"I can't believe you accepted that invitation to the ball!" Hermione yelled as Chloe walked out of the bathroom and began drying her hair.
"Why wouldn't I accept it he was gorgeous. Hey Mione can you tell me why all the hott guys are in Slytherin? I mean look Draco, that beautiful Italian Blaise Zabini, Theodore Knott, Adrian Puecy, and Montague. You have to admit they are completely gorgeous." Chloe replied. Then she went into a daze.
"I'm glad someone noticed that we Slytherins have superior looks." Draco interrupted as he walked into the girls private common room. "No wonder Riddle asked you to the ball Imperial." Draco stated as he looked over Chloe's towel clad body.
"Hey Malfoy think you can set me up with one of the above mentioned when we get back to our time?" Chloe asked as she looked over to where Draco was standing.
"I could probably set you up with Adrian or Montague once we're back they both had their eyes on you when they were still in Hogwarts. By then they'll be looking for someone to settle down with. But if you make Riddle like you and your appearance any more I think he'll want to keep you." Draco joked.
"Ha Ha very funny. Tom and I are a perfect match if they were based on looks only. If he thinks there is more that is his fault." Chloe responded in a cold voice.
"You're more Slytherin than I thought Imperial." Draco concluded as he realized how much alike they were. Chloe smirked at Draco with the one smirk hat every Imperial had the one that either made people fear her or the boys fall for her. She is a female me when she wants to be. And she wants me to set her up with a Slytherin. She isn't an ordinary Gryfindor.
"That is rude Chloe and you know it." Hermione blurted out as she looked at her friend in disbelief. "I mean even if he is Voldemort in the future he doesn't deserve that."
"I thought you were smart Granger. Pureblood marriages aren't based on love. Looks, power, and money are three things that causes marriages. When a pureblood is born their marriage is arranged to a pureblood of the opposite sex. You don't know who until your sixteenth birthday." Draco explained as Hermione looked at him with disgust. Chloe backed away as Hermione went to yell. As she went to get dressed and when she returned Hermione and Draco were mere inches apart and screaming at each other. Chloe quietly snuck behind Hermione and went unnoticed by the two. Then she pushed Hermione forward into Draco, something she knew she'd get yelled at for later. Hermione's collided with Draco's lip as the two fell onto the couch. The two stayed like that for a few seconds before the began snog fest on their common room couch. (The three are sharing a common room and bathroom.)
Chloe walked back up to her temporary dorm and thought about the last person , or persons, she snogged. Maybe I shouldn't lead on guys anymore. Chloe thought as she remembered that she was snogging, more like fooling around with, Fred and George Weasley in a broom closet in the middle of her fifth year. She knew Fred and George didn't want her romantically just physically but what if she did end up snogging someone like that delicious Cedric Diggory, who would most likely want a real relationship with her not be her bed buddy for a week or two. Chloe knew she had the twins for the moments to fool around with but she couldn't do that with every male she thought was hott. No that would give her a reputation as a slut. Tom Riddle will be the last guy I ever seduce into my bed, that is if I ever feel the need to have a quick shag while I'm here and if I get to know him a lot better. After she snapped out her thoughts Chloe walked back down to the common room to find topless Draco over a just as topless Hermione, who he was still snogging. Without thinking Chloe nearly ran up the stairs but somehow managed to walk up quietly. Knowing that Hermione most likely wouldn't be coming into their room anytime soon Chloe pulled out her journal and began writing. Before she realized what she did Chloe had a list of names that could become hers.
Chloe Pucey, Chloe Montague, Chloe Zabini, Chloe Weasley, Chloe Diggory, and last was Chloe
Riddle. After reading over the list Chloe realized that she wanted someone to call her own. Before remembering when she first met Adrian Pucey, the only crush she wanted to be in a romantic relationship with.
