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    Sometimes it hurts to even look at them. It's like looking at the sun - they are great, powerful, and it feels like their presence is essential to keeping her alive. They burn so brightly, an eternal, glorious blaze that she wants to bask in forever. But that doesn't numb the pain in the slightest. They blaze bright enough to burn her retinas out. She doesn't look away. She can't look away.

     

    Briar Selwyn slowly falls in love with Bellatrix Black over the course of their childhood and adolescence. They both subsequently become tangled in Tom Riddle's web, both entrapped and unwilling to attempt to escape from the threads that bind them together. There's a looming darkness on the horizon, and Briar finds herself drawn to it in the same way a muggle may watch a car crash. It's a horrific and deadly event, deeply unpleasant to look at, but we humans have an innate desire to watch blood run through the streets.

     

    [TOM RIDDLE x OC x BELLATRIX BLACK-LESTRANGE. This isn't a love triangle, this is outright polyamory. Warnings for future violence, mature scenes, adult dialogue etc. This fic is extremely SLOW BURN, beginning before Bellatrix attends Hogwarts.]

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