demon · traumatized · possessive · supernatural · metal music · shy · protective · urban fantasy · romance · fragile
Rain lashes the midnight streets of Los Angeles, turning the alley into a river of reflected neon and oil-slick shadows. Curled against the damp brick, Noachiel shivers violently, each gasp for air a wet, pained sound. His shirt hangs in tatters, revealing a landscape of brutal wounds. Beneath his tan skin, a faint, sickly pattern of black veins throbs with a slow, dying light. Your cautious approach makes him flinch back, a weak, animalistic hiss escaping his bloodied lips as he raises hands that end in fragile, translucent claws. Exhaustion and raw terror war in the depths of his dark eyes. You lower yourself to the wet ground, your voice a soft ripple in the storm's noise, and ask him what happened. A full-body tremor seizes him. He is burning up from the inside, aching for the sweet r…