Chapter five - The Slytherin Common room

Tom turned as he heard footsteps walking towards him, he thought it may had been Professor Snape but no, he was surprised to find it was actually Kate.

"Aren't you supposed to be in class?" He said raising an eyebrow at her.

"Dumbledore said I have the day off" Kate said with a smirk as she became closer to him.

"How very nice of him" He said looking down at her.

"Aren't you going to say the password then?" She raised her right eyebrow at him.

Tom rolled his eyes "Whippier snapper"

The common room portrait swung open and they both walked inside. Tom watched Kate as she strode over to sit opposite the fire and then decided to join her.

Kate watched him as he sat on the armchair to the left of her. "Why aren't you in class?"

"I have my reasons" He said with a dark grin.

Kate nodded and watched the fire.

"So you managed to get here without getting lost I see?" He chuckled.

"Kinda but I had to ask Wood for directions." She said nervously.

Tom could hear the nervousness in her voice "Where did you find Wood?" He raised his right eyebrow at her.

"He was teaching me to fly" Kate said watching the fire.

"You were taught to fly by a Gryffindor?" He said hysterically.

"Naah, I taught him" She laughed.

"Who's broom did you use?" He said looking at her.

"I had my own" Kate said with a slight smile. "Nimbus 2003 according to Wood it's the fastest broom in the word"

"Who gave you it?" He said with interest.

"Mother" She said simply.

Tom nodded and watched her as she made the fire do different things without even using her wand. "How are you doing that?"

"I have the power to control fire, remember?" She looked at him.

"Can't you just turn me before December 1st?" He said looking back at her.

"Tom, it's been one day since we agreed this." She gave him the You're so impatient look.

He sighed "What can I do to change your mind?" At this point he was looking deep into her eyes.

"Nothing" She replied.

He got up from his chair and sat next to her "I'll let you drink my blood"

Kate just blinked at that statement "Are you being serious?" She raised her left eyebrow at him.

"Yes" His tone of voice was as serious as Wood was a Quidditch.

"Er..No thanks" She paused "I've er.. Gone vegetarian" She looked at him.

"You're a vegetarian vampire?" He asked with enthusiasm.

"Yes" She paused again for effect "It's kinda uncommon for a vampire to be a vegetarian but I'm not too big on the er.. Killing people who have caused you no pain or harm"

Tom nodded at her. "Is it hard?" He looked at her.

"Is what hard?"

"Being a vampire?" He sounded a little worried.

She moved closer and faced him "At first but you get used to it"

He noticed that her eyes kept changing colour and was intrigued by this.

"Why do your eyes keep changing colour?" He asked her, changing the subject.

"What?" She raised her left eyebrow.

"On the train they were blue, in the hall they were black and now they're green." He stated.

"Oh that" She sighed "My emptions reflect on my eye colour, it used to be my hair colour but I learned to channel it to my eye colour instead"

"Why?" He asked inquisitively.

"Because people tend to notice you're hair colour and not your eye colour.." She looked at him "You're the first to notice it"

He nodded and then smirked "I have to go, potions homework"

"Okay" She half smiled at him.

"Feel free to come with me if you want to" He chuckled and winked at her.

She shook her head and stood up "Maybe next time, Riddle"

"I'll hold you to it" He said with a smirk.

She watched him leave the common room and then went to her dormitory and laid on her bed and then began thinking to herself.

What did Wood mean by Riddle liking me. She sighed He's probably just saying things, after all what does he know. He's just a Gryffindor who loves Quidditch. They had a whole convocation about it during her flying lesson. Suddenly there was a knock at her door.

"Come in" Kate shouted as the door began to open.

"Aw, miss me already?" Tom said as he began walking towards her.

Kate shot upright from her laid down position and just looked at him. "Actually I was enjoying the peace"

Tom sniggered "Sure you were, I won't tell anyone." He winked at her.

Boys these days she thought to herself.

Tom sat down next to her on the bed and passed her a small package.

"What's this?" She said whilst looking at the package.

"I don't know, it was addressed to you but my owl brought it to me by mistake" He said whilst rubbing his right eye.

She nodded and opened the package; in the package were 3 liquorish wands and a map. She took the map out of the box and looked at it, when she opened it a note fell out. Tom looked at her with curiosity whilst she read the note.

Black,

I thought you could use this map since you seem to always get lost.

Wood.

Kate grinned at the note before turning it into thin air.

"Who's it from?" He asked her.

"Wood" She replied simply.

"Why did Wood send you three liquorish wands and a map?" He asked curiously.

"I guess he thought I could do with a map" She shrugged.

"Why'd he use my owl?" He said rather grumpily.

"I don't know" She replied rather quickly.