Living in the Moment

by Rendered Reversed

Tricked into possessing a seemingly unfarmable plot of land, Tom Riddle is forced to make things work and build up his new life from scratch in Mineral Town. He expected eventual success, a lot of hard work, and several painstaking seasons of the "outsider" reputation... but no one ever mentioned falling in love with a god. A life story told in 100 word snippets. TMR/HP SLASH

2. Chapter 2

Warnings: future SLASH (boy x boy), MAJOR NO-MAGIC!AU (Alternate Universe, specifically the Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town setting), possible OOC, life story

Pairings: TMR/HP, implied AD/GG, implied KS/NT (Kingsley x Tonks), onesided JP/LE

Standard disclaimer applies: I do not own Harry Potter or any brand you recognize in this story. J.K. Rowling is credited with the creation of these characters (I'm not fond of using OCs in my own fanfiction). I also do not own the Harvest Moon series by Natsume.

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In the end, demanding a refund didn't quite happen. Tom was stuck; the old coot of a mayor had first used his mentor's name to get him to a sign a contract, and now he found out that contract made it specifically clear that the farm was non-returnable.

So he was stuck. Still angry, still humiliated, and still saddled with a chunk of land with no one to help out either.

No wonder all of the townspeople had looked at him with varying degrees of pity.

Well, they'd get their dues eventually. For now, Tom picked up his sharpened sickle.

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Posted in its full form on Ao3, except for the sequel and the eventual epilogue :). I'll be posting 5 of these per a day (I think?), but because it's long that might become 10 a day.