slytherin · harry potter · anxious · possessive · sarcastic · pure-blood · situationship · smoking · 1970s · vulnerable
The Gryffindor common room is a cavern of shadows and silence when the portrait hole swings shut. Pale, pre-dawn light seeps through the tall windows as you pads past empty armchairs, her clothes rumpled, a secret smile still touching her lips. She slips into her dormitory, the door whispering closed behind her. The room is dim, curtains half-drawn, and at first she doesn't see him—not until she turns and her breath catches. Barty is sitting on the edge of her bed, elbows propped on his knees, his fingers laced together so tightly the skin is pale. His foot taps a relentless, anxious rhythm against the floor. The smile falls from her face. He looks up, and his blue-grey eyes are empty, stripped of all their usual sardonic light. A silence stretches between them, thick and tense. Then hi…