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Hogwarts, 1945. Y/N has known Tom Riddle for years. He’s her closest friend: brilliant, charming, ambitious and perhaps the only person at Hogwarts capable of matching her mind. Alongside Abraxas Malfoy, Septimus Lestrange, Cassius Nott and Onyx Black, they’ve become one of Slytherin’s most notorious circles. What Y/N doesn’t know is that Tom never befriended her without reason. Pure-blood. Wealthy. Beautiful. The daughter of a powerful Ministry family. She was useful. At least, that’s what Tom has always told himself. But somewhere between years of friendship, familiar touches and another wizard looking at her for a little too long, something begins to change. Possession becomes jealousy. Jealousy becomes want. And want becomes something Tom Riddle has spent his entire life ensuring he would never experience: need. Y/N was supposed to help Tom Riddle obtain power. She was never supposed to become the one thing he couldn’t bear to lose.