Mattheo Riddle meets Elise Howarth, and neither of them are ever the same again. It starts simple, help in class, roaming the halls together, falling so very slowly yet so very fast that they both hit the ground before they even realize they've fallen. The realization that they might be more than acquaintances, the feeling that this is more than a friendship, is too much to bear behind the mind of the son of a deadly man, but just enough to bear behind the mind of the daughter of a lively woman.
You're the one everybody knows as the "good girl". Never touched a cigarette or a drop of liquor, always has your assignments done on time, always home by curfew, and you've certainly never been touched by any boy. Until your senior year of college.
One day you're heading up to the boys dormitories to get Harry. You usually study together at this time, but he's late. But you get toward the door, you see it's open crack, the sound of low, murmured voices coming from it, and when you look in the crack through the open door...
You're out with your three year old Elio, and who you consider to be his uncle, Theo, on a shopping trip for some new toys and perhaps an ice cream, strolling between shops, when you see him. Three years after the war. Three years of time on pause, just pushed play. Mattheo Riddle. Elio's Father.
Where there's one, there's another. Mattheo Riddle and Theo Nott. Both insanely attractive, yet insanely infuriating boys. They're friends, or so you think, when they make it their mission to fluster you, which pisses you off as much as it turns you on. But your question to yourself is which one, until they make it clear it could be both.
You, are dating Remus. One day you're heading up to the boys dormitories to get Remus. You usually study together at this time, but he's late. But when you walk in...
you are Harry Potter's sister, the prettiest girl in school, eyes are always on you from everywhere, but unlike Harry, you're rebellious, confident, intelligent, strategic, and flirtatious. It takes most by surprise. However one particular boy is captivated by you, and you're particularly captivated by him too. Mattheo Riddle, the rival, the boy who everyone either runs away to or drops on their knees for. But you? You enjoy pushing his limits, pissing him off because its amusing.
Born to Orion and Walburga Black, you were the youngest in the family. The younger sister to Sirius and Regulus. You were always closest to Sirius Black out of your immediate family. Neither of you believed in blood purity. Sirius rejected it openly, while you rejected it quietly. You shared jokes, games, and secrets that no one else in the house could know.
You're a seventh year Slyhterin, best friends with Pansy, Daphne, and Astoria, but you aren't the usual Slytherin. You're kind, understanding, thoughtful, always looking to help, and disliked by no one. That's when you meet the complete opposite version of you. Mattheo Riddle. The flirtatious, chaos carrying, party boy that couldn't be vulnerable if you paid him... until he saw you look at him.
Hogwarts reopens for those who missed their final year. The "Eighth Years" are celebrities and soldiers forced back into the roles of students after destroying the horcruxes, defeating voldemort, and reshaping the old tradition. They share the Great Hall with younger students who view them with either worship or terror. Hermione is determined to get her N.E.W.T.s, Cadence is insistent on finishing school to go into auror training like her father insisted, but Harry's over it.
You're in a relationship with Mattheo Riddle, his father was killed and he's struggling with the absence. He's free, but at what cost? He doesn't have to deal with any of the abuse and mistreatment anymore, but living without it, and with the trauma and ptsd from it, it's just as bad, if not worse. It gets toxic when he's sober but unbearably sweet when he's drunk. He get's aggressive and yells, throws things, pushes you around, and then he'll hate himself over it seeing your reaction. You stay
Mattheo Riddle, your boyfriend, the boy who everyone either runs away from or drops to their knees for. He's reckless, and devastatingly attractive. Always in fights and getting hurt, always losing his temper, never to class on time. He teases people to piss them off.
As we step into classroom I freeze. Pansy trails off her sentence in a heartbeat. Daphne glance between me and the new professor. βtake your seat, please.β My fatherβ¦
When your father marries his mother, your life rearranges overnight β new house, new rules, new family name attached to yours. Mattheo Riddle becomes your stepbrother, and everyone expects the adjustment to be awkward but manageable. What no one knows is that the moment you first met, something unspoken sparked between you β instant, magnetic, and impossible to justify. You both felt it. Neither of you wanted to.
You are Harry Potters sister, in a constant battle of dominance with Mattheo Riddle. You flirt with each other, tease each other, piss each other off because you both know it turns each other on. A constant fight to be in control. Harry thinks he's dangerous, controlling, someone he'd forbid you from having. And Mattheo certainly seems to play the part. But you come to find out, the dangerous dominance Mattheo carries is a mask...
You, The most powerful Pureblood Slytherin, are in a group with the three most dangerous Death Eaters, and their girlfriends Mattheo Riddle and Astoria Greengrass, Lorenzo Berkshire and Daphne Greengrass, and Theodore Nott and yourself. The boys do everything in their power to keep you and your girls safe, even if that means putting themselves into danger.
Cadence has spent five years building a life out of the wreckage. No longer a student spy, she has become a strategist for the Ministry, dedicated to ensuring the "Double Edge of Betrayal" never cuts anyone again. She has buried her grief under layers of morality and quiet power. When Mattheo is found-wandless, scarred, and looking for a past he can't grasp-she is the only one who can navigate the jagged edges he left behind.
Twelve years ago you fought in a war that ruined your life. Twelve years ago, you were feared by death eaters because at the mere age of eighteen, you weren't a child, you were a soldier, and a lethal one at that.
You and your friends are 18, and in your last year of Hogwarts. You have parties, go out with boys, drink, smoke, the usual works of teenagers... except you have a secret you can't tell anyone.
Parties with your Slytherin friend group are always fun, until one night, you get too drunk, dance with a certain someone who his also too drunk. One of your friends from your friend group, Mattheo Riddle, approaches you at a party for a dance, leaves with you to his room for what you both agreed the morning after was a one night stand. Until it wasn't.
Usually, Remus strives to stay unseen, and he does. He reads in the library, or the common room chair, or at the Gryffindor table in the great hall. In his mind, if his nose is in a book, he can ignore you. And it worked. Until now. (read disc.)
You didnβt ask for this. You didnβt seek it. And yet, with every glance, every smirk, every deliberate movement, you are the axis around which three of the most dangerous, brilliant, and magnetic brothers in Hogwarts orbitβ¦