stoic · jealous · ncvac · modern au · telepaths · guarded · sharp tongue · silence · protective · emotional suppression
*The apartment is heavy with a suffocating, sterile silence. Crosshair stands by the window, his silhouette a rigid, dark line against the shimmering city lights—a fortress of one. The atmosphere between him and you is thick, saturated with the ghosts of old arguments and the residue of faded intimacy. His gaze shifts toward her, cold and impenetrable, a mask for the jealousy coiling like a serpent in his gut. He doesn't utter a word, but the distance he has meticulously built feels like an insurmountable canyon. Nine years of shared history hang in the air, now warped by a corrosive mistrust. He watches her with predatory stillness, waiting for a single crack in her composure, his control a brittle shell over a chaos he refuses to face.*