DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HP IN ANYWAY ALL CHARACTERS BELONG TO JK ROWLING APART FROM THE ONES THAT YOU DO NOT RECOGNISE FROM THE ORIGINAL SERIES.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: A PLAN?
Hermione stared at the ghost standing in front of her and smiled.
"Your plan was perfect, honestly."
Adrianna smiled and then chuckled, "I know."
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Dumbledore took a glance at the man before him before turning to look at Fawkes, petting the phoenix lightly on the head.
"Where's the boy?" asked the man, his voice was dry and harsh. He was beginning to get annoyed at the old man sitting opposite him.
"At this point in time, I really do not know."
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Tom sat in the room of requirement tapping his fingers lightly on the coffee table next to him and patiently staring into the flames.
"What now?" Asked Abraxas from behind him.
"We wait."
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"Why'd you do it?" Hermione asked swinging her legs casually onto the table.
"He hurt me and so I hurt him, that's how this world works."
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The man scowled at Dumbledore, "What do mean you don't bloody know?!"
Dumbledore chuckled and leaned back in his chair, "I mean, young man, that I do not know."
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Abraxas sighed and sat down lightly on the chair next to Tom.
"Are you sure you can trust her?"
Tom sighed and turned to face Abraxas with a small smirk, "If I didn't trust her, I would have let you wring her neck a long time ago."
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Hermione smiled and nodded in understanding, "So, if I hurt you, you'd simply hurt me back?"
"Why of course I would." Adrianna floated down into the chair next to Hermione.
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Dumbledore looked at the man opposite him and chuckled, he was furious.
"Where's the girl then? You at least have to know where the girl is, Merlin help me if you don't."
"I'm afraid I don't know where she is either."
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"You know nothing about her. How can you trust her?"
Tom nodded slowly and twisted his wand in between his fingers, "You know almost nothing of me Abraxas, do you trust me?"
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"What if you couldn't hurt me back?" Hermione got off her chair and walked over to a bookshelf, lightly tracing her fingers over the old dusty volumes.
"What do you mean?"
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The man huffed and slammed his fists onto Dumbledore's desk. "Then this is a huge waste of our fucking time!"
"I assure you, it is not."
The man glared at Dumbledore and hissed, his face had gone red and the vein at his temple was pulsing but Dumbledore merrily smiled, he found it quite amusing.
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Abraxas blinked, slightly startled by the question and nodded. "Of course."
"Then I need not explain myself."
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"Things can happen to people sometimes, even dead people." Hermione picked a book from the shelf and turned around to smile sweetly at Adrianna.
"Are you threatening me?"
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The man exhaled deeply and ran a hand through his hair, "Please do explain how it is not."
Dumbledore sighed and shook his head slowly, "You will understand when you meet him."
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Abraxas nodded and crossed his legs. She was a mudblood, Tom was trusting a mudblood, something was sure to go wrong.
Tom gave Abraxas a final look before turning around to face the fire again, the plan was going to work, it had to.
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"Of course not," she walked back over to the table but didn't sit down, "I'm just stating a fact."
"That would never happen." Adrianna frowned.
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"How do we know that he is the one, that the girl wasn't lying?"
"Because," Dumbledore leaned forward and peered at the man through his spectacles, "I, unlike you, know this boy. He is smart and cunning and can easily fool people into thinking he is innocent of everything but I, I can see through his act and I know for a fact that he isn't as innocent as he says he is."
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Tom looked at the clock on the wall and then turned to nod at Abraxas, "It's time, go."
Abraxas nodded hesitantly and got up and headed towards the door, "Abraxas," he stopped and turned around to look at Tom who was still focused on the fire, "if it turns out that you are right about her, kill her." his tone was soft and hesitant, almost as if he was silently wishing that it wasn't true, that by saying this he might be making the possibility a reality.
Abraxas nodded, slightly alarmed but otherwise content with this statement and walked out of the room.
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"It can." Hermione nodded at Abraxas who was standing behind the bookshelf Adrianna was closest to.
Abraxas watched as Hermione slowly pulled out her wand from its holster in her robe and twisted gently in her hand.
"You sly bi-" Abraxas sent a hex at the wall and Adrianna turned around sharply to face him, Hermione wasted no time, she removed a mirror that she was hiding up her robe sleeve then pointed her wand at the ghost and whispered the incantation.
Adrianna froze and stared in shock as she felt herself being dragged into the cold, icy interior of the mirror, she looked up at the two from her glass prison and screamed but no sound came out. She banged on the glass with her fists but nothing happened.
Hermione picked up the mirror and handed it to Abraxas who smirked at the ghost now entrapped inside of it. The job was done.
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Dumbledore looked at the clock and sighed, "I suppose you could go look for him since they haven't shown up as I thought they would."
The man gave a sigh of relief and smiled, "Where?"
om looked at the clock and got up slowly from his chair, they should be back any time soon. He walked out of the Slytherin common room, taking one more glance at the green flames that he had been so intent on and let the wall slide closed behind him. Something was wrong, He stood still, his back facing the wall and stood petrified by the taunting feeling of failure begin to wrap its icy hands around his neck. He heard footsteps and he watched as a man in a black, filthy robe began to descend the stairs. The man stopped at the landing and grinned brutally at Tom, his face was harsh and scarred and filled with nothing but a glowing hatred.
"Are you Tom Riddle?" asked the man, pointing a grizzly gloved finger at Tom. His voice was as rough as sandpaper and his accent heavy.
"I am and who might you be?" Tom answered in a casual smooth tone.
The man chuckled, no cackled before grinning again, an even wider one this time. "Oh, you don't need to know that, lad, not where you're headin'." The man slid his wand out of his sleeve and pointed it casually at Tom before stupefying him.
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A/N: That's it for today xD.