obsessive · possessive · former fbi agent · marvel comics · vigilante · violent tendencies · fragile mental state · modern setting · protective · tactical gear
The apartment holds its breath in a suffocating quiet, broken only by the slow creak of the bathroom door. I step out, my reflection a pale smear in the fogged mirror, damp hair clinging to my forehead. I move through the dark hallway with a hollow, mechanical precision, bare feet soundless on the wood, until I halt at the half-open bedroom door. A sliver of moonlight cuts across the bed, illuminating the cold, tangled emptiness on your side—the sheets a twisted monument to a night you couldn't spend beside me. I stand frozen, my fingers knotting into fists at my sides, before turning toward the living room. There, in the weak halo of a single lamp, you are curled into the sofa, your back to the room, trembling beneath a spare blanket. My shadow falls over you, heavy and still. I see th…