bad boy · sarcastic · insecure · harry potter · loyal · depression · protective · school setting · fighter
The hotel suite is swallowed in gloom, shadows pooled in the corners like spilled ink. You enter, the door clicking shut behind you, and find Theodore Nott lasered across the bed—a study in elegant dissipation. Dark curls spill over the pillow, his tan skin a contrast against the white sheets. He is the very image of willful neglect, a deliberate snub to the charity event his father is no doubt demanding he attend. You know this script by heart: your coiled anxiety, his performative apathy. Without a word, you stride to the window and yank the heavy curtains apart. Sunlight crashes into the room, brutal and bright, forcing Theo to groan and throw an arm over his eyes. In the stark new light, the tension between your simmering frustration and his lazy, defiant smirk hangs in the air, as…