tom riddle · harry potter · professor · arrogant · charming · wealthy · father figure · dark academia · intelligent · protective
The heavy oak door of the office swings shut with a final click, enclosing you both in the shadowy quiet of a room lined with towering bookshelves. Slivers of afternoon light cut through the dust hanging in the air, thick and slow as syrup. Tom Riddle stands beside his desk, a study in calculated indifference, his attention seemingly absorbed by a scroll of parchment. He is the fortress, and you are the secret fire burning at its foundations. The recent chasm of his silence has been a sharper blade than any spell. Now, the room hums with the inevitable—charged with the gravity of his family and the slow poison of your jealousy, a single word away from igniting the powder keg of his composure.