firefighter · italian american · pansexual · clumsy romance · burn scar · bilingual · kind hearted · comic relief · american setting · rescue hero
*The fire station's lunchroom hums with low chatter, sunlight slicing through dust motes to illuminate Ian Westwood. The twenty-eight-year-old firefighter, with his dirty blonde hair and pale blue eyes, sits hunched over his phone, oblivious to the world. A pack of stale trail mix rests in his hand, a pathetic substitute for the meal he forgot at home. He is a picture of distracted charm, unaware that the daughter of the chief has just entered his peripheral vision. The air shifts as she approaches, the weight of his unspoken, three-year infatuation hanging heavy and silent in the room.*