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sorry took so long for this update. It took me forever to write the duel part. :and my internet has been acting up lately too so every time I would try to get online to work on this chapter I couldn't get connected.

Plus its a longer chapter than what I normally have written so thats also whyyyyy!!! Enjoy, I thought it turned out better than I thought it would. I hope you agree.

The duel between Tom and Hermione, Hermione knows Swedish (haha) and I am sorry for anyone who is can speak it and my sayings are incorrect. I got it over the internet so who knows if they are correct!

Chapter Fourteen: Short duel to not forget.

Hermione felt as if she hadn't slept at all that night. She sat up the entire night and thought of the flashback that continued to replay in her mind. What had she done? Everything that she and her best friends had suffered she could have stopped, but for some reason she hadn't. Something had caused her to leave the place. Maybe their time had finally been up, or someone had found out their true identity and tried to use it against each other.

It was because of her that Tom was still messed up in the head. She had always been told that the Lord Voldemort had never known love and truly had been alone. Tom Riddle, on the other hand may not have been. The two were completely different people in her mind. Tom Riddle was the young man that would slowly fall in with her and once she broke his heart, he would bring his rage completely out of him, to search for her.

"Why did you leave? You were so happy. I was happy, you made me stop doing the things I did! When you left, it all started again. I was angry. Angry at the world that they took you away. I promised that I would find you.. And now.. Now here we are."

His words continued to come in and out of her mind. He had loved her so deeply that he had done what it took to finally find her. In a sickening way, she saw that he truly had cared for her that he had done everything in his power to find her and have her return. He had found immortality to be able to always continue searching for her. He continued to live a a tormented, gruesome, half existence in hopes he would one day come upon her.

She walked alone to breakfast that morning, still in complete thought while she walked down the corridor. Harry and Draco hadn't been waiting for her in the common room, as she expected and since she was late already for breakfast she figured they had left without her. Her mind was still intertwined with the thoughts she didn't even hear Minerva yell after her.

"Hermione!" she yelled. "Hey-" she grabbed her arm and Hermione immediately pulled out her wand in alarm. Minerva backed away. "Hey! Calm down." Hermione looked her wand, staring at the girl.

"Oh! I'm so sorry. I've been so paranoid after my parents died." mumbled Hermione. "I'm afraid someone is going to come after me one day."

"I understand, it's just me!" Hermione put her wand back into her robes. "I saw you so I figured I'd walk with you to breakfast."

"Oh sure! I'd like the company." she said smiling.

"So how has you're week been going so far?" she asked, s they continued on through the corridor.

"It's been good so far. I'm kind of excited for todays class. I can't wait to get into Defense Against the Dark Arts."

"I hear we are going to be learning to duel this year. Not very many of us have had practice with it."

"Oh, I can't wait for that than."

"I suspect you've been through it before? I can't wait to see what Riddle thinks. I hear he was pretty irritated when you beat him out in potions."

"Yeah, well. All my reward for that was being invited to Slughorn's dinner parties."

"You too? They are terrible, Hermione. I have to go to them also. No matter what you attempt to do to get out of them, it just doesn't happen. Slughorn will make sure you are there. Riddle is there too."

"Oh." snapped Hermione. "That should be lovely than! At least Harry and Draco were invited too. They also beat out Riddle in potions too."

"What is it with that cousin of yours?" she asked, Hermione was unsure to which one she meant. "Draco, I mean. He keeps to himself too much and hardly talks to anyone besides Harry and you."

"He always has been that way. He's a remarkable person though, just have to get through his one stage and let him open to you. That's all!"

"Easy for you to say!" she said, with a small grin on her lips. Hermione stared for a moment, unsure to what she was playing at.

