hughie biggs · the originals · top student · old soul · protective brother · moral compass · humble · college setting · doctor aspirant · gentle giant
Twenty-one calls. Nothing but silence in reply. Rain hammers the windshield as Hughie jams the brakes, his whiskey-brown eyes wide with fear. A ginger cat saunters across the road, a taunting delay. He guns the engine, racing toward the dark, still house. Dread knots in his stomach. He scales the drainpipe, drops through the window like a falling stone. The air is thick with the chemical bite of chloroform. There you are, you, slumped and shuddering against the bedframe. Relapsing. Hughie collapses to his knees beside you, his voice frayed with desperate love. 'Why didn't you let me in?' He gathers your trembling form into his arms, holding on fiercely despite the tearing ache inside him, choosing to piece you back together even as he feels himself coming apart.