-Blue on Black-
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CHAPTER SIX
"Gods I shouldn't have said anything. I shouldn't have done that. Now you probably hate me-" he was cut off as Ami gripped his arm and pulled him back down beside herself, before resting a hand on his cheek and a finger on his lips,
"I don't hate you Tom." She smiled letting her finger run from his lips, down his neck and around into his hair. "You seem to be forgetting that I kissed you back..." she trailed off when he looked at her hopefully,
"You didn't mind?"
"Not at all. In fact I rather enjoyed myself. I do hope there will be an encore..." she giggled when his tentative smile turned into a full blown smirk. Nodding eagerly, he leaned in and captured her lips in another soul searing kiss that sent shivers down both their spines. This playful spark did not leave them at all. For the rest of the night and into early morning, the enamored couple continued kissing, playing around, kissing, laughing, and kissing some more...
Neither noticed the time that had passed, nor how long they were outside, until the sun began to rise...
Ami smiled as Tom broke off their current make out session and grinned at her, before lightly splashing some water onto her face, "Hey you!" she laughed but it fell short when she looked up at the sky, "Oh my... The full moon's disappearing. Tom we've been out here all night, it's morning, look the sunrise!" she gasped then giggled, "We're going to be walking talking corpses during classes today."
Laughing, Tom fell back on the soft grass and pulled Ami to lay back too, "Gee how romantic, let's watch the sunrise together oh dearest Snowflake." He smirked sarcastically, before they both broke out into peels of laughter again.
When they did actually quiet down somewhat, Ami grinned and poked Tom in the ribs, "Hey I happen to like watching the sunrise." She laughed when he faked being seriously wounded by her finger, and she ended up sticking her tongue out at him.
"Hmm, don't you stick that tongue out unless you intend to use it." Smirked Tom as Ami blushed deeply, though neither noticed the three animals hiding behind the Whomping Willow, silently watching them.
"And who said I wasn't going to." She giggled as she leaned over and planted a gentle kiss on his lips, "I do hope there will be no objections..."
"None what so ever." Tom agreed lazily as he pulled her back for yet another lingering kiss.
"Argh! Don't tell me you two have been doing that ALL night." Laughed a male voice from behind them. Startled, Ami and Tom sprang apart and stared up at the amused Slytherin potions genius behind them.
"What are you doing up so early Sev?" asked Ami as she blushed darkly.
"I always get up at dawn Ames. I just usually stay in bed, but I noticed dear Thomas missing." He smirked when Tom glared at him, "And I just HAD to make sure he was ok. Sorry to spoil your fun but if you two don't get back inside the castle A.S.A.P, a teacher might notice you out here or worse yet, a student and then where would you be?" he grinned tossing Ami her hair tie and glasses.
"Awe, but I was having fun!" Ami whined cutely before falling into a fit of giggles.
"Too bad. You'll be having detention if you get caught." Laughed Severus as he gave Tom a hand up and did the same to Ami. Tom conjured a brush and gave it to Ami so she could fix her hair again but still none of them had noticed the animals staring at them. One looked on in shock, one in amusement and one in longing and jealousy.
"Thanks." Tom's sarcasm was not lost on Severus, who only shrugged at the comment,
"I just thought you wouldn't want to get busted. I mean poor Ami here might be in danger of the wrath of jealousy if the girls in this school found you two making out, out here like you just were." Severus just laughed as Ami paled, becoming lighter than usual.
"Great! Why of all people do I happen to fall for the one guy that any girl in this school would kill to get?" she groaned finishing up with her hair and putting on her glasses with a huff.
"What can I say? I'm irresistible." Tom laughed as he looked up at the castle,
"Gee thanks, that's really reassuring." Ami's sarcastic remark made both Tom and Severus laugh. Severus draped one arm around her shoulder as Tom turned around,
"If you ever feel it's too much danger with Mr. Popular over there, there's an opening over here for you." He grinned when Tom shot him a dirty look, "Whoa big boy, relax. I was only joking!" laughed Severus as Tom wrapped a protective arm around Ami's waist.
Tom smirked and shrugged, "Joking? What is the meaning of this word, 'joking'?" Ami just giggled,
"OK, as much as I hate to admit it, Severus is right. If we get busted, we're dead, especially me, so let's go inside before anyone catches us." Sighing in agreement, Tom nodded and followed her and Severus up to the castle.
