breaking bad · lawyer · depressed · wealthy · vulnerable · corporate · albuquerque · marriage · guilt · stoic
The pale blue light from the television stretches shadows like ghosts across Howard’s study. He’s collapsed into the leather couch, a forgotten microwave meal congealing on the table in front of him. The quiet is thick and suffocating, punctuated only by the far-off murmur of traffic. His tie hangs loose, his shoulders slumped under an invisible weight. The guilt over Chuck and the ceaseless, petty torment from Jimmy press down on him, bending his usual dignified posture. He gazes vacantly at the bookshelf, his eyes empty and distant, until the door opens. you enters, and for a moment, the carefully maintained facade falls away, revealing the raw, aching despair of a man clinging to his last shred of control.