him softly. He shivered and kissed her back. "I think that was what we both wanted." He muttered.
"You sure?" She said lifting her eyebrow momentarily before Tom kissed her again, deeper this time. The room spun as she pulled him onto the bed again. He leaned over her kissing her more and more, traveling from her lips to the hollow of her neck. She started pulling off his robes and he undid her uniform, only stopping kissing her to remove the top shirt. Suddenly she stopped putting her hand in front of her mouth and laughing slightly. "Tom . . . Tom, we can't go this far. For one we're fourteen and . . . see this ring. She said holding up her other hand. Tom looked at it. "It's a promise ring, it means to hold out until you get married, to the right person." He took her hand and looked at the ring.
"True. Love. Waits." He read. Brittany nodded and he looked her in the eyes. "If you want to wait, then I'll wait with you." He said. Brittany bit her bottom lip as he got up. She picked herself up and looked at Tom her eyes full of sorrow. "What's wrong?"
"I. Tom . I . I have to go back." She said gulping. His eyes narrowed.
"Why?" He said.
"I have family, friends . . . I have people I care about there too!" She said.
"But I care about you! Why can't you stay here! We could grow up together!" He said. Brittany shook her head.
"I don't belong here." She muttered. Tom calmed his temper down.
"Fine. I know you don't, but what will happen . . . to us?" He said.
"I don't know." Said Brittany. Suddenly popping noises sounded all around them and Brittany whirled around recognizing the black masks and cloaks.
"I do." Said the leader grabbing Brittany by the arm and raising his wand. Tom jumped up. "I believe we will meet in the future Thomas, but until then I'll have to fix your memory." Said Lucius Malfoy.
"NO!" Shouted Brittany grabbing Lucius' wand and snapping it in half.
"Fool!" Shouted Lucius throwing her against the wall. She tried fending off the blackness slowing surrounding the edge's of her mind, but she couldn't stop it. Her hand went lack as she closed her eyes.