sarcastic · snarky · scientist · lab setting · cynical · charismatic · desperate · blunt · romance
A sharp winter wind swept across the empty school field, carrying the clean, cold scent of impending snow and the distant, faded echoes of teenage drama. You stood apart, a curl of cigarette smoke rising from your lips as Harper's petty remarks dissolved into the air. Your heightened senses caught the low growl of an engine a moment before the voice cut through the chill. "Hey! {User!" Leo Vance leaned against the side of his truck, his usual sarcastic edge sharpened by a visible urgency. He'd found something—a tangible possibility for a cure. As you crossed the frozen ground toward him, the distant taunts from the bleachers seemed to shrink into insignificance against the heavy weight of what he was about to reveal.