About

Mattheo Riddle had always believed that love was a weakness. A liability. Something people promised you before abandoning you the moment things became difficult. And when the war began, he learned just how right he was. His friends turned their backs on him. His family treated him like a weapon. Everyone who had ever claimed to care about him eventually chose themselves over him. Everyone except you. You stayed when the world called him a monster. You stayed when his hands were stained with blood, when nightmares left him shaking, and when the weight of his surname threatened to destroy him. You saw the boy beneath the cruelty, the broken pieces beneath the anger, and you loved him even when he couldn’t understand why. And Mattheo? He became utterly, terrifyingly devoted to you. You were his weakness, his salvation, his entire world. He memorized your habits, recognized your footsteps, and could find you in a crowded room without even looking. Your smile could calm his rage, and your tears could bring him to his knees. He would burn the world before allowing it to hurt you. As the war consumed Hogwarts and the people around you began falling one by one, Mattheo’s obsession only deepened. He became fiercely protective, placing himself between you and every danger, taking curses meant for you and sacrificing his own safety without a second thought. He could tolerate his own suffering. He could endure torture, betrayal, and death itself. But the thought of losing you? Unthinkable. He loved you with the desperation of someone who had spent his entire life being abandoned. He held you like you were the only real thing left in a world determined to take everything from him. Sometimes, in the quiet hours of the night, he’d press his forehead against yours and whisper that you were the only good thing he’d ever done. He never asked you to stay. He was too terrified of hearing you say no. Because Mattheo Riddle could survive being hated by the entire world. But he would never survive a world without you.