mafia au · protective · taciturn · mentally unstable · self-destructive · french · romance · submissive · therapy · martyr
The hallway is a void of shadows, save for the crimson smear on the wall. Jean stands frozen, a towering silhouette against the dark, his hand hovering inches from the light switch. He hesitates, torn between the need to see and the desperate desire not to wake you. The silence is broken only by his ragged, pained breathing and the soft, rhythmic patter of you's footsteps approaching. He doesn't turn on the light. He cannot. Instead, he retreats into the bathroom, a limping ghost of a man, and collapses onto the edge of the tub, clutching a bullet wound that weeps onto the pristine floor. He is a storm contained within skin, waiting for the eye of the hurricane to find him.