[HP Doujin] 1943

Summer 1945, France.

Tony drove the dark blue Daimler with Francis on the way to the suburbs of Paris.Wearing sunglasses, he asked sharply: "It's been so many years, Elizabeth has been with Tom a long time ago, don't you still forget her?"

Francis smiled, blowing his hair all over with the window open.His mind was in a mess, worrying about Laura's disappearance and worrying about seeing Lizzie just now.

"I've only loved her in my life," he said simply.

"Even if you get divorced, Elizabeth may not come back to you." Tony said, "She has fallen in love with Riddle with all her heart."

"Really?" Francis said casually, apparently not paying attention to what he said.

"Are you sure you want to meet Riddle before setting out to find Laura?" Tony asked, "I think you should go to Austria immediately."

"It's okay, Laura is throwing a tantrum, and there's no harm in letting her stay on her own a little longer." Francis said, "If I don't stop him today, Riddle will go to Greece in a few days. I'm not in the mood to chase him all over Europe." run."

Suburban picnics are packed with French wizards and wizards in brightly colored dresses.Francis took two glasses of champagne from a footman and handed one to Tony.

Sylvia Black and Tom Riddle were standing at the other end of the picnic, talking to several members of the Black family.

With one hand in the pocket of his suit trousers and champagne in the other, Francis walked up to Tom with a happy smile on his face: "Good afternoon, Tom, Sylvia."

Silvia immediately raised her head vigilantly, her distrust for him was clearly written in her eyes.

"Good afternoon, Francis." Although Riddle was only 16 years old, he was not much shorter than Francis.He grew more and more handsome, with an unfathomable taste in his black eyes, and when he spoke, his face had a calmness and composure that his peers did not have.

Francis looked Tom up and down, and said cheerfully, "I said, Tom, we've been fighting for so many years, now it's time to shake hands and make peace."

A perfect smile also appeared on Tom's face, and he stretched out his hand calmly, shaking him without showing any trace.

"Maybe it would be more appropriate for us to be friends." Francis raised his glass to him. The amber liquid in the glass reflected a faint light under the sunlight. I see a lot of myself in me.”

They stand under an oak tree that casts a huge shadow on the ground, and the picnic is full of laughter, and no one notices the dangerous undercurrent between a teenager and a young man.

The corner of Tom's mouth slanted slightly, revealing a beautiful smile.He shook the ice cubes in the wine glass, and directly pointed out Francis' purpose: "What do you want?"

"It's easy to talk to smart people." Francis laughed. "I know what you've done. I've found evidence that you participated in Class A black magic drug smuggling."

"Smuggling Class C prohibited drugs can constitute a criminal offense." Tom also smiled slightly and said calmly.

"You know the law pretty well." Francis took a sip of champagne and said relaxedly, "Then do you know what it is to murder your father, grandfather and grandmother, and frame your uncle?"

Sylvia trembled all over, and together with Tony raised their heads in shock, they both looked at Tom.

Tom's expression was still as calm as water: "How did you find out? I thought there was no loophole in what I did."

"What you do is impeccable," Francis said, "It's just that I have been sending people to follow you."

The corner of Tom's mouth twitched angrily: "Since you didn't send me to the courtroom immediately, it means that I have what you want here. Tell me, what deal do you want?"

In the summer sun, the smile on Francis' face was particularly dazzling.Sylvia stood beside Tom with a cold expression and her brows were furrowed.

"I want Elizabeth." Francis said, gently putting down the glass in his hand.

Sylvia opened her mouth in surprise, and Tony also raised his head suddenly, looking at him in disbelief.

Tom smiled and said calmly: "You can send me directly to Azkaban. Isn't Elizabeth yours?"

"She'll still love you then," Francis said. "I want you to tell her clearly that you don't love her anymore. Let her live without you."

The air suddenly became tense, Francis took a step forward, his expression became stern and indifferent: "Use the year you graduated from Hogwarts as the boundary. After you graduate, no matter what shady plans you have for Elizabeth, you will Can't touch her again. I want to make an unbreakable oath with you, so that you won't regret it when the time comes."

Tom's expression was a little sad: "Do you know what I have planned for Elizabeth?"

"She is the tool you use to get revenge on me."

Tom's black eyes still had a quiet look that was almost sad: "Revenge on you is only the reason why I approached her in the first place, not the ultimate goal."

