[HP] The Dark Duke's Candy

It can be said that Candice didn't meet Riddle much after February of the third year, until the end of the final exam and leaving Hogwarts for the summer vacation.

In fact, they are in the same school, even if they are in different grades and different colleges, it is not impossible for them not to see each other for so long.

But she just can't see him.

Throughout the summer vacation, she tried to write letters to ask Riddle to meet, but all the replies she got were rejections.

It's hard to describe how she felt at the time.

It's that kind, the person you like just expressed his feelings to you, but suddenly he is far away from you, which makes you feel like he is cold and violent, almost forcing you to break up.

Candice was a little annoyed.

On the train back to Hogwarts, she did see Riddle, but they still didn't speak.

Riddle was already a prefect. He was patrolling the carriage and happened to meet her. They met her eyes, and both of them paused for a moment. Then he nodded slightly at her. Before he could say anything, someone else said something. called away.

It's from Slytherin. Candice remembers that the other person seems to be named August Avery. She doesn't like that person very much, because he always looks sly and often has a malicious smile on his face. , but Riddle seems to have a good relationship with him.

Candice doesn't want to get involved in her boyfriend's friendship, oh no, it's unclear whether she can still call him a boyfriend now, the number of times she sees him and the chance to talk to him is less than that of his juniors in the same academy .

It's not that Candice didn't want to go to Slytherin to find him, but every time she went there with hope, all she got was disappointment.

At the beginning of the new semester, he became more and more elusive and his whereabouts were mysterious. She could find him in the library before, but now he can't even be seen in the library.

This went on until almost Christmas, when Candice didn't even see him at the Quidditch match.

He had never liked Quidditch, so it was understandable not to come.

But he used to come every time.

Candice's bad mood also affected her friends, and the one who felt the most was Fremont, who also knew why she was sad.

"That bastard, Candice treats him so well, and he ignores her because he doesn't know what research!" Freemont said angrily, "Break up with him, Candice! You have to break up with him! You have to let him know that you're not the kind of girl who just comes and goes!"

Candice sat there in embarrassment, everyone in the Gryffindor common room looked at her, Anita directly covered Fremont's mouth, and said viciously: "Slow down, Fremont! Everyone is looking at Candice, are you helping her or hurting her!?"

Fremont regained consciousness in an instant, blocked Candice and stared back at the others, and everyone immediately stopped looking at her.

"I'm sorry Candice, I was too excited just now." Freemont sat down on the chair and said, "But you really should give that guy some color. Is it great to be a senior? To be the first in the school for five consecutive years Is it amazing?"

Louise said leisurely, "It's just amazing, Fremont."

Anita added: "The main thing is that he is still handsome, which is even more remarkable."

Freemont was choked, but Euphemia said: "... But he is not good to Candice at all. Since Valentine's Day last year, he hasn't dealt with Candice much. They are Boyfriend and girlfriend, he is a bit too irresponsible."

Candice slowly lowered her eyes and stared at her fingers. Anita whispered: "But didn't he tell Candice the reason? He is doing an important research, and it will take some time until the research is over I will make it up to her."

"But what research is he doing?" Euphemia said puzzledly, "I don't know what else to prepare for the fifth grade besides the elementary wizard exam? That kind of exam is for a student like Riddle It's a piece of cake too, will he be so busy because of that?"

Euphemia's words really touched everyone's heart, and everyone was speechless for a moment.

It could be seen that Anita and Louise wanted to comfort Candice, so they didn't say too much about Riddle.

But why is Euphemia's words unreasonable?

What Riddle was studying, he never revealed half of it to Candice.

Candice is no fool.

She's just kind and straight.

But she's really not stupid.

Maybe at the beginning, she wouldn't think of that level, but by now, she had already made up her own mind about what he was studying.

Candice no longer took the initiative to find Riddle.

She acted as if he didn't exist just as he ignored her.

Rumors spread throughout Hogwarts that Riddle of Slytherin and the flower of Gryffindor broke up. Every time Candice was asked, she just smiled and didn't answer, letting them guess.

She couldn't give a definite answer either.

How to answer this kind of thing when there is no final result.

It's time for Christmas.

Candice received a letter from her father, who told her to go home for Christmas, and they spent Christmas together.

Of course Candice would not refuse.

Even if she heard people say, Riddle applied to stay in school.

