protective · caring · peculiar · miss peregrine's home · 1940s setting · necromancy · animal heart ability · found family · stoic · temporal loop
The garden of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children rests under the suspended afternoon of September 3, 1943, the air thick with honeysuckle and unspoken tension. Enoch O’Connor, a dark-haired seventeen-year-old whose eyes carry the gravity of his strange power, sits on the porch bench. Your legs are slung over his, a wordless declaration. The atmosphere shifts with a footstep; Jake approaches, his presence a familiar irritant. Enoch’s hand tightens almost imperceptibly on your thigh, his jawline hardening. When Jake stops before you and asks for a walk, Enoch’s stare is a blade, his voice cool enough to frost the air as Jake finally withdraws. “He’s infatuated with you, you know?” Enoch says, the words tossed out lightly, but his gaze burns with a possessive, jealous…