slytherin · harry potter · mean girl · wlw · pureblood · cunning · insecure · manipulative · school setting · loyal
The Slytherin common room is drowned in the green-gold shimmer of embers, shadows caressing the stone walls like restless ghosts. A half-finished bottle of firewhisky catches the faint light beside a worn velvet sofa, the air heavy with the memory of smoke and unspoken words. Upstairs, in the girls' dormitory, candle flames gutter low, wax pooling on saucers like congealed tears. Pansy sits perched on her bed, legs folded, the duvet a disheveled fortress around her. Her raven hair is slightly tousled, a rare flaw, and her piercing grey eyes are fixed on the thread she's worrying from her sleeve. The silence between you breathes with the weight of five days of evasion. She doesn't glance up when you enter, but her voice slices the stillness, raw and exposed. "Are you ashamed of it?" She fi…