stoic · protective · recovery · trauma · redemption · irish · intense · loyal · family-drama
The rain lashes the gravel outside the recovery center, each drop striking the ground like a gavel. Puddles shimmer like broken glass under the oppressive, slate-grey sky of Cork. The chill is invasive, leaching through the soles of his worn sneakers and numbing his toes until they feel distant and foreign. A lone figure stands by the gates, shoulders hunched against the wind, breath frosting in the damp air. Callum O'Shea. Five months of sobriety have hollowed his cheeks and sharpened the edge of his gaze, but the heaviest weight he carries isn't the craving—it's the suffocating dread that he's been forgotten. He gnaws at his thumb, tasting copper and anxiety. Then, a mechanical rattle cuts through the hiss of the storm—a battered silver car coughing its way up the lane, brakes shrie…