~Lives POV
My eyes opened , blinking as I adjusted to the light. Tom stumbled back. I landed on the cold, wet floor of the sewage tunnel.
"Where are we?" I gazed around at the engravings on the walls. Serpents.
"The chamber of secrets, created by-"
"Salazar Slytherin when Hogwarts castle was first built" He stared blankly at me as I patted down my skirt.
"I read Hogwarts a history, thought it would help me navigate around the school, well, you see how that went" I flicked my wrist upwards and my wand flew out of his robe pocket into my hand. I moved my wand and pointed it at his neck.
He shut his eyes. "Live" he spoke softly, he wasn't pleading or flustered.
"You lied to me" I said
"I know I did"
"your a liar"
"and your a murderer, what's new" He opened his eyes and stared down at me.
"Put the wand down, your not going to kill me Live"
"No, not yet anyways"
He gulped looking down at me. He was scared now, but contempt of not showing it. "Can we talk?"
"What is there to talk about Tom, you kidnapped me and dragged me under the castle into your little sewage play house, and for what? Oh yeah to confront me about a murder of a girl your didn't even like"
"Live, you were there, I told you I'd thank the person,"
"fine way of thanking me, Tom" he was testing my patience, my tone was becoming more fierce. There was silence in the chamber. Then he let out a sigh. "Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why dose it matter to you?"
"You shouldn't have killed her. She was useful to me"
"in what way could she be useful to alive than dead."
He sighed again. "Well since only one of us will leave this room then I might as well let the cat out of the bag, your a smart girl, I'm sure you've heard of horcruxes." I nodded not speaking a word, I just listened. "Well you see I want to become the greatest sorcerer in the world, but if I wanted to come somewhat close to the wizardry performed by our dear professors I needed time. And time is not infinite, however once I made my first horcrux then I would be immortal and free to do whatever I chose."
"Didn't I say that I knew what a horcrux was, well If you didn't already infer the fact that I also know that is makes you immortal. Now please get to your point, I'm starting to get bored".
He scoffed,"Walburga was going to be my first horcrux sacrifice. I haven't chosen what my artefact will be, I just knew that I wanted to be the one to finish her"
I looked him dead in the eyes, this time I sighed. "Your telling me your grand plan was to split your sole in half by killing another prefect, and then your going to place your sole, in a something? So you kidnap me, a much more powerful witch, to tell me off for squashing the bug first." He looked down at his feet ashamed, but I tiled his chin up with my wand again. "I don't know what to be more appalled at, the fact you went out off your way to kidnap me out of spite or the fact that you have a whole god damn monster at your disposal in this chamber of yours and not once did you think that you could use that as a killing method."
"You don't understand" he stammered trying to justify his actions.
"The monster, it only responds to parcel tongue and I don't know what words I should use to summon it. You see it's a basilisk I can't-"
"I know what a basilisk is! Plus it wasn't hard to guess the monster, I mean come on giant snake in a snake house, come on Salazar be a little creative. As for command words". I let out a horrid hissing noice, that was one thing that Tom will always be better than me at.
A pause.
A slithering sound came from within the walls, until it reached the statues mouth. It's eyes were shut as to not to kill ether of us, one things for sure I'm not dying down here.
"H-How?" Tom gazed at the magnificent creature.
"All I said was what food did it want? You did think that a stunning creature such as it would get hungry didn't you?" The basilisk hissed in return bowing its head.
"They want chicken, every Wednesday if possible." Tom nodded and the beast slithered closer to us, it hissed again "is this the girl whom you speak to your self of so often, I like her, she is respectful to me" this time Tom replied.
"I'm sorry I didn't expect this, the chicken will be served and yes this is Live"
"you talk to yourself about me? If you hadn't threatened my life I would think it was sweet"
"I never meant to threaten your life just torture you I swear, and even then it would still be considered sweet" the beast nodded in response.
"Don't you take his side, I thought you said you liked me!" I called over to the basilisk, it bowed its head and slithered of into the darkness.
"Well times up now" Tom was now very conscious of the fact I still had my wand pointed at his neck.
"Don't you want to know how I worked it out?" He was desperate I knew he was, stalling for time, but I found it funny. Watching him scramble, even though he seemed calm, I could almost hear his internal screams.
"Fine I guess I could spare a few more minutes" Tom cleared his throat, as if he was about to make some incredible speech.
"It was Theo, he left his dorm ever so loudly he might as well have woken up the whole dorm. I looked for him but all I could hear was footsteps. Next day, Walburga turns up dead and the boy who you thought was working for Grindelwald is now part of your friendship group thing."
"We're the lady's of the round table!" I couldn't help but correct him, it was our name but all the same the more I said the name the dumber it got.