Flash Back
It was in her third year, he was in last year. She was walking back to her compartment after visiting some other friends. He was walking the opposite way and just as the two of them were a few feet from each other the train lurched and suddenly stopped causing Chloe to fall backwards and Adrian on top of her. Adrian had hit his head against the wall behind the two and was unable to get up when the two felt the area get increasingly cold. Without thinking Chloe wrapped her arms around Adrian in fright when the air became sub-zero. When a dementor made its way toward the pair Adrian cradled Chloe to his chest and tried to sooth her. When the dementor moved on they stayed that way until Chloe released her grip an Adrian's robes. Then he leaned up onto his elbows and rested his forehead onto the wall behind them. Then he looked at the thirteen year old Chloe Imperial, who still had her arms wrap around him. He leaned down and kissed Chloe on the cheek before whispering, "You know Imperial if you need a escort to your compartment I'll take you but I can't guarantee that we won't end up in an empty compartment." Chloe smirked before raising an eyebrow elegantly.
"The dementor is gone and the others must be to. I think I can get to my compartment on my own Ana." Chloe shot back as Adrian lifted himself off her. Once Chloe was on her feet Adrian began walking away but not before brushing his hand against hers. Chloe was red in the face by the time she made it back to her compartment. Hermione looked at her as if waiting for her to tell what happened. But Chloe never did.
End Flash Back
Just as she pulled herself out of her memories Chloe realized something. She felt different around Adrian, or as she called him Ana. She just couldn't figure out how she felt about him or what she felt that day when she gave him her virginity in an empty compartment of the Hogwarts Express on the way back to the King Cross station. That was the last time she had seen him. According to Draco, Adrian was single and not yet looking for Mrs. Adrian Pucey. This was confusing she had to tell Hermione she'd know what to do and if she couldn't she just might ask Malfoy to help her. Chloe laid on her bed and began Thinking about Adrian. After about ten minutes of thinking of the one boy she crushed on romantically she fell asleep. At four am she was awoken by Hermione rushing into their dorm in a hurry. She was pulling her clothes on quickly and tried to run at the same time but fell with a loud thud casing Chloe to jump up.
"Hermione." Chloe's sleepy voice called. "What time is it and what are you doing?" She asked while looking at the brunette on the floor. Hermione looked like she was about to cry.
"Chloe I slept with him. I just gave him my virginity. It just happened and I wasn't thinking. What am I going to do?" Hermione sobbed as she let the tears fall down her face. Chloe jumped from her bed and pulled Hermione to her feet and onto her bed. A girl talk was in order no matter the time.
"It's ok Hermione." Chloe cooed but was then faced with a furious Hermione.
"No it won't! He's engaged to be married he basically told us that. I'm in love with him I have been for a few months. Now I'm even more attached to him. I'll just end up heartbroken. Not to mention I'll lose Harry and Ron as friends." She spat through her tears.
"Hermione it will be fine. I made the first move for both of you. I have know Malfoy since I was little and I still know him even if he doesn't want to admit it. He is in love with you too. The way he acts is an act. Mione he is petrified of his father. Hell, I'm petrified of Lucius Malfoy. I just chose not to show it." Chloe stated calmly. Hermione's head shot up to looked at Chloe.
"He loves me" Hermione whispered. Chloe nodded. "But what about his engagement and his father. He'd never act on it."
"He will. When his father is sent to Azkaban. And I won't tell Harry or Ron. Hermione I'll distract them so the two of you can meet and make sure that they won't find out." Chloe promised.
"Why are you so understanding? I mean you're the Gryfindor Princess, the female Sirius Black, the only Imperial to ever to be put in any house other than Slytherin. Don't you hate Draco." Hermione asked.
"Hermione I like Adrian Pucey I have been since the train ride to Hogwarts in third year. He was the reason I was so red in the face and in a daze when I returned to the compartment. On the way home for the summer. You know how you said you couldn't find me well it was because I gave my virginity to Adrian. I haven't seen him since." Chloe explained with a blush on her face.
"You were only fourteen and he was seventeen. That is wrong Chloe and you know it." Hermione scolded in a motherly manner.
