Chapter 4: Painting the roses red
A/N So this is maybe going to be about six chapters long. I really had the idea for the sequel before I thought about the set up so that's why I wanted it to be short. (Also this is my first multi chaptered fic). The plot is now beginning! Enjoy! Yay! It's my birthday!
"Speaking"
Thoughts
Parseltongue thoughts
"Parseltongue speech"
There has been a time jump!
Chapter 4: Painting the roses red
Over the next few months Tom and Harrison managed to form a tentative friendship. Tom sill didn't trust Harrison and he was still destined to become a dark lord but despite this they regularly ate together in the great hall, studied in the library and helped each other with their homework. Harrison leant about Tom life at the orphanage and his feelings regarding his family but Tom couldn't get more than basic facts about Harrison. The other Slytherins had been confused; Harrison wasn't in their club, he hadn't stopped caring about muggle rights, and nothing dramatic had happened to change Tom's mind; they were worried for their friend.
Harrison had begun searching for a way home, he couldn't kill Tom, and it was around Christmas that Tom discovered his research.
Tom and Harrison had permission to remain at Hogwarts during Winter break; Harrison had nowhere else to go anyway. They were spending their days in the library or outside in the school grounds and it was during one of Harrison's library trips that Tom discovered the truth about his new friend.
"What are you doing?" Tom's sudden question startled Harrison and he dropped the book that he had been reading at Tom's feet. Tom picked the book up reading the cover as he did. Time travel and reversing its effects? Why would Harrison be reading a book like this? Harrison could almost see Tom thoughts racing towards the correct assumption that Harrison would never let him know.
"It's just some extra credit work."
"Which lesson, which teacher? This isn't even on the sixth year curriculum Harrison and there is no extra credit." What is he hidi…unless? Time travel.
"Harrison? Are you from the past?" It would explain a lot; his sudden appearance, his unclear past and missing family. That must be it. Who is he? Tom made a weak excuse and left the library in a rush leaving Harrison behind. Tom had to think about this.
Back in the school's library Harrison was panicking, his thoughts were racing at one hundred miles an hour. If Tom went to a teacher Harrison might get sent to the ministry and then he would never get home. Did he even want to go home? What about Tom? Little did Harrison know that Tom was having very similar thoughts in the dorm at the other end of the school.
I don't want to go home.
I don't want Harrison to go home.
A/N Thanks for reading! Sorry this is so short but at least the plot is moving along. Review if you want! Bye!
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