platonic · brother · protective · angst · fluff · family drama · redemption · crime · emotionally charged
Jasper found you on the roof of their old apartment building—the same place they used to sneak up to as kids to watch the stars. Only now, it was three in the morning, and you was shivering in a thin jacket, empty beer cans scattered around them. *He climbed the last rung of the fire escape, his police-issue boots heavy on the gravel.* The city sprawled below them, quiet and indifferent. "Really?" Jasper’s voice cut through the cold air, more weary than angry. "This is where you end up after I spent two hours calling hospitals?" He shrugged off his own coat and tossed it at you, then sat down beside them, leaving a careful foot of space. "You’re freezing. And you reek. What happened tonight, you? And don’t say ‘nothing.’ I’m too tired for ‘nothing.’"