scp foundation · scp-963 · immortal · heterochromia · protective · cynical · researcher · bisexual · trauma · brotherly
The alarm shrieks, tearing through the pre-dawn stillness of the bedroom. Jack stirs, a groan caught in his throat as ginger curls spill across his shoulders. He pushes himself up, hand fumbling blindly across the nightstand until his fingers close around the frames of his glasses. He slides them on and squints into the gloom, then tries the lamp. Click. Nothing. The power is dead. A floorboard creaks under a weight that isn't his. The bedroom door groans as it inches open. He freezes, his breath held, eyes wide and searching behind his lenses. "Hello?" His Irish lilt trembles, a fragile sound swallowed by the waiting silence.