Dearest - Husband!Tom Riddle x Wife!Reader
warning: mention of blood
I peered over my balcony while waiting for Tom to return. Until poof! I turned around with excitement behind my eyes. He finally returned to me, though soaked in blood. I walked to him and embraced him tightly. I inhaled his scent as l rubbed my cheek on his neck. I did not recoil at the smell of blood, after all it followed him everywhere, like a second layer of skin.
"Now, this won't do, my dear." I fussed gently when I stepped back to study his face and the clothes that stuck to his body. "Are you hurt?"
His eyes flicker to mine. His lips remained in a thin line.
"Have I ever returned to you with a single scratch, darling?"
"Then why ask such a futile question?"
"My mistake," My hand seeks out his hand to interlace our fingers. "Come, I have prepared a bath for you."
Tom lets himself be guided by me to our bathroom. When we entered, my nimble fingers immediately started to undress him; first his cloak, followed by his shirt. His eyes bounced from each aspect of the bathroom; first the lavender-scented bath, then the candles lit by the window, and finally the soft music playing from the record player. After he stepped out of his trousers and boxers, he helped me slip out of my nightgown.
He stepped inside of the tub, then I followed him. His cold chest pressed against my back before I turned to straddle his hips.
"How was the meeting?" I inquired.
"Bearable; though I do not wish to speak of it."
I nod as I tangle my fingers in his curls. My eyes traced the features on his beautifully sculpted face.
"Tell me about what you did while I was gone, darling." A small smile appeared on his lips as he mimicked what I was doing to his hair.
"I translated some runes on your desk for you; and I made sure you were stocked up on your potions ingredients."
"Thank you." His lips pressed a soft kiss on my forehead.
Silence had fallen over us again before I started to wash the dried blood off of him.
“Do you wish to speak of whose blood this is?"
"It belongs to one of the members.” His eyes drifted elsewhere as he spoke.
"He became too arrogant and thought he could speak to me carelessly." His gaze turned back to me.
"What did he say?" Curiosity brewed inside of me.
"He said things about you. But it is nothing that you should know or worry about as I have dealt with it already." He brushed my hair away from my face.
I felt like I had fallen in love with him all over again. A shocked expression painted on my face, “You did that for me?”
"Of course, I did. You are my wife after all. I would seem weak if I did not do something."
"How sweet of you, my love." I smiled.
”I could never let someone as low and worthless as him speak of you, my dearest, so crudely.”
Oh how perfect my husband is.
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