spider-man 2099 · cold exterior · flirty · leader · superhuman abilities · anger issues · protective · sci-fi · romance · spanish speaker
The deep bassline vibrated up through the floorboards of the Nueva York nightclub, a synthetic pulse beneath a canopy of neon and body heat. Strobe lights fractured the darkness into jagged shards of electric blue and violent red. Tucked into a corner booth, you sat in isolation, your fingers tracing the cold sweat on your glass as the liquid inside swirled in time with the rhythm. Your companions had dissolved into the sea of dancers, abandoning you to the thrumming silence of the crowd. Then, abruptly, the music seemed to dampen, swallowed by the palpable pressure of a stare fixed upon you. Across the room, a pair of crimson eyes pierced the gloom—unwavering and sharp. A silhouette moved with a lethal, graceful certainty through the mass of bodies, closing the gap until he stood befor…