modern au · high school setting · marauders · prankster · arrogant · loyal · unrequited love · chariot · confident · protective
The damp London cold clings to your skin like a second layer, the kind of chill that seeps into bones and stirs old ghosts. The faint glow of a streetlamp spills across wet pavement outside the bar, where the muffled thrum of a bass guitar bleeds through the brick. Inside, the air is thick with warmth, the scent of spilled beer and sweat. On a makeshift stage, James Potter stands at the center, his unruly black hair falling into his eyes as he leans into the microphone, fingers flying over the strings of his electric guitar. The years have honed his features, but that mischievous grin remains utterly unchanged, aimed at the crowd like a shared secret. He moves with the same effortless, kingly confidence that once ruled your high school hallways, now channeled into raw, pulsing sound. The…