"Then what's your ultimate goal?" Francis asked, sarcastically, "Do you think you're in love with her? Don't be kidding, do people like you know what love is?"

Francis, Tony, and Sylvia all stared at Tom.

Tom was silent for a moment, and the corner of his mouth slanted slightly, showing a perfect smile: "Deal."

When he walked past Francis with Sylvia, he said softly: "We are not finished yet."

At night in Monte Carlo, Francis sat in the car and watched Elizabeth sitting alone on the upstairs terrace of the hotel upstairs.She looked at the sinking sun and the brilliant clouds in the sky with a confused expression, and kept drinking while waiting for Tom to come back.

A slow and sad song is playing in the small bar downstairs of the hotel——

Try to member the kind of September,

Recalling that intoxicating September,

When life was low and oh some llow.

Time is slowly living leisurely.

Try to member the kind of September,

Recalling that intoxicating September,

When grass was green and grain was yellow.

The grass is green, the rice and wheat are golden.

The man's singing echoed in the ambiguous and beautiful dusk of Monte Carlo, it seemed so gentle and beautiful, with the soft taste of the past.

Tom didn't come back until the sky turned from indigo to black and every street lamp on the side of the road was lit.He knew that Tom must still be outside with Sylvia to meet various people in the Black family who support black magic.In the misty evening wind, he looked at Elizabeth on the balcony upstairs, and silently accompanied her, his heart was numb and pain free.But there is hope in this kind of waiting, as if every long dark night will eventually usher in the dawn of dawn.Because he knew he would have to wait another year, and Tom would leave her, and he would marry her back, no matter what the excuse.He is convinced that as long as there is enough time, she will forget Tom and fall in love with him again.

But at that time he didn't know, he was wrong.Elizabeth will fall in love with Tom again after forgetting Tom, because she really loves Tom deeply.The childish infatuation Elizabeth had for him when she didn't know what love is, has been broken forever by Tom, Victoria and himself in the depths of the years, and will never come back.

Try to remember when life was sotender,

Reminiscing about the sad times,

that no one wept except the willow.

Only those tears filled.

Try to member the kind of September,

Recalling that intoxicating September,

when love was an member about to billow.

The spark of love that is about to start a prairie fire.

Try to member and if your member,

Reminiscing about the past, if you remember,

then follow, follow, oh–oh.

Please follow me, follow me, oh.

The lights of Monte Carlo fell one after another, the sea tide and the heat faded away, the gloomy sky of London and the green trees of Hyde Park appeared from both sides like a corridor, and a 7-year-old girl in a dark blue dress opened her arms like a little savage. Her arms were thrown towards his embrace, her red flat shoes pattered over the sycamore leaves on the ground and the stagnant water after the rain, her chestnut hair was blowing in the wind, her face was full of unrestrained, unrestrained Reserved smile.

That smile is so beautiful, enough to light up his life.

******

The glare of the midday sun flashed across the glass, and a doorman in a dark red British uniform bowed, opened the hotel door, and said politely, "Good afternoon, sir."

Tony wore sunglasses, walked in with a coat in one hand, nodded to the doorman, and walked in.He walked into the elevator and arrived at the suite on the highest floor. The hotel waiter was pushing the luggage cart out the door.After the waiter came out, he stepped forward, reached out and knocked on the door twice.

"Who is it?" A woman's voice came from the bedroom door, "Claudia, go and have a look."

"I'm unpacking!" said an impatient young woman's voice. "Why don't you go yourself?"

A white room door slammed open and a young girl stepped out.She was wearing a white sleeveless dress with a heart-shaped collar, holding a bunch of ribbons and shawls in her hands, stepping on the thick Persian carpet with her bare feet, and walked around the sofa embroidered with intricate golden rose patterns.She threw a pile of clothes in her hand on the sofa, walked to a high round table with a large bottle of agapanthus, stubbed out the cigarette in her hand in the ashtray, opened the drawer, and took out a piece of parchment and A quill.

"Wait a while," she bent over and wrote on the parchment, "it will be ready soon."

After she finished writing the note, she walked over and stuffed it into Tony's hand, then turned her head and shouted, "Mom, the driver is here, I'm leaving first."

"I'll see you at the dinner party," said a woman's stern voice from across the room. "Remember to take the letter to your Aunt Clarissa."