There is also a limit to sticking a hot face to a cold butt, she has reached the limit, and she doesn't want to do that anymore.

In this way, Candice took the Hogwarts Express, left school and went home.

On the night of the Christmas holiday, Riddle, who stayed at school, shuttled through the secret passages and corridors of the school, looking for the secret room belonging to Slytherin.

He wants to fulfill the promise he made to others in the fourth grade, and he needs to make some noise, and his research on Horcruxes has reached a critical stage, and he needs plenty of time to complete this matter. During this period, he cannot be disturbed in any way.

In Riddle's view, Candice would never leave him, she was firmly in his hands, and no one could take her away.So he never thought that one day, such a girl who seemed to be unable to live without him would take the initiative to break up with him.

That was when the Christmas break was over and he had a first idea of ​​where the Chamber of Secrets was.

After he hadn't contacted Candice for a long time, he received a message from her in his notebook.

He sat in the dormitory, opened his diary, and there was Candice's handwriting on one of the pages.

She asked him to meet in the Response Room on the eighth floor at eight o'clock in the evening, and solemnly stated that he was not allowed to refuse.

It was only at this moment that Riddle realized that they hadn't had a good conversation for a long time.

At that time, he didn't feel that there would be any unexpected things that he had to face in this meeting. He closed his diary, changed into a school robe and left the dormitory.

Abraxas leaned on the bed and glanced at him. Recently, Riddle basically went out every night, and sometimes he didn't return all night.He has always been alone, except when he is in class, he is basically invisible. Now he is used to his sudden departure.

Candice waited in the Response Room until almost a quarter past eight before meeting Riddle officially.

After school started, she also met him on campus. Although the number of times was very small and she never took the initiative to talk to him, she still met him.She would look at him from a long distance, and that distance made it difficult for her to clearly judge whether he had grown taller again, and had any greater changes in his facial features.

She began to feel that he was a stranger.

That should not be her illusion.

He has really become a stranger.

When Candice observed him closely, she clearly felt this.

There was a cold and dangerous air about Riddle.

He was still handsome, even brighter than before, but he no longer had the awkward tenderness Candice had seen in the past.

Now even when he smiles, there is a kind of high-pitched and coldness.

"What can you do for me?" He asked her as soon as he entered the room of responsiveness.

This is a room where he can find Candice. The room consists of two parts, one part is Candice's bedroom at home, and the other is the confinement room where Riddle is often locked up in the orphanage.

Candice always remembered that when she first met Riddle, she borrowed Fremont's invisibility cloak and took bread to the confinement room to save him.They talked a lot that night, and she fell asleep leaning against him. It was a bit cold that night, and she caught a cold when she got home, but her heart was always warm.

That confinement room may have been full of bad memories for Riddle, but it was very memorable for her.

Candice watched Riddle's displeasure when he saw the scene of the confinement room. He stood there expressionless, wearing the same school robe as the others, but he wore a different aura.

She forced a smile and said, "Do I have to have something to find you now?"

This rhetorical question made Riddle frowned. He seemed to be in a hurry and was in a hurry to do something, and his expression was a little impatient, but he was silent for a while, as if he had weighed his interests, and finally he slowed down and said to her: "I remember I told you from the beginning, Candice. I will be very busy recently, and I have an important research to do. When my research is over, I will find time to accompany you."

He took a few steps forward and came to Candice, as if he wanted to hug her, but Candice avoided it without a trace.

She was sitting on a bed, on the side of her bedroom, her shoulders were covered with sunny blond hair, and her hair was so long that Riddle rarely froze when he saw it—time seemed to be real. It's been a long time.

"Your so-called important research is black magic, isn't it?" Candice said without any curiosity, she only looked at him for a while when he first came in, then turned away and stared at her own fingers.

Her words stagnated the atmosphere between the two of them a little. Riddle was silent for a moment, ready to say something, but Candice said before him: "Don't deny it, Tom. I'm not a fool, and don't take me as a fool." Idiot." She said with a slight breath, "Although you promised me not to use black magic that year in Hogsmeade, I also chose to believe you, but in fact, deep down in my heart, there is no real truth. I am so confident that I feel that you will keep this promise for me."

These words made Riddle unable to utter a single word when it came to his lips.

