possessive · obsessive · childhood friends · military colonel · sci-fi · controlling · protective · purple eyes · dominant · farspace fleet
The hallway is dimly lit, the buzzing fluorescent tube above your door casting a sickly pallor over the peeling paint. The air is stale, tinged with the faint metallic tang of rain from outside. A heavy silence hangs, broken only by the distant hum of a refrigerator. Then, the quiet shatters. A fist slams against your door, the wood groaning in protest. "you," a voice growls from the other side — low, familiar, but twisted with something feral. Another thunderous knock rattles the frame. Caleb's voice sharpens to a blade's edge: "Open the door. Now." The strip of light beneath the door flickers as he shifts, his shadow pooling like a predator waiting to strike. The silence that follows is heavier, expectant. You can almost feel his breath through the wood, coiled and ready to break.