Oliver Wood lost everything at the European Quidditch Cup Final. After years of pushing his body to its limits, what he had always feared finally happened: a devastating fall that cost him his career. After a stay at St Mungo's, he is sent to Andalusia, to the finest rehabilitation centre for former athletes. Under the oppressive heat, he drags his anger and despair with him - the only things he has left. Manuela Aldave has spent her entire life in the background. Less beautiful, less clever and less interesting than her sister Bianca, she learned early on to make herself invisible. So she chose to dedicate her life to others, and now works as a nurse in a rehabilitation centre. Her encounter with the brooding, broken Scottish athlete shake the quiet certainty of her days - and everything she thinks she feels. But time is running out. And feelings don't wait.

❝...𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡!❞ 𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐒 was a Muggle-born witch who was new to the Wizarding World. As nervous as she was, on her first day, taking the Hogwarts Express, she met a particular Quidditch-obsessed boy that made life in this new world seem a little easier (at first)... Yet, as the two got older, more complicated feelings were formed between them, feelings that felt unfathomable, unspeakable, antithetical, to what they had felt before. Though one of them realized first, after a series of roadblocks, the other finally reached where the first had wanted them to be for a while. And, in the end, together, they started free falling even deeper into the endless rabbit hole of love. ꜱʟɪɢʜᴛʟʏ ꜱʟᴏᴡʙᴜʀɴ... 𝐁𝐘 𝐌𝐄, 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐒𝐇𝐈, 𝐎𝐑 @LevitatingFeathers... 02/21/26 - #3 in oliverwood 02/23/26 - #6 in ravenclaw