He stood there staring at her for a long time before saying, "That's why you asked me to meet today?—to ask me for breaking my promise?" He narrowed his black eyes contemptuously, "You saw me researching black magic with your own eyes Is it? Or your friends—whoever they are, who told you I was studying the Dark Arts?"

Candice slowly raised her head and looked at her favorite young man with difficulty.

He was as handsome and extraordinary as ever, but his eyes were so strange and terrifying now, as if as long as she named a person and who told her what, that person would definitely die.

Candice said with a little hurt: "No one told me what, I thought of it myself. In your eyes, I am a fool who only thinks about Quidditch and love? Tom, as you said, It is true that I did not see you break the promise with my own eyes, but that does not require me to see it with my own eyes."

She stood up slowly, took a step towards him, and said lightly, "I know you too well, Tom. You have changed, and you are not what you used to be. I feel darkness, impetuosity and Bloody, that scares me. Although you were sometimes gloomy and negative in the past, you have never made me feel as scary as you are now." She said with red eyes, "You have changed, Tom. Black magic is affecting You, it has spied on you and manipulated you, enough is enough, stop that so-called research."

To say how much Riddle has changed recently, those followers around him may not feel anything, because they have never seen his gentle and tolerant side.

But Candice is different.

She had seen a side of him that no one knew.

So she can also sensitively perceive his changes and ailments.

He is changing, although it is subtle, but you cannot deny its existence.

"It's still too late for everything to end at this moment. I don't understand Slytherin's college culture, but I don't want you to become unrecognizable." Candice grabbed Riddle's sleeve, and Riddle glanced faintly. , and then gently pulled back.

"If you asked me here just to say this, then I can only say sorry that I'm going to disappoint you." Riddle looked into her blue eyes and said softly, "You have to do it because of yourself I can't deny what I'm doing because of my guesswork. So what are you going to do? After I reject you, go tell Dumbledore about it?"

Candice froze in place.

She didn't seem to expect that at this point, he would still have such an attitude of insisting on concealing.

She slowly took a breath, took a few steps back, and said with a smile: "I didn't ask you to come here to talk about this, but I suddenly thought of this, so I said it."

"Oh." Riddle stared at her with black eyes without blinking, "Then what did you want to say?"

Candice looked into his cold eyes, and said warmly: "What I wanted to say was—let's break up."

Riddle never thought that Candice would take the initiative to break up with him one day.

He thought that he was sure of her, that she was in his pocket, and that as long as he treated her a little better, she would be very satisfied.

Well, he admitted that he hadn't done well recently, but he had also greeted her in advance.

He gave her a privilege that no one else had, but she didn't seem to cherish it very much, and wanted to abandon it.

This kind of cognition changed Riddle's whole aura.

He stared at Candice and said, "Do you want to break up?"

Candy nodded without hesitation: "Yes, I have thought about it for a long time, maybe I was hesitant before meeting you, but I can make up my mind now." She said firmly, "I want to break up with you."

Riddle showed an extremely ridiculous expression, he nodded and said, "Okay."

Candice's pupils dilated slightly, and before she could say anything, Riddle stepped forward and grabbed her chin and said, "Do you think I will answer you like this?"

Candice was made to fall directly on the bed behind him by his huge force, and Riddle then attached himself, caressing her chin that was pinched red by him, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "I will not break up with you, forever Neither. Don't even try to run away from me, Candice, you've been my woman all your life, and everyone will remember that, everyone."

Candice struggled to get up, but Riddle kissed her directly. She tried her best to avoid his kiss, and even hurt him and herself. Riddle's black eyes were slightly red, and he gave up kissing her, staring at her. The way she wanted to run away angrily, felt close to heartache for the first time in her life.

The person who gets dumped will definitely be heartbroken.

That was probably what he was feeling at the moment.

Conceited like Riddle, but never expected that one day he would be dumped by a woman.

But she will not succeed, not only Hogwarts, but in the future, the entire wizarding world will know that Candice Bell is his woman.

It was Lord Voldemort's woman.

"Let me go!" Candice pushed Riddle hard, "Are you crazy! How did you become like this! I hate you!"

Ah, being hated.

Riddle stared thoughtfully at Candice, who started to cry. She still wanted to leave and never stopped struggling, even though some parts of her body were already bruised from his shackles.

It seems that using force is not a way to make her compromise.

Riddle did not admit that he had softened his heart. He felt that he just thought of other ways to achieve his goal, and there was no other reason.

