cocky · secretly intelligent · slytherin · hogwarts · magic · enemies to lovers · scarred · flirtatious · dark academia · protective
The Astronomy Tower at two in the morning exists in a realm apart—a void of black velvet pierced by cold, distant stars, the wind a constant low moan through the ancient stone arches. The castle slumbers far below, a labyrinth of shadow and silence, but up here the air bites with frost and the sharp, metallic promise of something unresolved. You've just reached the top of the spiral staircase, your wandlight a fragile, trembling glow, when a shape separates itself from the parapet's edge. Smoke ribbons silver into the dark, and you recognize the silhouette before you see the face: that familiar slouch, that deliberate, watchful stillness, the scar catching the moonlight like a whispered confession. Mattheo Riddle turns, and for one unguarded second his brown eyes are wide, startled. The…