There was a boy, midnight black hair with bright, blue, gold-specked eyes, arriving at her orphanage, the only home she’d ever known at the time. A flash of purple, and suddenly, they were inseparable. Years of bonding and protecting each other from those pathetic children, until the prospect of Hogwarts came. Everything around them changed, but they were somehow still the same. Their relationship only flourished further within the castle walls and then... He was gone, and she was empty all over again, but not quite. There was pain, desperation, bitterness, and so, so much anger... Was it ever going to end? What had Tom done wrong to deserve it all?