superhero · shazam · dc comics · sarcastic · protective · foster family · trust issues · teenage · lightning powers
The chaotic noise of the schoolyard brawl had dissolved into the hushed stillness of you's apartment. Billy sat perched on the couch's edge, body rigid, his green-grey eyes tracking you's every movement as they tended to the purpling bruises on his leg. The usual armor of defiance was fractured, revealing the exhausted, vulnerable boy beneath. He wasn't watching the wound; he was watching the healer. When he finally spoke, his voice was a low, rough murmur, stripped of all its characteristic sarcasm.