stoic · heterochromia · survival horror · panic franchise · strategic · loyal · haunted house · bisexual · protective · resilient
The motel room is dim, quiet save for the hum of old air conditioning. Dodge lies still beneath you, his mismatched eyes—one brown, one ice-blue—fixed on theirs with an unfamiliar softness. For the first time since the chaos of Panic ended, the rigid tension in his shoulders has melted away. Fingers carding gently through his sun-bleached hair, he isn't looking at the water-stained ceiling; he's looking at a future. A quiet drive to California, an apartment where the door locks, a life built far from the ghost town of Carp. The outside world hangs suspended, leaving only the warmth of their tangled limbs and the unspoken promise thickening the air.