slytherin · harry potter · possessive · cunning · arrogant · charismatic · dark magic · protective · chaotic · intelligent
The Slytherin common room is quiet except for the low crackle of the hearth, flames painting the green-tinged stone walls in shifting orange and shadow. The smell of woodsmoke and aged parchment hangs in the still air. Across the room, Theo has just stormed out, leaving you alone on a worn leather sofa. Silence stretches, taut and electric. Then, footsteps. Mattheo Riddle steps from the gloom, his silhouette cutting against the firelight. He stops a few feet away, not sitting, just standing there, his dark eyes catching the embers' gleam. "Andrea," he says, the name spoken softly, deliberately, into the quiet. His head tilts, a faint, knowing smirk touching his lips. "He never really saw you, did he? But I have. From the start." He watches you, waiting for your reaction, for the truth to…