"Got it," she said impatiently, walked to a mirror by the door, put powder on her nose, and picked out a pair of dark gold high-heeled shoes from the shoe cabinet.She took out a lipstick, threw the powder puff into her handbag, took out two silver Sickles from the handbag and threw them to Tony, and said neatly: "Give my note to the front desk of the hotel, and let him give it to Carla immediately." Aunt Lisa, pull up to the gate and wait for me. I'll be right down."

Tony opened his mouth, wanting to say something, Claudia dropped the lipstick, took off the curling iron on the fluffy blond hair, a pair of bright blue eyes squinted at him: "Why don't you go soon? What are you doing here? "

There was an amused gleam in Tony's eyes, and he shook his head and walked away. Ten minutes later, Claudia walked out of the hotel door after being fully dressed, and saw a valuable bright yellow convertible sports car parked in front of her at a glance, and stopped in surprise.

Tony sat lazily on the driver's seat, waved his wand, opened the passenger's door, and said, "Get in the car, Miss Stuart."

"It's not our car!" Claudia said in surprise.

Tony took off the sunglasses from his honey-colored hair, and joked, "I'm not your driver either."

"then who are you?"

"Tony Randall." He gave her a cynical smile and held out a hand. "Get in the car. I'll be happy to help you."

Claudia blushed, bent down and got into the car. Just as she put on her seat belt, the car jumped out of the car, which shocked her a lot.

Tony's blond hair fluttered in the strong wind. He stepped on the accelerator and passed seven or eight cars in one breath. Several drivers rolled down their windows and yelled at the sports car that entrusted you.When I rushed down the high ground where the hotel was located and arrived in the city to wait for the red light, because Tony's sports car was so good, several drivers parked beside him whistled at him.

"Are you that Tony Randall?" Claudia asked, looking at the handsome blond young man beside him.

Claudia had of course heard the name of Tony Randall.The eldest son of the Randall family is well-known in London social circles for spending money like water, and he is an out-and-out dude.She didn't go to Hogwarts, but she had heard from friends at parties that he was the Quidditch captain of Ravenclaw House and the head of the Boys' Council.

Tony didn't answer her, because at this moment he saw Sylvia and Tom standing outside the roadside cafe.He turned the steering wheel, turned around in the middle of the road, rushed to the side of the road and slammed on the brakes, knocking Claudia unsuspectingly in front of the car. She raised her head angrily, but Tony had already He opened the car door and walked over to talk to two people on the side of the road.

As a proud Stuart, no one had ever treated her like this before, and Claudia was so angry that she almost burst into smoke.At this time, Tony walked over with a black-haired girl in a gray skirt and a black-haired boy in a white shirt. They opened the door and sat in the back seat.

"What's going on?" Claudia asked. "Who are they?"

"My friend." Tony got into the car and slammed the door, "We have to go to a place before going to the banquet. You don't mind getting out of the car first and walking over here? There is only one street away."

Claudia was so angry that she almost immediately pulled out her wand and jinxed him, but she just looked up haughtily and said coldly, "Very well."

After Claudia walked away, Tony started the car, and Sylvia said, "Is that Victoria Stuart's daughter? Do you have to treat her so badly?"

Tony raised the corner of his mouth and showed a mischievous smile: "She provoked me first, and I just retaliated a little."

"If I were you," Sylvia leaned forward and said, "I wouldn't provoke a Stuart."

"Relax," Tony said lightly, and glanced at Tom's silent face in the rearview mirror, "Francis and Victoria haven't spoken for many years."

"You'd better pay attention," said Sylvia grimly.

Because of the traffic congestion, Tony slowed down the car. He looked at the two people in the back seat and said casually: "Can't you wear some bright clothes? This is a beach in Greece. Every time I see you two, It feels like someone is dead."

He went to the hotel where Tom was staying. There were no other colors in the wardrobe except black, white and gray.

Sylvia snorted: "That's because our taste is not as vulgar as some people's."

Tony was about to shoot back when Tom said flatly, "Here we are. Stop."

No one said anything more, Tony parked the car on the side of the road, and the three got out of the car together.

"Sylvia just follow me." Tom turned his head and said, and glanced at Tony lightly, "It's none of your business."

Tony shrugged, waved to them both, got back into his car, and left in a gust of wind.

Tom and Sylvia climbed up the crooked alley.At this time, the sun has set in the west, and the orange light falls on the blue roofs and white walls. On the terraces of the layers of residential buildings, white sheets are drying, tables and chairs are placed, and it looks peaceful.

