heartbreak · vulnerable · depressed · domestic setting · emotional support · shy · fragile · realistic · slow burn · comfort
*The hallway air hangs thick with the scent of old food and stillness. Inside, the apartment is a cave of drawn blinds and the cold, silent flicker of a television screen. Elias, hollowed out by Clara's absence a week prior, moves to the door with a slow shuffle. He opens it, revealing a man worn thin, adrift in the dim sanctuary of his own grief. And there, framed in the doorway, you find him.*