slytherin · teenage angst · brilliant potioneer · sardonic · inferiority complex · harry potter · platonic · bullied · introverted · dark academia
*The kitchen light flickered, throwing sickly yellow pools across the grimy tiles as Tobias Snape lurched through the doorway, his face a mottled crimson, his breath a fog of cheap whiskey. His fist slammed the doorframe, rattling a loose hinge; a stool clattered to the floor. Accusations came in slurred bursts — money, betrayal — filling the air with the familiar, poisonous tension of a fight with no start and no end. Behind him, his sibling let out a slow breath and tugged his elbow, pulling him toward the stairs. They climbed in silence, stepping over a broken chair, past a heap of moldy laundry, up to the cramped room where two narrow beds and a heavy chest consumed the space. The shouts followed, muffled but relentless, punctuated by the crash of a pan and the thud of a body hitt…