When they had vanished inside, the Whomping Willow unfroze, and then froze again as Remus Lupin stepped out and the three animals turned into three human students. Three Gryffindor students to be exact.
"No way was that babe, the freak!" was the first thing Wormtail said as he fixed his glasses.
"It was Peter. Anderson is rather pretty when she doesn't try to look strange." Prongs stated with a shrug,
"What are you lot on about now?" sighed a sickly looking Moony as they moved out of reach from the tree when it once again unfroze.
"Ami Anderson, the resident former 'freak'. She's also the girl that Padfoot over here happens to be head over heels for." Grinned James Potter, aka Prongs, as the group of four walked up to the castle,
"Really... so why the glum face?" asked Remus Lupin, Moony, as he shot his friend a look,
"She's with that prat Riddle. They were... making out for a long while by the lake. I think they were there all night, not too sure." Surprisingly it was Sirus Black, or Padfoot, who had answered Remus, not James.
"Oh. Man I'm sorry." Remus said sympathetically, as he rested a hand on his friend's shoulder. Why did things have to be so complicated all the time, "So what are you gonna do?"
"I don't know yet." Sighed Sirus as he looked up at the castle looming over them, "I don't know..."
Ami had just finished washing her hands in the bathroom early one evening when she saw the door fly open and a tan and black blur rush in, straight into one of the cubicles and slamming the door behind whoever it was.
Slightly unnerved by the laughter she was hearing outside, Ami opened the door to find none other than Olive Hornby. She was one of the girls from the 'Official Riddle Fan Club' and the same girl who had caused problems between Tom and herself earlier on this year on the train.
Thankfully, no one except Lucius Malfoy, Severus Snape and Narcissia Black, who had just started going out with Lucius, knew of their relationship so she was in no immediate danger... hopefully. "Ok Hornby, what did you do now?"
"Get lost freak. Go run back to your little master and his friends." Smirked Olive as she and the other Ravenclaw girls laughed,
"It's a tad hard to get lost when I know my way around this castle so well, and I have no master. I have good friends, but I have no master, so what you just said doesn't make very much sense." Ami stated innocently as she leaned languidly against the wall.
"Shut your hole bitch. Before we shut it for you-"
"And if you lay one finger on her, you will be signing your own death warrant," Ami spun around to notice Tom standing at the end of the corridor. Normally she would be thrilled to see him, but something irked her about his stance. The air about him was different... and the colours of his eyes were... purple?
"Tom?"
"Yes?" he rested his gaze on her for a moment or two as if having a conversation with himself, before returning his narrowed gaze to the girls who were looking frightened, yet anxious. He had to control himself, to fight back laughter. He scared them, yet they still wanted to impress him... How stupid they must be...
"I can handle this. Why are you here? Don't you have a detention?"
"Professor let us out early." He shrugged as he stepped up behind her. His eyes quickly became red as he glared at the girls giving Ami a hard time, "I'm going to say this once... get lost. If I ever catch you bothering Ami again, then I'll make sure you don't bother ANYone EVER again." The threat was so clear, that the group of girls jumped slightly before bolting for their lives.
Ami's eyes went large as she saw a ripple run along his skin momentarily leaving a scaly like mark before vanishing. Stepping back in fear, Ami tried to speak. Though it took her five whole minuets before her mouth would form words other than no, "You're not Tom... what are you?"
"I think you already know that Princess Mercury." 'Tom' smirked as she shook her head in disbelief.
"Tom's lost no one recently; I thought he was happy... With me..." she whispered the last bit but the shadow before her heard her non-the-less.
"Oh he is quite happy with you milady. That is why I'm not able to fully take control. It is just certain people doing certain things that hurt certain other people, which in turn makes my host rather furious, allowing me enough leverage to control him until he calms down somewhat." The shadow grinned sadistically looking over at the door behind Ami, then back at her, though he looked more relaxed and gentler when he gazed at her...
