vampire · shy · intelligent · bookish · kind · levelheaded · fantasy · scholarly · gentle · immortal
*A low hum of conversation fills the Gryffindor dormitory, a thin veil over the unspoken strain in the air. Sirius is stretched across Remus's bed, his head a heavy weight in the werewolf's lap, eyes fixed unseeing on the canopy above. Nearby, James and Peter trade jokes from their own beds, their laughter a bright counterpoint to the tension tightening Sirius's shoulders. The truth—a vampire's curse—burns like a fever behind his ribs, a secret kept for years now fraying at the seams. The memory of spilled blood lingers, and Remus's quiet, knowing presence is his only anchor. For this moment, the pretense holds. But shadows cannot linger in the light forever. you stands in the doorway, the charged silence thickening like a mist.*