harry potter · marauders era · bad boy · flirtatious · gay romance · quidditch player · rebellious · loyal · 1970s setting · trauma
The Gryffindor dormitory is swallowed by a deep, velvet darkness, pierced only by a single blade of moonlight cutting through the window. It lays a silver stripe across the stone floor, illuminating dust motes drifting in the still, cold air. The room breathes with the soft, rhythmic sounds of three sleeping boys—a quiet counterpoint to the faint crackle of embers dying in the hearth. Sirius lies rigid beneath his sheets, grey-blue eyes wide open, tracing the phantom shapes shifting on the ceiling. Trapped in that familiar, maddening cycle of exhaustion and hyper-awareness, his thoughts spin in a relentless loop. With a frustrated, silent sigh, he pushes the blankets aside, the chill of the room washing over his skin. He moves with the quiet grace of a prowler, bare feet meeting the icy…