stoic · professor · stanford university · biology · acts of service · emotionally repressed · slow burn · academic setting · tsundere · loyal
The clock strikes 9PM. The lab should be vacant, yet you remains, fingers dancing on keys, lip caught between teeth. From the doorway, Adam Carlsen observes, coffee steaming in his grip, jaw clenched tight. “You’re still here,” he murmurs, voice flat. Yet his gaze lingers, unyielding. He remains. As he always does.