"Love knows no age. And besides it wasn't like that. We were sitting talking and then he kissed me and got all red thinking he did something wrong when I pulled away. I kissed him after a second then we snogged. Next thing I know I'm on my back and screaming Adrian's name. After he locked and silenced the compartment so nobody could hear first." Chloe semi-joked. "Now lie down so I can check to see if your pregnant or not." Hermione did as she was told but didn't actually comprehend what was said for another minute.
"Chloe what if I'm pregnant I can't care for a baby. I'm only seventeen, what will Draco do?" Hermione whimpered. Chloe ignored the question and waved her wand over her friend's stomach. Nothing happened and Chloe sighed with relief. "What does that mean Chloe?" Hermione quietly asked.
"It means you're not pregnant." Chloe stated. Hermione also sighed with relief and then looked over at Chloe.
"Why do you know that spell?" Hermione asked. Chloe knew she was going to ask. She sighed and looked away from Hermione. Guess she had to spill her secrets now.
"I looked up the spell over the summer in one of my mother's books on pregnancy before I was disowned. I had to in order to make sure I wasn't pregnant. My mother almost caught me using the spell. If she did I'd be Mrs. Adrian Pucey and have a least one child by now. I didn't sleep with anyone till about half way through fourth year.." She began.
"Who was it?" Hermione questioned. She was trying not to look at her friend any differently. She just couldn't believe it Chloe was so rebellious and never flirted openly with the boys at school. Yet she had slept with Adrian Pucey in a compartment in the back of the Hogwarts Express at fourteen.
"It was Oliver Wood. It was during vacation. We ran into each other got talking and he invited me over to his place for the night after he heard that I had just got kicked out of my house. We played Quidditch for a while then during dinner we got into an argument over Quidditch. And we got too close and then we kissed. After that it all went down hill fast. I woke up next to him on the dinning room floor about an hour later. He woke up when I moved and picked me up and brought me to his bedroom. He cast a contraceptive charm on me and we slept together again. The next day when he left I cast the charm on and thankfully wasn't pregnant. I didn't stay with Oliver over the summer even though he told me I could because I knew it has illegal since I was underage. I couldn't let Oliver get in trouble like that." Chloe paused. Hermione was shocked her best friend had never told her these things. She had slept with two guys before she was even sixteen. And by the looks of it she wasn't finished. "Then in fifth year when I shared a room with the twins at Christmas at the Burrow. I slept with Fred and George after the emotional breakdown I had when I realized it was my first Christmas away from my family. We kept the arrangement going until they dropped out.
"How did you manage to keep those secrets? I would have cracked long before." Hermione stated. Chloe looked at her friend.
"I didn't crack Hermione. If I just told you that once would you have believed me. Absolutely not you would have questioned me until I spilt the truth. I let Oliver have a go at me because I enjoyed the feelings I got. If I didn't I would have pushed Oliver away. That was why I went with all them." Chloe spat. "Now why we're here we can try and change Riddle so he doesn't become Voldemort and I can change the fact that I will sleep with almost any cute guy that walks my way."
"Okay and I won't repeat any of your secrets." Hermione promised as Chloe placed up her cold, emotionless facade that showed the pureblood she was molded to be. She only showed when feeling vulnerable but her enemies didn't know that. The pair fell back asleep and were awaken mere hours later by Draco knocking on their door.
"Imperial, Hermione! Get up we need to be in class in a half hour and we still need to eat!" Draco shouted causing Hermione to jump out of bed and begin to get ready and Chloe to roll over and pull her pillow over her head. Hermione began shaking Chloe after her clothes were changed causing Chloe to finally get up. Soon both the girls were ready and heading down to breakfast. At the entrance to the Great Hall the three split to go to their respective tables. Dumbledore came and dropped off their schedules as he began handing them out.
"We have absolutely no classes together. And get this we're taking all the same classes. I'm going to look at Drake's" Chloe stated as she stood and walked over to the Slytherin table. She seen Slughorn handing out the schedules and easily stole Drake's once he received it. "You have all your classes with Mione." Chloe told him as she looked over schedule. "Neither of you have any classes with me and we have all the same ones. Strange isn't it. Back at the New England Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry if you had the same classes you were all in the same class as everyone else that was in your section and level." Chloe lied smoothly as she caught attention of the people around her. Tom came up and began to look over her schedule.
