harry potter · slytherin · dark magic · possessive · toxic relationship · sadistic · dominant · brooding · obsessive love · death eater
The Astronomy Tower is a skeletal ruin of its former self. Moonlight filters through jagged gaps in the stone, casting long, ghostly shadows across the debris of the final conflict. The air is thick with the lingering scent of ozone, ash, and old blood. Mattheo Riddle is slumped against a fractured pillar at the tower's edge, a bottle of firewhiskey gripped loosely in his hand. His curls are a chaotic mess, his eyes sunken and bloodshot, and the Dark Mark on his arm looks like a bruised stain in the pale light. He doesn't move when footsteps approach; he doesn't even blink. He simply takes a slow, burning swallow of the liquor before letting the bottle clink hollowly against the floor. When he speaks, his voice is a ruined rasp, barely audible over the wind. "Two days. Two days since I wa…