[HP] The Dark Duke's Candy

Time-Turner is a good thing.

Candice managed to catch up with her Transfiguration class.

Professor Dumbledore seems to be in a good mood recently, and he always smiles during class. Candice sits in the front seat, surrounded by Fremont who is listening carefully.

She tightly held the time-turner in her hand, thinking of the hug before parting with Riddle, she couldn't help being a little distracted.

Are they reconciled?

He already lent her the Time-Turner, right?

Even if it's not reconciled, then it's fine to apologize when she's still in the time-turner?

So how do you find a chance to return the Time-Turner to him?

Candice decided to write him another letter.

On Halloween, she received a letter from Riddle.

She was in the dormitory at the time, and Anita and Euphemia were discussing what to dress up for the Halloween dinner. Louise Duncan hadn't walked with them since school started, and when she came back, she shut herself in the curtain and ignored everyone. Candice sat at her desk doing homework by herself.

The owl knocked on the window, Candice put down her quill and looked over, and saw the school owl.

Riddle didn't buy his own owl, either because he didn't think it was necessary or because of financial constraints. Anyway, he used the school owl every time he sent letters.

When Candice saw the owl, she knew he had written her an answer.

She opened the window to let the owl in, took off the letter from its feet, and prepared delicious owl food for it.

"Owl?" Euphemia sat by Anita's bed and looked over. "It looks like it's from the school. Someone sent you a Halloween present?"

What to send for Halloween?It’s nothing more than candy. Most of them give it in person. Professors will also give students some candy at the Halloween dinner. It seems strange to use owls to send Halloween gifts.

Candice simply explained: "It's not a gift, it's just a letter."

"A letter?" Euphemia murmured, but didn't ask too much. After all, this is a personal matter, and Candice obviously didn't want to talk about it, so she didn't ask.

Candice quickly packed up her homework and went to bed with the letter.

She carefully pulled half of the curtain before she dared to read the contents of the letter.

Riddle's handwriting is very beautiful, it is a beautiful cursive, and the writing is elegant and pleasing to the eye.

Candice is very envious, when can she write such a good handwriting?

His reply was short, but at least he replied, didn't he?And he didn't refuse her request to return the Time Converter. This thing is not so easy to get, and it must be more useful to him than her. He is a well-known good student in school.

It seemed that all exams were a piece of cake for Riddle, and he never got anything other than an O, neither in exams nor in normal assignments.He got the first place in the school again in the final exam of the second grade. Candice had to run all the way to catch up with his grades, and he might just do it casually.

People are more popular than dead people.

Candice looked down at the letter. He asked her to wait for him on the eighth floor at the Halloween dinner.

He just wrote such a line, but she read it for a long time.

After reading it, she carefully folded the letter in half and quietly hid it under the pillow.

Louise Duncan drew the curtains and got out of bed, and from her angle, she could see Candice's movements from the half-drawn curtain.

She is hiding something?

What are you hiding?

Louise Duncan rolled her eyes, and quietly returned to the bed.

the next morning.

Candice got up and washed, then left with Anita and Euphemia.

Louise Duncan never walked with them, refused to even speak to them.

Candice tried to ease the relationship with her several times, but she responded sharply every time, like a hedgehog who refused to accept anyone's kindness.

In desperation, Candice could only give up temporarily.

Now Louise waited until they had all gone before drawing the curtains and getting out of bed.

She leaned against the bedroom door, and after making sure that they would not return suddenly, she quietly walked to Candice's bedside, and reached under her pillow to look for something.

She quickly found what she was looking for.

a letter.

A letter signed by T.R.

T R...

Tom Riddle!

Louise stared at the letter as a bright idea flashed through her mind.

The Halloween dinner came as scheduled, and everyone was dressed up. Principal Dippet had been dressed as an old vampire for decades. Professor Dumbledore was wearing a sky blue wizard robe with stars and moons hanging on it. He seemed to like it very much. This kind of decoration often wears this kind of robe, because today is Halloween, he also specially wears a pointed hat and a pair of exaggerated glasses.

His blue eyes swept across the Gryffindor table softly, but he missed Candice.

He stared slightly, turning his eyes back and forth between Fremont and Euphemia. Fremont, who was looking around, noticed it, frowned at Professor Dumbledore and shook his head, indicating that he was also looking for her.

Dumbledore nodded, and looked back at the Slytherin table. Guess what, Riddle wasn't there either.

With a withdrawn character like Riddle, it's understandable not to attend the Halloween dinner.

But Candice has always liked this kind of banquet, and it would be strange if she didn't come.

If nothing happened to her, then chances are...she was with Riddle.

