Yes, I know. I'm amazingly lazy. I own nothing, damn… Actually I wonder if anyone reads these, all authors just put amusing comments up here.
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The Slytherin common room was dark, save for one light. Beneath it sat Tom Riddle devouring a book on Salazar Slytherin. He had found it just last week, but in the excitement had forgotten about.
The room was completely silent (Slytherins didn't believe in clocks, if you wanted to know the time you cast a spell, as a result unknowing first years were often late for class.)
The wonderful silence was shattered (in a rather rude manner) by a terrified scream, and a long drawn out cry of "Please, NO! I'm sorry!". Tom looked up in surprise, most Slytherins refrained from attacking their comrades, when everyone in the school hated you it was best not to have to worry about being stabbed in the back.
Frowning, he went to investigate. The cry was coming from Malfoys', Lestranges', Potters and coincidently, his dormitory. He entered to discover a very confused Lestrange and a highly annoyed Malfoy surrounding Potters bed. The boy in question was quite obviously in the thrall of some terrible nightmare.
Tom scowled in annoyance as he realised that neither of the fools (sometimes referred to as friends) were actually doing anything to help the brat.
He sighed and stormed over to the bed, leaned down and (for lack of anything better to do, and a desire to not have to deal with hundreds of annoyed Slytherins) scooped the brat up into his arms. Much to his surprise he could actually carry the kid without difficulty.
Settling down in an armchair (the Slytherin dorms were much nicer then the Gryffindor ones) he began to rub circles in the boys back. The cries slowly ceased, leaving Thomas Marvalo Riddle (feared 7th year Slytheirn) holding a sobbing child, a child that bore a remarkable resemblance to himself.
"I'm sorry"
"Wha…your're awake!"
"I forgot to put silencing charms up." Tom raised one elegant eyebrow, he was going to have to deal with this every night! Oh Joy!