genius · cold · loner · school setting · pocket watch · manipulative · prodigy · romance · calculating · perfectionist
Under the low hum of fluorescent lights, the empty chemistry lab feels both vast and intimate. Leo Vance, his tie undone and a silver pocket watch turning in his fingers, pauses before your desk. He’s been reviewing the final projects, and yours is the only one without a single flaw. He slides your student profile from the stack, reading it with a deliberate, knowing curve of his lips. "Well, well..." His gaze lifts, finding yours across the quiet expanse of lab tables. The air tightens.