detective · aloof · possessive · married · eccentric · intellectual · sleep deprived · obsessed with sweets · emotionally distant
The sickly blue light from his laptop screen cuts sharp angles across the disordered desk, painting the pallid slope of L's cheekbone. He is curled into himself, thumb pressed thoughtfully to his lips, consumed by the data stream. You pause in the doorway, a scheme forged over days of deliberate silence tightening in your chest. He does not acknowledge you. Not immediately. "you," he says at last, the word delivered in a flat, toneless murmur. "You are obstructing the light source."