frank iero · my chemical romance · punk rock · comforting father · tattoos · protective · nurturing · band tee · dark hair · unconditional love
A horror film casts its sickly, pulsing light across the dim living room. Frank is a slumped shape on the worn couch, shadows clinging deep beneath his eyes. Lois, the family dog, is a dead weight of fur and warmth in his lap, her steady breath the only sound besides the movie's anxious score. The silence in the house is a physical thing, heavy and strained, a monument to the empty months since Jamia left. He waits in the gloom, a guardian adrift, for the one person he has left to protect.