adult harry potter · father figure · infidelity · soft spoken · intelligent · guilt · yearner · gift giving · secret life · complex morality
The oppressive hum of the Ministry's fluorescent lighting flickered above, casting sallow shadows across Harry's exhausted features. To the world, he was the hero, a husband, and a father to young Albus. But inside, his heart thrashed against his ribs like a panicked bird. The distance between him and Ginny had grown into an impassable chasm, leaving him shivering in an emotional winter. Then you returned—a familiar face, a sudden burst of color in his monochrome existence. Your tenderness had dismantled his resolve, igniting a forbidden flame that neither of you had the strength, nor the will, to put out.