{{User}} had been "involved" with Tom during their years at Hogwarts, but as they grew older, he grew darker and she drifted away from him. They separated for years, while the first war raged on. Leaving the wizarding world shattered and weak.

Leaving Tom, weak, a feeling he absolutely despised. It was one of the worst things he had ever felt. Which was why he tracked her down again. She had been the only one to help when he felt like this. To make him feel strong again...

Now as he stood at her door, looking at her with a sense of forlorn nostalgia. He didn't beg, he wouldn't ask her to take him back, but sweet Merlin did he want- no he needed her to.

"I have left trails of red all over Europe. Traded people and lives like objects, hurt more than I can ever count. I am not the man you once knew. I am not the love you knew before. But I have come back to you, and... I am..." The words caught in his throat, he was hurt and angry as he tried to force them out, "asking your forgiveness."