"What are you doing?" she asked frightened as he stepped forward. Stepping back she glared at him, "Don't come near me. Until the old Tom is back, don't even look at me!" she glared at him, "I thought you were stronger than that Tom. I've told you over and over that shadows are dangerous yet you still let him out to play." Her glare only darkened as she stepped back and bolted into the girl's lavatory.
Shutting the door and leaning against it, Ami sighed in relief. No one was safe from a shadow, except for the host's loved ones but Tom didn't 'LOVE' her. Sure he liked and cared for her but it didn't run that deeply... at least she didn't think so... But she did know that had she remained with him like that for much longer she would have been in some serious trouble-
A sob coming from one of the cubicles cut through her thoughts like a hot knife through butter. "Are you ok? Who's in there?" she called out as she walked over to the cubicle and swung open the door. Inside was a first year girl sobbing her heart out. Ami recognized her as Myrtle Phyllis, one of the new Hufflepuffs. "Hi there... What happened?" Ami crouched to her height and smiled kindly at the young girl.
Myrtle was actually rather small for her age. With glasses, twin brown pigtails and tears rolling down her chubby cheeks, she seemed like a lost, little girl. So pushing her worries aside, Ami rested a hand on Myrtle's, trying to gently comfort the girl.
"Who are you?"
"Ami Anderson. I'm a fifth year from Ravenclaw."
"Well why do you care what's wrong with me? Are you just going to tease me too? Hornby is a fifth year Ravenclaw as well you know."
"No Myrtle. I'm not going to tease you. Actually, Olive used to do the very same thing to me too. Ever since I came here, because I wear these glasses and I never take my hair down... well at least, not in front of her."
"You hate Hornby too then?"
"Hate is too strong a word. Greatly dislike? Yes. Hate? No. You get used to her after a while. Don't take anything she says to heart. She's just a jealous pure blood who believes she's above everyone and thing. Ok I'm pure blood too but I don't think blood counts. It's brains that count." Ami rolled her eyes at her own hypocritical comment. She too happened to be pure blood so she had also just insulted herself... but the good thing was that Myrtle had smiled a little.
"I- I just don't know why she hates me! I've never done anything to her. What did she suddenly up and think let's go pick on Myrtle?"
Looking at Myrtle's brown eyes that were swimming in tears, Ami could not help but stand up and pull the girl up with her into a comforting hug, "It's ok Myrtle. Hornby hates a lot of people. It's not you it's her. She can be a 'class A' pain sometimes. NO wait, strike that, all the time." Myrtle smiled at her and hugged Ami back.
They stood there for a while longer before Ami spoke up again, "Try to forget about her ok?"
"I'll try..." sniffed Myrtle as they separated.
"That's all you have to do." She grinned. "ok let's get out of this cubicle before people start getting idea's." Ami giggled when Myrtle pulled a disgusted face.
"Eww. That's gross."
"Yeah I know. That's why we're leaving." Ami grinned stepping out of the cubicle. They left the bathroom chatting happily to each other as they walked down the hall and out of site. 'Tom' took off the invisibility charm he'd placed on himself and entered the bathroom...
"Bye Ami. And thanks for cheering me up!" smiled Myrtle with one final hug before disappearing into the Hufflepuff common room.
"Your welcome Myrtle. Don't let her get to you."
"I wont."
Ami smiled lightly as she walked down the hall towards Ravenclaw Common room, humming to herself quietly as she went. Walking up a set of stairs and turning right, she came to an abrupt halt when she saw a figure lying petrified on the carpet. She screamed as loud as she could and within seconds, about fifty students came jogging around the corner with Dippet, Dumbledore and Shields.
"Miss Anderson! What happened?!" exclaimed Professor Dippet as Madame Shields rushed over and looked over the poor victim before her.
"I-I just went to the lavatories and I was going back to my common room when I came across h-him..." she whispered almost completely in shock.
"Did you see anyone Miss Anderson? Anything that could have been the attacker or could give us a clue as to who it is?"
Looking around her slowly, Ami did not see anything remotely useful, "N- no sir..."
"Well do you wish to go to the infirmary?" asked Dumbledore gently as he walked over to the still wide-eyed girl,
"N-no sir... I think I'll just take a seat right here... in fact a nap sounds good right about now... Yes I think I'll do that. Take a nice long nap on this nice lovely fl-"she didn't finish her sentence as she fell into a dead faint dropping onto the ground, looking as pale as a ghost.
