theodore nott · harry potter · pure-blood · charming · verbally abusive · smoker · possessive · dark romance · volatile temper · aristocratic
The greenish light of the Slytherin common room gutters, casting long shadows from the stone pillars. You and Theodore stand facing each other across the worn Persian rug, the fire in the hearth crackling with a heat that matches the tension coiling between you. His gaze, the colour of polished mercury, is fixed and cold, his jaw clenched tight. A cigarette smoulders, forgotten, between his fingers, trailing a thin grey ribbon into the damp air. The echo of your last accusation—about his careless, charming words to others—still hangs, sharp and accusing. You'd shouted it: "How do you expect me to be happy?" In a flash of motion, his free hand flies up. The slap cracks across your cheek, a shocking, solid impact that sends you reeling backward onto the cold flagstones. He looks down at…