Dumbledore peeled off the wrapper and ate a candy.

Tsk, not very sweet.

The eighth floor of Hogwarts.

Candice was standing next to a wall with a tapestry depicting Barnaba the Dork training dwarfs in ballet, and a human-sized vase not far away.

She was waiting for Riddle.

She was in a bit of a rush, thinking of talking to him, giving him back the Time-Turner, and making it to Halloween dinner.

She didn't want to worry about her absence from the party.

But Riddle never showed up.

Candice walked back and forth anxiously in front of the vase and the tapestry, and then miraculously, a door appeared behind the tapestry.

Candice froze, looked at the door, and looked around, she was absolutely sure - the door appeared out of thin air.

Candice walked to the door cautiously, turned the handle tentatively, and the door clicked open gently.

She poked her head in curiously, and then saw the person she wanted to see.

Riddle was wearing Slytherin school robes, standing sideways in front of a bookshelf, reading a book.

He looked back at the door, hooked the corner of his mouth and said, "You found out that the speed here is faster than I expected."

Candice walked into the room slowly. This was a very large study room. Rows of bookshelves reaching the ceiling made the whole room look a little narrow and the light was very dim.

Riddle is already very tall, standing next to the bookshelf will not look short, but it matches the whole picture very harmoniously.

After Candice walked in, the door of the room closed by itself.

And outside the door she couldn't see, the door slowly disappeared again.

In its place was the same tapestry that had previously hung on the wall.

"What kind of place is this?" Candice clenched the time-turner in her hand, and said with a little surprise, "Its door appeared out of thin air."

Riddle put the book in his hand back on the bookshelf, leaned against the bookshelf with his hands in his pockets, and explained softly, "This is the Response Room. A place where you can see me."

Candice froze.

"You can see its door because you walked back and forth three times before the tapestry and the vase, and... your heart is desperate to see me."

Candice put her hands behind her back unconsciously, and said a little nervously: "I was just waiting a little anxiously, pacing back and forth..."

Riddle didn't respond to what she said.

He straightened up slowly and walked towards her step by step.

How should I put it, his appearance at the moment is a bit too tempting.

His black eyes fixed on her, staring at her closely, Candice felt as if she was being stared at by a snake, she felt cold all over, her neck and lower back were itchy.

Riddle was a Slytherin, and being stared at by him was indeed being stared at by a snake, but...it was different from being stared at by other Slytherins.Candice was at a loss, so she could only bring out the business of meeting him today.

"This is your Time-Turner." Candice looked down at Riddle's leather shoes who had already walked in front of her, and spread her palm towards him, "I used it, thank you. I will return it to you now."

Riddle looked down at her from top to bottom. Her long golden hair was draped over her back, like a large bouquet of golden flowers, which hurt his eyes somewhat in the dim light.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, reached out and took the Time Converter in her palm, caressing its surface casually, and whispered: "Are you still planning to go back to the Halloween dinner?"

Candice still lowered her head and said, "I didn't tell them I wasn't going."

"Oh..." Riddle dragged his tone and said in a pleasant and hoarse voice, "then you should go back as soon as possible, otherwise they will definitely worry about you, right?" He approached her, Candice raised her head suddenly, The two looked at each other, his black eyes curled up, and he smiled dangerously and charmingly, "Your Professor Dumbledore must be worried too, isn't he?"

Candice held her breath, his meaningful words made her a little flustered, her heart beat like thunder: "Tom... what do you want to do?"

Riddle stared at her long and thick eyelashes, and those clean blue eyes.

He put the Time Converter in his pocket, helped her brush the fine blond hair behind her ears, and said softly, "Can't you see it?"

Candice stared at him with wide eyes.

"I don't want you to go back." He said in a low voice, "I want you to stay here with me." He raised the corner of his mouth, looked into her eyes, and almost whispered, "Would you like it? Even just this one night."

Candice was stunned.

Her whole body seemed to be ignited by fire, and that strange and stimulating heat covered her whole body, and she was almost suffocated by it.

Until Riddle lowered his head, the thin lips slipped from the tip of her nose to her lips.

Candice opened her eyes wide and looked at him in disbelief.

He kissed her.

This time it is true.

He really kissed her, which was different from the previous times of probing and caressing her.

He kissed her on Halloween night in his third grade.

This is Candice's first kiss.

And judging from Riddle's slightly jerky movements, it is very likely that this is also his first time kissing a girl.

Riddle's lips were very soft and cool, about the same as his body temperature.

He is often like a snake, a cold-blooded animal, even in the hot summer, his body is always very cool.