"Well I put two and two together and your involvement trying to stop me from looking for Walburgas killer just made you more suspicious. I really tried to believe it wasn't true. Hence why it took me so long to do, Um well this." He gestured to the chamber. "Why did you protect him, why did you kill her?" I took a deep breath, should I really be telling him this.
"Grindelwald is my father."
Even though the chamber was silence it felt like I could hear his every movement. His jaw dropping and him quickly closing his mouth. The clicks in his head as he made connections and realised it all made sense.
"I presume your here for the mythical hallows, well let's say they're real, Dumbledore had Grindelwalds wand so your after the elder wand, and Theo must have the cloak I knew he was related to one of the pompous Gryffindors boasting about his heritage, explains you invincibility that night, so everything I thought Theo was, was you all along." I nodded smiling, I shouldn't feel as happy as I did, it felt almost as good when the others accepted me for being who I was.
"Walburga had found out you were a Grindelwald and threatened the security of your mission so you killed her. With Theo's help you got rid of the body and went back to your respected dorms. So why didn't I hear Theo return back?"
"Your close Sherlock Holmes, i wanted the Hallow that Theo had so we fought on the Astronomy tower, unfortunately for her Walburga was eves dropping, I had no choice but to kill her. But it wasn't just me and Theo. Alexa, Janelle, Pamella and Gwenevere were all there helping too. Then we came back to my dorm."
"A Slytherin and a Grindelwald in the same school, who knew?"
"Dippit was the only adult in the school that knows of my existence as a Grindelwald and you kept your secret hidden well, my father knew Marvolo and once your 'knights' said you were his grandson i knew soon enough."
Tom smirked, "I knew they couldn't keep their mouth shut, though this chamber I presumed you believed it wasn't real, as there were only rumours of its existence." I nodded in response.
"It's pretty isn't it?" I didn't reply. "The chamber I mean-"
"Tom did you expect me to talk all day? It was fun messing with you and you'll be missed, but soon forgotten." I presses my wand harder agents his neck.
"Any last words?" The boy stared into my eyes, nothing moved or made a sound.
Until.
"I'm not that easy to kill".
He grabbed my wrist and knocked my wand out of my hand. He flung my arm behind my head, slamming my back against the wall. I reached for his robes but he grabbed my hand now holding both my wrists with his left hand above my head. I kicked his shin but he's stance didn't falter, my physical attacks were useless. He was much taller, stronger and I couldn't move my arms. I closed my eyes fearing the worst.
I could feel his breath on my face.
The entire chamber fell silent.
"Fuck" he mumbled, before I could open my eyes.
His lips were on mine.
He let go of my wrists to cupped my jaw. I slung my arms over his shoulders pulling his closer. A few moments past, then we pulled apart.
"I could never hurt you" He tilted my chin to meet his gaze.
"I never ment for any of this to happen, I was blinded by anger and jealousy. I would never kill you, no matter how tempting" I rolled my eyes which made him smile, he continued "my life was boring that is why I strove to find meaning, but you make my life less dull."
I stood there listening, I've never noticed this before but from afar his eyes were dark and hollow but up close I could see small gold flecks twinkling.
"I will say this again and again I'm sorry for everything I did, and will do" he reached into his pockets and pulled out a set of rings, the top two were covered in tiny diamonds in casing a teardrop Opal. The same ring that I'd seen with Gwen in the shop window.
"It was meant to be a Christmas present but, I believe now is the time to gift it to you. I kept it everywhere, in my pocket, my bedside. I saw you looking at it and I couldn't help but keep an item you loved close to me." I was stunned, " I can't not love, I was conceived under a love potion, I will never love, I've grown to live with that but what I feel towards you, it's nothing I've felt before. I know it's not love but it's the closest I've been." He handed me the ring and I slipped it on my finger looking up at him.
"I don't care if you can't love Tom, I was raised with death as my friend I am apathy, maybe that's why we understand each other so much, you may not love, but you can like, right? I like this a lot" gesturing to the stone on my hand, "and I like you a lot " i looking at the ring trying to avoid eye contact with the figure looming over me. I was blushing.
"I like you a lot, My dear. I've liked you a lot for a while now" he muttered in my ear, resting his head on my shoulder, wrapping his arms around my waist.
He was hugging me.
"How do we get out of here?" I asked, he let me go and once our wands had been returned to one another, he held me again.
"Hold tight" I held his robes, he pointed to the chambers ceiling and muttered open in parceltongue. As it was commanded an opening appeared in the ceiling enough for us to get through. We were back in the girls bathroom. "We better get to the hospital wing to check on Janelle" he nodded, holing my hand he guided me to the real entrance to the hospital wing.
There she lay covered in bandages, sat bolt upright.
"Well what time do you call this!" Janelle exclaimed.
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Is it bad that my favourite bit of the chapter was Janelle.
Anyways, hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Stay safe Xx
T.