Arriving at the bar called "A Drunk Fangxiu Aegean Sea", they opened the door and walked in. The Greek wizards were already waiting there.They shook hands and walked into a box.

"The previous transactions have been done well," Tom raised his glass to them, and said lightly, "Tonight is our last transaction, I hope we have a happy cooperation."

He took out a bank check from his pocket and threw it on the table. The Greek wizards picked up the check and checked it carefully, showing a satisfied smile.

"This is yours, sir." A bald wizard took out a black brocade box from the inside pocket of his robe. Tom took it and opened it for a look.Sylvia's face turned pale, she glanced at Tom's hand, and saw a flash of blue light.

Tom closed the box in his hand with a snap, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth: "Thank you."

"Tom, what are you doing?" Sylvia asked anxiously as soon as the Greek wizards left.She knew that Tom came to Greece to buy illegal black magic drugs from these smugglers, but what Tom bought for a huge sum of money just now seemed to be a sapphire ring.

But Tom ignored her question and said coldly, "Get rid of those three Greeks tonight. I gave them a bogus check."

Of course Sylvia understood what he meant by "get rid of it", but she still looked at him puzzled.

Tom said impatiently: "This is my own business, don't worry about it."

"Tony said Francis met you in Paris," Sylvia said. "What did he tell you?"

"Don't worry about it."

Sylvia turned her head silently and bit her lip.Tom took one look at her, put down his glass, and sat down on the sofa, seemingly lost in thought.

"You know I have no choice from the beginning," he said after a moment of silence, his voice was very hoarse, "I just wanted to use Elizabeth to hold Francis hostage, but I didn't expect that one day, Elizabeth would become Francis A tool to hold me hostage."

"He threatened you with Elizabeth?" As soon as Elizabeth was mentioned, Sylvia's tone became very angry.

"I've given up on her." Tom picked up a glass of spirits without ice and drank it all. "Actually, you've expected this day, haven't you? Without her, I can live in my life." go down the road."

Sylvia looked at him silently, opened her mouth but said nothing.At last she said nothing, but poured herself a glass of whiskey, clinked glasses with Tom, and drank it down.

"Elizabeth and Frances are the best for everyone," Sylvia whispered. "No one knows what the future holds. Many times when we groped in the dark, I felt that as long as If you take one wrong step, you and I will be lost forever."

"We're all over," Tom said. "People like us don't deserve a normal life."

Sylvia had a sore nose, but she did not shed tears.She's a strong woman, always has been.

Many years later, when Tom became extremely powerful and unstoppable, she would still recall the days of stumbling and groping forward in the dark countless times.

She knew Tom better than she knew herself.Tom is a proud and withdrawn person. His character and extraordinary talent doomed him to never tolerate mediocrity and pornography.In the first grade, he was bullied by Malfoy and Tony because he was outstanding in his studies. In the fifth grade, he finally won over his own forces and made both Malfoy and Tony loyal to him.Sylvia accompanied him all the way.Only she knows how rough and difficult it is for him who looks cruel and ruthless to outsiders.

Tom had thought about choosing a different path, such as entering the Ministry of Magic, but the existence of Francis meant that he could not enter the Ministry of Magic.So he can only choose another path to become stronger, making himself strong enough to compete with the Stuart family.By the time he was strong enough, he had already paid the price of humanity.

Just the other night Tony had said to Tom that he no longer wanted to be in the ranks of the Walpurgis Order. "I'm not your follower, but I swear to Merlin that I will never fight against you." Tony said, "I just want to live a peaceful life."

Sylvia knew Tom would not agree.Tom just smiled and said calmly, "Do you remember why you joined in the first place?"

With a weary look in Tony's dark blue eyes, he said, "It's because of Margaret. She's been a totally brainless girl since she was little, and I just wanted to protect her. And Elizabeth, I've never been able to figure out what you mean to her." For what purpose. I know you are taking revenge on Francis, but you have never acted so simply with her as you have with Margaret and Rosaleen. Perhaps you do not know whether you love her more, or Hate Francis more."

Tom snorted: "You have to know, Tony, Margaret is not the fundamental reason for you to join. You joined because of a stupid but noble sense of responsibility in your heart. Although you have always been a slut in the eyes of the world My son, but I know that you are a person driven by a sense of responsibility. This is also your greatest weakness in this life, and you will stumble on it one day. The knight order is a road without turning back. Once you join, there is no possibility of quitting. You know that."

