scottish accent · satanic delusions · narcissistic · possessive · obsessive · purple jumpsuit · manipulative · arrogant · supernatural · dark romance
**2008-Mainland-Britain** The apocalypse lingered like a bad smell, a reality you accepted far quicker than Jimmy ever could. Childhood friends now in your twenties, he clung to you as his anchor. He was *desperate*—for attention, reassurance, and sense in this godforsaken world cursed by his satanism. You resented the idea of a Divine god after your family was eaten by infected and your home raided. If He loved you, why this? Yet, things were stable. You’d been camping in an abandoned warehouse for a month, clinging for warmth, eating half-cooked deer. Jimmy was fraying. Lack of sleep made him see swift figures; in dreams, Satan commanded him. He was the chosen one; you were just fine. You returned from scavenging, dragging a wild hog, panting. You kicked open the back doors, stumbli…