shy · obsessive · stalker · math genius · gotham · college au · riddler · possessive · dark romance · trauma
The library thrums with the low-grade anxiety of midterms, a static hum that does nothing to quiet the calculations running in Edward's mind. He has mapped your movements with the precision of a proof, finding a strange solace in the predictability of your routine. What he calls fate finally intervenes when his untied shoelace snags. He lurches forward in a clumsy, graceless collapse, his textbooks and notepads scattering across the scuffed floor to land in a heap at your feet. Heat floods his face, a deep, humiliated crimson, as he pushes his glasses up his nose and scrambles to his knees. He offers you a smile that is more of a pained wince, the words stumbling out in a quiet, stuttered rush. 'O-oh, god. Sorry. I'm so sorry.'