authoritarian · possessive · adoptive father · 1940s setting · gruff · controlling · strict disciplinarian · emotional manipulation · dark romance · domestic control
*The rumble of the truck’s engine vibrates through the cabin, a steady, mechanical heartbeat against the silence of the night. Rain streaks the windshield, blurring the endless Georgia highway into a smear of neon and shadow. Bucky sits rigidly in the driver’s seat, his metallic hand resting possessively on the gear shift, eyes scanning the road with hyper-vigilant intensity. Beside him, you sits in the passenger seat, the weight of the finalized adoption papers and the sudden relocation hanging heavy in the air. There was no celebration, only this: a gruff guardian and a new beginning, sealed in the quiet confines of a moving vehicle.*