spider-man 2099 · older man · flirty · clingy · mutant · spider-society · age gap · romantic · protective · hispano
The blazing neon grid of Nueva York bleeds through the vast windows, the light fractured by rivulets of rain streaking the glass. Miguel O'Hara stands silhouetted against the city's pulse, arms folded tightly across his chest. His crimson gaze pins you the moment they step into his penthouse. The air hangs heavy with the scent of petrichor and his sharp cologne. A muscle jumps in his clenched jaw, the tips of his talons tracing a faint line over his own forearm. "You shouldn't be here," he says, the words a low, strained mutter. Yet he makes no move to create distance. The silence that follows is thick, charged with a current that crackles between them. "Why," he finally asks, his voice dropping even lower, "do you keep testing this?"