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The Fruit of Your Labour
Pairing: Mattheo Riddle x Reader
Wordcount: 1k
Summary: After months of searching, you finally find Mattheo.
It’s been months. Months since you’ve last seen your boyfriend. Months spent on trying to track Mattheo down. And finally, you’ve found him.
You stand on the porch of a small house, staring at the front door. You chew your bottom lip raw, your hands forming fists — crinkling the note with the house’s address in your hand. You shove it into your pocket.
Your heart races. You haven’t seen Mattheo in so long. So many emotions and thoughts have gone through you since he disappeared. You had been scared, wondering what had happened to him. And after finding out that he had run away, you were left with one word in particular running through your head.
Why? Why would Mattheo leave? Why would he leave Hogwarts, his friends, you?
Though you are afraid Mattheo will turn you away at the door, you curl your hand into a fist, about to knock, when suddenly the door creaks open.
Arm falling to the side, you stare at the man before you. His warm brown eyes look at you in the same way.
Mattheo looks almost the same, except that there are bangs under his eyes and his scar has been covered by what you assume is magic.
He speaks your name, snapping you out of your trance.
“Mattheo.. Mattheo." You speak his name almost unbelievingly. You want to jump into his arms and also slap him. “You left.”
He wears his guilt on his face. Good.
“I-I can explain,” Mattheo says, reaching out for you. You think he’s about to hug you, but instead, he pulls you into the house and shuts the door behind you.
“Does anyone else know you’re here? Where I am?” He sounds frantic and his body language shows it.
You shake your head. “No. As soon as I found out about your whereabouts, I came here.” You grab the note in your pocket and show it to Mattheo as some sort of pathetic show for proof.
He snatches it from you and scans the writing before throwing the paper into the fireplace.
“You can’t tell anybody about me,” he says.
Your brows furrow and your lips form a frown. “Why not?”
Mattheo sighs, though his gaze softens into something more familiar. He pulls you towards him and wraps his arms around your frame. Despite yourself, you melt into Mattheo’s embrace.
“You left,” You whisper against his chest.
“I know,” he whispers back.
You both pull away from each other and he gestures towards the couch. You sit down.
“I’m Voldemort’s son.”
You stare up at him, dumbfounded. It takes a moment for you to process those words. “What?”
He sighs again and awkwardly scratches the back of his head. “Yeah…”
You shake your head, unbelieving, though you know Mattheo wouldn’t joke at a time like this. “But your parents are… Bellatrix and Rodolphus.”
Suddenly, you remember all those times you would write Mattheo’s name in your diary. Mattheo Lestrange Black.
“I didn’t believe it as well. Turns out my mom had a thing going on with the Dark Lord.” Mattheo takes a seat next to you. “Voldemort suddenly found out that I was technically his son a few months ago, and he wanted to kill me. My parents helped me run away before he actually hurt me,” he explains nervously, and glances at you.
You take in everything Mattheo says, on guard.
“How long will you be here for?” You ask, grasping his pale hand and giving it a squeeze.
Mattheo shrugs and interlocks your fingers with his. “I don’t know. Hopefully when he dies.”
The Order of the Phoenix. You want to suddenly tell Mattheo all about it, but somehow keep your mouth shut.
You give his hand another reassuring squeeze.
“Are you going to leave again? Now that I know where you are.”
Mattheo shakes his head. “I don’t want to, and I don’t want to leave you again.”
You can’t help but smile at his words. You feel tears prick the corners of your eyes but quickly wipe them away. “Everyone was so worried about you,” you say, hoping Mattheo couldn’t hear the tremble that laced your words.
His eyes light up as you mention the others. “How are they doing?”
“Everyone was worried when you first left,” You repeat. “I haven’t really been keeping up with the others all that much, if I’m being honest.”
Mattheo nods.
“What if he finds you?” You can’t help but ask. The ‘he’ in questions doesn’t have to be specified.
You listen to the crackling of the fire as Mattheo thinks for a moment. “There are protective charms covering this area. If Voldemort or one of his cronies tries, I’ll be informed. So, I’ll have some extra time to get away.”
Oh. That’s a bit of a relief to hear. You relax and let yourself be held by Mattheo. Soon, you find yourself sitting sideways atop his lap.
“I really missed you,” he says, pressing his face against your neck.
“I did too.” You run your fingers through Mattheo’s dark hair, and gently grip it to force his face back. You press a kiss to his lips, which he returns. He wraps one hand around your waist, bringing you closer, while the other rests on one of your legs. You in turn wrap your arms around Mattheos neck, deepening the kiss.
