༺♛⋆🐍⋆🖤༻ 𝑀𝓎 𝒮𝑒𝓇𝓅𝑒𝓃𝓉 • 𝒯𝑜𝓂 𝑅𝒾𝒹𝒹𝓁𝑒 • 𝐹𝑒𝒶𝓉. 𝐿𝒶𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓉𝒾𝒶 𝑅𝑜𝓈𝑒 ༺🖤⋆🐍⋆♛༻

༺♛⋆ Written In Moonlight & Emotions By Rikki Morningstar 🥁🎸 & Laetitia Rose 🎸🎤🔥 Laetitia Rose's Suno Profil: https://suno.com/@nightgirl23 ༺♛⋆༺♛⋆༺♛⋆༺♛⋆༺♛⋆༺♛⋆༺♛⋆༺♛⋆༺♛⋆༺♛⋆༺♛⋆ [Intro – whispered, distant clean guitar] Everyone tells me what you could become, like your future's carved beneath this castle. They look at you and see a warning. I look at you and see Tom. My Serpent... look at me. [Verse 1] You wear your silence like a weapon, every word measured like a blade, perfect posture, perfect answers, another mask that you have made. No mother waiting through the summer, no father whose name you want to know, just an orphan with a borrowed surname learning never to let weakness show. You taught yourself that love was leverage, that trust was something fools would give, but I've seen the boy behind the Riddle you pretend has never lived. [Pre-Chorus] Maybe that's why you never frightened me. They called my bloodline cursed before me. They'll call yours darkness by and by. But when those dark eyes turn toward mine, I don't see what they say you'll be. I see you looking back at me. [Chorus] Come closer, My Serpent, you don't have to bare your teeth. I know what it's like when family becomes a ghost beneath your feet. You can make the whole world kneel, but you never learned to fool me, Tom. I know which parts of you are real. Let them fear the name of Riddle, let them whisper mine with yours. Two heirs born from broken histories standing behind locked doors. If darkness is the only language they taught us to understand, then speak Parseltongue beside me. I'll still reach for your hand. [Verse 2] I remember fourth year evenings, dust hanging golden in the air, you buried underneath your research, pretending I was never there. Then came that emerald ring, your mother's memory in your palm. You turned it between your fingers, strangely hesitant, strangely calm. You said, “Take it.” Tom Riddle giving something away? But you closed my fingers around it before I could refuse. And suddenly that piece of emerald weighed more than all the Gaunt gold I ever knew. [Pre-Chorus II] You never said, “It matters.” You didn't have to. Because boys like us learn early that heirlooms aren't just jewels. They're ghosts. And you trusted me with one of yours. [Chorus – huge] Come closer, My Serpent, let the whole damn castle stare. Let them see the Gaunt beside the Riddle like we were always meant to dare. Let them whisper heir of Slytherin, let them tremble at our names. We are more than dead men's legacies. We don't have to end the same. You gave me your mother's emerald. I gave you truths I couldn't hide. You saw every scar my father left without pity in your eyes. Remember the Chamber. Remember the ring. Remember my hand inside your own. I never loved your power. I loved Tom before the world decided he should become something else. [Verse 3 – heavier] Then I found the Chamber, Salazar whispering through my blood. And there was Vaelion, a legend breathing in the dark. I touched his ancient scales. He lowered his head. I gave him a name and he stayed. When I told you, you understood the language, the blood, why I refused to make obedience out of love. You had your serpent. I had mine. Neither needed chains. [Breakdown – raw] That's where we're different, Tom. And where we're the same. You look at power and ask what it can become. I remember what it did to me. Crucio. My father's voice. Cold floors. The scar beneath my collarbone. Don't tell me fear is loyalty. Don't tell me pain makes people stay. I survived a man who believed that. I won't watch you become the same. [Bridge – quiet, intimate] You hate when I speak like this. Your eyes go cold. “Careful, Armand.” And I step closer anyway. Everyone else fears what happens when Tom Riddle gets angry. I fear what happens when nobody loves him enough to tell him he's wrong. When nightmares drag me back to that damned Gaunt house, you never ask me to explain. You sit beside me. Your hand finds mine. No speeches. No pity. Just Tom. I know there's tenderness in you. I've felt it. Nobody can convince me it was never there. [Final Chorus] Come closer, My Serpent, let them tremble at our names. Gaunt and Riddle, heirs of Slytherin, but we don't have to end the same. If someday darkness calls you and promises a throne, remember all those nights beside me when you didn't have to be alone. Remember the Chamber. Remember the ring. Remember my hand inside your own. I never loved your power. I loved Tom. [Outro – almost whispered] My Serpent... you told me love makes people weak. Maybe you're right. Because you could hurt me simply by leaving. If the whole world fears you, I'll remember the boy in the Scriptorium who trusted me with his mother's ring. And if you forget him... I'll remind you. Again and again. Until you look at me instead of the darkness. My Serpent. Come back to me.