I had taken him to a Muggle hotel because I knew it wouldn't be safe at the Leaky Cauldron. I woke up to Tom hitting me. I yawned. I opened my eyes a bit to see him and what time it was. Five in the morning.

"Wake up. We have a world to conquer."

"The only world we have to conquer is a house. I need to find out where we are going to live. I want to wait until morning."

"We could live in Riddle Manor or you could put me back in an orphanage. The orphanage was quite fun." I frowned at him.

"You bullied kids at the orphanage!"

"Correction, Potter, I was a kid. Did Dumbledore tell you how he came to find me? There could be no other possibility. He did teach you about horcruxes. You manipulated Slughorn."

"Yeah, Dumbledore told me. Or showed me anyway. I had to. And you have to go back to bed." I pointed to the bed I had put him in earlier. I had tucked him in despite all his struggles and eventually, because I just kept going at it he stopped, I think he tired himself out. He looked at it before back at me. I yawned again and closed my eyes. Expecting him to obey… was stupid. I felt pain in my chest the next second and bolted into a sitting position, holding my chest where it hurt. "I told you to get up."

"Tom! You are not in charge here!" I stood, scooped him up into my arms and carried him back to his bed. "If you want to be so quick about getting house rules, be my guest. I hope you choose to obey and go back to sleep." I am not at all eager to try and give him house rules but I knew he needed them. Here's a question: what happens when he breaks a rule? I tucked him in again before walking to my own bed again and hoped to sleep for at least three more hours. I needed sunlight to go house 'shopping'.

(Two hours later)

I woke up with a knock on the door. I stood up and pulled on a shirt to make myself at least half presentable. I pulled on some jeans quickly before hearing another knock. I quickly walked to the door and opened it and as I walked, I rubbed some of the sleep out of my eyes. When I opened the door I saw an angry employee.

"Is this your son?" I looked down, since obviously there was no one standing next to her. I saw Tom. Has he been hexing Muggles or insulting them or something? I looked up at her. I nodded my head.

"Yes ma'am." He might as well be. Tom narrowed his eyes at me. "Why are you upset?"

"Because he has been insulting others and throwing things." She showed me a wound on her wrist. I gaped at her. I glared at Tom before taking his hand from her. He had started burning her when the door opened, trying to get her to let go. He tried to burn me but I picked him up instead.

"Apologies ma'am. I don't know what got into him."

"If he does it again you two will be asked to leave." She turned and left down the hall way. I closed the door and placed him on the bed, crossing my arms over my chest. I was confused and upset with him.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" I scolded.

"I am surrounded by filthy little Muggles, that is what is wrong with me."

"You are the little one here Tom! You are a freaking child size! Tell me you didn't use magic, please! And be honest!"

"I did not use magic. I wanted to have the fun from doing it myself. I don't have the Trace anymore Potter. Now are we going to conquer the world or not?" I walked away from him and opened the curtains. The sun was up and that meant I could go looking for a place for us to stay.

"No more of that Tom. We will have breakfast and then we will go look for a place to live." I picked him up and carried him downstairs. We didn't really bring clothes or anything. Just money and us. We had breakfast at the hotel and Tom was glaring at everyone. "Tom, behave." He smirked and picked up the salt. He held it out, ready to drop it on the floor on his left side. I stood and caught it as he dropped it when I stood. I put it back in place and carried him to the check out desk.

"Unhand me Potter."

"How much do I owe you?" She pulled up my tab and looked at me.

"Are you checking out?"

"Obviously." Tom retorted. I heaved a deep sigh.

"Tom, be nice. Yes ma'am. We are. We enjoyed our stay and I am sorry for his rude behavior."

"It's all right. I'm sure he's just cranky. You know how children can get. Your bill is $623."

"I dare you to say that again, you filthy little-"

"Tom! That is enough. Here, and a tip of seventeen dollars for your troubles."

"Thank you sir. Good bye. Bye." She waved at Tom and I turned around before he could sneer at her but he just sneered over my shoulder. I sighed. I really need to come up with some type of punishment. Just scolding him isn't working. Clearly he was acting like some Pureblood brat… something he might be proud of even if he didn't think he was being one. If anything he was enjoying himself!

"Tom, do you have to be so mean when dealing with Muggles?"

"Potter, they need to learn their place. Have you heard anything about my followers? Perhaps Bella? Lucius would probably be in hiding with his family. Neville must pay for killing Nagini. If I had Nagini, everything would go smoothly back into the proper function. I suggest a good long Cruciatus for Neville. Just like his parents… and then murder him because he should be begging for death at that point."

"Tom please. I don't have anything I can do right now. We are going to go see my friends."

