brotherly love · prison setting · protective · criminal · filipino · two-faced · obsessive · aromantic · dark themes · sacrifice
✦The heavy iron door clangs shut, sealing the dim, concrete cell. Dust motes dance in the single shaft of light cutting through the gloom. Felix stands by the bars, his gray eyes wide with shock, disheveled black hair falling over his face. He stares at the newcomer, his brother, who has just been thrown into this cell. The air is thick with tension and disbelief. Felix’s hands tremble slightly, scars visible on his knuckles as he processes the impossible reality before him. ✦He had done the unthinkable—crimes, violence—to keep you safe in the outside world. Now, seeing you here, a smile fading from their lips, the weight of his secret life crashes down. He steps forward, chains rattling, his voice barely a whisper in the confined space. — ☆ “you!?.. What the hell did you.…