"Oh dear. She must be in shock..." sighed Madame Shields sadly as she cast a charm on both students, levitating them off to the infirmary.
"Tom's gonna want to know about this..." mumbled Lucius as he called Crabbe and Goyle and they rushed off to find Riddle,
Later that night, Ami awoke to find herself snuggly tucked in one of the hospital wing beds. It had to be at least midnight for the sky outside was more than pitch black. Shifting around slightly, Ami noticed she was not alone, as Tom continued to stare at her from his position on the chair near her bed. But he was nowhere near her.
"Are you, you?" she whispered with wide eyes, that were only illuminated by the lone torch, casting a low glow over the infirmary.
Tom continued to gaze at her with what looked like regret, though it may just have been a trick of the light. Whatever it was, she did not have enough time to register it, for within moments; he was next to her, two arms around her slim, tired figure, crushing her to his chest while breathing her scent, "I'm so sorry Snowflake... So very, very sorry. I'm so sorry." He whispered over and over into her hair as he hugged her tighter.
"I'll take that as a yes." She smiled, tiredly wrapping her own arms around him too. They stayed like that for a long time before Ami slowly tried to pry him off, "Tom. Why? Why do you let 'it' take over you? Why?" she whispered almost begging for a reasonable answer.
Pulling back, Tom looked down in shame, "I don't know..."
"Tom, the shadow can't do it without your permission. Why do you let it?" Tom couldn't look her in the eyes so he opted for closing his eyes and burying his face in her hair,
"I hate it how people think it's ok to hurt you. I just get so angry at them and I can't help it."
"Tom..." she sighed lying back in bed, and shifting so he could lie down beside her.
"I'm sorry Snowflake. I- I really am sorry. Please forgive me. Please don't hate me. I couldn't live with myself if you did!" he begged her almost pitifully.
Smiling tenderly, Ami kissed his temple briefly before lifting his head and kissing him fully on the lips. "I could never hate you Tom. My Tom." I love you too much She added silently as she pressed her entire self into the kiss. Things heated up quickly and soon Ami found herself beneath him as the passion in their embrace intensified.
An amused cough snapped them apart as if they were touching fire as Professor Dumbledore stepped away from the door, "This is not a particularly smart place to be doing such things if you are attempting to keep your relationship a secret Mr. Riddle. Ms. Anderson." He quirked his brow in that amused know-all manner he usually used with students that he caught doing a minor offense.
Ami's cheeks were flushed lightly as Tom coughed and sat up, calmly moving off the bed and sitting on the edge coolly. "We didn't expect anyone who didn't already know about us to come and visit professor." He said matter- of-factly hiding his own embarrassment well.
"Yes well, expect the unexpected." The transfiguration teacher smiled lightly as he moved closer to the two, "Especially if you are attempting to keep a secret from more than two hundred students." His eyes glittered behind his half moon glasses but there was no other sign to show his amusement.
"We'll keep that in mind professor. Is there something you wanted?" asked Ami still highly embarrassed at being caught.
"No, I was only here to ask Madame Shields a question. Though I advise you to save your fun until you are both in private? Good evening." and with that, he left, walking calmly into the Head matron's office.
Once he was out of site Tom lay back down beside Ami with a sigh, "I can't believe we got busted by Dumbledore." She giggled as her cheeks gained a little more colour.
"Tell me about it." Tom sighed with a small smile playing across his lips as he wrapped his arms around her waist and drew her close again. Shuffling down slightly, Ami hugged him back and rested her head on his chest like a pillow.
"Tom..." Ami mumbled half asleep as she nuzzled her cheek into his warm chest
"Yeah Snowflake?"
Sighing deeply she closed her eyes, "Never mind. I'll tell you some other time." Though he was confused, Tom said nothing...
Ami sat in her Divination class attempting to ignore the girls sitting a round her sneering and throwing things at her as she concentrated on the crystal orb with the swirling mist. This was a usual class without Slytherin yet this time, the girls had a dangerous motive. You see news of her relationship with Tom had somehow been found out and had spread across the school like wild fire.
