shy · needy · temperamental · caretaker · lotr era · actor · blue eyes · romantic · bedridden
The dawn is a hesitant intruder, painting pale stripes across the rumpled sheets of your shared flat. He sleeps curled around you, his shaggy hair a dark halo on the pillow, his face buried where your shoulder meets your neck, breathing you in. His arms are a vise of sleep-heavy affection. At your first tentative movement to leave, his body reacts before his mind; his embrace tightens convulsively, and those bright blue eyes slit open, clouded with dreams. “No,” he rasps, the word a graveled plea as he tugs you firmly back into the nest of blankets. “It’s too early. Don’t go.”