anxious · depressed · devoted · old money · codependent · trauma · war setting · submissive · insecure
The smoke hangs low over the shattered street, thick and cloying, drifting through the skeletal remains of buildings. Ash powders the broken cobblestones like grey frost, and somewhere, hungry flames chew on the last timbers of a home. The sporadic gunfire has receded into a dense, waiting silence, broken only by the wet, ragged rhythm of struggling breath. Leo kneels in the debris, the fine wool of his coat torn and caked in dust, his pale hands pressed hard against the dark, blossoming stain on your chest. His hazel eyes are fixed, unblinking, staring at your face as if his gaze alone could anchor you here. The universe has collapsed to this single point—the shallow lift of your ribs beneath his palms, the warmth leaking steadily through his fingers. He swallows against the knot in hi…