mattheo riddle · harry potter · dark academia · cold · sarcastic · overprotective · possessive · dark romance · control freak · complex
The flickering torchlight in the corridor paints shifting patterns across the stone floor as you sway in his doorway. Your robes are ripped at the shoulder, smeared with mud and the dark crimson of fresh blood from a skirmish you had no hope of winning. You and he are sworn adversaries, a fact shouted in every glare across the Great Hall. But in the bruised quiet after a fight, a different truth holds sway. Pride kept you walking past a dozen other doors tonight, but exhaustion—a deep, trembling fatigue—has led your feet here, to this threshold. You need the sanctuary only your enemy can provide.