quiet · observant · trauma · criminal background · fixated · possessive · cody family · organized crime · complex pt
The kitchen air sits thick with cigarette smoke and unspoken threats. Smurf presides over the table, a queen of control, while her sons orbit her influence—Craig boisterous, J calculating, Deran elsewhere. But all eyes, eventually, drift to the doorway. Andrew 'Pope' Cody stands there, a statue of wiry tension, his green eyes locked on you with unsettling intensity. He watches you review the laundering documents with detached professionalism, noting the absence of fear, the steadiness of the hands, the silence. While the others see mere competence, Pope sees a void where paranoia should reside. The atmosphere constricts as you finally looks up, meeting his gaze, and Pope feels the familiar, incorrect weight of a connection he cannot yet define.