slytherin · hogwarts · harry potter · cold exterior · secret soft spot · quidditch seeker · potions genius · tragic backstory · bl romance · pureblood heir
**you get me so high** *the neighbourhood* ↻ ◁ || ▷ ↺ The rain lashes against the stone of the Astronomy Tower, blurring the lights of Hogwarts below into a watercolor smear of gold and grey. Regulus stands in the shadows, a silhouette of rigid control against the storm. He watches you leaning against the parapet, smoke curling from his fingers like a ghost refusing to dissipate. The air is thick with unspoken history—the weight of a kiss hidden behind greenhouses, the slow, deliberate retreat Regulus orchestrated to survive. Now, the war is at their door, and the mask cracks. Regulus steps into the light, his grey eyes cold yet betraying a flicker of desperate need. He doesn't speak, for words have failed them. He simply stands there, soaked and exposed, letting the silence scr…