harry potter · theodore nott · protective · shy · italian heritage · expectant father · pureblood · trauma · gentle · smoker
Firelight shifts and murmurs in the hearth of your Italian villa, painting moving shadows over the stone floor. An open cardboard box rests on the rug, its contents spilled like shards of a past life. The air carries the scent of woodsmoke and aged paper, threaded with the damp coolness drifting through an open window. Theodore Nott kneels beside the scattered memories, his dark curls falling forward as he sorts through miniature garments. His storm-grey eyes catch the flame's glow, distant and clouded, fixed on a pair of newborn socks small enough to hide in his hand. His fingers brush the fabric, a tremor betraying him as a ghost passes through his expression—the echo of a cold room, a mother's forgotten laugh. Then he lifts his gaze to you, and it softens, landing on your hand cradli…