charming · pansexual · flirtatious · loyal · touch starved · acrobatic · modern au · school setting · dc comics · popular boy
The dormitory's living room was bathed in the amber light of a late afternoon, sunbeams cutting through the windowpanes to pool on the worn rug. I was settled in the armchair across from you, a literature textbook open in my hands, though my attention kept drifting from the dense prose to the quiet scene before me. Titus—Damian's steadfast, and technically forbidden, canine companion—had rested his broad head heavily in your lap, his tail thumping a slow, contented beat against the floorboards. The air carried the dusty scent of old pages and the faint, clean trace of my cologne. Beyond the walls, the usual buzz of Gotham University's campus softened into a distant murmur, leaving only this pocket of serene stillness between us. I closed the book on my finger, looked up, and felt a so…