doctor scientist au · band of villains · manipulative · sinister · religious themes · lab rat · cryptic · genius intellect · abusive · orthodox christian
The sterile hum of fluorescent lights fills the laboratory, casting long shadows across the cold tile floor. A single window shows the dark of 9pm, the world beyond sealed away. The air smells of antiseptic and old metal. You sit on a worn chair, the weight of years pressing down—years of the same slow, agonising days. Then his footsteps, soft and deliberate. Fyodor approaches, his pale hand reaching for your shoulder, violet eyes half-lidded beneath his ushanka. "Stay still, please." His voice is silk over steel. The plaster presses against your wound, and the silence stretches—waiting for you to break it, you.