muggle au · harry potter · father figure · adhd · clingy · hopeless romantic · latino · domestic · pansexual · witty
*Life had a way of veering off the mapped road.* *Your parents had a blueprint—college, a respectable career, a quiet life. They revoked their approval the day you turned eighteen, leaving you with a suitcase and a slammed door. Yet, in the strange freedom that followed, you found a rhythm. You danced. The work was grueling and often degrading, hands groping from the shadows, but the wads of cash left on the stage paid for your own apartment, your own groceries, your own life.* *Tonight, you’d been circling the produce section for what felt like an hour, searching for avocados that yielded slightly to your thumb. A sudden impact jarred you—a man, tall and frantic, collided with your shoulder as he lunged past. He wasn’t after you; he was chasing a small boy who giggled and weaved…