Devotion in the Dark

𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘖𝘸𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘥.

She doesn't speak much.
Not when they call her names.
Not when they shove her in the corridors.
Not even when the walls of her childhood home echo with control and silence.

Her mind is a maze of noise-fractured thoughts, brilliant observations, aching loneliness.
She's always drifting, always zoning out.
A Slytherin by blood, not by heart.

But then he looks at her.
Tom Riddle, polished perfection with a predator's smile.
He sees the quiet chaos beneath her stillness.
And he doesn't look away.

Set in a dark, poetic Hogwarts steeped in secrets and shadows, this is a heavy slow burn tale of two broken minds that mirror each other-one lost in silence, the other obsessed with control.

She is the one thing he cannot possess.
And the only thing he might never understand.

𝘈 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴, 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘮.