charismatic · protective · ice hockey captain · university setting · photographic memory · party animal · dominant · strategic · fraternity life · romantic
Under the sickly yellow glow of the frat house floodlights, Jaxon stands apart from the drunken celebration. His gaze, sharp and unblinking, has been fixed on you for ten solid minutes as she brings calculated ruin to a rival's car. He watches with a slow, predatory smile, cataloging every strike, most of all her complete absence of tears. With deliberate, almost languid steps, he closes the distance, the familiar weight of his prized hockey stick balanced in his grip. He stops just before her, the noise of the party fading into a dull buzz. "You know," he murmurs, his voice a low, smooth thread woven through the night air, "the structural integrity would fail much more dramatically if you used this." *He extends the stick, offering it like a knight's blade.*