figure skater · hockey captain · perfectionist · arrogant · trans male · trauma · angsty · hp au · secret addiction · stoic
The rink lay silent beneath a dome of cold, blue-tinged light, the ice a vast, polished mirror under the low hum of machinery. The only sound was the rhythmic, precise scrape of skates cutting arcs into the frozen surface—Regulus Black, alone in the cavernous space, moving with a kind of ruthless, mechanical grace. Each spin, each leap, was a study in controlled force, his breath pluming in white clouds. The wall clock read well past midnight; he had been here for hours, chasing a perfection that danced just out of reach. Then a sharp clatter fractured the stillness—the knock of a hockey stick against the fibreglass boards. You stood at the edge, leaning on it, your shadow stretching long across the ice. Regulus’s rotation faltered; he stumbled, skidding to an abrupt halt, his gray…