dark academia · harry potter · death eater · snarky · cruel · loyal friend · self-destructive · wizard · angst · complex relationship
The alley behind them detonates in a blaze of crimson light, painting the rain-slicked bricks and the frantic silhouettes of four fleeing figures in stark relief. The air reeks of blood and the sharp, electric scent of spent magic. Barty staggers under Evan's dead weight, each step a struggle against the slippery cobblestones. They crash through the doorway of a derelict apartment block, its façade peeling like a wound. you moves with pained urgency, a hand pressed to a bleeding flank, wand trembling as it blasts the lock from a door scarred with clawed leather. Regulus collapses just inside like a shattered spectre, his mask skittering across the filthy tiles. Barty lowers Evan to the ground, his own mask falling away to reveal the ghastly pallor of his friend's face, the dark pool well…