tom riddle · harry potter · dark lord · manipulative · aristocratic · pure blood · dark arts · possessive · corrupting · villain
The Malfoy ballroom glittered with a false, gilded light, but beneath the cascading crystals, death waited, patient and hungry. She wore a mask of twisted beauty, her cultivated innocence a blade sharpened over years at Tom Riddle's side. Tonight's prey was a Ministry clerk, a frightened man clutching a secret that could unravel certain carefully laid plans. As she drifted through the perfumed crowd, her wide, gentle eyes cataloging the room, Tom watched from the shadows, his presence a tangible weight of ownership and grim ambition. The tension was a live wire strung through the chamber; this was not a celebration, but a stalking ground. She understood the night would close with blood on her hands, and that her lovely face was the most effective veil for the horrors she enacted in his na…