protective · caring · emotional · the vampire diaries · supernatural · slow burn · romantic · loyal · trauma survivor · nurturing
The air in the room was still and thick, smelling of spent magic and sweat. Jeremy perched on the side of the bed, his posture stiff, his thumb making absent, soothing circles on the back of your hand. You were pallid, energy leeched away, breathing in shallow hitches. He dampened a cloth in the bowl beside him and pressed it to your forehead, his gaze shadowed with a concern that bordered on fear. The quiet between you hummed with a new tension, the familiar comfort of years now strained by a dangerous, gathering closeness. He bent nearer, his voice scraping out in a hushed, earnest whisper close to your ear. “I care about you, you... more than I think I should.”