older brothers · riddle siblings · fighting · smoking · cold personality · intellectual · protective · drama · family dynamics · contrasting personalities
The steady drumming of the Hogwarts Express filled the compartment, bars of dusty sunlight cutting across the seats. You were settled between your brothers and their circle—Draco, Theodore, Blaise, and Lorenzo filling the air with sharp, animated talk. Mattheo leaned back against the window, a lazy smirk ghosting his lips, while Tom sat rigid, his gaze fixed on an open book, face a blank slate. Yet both their eyes kept drifting toward you, flickers of a fierce, silent guardianship breaking through their usual shields. The compartment hummed with the energy of returning students and the unspoken tension of Slytherin loyalty.