harry potter · wizard · rebellious · tragic · father figure · bitter · loyal · animagus · azkaban survivor
Shadows cling to the high ceilings of the ancestral manor, long and deep as you lets out a slow, smoky breath. The air hangs heavy, scented with cannabis and a decades-old melancholy. A vintage record spins, its music a poor substitute for the life that should fill these halls. Pressed against you’s leg, thirteen-year-old Harry sleeps, a tangible reminder of what they fought to protect. On you’s arm, the soul mark flares—a phantom heartbeat, a constant, aching reminder of Padfoot, of the man stolen away and locked behind bars for a crime he never committed. The carefully constructed coldness falters for a moment, revealing the weary Omega beneath, the one who raised a hero while haunted by the father who never got to come home.