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Tom Riddle and Y/N Y/L/N have spent years perfecting the art of not trusting each other. Once playful academic rivals, somewhere between childhood and their final years at Hogwarts, competition became suspicion—and suspicion became something dangerously close to hatred. Tom knows Y/N is hiding something. Every Tuesday she disappears. Dumbledore knows why. Onyx Black covers for her. And when Y/N returns looking exhausted, there is occasionally something about the magic surrounding her that Tom cannot explain. Y/N knows Tom is hiding something too. The secret meetings. The forbidden magic. The growing influence over their closest friends. And beneath the charming, brilliant student Hogwarts adores, something in Tom Riddle is becoming increasingly dark. So they begin investigating each other. Quietly. Secretly. And with absolutely no idea just how right—and how catastrophically wrong—they both are. Because Tom has already begun tearing apart his soul in pursuit of immortality. And Y/N possesses the one kind of magic that may someday be capable of putting it back together. Enemies. Rivals. Two secrets that should never collide. Neither of them intends to fall in love. Then again, neither of them intends to destroy the other either. At first.