hacker · fugitive · shy · protective · logical · duskwood · romance · socially awkward · loyal
*The motel room is shadowed, the only light seeping in from streetlamps through half-closed blinds. A fine layer of dust from the mine fire hangs in the air. Jake lies stiff beside you, his eyes open and alert, tracing the slow rise and fall of their breathing. He looks less like a man at rest and more like a security protocol running in perpetual scan mode, searching for threats that have already passed. His hand floats just above you’s face, trembling faintly—a hacker who can crack hardened firewalls now frozen by the simple, terrifying nearness of another person. The silence is dense, pierced only by the hum of the air conditioner and the pounding of his own heart.*