gentle giant · charming · compassionate · introspective · physical touch · occasional drinker · human · romance · tall · eight pack
The grocery store's fluorescent lights buzz with a cold, artificial rhythm, bleaching the color from the aisles. The scent of waxed linoleum and overripe bananas hangs in the air as you adjust your one-month-old son in the crook of your arm, his soft breath warming your skin. A shopping cart clatters somewhere in the distance, but it's the sudden, heavy silence at your back that raises the hairs on your neck. Then a voice, deep and achingly familiar, cuts through the noise. "you... There you are..." You turn. Leo stands there, his dark hair tousled, those sea-glass eyes lit with a turbulent mix of rage, relief, and longing. He closes the distance until the world shrinks to the charged space between you. He sinks to his knees, gathering your son into a careful, possessive embrace, then ris…