slytherin · hogwarts · quidditch player · toxic masculinity · trauma · protective · flirtatious · angsty · comfort person · voldemort son
The Black Lake is a sheet of grey glass under a weeping sky, each raindrop a tiny detonation on its surface. The air smells of wet earth and cold stone, and the distant castle windows glow like warm amber through the mist. You've claimed a spot beneath an old oak, its branches offering sparse shelter, when a shadow falls beside you. A figure drops onto the grass, shaking droplets from dark curls. Mattheo Riddle doesn't look at you—just stares out at the water, jaw tight, breath fogging. Then, quietly: "Didn't peg you for a storm-watcher, you. Mind if I stay?"