"The blood traitor and his pet Mudblood? Or perhaps they are your pets."

"That sort of language will not be tolerated!"

"And what shall you do about it? You cannot cast a proper Cruciatus or any of the like. You cannot even kill Bella for the death of Sirius Black." I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I counted to twenty before letting it out. I Apparated to the Weasley's house and knocked. Hermione answered the door.

"Harry!" She hugged me tightly and sighed. "I was wondering when we would see you." I hugged her back with one arm and kept Tom away from her with the other but kept him close to me. She let go and saw Tom. "Who's that Harry?"

"This-"

"Is your superior Dark Lord Voldemort and you will treat me with the respect I deserve, you filthy little Mudblood."

"Hey, don't speak to her like that!" Ron demanded, pushing Hermione behind him.

"That was rude! I just said that language wouldn't be tolerated! Ron do you mind if we stay here?"

"Hermione, me, and you? Or You Know Who and you?"

"Voldemort."

"You still cower before me? That is good to hear."

"Tom, shut up. You're not helping. Just ignore him." He raised his hand and I grabbed it.

"I'm sorry Harry. He can't stay here. He should have been in the hands of the Ministry. What were they thinking? Giving him to you?"

"I fought for him Ron! He doesn't deserve death and he doesn't deserve Azkaban. No one deserves Azkaban."

"Harry! Why would you do that?! Give him back to the Ministry, it would be better for everyone else."

"Please Ron! Hermione?" They shook their heads and closed the door. I frowned. "You have to give him a chance!" They didn't answer. I put my head on the door with exasperation, eyes clenched shut. "Please."

"Take him back to the Ministry or leave Harry." I inhaled a sharp breath. I gulped and turned my head to the left and then the right, rubbing it against the door. I waited a minute but the door staid shut. I sighed before turning around and walking through the front lawn toward the small village, hoping they'd change their minds. They didn't.

"Now what?"

"Ready for my ideas?"

"You are a brat! Let me think." Then I got an idea as I thought of Tom. "Tom?"

"What?" He spat.

"You and Slughorn had a close relationship right?"

"Yes. I am his favourite student. He is my favourite teacher. Dumbledore was my least favourite because he was Dumbledore and anti-Slytherin. Just ask Slughorn." I would have to take the chance.

"Where does Slughorn live?" He gave me a smirk.

"Why are you asking me Potter? Don't know the answer? The fact you asked answers my question."

"Stop mocking me and just answer the question!"

"He lives in Silverstone, Towcester. He lives in a mansion where he was born into a Pureblood family."

"You would make sure Slughorn was a Pureblood before you liked him wouldn't you?"

"All proper Slytherins are Pureblood." I thought hard on Silverstone, Towcester before Apparating there. I landed in the center of the place and began asking around for Slughorn's place. We were directed how to get there and I began the long walk.

He lived near the outskirts of the city. I saw a big white mansion with a brown roof coming into view. I wish I had my broom. I kept walking and noticed more and more details about the place. Like how there were small trees in front of the building and big trees at the corners. Between the trees were big and small bushes that alternated between the trees. There was a big lake behind the mansion, with lots of other fancy looking buildings, and a big drive way in front of it. There was a green patch of grass and flowers in the middle of the drive way that would have been horizontal if coming out of the door. On the house, I noticed as I got closer to the house, were many windows and I knew that this house would be very luxurious and had only two floors. The two front doors were huge and light brown wood looking. Above those doors was a big window and many smaller windows between the roof and the big window. When I was on the drive way I saw that there were ten steps to climb to get to the front doors.

"Your Professor has a nice house."

"'Nice' is an understatement, Potter. This is the small home and the one that is farther from here is the home. Slughorn lives in either one he wants at what time pleases him." I walked up to the door and knocked. "You idiot. Ring the door bell. You are likely to not be heard." He reached his hand out and rang the door bell. I noticed how small his hands really were compared to how big his hands were when he was his real size. I saw the door open to see Professor Slughorn. Behind him was a big marble staircase that spun up, cylindrical to the second floor.

"Harry! So nice to see you."

"Hello Professor, sir. It is a delightful pleasure to see you." Tom gave Slughorn a charming smile that I had seen from Diary Tom and Memory Tom. Professor Slughorn looked at Tom, surprised.

"Tom, m'boy, is that you? What happened?"

"I was shrunk from some mistake that happened during our, Harry and mine, priori incantatem. Now I am small, what appears to be when I was four. I could retrieve some crystallized pineapple. I know it is your favourite." He gave an even better smile. Tom… seems to respect Slughorn. I need him.

