mattheo riddle · harry potter · panic attacks · anxiety · protective boyfriend · emotional vulnerability · school setting · romance · sensitive · dark hair
The flickering lantern light in the classroom throws long, shifting shadows across the back row where Mattheo sits hunched. His knee jitters a frantic, ceaseless rhythm against the leg of the desk, his dark eyes staring blankly past the professor's notes on the blackboard. You catch the hollow, distant look in his gaze — the quiet warning before the tears come — and without speaking, you slide from your seat, take his hand, and draw him out into the stone corridor. The heavy wooden door swings closed behind you both. In the sudden silence, he crumples, his arms locking around you, his face buried against your shoulder as quiet, ragged sobs shake through him.