You wish you could stay like this forever, held in the arms of the person you loved. Love. You realize you haven't told Mattheo you love him yet.
You break the kiss and whisper near his lips, “I love you, Mattheo.”
He lets out a small breath and your heart skips a beat. “I love you too.”
Mattheo presses another kiss to your lips, and you respond to it in delight. You both press against each other, perhaps in the hope that you’ll somehow be stuck together.
“Stay the night,” Mattheo says breathlessly, pressing a kiss to the corner of your mouth.
You would stay with Mattheo forever if you could. But you know that you’ll eventually have to leave so that your family wouldn’t worry. So, you’ll enjoy the secretive time you have with him for now, until he’s safe from the danger that confines him.
a/n: I don't think Tom would be thrilled at the news of having a child, and would view them as a sort of competition, and would end up killing them. So, that kind of inspired me to write this fic. The reader is going to end this war for her man lol🤪 divider creds: @saradika
Mattheo Riddle Masterlist
One-Shots:
The Fruit of Your Labour
A Little bit of Green (coming soon)
Headcanons:
Tom Riddle x Reader x Mattheo Riddle Love Triangle Headcanons
Sleeping with them
Making out with them
Touches
when I'm re-watching the Harry Potter movies and the slytherin boys don't show up🙄
Touches
Mattheo Riddle:
No matter where you are, Mattheo loves touching you. Pressing kisses onto your neck, placing his hand on your thigh in class, you atop his lap in the common room.
When walking together, Mattheo loves to have an arm wrapped around you, whether it's on your hip, waist or slung around you shoulder, it doesn't matter; Mattheo just needs to know that your there.
Mattheo loves when you play with his hair. It gives him this feeling of safety and domesticity.
Tom Riddle:
Tom is more reserved with his touches when in public, but does enjoy interlocking his hand with yours when walking around Hogwarts. Tom claims it's so you don't try to wander off without him knowing.
He loves it when you run your fingers through his hair, and scratch at his scalp when he's stressed with his studies. It calms Tom down and gives him a moment of reprieve from his school work.
Tom does enjoying cuddling as well. He likes to have your head resting atop his chest, while one of his hands are wrapped around you, and another is wrapped around a book you're reading together. Once you're both done a page, you'll flip to the next page, since both of Tom's hands are occupied.
Theodore Nott:
Every time Theo sees you, he engulfs you in a hug, surrounding your nose with the smell of cigarettes and lime. He cranes his neck down so he can press a lingering kiss on your forehead.
You're surrounded by Theo's touch; his lips, hands, and chest pressed to yours, and you find that you don't hate it.
During mornings, Theo loves to wrap his arms around you, - pulling you back against his chest - and press small kisses to the area where your shoulder and neck connect, nuzzling into it.
When high, Theo likes to rest his head on your stomach while you gently run your hands through his hair.
Making out with them
Mattheo Riddle
His pupils are blown wide with lust, and the look that he's giving you is making you go crazy.
One of his hands are wrapped around your throat to keep you in place and the other digs into the flesh of your butt.
Between heavy kisses he whispers about how insane you make him, how he'd do anything for you.
Theodore Nott
You're pulled onto Theo's lap, his hands around your waist, and your fingers dug into his brown hair.
His mouth tastes of cigarettes and lime, and once he bites into your bottom lip, copper.
He gives you a small, cocky grin as you pull away with a pout on your lips.
Tom Riddle
You're sat sideways atop Tom's lap. You're both sitting on a couch, and a book lays besides you both that Tom was reading before you'd come in to keep him company.
One of Tom's arms are wrapped around your waist to keep you from falling and the other on the back of your neck.
His hand soon makes its way up your head and is enveloped in your hair as he forces you to tilt your head back for him so that he can press his lips against your throat.
Sleeping with them
Mattheo Riddle
When sleeping together, Mattheo will pull you towards him so that your head is resting against his chest, and will slither a protective arm around your waist. You often find yourself falling asleep to his heartbeat.
He usually wakes up to a mouth full of your hair.
Mattheo loves it when you run your hand through his hair, and use your nails to scratch at his scalp. He usually quickly falls asleep when you do this.
Tom Riddle
Tom likes to watch you sleep. Well, he doesn't exactly like watching you sleep, but more so it feels like he has to.
Tom often gets nightmares about the bombings that happen in England, and there's one specific dream that haunts him.
He'll be walking around the rubble filled streets of London, searching for something. Tom will stumble of what he assumes to be a rock, but when he looks down, it's a hand that leads back to the rest of your body.
It's a terrifying sight that leads Tom to waking up. So yeah. He needs to watch the rise and fall of your chest to make sure that you haven't left him.