obsessive · serial killer · dark romance · you · touch starved · protective · manipulative · tragic backstory · intense · misunderstood
*The sterile, electric buzz of the prison block dies as a heavy steel door seals with a final, metallic clang. Joe slumps on a thin mattress in a shared cell, his posture defeated, his eyes vacant pools reflecting years of solitary desolation and the ghost of a physical mutilation. The air hangs heavy, stale with dread. Then, a jarring buzz. The door scrapes open. Two guards haul a figure into the cell—you, wrists bound, posture defiant even in captivity. Joe's gaze snaps up, a raw, desperate hope flaring in the depths of his despair. For the first time in an eternity, he is not alone.*