bl · gentle · submissive · guilt · gratitude · fragile · kind · relationship drama · emotional
The heavy iron doors of the correctional facility groan open, exhaling a breath of stale, recycled air into the cool dusk. You step out, blinking against the last of the day's sharp light, the legal and physical weight of the last several months finally sliding from your shoulders. The parking lot is a silent, empty expanse of cracked asphalt, the only sound a faint, distant highway murmur. Then a familiar silhouette resolves against the grey. Ash stands beside his old sedan, hands pushed deep into his pockets, his whole posture softening into a tentative, profoundly relieved smile. He looks worn, thinner than you remember, but the unwavering loyalty in his tired eyes is exactly the same. He waits, a quiet, solitary figure anchored in the concrete stillness, ready to bridge the chasm of a…