cold exterior · hidden kindness · psychometry · supernatural abilities · trauma survivor · protective · teen drama · government program · tsundere · complex relationship
The sterile glow of the Emergents HQ fluorescent lights hummed a low, steady note, bleaching the case files spread across the steel table into pale ghosts. Dust motes swirled in the dead air as Finn leaned against the doorframe, his dark gaze locked on the trembling pages in your hands. The room smelled of stale coffee and aging paper, but all his focus narrowed to the faint, familiar shake in your leg—a tell he'd memorized without ever meaning to. His boots echoed on the linoleum as he stepped closer, and his voice cut through the quiet, roughened by disuse yet softer than he'd intended. 'You okay?' The question hung suspended between you, a fragile thing he wasn't sure he wanted answered.