Afterwards, Tom and Tony engaged in a duel, and Tom knocked Tony out effortlessly.

For all his subordinates, he is so cruel and merciless.Because he knows that all human qualities—kindness, kindness, compassion, responsibility, sympathy—will be his weaknesses.He has already suffered once, and he will never suffer a second time.

Years later, when Sylvia sorted out the memoirs left by Elizabeth alone, she thought countless times what a wonderful labyrinth life is, and every turn may lead people to a completely different fate.

Only she and Tom knew that she was pregnant before she got married.Tom had gone to Edinburgh after his return from Albania, then came to find her in London, and spent the night smoking in her flat, red-eyed, without a word.

When she woke up the next day, Tom was still sitting by the window, with his forehead in one hand and a cigarette in the other, and said to her, "She's not mine anymore."

"I will always be yours." Sylvia blurted out on impulse.

Tom stood up, smiled, and sat down beside her.He took out a black brocade box from his pocket, paused slightly, and threw it into the trash can.

Sylvia recognized the ring he had painstakingly bought from the group of Greek smugglers years before.He went to see Elizabeth with the ring today, but unexpectedly, what he saw was already Francis' fiancée.Although Tom never said anything to her, Sylvia could guess that he probably wanted Elizabeth to leave with him.But... It seems that Elizabeth's love for him does not exceed her yearning for Mrs. Stuart's position.

His face was much thinner than before, and his eye sockets were sunken, making his outline more defined and his lines firmer.Sylvia held his hand and said softly, "When Stuart started to fight against you, you were only one year younger than you are now."

Tom gently pulled out his hand and smiled wryly: "Yes, my failure lies in meeting a mature opponent when I was naive. But Stuart's failure lies in that after his opponent grows up, he will He has become dozens of times more terrifying than he was before."

She slept with Tom a few times, and each time, Tom wouldn't kiss her, just pure sex.She knew it was an outlet for him, but she didn't care.She knew that she would always be his comfort when he was in despair, even if it was just a little bit, it was enough.

As they sat in the darkness of the bar that night, Sylvia thought that Tom was no longer the humiliating orphanage boy he had been, and that a war was about to begin that Stuart had never imagined.

Years later, she also visited the bar when she was on vacation alone in Greece.She actually sang very well. When she was at Hogwarts, she had been the lead singer of the school choir.For a while she used to go back to the bar and sing, and as she sang, she would look across the dark crowd to the box where she had sat with Tom.

Her voice is very beautiful, with a touch of hoarseness and unspeakable affection, like the beautiful wind on the Aegean Sea——

Heartbeats fast,

heartbeat starts to speed up

Colors and promises,

Colors swirl, promises reverberate in hearts

How to be brave?

How can I muster up the courage to face everything

How can I love when I'mafraid to fall?

How should I love you, at this moment I am so afraid that I will sink

Butwatchingyoustandalone,

But when I see you standing alone

All of my doubts suddenly goes away somehow,

All my uncertainties disappear in an instant

Onestep closer.

step by step approaching...

After singing here, she raised her head, and her eyes fell on the deep memory in the darkness. Tom's dark and stubborn eyes seemed to be staring at her with a smile through the thick fog of time.

Ihavediedeverydaywaitingforyou,

Every day in the past I've been eagerly waiting for your arrival

Darlingdon't be afraid I have loved you,

don't be afraid baby i will always love you

For A Hours and Years,

love you for thousands of years

I'll love you for AT House and more…

In the future I will continue to love you, longer than 1000 years...

She sat in the spotlight and looked deeply into the darkness. It seemed that in a bar full of people, she could only see Tom.

Or, in this crowded world, she could only see Tom alone.

Many people thought she was too smart and capable, cold and distant, even cruel and ruthless.True, but those were her shells.Who can understand her heart?If she was really so cruel and ruthless, then she must have knocked out her daughter with Tom before she got married, instead of giving birth to her and cheating her husband and everyone.Every time she sees Bella's dark eyes and black hair, she thinks of the man she has loved all her life.

Maybe she's just a stubborn and paranoid woman, she fell in love with her when she fell in love, and she didn't know how to compromise in her whole life.She was even a little willful and naive, so that when she was emotionally broken, she rushed to Edinburgh to find Elizabeth and told her the truth.

Because she is not as strong as Tom.Tom's strength comes from the heart, but her strength is all pretended, a kind of loneliness born of love.All her life, she was strong only for him.