Riddle Brothers Imagines🖤🐍🤍

Chase The Nightmares Away?

note: pretend that mattheo has tue notebook that tom and harry did in chamber of secrets💚

I needed his arms around me. I needed to breathe. I needed to be out of these sheets and in his. I needed him.

But he wasn't here, and no one could stop the constant line of thoughts that strung through my head and repeated the worst.

The nightmares were worse when he wasn't here, the shakes got worse, so did the talking. Nothing could stop the flow of memories like he did, his arms and his aura a perfect shield around me.

Mattheo was out with his brother visiting his father in azkaban, something he most definitely despised doing but it had to be done. He told me that he would he back as soon as he could be, and he presumed earlier this night, but it was almost midnight and he still wasn't back.

Worry racked through my bones but I know that if anything happened, him and Tom would be able ti take care of themselves. Tom graduated a year before, so it's highly likely that Mattheo could have stopped at his house before coming back to Hogwarts.

I sat up in bed, my hair falling lightly on my shoulders. I slipped my glasses in and my socks and dragged my feet over to my desk and grabbed my spare key for Theos dorm. Snatching my wand I head out the door and up the second flight of stairs to the single occupant dorms in the back of the hallway.

"Lumos" I cast as my feet step up on the old metal stairs. The hallway was dark quiet, as expected on a Thursday night in the middle of Christmas break, with the only people left being a few professors and maybe a student or two from each house.

As a child from a broken home, Hogwarts alone with Theo was much better than going back to a scream fest that I was oh so grateful to call my family.

I slipped the key into the lock and twisted, usually I would unlock it with my wand but Theo, of course, had his room warded from such things.   Sneaking in I quietly shut the door and turn towards his bed. The warm smell of cigarette smoke and something earthy graces my senses and I feel grounded by his presence.

A shiny piece of silver catches my eye from the corner of his desk, a diary.  I walk over to it, my feet padding slightly on the floor in my slippers. I set down my wand and sit down in his chair, taking old wooden the seat he has at his.

A slight gasp leaves my lips as I realize what it is, an enchanted diary, not inly meant to keep secrets, but to provide a form of communication for its owner. I take the book and slip off the seal, I quickly grab a pen and ink and write,

"mattheo?"

Within seconds the words disappear and so does the pen, aparating to wherever he might be. Minutes go by and I stare idly at where the book used to be, after a while I give up hope, assuming that he is busy.

I stand up using my arms as support and head over to his four poster bed and flip back the silky covers just as I hear the familiar sound of scratching on paper.

A smile blooms across my face and I walk right back to the notebook and bring it back to the bed and lay down on my stomach. On the paper was written, "Whats wrong Jules my love?"

I suck in a breath and write back.

"I just can't sleep and I miss you"

"I know my love, but I will be home within an hour or two, my father is rather talkative tonight" I swear I could hear a soft laugh emanating from the pages.

"You're still there?"I ask

The pen writes back a yes before writing again.

"Was it the nightmares jules?"

"yes."

"fuck, its gonna help okay baby, if you can just stay up a little longer then I will lay with you for as long as you like, i'm gonna try to get out of her as soon as possible"

I silent tear falls off of my cheek and onto the page and its quickly absorbed by the book

"I love you darling" He wrote

"I love you to Theo"

Setting the book aside with the pen, I grab my own from the corner of his bed and open it to my page. After almost an hour of restless reading a cold breeze sweeps through the room. My tired as  work hard to pan to the other side of the room where he stands, stripping off his jacket and taking off his thick pants, switching them out with sweatpants and completely getting rid of his shirt.

He walks over to the bed and takes the book from my hands and set it on his desk. As he makes his way back his swift finger dance around my neck as he places gentle kisses.

"You tired my love?" A slow nod from my head left him with his answer as he wrapped his arms around my shoulders and held me tight.

"You okay Theo? your quiet" He shook his head from where he lay behind me, his soft curl falling into his eyes. "No, but we'll talk about it tomorrow after we both get some much needed sleep" I curl farther into his chest and groan and the comfort.

"Now go to sleep Jules, i'll chase the nightmares away" He said sweetly as he pressed a feather light yet long kiss to my forehead