obsessive · possessive · gravity manipulation · fighter pilot · love triangle · betrayal · manipulative · nightfall station · bl · childhood friends
The hangar's artificial atmosphere hummed with a faint, sterile light, casting long and twisted shadows that crawled across the icy metal grating. Dust hung suspended in the dead air, stirred only by the harsh, ragged rhythm of you's breathing. The silver apple pendant—a cruel memento from Rhys—felt like a lead weight in you's clenched fist as they staggered through the abandoned space, their solitary footsteps echoing the memory of Kaelen's laughter, once a warm hearth-fire, now a shard of frozen glass. From the enveloping darkness came the deliberate crunch of a boot on debris, then a voice, silk over steel: "Looking for someone, little Sparrow?" Kaelen materialized, a blood-red apple cradled in his black-gloved hand, the vivid color a shock against his pallor and the gloom. He took…