A Riddle Tale

by Starrylibra

Voldemort is a Father. The child is four years old. He has to cope with her all by himself. Well he does have the Death Eaters, but will they be able to cope in the end... (AU) I may not have updated but i haven't forgotten, I'm in the middle of a chapte

8. Southend

A/N – wow writing 2 chapters in one day! I did say I would update more in the summer holidays!

Well I canny be bothered to write much of an authors note so I'll just get on with writing the story. Oh and still in Voldemort POV. I like it. :) And I'm gonna try present tense.

Disclaimer: I own only the plot and unrecognisable people and things.

Last Chapter: I went to a florist and bought a bunch of flowers and one hundred red roses. I spread the roses around my bedroom and magiked some floating candles around the room. Then I went downstairs and presented her with the flowers.

She gasped, 'What are they?'

I smiled at her passionately and whispered, 'I call them tudaisies, a crossbreed between tulips and daisies. She laughed and pecked me on the cheek. 'I want to show you something,' I said leading her to my bedroom. She gasped again and said three magic words; 'I love you,'

Chapter 8 – Southend

I wake up at 6:00 the next morning and surprise surprise – Bella's still sleeping. I don't feel that great as I'm not used getting up so early. I creep downstairs and sitting there, calmly reading the Daily Prophet is Severus Snape. I'm astonished that he is here as he usually stays at Hogwarts and I'm amazed that he is here so early! 'Morning,' he says cheerily.

'I didn't expect to see you here, Severus!' I reply.

'Yeah I felt like getting away from Hogwarts – I hope you don't mind,'

'Not at all, just make yourself at home but don't be too loud otherwise you'll have a hell of a lot of angry Death Eaters to answer to!'

'I'll bear that in mind. So what are you doing up so early, couldn't you sleep?'

'No, I'm going to Southend for the weekend today with Amber and we have to set off early,'

'Oh, aren't you apparating?'

'Oh my God! How can I forget about apparating? It's too early to concentrate!' Snape laughs and pours me a coffee, saying it might help. 'Cheers,' I say taking a sip. 'Ah well, we may as well go early now. I'll get ready then wake Amber,'

'Where are you staying?'

'I bought a house in Thorpe Bay. I heard that Karkaroff is there. Does he think that he'll get away with being a traitor? You haven't got away with it Snape!'

'WHAT!!!'

'Yes, I know you're a traitor but I've always liked you so instead of murdering you or anything I've just been feeding you the wrong information!' I give off an evil laugh. That is very rare!

'I'm sorry.' He croaks.

'That's quite alright,' I say happily. 'We all, after all, have a moment of weakness. Let us just forget the whole thing.' Snape nods and I smile. 'Severus my man, you're one of my most faithful!'

He laughs, 'Thank you My Lord!' I go upstairs and as much as I don't want to, I dress in muggle clothes, as Southend is a muggle place. I am wearing blue Ted Baker jeans and a white tee shirt with a blue Nike tick on it.

It is now 8:00. I go into Amber's purple room and wake her up. She yawns and gets out of bed and makes it. I draw her curtains. I tell her to pick out some clothes to wear and she chooses a pretty pale blue, soft-top with some dark blue jeans. I brush her hair and put a white Alice-Band on her head. She looks so beautiful it's hard to believe she's related to me! I smell some buttered toast as I go downstairs. The entire inner circle is in the kitchen. And balloons are all around the room. I walk through the doorway and am instantly showered in confetti. There is a banner on the wall saying "Happy Holidays Tom!" How sweet. I'm being thrown a "going-away-for-the-weekend party!" Amber helps herself to some food and Bella is eating Marmite on toast. She goes to kiss me but I back away. She looks hurt, 'Don't be offended but I don't like the taste of Marmite,' I explain smiling. But when Rodolphus goes out the room I kiss her passionately. Of course the whole room goes silent but then they recover and act like nothing has happened. We decide we don't like this reaction and kiss some more, a bit more obviously.

Finally Snape comes over, 'Well, congratulations I guess!' we smile.

