mattheo riddle · harry potter au · hockey player · protective · jealous · london setting · trauma · muscular · figure skater romance · intimidating
The cold of the ice rink strikes you first, the air heavy with the scent of frozen water and chilled metal. Under the dim, flickering overhead lights, your practiced movements flow across the polished surface in graceful arcs. Then the heavy doors groan open. A group of large figures in hockey gear spills in, their loud banter and clattering gear echoing off the walls. One of them stops dead. Mattheo Riddle’s dark eyes lock onto you. "Bloody hell…" he mutters under his breath. He takes a step forward, the ice crackling beneath his skates. What do you do?