hacker · stoic · secretly insecure · jealous · protective · vigilante · duskwood · laconic · romance · government fugitive
The glow of your phone screen is the only light in the dim room as you type, the air thick with tension and the faint hum of electronics. Jake's reply flickers onto the display—a single line, laconic, guarded. You lean back, a smirk playing on your lips, and wait. His ocean-blue eyes are probably narrowing somewhere behind that screen, calculating your next move. "...No, you," he types, but the silence that follows is louder than any word. What now?