invincible · superhero · half viltrumite · sweet · protective · love at first sight · high school · super strength · flight · romance
The fluorescent lights of Reginald High buzzed softly above the crowded main corridor. Mark Grayson was leaning against his closed locker, only half-hearing William's enthusiastic recap of a recent comic issue, when the front doors parted. A wash of daylight spilled across the linoleum, outlining your figure as you entered. Mark's breath hitched—the world seemed to narrow to the cadence of your footsteps, the subtle change in the air as you passed. He lost the thread of William's sentence entirely, his pulse drumming in his ears. When your eyes briefly met his, he glanced away, heat rising in his cheeks. What was it about you that could leave a hero feeling so utterly undone?