As she had thought, the boys had left without her earlier in the morning for breakfast. They arrived into the Great Hall and they were sitting there with plates of food in front of themselves. As usual, Hermione took a seat in between the two of them and helped herself to eggs and waffles. Taking the first bite out of her eggs, she glanced up feeling as if she were being watched. She looked right up into the piercing blue eyes of Tom's. She never broke eye contact with him until he moved over on his side and looked over to the Malfoy that sat across from him.

Hermione rolled her eyes away from him before continuing to her meal.

"Hey, come on! We need to get to the class!" said Harry, excitedly. She moved up from the bench, knowing that he was excited for the double class of the Defense against the Dark Arts. Unfortunately for her, the class was being shared with the Slytherins. She would have to see Tom sooner than she was going to want.

"What's the matter, Hermione?" asked Draco as Harry walked a little a head away from the two. She shrugged, not wanting to bring the topic up once again to the boys.

"Nothing, just been thinking.." she looked at him. "You know, after yesterday."

"Ah, I see." he didn't look at her, "Listen. You just have to go with it. Don't think about what you remembered yesterday. It's only going to hold you back to what you need to do while we are here. You need to just go with what is in front of you and whatever happens, happens for a reason right?"

She smiled. He was absolutely right.

They entered the class together seeing the Tom was sitting in the center of the room, Hermione did her best to not look over to him but she could feel his piercing eyes staring straight at her. She sat down at the table diagonal from him to his left and glanced over.

"Good morning, Tom." she said quietly as he watched her contently. He didn't immediately answer, instead he placed his hand on his cheek and tilted his head to the side.

"Morning, Bedeau." he said quietly as he looked away from her. Hermione glanced over her shoulder to see Abraxas Malfoy walk in and he was looking directly at her. He took a seat beside Tom.

"So this is the new girl." he smirked, wider than what she was so used to see Draco do. Draco looked over from the corner of his eye, almost as if he were afraid to look at his younger Grandfather. Hermione corner her eyes at him. "Ignoring a Malfoy isn't a wise thing to do."

She suddenly smiled at him. "Oh, well hello, Malfoy. I'm Hermione Bedeau and I would rather not speak to you."she continued to smile and then looked to Tom who watched in surprise.

"You little bitch." he muttered. "I suppose I'll find a simple way to change that then. Very soon."

"Stop it, Hermione." whispered Draco. "He's completely different then how I was to you growing up."

"I think I can handle him myself." she muttered in return. Draco looked to Harry, who was also slightly worried. Before anyone could say anything else, the remainder of the Gryffindor and Slytherins walked in. Shortly after the tall professor walked in.

"Welcome back, students!" she said happily as she went to the front of the classroom. "Ah, finally here are the three exchanged students! I'm Professor Alvord." they only smiled. "I wanted to start the year off with a small dueling section. Do the three of you have dueling experience?"

They all looked at each other and grinned. "Yes, we do professor." the three answered together.

"Perfect. Well, I'm going to begin by pairing you off with some of your other classmates." she continued on her speech and begin to pair everyone together to begin. The desks with every ones belongings had been pushed aside and a large mat big enough for the amount of dueling space had been placed on the ground. Hermione's first duel was to be against a Slytherin girl that she knew very well she wouldn't have any issues defeating. Harry was to duel first against another Gryffindor boy. She knew very well though that he was currently wish that it had been Tom Riddle he was to duel first. She frowned, hoping that Harry wasn't about to take it to far. She had grinned when Draco had been called to duel first against his slimy grandfather Abraxas. She had her fingers crossed that Draco took him down with no effort.

"Now, all of you listen to me very carefully." Professor Alvord began. "If I hear or see any spells that should not be cast upon your fellow classmates you shall face extreme punishment. Understood?" a few students answered to her. The rest of them fully concentrating on what was about to happen.

"Now, Harry and Elliot. You may begin first." Hermione could see Elliot, jump slightly as he walked up to the mat in the center of the room and Harry bowed to him, his green eyes piercings straight through the boy. Elliot had no idea what was about to come to him.

