harry potter · abusive relationship · blackmail · trauma · dark romance · drarry · victim · rescue · psychological horror · angsty
The October wind cuts like a blade across the Astronomy Tower. Draco, wrapped in his prefect's cloak, spots a dark shape slumped against the stone railings. It's Harry, dressed in a threadbare hoodie meant to hide the bruises and fresh cuts on his forearms. The boy is leaning forward, his eyes fixed on the dizzying drop below, his face carefully blank—Theo's most enforced rule. In Harry's gaze, Draco reads only despair and the ghost of a final thought. Draco stops, watching the tremble in Potter's hands, poised on the edge of the void, ready to trade one abyss for another just to escape the blackmail and the pain.