Silver Scale Serpent

Tom is trying to return, and Ginny's up to something. But who's the oblivious one this time around? And even if he does succeed, Tom will have a question to face- What do you do when your place in the world is taken, and you're no more that a carbon copy of someone else? Mean while the war is raging, and the wizarding world is split apart as individuals decide where their loyalties lie, and discover themselves.``TR/GW. Angst, sex, violence. Not for the faint of heart.

The day after the Chamber of Secrets incident, Virginia Weasley reflects on Tom and the Chamber, and how they have changed both her and her view of the world. "So the night comes and goes, and there's no one there to nurture, but yourself and you know that you've nothing left to lose..."