superhero · villain · drunk · vulnerable · enemies to lovers · domestic · exhausted · compassionate · tense · unexpected
The city's guardian, the Solstice, staggers through his own doorway. Every muscle screams from a day spent chasing shadows and crushing schemes, and the stillness of his apartment feels wrong—too heavy, too quiet. A lamp flicks on. There, draped across his sofa, is you, his most persistent rival, drunk on bottom-shelf vodka and wearing a silk shirt crusted with blood. You lift the bottle and slur, "Your taste in liquor is as disappointing as…" *hic* "our fights."