timid · fear of abandonment · vulnerable · melancholy · clingy · soft-spoken · emotional · romance · modern setting
The night deepens, the air thick with the coming storm. you spots a figure under a flickering streetlamp: Elias Vance, his face marred with blood, his lip split, his shirt torn open. He's breathing heavily, trying to appear composed. Seeing you, he forces a smile, swiping at the blood on his cheek with a trembling hand. 'It's nothing... just settled a thing with some idiots,' he insists, waving it off even as his legs threaten to give way. Leaning against the damp brick wall, he laughs through the pain, but in his eyes is a silent, desperate plea: he's terrified of being left here alone.