Disclaimer: Don't own Harry Potter. It all belongs to JKR

A/N: Well…it's been nearly a month since I updated. I've been busy lately and my brother's home again and he takes up a lot of time on the computer talking to girls or whatever. But I'm going on vacation next week (my friend Miranda's coming too. Hi Miranda! You better be reading this chapter!) so I decided to try and update at least ONE of my fanfics.

A few days later, Krissie had almost given up on trying to perform the curse. She really did try to do it, but she couldn't bring herself to kill anything. Once, the toad had turned pale for a few seconds, but that was about as far as the curse went for her.

She was outside with Tommy when she discovered something incredible.

"Let's go to the gardens." Krissie said. They had a lovely swing and a tree house in a huge oak tree there.

"Okay. But tomorrow we'll do what I want to do. We always do what you wanna do." Tommy said.

"I'm special-er than you."

"That's not a word!"

"It is now."

They ran through the gardens towards the oak tree when Tommy stopped short.

"What is it?" Krissie asked, stopping too.

"Snake." Tommy said. He pointed to a patch of pinkish flowers and Krissie saw the little brown and green snake lying beneath them. Tommy was always very observant. Krissie knew she would have never found that snake on her own.

Krissie bent down to look at it closer. Suddenly, she heard a voice,

"You're blocking the ssssun." the voice whispered.

"Tommy? Did you say that?" Krissie asked.

"I didn't say anything." Tommy said, "Didn't hear anything either."

"Oh…but what was that voice…wait I hear it again."

"Pleassse move, little girl." The voice said.

"Who's there?" Krissie asked nervously.

"Kris, what are you talking about? No one said anything."

"I heard something. Go find daddy. I think someone snuck on our property!"

Tommy nodded and ran back to the mansion.

"Down here." The voice said. Krissie looked down and only saw the snake.

"You're talking, aren't you?" Krissie said.

"Yesss."

"I've never talked to a snake before! This is great!"

"Are you an heir to the Dark Lord, Voldemort?" The snake hissed.

"Who's Voldemort?" Krissie asked. She'd never heard this name before.

"He isss a great and powerful wizard. He'ss been weeding out thossse unworthy people who call themssselvesss wizardsss and witchess for yearsss now. And we ssnakesss sspeak very highly of him. Many sstill fear him although he isss a ruler."

"Neat. But I don't think I'm his heir. I would know that. Oh, I better go. Bye bye snake."

Then she ran to the mansion to tell what had happened. She was so excited to tell her family about the talking snake. But why hadn't Tommy heard it too? Krissie heard it quite plainly. He just doesn't listen as well. That must be it she decided.

"Daddy!" she called when she ran inside. "Daddy!"

She saw him being pulled down the stairs by Tommy.

"Daddy! You won't believe what just happened!" she said happily. She bounced up and down impatiently waiting for him to come over.

"What?" he asked.

"We saw this snake outside. And I heard it. But Tommy didn't hear it. Because he doesn't listen as well as me-"

"Hey!" Tommy said, sounding offended.

"Anyway, when Tommy went inside I found out that it was the snake that was talking! We have a talking snake in our garden! Isn't that great?"

Her father stared at her in amazement. Her mother had come into the room too, and she also stared.

"Tommy go upstairs with Andy for a while. I need to talk to Krissie in private."

"Why?" Tommy whined.

"Just go." Their father snapped. Tommy jumped and raced out of the room. Then he looked at his wife, "You'd better leave for a minute too."

"Tom-"

"Ginny, I need to explain this to her in private." He said, cutting her off. Krissie's mother looked rather uncertain but she left as well.

"Is something wrong?" Krissie asked.

"No, nothing's wrong. Sit down. What exactly did the snake tell you?"

"Not much. He told me about some wizard named Voldemort. He even asked if I was his heir. It was kind of weird."

"Your mother had made me promise not to tell you this until you could understand. But I think you're ready. Krissie, Lord Voldemort is me."

"Really? But you told me all about the dark arts and stuff. You could've told me sooner."

"I was waiting until I was sure you were fit to take my place in the wizarding world when I die."

"And you're sure now?"

"Not entirely. But you possess the gift of parsel tongue. A very rare gift, often inherited from a parent or ancestor…or…in one rare case…through the backfire of the killing curse." Her father paused and an angry expression fell on his face for a split-second, then he continued, "You have the gift to speak to snakes."

"That's why I heard the snake talk and Tommy didn't, right?"

"Right."

"Cool…so what do I do with the gift anyway?" she asked.

"I'll help you with that when you go to Hogwarts." her father said, "Until then, it would be best for you to continue your dark arts studies and learn the killing curse."

"Why?"

"I'll explain it to you when you go to Hogwarts. Now I've got some work to do. I have to call a few people and have something delivered to Hogwarts. It's very important now."

Tom's POV

Later, Tom wondered how he would ever get a basilisk into Hogwarts without anyone's knowledge. Not even Benjamin Zabini could know. He would get some of the death eaters to help him. Yes, he still had the death eaters for important occasions…such as this one for instance. He would have to get a basilisk somewhere. He summoned Lucius Malfoy and a few minutes later, he appeared in the room.

"What is it, my lord?" Lucius asked.

"She's parsel mouth." Tom said.

"Huh?"

"Krissi-I mean Kristen, is a parsel mouth." Tom said impatiently.

"Oh."

"I need to find a basilisk. It must be fairly large in size, perhaps smaller than the other one. And I will need to get it into the Hogwarts castle over the summer. You will find me the snake."

"But sir how will you get a basilisk into Hogwarts?"

"I think they'll let me on the grounds, Mr. Malfoy, considering the fact that I have a slight authority over the headmaster!"

Lucius was starting to notice the vein in Tom's forehead popping out a bit so he decided to shut up.

"Now, go find one and tell me when you do. Understand?"

"Yes sir."

"Get out of my sight. I don't even know why I don't just kill you now." Tom sighed.

Lucius disapparated without hesitation.

A/N: Well….this outta be enough for you. I know it was mostly all dialogue…I just realized that :)

Bye bye. Please review!