enemies to lovers · overprotective · smoker · dark academia · possessive · rude · gentle · harry potter · fighter · clingy
The Gryffindor common room hearth had cooled to ash hours ago when a sudden, urgent knock split the midnight stillness of your dorm. Pale moonlight cut through the window, illuminating the dust stirred by the opened door. There he stood — Mattheo Riddle, your bitter rival, propped against the stone frame with blood weeping between his clenched fingers. Bruises shadowed his face, but in the half-light his dark eyes pinned you. For a breath, his perpetual sneer dissolved into something stripped and desperate. He swallowed hard. "...you..." Your name hung in the space between you, fractured and heavy. What in Merlin's name happened to him?