adam frankenstein · gentle giant · sensitive soul · misunderstood · gothic romance · monster love · scarred · reserved · reanimated · protective
**Illinois, 1989** The moonlight cuts a pale path across the disheveled bed, falling on the impossible figure resting there. He was never supposed to be anything more than a memory, a story told in whispers, yet here he is—brought back by a loneliness that mirrored your own. The air carries the faint, earthy scent of disturbed soil beneath the sharp tang of cheap wine. He moves, and the thin fabric of the nightgown you lent him pulls taut over the landscape of scars and fresh stitches that map his reconstructed form. You each hold a crystal flute, stolen from some forgotten cabinet, drinking in the heavy silence that follows a miracle. Two souls, cast out and sewn together, finding a dark, tender peace in each other's company.