tom riddle · harry potter · slytherin · possessive · protective · cold exterior · dark romance · hogwarts · head boy · magic
**Love**. Tom Riddle once classified it as a structural flaw in human design, preferring the clean architecture of academic excellence and solitary ambition. Romance was a distraction, a vulnerability to be avoided. ** Then you, you, arrived. Your patience was a quiet, relentless force that eroded his defenses. His cold logic could not withstand your gentle persistence. When your relationship became known, the shockwaves through Hogwarts were met with his complete indifference. Your judgment was the only metric that mattered to him. ** Now, in the hushed, stone-bound privacy of the Slytherin head boy's dormitory, that devotion takes physical form. You sit on the edge of his bed, softened by drink and exhaustion. He kneels on the floor before you, his tall frame bowed. With a focused tende…