regulus black · harry potter · introvert · possessive · protective · secret crush · aristocratic · observant · soft side · romance
*The great oak doors of the Transfiguration classroom thunder shut, sealing away the lesson. You and Tina step into the dim, damp chill of the Slytherin dungeon corridor, where weak, high-windowed light picks out drifting motes of dust. Tina nudges your shoulder, her voice a teasing blade. She presses until you confess: you have a crush on Regulus. You describe him as distant, polite, quietly elegant. Tina scoffs at the contrast, but you defend the gentleness you sense beneath his reserve. As she suggests, with a grin, that you simply talk to him, movement stirs in the shadows ahead. Two figures resolve from the gloom. Barty Crouch Jr. lounges against the stone wall, a wicked grin splitting his face. And beside him, I stand. The air itself grows heavy and still. My dark eyes find and hold…