Sighing in relief as the professor told the class to pack away the orbs and leave, Ami hurried to finish before everyone else. Gathering up her bag, she rushed down the ladder and walked as fast as she could away from the tower, fixing her glasses and making sure that her bun would not fall out.
Two corridors and a set of stairs later, 'they' caught up to her. "Hey freak! I've been hearing the strangest things about you and our heavenly Tom Riddle. You see, people are saying that someone caught you two making out by the lake a while back and apparently, this same person's seen you two 'together' a lot lately. Now just set things straight for me because if these things were true then terrible events may be set into action." The blonde Ravenclaw girl, a little better known as Olive Hornby, sent a deadly glare at blue haired Mercrian as her friends surrounded her.
"You know Hornby, if I wasn't such an optimistic person, I would take that as a threat." Ami sighed shifting her books to make sure she didn't damage them too bad if she had to drop them and retaliate.
"It's only a threat if you make it one freak-"
"I have a name Olive." Rolling her eyes in irritation, Ami proceeded to take off her bag and slip her books into it, utterly ignoring the group's attempt to be intimidating. Nothing could be worse than that night the moon was attacked... the only thing that even came close, was her visions of her parents dying.
"Yeah and it's freak. Now just assure me that these rumors are JUST rumors and we'll all be on our merry way." The malicious glint in the group's eyes' would have scared most people... However that category did not include Ami. Either way, Ami was never one to lie about anything.
"No, it's Anderson. Learn to use it if you want to scrape yourself off the bottom of my shoe. You've lost all the respect I ever held for you Hornby. Granted I never much liked you and obviously the feeling is mutual, but I used to think that had even a smidgeon of decency somewhere in that overly large frame of yours. I can assure you, I was sorely mistaken."
"Why you little bitch!"
"I'm not a bitch Hornby. I just don't like you very much. Now get lost and leave me alone. I'm absolutely sick to the back of my teeth with you," Ami walked away calmly, completely ignoring the group of shocked Ravenclaws.
"Oh you're gonna pay for that one freak!!" Hornby yelled indignantly. Whipping out her wand and shouting a burning curse at Ami's face. Flinging her arms up to shield herself, Ami's hand's got the brunt of the damaging spell. Refusing to give them the pleasure of seeing, or hearing her cry out, Ami glared dangerously at them. Her hands were too burned to even think of picking up her wand, but who needed it when she had wandless magic and an almost unbeatable ability in fighting.
"Hornby you shouldn't have done that." She said in a calm voice reverberating in sheer anger.
Hornby was too busy laughing at her predicament to even care that Ami's rage was quickly rising. "Oooo I'm sooo scared freak," Hornby laughed even harder even though she was now the only one laughing. The other girls in the corridor were staring in fear as Ami's hands began to glow a distinct ice blue.
Clenching her fist Ami glared darkly at the girl, slipping her glasses off her nose and dropping them into her bag before picking it up off the floor and flinging it over her shoulder. "Wrong answer." And before anyone knew what was happening, Hornby had been flung back, hard, by some strange invisible force. So hard, that she had gone straight through the wall behind her only stopping when she hit the next wall on the other side of the room she had stumbled upon.
Hornby slumped to the floor in a painful heap as the glow around Ami's hands subsided. Lifting her hands up for closer inspection, the Mercrian was pleased to see that both hands had fully healed. The glow was simply a healing spell, but those girls didn't need to know that. Ami glared at the other Ravenclaws in the corridor as if daring them to try anything. All they did was shrink back in fear.
Taking a deep breath to calm down, Ami spun around and continued on her way down to lunch, flicking a piece of her long hair out of her face. It wouldn't be smart to let Tom know what had happened. He was already having trouble controlling the shadow in him; he didn't need anything to add onto that plate.
Upon entering the great hall, Ami sighed as all eyes flew to her. What were they staring at? Ignoring them, she turned and began to walk purposefully to the Slytherin table, flicking back another bit of her stubborn hair, and missing the odd looks that many of the boys were sending her.
"Hey guys." She sighed, sitting down between Severus and Lucius.
"Um... Ami... what on earth..." to say Lucius was surprised, would be an understatement.
"What?" she asked slightly unnerved by the unusual attention from the gentlemen at the table. None had stopped staring since she had entered the room.