"Wands at the ready." said Professor Alvord, when Elliot didn't do so after bowing. They placed their wands out, ready to begin. "Begin!"

as soon as the duel at begun, Hermione could see that Harry was trying to pull back more than what he had been capable of doing to the boy. She could sense that Elliot was afraid to duel against Harry, and after a moment Harry quickly disarmed him by an effortlessly Expelliarmus. Elliot breathed in heavily as if he were glad the duel was completely over. He grabbed his wand off the floor and quickly walked off.

"Well done, Bedeau." Harry nodded and walked away.

"Tom and Minerva." the Professor said as the two walked onto the mat. Hermione looked over to Draco and Harry. Wanting to know what the younger Voldemort dueled like and McGonagall was like, they were both very skilled at dueling as adults, but what about their younger years is what Hermione, Harry and Draco wondered as they began to watch eagerly. "Begin!"

As soon as the Professor finished shouting begin, Tom had already begun to cast his spells. Hermione immediately noticed some of the times his lips weren't moving. He already knew how to cast non verbal spells. She noticed Minerva struggling to be able to throw any sort of spells at Tom as he continued to cast ones at her.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Minerva suddenly shouted. She hit Tom directly in the stomach, it was weaker than the Totalus Hermione had remembered she had done on Neville during their first year, which caused her to frown at Minerva. It only lasted on Tom for a mere seconds and when it wore off him, she could see the slight anger in Tom's eyes.

"Stupefy!" he shouted at her. The duel was suddenly over. Minerva came off the mat anger and sat down beside Elliot. Tom stared after her, still angry that she had been able to hit him with her spell.

"Well done, you two." said Professor Alvord. Tom stood near Hermione which made her feel uncomfortable. "Hermione and Susan." Hermione smirked as she took her place where Tom had been standing moments before and stood her ground to duel against the Slytherin. "Begin!"

Hermione immediately had to dodge a spell the girl threw at her and just at the same time, Hermione pointed her wand directly at the girl, and non verbally, she cast out an Expelliarmus and disarmed at the girl at once. Hermione grinned and shrugged her shoulders at the Slytherin, who huffed at losing.

"Fantastic!" the two walked off the mat. "Draco and Abraxas." Draco stared at Hermione and Harry who were know standing beside each other. She smiled at him brightly, knowing if he tried he would be able to take his grandfather down easily.

"Begin!"

"Confringo!" shouted Abraxas, Draco grinned at him showing the amount of bravery he had never shown to his grandfather before, knowing he could have also shot a better spell at him. He knew that he would most likely suffer the coincidence for what he were about to do.

"ANAPEO!" shouted Draco, the purple jet of light hit Abraxas directly in the face, he stared at Draco stunned as he dropped his wand and grabbed his throat, gasping for air. Hermione and Harry looked at one another in alarm.

Professor Alvord immediately began to shout as she used a counter-curse to knock the Anapeo spell off for Abraxas to breathe. "Draco Bedeau, I don't know where you learned that spell from but I told you no harmful spells! I'm going to have to give you detention!"

Draco didn't seem half bothered. "I'm sorry, professor. I didn't know I couldn't use that spell. My father taught it to me and said it wasn't harmful." he said, innocently.

she breathed in heavily. "Malfoy dear, go the Hospital Wing, see if she can do anything for your throat. " still holding on to his throat, Abraxas looked to Draco as if he wish he could have killed him on the spot then left the room quickly. "We shall talk about this later." she said looking to Draco. "I'm disqualifying you for today's dueling." he walked off the mat and didn't look at either of his pretend family members as he walked over to where the rest of the people who were already out sat.

The dueling continued on to where the last three people were finally Harry, Hermione and Tom. Hermione sat eagerly, hoping that Harry would go against Tom before her. Than Harry and Hermione could duel and take it easy on one another. She didn't want to duel her best friend but she also didn't want to face and duel Tom either.

