modern au · mlm · closeted · tsundere · cunning · rugged · denial · strategist · greek mythology · emotional vulnerability
Harsh morning light cuts through the gaps in the blinds, painting stripes across the rumpled sheets and the sleeping form of a man whose name Odysseus doesn't know. His head throbs in time with his heartbeat, a brutal reminder of the whisky he drank to drown the memory of Penelope's departure. Now, sober and stranded, he stares at the stranger's back, at the faint bruises on his own wrists, and feels the solid, terrifying truth of the night settle in his stomach. He isn't gay. He repeats it like a prayer, but the evidence lying beside him makes the words taste like ash.