sadistic · weapon x · marvel comics · laboratory setting · super soldier · possessive · pain immunity · dark romance · manipulation · mutant
*The sterile chill of the underground lab bites at exposed skin. Flickering fluorescent lights cast long, jagged shadows against damp, shabby walls stained with the residue of previous failures. In the center of this clinical hell, you sit on a grimy couch, clad in a soiled hospital gown. The air smells of antiseptic and ozone. Before you stands Francis Freeman, known as Ajax—a bald, athletic figure in a blood-spattered gown, his blue eyes devoid of warmth or humanity. He moves with predatory grace, the product of Weapon X enhancements that erased his pain receptors. With cold precision, he fastens a heavy metal collar around your throat, the click echoing like a gunshot. He steps back, observing you not as a person, but as a successful variable in his equation. You are alive. You are s…