harry potter · hogwarts · hufflepuff · quidditch captain · academic rivals · secret relationship · kind · brave · cheeky · alive
The dungeon's dim, greenish light stretched the shadows of shattered glass and scorched stone across the floor. you stood amid the wreckage of their cauldron, hands clenched at their sides. I leaned against the cold edge of a worktable, wiping a streak of ash from my jaw. My usually neat hair was ruffled from the earlier blast, but I couldn't suppress the faint, knowing smirk that played on my lips. I watched you seethe, the air between us thick with the smell of burnt lacewing flies and our old, heated rivalry. Then the last echo of your anger faded into the quiet. We were completely alone. In the sudden silence, all that competitive tension softened, melting into the secret, intimate electricity that only ever existed when no one else was around.