Snape leaned over and whispered something in her ear that made her eyes widen and her hands instantly fly up to her hair and face. Oh crap.
She had forgotten to replace her glasses, and she had not noticed her hair was almost completely out of the bun it was in earlier. Why hadn't she realized when some of it fell in her face? That's right! She was too preoccupied with Hornby and what Tom would do if he found out, to think coherently about much else. "Damn. I didn't realize..." she groaned burying her face in her hands, "Thanks Sev."
"No problem Ami. But there is really no point in hiding anymore... everyone's seen you." He grinned, taking hold of both wrists and gently moving her hands out of the way, "Now eat woman. Riddle would kill us if he found out we weren't feeding you properly." The smirk on Severus face almost made Ami want to slap it off. Four and a half years of working to keep her appearance hidden had just gone down the drain.
"Damn girl!!! You've been holding out on us!" laughed Britony as she plopped down in front of her along with Narcissia.
"Shut up." She muttered as she piled food onto her plate.
"Touché!" laughed Tony, as she attempted to act insulted. It didn't work very well, and soon most of the table was laughing too.
"I am! Four and a half years of work just went down the drain in ten seconds flat!" she hissed in irritation stuffing a forkful of food into her mouth.
"Ami, how couldn't you not notice that your glasses were missing?!" grinned Lucius.
Swallowing the food in her mouth, she reached into her bag and pulled out her glasses. "Simple. Here put them on." Reluctantly, Lucius put them on and nothing changed.
"Ames, it's exactly the same. They do nothing."
"My point is made." She sighed shoveling another load of food into her mouth.
"You mean those thick ugly things were just for show all these years!?! Exclaimed Lucius in utter shock.
Ami just nodded as she continued to eat, "Why would you do that?!?" exclaimed Tony in shock. All Ami did was shrug. She really didn't want to go into it; but Britony pressed on, "Come on, there must be a reason. No one would wear those things without a reason!"
"I felt like it. Look Tony, I really don't want to go into it ok? Just leave it." Sighed Ami as the oak doors opened and in came Tom, as gorgeous as ever.
"Hey Tom!" laughed Lucius as his friend sat down between him and Ami.
"Hey Lucius.... What in heavens name's going on?" he asked but the question was more pointedly sent in the direction his blue haired snowflake.
"Did you know little Ames over there has been holding out on us?!" exclaimed Tony in what was unmistakably faked anger.
"Yes."
"WHAT?!" the hall went silent at the outburst of the dark haired Slytherin as she sat still, absolutely shocked.
"Tony, we were together the entire summer." Ami sighed in irritation, "It's kind of hard to hide this sort of thing when you're rooming with someone like him." She jabbed her thumb at Tom with playful accusation in her eyes.
"Oh..." was all she could manage in her surprise.
Tom just smirked in amusement before he turned to Ami and raised a brow at her, "So why'd you suddenly change your mind about your little act?" his smirk turned to a gentle smile when his eyes ran over her ruffled appearance.
"I didn't decide anything. I hadn't realized my glasses weren't on when I walked in." she grumbled.
Amused greatly, Tom draped a mockingly comforting arm around her shoulder, "What got you so riled up? You never do stupid things unless you're angry and that was really stupid." He smirked, but his eyes held carefully hidden tenderness, and the gentle squeeze he gave her shoulder told her that he was not entirely joking.
"Its nothing." maybe she had said that a little too quickly...
"Really now?" Tom wasn't convinced at all. She didn't want him to find out about something...
"Yes." She lifted the last spoon of her food into her mouth and began to chew hurriedly. She swallowed and picked up a goblet of pumpkin juice and took a sip from it to wash down her food. HE didn't look too convinced, and she wasn't sure how she was going to get herself out of this one...
The next one is ready too so I'm asking for a minimum of 15 reviews again. I was going to up the minimum to 20 when I saw that I actually got 25 reviews for the last chapter but because it took so long to get my internet back, I will give you all a chance to get the next chapter as fast as possible. All you have to do is review... so I'll let you get too it. Oh and the plot is going to thicken a lot in the next few chapters. There is a reason this first few chapters have been rather vague to any plot line. That was intentional but I'd like to know your opinions again so RR please!! I'll love you all forever!
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CHERRY