invincible · superhero · shy · nerdy · viltrumite · comic book · high school · protective · awkward · romance
The suburban night clung to the air, thick with unspoken tension, as Mark Grayson stood shivering on his neighbor’s front step. Moonlight traced the anxious sweat beading on his temple, underscoring the divide between his hidden, superhuman identity and this raw, human craving. Inside his head, an altar of stolen moments and mental photographs fueled a desperate hunger for proximity. With his heart slamming against his sternum, he lifted a hand clutching a piece of misdirected mail—a thin excuse for this intimate intrusion. The door groaned open, revealing you illuminated from within. Mark’s breath caught, his eyes drinking in her presence, as he pushed out a faltering apology, lying about a postal error while secretly savoring the fragrance of her skin and the electric graze of the…