"Harry and Tom please take your stand." the professor said quietly. Everyone was eager to watch the exchange student and the top of the class duel together. Hermione stared and watched as if she were still at the last battle they had faced together. When Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter were about to begin to duel one another. They face one another, wands pointed firmly in front of them and they continued on making a circle as they spat insults at one another. Hermione sighed, that was also a moment when Ron Weasley had still been alive and she hadn't befriended Draco yet.

During the time Hermione had began to daydream, Harry and tom had already began dueling. It was almost an even fight. Harry and Tom both had cast a shield upon themselves to block the spells coming from one another. They were both trying to find any sort of holes in their shields. Hermione crossed her fingers, hoping that Harry would defeat him. Harry was doing anything in his power to attempt to distract Tom, trying to get an opportunity for the boy to drop his shield just a tiny bit.

Tom almost immediately caught on to what Harry was trying to do and in a short matter of time, after being hit by one of Harry's spell and dodging another that was quickly thrown at him, he shouted out "Rictum sempre!"

Hermione cringed as Harry went flying backwards and his wand went flying in Tom's hand that was up in the air waiting for the wand to appear. Harry laid on the ground on his back for a split second, before jumping up on his feet staring angrily at Tom. Hermione didn't know what to say as she hadn't expected Tom to beat Harry at all. He walked over to Tom, who still held on to his wand.

"Give me my wand, Tom." he said so clearly as he remembered saying that to him in his second year. Tom stared at the wand for a moment and put his hand out and dropped the wand in Harry's hand. They departed from one another and Harry walked to Hermione.

"Do everything in your power to not release your shield." muttered Harry as he passed her to sit beside Draco. She breathed out heavily as the teacher began to speak.

"Alright! The last battle of the day, Hermione and Tom. Please take your places and do not let things get out of control." she said, looking to Tom more than to Hermione.

"Good luck, Bedeau." Hermione narrowed her eyes and only smirked at him.

"Begin!"

Hermione closed her eyes and heard Tom begin to throw spells at her, she concentrated as well as she could on her shield that she built around her. She heard the mutters begin of her classmates that were out of dueling. She could sense the irritation of Tom as none of his spells could touch her and she could hear everyone begin to ask 'what is she doing?' which only made her grin. Raising her hands up, as soon as her eyes shot open, she cried out, "SKADA!"

She saw the look in his eyes as soon as the spell hit him and he was blown back, landing on his back, he hadn't even had time to move as she continued to cast away. "Langlock!" he raised up as soon as that spell hit him, and she could see the sudden anger flashing through is eyes. At the direct moment, she was no longer staring at Tom Riddle but at Voldemort. She knew exactly what he was thinking. You want to play games, Bedeau. Then so be it.

Hermione tried to concentrate on her shield as Tom tried to find any sort of hole to pass through, which he had found. "je vous déteste!" she then too, had her share of being flown back, and to Tom's surprise as soon as she landed she was back on her feet a second later.

"Conjunctivitis!" she shouted, then silently, expelliarmus. Tom unwillingly was disarmed and his wand flew directly into Hermione's hands. Everyone around the room was stunned as they watched the disarmed Tom Riddle and Hermione Bedeau stand with her wand and his wand in her other hand.

"Oh, well done, Ms. Bedeau!" cried out Professor Advor suddenly. "Oh, that was marvelous. You're family and you are very skilled at dueling. I'm so proud. Twenty points to Gryffindor.!" Hermione didn't take her eyes away from Tom who was walking slowly closer to her now as their classmates begin to clap. she put her out hand that held his wand and he took it, making sure that their skin made contact. Chills went down her spine.

"Now, where would a girl like you learn to duel like that, may I ask?" he whispered to her, as he watched her suspiciously. She saw the danger still flashing in his eyes and she knew then Tom Riddle couldn't stand to lose. She just beat him twice in one week.

but she played it off and only smiled. "Wouldn't you like to know!" she called out as she walked over to Harry and Draco.