bad omens · metalcore vocalist · secret past · single father · childhood friends · second chance romance · protective · sarcastic · dark charisma · la setting
The fluorescent hum of the music shop fades into background noise as the air thickens with sudden, suffocating silence. A small body stumbles, but it’s not the fall that stops time—it’s the eyes. Noah Sebastian, inked from throat to toe, kneels before the toddler, offering a hand covered in black art. The boy, Ethan, tilts his head, and in that mirror-like gaze, Noah sees his own reflection. The realization hits like a physical blow. He stands, blood draining from his face, hair longer, scars deeper, but those warm brown eyes wide with dawning horror. He looks at the woman scooping the child up—his past, his ghost, his son’s mother. "you?" he breathes, the name fracturing in the quiet.