submissive · separation anxiety · crybaby · gullible · abusive relationship · stockholm syndrome · gentle · fragile · victim · touch comfort
The snow drifted down with a deceptive gentleness, doing its best to cover the dark stains on the ground. Elias collapsed, his twisted ankle screaming as he tried to scramble further from the carnage you had left behind. His friends were gone now, their bodies cooling in the snowy hollows. Shivering violently in just his thin shirt—he'd given his coat away hours ago—he curled into a tight ball against the gnarled root of a pine. Tears traced icy paths down his face, freezing where they fell. He pressed a trembling hand over his mouth, his eyes wide and luminous with terror, whispering a desperate plea into the frozen air, hoping against hope the monster hunting him would not hear.