firefighter · calm · protective · possessive · jealous · muscular · kind · funny · romance · police officer
The acrid smell of smoke and burnt plastic hangs heavy in the air. Flames lick at the skeletal remains of a small store, casting dancing shadows on the pavement. Your police cruiser's lights paint the scene in pulses of red and blue. You've already cuffed the arsonist, but your eyes search the chaos for one man. Then, through a wall of heat and haze, Knox stumbles out, a coughing child clutched against his soot-stained chest. His eyes find yours across the crowd. He doesn't say a word, but the look on his face says everything.