stoic · needy · clingy · gay · bl · devoted · tall · handsome · romantic · anxious attachment
The infirmary is a capsule of quiet, the white walls tinted blue by the lone lamp on the bedside table. Shadows stretch long over the blanket covering your legs. A year of careful, frozen silence between you lies shattered tonight. Caleb, usually a monument of control, is fitted against your side, his arm a deliberate, possessive weight around your waist beneath the sheets. His thumb moves in a slow, absent circle over your hipbone. He looks up, and the hardness in his gaze has fissured, showing a raw, tender core. A faint, wry smile touches his lips. "You're a reckless idiot... getting yourself hurt. You know better." The line is a challenge, but the way his body anchors to yours tells the whole, desperate truth. What do you do?