He held me even closer as the suffocating darkness I associated with apparition took hold; I had no idea where he was taking me. My mind had hit a sudden blank and the undying trust I usually had toward Riddle was now obliterated. Would I ever get the chance to say goodbye to all the people I loved? I doubted it.
We had appeared on the outskirts of a very overgrown graveyard in the middle of a town, Riddle still had a firm grasp upon me so that I couldn't move; not that I could anyway because fear had me rooted to the spot.
My eyes had spotted the one thing I feared; headstones. They meant one thing to me; pain, Lots and lots of burning pain. This ground I could not walk upon or even touch, sadly, Riddle knew that. It seemed so long ago when I had told him. So long ago that I had been foolish enough to trust him.
He pushed me forward, a hard something in the small of my back which I assumed to be his wand.
"Why would you do this?" I asked as he continued to shunt me forward, "after everything we have ever been through?"
"You denied me" he whispered in an almost hiss which raised the hairs on the back of my neck.
The silence bore down upon my shoulders like a dead weight almost causing me to fall to my knees in absolute despair. This monster had been in him for so long and for so long I had ignored it believing it to be a trick or else thinking that I could push it out of him but alas, nothing made it go away as is evident after he killed his family. I should have seen it then…but even then it was too late. We stopped at the entrance to the graveyard and I could feel my knees shaking with fear.
He spun me around to face him.
"I told you I had found a way to live forever, just like you and yet you still denied me! WHY!?" he shook me savagely and I was teetering on the edge that separated the graveyard from the footpath.
"Humans can't live forever! It is impossible! It is ridiculous! I refuse to watch you tear yourself apart just so you can not die! I don't want to watch you fall to pieces!" I argued extremely aware of the danger with which I was in.
"I will prove to you I can live forever" he replied and he picked me up and carried me across the graveyard toward a large house-like structure which I knew was a crypt. Fear had suddenly gone into over-drive and it pulsed through my veins like poison. Surely he wouldn't lock me in there forever? Would he?
It was easy for him to open the tomb-like structure; just a flick of his wand and then we were inside. Instantly I closed my eyes.
The smell of death and decay clung to every pore in my body and without realising I was clinging to Riddle out of fear.
He threw me down upon the ground and my pain was instant. My screams of agony of loss and despair bounced off every wall as my skin burned as if someone had wrapped me in white hot metal.
"STOP IT!" Riddle had pulled me from the floor and now had me inches from his face, the force of his grip knocking the last bit of air from my lungs.
"IT BURNS!" I screamed back now realising I had warm tears plastered across my cheeks.
He laughed harshly "see what you have done? Can you see? Do you know what I am going to do? I am going to watch you die"
Again he threw me upon the floor but with another casual flick of his wand he silenced me so that my screams were eerily silent. However the pain was real.
"while I watch you in pain I am going to tell you something; Once I have fulfilled my goal at becoming the most powerful wizard and have also achieved immortality I am going to prey every day that you will not rest even in the afterlife knowing that you denied me, simply because you could live forever. Let it be known, while I live Bethany, you will suffer in your death regretting everything you ever told me; death will not be peace for you. it will be your hell" his words were as cold as the corpses around us and his eyes never left mine.
However, his voice in my ears was going faint and the light from his wand was going dark…I was leaving here…I was dying.
I felt a soft tender kiss upon my lips then the light was gone and so too was mine.