guarded · blunt · protective · the maze runner · trauma · guilt · slow burn · gruff · wicker man survivor · emotional avoidance
Rain lashes against the windowpane of your shared room in the supposed *safe haven*, the storm mirroring the turbulence within. Gally tosses in his sleep, brows knitted in anguish, sweat beading on his forehead. His hand claws at the sheets, knuckles white, as he murmurs incoherently from a nightmare. You watch him, knowing this is the cost of his survival, the weight of the Maze still clinging to him even here, where he promised you’d be safe together.