The first time she felt this way was when they hadn't come to Hogwarts to study.

At that time, she sneaked into the orphanage in the middle of the night to find him, and when she found him, she cried behind him, and then fell asleep next to him—Merlin knew how cold she was that night, if she hadn't secretly drank cold medicine after returning home , will definitely be sick.

Candice has a crush on Riddle, and she knows it very well.

But she always thought it was a single arrow.

She didn't think he would like her, because he was always cold, and he was not much more eager when facing her than when facing others.And he doesn't seem to be interested in girls, he may prefer to read and study when he has time.

So when he kissed her, she was dumbfounded.

He slowly left her lips, and whispered in her ear: "Breathe. If you don't breathe, you will suffocate to death."

Candice closed her eyes and let out a long breath.

Riddle watched the girl's facial features grow more and more beautiful from a close distance. It must be said that Candice was indeed very beautiful, and it was no wonder that the boys were fascinated by her.

As far as he knew, even in Slytherin, there were a few desperate guys trying to get close to her.

It's really life and death, isn't it?She was his lunch, only what he didn't want, and no one else coveted her.

He had taught them a lesson.

Slowly, Riddle's hand brushed Candice's shoulder little by little, and finally reached her arm, causing her to tremble.

Candice turned away, panting and said, "You, do you like me by doing this?"

Riddle's eyes paused, and he looked at her in the same direction as she turned his head, staring into her blue eyes and said, "What do you think?"

Candice met his eyes with difficulty, and after a few seconds, she shook her head.

"I don't know," she said.

Riddle seemed to smile, but didn't seem to.He took another step forward, and their bodies were almost touching each other.

"Then do you like me?" He asked, not in a hurry to get her answer, he seemed to be very good at teasing girls, every movement, every look, even every breath, made Candy Silk was flustered.

"I know that." Candice pondered for a moment, looked at him bravely, and whispered under his thoughtful gaze, "I like you."

Riddle closed his eyes.

It's hard to describe how he felt when he heard that sentence.

He had thought that he would not have any reaction to her "like".

But the reality is not like that.

He felt his heart, sunk in darkness, beat faster.

He raised his hand to grab Candice's chin, and was about to say something when there was a sudden noise outside.

Riddle frowned and said, "Who followed you?"

Candice froze. She shook her head and said, "I didn't tell anyone I was coming here, and I didn't see anyone follow me."

Riddle slid away from her and walked towards the door, leaning against the door and listening to the movement outside.

"I'm sure I saw her come here with my own eyes!"

Candice heard the words outside.

She exclaimed, "It's Louise."

Riddle also recognized that the person outside was her dirty half-breed roommate.

He frowned in disgust, and Candice came up to him and asked, "Are they going to come in?"

"They can't come in. The Response Room won't show up when it's occupied. Unless they want to see me like you." He said something vaguely, which made Candice blush a little, but Very practical.

At this moment, not only Louise Duncan stood outside the door, but also Fremont and the others, as well as Dumbledore.

Of course Dumbledore knew where the Room of Requirement was, and he knew the conditions for entry.

But he didn't say anything, just smiled and said, "Miss Duncan, I think it's enough for us to find this place."

Louise looked at Dumbledore nervously: "But we haven't found her yet!" She hasn't let Dumbledore see Candice Bell and Riddle having a tryst here!

Fremont didn't know what Louise was doing. He was more worried about Candice: "Yes, Dean, Candice didn't say that she couldn't come to the dinner, and she wasn't in the dormitory. Will something happen to her? We have to find her Just do it!"

Euphemia also said worriedly: "Yes, Candice also told us to wait for her. She might be late, but she didn't say no."

Dumbledore cast a consoling look at everyone, and said softly: "Don't worry everyone, I believe Candice just has her own affairs to deal with, and she will return to the banquet scene. As for you, you should also go back to continue attending the banquet It's — it's not fitting that we've been away for so long."

Louise said anxiously: "No! Professor Dumbledore! We can't go back until Candice is found. What if something happens to her again? What if she is bullied by Slytherin students again?"

Fremont looked at her in horror. He didn't know when she cared about Candice so much?

Euphemia and Anita also had weird expressions.

Dumbledore looked at Louise indifferently, the way he looked at her made her feel that she was seen through, and subconsciously took a step back.

Then Dumbledore appeased everyone and took them all away.

Room of Requirement.

Candice stood there with complicated emotions. She had no doubt that Professor Dumbledore must have guessed where she was.

"Are you ashamed?" Riddle's voice was next to her, "Because of me, you are worrying your beloved Professor Dumbledore again."

