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Jewellery Day Challenge - Agate Ring: Write about Tom Riddle

His Plan
Thanks to Jordi for betaing :)

Tom looked around the group, his eyes flashing in excitement. He rubbed his hands together gleefully. "What I plan to do, is kill them all," he said, grinning maniacally. "I want them all dead. But I won't just kill them… no, I want to torture them into insanity and have them begging for their lives."

There was silence in the room.

"I want to light up their houses in flames and make these Muggles beg for mercy—which they will not get," Tom added. "Once they've finished begging, I want them to see everything they cherish go up in flames. I want them to see the bodies of their parents, loved ones, and children in a big heap, before they die themselves. Rats will chew at their corpses, foxes will—"

A chair scraped back and Charlus Potter stood up. Tom stopped talking, his eyes narrowed as he watched Charlus swing his bag onto his shoulder and leave, but not before shooting a wary look in Tom's direction.

"Later," Charlus called as the door closed behind him.

Tom glanced around at the remaining four members, his eyes narrowed, daring anyone else to get up and walk out. No-one did.

"And once they are dead, I want to use a spell to kill Charlus," Tom finally hissed. "I will use a spell to burn to flesh from his limbs and Voldemort will enjoy listening to his screams of terror."

Dolohov sighed. "Tom," he began. "We've talked about this. We've talked about it so many times now. This is why no-one will play dungeons and dragons with us anymore. You agreed that you'd be a mage-healer this time."

"With my character's back-story, he can't help but be destructive and want to kill someone," Tom argued. "Voldemort's mother used a love potion to trick his father and she got pregnant. Because Voldemort was born from that union, he is incapable of feeling love himself."

"Tom," Avery said, looking up from his dungeon keeper's book. "The town did nothing to you. In fact, they saved your group from bandits. Are you sure you want to attack? I mean… they managed to take on the bandits that almost killed you lot, so your chances of winning this attack are pretty low. You'd have to roll something crazy to even have a chance."

Dolohov sighed as Tom began to argue with Avery. "Maybe we should have played Monopoly instead?" he muttered.

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