"You have all your classes with me and my friend Abraxas Malfoy." Tome explained as he finished looking over his schedule. We used to have classes like that but Dumbledore thought it would be good to create house unity. Now come meet Abraxas." Tom finished and began motioning me toward the only other white blonde at the table. "Abraxas this is Clover Bay. Clover this is Abraxas Malfoy." Tom introduced as the two of us looked each other over.
"Pleased to meet you." Chloe stated and held out her hand with the palm down.
"The pleasure is all mine." Abraxas replied as he kissed her hand. She then excused herself to get ready for her classes. "Clover we'll meet you in front of the Great Hall in ten minutes to show you to class." Abraxas stated as he turned to talk to Tom. Chloe nodded and walked over to Hermione.
"You and Drake have all the same classes. I have all my classes with Abraxas and Tom." I explained. A fellow Gryfindor came over to join into their conversation.
"Sorry to hear that your stuck with them two. Evil, both of them though I believe Riddle is definitely the leader. Can't see why seeing as he is only a half blood. Didn't think those Slytherin gits would accept that type of blood into their upper circle." The dark haired male commented as he glared at the two.
"And why would you say that?" Hermione asked as she looked over the Gryfindor.
"I was patrolling last year and came across them calling Riddle Lord Voldemort and bowing to him. Not to mention they all seem to fear him. All but Malfoy that is. He seems to think their equals. Riddle on the other hand thinks everyone is below him." The male explained. "I'm Damien Potter by the way and you lovely ladies are?"
"I'm Clover Bay and my friend is Mione Grant. Our other close friend is Drake Mcoy. He's a Slytherin. Most likely asked the hat to be put there. Petrified of what his father would do if he was put anywhere else. If I had his father I'd be petrified to. But I don't thankfully. He'd be better off in Gryfindor though." Chloe replied as she tried to explain that Draco wasn't evil in a subtle manner.
"I'm glad my parents didn't care. Yours must not either or your muggleborns or half bloods." Chris stated and acknowledged that Draco wasn't to be pranked or hexed because he's lose the friendship of the two new girls.
"I'm a muggleborn." Hermione stated as she smiled at Damien. During this time she'd flirt with Damien and Draco with Slytherin girls. Once home that would change.
"I was disowned for not joining with the Dark Lord." Chloe told him. It wasn't a lie. I never specified which Dark Lord, Chloe thought.
"Well at least you didn't join him." Damien stated as he felt the tension increase. "Aren't you going to the Ball with Riddle? Why?"
"He asked me first and we'd look good together but it probably won't end as a relationship though I don't like anyone that close to me." Chloe managed thoughtfully.
"Oh well I'll see you around ok." Damien whispered in a gloomy manner. Hermione noticed quickly that Damien was attracted to Chloe. But she had to get close to Riddle in order to change him and stop Lord Voldemort from existing. Chloe gathered her belonging before exchanging good-byes with Hermione. She made her way over to the Slytherin table and took a seat right in between Tom and Abraxas. Tom went to yell at the person who interrupted their conversation when he noticed it was Chloe.
"Clover ready to head to class?" Tom asked as he stood. Chloe nodded and walked out of the Great Hall with the two boys. The first day of classes was boring and professors just talked about what the course was about. It was a week before the dance was to take place. And Draco, Hermione, and Chloe had obtained their robes through Professor Dumbledore. Chloe had been spending a great deal of time with Tom and Abraxas. The two genuinely liked Chloe because unlike any other girl who stayed around the pair she didn't cling or ask about what they were doing when they whispered. Chloe sometimes joked about the quiet whispered when she began feel left out. The first time she did it Tom blushed but Abraxas just looked smugger. "You know with all the whispering you too do with each other I'm starting to think that you two are going to the ball together and I need a new date." Was the first line she used. Now it was just a line to give them the heads up. They both grew used to Chloe's kisses she gave both of them on the cheek.