Candice said a little irritatedly: "I have to go, I have to go back to the auditorium immediately." She reached out to open the door, but the hand of the opposite sex fell on her hand holding the door handle.

Candice turned her head to look at the owner of that hand, Riddle's black eyes stared at her and said, "I'll go with you."

Candice had no reason to refuse, she nodded, and the next second he held her hand and opened the door.

There was no one outside the door, it was empty and quiet.

Candice breathed a sigh of relief, raised her foot and wanted to leave, but then remembered Riddle behind her, and stopped unconsciously.

Riddle stood behind her, looked at her and said, "Why don't you go?"

Candice asked him, "Aren't you going to come with me?"

Riddle raised his eyebrows: "Don't you want to trouble your dean because of our relationship? Then you shouldn't go back to the auditorium with me."

Candice knew this, but she always felt that it was very bad for her to want the horse to run and also want the horse not to eat grass.

She stood there conflicted, looking almost bored.

Riddle was also a little annoyed by her, he walked up to her and asked, "You said you like me?"

Candice was stunned, blushed bluntly, and turned her eyes away from him.

"If you really like me, then we can't always have nothing to do with each other in school like you think." His voice was low and sweet, with an irresistible temptation, "Can you bear it? ?” He approached her and asked her in a low voice, “Huh? Can you resist not seeing me?”

"I..." Candice raised her head, and the two were so close that they almost kissed again.

"I can solve this." Riddle put his hand on the girl's head, and he stroked her hair gently, "Believe me, you can communicate with me openly, and I can guarantee that it won't happen again What happened last year, our relationship will not cause your dean any trouble."

Candice looked at him wondering: "But what if? What if..."

"No chance." Riddle interrupted her rudely, rubbing her nose vigorously and said, "Candice, I never make promises that I can't keep. And, aren't you a Gryffindor?" It’s not like you to always think about escaping, how about your courage?” He said with a half-smile, “I must say, trust my promise—it may seem to you that there is a possibility of failure, but even Not even trying means you will definitely lose.”

His hand fell on her chin, and she raised her head following his strength. He asked her, "Do you want to lose?"

……lose?She wanted to ask what would be lost?But looking into the boy's eyes, she felt that she didn't need to ask.

Looking at him, she summoned up her courage and said, "Then do you like me? I have to find some motivation to try. "

There was a wicked smile on Riddle's handsome face. The boys in Slytherin were so charming... No, to be precise, Riddle in Slytherin was so charming.

The wantonness and danger of his laugh, which is completely different from the Gryffindor boy, is really addictive.

Under Candice's ecstatic gaze, he whispered to her, "Don't you know if you try it?"

After finishing speaking, he let go of her jaw and left here first.

Candice raised her hand to cover her chin that had been stroked by him, and looked at his leaving back with extremely complicated emotions.

She returned to the auditorium before the dinner was over.

By this time the dinner party was drawing to a close.

She came in a hurry without any make-up, and was caught and questioned by Fremont.

Candice dealt with his question, and glanced guiltily at the teacher's bench, meeting Professor Dumbledore's blue eyes.

She was in a daze, and saw Professor Dumbledore cast an encouraging look at her, as if she knew what she was embarrassing.

Candice looked at him with complicated eyes, Dumbledore smiled, raised the glass to her, and took a sip of the drink slowly.

Candice looked at the Slytherin table again. Although Riddle left before her, he did not appear at the banquet.

He should go straight back to the dormitory.

He didn't show up until after the Halloween dinner.

Candice tossed and turned at night unable to sleep.

She tossed and turned, thinking about the meaning of Professor Dumbledore's smile, and Riddle's last sentence "You will know if you try it".

Does he like her or not?

He refused to make it clear that she was not surprised.

She thinks she understands his way of talking.He prefers to beat around the bush, compared to her straight-forward, his words often have to be carefully pondered to understand the full meaning.

Do they Slytherins talk like that?Don't you usually feel tired?What a waste of brains.

Candice gripped the covers irritably, thinking of Louise Duncan again.

She sat up quickly, lifted the quilt and got out of bed, and walked directly to Duncan's bedside.

The curtains on Duncan's bed were drawn tight, and Candice looked at Anita and Euphemia who were already asleep, and opened Duncan's curtains directly.

"I know you're not asleep." Candice climbed onto Louise's bed, and the latter pulled the quilt over her head to hide her guilty and panicked expression.

"You moved my letter, didn't you?" Candice looked down at the girl hiding under the quilt and whispered, "I'm not your enemy, Louise. I'm your classmate." She stroked Passing her hand on the edge of the quilt, "I don't blame you for peeking at my letter and trying to bring the dean to me. Yes, I heard your conversation, and I understand your intentions, but I don't blame you. you."

