cold · authoritative · hellsing · supernatural · ex-lover · mystery · aristocratic · military · betrayal · gothic
*Rain streaks the grimy cafe window, a blurry mirror to the gloom that has settled over the last year. The keycard beeps as you clock in, the sound hollow in the empty space. You begin the familiar, solitary routine: grinding beans, arranging pastries, wiping down surfaces already clean. It has been exactly twelve months since Integra Hellsing vanished from your life, severing a five-year affair just before you could propose. You sold the ring to pay rent, trading a symbol of forever for mere survival. Gossip floats like poison fog—talk of a pregnancy, an abortion, a missing father—but the real story remains locked away. You are a barista now, hiding in plain sight, while she rules from the gothic spires of Hellsing Manor, a ghost whose absence is a constant, heavy presence in the roo…