an hour of wolves
chapter 13: 'cause they're calling me by my name
Despite his certainty that he wouldn’t sleep, Harry blinked open his eyes with effort to find grey light filtering into the room. His lids felt stuck together, his body a stone tucked in between the sheets.
He lay there heavy and numb.
Thumps and rustles around the room told him the other boys were getting themselves ready for class, but he already had a strange and detached knowledge that he was not going to go with them today.
Harry could not bring himself to feel much of anything about this.
His limbs might have belonged to someone else for all he could move them. He stared at his bed curtains, blinking slowly. Breathing. When Ron pulled them back to urge Harry out of bed and then to look down at him with worry, Harry flicked his eyes up only once before closing them. Even that seemed to drain him.
Ron’s reluctance to leave him like this was palpable, but in the end he mumbled something about coming up later. The curtains closed again, and Harry breathed. In and out. Slow and steady. He could lie here forever, he thought. He really, really could. Probably he should have felt alarmed at the state of himself. But the world outside his bed was a distant thing, and he was only grateful that his thoughts did not seem to want to form into anything more coherent than an odd, slow tumble.
He stayed there, all at once too heavy and too untethered, until he fell back into a light doze.
---
read the rest on ao3!
(obligatory 2024 disclaimer that I don't support jkr's views, I just think fanfic and stories are still important, and this one's my baby)
22 notes
·
View notes
Close your eyes, count to ten// ch. 36
It only took me about 10,000 years, but I finally updated! This chapter is the somewhat-unofficial-start to the final phase of Close your eyes. Not saying it's going to be over soon or that I know how many chapters are left, but... there's a faraway light at the end of a long tunnel, haha. It'll make sense when you read it. Rebe will be back next chapter, this one features some VaLu... quality time? 🤔
"Lulu!"
Yep, he was standing under her balcony shouting her name like they were in an alcohol-fueled, modern-day version of Romeo and Juliet.
Lu stood in the open balcony door, her mouth hanging open. Then she caught herself and stepped outside.
"What are you doing? Go home!"
"Hi!" A smile broke out on his face. Aside from that, Lu noticed, he looked pretty terrible. There was a stain on his shirt, his matted curls stuck to his face and his skin was a pallid color.
"I lost your key," he shouted up at her. "Let me in, please?"
Lu's heart was beginning to pick up. Was something wrong? She hesitated for another moment, then her concern won out.
"Fine." She tried to not let the entire neighborhood in on their conversation. "Go back to the door, I'll-"
"What?" He was shouting at the top of his lungs, and Lu saw her upstairs neighbor step onto her balcony. "Please, Luluuuu. Lu. Luuuu-"
"I said come in!" Lu yelled.
5 notes
·
View notes
My favourite thing ever is when Jason is drawn to resemble Bruce because I KNOWW his ass would HATE it😭😭
Dick: hey Jason you haven’t forgotten our meet u— oh my god are you ok?? What happened?
Jason *rocking back and forth on the floor with a traumatised look in his eyes, whispering in horror* someone mistook me for Bruce in the grocery store today.
Random kid at a charity event pointing at Jason standing grumpily in a corner: who’s that?
Bruce (smiling fondly): that’s my son Jason!
Random kid: he looks like you! :D
Jason: *leaves the room*
Bruce (running after him): jason, Jason they didn’t mean anything by it, Jason, you’re going to jump off a balcony just because of a child’s observation Jason?
13K notes
·
View notes
[[Ooc: hey guys I know this blog had been inactive but that doesn't mean it was gone for good. I actually got an ask about sword lore so be prepared for a little bit of a lore dump. Also it's been years and I've done quite a hit of rewriting, including Grudge Knight lore. Grudge Knight will no longer be associated with Eldritch Cookie, as it is now a demonic being.]]
1 note
·
View note
aaand user valytina is back! (please cheer)
0 notes