An hour later Amber and I are all ready to go and we are in the dining room saying goodbye. I pick up Amber and our luggage and apparate. We are in a big detached house. The room we are in is our study. I suppose it was a waste of £500,000, as we'll only stay here occasionally. I'll probably rent it out to people. I let go of Amber and immediately she runs out of the room to explore. I hear the doorbell ring so I walk to the l'entrée and open it. There is a young tanned girl there. She looks about 12 or maybe 13.

'Hi! I'm Rachel. My mum told me to come over to welcome you to the neighbourhood and I had to, even though it sounds really cheesy. I told her that you were probably only staying a little while anyway.'

'Erm... hi. How did you know that I was only staying a while?'

' I dunno. I heard that you were from Kent and hadn't sold your house out there. I kinda put two and two together if you know what I mean.'

'Yeah, why don't you come in?'

'Ok thanks!' she steps inside. 'You're a wizard aren't you?'

'Yeah, oh listen, I just remembered I have to go and get some food and stuff for this house. Well see you later!'

'Food for the house?' she asks puzzled.

'Yes, you know – wholesome pine from the warehouse,' (Lincoln Pine Warehouse!)

'Oh, well bye.' She walks out. What a weirdo. I think she's on to me though. I decide to do some exploring, myself. It's a pretty big house with 4 bedrooms, a study, a shower room and two en suite bathrooms, another bathroom, a kitchen, dining room, front room and a living room. The garden is quite big with a beautiful range of trees and a little birdbath too. It looks a bit too elderly though, for my liking. I magic a swing set into the garden at the back for Amber. A bit better I suppose. I return to the upstairs and pick out a bedroom for Amber. I choose the second biggest A.K.A the second master bedroom. It is one with an en suite. I decide to decorate it a pale pink with a purple carpet. The sheets on the bed are purple and the duvet is pink. I make some purple wooden shelves for her. She runs in and jumps up and down in excitement as she realises it's her new room.

I walk into my own Master Bedroom and decorate it exactly the same as my room in Kent. It's homier. I go into the en suite. It's a foul mouldy green colour! I quickly change it to ocean blue with sea green floor tiles. It looks so much better. But I cannot resist using my magic to have one of those toilet seats with plastic fish floating inside. I'm so childish sometimes but at least it goes with the room. I check the time. It is 9:45. Hmm... time is going sooooo s-l-o-w-l-y!!! It's too early to eat again, too late to sleep and there really is nothing to do. What a dull life. I wish I could torture some muggle. Hang about, what about that annoying freak Rachel? Best not actually. What about that swing set I just got. That could be fun! I go downstairs and to my dismay a small child is already on the swing. So being me I magic another swing onto the set. We spend like 2 hours just playing on the set. That is how sad I am. Thomas Riddle, this is your sad, sad life! It's a quarter to twelve now. Yes! Something else to do – cook and eat. We could go out for lunch then look around this place.

'Come on Amber!' I say.

'Where are we going?' she asks curiously.

'Er... somewhere to eat then we can explore our temporary town,'

'Ok!' she exclaims. Well that was an easy way to cheer her up. 'Daddy can I go horse-riding tomorrow?'

'No,'

'Can I go horse-riding tomorrow?'

'No,'

'Can I go horse-riding tomorrow?'

'No,'

'Can I go horse-riding tomorrow?'

'No,'

'Can I go horse-riding tomorrow?'

'No,'

'Please!?!'

'Maybe,'

'Yay,'

'Come on!' Of course that maybe means no but it shuts her up for a while. I'll probably end up letting her in the end. We go to a place called McDonalds where Amber has a Happy Meal and me, a Salad Plus. It doesn't taste that nice but I don't want one of those fattening meals where it's just random bits of all different animals stuffed into one burger. When I'm ordering our food a strange song comes on. Maybe it was made for McDonalds:

A Pizza Hut

A Pizza Hut

Kentucky Fried Chicken

And A Pizza Hut.

McDonalds, McDonalds

Kentucky Fried Chicken

And A Pizza Hut.

While we are eating another song comes on and one line is the slogan of this restaurant:

Ba da, da, da, da, I'm loving it!

I decide that we shall go to the sea front and see what is there. It turns out there are lots of crappy arcades and a teeny-weeny theme park. Amber begs me to take her there but I know better; she is to small for most of the rides so it would just be a waste of money. When she's older I will take her to Chessington, Alton Towers, Thorpe Park and all of the other fantastic Theme Parks of the world. She will just have to wait until then.

