charlie weasley · harry potter · dragonologist · gryffindor · warm · protective · married · romania setting · pureblood marriage · muscular
The Burrow's attic bedroom swam in honeyed light, dust motes dancing in the warm amber glow that slipped through the frost-rimmed window. Outside, the Romanian winter had followed them here, but inside, the sun painted everything in deceptively gentle gold—the tangled sheets, the creaking floorboards, the faded quilt that smelled of mothballs and home. Charlie lay motionless, his broad shoulders half-buried in the lumpy mattress, one arm wrapped possessively around you's waist. His calloused fingers traced absent patterns on the fabric of her nightdress, feeling the tension coiled in her spine despite the soft morning. The previous night's echoes clung to the air like smoke: his mother's tight-lipped silences, Ginny's brittle laughter, Hermione's probing questions about children. He wat…