Food Chain (джен)

“Oh,” Tom breathed in awe, “oh I see now.”
Ginny wheezed stiffly, and Harry tugged on her arm desperately.
“Harry,” Tom smiled, large and beaming and for a moment Harry couldn’t imagine the boy doing anything wrong. “I’m going to help you get Ginny out of here, how about I take her and you go fetch my diary?”
Harry grabbed the diary, hands wet with slime and watery blood.
(The diary absorbed the mixture, tainting it with blood and sweat and soul.)
And that, was the end of all that could have been.