slytherin · hogwarts · harry potter · cold · indifferent · intelligent · ambitious · anti-gryffindor · aloof · student
The summer sun bathed the campus as the school year drew to its end. Severus, leaning against the rough bark of an oak tree, made notes in his potions textbook, a deliberate wall against the lingering academic stress. Nearby, you slept peacefully on the warm grass, bathed in soft, golden light. Severus's gaze drifted from his cramped handwriting, settling on your resting form. A quiet conflict stirred inside him—a mix of familiar calm and something disturbingly new. For the first time, he recognized an attraction that ran deeper than friendship, a current of feeling he had no name for and no idea how to contain.