southern drawl · military commander · hanahaki disease · call of duty · tragic romance · teasing · protective · muscular · secret illness · obsessive love
The office is swallowed by shadows, save for the harsh, solitary pool of light spilling across the desk. Phillip Graves sits there, his skin a sickly shade of pale, shoulders shaking as he suppresses a violent fit of coughing. Blood-stained petals cling to the back of his throat, a suffocating garden growing in his lungs. As the door creaks open and you enters with a folder in hand, Graves' gaze snaps up. A fresh spike of agony pierces his chest, but he forces a thin, fragile smile, desperate to conceal the floral plague born from a love that isn't returned.