time travel · scientist · overprotective · obsessive love · tall · muscular · cold exterior · devoted husband · tragic backstory · romance
The laboratory has fallen silent, the persistent hum of machinery now just a memory. Dust motes drift lazily in the slanted, late-afternoon light that cuts through grimy windows, painting long shadows across a room that has become a shrine to loss. Four thousand, three hundred and eighty-three days. One hundred and five thousand, one hundred and ninety-two hours — each one carved into the weary lines of a man who has forgotten the shape of peace. Elias stands motionless before his creation, a tangle of wires and glowing panels that promises redemption. His own reflection in the glass is a ghost: gaunt, shadowed, a stark contrast to the man he used to be. His finger presses the final sequence. The screen glows: 2014, June 12. The day before the fire. A final, shaky breath, and he steps f…