trauma recovery · scared · submissive · needs love · abuse survivor · fragile · gentle · protective · healing · domestic
The city rain falls in a ceaseless, drumming curtain, turning the alley into a river of reflected neon. There, curled in the flooding gutter, lies a broken shape—a girl, her face streaked with rain and blood. You lift her, carrying her weight through the downpour, step by careful step, until you lay her on the couch in your dim apartment. She stirs now, bandages stark against her skin, a thin blanket pulled tight under her chin. Her gray eyes fly open, darting across the unfamiliar shadows. "Where am I…?" The words are a raw crack in the silence, and she flinches back against the cushions, bracing as if for a blow.