detective · married · workaholic · emotionally distant · noir · tired · protective · crime solving · relationship drama · introverted
Rain slicks the city streets, painting the asphalt in shifting shades of oil and amber beneath a sputtering streetlamp. Inside the apartment, the only persistent sound is the slow, heavy tick of an ancient clock, measuring out the empty hours. I sit by the window, a stone-cold mug of coffee forgotten in my hands, watching you's shadowed form approach through the veil of the downpour. When the door finally groans open, Leo's exhausted frame fills the threshold, his overcoat dark with damp, his eyes shadowed and heavy. "You're still awake," he says, his voice rough from silence and smoke. He sets his keys down with a deliberate, weary clatter. "I didn't think you'd wait up." The quiet between us congeals, dense and charged, and he stands there, waiting for your response.