We go up a slope named Pier Hill and we are in the High Street. We look in some of the shops and in Mk one I get Amber a few muggle clothes and headbands. Right at the bottom of this street and in a stone place named the Victoria Plaza is a shop called Wilkensons and I get her lots of pens and glitter and stationery. We go back upstairs and there is a big building with the title of ODEON. You see films there. So it's a good way to will away time. We end up seeing Shrek. It's quite funny but my god it's crap!(A/N – no it's not no it's not!) By the time we get home it is seven 'o' clock. I quickly whip up my famous Lasagne and eat quickly. I tuck amber up in bed. I apparate back to Tunbridge Wells and sneak into my library. I pick out a book called It's Not The End Of The World and go back to my bedroom in Southend. I start reading it and by the time Debbie gives Karen the monkey pictures I have fallen into a deep troubled sleep.

I am awoken in the morning by several taps on my leg. I look down to see Amber who has butter all down her. 'Come on Daddy we have to go to Shopland Hall to go Horse-riding!' I groan and look at the time: 7:00. 'It's in Rochford so it will take a while to get there. You have to get ready too!' I get up and lock myself in the bathroom.

I am watching Amber ride on a horse called Strawberry in a "school" . She is actually quite good. It's probably all those horse books she reads. Suddenly I get a tap on the shoulder. I turn around and groan to myself. 'What are you doing here, do you stalk me?'

'Duh! I go horse riding! I just finished!'

'What were you on?'

'A horse!' She says raising an eyebrow.

'I meant what was the name,' I say matter- of – factly.

'Oh, Rolo.'

'Amber, I've got Lucius and Narcissa round to look after you. I'll be back soon. I just have to find someone,'

'I can look after myself!' is the reply.

'We'll take good care of her!' Narcissa assures me. I leave the house in my search for Igor Karkaroff. He will so dearly pay! About half an hour later I find him in the White Horse pub. It's typical for him to go in a pub. I drag him outside and into the car park. I put a silencing spell on him mixed with the cruticus curse. 10 minutes later I use the Imperius curse to make him break each one of his fingers.

' do you understand not to be disloyal to me now?' I snarl. He nods, whimpering. 'Good.' I smash his head in and leave him in the darkest, loneliest corner, to die. This Mr – Nice – Guy act is purely for family. I turn and go back home. Amber is asleep and I follow her lead.

A/N – dada! I've been working on these two chapters for a while but I had to go to my Nan's for a while and she has no computers so I couldn't finish it until now. I got back yesterday night. For the next chapter I was thinking of doing what Amber and the Malfoy's got up to. And what happens back at home in Kent. xxx I'll leave you with a nice soothing cheesy song! Yay cheesiness for you!

Oh Mickey,your so fine

You're so fine you blow my mind

Hey Mickey, hey Mickey

Oh Mickey, your so fine

You're so fine you blow my mind

Hey Mickey Hey Mickey

You've been around all night

And thats a little long

You think you've got the right

But I think you've got it wrong

Why can't you say goodnight

So you can take me home Mickey

(ahh, ahh)

'cos when you say you will

It always means you won't

You've given me the chills

Baby, please baby don't

Every night you still

Leave me all alone, Mickey

(Chorus)

Oh Mickey, what a pity you don't understand

You take me by the heart

When you take me by the hand

Oh Mickey, your so pretty, can't you understand

It's guys like you Mickey

And what you do Mickey, do Mickey

Don't break my heart Mickey

Hey Mickey

Now if you take me by the

Who's ever gonna know

Every time you move

I let a little more show

There's something you can use

So don't say no Mickey

So come on and give it to me Anyway you can

Anyway you wanna do it,

I'll take it like a man

Oh please baby please,

don't leave me in the down Mickey

(Repeat chorus twice)

Oh Mickey, your so fine

You're so fine you blow my mind

Hey Mickey, hey Mickey

Oh Mickey, your so fine

You're so fine you blow my mind

Hey Mickey

(Repeat chorus twice)

Oh Mickey, your so fine

You're so fine you blow my mind

Hey Mickey, hey Mickey

Hey Mickey