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Chapter 2

Horcruxes

The red beams of light of the rising sun was caught in the green rhinestones that shaped a ‚S' and made them sparkle. Riddle was once again consumed by the locket's simple beauty. He sat at the table in his room next to the small window. The heavy curtains were closed but a clearance allowed the sunlight to shine through. Salazhar Slytherin's medallion lay in front of him as he watched the light being reflected from its stones.

A gentle shuffling sound behind him made Tom turn his head to look at Katherine who previously had been lying on his bed reading some book about the myths of Albania's forests and who was now sitting upright and had closed the thick leather bound book.

She slowly got up and walked towards where he was sitting, her eyes never leaving his. Katherine wore a short nightdress which was made of black chiffon and floated around her form. When Katherine was standing right in front of him Riddle suddenly felt all the emotions well up inside him that always came to the surface when she was around.

It was true that he had never been interested in girls like his fellow classmates but Katherine was special. She intrigued and fascinated him. And the fact that she was a vampire and therefore was used to kill and torture without blinking made her only more likeable in his eyes.

Riddle pulled her down to sit on his lap and while she wrapped her arms around his neck she smirked and looked at the locket on the table. "So I assume you like my little gift…" Although her question was rhetorical Tom did answer. "Yes. Thanks for that by the way." The brunette simply smiled and kissed him with a murmured "You're welcome!"

"How did you know that I am related to Salazhar Slytherin?", he asked with curiosity in his voice. Damn. Katherine successfully managed to look nonchalant as she shrugged. "One of your minions told me back at Hogwarts." Although she knew that she should have thought of a better lie but Riddle seemed to believe her.

Aiming to change the subject of the conversation Katherine tossed her long dark hair over one shoulder and asked conversationally: "Okay Tom, you told me yesterday that you wanted to use this spell… What was the name again? Horcrux?" For a split second Riddle seemed to deliberate if he should tell her or not but eventually he began explaining to her what she already knew – thanks to Kiril's extensive research. He planned to reach immortality by creating seven Horcruxes. And to Katherine's surprise he had already made two.

"The first one is my diary and it was transformed into a Horcrux as I killed this Gryffindor mudblood in my 5th year at Hogwarts... And this ring here" – Tom showed Katherine his left ring finger where he wore a gold ring with a black stone in the middle – "is the Gaunt family ring I stole from my uncle…" "And?" Katherine raised her eyebrows in question. "What was the kill that made the ring a Horcrux?" With a dry laugh he replied: "My father."

Katherine was shocked. She knew he was cruel but killing his own father? She was anxious to not letting her emotions show on her face. She forced a nonchalant tone into her voice as she shrugged and stood up. "Well, you can't choose your parents can you?"

Suddenly she felt him grab her wrists and spun her around to face him. Tom stepped closer, the Slytherin locket dangling from his index finger by its chain. "I plan on turning your little gift into my third Horcrux!" He trailed one finger up her bare arm. "And what's the kill going to be?" Katherine looked at him, a slight shudder running down her spine from his touch. Riddle sighed and cupped her face with his hands. "I thought you could help me with that… Have you already fed today?" Now both smirked and Katherine leaned in for a kiss as she whispered against his lips: "Not yet…"

The blood red light of the sun made the shadows of the trees look very scary as Katherine looked over her shoulder once again to see a limping Albanian peasant a few feet behind her. He couldn't see her yet because she hid in the shadows of the forest. Behind the peasant she could see with her sharp vision how Tom slowly approached, his wand outstretched. Before he revealed his presence to the old man Riddle searched for her eyes in the dark and when he had her attention he gave her a slow nod which she returned. Then he poked his yew wand at the peasant's back who jumped and whirled around, a startled look on his face. Tom's stone cold features seemed to be the only thing the Albanian was scared of because as a muggle he could not know about magic and what this 'little stick of wood' could do to him.

The peasant said something to Tom in a language she didn't understand – probably Albanian. Tom gave Katherine a sign to intervene which she did, her wand also ready to kill.

Katherine had gotten a new wand after her old one had been buried with her 'corpse' on the grounds of Hogwarts. Kiril had taken her to the famous Bulgarian wand maker Gregorovitch and there a wand with dark wood had picked her as its owner. The handle was shaped like a skull and a snake which came out of its mouth was arranged around the skull in a swirl. And this wand was now pointed at the peasant's throat.

Although the man couldn't possibly understand Tom as he hissed: "Welcome to your worst nightmare!" He then smiled viciously at his Dark Lady. "Dig in!" And then Katherine sank her pointed teeth into the old man's neck, draining the hot red liquid from his body.

A red gleam appeared in Riddle's eyes as he watched how death came to the peasant. He then pulled the locket out of his black coat and pointed his wand at the dying man at first while whispering a complicated spell and then moved his wand to the medallion. A green dust trailed behind the tip of his wand and encircled the locket. Then it looked like the dust was suddenly being sucked into the piece of jewelry and it now seemed to glow from within.

A satisfied grin spread across Riddle's face for a split second but then he felt a stinging pain that began to run through his body, beginning from his chest. He struggled to gain control over his body again but the force that was tormenting him was too painful. With a cry filled with absolute agony he felt how a part of his soul was ripped out of him and his body went limb. The last thing he saw was Katherine dropping the Albanian peasant to the ground and rushing over to him to catch him. And then Tom Riddle felt safe.

Because I am almost done writing Volume IV I was looking through all my stuff which is about The King of Slytherin and I found a lot of scenes I had written but never put them in the actual story. This gave me the idea of posting a 'Volume V' after the last volume, in which I will upload all those scenes which didn't appear in the story. What do you think of that? Would you like me to do that?