I walk into the chamber as the Weasley girl was shouting at Tom who didn't look the least bit upset.

"What's her issue?" I question as Ginny tenses up and looks at me.

"It's you... you have to leave! It's not safe!! He's—!" She had started to yell but stopped when she noticed me laughing.

"Sorry, sorry, I just wouldn't have thought you'd be this stupid." I grin at her as she stares at me in shock.

"You.. you betrayed her!" Ginny shouts as I look at her confused.

"Betrayed who?" I question her as she glares at me.

"That's stupid mudblo—" she was cut off when I kicked her to the ground and pointed my wand at her head.

"You want to finish that sentence? you filthy bitch." I question her with a raised eyebrow and a glare.

She stammers before passing out as most of her energy was gone, leaving barely enough to keep her alive.

"Why can't she die quicker?" I complain with a pout as Tom rolls his eyes with a smirk on his lips.

Suddenly, we hear the chamber of secrets opens as me and Tom share a glance.

"I'll duplicate the diary." I state as i pick up the diary and make a fake copy of it.

I set the fake one down as the real one remains in my robes.

———

I watch from under the invisibility cloak as Harry walks down the entranceway. He then starts to sprint as he sees Ginny's body laying there.

He drops his wand and kneels beside her as he starts to mutter hopelessly.

"She won't wake." Tom says as Harry turns toward him in confusion.

"Tom. Tom riddle. What do you mean she won't wake? She's not...?" Harry asks as Tom walks towards him.

"She's still alive, but only just." Tom explains briefly as he stops infront of potter.

"Are you a ghost?" Harry questions as I shake my head at his stupidity.

"A memory preserved in a diary for fifty years." Tom explains once again as Harry faces Ginny.

"She's as cold as ice. Ginny, please don't be dead... wake up..." Harry mutters as he doesn't notice Tom picking up his wand.

"You've got to help me, Tom. There's a basilisk..—" Harry gets cut off by Tom interrupting him.

"She won't come until she's called." Tom explains as Harry looks at him confused— seemingly just noticing that Tom took his wand.

"Give me my wand Tom." Harry demand as Tom glares at him slightly.

"You won't be needing it." Tom replies as Harry seems to not grasp the situation.

"Listen, we've got to go! We've got to save her!" Harry snaps as Tom simply looks at him boredly.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Harry. You see, as poor Ginny grows weaker, I grow stronger." He explains bad Harry looks at him confused.

"Yes Harry, it was Ginny Weasley who opened the chamber of secrets." Tom explains as Harry looks at him in disbelief.

"No.. she couldn't! She wouldn't..." Harry trails off as Tom continues.

"It was Ginny who set the basilisk on the students and Filch's cat. Ginny who wrote the threatening messages on the walls." Tom explains as Harry looks at him in shock.

"But why...?" Harry says in barely above a whisper.

"Because I told her to. You'll find I can be very... persuasive." Tom says with a grin.

"Not that she knew what she was doing. She was, shall we say, in a kind of trance. Still, the power of the diary began to scare her, and she tried to dispose of it in the girls bathroom, and then, who should find it but your own sister?" Tom says as Harry glares at him.

"At the time, I hadn't even thought of the idea that she would have picked it up instead of you. But I decided to entertain the idea, eventually I grew bored. I had made her drop it purposely infront of you. She, of course, doesn't have any memories from this anymore." Tom added as i grin.

"then it finally fell right into your hands. You, the very person I was most anxious to meet." Tom says as Harry steps closer to him and glares at the taller male.

"And why did you want to meet me?" Harry asks as Tom glares at him.

"I knew I had to talk to you, meet you if I could, so I decided to show you my capture of that brainless oaf, Hagrid, to gain your trust." Tom explains with a grin as he circles harry.

"Hagrids my friend!" Harry yells at him at Tom rolls his eyes. "You framed him didn't you..?"

"It was my word against Hagrids. Only dumbledore seemed to think he was innocent." Tom scowls at the mention of the name as Harry grins.

"I'll bet dumbledore saw right through you." Harry says as Tom scoffs.

"He certainly kept an annoyingly close watch on me after that. I knew it wouldn't be safe to open the chamber again while I was still at school. So I decided to leave behind a diary, preserving my 15-year-old self in its pages, so that one day, I would be able to lead another, to finish Salazar Slytherins noble work." Tom finishes as Harry glares at the male.

"Well, you haven't finished it this time. In a few hours, when the mandrake draught will be ready, everyone who was petrified will be all right again." Harry says as he glares at Tom.

"Havent i told you already? Killing the students doesn't matter to me anymore. For many months now, my new target has been you. How is it that a baby with no extraordinary magical talent was able to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape with nothing but a scar while lord Voldemorts powers were destroyed?" Tom says as he points the wand at Harry's head.

"Why do you care how I escaped? Voldemort was after your time." Harry asks as Tom grins.

"Voldemort is my past, present, and future." Tom states as he turns around and spells his name out with a spell before its reorganizes itself to spell 'I am lord Voldemort.'

I shake my head at one, the stupid name. Two, the dramatics.

