Camaraderie of Hellions [Tom Riddle]

XVII - What Died Didn't Stay Dead

𝔏𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔫𝔦𝔞 𝔖𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴: 𝔄 𝔗𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔲𝔱𝔢

WARNING: severe illness, hospitalization, isolation, death.

*This chapter also contains Hogwarts Legacy spoilers and references, especially to the Sallow and Gaunt family plot lines. ALSO—please try not to mind any typos in this chapter!*

" The autumn chill that wakes me up,
You loved the amber skies so much.
Long limbs and frozen swims,
You'd always go past where our
feet could touch. "

- Marjorie, Taylor Swift

Act I - The Sorting
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

Licinia Sallow was unwell.

There was no other explanation the healers would give her nor her family, other than the fact that the growing malady inflicting such searing pain that was beyond the fragile girl's endurance was her own bloodline's fault.

A bloodline long forgotten, respectability lost to the wreckage the past left in its fleeting wake. It whispered to them with the rawness of a soul scorned by its penitence.

History spoke of a young boy moved by the potential of the darkest art, a craft he sought at the depths of his desperation, and in his attempts at mastering the heinous sorcery did the boy lose all he held dear, when the only reason he had sullied his soul had been to keep them close.

Time fleeted by for the Sallow family long after their ancestor's misdeeds. Many knew Sebastian Sallow to have been trialed and locked up for his offences, and as the years went by, their story had been forgotten, heaved into the havoc that came with war and despair.