Hey everyone, this is not the update you wanted and I'm very sorry to do this but I promised myself years ago that if ever I decided I was not going to continue a story after leaving it un updated for a long time I would make sure that the readers were not left out to dry with the story unresolved.
I reposted Struck with the intent of trying to pull myself back into the story-and the HP fandom- to write it for those who'd reached out to me about it. That this story has so many supportive readers was the only reason I decided to try again. Unfortunately, I just can't bring myself to write it anymore because I've lost all passion for the project and the fandom.
So here's a breakdown of how the story was going to go. It's not as developed as it would have been had I continued writing it so I apologize for the gaps and things that are still unclear because it was going to be a monster of a fic. If you have a question, feel free to ask me, I will happily respond. I will be putting a warning at the end of Part I for anyone who wants to stop reading before they get too invested.
The next several chapters after Dumbledore and Mia duel would be spent with Mia starting to gain Dumbledor's trust. And Tom's. With Dumbledore, she would simply find ways to speak to him more often. She would become a permanent fixture at the dueling club, the Slytherins (under Tom's order) were to train under Mia – that's how Mia and Tom started to spend more time around each other so Mia would become just a little bit more comfortable while she was manipulating him to earn his trust.
By the time the first Hogsmade weekend approached, Mia would have narrowed down the traitor inside Hogwarts to a few people. Ultimately, she would decide it was Professor Hassat and she would be right. He was working with someone outside of Hogwarts, someone that Mia would witness Tom Riddle speaking to in Hogsmeade. She would ask Nina, but Nina wouldn't know – she'd never been able to determine who the cloaked figure was, only that the person had been around Tom since before Dumbledore told him he was a wizard.
She would continue to gain the trust of Dumbledore – which would irritate Tom, who didn't quite understand what her motivations were, and whose Knights had failed to gain the information he was looking to get on Mia's past by Samhain. But still, he and Mia started to get closer.
Eventually–through a few months of this and discovering things about each other– Mia decides that Tom is actually worth saving in this new crazy reality she finds herself in.
And the cloaked figure did not like that. They order their spies inside Hogwarts to begin the slaughter of muggle borns and blood traitors.
This happens in the springtime, towards the end of the year because it's always at the end of the year. (Really, she should've known.) Several students died in a single night. Riddle is considered responsible and apprehended. He is taken to the Headmaster's office and from there, after some questioning, would be taken to a Ministry holding cell.
Mia knows he's innocent of this crime, and comes to defend him. To grant him an alibi. However, the Auror's will not be deterred and, well, he pulls a bitch move (or a boss move, depending on how you look at it) and manages to worm free of the magic that was keeping him bound and disappears into the castle. Of course, Mia knows where he went.
She brings him supplies in the Chamber and allows him to use her beaded bag. He's incredibly grateful and, well, they consummate those heightened emotions between them and there is no going back for Mia at that point. The two of them have fallen for each other and that's all there is.
Unfortunately things can't ever be so easy and they have been betrayed by the Lestrange twins and Orion Black.
The three of them allow the cloaked figure and Grindelwald's forces onto Hogwarts grounds. The battle ensues. The cloaked figure's hood flies off mid-battle with Mia to reveal a very old, quite disgusting Bellatrix Lestrange.
The original summary for Struck:
"If you touch Tom, I promise you, your nightmares will become a reprieve from your reality," she lowered her voice threateningly at the figure before her. A shrill, manic laugh pervaded the space. "Gone soft for the enemy have you, Granger?"
Bellatrix had been knocked through a ley line in the Battle of Hogwarts. Molly didn't kill her - she'd been sent spiraling through time. She'd survived up to this point on Unicorn blood and had formed an alliance with Grindelwald with her knowledge of the future.
Tom enters the fray, commanding the basilisk to destroy everything it can. Eventually, Mia, Tom, and Dumbledore prevail–killing Grindelwald and their own traitors, the Lestrange twins. Orion had a more ambiguous reasoning and he turned sides mid battle. He was still denounced as a traitor, though. Tom and Nina had no intentions of allowing him to live when next they crossed paths, despite Nina having fallen in love with Orion and his clear sorrow for betraying her.
Tom and Mia flee with Nina, Mulciber and Avery. Abraxas Malfoy and Thoros Nott manage to maintain their image and respectability and become their number one supporter in Britain on the low.
They're gone for a period of years.
Part Three was less thought out, I knew how the story would end but I wasn't certain exactly how we were going to get there. There would be a few chapters that would've been set up like Part One, where we skip years and see what's important. Like Hermione, because she was claiming herself again at this point, meeting Thor – the god who had Struck her to give her a chance at a better life. He told her he would not step in to stop her along her journey so long as every thing she did was to protect mankind.
Basically, Part III would be set about twenty years after the defeat of Grindelwald. Thoros Nott is Minister. Abraxes has tripled the Malfoy family's wealth.
And Tom is immortal in the same way Hermione is.
(Nina has married Mulciber. That's a thing.)
They return to Britain, dark and powerful and dangerous as hell. The problem that Grindelwald had with the muggles had never left their minds as they were traveling and making alliances throughout the entire world–and they had a plan to put Wizardkind in power and dominate the world.
It would take at least a century to do.
They would identify and train each and every (because it would take all of them) natural 'air' elementalists to raise an illusion over each continent.
They would make every muggle, the world over, believe that they'd always known magic had existed and these magical beings were all powerful, all knowing, god-like beings. And after a few generations of constant mental conditioning – it worked.
The story would end with The Death Eaters in power over everything. Tom and Hermione would have pretty much become the Immortal Emperor and Empress of Earth. Sounds kind eh but it would've made sense by the end of the story. They were not evil. They were good rulers. Good to the people – but they would kill any and everyone who got in their way as they obtained their power and held it.
A very dark regal vibe to end the journey of two dark immortal magical practitioners.