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

209. Chapter 209

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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It was the last day of winter that Tom awoke to be pulled to the inn one night by the mayor. He usually slept a lot later, but today all he had wanted to do was get a dreamless night's sleep.

"Dumbledore, you better have a good reason for this—"

"I assure you, he does," the carpenter interrupted, strolling in with ease and leaning up against the wall.

"Then what is it?" Tom snapped. All he wanted was to sleep the night away…

"We, ah, have a new resident that we're welcoming to the town." Dumbledore's eyes merrily twinkled.

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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.