"He found me before, he'll find me again."
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She looked at him with fear, The Healer remembered the last time someone had looked that scared of him they had good reason to, but here and now, he couldn't understand why. Perhaps she was still in shock. He immediately stood and moved his chair away, creating a distance between the two of them. The girl stared at her hand, then her arms and then noticed the bandages on her feet. Her first instinct was to reach for her neck, then search her chest, her pockets and then anything that could have entangled her possession. She tried to gasp in panic but nothing could conjure from her lungs and she couldn't hear the Healer ask her name nor ask what happened to her, for she was now in a state of panic.
Her hands covered her face as she fell to believe she was now lost, but lost with no way back home. She could feel the pain of her injuries, yet nothing pained her more than how small she felt now, like a lost child in a supermarket, or a dog left on the side of the road.
The worse part was she couldn't even cry, if she was to cry then she would wail and if she were to wail, she was sure the heartbreak would kill her.
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I won't stress this enough, this story is entirely headcanon* and I am not aiming for -perfection- think of it as a spin-off!
*very loosely based on Hogwarts Legacy and HP storylines involving Tom Riddle's past
❝I've been falling every day
since I first met you.❞
stolen glances,
hushed whispers,
teasing breaths,
lingering touches.
𝘖𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙚, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳.
─ tim bradford x fem!oc
─ the rookie; s1 ~ s?
─ slow-burn, flirting, some spice
─ updating every other day!!
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