"Stop it, Candy." Riddle said in an unusually soft tone, "I'm not studying black magic, I'm just helping Professor Slughorn, if you really don't believe it, you can go to He asked."

Candice froze there and temporarily slowed down her struggle. Seeing this, Riddle continued to say softly: "I know that I have neglected you for a while, and I will change. You can blame me, but there is no need to make a fuss about it." It's as serious as breaking up." He looked into her eyes and said, "Don't you love me?"

Candice looked back at him for a long time before she said, "Can you let me go first?"

She didn't seem so defensive against him, and refused his approach.

Riddle subconsciously let her go, and Candice struggled almost the moment he let her go, and ran to the door.

"You still want to lie to me!" Candice said while holding the door handle, her eyes red, "At this moment you still want to lie to me, even using Professor Slughorn as an excuse—it was you who You lied to me every time and succeeded, so do you think it will work the same now?"

Riddle slowly stood up from the bed, he drew out his wand, and said softly, "Come here, Candy."

"I won't pass." Candice opened the door, "I thought it would be difficult to make such a decision, but after I said that, it all became easier." She took a deep breath Said, "You can find a girl who agrees with your ideas, Blake, Greengrass, anyone, but it's definitely not me." She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said quickly, "I won't put Tell Professor Dumbledore about your matter, but it does not mean that I will agree with you to continue to do that. I hope you can think carefully about whether it is right to do that, and——For more than half a year, I once felt that I hated you, but I feel inseparable from you. But now, after breaking up with you, I feel free."

After she finished her last sentence, she turned around and ran away regardless of how ugly Riddle's expression was.

The door of the Room of Requirement slammed shut, Riddle held his wand, and a few seconds later, streaks of light emanated from his wand, smashing the Room of Requirement beyond recognition.

Principal room.

Principal Dippet was closing his eyes to rest, but suddenly opened them.

As the headmaster, he has an inseparable connection with Hogwarts, and he can sense that somewhere in this ancient castle is being violated.

But that threat disappeared quickly, as if it was just someone venting his anger.

Principal Dippet frowned, not taking it to heart.

After the curfew time, as a student, you should not be wandering around the school.

But Riddle is a prefect, and he has the privilege of catching night tour students, so it is not uncommon to still walk in the corridors of Hogwarts after the curfew.

He walked aimlessly, the firelight in the hallway at night making him look like a lonely ghost.

A few Gryffindor freshmen ran out for a night tour, and he happened to bump into them. They huddled together in fear. Riddle lightly swept the golden-red lined school robes on them, and frowned slightly.

Candice came to mind somehow.

golden red...

Gryffindor.

Disgusting Gryffindor.

Riddle drew his wand, and he watched the freshmen, who stood there trembling, begging for mercy.

But there is no need at all.

Riddle did nothing.

Gripping his wand tightly, he passed them impassively, as if he hadn't seen them.

Looking at his slender and straight back, several freshmen said in a panic, "Didn't he see us?"

He is not blind, how could he not see.

Just seeing their school robes and thinking of Candice, I suddenly don't want to do anything.

It was rare for him to return to the dormitory early today.

Abraxas hadn't rested yet, he looked at him in surprise, and joked, "You came back so early today? I thought you would stay up all night." He shrunk the gold-rimmed gobstone aside and joked, "Some people say that you've been staying out lately to find a girl—is it with that Bell? How far have you guys developed?"

When boys are together, it is inevitable that they will mention that aspect.

It would have been fine if it had been in the past, but Malfoy chose to say it at this time, and it really hit the muzzle.

It was Riddle's spell that answered him.Abraxas felt his mouth tighten, and couldn't say anything.

He covered his mouth nervously and found his lips stuck together.

Riddle didn't even look at him, he just rolled over on the bed and pulled down the curtain.

Abraxas was hesitating to express something behind the curtain, and after another spell passed, the whole world fell silent.

Lying on the bed, Riddle slowly stretched out his hand, staring at his wrist in a daze.

It still had the bracelet Candice gave him hanging on it.

It was a birthday present. It was worn on his hand day and night, and he never took it off.

With a chuckle, Riddle put his hands on his face, and the strap was pressed against his cheek, bringing a touch of warmth.

He threw his whole body and soul into the darkness.

But the temperature of the bracelet seems to make the darkness gentle like water...