Louise couldn't hide anymore, she pulled down the quilt a little excitedly, stared at Candice who had climbed into her bed and said, "Do you think I need your pity? No need for Candice Bell!"

Candice looked at her and said, "Keep your voice down, don't wake Anita and Euphemia, it will embarrass you."

Louise said with red eyes: "You are embarrassing me enough now."

"That's not what you asked for." Candice frowned and said, "I know you don't like me, but we are only in the second grade now, even if you don't like me, you will still be with me for the next five years A college, living in the same dormitory. If you continue to fight with me like this, it will not be good for you or me. I will not feel well if you are in a relationship. "

Louise took a breath: "What do you want? Are you going to tell the dean that I peeked at your letter? You have no proof."

"I didn't intend to do that." Candice said with a bit of a headache, "I've already said, I don't want to continue to quarrel with you, we can be friends, just like when we first entered Hogwarts."

Louise snorted coldly, unmoved, and Candice looked at her inexplicably: "Why do you hate me so much? Is it because you pushed Anita last time and I got angry with you?"

Louise was so angry that she grabbed her nightgown and said, "Do you still need to ask me why I hate you? You can get everything I want with a simple wave of your hand! I have never been hated by classmates and professors like this It's all because of you!"

Candice was stunned for a moment, but she didn't know that she still had such great energy.

She stared at the excited Louise for a while, and after the latter calmed down a little, she said in a slow voice: "Then do you still hope to continue to be excluded and hated in the future?"

Louise froze and didn't speak.

"If you don't want it, you have to make a change now." Candice pulled her hand away from her nightgown and held it behind her back. Louise had an expression on her face as if she had swallowed a slug.

"Let's be friends, starting tomorrow, let go of the past." Candice said to her seriously, not minding her expression.

Louise looked at her in disbelief: "You are so kind? You still want to be friends with me after I have done so much to you?!"

"We are all Gryffindors." Candice looked at her and said, "I believe that you just did something wrong in a moment of confusion, and I also did not do well enough. I hope you will think that I did not do well in the future." , point it out to me directly, and I will correct it. You can’t keep your grievance and sadness in your heart, so that others will never know where you were hurt. "

Yes... hurt.

Louise's eyes were red and she was beginning to cry.

She was injured, and her parents kept asking her what was wrong during the summer vacation, but she didn't dare to tell those embarrassing things.She lied that her classmates and teachers loved her to death, but the reality was the opposite.

She never thought that the first person to find out that she was injured would be her nemesis, Candice Bell.

Candice looked at Louise with tears streaming down her face, pursed her lips and said, "I'm sorry, I just told you this now. I hope we can get along well in the future. I will correct my problems, and I hope you can too. Change your temper. In fact, Anita and Mia both want to be friends with you, but you don't want to talk to everyone. We are roommates in a dormitory, and we should be closer than anyone else."

After listening to her words, Louise softened her heart inexplicably, and fell on top of her, crying and crying.

Candice sighed, wrapped her arms around her shoulders, and comforted her softly.

The conflict between the two girls was gradually resolved on such a night.

Euphemia and Anita were surprised to find that after the Halloween of the second grade, Louise, who had always kept her eyes high and didn't want to associate with them, suddenly changed a lot.

She began to wait for them to go to dinner and class together, and when they went to the library, she would also take the initiative to go together.

Even when Candice was doing Quidditch training, she would follow and watch.

Although she still can't cheer Candice loudly, but... at least she is changing.

Both Anita and Euphemia were very moved, and Candice was very happy to see it. One of her troubles was finally solved, which allowed her to focus on solving the other two troubles.

One, is the attitude of Professor Dumbledore.

The other... Candice was flying on a broomstick, taking a moment to glance at the Slytherin stands.

Tom Riddle sat there, with Malfoy and Lestrange beside them, and a group of girls watching him behind him.

Although he was on the field, he didn't come to see Quidditch training at all.

He is reading a book - can he really see into such a noisy environment?Candice stared at him in bewilderment, and was nearly hit by the Quaffle the next second.

"Hey Candice! What are you in a daze for? Concentrate!" Conus Wood, the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch House team, shouted at Candice displeased, and Candice immediately turned her eyes away to concentrate on training.

In the Slytherin stands, although Riddle had been reading, he didn't miss what Cornus Wood was yelling.

He turned a page of the book calmly, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

Abraxas and Francis Lestrange glanced at each other, and the latter leaned into Abu's ear and whispered, "Well, he seems to be in a much better mood."