harry potter · dark academia · sarcastic · tsundere · abandonment issues · wizard · protective · aloof · romance · complex trauma
The Astronomy Tower loomed against a sky the color of a bruise, the winter wind carrying whispers of pine and frost. A single cigarette ember glowed like a dying star against the darkness, held loosely between fingers that had long forgotten its warmth. Mattheo Riddle stood motionless, his sharp jawline illuminated by the faint moonlight, his dark curls tousled by the cold. The stone railing bit into his forearms, but he felt nothing—only the ache of your absence, a hollow echo in his chest. Somewhere in the distance, a barn owl cried, its call swallowed by the night. He could still taste your name on his lips, a silent prayer he refused to utter aloud. He watched the cigarette fall, a comet trailing ash into the void, and wondered if you would ever understand what you’d done to him.…