When We Met {Draco Malfoy X Reader X Mattheo Riddle}

Mattheo's Version XXXIII

*Author's Note is already posted after this!!*

-Y/N-

"Harry!" My voice was broken as I saw the limp body in Hagrid's arms.

Draco had to hold me back from running up to him.

"Harry Potter is dead!" Tom Riddle said with a flourish. His smile had the facade of being brightening when it was actually poisonously constructed.

My stomach dropped and I crumbled into myself. I had no more hope left in me. Hope was so dangerous. Hope lead us here and then destroyed us.

Hope was like a mirage in the desert, luring us to a future that was never ours in the first place.

"Now is the time when I ask you to join me." Tom Riddle extended his hand. "There need not be any more deaths. If you stand against me, you will die. If you stand with me, let us rebuild the world."

No one moved from where they were standing. Tom Riddle looked around, the crowd, scanning faces.

"Draco.... your family awaits you...." Tom beckoned Draco forward. I looked over at him, but he didn't look at me. Instead he slowly stepped forward. "Good...." Tom smiled as Draco walked up to him.

I watched as Tom pointed to behind him where Draco's family stood. Draco slowly walked over to his parents and stood between them.

He didn't meet my eyes and I felt a mixture of anger and disappointment bubbling in my stomach.

Tom looked around. "Anyone else?" He asked. "Ah, my brother..." Tom found him in the crowd and smiled. "Come..."

"Mattheo..." I looked over at him and he glanced my way. I read his eyes and I know he asked me to trust him. He then looked back at Tom.

"Come to me..." Tom urged.

Mattheo slowly started walking forward. The closer he got to Tom, the more Tom's smile widened.

"I never doubted you." Tom put a hand on Mattheo's shoulder, but Mattheo gently brushed it off.

"Brother this isn't the way, there can be peace." Mattheo tried to reason with Tom.

"No, you know there is no other way." Tom shook his head.

"I know there is kindness in you, Tom. You raised me when our parents weren't absent. You made me the man I am today. Please.... this is not who you are." Mattheo pleaded.

"You've gone soft, Theo." Tom gritted.

"And you're hiding your softness." Mattheo replied. "Call it off."

"I will not!" Tom said louder, pushing Mattheo away from him. I suddenly became angry at Tom for treating his little brother that way.

"Hey!" I stepped forward, my wand raised. Tom just looked at me and rolled his eyes.

"You've been nothing but a thorn in my side. There was a time when I believed we could've worked together. There was a time when I believed in an alliance, as your parents promised me." Tom said.

An alliance.... I thought, like my parents promised him. He didn't mean...... marriage?

My eyes widened as I realized and Tom could see I was surprised.

"They didn't tell you?" Tom laughed. "Why do you think I went through so much trouble to keep you alive? I could've ordered Mattheo to kill you at anytime." Tom shrugged. "But no matter. You're more trouble than you're worth. Mattheo finish the job." Tom demanded, turning away.