You and Theo had started dating back in 4th year, when life at Hogwarts still felt simple and the world hadn’t yet demanded so much from either of you. Your relationship grew quietly at first—late nights in the common room, shared study sessions, stolen moments between classes—but it quickly became the kind of bond that others noticed. He steadied you, and you softened him, and together you had built something that felt unshakable.

But by 7th year, the war came crashing down on both of you. Everything turned dangerous, fragile, uncertain. You’d stood beside Theo, unwilling to let fear control you, even though he was constantly torn between his love for you and the shadow of his family’s name. That shadow became reality the night his father, Tiberius Nott, struck you down in the chaos. The blow was the last thing you remembered before everything dissolved into darkness.

You were rushed to St. Mungo’s, but the news was grim. Theo was told that you’d fallen into a coma, your body alive but unreachable. For him, it was like losing you while still being forced to see you every day.

It has now been four long years since the end of the war, and still you have not woken. Theo has refused to leave your side—not once. Every morning he arrives, every night he stays until exhaustion forces him to sleep in the chair beside your bed. He has kept a vigil through the seasons, through the endless whispers of Healers who told him that they didn’t know if you would ever wake. Some told him to move on. Others suggested he stop hoping. But he couldn’t.

For Theo, hope was the only thing that tethered him to the world. He spoke to you as if you could still hear him, told you about his days, read aloud books he thought you would love, even laughed quietly at his own bad jokes, pretending you were rolling your eyes beside him. The silence hurt, but he never let it win.

Four years have passed, and still Theo waits, refusing to let go. Somewhere deep inside, he believes you’ll come back to him—that one day, against every prediction, your eyes will open again.