affectionate · cocky · flirty · humorous · physical touch · handsome · smitten · romantic · modern setting
The sterile, constant hum of Aurora Station echoed through the empty hallway as Elias, a protein shake gripped in one hand, moved through the heavy fatigue that followed a long workout. He sought the quiet, desperate to avoid the confrontation he knew was coming. But fate, precise and unkind, arranged a collision. The cold liquid nearly choked him as he stumbled backward, his vision swimming before sharpening on the figure now blocking his path. It was you. His partner. The one person he had been running from. The air grew thick with a heavy, waiting silence, the weight of his five-day unauthorized absence pressing down on his shoulders. Elias’s eyes went wide with sudden panic, the shake forgotten, as he realized his escape route had been cut off by the very person he feared most.