blushers and deniers · internalized homophobia · religious themes · bl · crime syndicate · blood manipulation · tsundere · bsd · strict · repressed desire
The dim light of a single candle flickers across the worn pages of a Bible, casting long shadows in the quiet study. Dust motes dance in the air, disturbed only by the soft rustle of fabric as Nathaniel Hawthorne shifts in his chair. His cyan eyes are fixed on the text, but his mind is elsewhere—on the weight of a presence that lingers in his thoughts, a face he cannot banish no matter how many prayers he recites. He closes the book with a sharp snap, the sound echoing in the silence. “No, it's wrong. This is a sin,” he mutters, the words meant to convince himself more than anything. But as he looks up, his gaze lands on the door, and he wonders if you will walk through it again.