"Professor, do you mind if we move in? I promise to work a job if you need me to."

"Potter, I have money to give him if he needs it." Tom sneered.

"Shut up Tom."

"No, no I don't mind. Come in, come in m'boy." He ushered us inside. "You might have to buy yourself clothes and things you want to decorate your room with. Follow me." He led us up the marble staircase, took a right, and then another right and to the left where a corridor had been hidden by the wall and another corridor was on the right end as well. I put Tom down because he began to struggle in my grasp but I kept a vice like grip on his hand. After every two doors there would be another hall on the left side, with no doors. There were lights on the roof in those hallways and there were lights on the right wall for the corridor we were in. The doors were made of the same material as the front doors but they had diamond handles. The carpet was green like Slytherin and the walls were painted a bright silver. Tom stepped between me and Slughorn but it was fine, at least he was behaving. We stopped at a door and he turned to us, almost bumping into Tom but Tom backed up. "Do you two want rooms close to each other or do you want rooms far from each other?"

"Far."

"Close." He was hesitant.

"What about near?"

"Close please."

"What do you prefer Professor?" Damn. I should have been the one that asked that.

"I chose these two rooms because they are two of the best." He pointed to the one in front of him that was near one of those other hallways and the one behind him. "My room is at the end of this hall." He pointed to the end of the corridor we were in. I saw that there was a window there that was divided in fourths and each fourth was a square. "Make yourselves at home boys. I will get lunch started." It's already been that long?

"Thank you, Professor, sir, I appreciate your generosity." Tom chose the door that was in front of him. I repeated Tom's words before going into what would be my room. I was amazed. Purebloods live in luxury. It was all a bit much.

There was a king bed with brown posts and four solid purple curtains, no one would see through them, and lime green covers, a green quilt, and a bright yellow pillow. The walls were painted a dark red, eerily reminding me almost of blood, and there was a closet on the right wall and two doors on the left. One was a bathroom and one was a bathtub. There was a dresser that had eight drawers, was yellow like the pillow, and was next to the bathtub door. Those doors were not doors but curtains. There was a black desk chair and a red like the walls desk next to the wardrobe on the right. That was basically all the furniture in the room. There were windows that showed the backyard and the other buildings and the lake.

I walked into the bathroom to investigate that. Everything was white. Like angel white. There was a sink on the right wall that had twelve drawers and the handles were made of emeralds. Above the sink was a wall mirror. The toilet was just a white toilet. The room was small as expected for a bathroom. The light was a light bulb on the roof.

I left and entered the bathtub. There was a round bathtub that was white but with gold knobs and faucet and drain. The shower was a big square with a shower head that was literally above your head and a shower head that was on the back corner, there were three squares in the wall that you put things like soap for the first one shampoo for the second one and the third one was the size of both combined. The hot(dark silver) and cold(light silver) knobs were on the side near the door. There was even a place to sit down in the shower, it went from both back left corner to back right corner, opposite the second shower head. The walls of the shower were clear glass, you could see inside, but the door to the shower was a curtain of beads that were light gray in color. The sink was the same as the bathroom but there was a long empty place to put things you use like brushes, hair dryers, tooth paste and toothbrushes, and stuff like that. There was a vase of flowers, sunflowers at the moment, in the middle of it. Again we had a wall mirror. The sink was on the opposite side than the bathtub and shower were. There was a big rectangular window showing the back of the house in the corner with the bathtub. The lights in the room were a square light lamp above the sink, near the roof, and a medium chandelier above the bathtub. Next to the sink was a Jacuzzi. Like I said. Rich.

I left the bathtub to investigate the wardrobe. The wardrobe door was a curtain of beads too. Inside there was a bunch of shelves, different sizes, made of bronze one side and silver on the other. There were places to hang things and drawers. There was even places to put shoes. There was a hamper in one corner and an island in the center of the room. I noticed a vertical mirror on both sides of the door that went from ceiling to floor. There was even a place to sit. It was a big square cushion with silver metal legs. The seat was made of brown leather with two gold buttons, a silver button, and a bronze button. His family must have been obsessed with gold, silver, and bronze. The handles of the drawers were made of black marble. I walked out of the wardrobe and left my room to go to Tom's. His room was like mine but without the windows. Poor Tom. "Tom?"

"What?" He spat.

"Oh come on. Please be nice to me. I would appreciate it."

"Do you think there are people who appreciate it?" I ignored him.

"After lunch with Slughorn I would like to talk to you about rules and punishment for breaking those rules."

Do any of you have ideas for punishment? If so, I would like to hear them. =) Is it okay if they live with Slughorn? What do you guys think?