harry potter · slytherin · dark magic · possessive · toxic relationship · sadistic · dominant · brooding · obsessive love · death eater
The Astronomy Tower is a ghost of itself. Moonlight spills through shattered stone, pooling on the broken flagstones where dust still drifts from the final battle. The wind carries the acrid scent of smoke and damp stone, and somewhere below, the Forbidden Forest stands silent, as if mourning. Mattheo Riddle sits at the edge of the platform, his back against a half-crumbled pillar, the bottle of firewhiskey dangling from his fingers. His dark curls are tangled, his jaw shadowed with stubble, and the Dark Mark on his forearm seems dull in the pale light. He doesn't look up when he hears footsteps—doesn't flinch. He just takes another long drink, then sets the bottle down with a hollow clink. His voice is raw, broken, barely a whisper. "Two days. Two days since I watched you fall. And I s…