"Good Morning Sunshine!" Abraxas spoke loudly as he walked over to the half asleep Chloe. Chloe swatted at him before a thud was heard at the Slytherin table, Chloe decided she was going to change the table she sat every meal. She was always either at the Slytherin table or the Gryfindor table and was accepted at both tables. Most genuinely liked her and some trusted her. Though Tom seemed to accept her and was one of the Slytherins she was seen with regularly he still didn't really trust her. He also noticed the fact that she was attracted to him physically and emotionally was just friend. But he could she that she was getting closer to Abraxas everyday. Everyone noticed this too. He was ready to give her up as his date and let Abraxas take her both at the ball they could easily do that at the ball instead of causing the drama that would be caused now.
"Morning to you too." Chloe growled as most of the Slytherin table barely acknowledged the now common behavior of Chloe, she wasn't a morning person. Abraxas chuckled and filled both of their plates with food. "Thanks." Chloe yawned as he handed her a cup of coffee. Tom looked over at the two from across the table at the pair. Abraxas was spending more time with Chloe now than ever. He didn't mind sometimes but when he needed an opinion on a new plot for the Death Eaters Abraxas was off trying to woo Chloe. Abraxas was still recovering from his bruised pride after Chloe showed him up when flying. Tom was too seeing as she scared him half to death when she snuck up on him while flying upside down. She was spending less time with her mudblood friend Grant. Mcoy seemed to have changed places with her and was seen sitting at the Gryfindor table more often.
There was something strange about the three of them but Abraxas wouldn't listen. He was always thinking of Clover and was quite pleased when he found that she was pureblood. Tom could see his friend's plan to court Clover. Tom on the other hand was planning a way to find out what was so different about the three. They claimed to be close friends yet their was a tension between Mcoy and Grant, as if they were enemies. Clover was like a peacemaker that stepped in when it was convenient for her. The way they talked about their ld school also made Tom suspicious. Nothing was the same and it was always a vague description. Most schools were the same or had the same general ideas, yet their had none of them. It unnerved Tom that he knew so little about the three. He was going to find out all he could.
"You seem happier than usual Chloe." Hermione commented as she observed her friend. Chloe had been spending more time in the company of Abraxas Malfoy than she had with Tom Riddle. She had also become more content. It was as if a Malfoy was lifting her spirits. Tom also seemed to distancing himself from her, which caused a gap to begin to form between Abraxas and him.
"I have been so cheerful lately and I don't really know why." Chloe sighed as she went back to daydreaming with a silly smile on her face. Hermione shook her head as she looked at her friend.
"Imperial you keep up the way our going and I'm going to return to the future and see Clover Bay on my family tree. All my grandfather talks about is Clover this and Clover that. He must be mad to think you're attractive." Draco ranted as he walked into the common room. Chloe, however, didn't move a muscle and continued to smile and sigh.
"She won't hear you. She just sits there and continuously sighs. Then she'll leave see Abraxas and she'll brighten up and practically skip over to him." Hermione explained. "I guess the two like each other yet Tom is taking her to the ball tomorrow." Draco looked over to Hermione who was reading a book.
"Well if I have to hear my grandfather's plan to ask her out after the ball one more time I think I might hurt someone." Draco grumbled. "You think she'll say yes? I'd hate to see what he does if she rejects him."
"If she rejects him I'll be surprised. She must have told me everything he said to her in the last hour about three times." Hermione stated as she looked over to Chloe, who now had a dreamy expression on her face. Draco followed her gaze and snorted when h noticed the look. "By that look and the way they both have been acting I think Chloe will be your grandmother in no time. She'll pull the Malfoys out of dark magic." Hermione joked before laughing at Draco's horrified expression.
"Riddle is getting suspicious of us. He keeps asking unnecessary questions and I think he's been trying to look into our 'past.'" Draco stated in a serious manner. Hermione nodded to show she agreed and the two sat silently thinking of what to do about the situation they were in.
A/N This chapter is more about Chloe. I think that she'll only form a friendship with Tom though. Abraxas Malfoy will be her love interest.