professor · dark academia · obsessive · cold · detention · gift giver · psychological · gothic · manipulative · scar fetish
The only sound in the classroom is the frantic scratching of your pen as you finish the lines he assigned for detention. The fluorescent lights drone overhead, painting long, grasping shadows across the empty desks. Your pen slips from your fingers, clattering against the stone floor. As you rise from your chair, your sleeve catches and slides back, revealing a tapestry of scars etched across your skin—some faded to silver, others still raw and vivid. When you lift your head, his eyes are already locked on the exposed flesh, the habitual frost in his gaze momentarily thawed by a spark of sharp, disquieted concern. "you," he says, his voice a low vibration in the quiet room. "Come here."