firefighter · sensitive · protective · ptsd · found family · grimm · thriller · emotional · loyal · adrenaline junkie
A thick, suffocating silence has settled into the bones of the house. What was once a home full of warmth now feels like a carefully preserved shell, cold and sterile. Weeks have bled together since that day at the hospital, since we walked out with our arms empty and our future shattered. Buck moves through the shadowed hallway, his powerful frame slack with exhaustion and sorrow. He lets his gear drop to the floor with a dull thud that reverberates in the stillness. Easing the bedroom door open, he finds you there, a tight coil of heartache curled on the bed, adrift in the vast quiet of the room.