He had already told me about him being Voldemort and all so it didn't shock me.

"You... you're the heir of Slytherin." Harry's mutters as Tom glares down at him. "You're Voldemort..."

"Surely you didn't think I was going to go around, using my real name? No. I fashioned myself a new name... a name I knew wizards everywhere would one day fears to speak when I became the greatest sorcerer in the world." Tom says as he raises his voice slightly.

"Albus dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world!" Harry yells back as Tom scoffs.

"Dumbledores been driven out of this castle by the mere memory of me!" Tom states as Harry glares at him.

"He'll never be gone, not as long as those who remain are loyal to him." Harry snaps as Tom glares at him and goes to speak but was cut off by a birds cry echoing throughout the chamber.

"Fawkes?" Harry questions as I look at the bird confused.

The bird then flies down and drops something into Harry's hands before circling them and flying off.

Tom watches as Harry unrolls the hat, watching in slight confusion.

"So this is what dumbledore sends his great defender? A songbird and an old hat." Tom glares at Harry as Harry glances at him blankly before looking back down.

Tom scoffs before walking infront of the statue.

He hisses out a calling in parseltounge as the statues mouth slowly opens.

"Let's match the power of lord voldemort, heir Salazar Slytherin, against the famous Harry potter." Tom says with a grin as Eserine emerges from the chamber.

Harry starts to run as he glances back and hisses out a warning in parseltounge but Eserine doesn't stop, just glances at Tom.

"Parseltounge won't save you now, potter. She only obeys me." Tom explains with a grin as Eserine chases Harry down the chamber.

Harry runs as fast as he can, but trips on the floor as he groans and reaches for his glasses.

He puts them on before he realizes the situation he's in and covers his head.

Fawkes screeches as she flies around Eserine in an attempt to distract her but doesn't actually harm her.

Harry quickly runs off and into the pipes as Eserine quickly follows.

Fawkes flies off once again before I take the invisibility cloak off.

"Are you sure this was a good idea?" I ask Tom as he glares at me.

"Are you questioning my decisions?" He scowls at me as I look at him boredly.

"Yes, now shut up." I state as he raises his wand to cast a spell but scoffs and crosses his arms, looking away.

"So... when should we break the death eaters out of prison? Assuming all goes well." I question as I tilt my head at him.

"Probably in a year or two, it would be too suspicious for all of this to happen in the same year." He explains with a wave of his hand.

"Alright!" Is all I say before going back under the invisibility cloak.

Just then, Harry comes running out of the pipes and towards Ginny, kneeling down beside her unconscious body.

"Yes potter. The process is nearly complete. In a few minutes, Ginny Weasley will be dead, and I will cease to be a memory. Lord Voldemort will return... very.. much... alive..." tom says dramatically as Harry glares at him before looking back down at Ginny.

"Ginny..." Harry mutters before suddenly, Eserine violently emerges from the water, splashing water everywhere.

Harry glances off to the side, towards the hat, as a sword appears.

He takes the sword as he backs away and climbs up the statue, attempting to attack Eserine.

Eserine hisses as she goes to attack potter, potter had moved out of the way just in time and continued to try and climb the statue.

He dodged two more attacks before he stood at the very top of the statue. He goes to attack Eserine as I take that as my moment to cast a spell to knock him out, causing him to fall down the statue.

Eserine backs down, glancing at me and Tom.

"He would've killed her." I state briefly to Tom as he tenses up at the thought.

'What do we do now?' Eserine asks in confusion as I kneel down beside Harry after dragging him next to the Weasley girl.

"We give him false memories of him killing Eserine... then we put a glamour on her to make her look as if she was dead. The rest... it should play out like the plan." I explain as I glance at Tom, he nods as Eserine lies down, letting Tom quickly put the glamour on her.

Tom points his wand at Harry's head, muttering something before a violet beam shot out from his wand, providing potter with false memories. (Though Eserine did still bite him)

We also had removed the memories of me using crucio on Ginny.

I hold the invisibility cloak in my hands as I look at potter blankly.

"Well then... let's do this." I say with a grin as I put the cloak on. Tom nods as he quickly makes Harry Potter snaps awake.

He looks around confused before his eyes widen and he quickly stands up, walking past Eserine in the glamour. He then falls to the floor, the basilisk venom finally making his body collapse.

"Remarkable, isn't it, how quickly the basilisk venom penetrates the body?" Tom asks with a slight smirk.

"I'd guess you have a little more than a minute to live. You'll be with your dear parents soon, Harry." Tom says as Harry holds Ginny's hand.

"Funny... the damage a silly little book can do... especially in the hands of a silly, little girl." Tom says as Harry's eyes widen before he takes the (fake) diary and opens it.

"What are you doing?" Tom pauses as Harry glares at him, clutching the sword in his hand.

"Stop! No!" Tom yells at Harry, going to stop him but stops as he acts as if it hurts.

After a few more stabs, Tom riddle had 'died' aka just going back to the real diary after faking his death.

He also had been forced to give all the energy back to Ginny as she gasps and opens her eyes.