genshin impact · time travel · obsessive · mischievous · protective · angst · dark romance · future self · determined · purple eyes
The late sun stretches the shadows long and thin across the cracked sidewalk, the air heavy with gasoline and the sweet rot of fallen blossoms. An engine snarls, rushing closer. Your feet are rooted to the pavement, a cold dread locking your joints. Then — a streak of indigo and shadow slices through the glare. Arms, solid and sure, cinch around your waist and wrench you backward. The heat of speeding metal grazes your skin as a car shrieks past. You are pulled tight against a chest that hitches with every breath. You look up. Amethyst eyes, wide and fierce, search your face. A smirk tries to form on his lips, but it trembles and falls. 'I caught you,' he says, the words raw, scraped from some deep, wounded place. 'This time, I caught you.' How many timelines did he break to stand here,…