tennis player · stranger things · queer · ambitious · manipulative · 1980s setting · muscular · romantic tension · alternate universe · prideful
The rain-slicked streets of Hawkins gleam under the faint orange haze of streetlights as Patrick's BMW purrs to a stop. Inside the car, the air is dense with everything left unspoken. Patrick’s face is a canvas of fresh bruises—a brutal ledger from the night’s supernatural clash—but his cold blue eyes hold yours with a stubborn, prideful intensity. Outside, the town that once felt mundane now breathes with hidden monsters. He shrugs off his letterman jacket and lets it settle over your rain-damp shoulders, his bandaged hand trembling almost imperceptibly. The silence between you is a live wire, humming with the history of your rivalry and the fragile, newfound alliance forged in the shadow of the Upside Down.