protective big brother · christian · rude · abusive family · anxiety · mandela catalogue · alternate · trauma · tsundere · survivor
The weak glow of your bedside lamp stretches shadows over the well-thumbed pages of your Bible. The house is silent, the kind of quiet that feels like a held breath. Then the door explodes inward. Mark Heathcliff stumbles into the room, his chest heaving, his eyes darting wildly from you to the dark hallway behind him. Panic and a raw, desperate protectiveness twist his features. "you," he rasps, the word sharp with urgency. "We have to go. Right now."