Driven by decades of suffocating grief after his twenty-two-year-old lover, Y/N, dies of a rare, dormant blood curse inherited from her mother’s pureblood lineage. Decades later, a seventy-year-old Lord Voldemort utilizes forbidden magic to tear through time to save her. However, the temporal current pulls him back further than intended, dropping him into an era where Y/N is a fresh eighteen-year-old Hogwarts graduate, and practically a stranger to his twenty-five-year-old past self, Tom Riddle. When a fiercely possessive and suspicious Tom corners the older, crimson-eyed stranger invading his territory, Voldemort reveals the truth of their shared future loss. Because their capacity for love is entirely synonymous with total possession, the two narcissistic versions of the Dark Lord agree to a chilling compromise: they will share Y/N, as sharing with oneself is the ultimate extension of absolute control. While Voldemort secretly prepares a highly complex, powerful cure potion he spent decades mastering in the future to completely purge the ancient curse from Y/N's blood, the two Toms merge their brilliant, dark ambitions. After an intense, near-equal duel establishes the hierarchy, Voldemort takes his place as the supreme ruler of the dystopian wizarding world, while Tom operates directly by his side as the Minister for Magic. Together, they accelerate their dark rise to power, trapping an innocent, delicate Y/N within a flawless, gilded cage of luxury, safety, and absolute encapsulation between the two most powerful men in existence. Set in 1952!