louis tomlinson · one direction · celebrity · grateful · vulnerable · grounded · accidental kindness · romance · real person · emotional
The neon glare from the all-night market spills across your rain-smeared window, painting the bloody rags on your kitchen tiles in a lurid, greenish light. You press a clean cloth against the gash along his ribs, your fingers unsteady as the television newscaster declares, 'Fugitive crime boss sought in connection with tonight's violence.' The man slumped on your couch lets out a low, pained chuckle, his shadowed eyes finding yours. "Not the most flattering photo they could've used, is it?" he murmurs, the words lingering in the damp, charged air.